and the winners are...

First, the answers:

1. 47
2. Red shoes
3. From the movie, The Princess Bride, Wesley always said, "as you wish," to Buttercup's orders. Everytime he said it, the words meant, "I love you." I LOVE this movie, one of my all time favorites.
4. Everyone's blank check art/craft undertakings were great. They ranged from ceramics, to glasswork, to silversmithing.
5. The most unintentionally odd creation answers were great too. Those answers ranged from a quilt whose questionable color palette was chosen by a participant's husband, to a ceramic birdhouse-turned-ferret-house, to a papier mache bowl misinterpretation, to a ceramic kitty-turned-phallic mishap.
6. Some great links were provided: eBay, Dick Blick, ARTchix Studio, Limited Edition for their awesome Nick Bantock stamps, eQuilter, and Dharma Trading Company
7. For pirate names we had: Red Bess Cash, Captain Pablo, the peg-legged pirate (from the Backyardigans. They're a big deal at our house too.), Mad Mary Bonney, Iron Bess Cash, Iron Anne Cash, Black Mary Rackham and Mad Mary Flint.
8. It takes entirely too many licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop. The consensus says a couple of crunches and it's over.
9. Halloween or Christmas? It's a toss up.
And finally:
10. Cu, which everyone got right, by the way.

Since the questions weren't really definitive and all the answers were really great, I have decided to do a drawing of names of all who participated. Then I decided that everyone who participated will win something too!

For the drawing winner, Logan drew Faun's name out of the hat.

Everyone else will get a little goodies package too for being good sports and for making me laugh while we were waiting to see what the storm would decide to do.

I already have addresses for some of you, but not for all of you, so when you have a chance, send me an email with your address!