The theme of Blog Topic Contest #18 was "Childhood". 

The Artella Staff has chosen as the winner Dancing Cat's entry.  The URL of Dancing Cat's entry is:

Here are some comments about Dancing Cat's entry:

Congratulations, Dancing Cat.  And thanks to everyone who blogged on this subject!

Be sure and read (or re-read) and comment on all the entries -- you can find their URLs in the responses to this message.

Hugs ~~ Aunt Bobby

My 2 cents:

Cassandra

Ophelia Blooming

Childhood

My Name:  soozwillamuse

My Blog:  SoozViews

This entry:  "Little Sooz"  http://artellacafe.com/blogs/soozviews/archive/2008/07/09/16815.aspx

Your name  chameleon
The name of your blog      Chronically Creative
The name and the URL of your post     http://artellacafe.com/blogs/chronically_creative/default.aspx

"There is a garden in every childhood,
an enchanted place where colors are brighter,
the air softer,
and the morning more fragrant than ever again." 
                                                         ~Elizabeth Lawrence

 I'm not entering the contest, but I did write a post related to this theme, if you'd care to read it:

Marney's Musings:

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/marneys_musings/archive/2008/07/15/wee-little-graces.aspx

Looking forward to seeing more posts on this topic!

Copper Cat

There's Always Hope

http://artellacafe.com/blogs/theres_always_hope/archive/2008/07/17/say-it-to-mean-it.aspx 

I've posted my blog entery for the Childhood theme. pspimas Cheryl 

Cheryl Stevenson
Dancing Cat Blog  http://artellacafe.com/blogs/dancingcat/default.aspx

Hi Cheryl,

Just wanted you to know that your blog address comes up with Page Unknown -- perhaps it's missing something??  I bypassed this by simply clicking on your name (bspimas) on the left sidebar and then I clicked your blog to get there.  Wahoo!  Great blog post.

~ chameleon

Whew!! Thanks Chameleon - I fixed it!!

Oh, dear -- how shall I choose?  All of the entries are SO great!

Cassandra, soozwillamuse, chameleon, Copper Cat, Cheryl -- each post is unique and wonderful.

In a delightful quandry -- Aunt Bobby

Hi Aunt Bobby and Artella staff members!  This is something I read a short time ago, and think it just might help with the choices you're up against:

Ok... First, clap your hands,
Do a pelvic thrust.
Then spin around 360 degrees.
Jump up and click your heels.
Shake hands with the person to your right.
Now do some high steps while waving your hands above your head.
Now you need to spin to the right three times.
Now get on all fours and crawl around wildly as if you are a hippo under the influence, then get up, jump/click your heels again and start over...

You should be more than ready to make those decisions you have to.  Let me know how it works out for you....

Laughing all the way to Canada,
chameleon

Well, I got as far as the pelvic thrust -- what IS that, anyway?

Hugs ~~ Aunt Bobby

Remember the charismatic and controversial Elvis' pelvic thrust?  Uh, uh, that's it, Aunt Bobby!  What about his third Ed Sullivan appearance where they only showed his upper half because of that famous pelvic thrust?!

~ chameleon

...I got as far as crawling around like a hippo under the influence when my husband walked in and said, "so, what's new?"

...."Somehow that great phrase, "laughing out loud" comes to mind - what a fabulous image......  Cheryl Stevenson bspimas