My fabulous sister-in-law who has an online shop for her dang cute aprons and quilts and literally the world's best caramels has a shop for fabric now, too! YAY!
Her shop is called Fabric Seeds and right now she is having a . . . . GIVEAWAY! Let's cheer for awesomesauce giveaways! Wahoo!
Ok, now here's what's up. Right now she is featuring fabric by Moda and Riley Blake Designs. She has these fabrics in yardage, fat quarters, jelly rolls (does anyone else think of jelly filled donuts and get hungry when they hear "jelly rolls"?), and charm packs. She also has quilt patterns for sale.
She says on her Fabric Seeds Blog that there will be more fabrics and patterns to come. I'm sure that soon to come will be her own quilt patterns because she is an amazing quilt designer.
So go by there, order some fabrics, an apron, and don't forget the awesome caramels, and enter the giveaway . . . . . . right . . . . . . . now!
So, my friend Nicole is giving away a "signed" copy of Mockingjay. I used quotes because Collins cheated and stamped it, but still, it's very cool. For your chance to win this awesome prize, go here. Or go and read her cool blog, but don't enter; that way I can win :)
What do all these flavors have in common, you might be asking?
My sister in-law makes some of the best food and desserts I've ever tasted, but one thing she is a master at is caramel. She is talented in many areas--quilting, gardening, cooking/baking--and her blog Bizzee Bee is dedicated to those things.
When she first started her blog I wrote on here about how cool and amazing her quilts are--because they are dang cool and amazing.
She recently started her own gourmet caramel shop online and to celebrate she is holding a giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment telling her what your favorite Dr. Seuss book is. How easy is that?!
Right now there aren't many comments on there, so you stand a really good chance if you go over there right now!!! RIGHT NOW! Stop reading me and go! Really, show a sister some love and hop over there to take a look at her caramels, quilts, and flowers. If you are in the SLC area then you are even luckier because that's where she is and you could meet her at the Farmer's Market and take advantage of the fact that she grows the most beautiful flowers and tastiest veggies.
The Mormon Mishaps and Mischief Giveaway and Blog Tour!
In celebration of Mothers, and all they do for us, Mormon Mishaps authors C.L. Beck and D.N. Giles have put together a giveaway in conjunction with a week-long blog tour. If you aren’t interested in winning a fantastic advertising package valued at $150, you can stop reading now.
Wait, you’re still reading. That must mean you want to hear about our prize package, correct? Well. Okay then.
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Okay, and now for the prize!
Your LDS Neighborhood has offered a YEAR LONG advertising package which includes space on the Neighborhood website as well as tiles in the newsletter. Were you to purchase advertising with them, this package would cost $150.
Here’s the best part. You don’t have to be LDS to advertise with the Neighborhood. As long as the business, blog, or product you’re promoting is family friendly, this advertising package will benefit you. Neighborhood ads are viewed daily around the globe, and by thousands of people.
So how do you win?
Entries will be accepted between May 4th and midnight, MST, May 16th. On May 17th, (or as close there about as possible) the winners will be chosen and announced on the LDS Humor blog. Although it's not required for entry, please take a minute to read the Mormon Mishaps and Mischief review/interview I've posted. Then, you must do the following four things to enter (but don't worry, they aren't hard):
1. Follow my blog, here.
2. Leave a comment here, at this blog.
3. Follow the LDS Humor blog.
4. Follow the Your LDS Neighborhood Newsletter blog.
Extra entries: 1. Blog about this contest, then come back and leave either a url address or a link in a comment.
2. Follow me on Twitter. (Bloggers, you can hyperlink this to your twitter page if you’d like, or include your twitter username.) And then tweet the contest. (Make sure to mention this in a comment.)
3. Facebook the contest. If your Facebook page is private, and I’m not your friend, I can’t see that you’ve done this, so you’ll need to friend me.(Same goes here.) Be sure to leave the link to where you've FB'd the contest in a comment.
All of these options can be mentioned in a single comment, and you can enter at all the participating blogs, as long as you follow and leave a comment for those bloggers so they know you love them.
You may enter this contest here, as well as on any of the tour posts at the following blogs:
To purchase Mormon Mishaps and Mischief click here.
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Ok, here's the review!
This was such a fun book! So many of these stories had me laughing out loud and searching the house for Nathan so I could share them with him. It's had me looking for the humor in life more often, especially at Church:)
I have to mention, in case you missed it in my blog earlier, I have a couple stories in here! It's my first time being published somewhere other than a newspaper, so that's pretty exciting for me.
I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this book. It's funny, well-done, and a really quick read.
Here's a little bit of the cover blurb listing some of the stories inside!
Read about:
*The preschooler who was afraid of being eaten by ‘Sunbeans’
* Establishing Zion in Cougar Stadium
*The ‘oddmonition’ of Paul
*The 14th article of faith
*Doing battle with the “Laman Knights”
*A young women outing that almost landed the class behind bars…and lots more!
There's a giveaway at Mormon Mommy Blogs! And it's awesome! Get over there and enter. . .unless you are wanting me to win. In which case don't bother entering :) You know you want me to win!
Moosh in Indy is taking part in the HP Magic Giveaway!! To enter you have to write a post on what you'd do if you won (for more specifics go to her post on it by clicking on Moosh in Indy).
Growing up I was a wannabe philanthropist. I imagined myself making millions of dollars (on a teacher's salary, no less) and donating nearly all of it to all the starving people of the world. Before I realized that some of the homeless people panhandling at the stoplights in the greater Houston area weren't actually homeless and made more money than my honest and hardworking parents, I imagined myself setting up a program to help them get the education, food, clothing, and opportunities needed to make a better life for themselves.
I've never been able to imagine why some people make millions of dollars a year, live in a mansion, and have only themselves or a spouse and two kids. Where does the extra money go? I know some of those people generously make tax deductible donations, but really, if they have all that extra, why let it sit in a bank account not doing anyone any good? I guess I am an idealist. I just can't understand what seems to be waste and selfishness.
Now I'm "grown up." I haven't exactly realized my childhood dream of making millions of dollars to generously bestow on others less fortunate than I. Instead of being the one to help others, I've had to swallow my pride and allow others to help me. For five and a half of the six and a half years my husband and I have been married, one or both of us have been "poor college students." In addition to the oh-so-common title of Poor College Students, for the last three years my family has been dubbed as "the poor family" in our Church congregation. We don't know who decided that we were worse off than anyone else in the neighborhood, much less who decided it three years in a row, but we couldn't deny that the help we received in the form of Christmas presents for the kids, a small Christmas tree, cash, and food were all very much appreciated.
All the generosity my family has experienced through the receiving end has only strengthened my desire to be the one who can do the helping. I always imagined myself, with my husband out of dental school, going back up to our old college town and bringing a nice fat check to the Bishop of our previous congregation there and asking him to give it to a family or families in his congregation who need it.
If I won the HP giveaway, I wouldn't have to wait for my husband to be done with dental school to begin my childhood dream (and Poor College Student dream). I could go back sooner rather than later and have something to give. Either way, I'll still bring that check in a few more years when dental school is done, but it would be awesome to help the Poor College Student Family of 2008 that took our place when we left.
Over at Sitting Pretty Studio Zana is offering a FREE watercolor portrait from a photograph of a child or infant. Go enter your name in the contest! Her work is amazing and has kind of a vintageness (is that even a word?) to it.
Ok, so you got an extra hour because we were out playing at a BBQ and trying to figure out riddles. Nathan has picked the winning commenters and they are:
Merrianne
Kristine (are you sure you want me to send them to Janeen?)
and . . . .
Momma Miller!
Email me with your addresses and let me know if you want the two skulls, two pumpkins, or one of each.
My email is ksbimagine @ yahoo dot com
Congratulations y'all and come back in a couple weeks for the next Giveaway!
If the rest of you really want clips like this or just want to know how to do it, let me know and I'll make you some or post instructions on how to do it. These are seriously the easiest things I've ever made. Each one takes about 2 minutes and one minute of that is waiting for the hot glue gun to heat up.
Well, I've seen it done, but never actually hosted one before. I thought it would be fun to try a little one before the Bloggy Carnival Giveaway later this month. (for more info. click the link)
So I mentioned last week that I made those cute hair clips for Megan, right? Well, I made some Halloween ones and I'm putting those up in the Giveaway! I know mine isn't as cool as other giveaways because I made these instead of a cool company sponsoring me and begging me to advertise for them on my blog and as part of it they would give me a ton of really cool stuff to just giveaway, but oh well. I like making them and I want to share with all my friends.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on my blog and mention this giveaway on your blog with a link to this post. I know, I know. I expect so much of you.
You have until Friday night at 10 PM (Ohio time, I'm not staying up till midnight for y'all in Utah). At 10 PM I'll have Nathan choose three random numbers between 1 and whatever the highest comment number is and those people will be the lucky recipients of some cute Halloween hair clips!
BTW-my Giveaway for the Bloggy Carnival will also be hair clips (hey, they are fast, easy, inexpensive, and gosh darn cute) but they will be more like the ones I made for Megan earlier. Here are some pictures of the Halloween clips.
Sorry if they are hard to see, I was having lighting issues. Anyway, the winners will get to pick whether they want two skeleton clips, two pumpkin clips, or one of each.
