Giveaway for a Custom Created Quilled Monogram

I am pretty excited!!!

I was contacted by Jan from Jewelry4Change to do a giveaway for one of my quilled monograms.

You can check out the giveaway here. Go on over and enter to win. I would love one of my readers to be the one to win ;)!!

Holiday Wish List Meme

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme


TodaysMama and GameStop are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.


1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
My holiday wish for my family is that we will always remember the reason for which we celibate the holidays.

2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?
Our Chirstmas morning tradition is after all the presents are opened we cook cinnamon rolls and watch the Christmas specials on TV while playing with our new toys. 


3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? 
This is an easy one, I would wish for an Ipad

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
We always drive around and look at the Christmas decorations. Hearing the kids ohh and ahh is priceless.  


5. What games did you play with your family growing up?
Our favorite family game was Monopoly. 

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
Growing up my favorite holiday tradition was putting up our advent calendar and each day putting up a new piece to help count down to Christmas. I have done the same thing with my kids.  


7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?
I don't know if I would want to have Christmas away from home. All my family live close and I would want to be with them during the holidays.

8. Check out GameStop and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? 
The first thing I would love is to get my kids the new Kinect.
The second thing I would get are games for the Kinect
The third thing I would get my daughter a DSi (a pink one of course)

Nook Giveaway over at Greer 5

Greer 5 is having an awesome giveaway for the new nook by Barnes and Noble. The nook is one of the newest e-readers out there jammed packed full of features, options of personalization and customization and has expandable memory for a virtual bookshelf. Go check it out.

Dyson DC23 giveaway over at Nothern Mama

Over at Northern Mama she is hosting a giveaway for a Breast Cancer Awareness Dyson DC23 motorhead pink canister model vacuum. This contest is open to US and Canadian residents and ends on March 6th.

Random Line Squiggle game giveaway at the Not-So-Blog's

The Not-So-Blog's Experimental Mommy is having a wonderful giveaway where 1 lucky person will win a Squiggle game from Random Line. Click HERE to enter this giveaway. The giveaway ends at 11:59pm CST on February 18th. Open to U.S. Residents only

New counter tops anyone?

I have been wanting to redo my counter tops for the longest time but who am I kidding. There is no way that I could afford new counter tops. I have also looked into the DIY tutorials too but they aways seem to hard until now. Over at Is It Monday Already? she is hosting a giveaway to a simple kit to make your counter tops look like granite. Here it is being demoed on the early show.

Cool huh. If I don't win I will definitely look into buying it. Not only is it affordable but looks so easy.

Puppet Theater Giveaway

Giveaway is closed
Winning comment is number 4 
Congratulations Makeetis

makeetis said... My daughter and my son. They are 8 and 3. They would take turns watching. I know this would be a hit at my home

I am sending you an email. You have 48 hours to claim your prize.

For those you who did not win but you still would like one you can purchase yours today. I am now selling them in my Etsy shop. Click on the Etsy button in the left sidebar to check out my Etsy shop

I recently made a tutorial for a table top puppet theater.

In a couple of weeks I will be running a booth at a local Christmas craft festival and was planning on taking the theater to use as a giveaway there but I made a little mistake on it.

Can you tell where the mistake is?

Here is a close up.

I put glue in the wrong place. I got most of it off but not all of it. It is not all that noticeable and the theater is still fully functional.

Well, I wont be able to use it at the festival like I intended so my mistake is your gain. I thought that I would do a giveaway for you guys if you don't mind having one with a little flaw on it.

How to enter

For the initial entry leave me a comment and tell me who in your life would love to have this puppet theater.

After you have done the initial entry you can earn extra entries by doing any of the following. Follow my blog, follow me on twitter, tweet about this giveaway, or blog about this giveaway (include a link back to here). Leave a comment for each thing you do, include links to twitter comments and blog posts, but you must do the initial entry first.
Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you,

The giveaway will end November 13th and a winner will be chosen by Random.org.

Fishful Thinking

I have been receiving the Fishful Thinking newsletter for sometime now and just love it. Our family has always been big on positive thinking and this resource helps parents to teach kids to be positive thinkers and much more.

So what is Fishful Thinking <---- click here to find out.

Now on Fishful Thinking's site you can make a Storybook for your child. On the site it says to describe a Fishful Thinking moment your child has experienced by building a custom storybook and then share it with family and friends.

These Storybooks are neat.

Now before I show you the storybooks that I made for my kids I want to share the story behind the inspiration that I had for making their books.

Zoe, my 7 year old, is someone I would describe as tender hearted. She takes everything very literal and you just can't pick on her without her getting upset. On the other hand she responds very well to positive things (which is one reason why I love Fishful Thinking).

So on to the story.

Zoe, Lea and I were driving home and Lea said something to Zoe that got her upset. Now Lea does have a tendency to pick on Zoe even though she is younger, but you know how kids are if you have a button they are going to push it. In Lea's defence though Zoe gets upset about silly things that would not bother anyone else and through no fault of her own Lea could have just said the wrong thing.

So not knowing what had really happened I was trying to just calm Zoe down and nothing I could think of was working. Then inspiration hit. I don't know where it came from but I just started singing. On the spur of the moment I made up a song and this is how it went.

"There is a girl named Zoe, she's a special girl. She likes to play and make friends all day. She is a special girl."

By the end of this short little song I had her laughing. Then being the sweet thing that she is, she immediately wanted to make up one for Lea, then Mia, and then Ali. So we made up their own songs and they are always asking me to sing it to them. I also use their songs when they have little frowny faces that nothing else can cure.

Now that you know our story go check out their Storybooks. You can find Zoe's here, Lea's here, Mia's here and Ali's here.

Once you check out their Storybooks go make one for you child here.

After you do that go here to The Secret is in the Sauce site and post the link to your child's Storybook and you will be entered to win some fabulous prizes with a giveaway that they are having with Pepperidge Farm.

So what are you waiting for? Go make your Storybook!

Hoover Platinum Collection Review and Giveaway ends June 19th

If you are like me and your vacuum is on its last leg then maybe you should go check out this giveway by momdot.com.

Huge Giveaway

Skip To My Lou and Momdot.com are hosting a giveaway for the coolest swingset ever from HomePlace Structures.

Boy, my kids would love to see that in our back yard!