If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am looking for some guest bloggers to help me out while I’m incubating my fetus.
If you would be interested in being a guest blogger on Vanilla Joy and posting about something related to home, family, crafts, and/or kids, email […]
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Well, after a year of blogging with you 5 days a week on Vanilla Joy, I’m starting to feel the need to slow down a bit. My family has been sooo busy with community and religious responsibilities and with my almost 2-year old and another one on the way (SURPRISE!!! I am expecting our second […]
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Today’s giveaway will have 2 winners who will each win one of the following products:
1. $24 to spend at Lulubug Jewelry
Our first prize is a $24 gift card to spend in Lulubug Jewelry’s Etsy store. I was lucky enough to happen upon this store filled with beautiful metal jewelry. Lulubug makes fine silver […]
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I realize it is no longer morning and I have not yet posted the 20 finalists for the MiniBox giveaway. I have a sick boy who will not take a nap, so I’m finding it nearly impossible to add up all the extra entries people earned and choose the finalists. I promise I will post […]
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I’ve been posting 5 days a week for about a year now. Life is getting busier so I’ve decided to take Fridays off. I’ll still be posting Monday through Thursday, and hopefully I’ll be able to use Fridays to experiment and get some new ideas to share with you all. I hope to be able […]
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We still have 3 contests running right now: Fiskars, Digital Scrapbooking, and Loads of Scrapbooking tools. The Fiskars contest ends tonight at midnight, and the other two end tomorrow night. You can still earn extra entries. Click here to learn more.
The Original Scrapbox giveaway will be happening soon, so get ready for that. The contest […]
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You can now earn another 5 entries for each giveaway contest if you put this button on your blog. You’ll have to right click and view the image, right click and save the image, then put it somewhere on your blog (either in a post or your sidebar) and link it to vanillajoy.com. Thanks!
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Just wanted to share the good news…Vanilla Joy was added to the craft page at Alltop.com, which is a great site that’s kind of like a digital magazine rack - they have all the top stories on EVERYTHING. You can go there to find lots of blogs about every possible topic. Vanilla Joy is at […]
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Well, we’re off to southern Idaho for a family reunion/camping trip. I’ll be back on Monday. Remember, you can still enter to win the Huggies giveaway until midnight on Sunday. Have a great weekend, and HAPPY AUGUST!
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I will be giving away more stuff from Huggies tomorrow, so come back and enter to win. I will also be posting my Japanese Stab book binding tutorial tomorrow or Thursday, complete with a video on how to do it. You don’t want to miss that post, so keep checking back. Thanks!
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or maybe the movies are just like my life. You know, the ones where things are going wrong in such a way as to suggest that coincidence can’t be responsible? For example, my phone dies as my husband says the first half of the address I have gotten lost trying to find. And my […]
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Welcome to the Carnival of Family Life! Take some time to browse through all the wonderful posts submitted this week.
Education
Marjorie presents Monongahela posted at Life Without School.
Lill Hawkins presents Yikes! It’s the End-Times. Again! posted at News From Hawkhill Acres.
James DeLelys presents Prejudice: How to See with Your Eyes Closed posted at Healing […]
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The tutorial will finally be posted tomorrow!
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I love the Kraft Food & Family magazine, and each time it comes in the mail I tear out the recipes I want to try (with the pictures, of course) and put them in plastic sheet protectors in my recipe notebook. Once I have tried a recipe I either throw it out or integrate […]
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I think food is my favorite part of any holiday. Since Valentine’s Day is on a Thursday this year, we’re going to have a nice dinner at home, and I’m going to a delicious Warm Winter Lemon Cake. Hmm-Hmmmm!!! (Recipe below)
So that’s for dessert, which I absolutely must have every day at […]
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Today is the 50th birthday of the Lego brick! Hip hip HOORAY!!!
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie; Alison Jackson (Thanksgiving)
Little Miss Spider: A Christmas Wish; David Kirk (Christmas)
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Cars; Patricia Hubbell (Cars)
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Mr. Tuggle’s Troubles, LeeAnn Blankenship (silly)
Last One in is a Rotten Egg, Diane deGroat (friendship, sharing)
The Cuddle Book, Guido Van Genechten (love, family relationships)
The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors, Audrey Wood (colors)
What Eddie Can Do, Wilfried Gebhard (imagination)
A Nap in a Lap, Sarah Wilson (love, family)
The Wizard Next Door, Peter Glassman (imagination)
I Love […]
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While I was in college I became a transcriber for deaf and hard of hearing students. I was trained on a program called TypeWell, which is a short hand/abbreviation word processing program. In short, this is how it works: A transcriber goes with a deaf student to class and types the lecture as it happens. […]
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“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is …. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. ”
C.S. Lewis
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I did it! I am a college grad class of 2007. It feels good to be done, but at the same time I am sad to leave. BYU campus, fellow students, and teachers have treated me well.
To anyone who can’t decide whether or not BYU would be for them, well…for what it […]
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