The Vanilla Joy winner of the EZ View Desktop and finalist for the Grand Prize of the EZ View Desk is Missi Brown! She said, “Went to the website & loved everything! My favorite though is the original workbox in distressed vanilla. What a great way to hide & store my scrapbooking mess!” And the … Read more
April Atwater of Sweet Life in the Valley has started another wonderful blog called Out & About with the Family. I wrote a guest post for her a while back and have been meaning to give her a shout out ever since. So, better late than never, check out my post about road trip busy … Read more
$2000 in GIVEAWAYS prizes!!! Starting this Friday at 6:00am will be 10 fabulous giveaways worth a grand total of nearly $2000 dollars! We’re going to have some great Black Friday items, and I can’t wait. I’m super busy getting everything ready for the big day, so I’m going to take a little break from my … Read more
Step2 is currently running a national contest for a new dream kitchen from Frigidaire (complete with refrigerator, dishwasher, over the counter microwave, and oven) and a new Step2 toy kitchen! To enter the Step2 Creative Kids in the Kitchen Contest, submit an essay of 250 words or less on how your family fosters creativity when … Read more
Boyd and I have been married 5 years today. I can’t believe it! Here are 5 of my favorite things about him: He is more supportive of me and my ambitions than I ever thought possible. He is always encouraging me to ask the right questions to figure out how to accomplish what I want. … Read more
I’ve had some prizes go unclaimed, so from now on I will be announcing a winner and a runner up. If the winner never contacts me, the prize goes to the runner up. *Note: Winners must contact me before the following Wednesday to claim their prize. The Tike Tech winner is Dana Valle!!! She said, … Read more
Some of you have been asking how our vacation was, so I thought I’d post some pictures! We spent 3 weeks visiting my parents and had a great time enjoying the beauty of the Northwest. We went camping and did some biking, hiking, and skiing. The top left picture is of our hike to the … Read more
Want to get a free Shade cami? Sign up for the Shade weekly email through July 9 and you can get one for free! (You do have to pay shipping, but $5.95 for a cami isn’t bad.) You can also get $10 off your next purchase if you get 5 friends to sign up. Good … Read more
I’m not very good at reading instruction manuals, so it took me a while to come across my favorite feature of my Canon Rebel XSi camera. In any of the manual modes, you can adjust the white balance by pressing the WB button. You can choose from the following settings: daylight shade cloudy tungsten light … Read more
Monday is going to be the first day of our KIDS GEAR GIVEAWAY! We have nearly $1000 in prizes to give away to you fabulous readers, and the prizes are awesome, as usual. For the next 4 weeks (at least) I will be announcing 4 or 5 new contests each Monday. Giveaways will be open … Read more