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Get your family and friends together for a game night with snacks and hot apple cider. Here are some of our favorite games: Settlers of Catan Ticket to Ride UNO Nertz Scrabble Cranium Hoopla Ping Pong Pool Canasta

Start the Christmas season out right by having a special family activity to talk about the Nativity. Afterall, Christmas is a religious holiday and it does have a story behind it! The first Sunday in December is the perfect day to do this. Even if you wouldn’t consider yourself a religious family, you can still … Read more

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 me at kelsey[at]vanillajoy[dot]com and we’ll talk. Thank you!

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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!

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 … Read more