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Monday, October 25, 2010

Sponsor Giveaway - Inspired Mama Designs

Jessica from Inspired Mama Designs, one of my new sponsors, is hosting a giveaway over on her blog.  

Here are all of the details.  Make sure to visit her blog to enter!!

How About Another Giveaway?

As we get closer to the Holiday Season, I realize that many of us will be shopping for gifts for our friends and family.  Whenever we have the opportunity to find something "so perfect", it becomes so exciting that we can't wait to give it to the other person.  What better way than to find something you can personalize?

I've decided that I'm going to do an October Giveaway for the Holidays to help us both out.  Not only will it give you an chance to win a Customizeable NameART or WordART for your loved one, but it will, hopefully, boost my following as well.  However, there are going to be 3 Winners!

That's right, I am going to offer 3 prizes, actually!  I will be choosing the names at random, on October 29th.



  • The Grand Prize is an 8x10 Customizable NameART or WordART - worth $20. 





  • Second Prize is a $10 Gift Certificate to Inspired Mama Designs Etsy Shop.




  • The Third Prize is a pair of earrings from my Inspired Mama Designs Etsy Shop (choose one pair out of stock). 

Here's how you can enter - The more you do, the more entries you get!  Choose 1 or all to do!
Each of these items will give you one (1) entry:
  1. Add yourself as a Follower of this blog if you aren't already
  2. Post a Comment below this post telling me what you'd choose for a NameART or WordART (i.e. Baby's name, Inspiring words, etc.)
  3. "Like" my Facebook Inspired Mama Designs Fan Page
  4. Post to my Inspired Mama Designs Fan Page wall that you are entering the October Giveaway
  5. Post a comment with your Facebook Profile Name (so I can find you when you post on my Fan Page wall) below this post
  6. Suggest to a Friend on Facebook and have them post on my FB Fan Page wall that YOU sent them
  7. Current Followers of my blog will automatically be entered into the drawing.

Go here to enter!! 



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    Play With Your Food - An Etsy Treasury

    It seems that I've become addicted to creating Etsy treasuries.  I've created nine of them since the 20th.  If you've never done this, you need to.  It's so much fun to put a collection together.  It's also a great way to see what's out there and it helps you be seen too, because most of the time when you tell someone you've featured an item, they will come back to check you out. 

    This one was the most fun to do.  I just can't believe the talent for this that is out there!  I'm like this close to starting a collection of polymer clay food.  I've been toying with getting a doll house for awhile (who knows where in the world I'd put it) and this stuff would be so awesome in it. I actually bought the Oreo ring and the vegetable magnets for Christmas gifts.

    Here's my treasury and then after those, I'll post a couple more really awesome ones that I didn't have room for in this collection.

     Play With Your Food



    Aren't those just the cutest things?  Some of them look SO real! 

    OK here are some others that I love.









     
    Bakery Basket - Bread by NJDMiniatures on Etsy


    Bowl of Citrus Fruit by NJDMiniatures on Etsy


    Isn't it amazing how real this stuff looks?


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    Sunday, October 24, 2010

    Dresser Deets

    Here's the story of how I came to have this beautiful piece of furniture in my home.

    We'd recently moved a large screen, floor model TV out of our living room and moved a much smaller flat screen in.  Since we'd had the floor TV for years, we had no entertainment center.  Because of this, our TV wall of the living room looked like this.  A lot of individual, non-match-y pieces corralling all of our TV related stuff.


    I've done a few smaller furniture makeovers before and so I decided to find an old dresser in need of a makeover and well, make it over.  I thought a dresser would be the perfect thing to use as a TV stand.  It would work whether we had the TV on the wall or just sitting on top.  Also, all of the drawers would keep all of our DVD's, Wii games, controllers, remote controls, etc, out of the way.


    For inspiration, I started paying attention to dresser makeovers in the linky parties.  A few weeks ago, I cam across this one.




    It was done by the T-A-L-E-N-T-E-D Kathleen over at Between Blue and Yellow.

     When I say talented, I mean it.  Check out the BEFORE.
     Those drawer pulls?  Speaker wire.  Yes, I said speaker wire.



    Anywho, I just had to leave a comment because she did such an awesome job on this.  Here's what I said:

    Kristi said...

    Here from Remodelaholic. This is such a gorgeous piece! Love everything about it!. This is so what I want to go under our TV.

        ~ The Speckled Dog


    I was thinking she was probably out West, where most of our type of bloggers seem to be and so I was planning to just use her piece as inspiration for my own.  Imagine my surprise when she responded that she was in Atlanta and if I wanted it, it was for sale.  I'm only a little over two hours from Atlanta!  I called Charles over to show him and I mentioned that it was in Atlanta AND it was for sale AND that it was just what I wanted for the TV.  A couple of weeks later, I found out that he was planning to get it for me.  Say whaaaa???  Oh, that sweet man of mine!  

    Yesterday, we rented a pick-up and drove down to pick it up.  We got there right as they'd just wrapped up a block party and it was there in the driveway when we pulled up.  Oh my!!  It looked great online, but in person, it was absolutely perfect!

    I got to meet Kathleen.  She's such a great gal.  So easygoing and easy to talk to and get along with.  
    me on the left and Kathleen on the right

    I also got to see two of her other pieces in person and they too and just like the dresser I got, they were amazing to see in person. 

    There's this one that I would love to have taken home if we'd had the room in the truck and in our house.


    And this one that she's keeping for herself.
     

    Nice, right?!?


    Here's my new dresser in it's new home.  




    It is definitely the focal point of the room and I seriously can't stop staring at it.  It looks like something out of a PB catalog!  And storage..  oh my!  There's a drawer for everything, including magazines AND knitting!  

    I'm absolutely in love!  Thanks, Kathleen!

      
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