A Giveaway!

In celebration of my Thirty-One debut party this weekend I am giving away this 

A Thirty-One thermal tote in your choice of pattern!

There are 10 patterns available!!!

YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER at my Thirty One blog 
OR Facebook group

and let me know what you would use your  thermal tote for if you are the winner in the comments of the blog or Facebook!

~No purchase necessary~

Comments will close on Friday April 23, 2010 at 11:59pm est

Good Luck and Thanks so much!

Patricia

PS: If you would like to place an order or want more information about 

Thirty-One products email me 

patricias31gifts@yahoo.com

A $50.00 Thirty-One  purchase ships FREE in April!

Congratulations ...

Melissa @ those nothern skies is the winner of the 4 notecards!!

I sent you an email Melissa!

Thank you everyone who entered!!

Blessings

Patricia

Thirty One Follower... Giveaway

Just wanted all of you to know that I am now a consultant with 

I am super excited because not only is this a new venture for me... I also LOVE their products!

I plan to keep this blog as my home and family blog so I created a Thirty One blog over here 

 For anyone who becomes a "follower" of my Thirty One blog I am going to enter your name into a drawing for a chance to win one of FIVE Thirty-One  key fobs in your choice of pattern. 

 The drawing will be April 1... yep, April Fools Day!!

If you are interested in a catalog or in ordering too... let me know and I will help you with your selection.  

Blessings 

Patricia

Nest Winner!!

I am so excited to announce

that the 100 Friend Nest Winner is....

 Wohoooo!!!

Congratulations!!!

Luv to Decorate!!

Thank you all for being great friends!!

100 Friends... Giveaway!

I had it all planned out... 

when I reached 100 blog friends I would have a giveaway to thank you all!

Well... to my surprise, it begins today ~ many months earlier than I had ever imagined!

I want to give a shout out to all of my friends (followers)... you have blessed me more than you will ever know!

All you have to do is...

Leave a comment and the hubby will pick at random a name from any of you who would like to be included in this giveaway. 

Followers of my blog are automatically entered... but if you comment and are a follower you will be entered twice!

Here is what you get... a one of a kind nest made by me... just for you!

A few years back I created nests for a local gift shop

Roots and Wings 

are one of a kind nests with a single egg and high quality florals 

Each come with a hand signed/dated tag and are named
No two are ever alike

You can see other examples in my Etsy Shop Here

If you are the winner I will convo you and do my very best to create a nest that you will love... 

This giveaway is open until March 9th 2010 at 11:59pm
Winner was... Luv to Decorate!!!
Thanks to all my friends for sticking with me!!

Good Luck and Thank You
Blessings
Patricia

We have a winner...

I want to thank all of you who entered my 200th post giveaway

I was so excited to meet some new friends too and welcome all of you to my home on the internet!

I had 26 entries

I had my hubby pick a number between 1 and 26 and he chose 

NUMBER7

Which was...

Melissa Miller and she said...

Congrats on your 200th post! That's a big one. ~Hooray!~

What a gorgeous mantle. You have such a beautifully decorated home.

Thank you entering my Spring giveaway! ~Melissa :)

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Have a beautiful Saturday everyone!

Dollar Tree Pillows & Reminder

I don't know about you but I consider the dollar tree... the $50.00 store. 

I went in the other day for 1 thing and $37.00 later I was broke! :)

BUT

I had so wanted to make new pillows for our bed... the only thing is I cannot sew to save my life!

I happened to walk into the aisle with all the kitchen~y sort of stuff and came across these 

 

To go with ... our bed!

 

I love the look of an unmade ~ disheveled and  cozy bed

You can kind of see the curtains (that still need to be moved to the width of the bed) actually almost match the pillow covers

I got three that were shiny brownish and three that are tone on tone brownish

I took these gold pillows and some green pillows that I had lying around and covered them... 

These covers are so nice because they have a zipper!!

 

I think they are nice and are what I wanted... and for $6.00 for all of them... I could not go wrong!

I am thinking of adding pieces of the leftover curtain hem to sort of wrap around with Velcro... I can't sew so I will do something!

I will show you all that soon

Don't forget to go HERE to join in my 200 post to enter for a chance to win Cupcake Toppers

Mantle... 200th post GIVEAWAY!

I am linking up with some of my friends in blog land  to show you my 

FREE
 

Valentine Mantle

Comments are now closed... winner will be announced today

I am so excited to announce  too that this is my 200th post so I am CELEBRATING with you!

Leave a comment below and enter for a chance to win 12 Celebrate Everyday Silhouette Cupcake Toppers created by me!

Use thes toppers on a ordinary day... to brighten up ordinary cupcakes and remember to 

CELEBRATE EVERYDAY!

 

Post about it and you will be entered again!

Deadline to enter is February 5, 2010!

Thank you for celebrating with me!!!

 

Using what I already had an hand... and no trip to the basement... I made over my mantle in 10 minutes!

Starting with  some candy candles I added them to my apothecary jar that was already filled with snow

I hand printed the word love on distressed Bingo Cards and hung them with grosgrain ribbon

 

I also hung the skates way up high... and kept with the snowflake theme... in anticipation of one big snowfall soon!!!

 

Here it is all together 

 

I included a cake stand to make the apothecary higher and my favorite picture of the two of us along with BE MY VALENTINE block that was my Grams!

I am linking to these blogs!

Beause I did not spend a dime! 

Because I did not spend a dime!

 

 

Mantle Party...

Change in the corner

I wanted to show you more of my bedroom change...

This time I worked on the corner between the window and the closet

I started with this picture that I really like

I do plan on painting the frame in the spring but for now the gold will do

Faith Hope and Love 

The Greatest of these is Love

I then added this awesome candle sconce that my brother bought me years ago when he worked for Anthroplogie

I need to change the candle to a shorter one but for now it is fine!

So then I had to deal with the corner... I moved my jewelry armoire out of the bedroom and then had an empty space

Oh and this basket ... the other basket and the unmade bed  almost never happen in this room LOL

I added my grandmas table

And the pole lamp that came with my new lamp set...

I was thrilled that I decided to put the pole lamp here because now I can actually see inside our closet...

So I went to the basement and brought up my set of old looking suitcases

I piled one on top of the other and now I have a place for my hubbys weather center... (yes he has one) and the charger for our cellphones too ... the cords are free!

I think it turned our rather cute an it all really blends with the "New to make look Old furniture"

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I will be back with more on our bedroom soon!

Oh and I will be having a giveaway in two days in celebration of my 200th post!!!

 

 LINKING TO... these fantastically fabulous blogs!!!

OH WOW!

I am so excited

I came home and had a package waiting for me from Kim ~ my swap partner

Stay tuned because I cannot wait to show you all the beautiful goodies I received from her

Kim has such a generous heart!

In the meantime you can enter my Surprise Christmas Giveaway

I so LOVE this time of year

Update and a SURPRISE Christmas Giveaway

~ I have to apologize ~

I have not been a good blogger in the least!

I have pictures galore and stories to tell and STILL cannot find the camera cord to show you!

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One thing I can show however is this medallion that I purchased on ETSY

It covers up a brass manufacturers label

I love it and it adds to the charm of the kitchen

I cannot wait to show off the AFTER... once the camera cord is FINALLY located!

 

Till then, I have been busy with 3 Christmas swaps... they were so much FUN!!!

I participated in one at THE PICKLED PEPPER PATCH one at DECISIONALLY CHALLENGED and one at CRAFTAHOLICS ANONYMOUS

I will have pictures soon of the swap goodies!

~Meanwhile ~

I am going to have a Christmas giveaway just for YOU!

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While I was on the move I came across some goodies that I had stashed away to be used as gifts

Don't we all have these containers???

I decided that I must gift all these gifts THIS YEAR

I am NOT allowing myself to buy another thing until everything is gifted

So I made up a little surprise box for YOU, the giveaway winner

~~~~I would personally LOVE to win it~~

It has some decorating stuff and some really sweet usable stuff and some really cute look at stuff too

I hope that you LOVE it all too... but if you don't promise me, that you will gift it to someone else!

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You may enter this giveaway once by leaving a comment

I am not asking you to become a follower or to stand on your head and sing carols...

The ONLY catch is you must vow in the comment section to send a Christmas Card to someone you lost touch with in the last few years ... that is all!

My hubby will pick the winner by random number on December 6th which is St Nicholas Day

Each day I will have an update with another item that has been added

• If you enjoy tea, you will love this!
• If you enjoy keeping in touch you will certainly use this
• If you want your home to always smell yummy ~ this is perfect for you
  

Welcome... giveaway!

One thing I know for sure that I want is one of THESE for our front door! See how Traci used her for her garage door and see how this one looks on a front door! Oh and even if I am not the winner of this fabulous giveaway... I will be purchasing one! I have gotten some FB on the house colors and mostly I am getting friends to say to do a variation on a green Anywhere from HUNTER to SAGE I love green... so maybe.. but I am still waiting to see!

Un~Ballard...

I am so inspired...

Our new (almost) kitchen has an area above the cabs that needs a shelf...

and over the door way too...

I wanted to make a shelf for cute storage...

BUT

HOW THE HECK WAS I TO DO THIS?

Then I came across THIS blog post by Traci and I knew I could so do it!

(PLUS she is givng one away) WOHOOOO

Step by step... WOW!

I am so excited!

Oh and Traci seriously has the home of my dreams... her makeovers are exactly what I want for my home!

She does not even know me... but she is my new FBD... favorite blog designer!

I so want to WIN this CLICK ON THE WORD THIS

3 giveaways.... I entered, will you?

CLICK ON THE WORD TO BE TAKEN TO THE BLOG

BIRTHDAY

CHALKBOARD

CELEBRATION

Another giveaway I hope I win

CLICK HERE

OOOH... I want to win THIS