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Tiny Prints {a giveaway}

November 30th, 2009

(Comments are closed…winners will be announced soon!)

Do you love sending and receiving Christmas cards as much as I do? If you do, then I have a treat for you!

This morning I finally placed my order for my Christmas cards from Tiny Prints today, I’m so excited because their selection is amazing and the quality of their product is BEAUTIFUL so the process of choosing and ordering a card of our very own makes me very, very happy.

Picnik collage

Just this year, I received a birth announcement from both Erin and Crooked Eyebrow that were printed by Tiny Prints and I can’t even bear to take them off of my refrigerator, they are so beautiful. (doesn’t help the cause that their babies ARE SO CUTE.) Anyway, it’s all good stuff. All of it.

Picnik tiny prints collage

This is why I am so excited to be able to give away a $50 gift certificate to TWO lucky readers just in time to order your Christmas cards.

And if you’ve already ordered your Christmas cards from Tiny Prints this year, that’s okay, you can enter, too, and get $50 back from your purchase!

Winning is simple:

First, visit the Tiny Prints Holiday card section and pick out your favorite card, come back and share the link with me in the comments section. (don’t worry, you’re not obligated to get that card if you win…) That’s the first way to win…

Second, write about this giveaway on your blog and come back here and leave the link to your post in the comments.

Third, Tweet or Facebook about this giveaway (OR BOTH!) and leave a comment with those links!

That’s FOUR ways you to win. So, get busy…AND GOOD LUCK! (please leave separate comments for each entry…)

Winners will be chosen at random on Thursday, December 5th at 8:00 pm CST.

Good luck & Happy Holidays!

33 & 22

November 29th, 2009

Today, my husband turned thirty-three.

We had a pretty calm day here: church, donuts, grocery shopping, lunch, nap, putting up a Christmas tree, bread making, dinner, birthday cake and then this photo. A boy with ketchup on his face, a girl who doesn’t feel well and the best husband anyone could ever, ever, ever ask for.

I’m not sure why he chose to place a ring on MY finger, but my God, I’m so glad he did.

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Because then we also have this:

22 weeks

Birthdays or not, everyday is a good day.

Some days just include cake.

You Capture – Food.

November 25th, 2009

Oh food, sweet, beautiful , delicious, usually fattening, glorious food.

I didn’t realize how much I wrote about and tweet about food until this past week and man, I really do like food, don’t I? But how can I not? It’s SO DELICIOUS.

On the photography front, I have been working very hard over the past year on not just photographing food but using the natural light in my kitchen (even at night time) which has not been easy. I’m still working on it but I feel like I’m getting better.

I’ve been baking like crazy this past week, I’ve made 19 trays of cinnamon rolls, peanut butter bars and pumpkin cheesecake, just since Friday…much, much, more tomorrow.

The sweet ingredients…

sugar

oh yeah, baby.

mmmmm

feast

buh buh buh buh buh

cinnamon roll

And the pumpkin cheesecake before it heads into the oven, which is where it’s at this very minute!

soon to be pumpkin cheesecake

Now’s it’s your turn to share!

But first, the rules and look! An official You Capture page! YAY!

1. You can join in on this challenge at any time! We welcome & love new participants.
2. ONLY SIGN MR. LINKY IF YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE ACTUAL CHALLENGE.

3. Please make sure you are linking directly to your specific You Capture post in Mr. Linky (and not just your site, for instructions, go here).
4. Make sure you are linking back to this challenge in your post. If you don’t abide by this, your link will be removed. (I know, I’m so mean.)
5. The goal of You Capture is to get you moving with your camera, get creative, don’t use photos from your archives, you’re missing the point, if you do. Challenge yourself!
6. Do your best to visit the other participants’ site – everyone loves the traffic, the comments and the feedback (not just you!)
7. And finally, post as many pictures as you want on your post.

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Tell us a story, using photos about what makes you happy.

Happy Capturing! Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Eating!

bits & pieces

November 25th, 2009

Just a few things because we get this Thanksgiving celebration started in these parts…

First – I posted here and here, in case you are looking for some light holiday reading.

Second – my friend, Kate, who is expecting her first baby wrote this post here and it’s perfect in like a million different ways. You should read it.

Third – I plan to get You Capture up a little bit early today, maybe around dinner time. Don’t forget…it’s about food so I’m expecting photos from everybody because you know…WE ALL EAT FOOD.

Fourth – I’m ordering my Christmas cards from Tiny Prints this weekend and since I love to spoil you, my beautiful readers, and I’m not kidding, you guys looks so pretty everyday, I’ll be giving away a Tiny Prints gift certificates to two VERY lucky people, so check back on Monday, m’kay.

Fifth – We have an ultrasound today…I’m thankful and excited and I wish you all could come with us.

And finally, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for being the BEST readers anyone could ever hope, pray, beg for. Even those of you who read and don’t comment, yeah you, even you.

I never think of my blog as work or something I HAVE to do, I think of it as fun and something I love to do and it’s ONLY because of you…so thank you for being here with me, along this ride that is my life…I love sharing with you and probably always will.

Happy, Happy, Happy Thanksgiving.

Eat some pie for me…

Handmade for the Holidays

November 24th, 2009

Greetings friends, shop owners and people ready to get their shop on!

handmade for the holidays button

I invite shop owners of handmade goods to link to their shops right here on this Mr. Linky. This is a great way to gain free advertising for the products that you work so hard to create!

I invite shoppers to click on the links and peruse the talent that these amazing people have and once you are done perusing, I invite you to SHOP.

If you are a blogger or you’re on twitter or Facebook, I invite you to share this link (http://www.ishouldbefoldinglaundry.com/2009/11/handmade-for-the-holidays.html) to your friends and readers to let everyone know about the glorious shopping that is HANDMADE. It’s a whole other beautiful, inspiring, unique and affordable world of shopping that many are not aware of – so share!

And if you’re not a shop owner but you have a favorite shop that you’d like to share…link it up! Share it with the world.

But remember – the products MUST be handmade.

HAPPY SHOPPING & HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

*remember, throughout the next few weeks I will be featuring handmade items that my friends and I LOVE, if you’d like your product to be featured, you can email me at handmadepieces (at) gmail DOT com for consideration!