Hey everybody, top o' the mornin' to ya! Hope you're all having a fun St. Patty's day. I celebrated my Irish heritage by donning my green today and eating Lucky Charms for breakfast. Oh and after my son's last basketball game today, we stopped at Burger King on the way home and I tried the green ketchup they handed out with my fries. Several hours later, and I still have a green tongue. :)
Anyway, I just wanted to let you in on some fun going on at One Artsy Mama this week. Amy has been celebrating her 1 yr. blogiversary with a ton (seriously 21 different items!) of giveaways this past week. I joined in too, and I'm giving away this beaded watch.
Thank you all for helping me celebrate reaching my goal of 100 followers. It's been a fun week! So without further ado . . . here are the winners . . . drum roll please . . .
Well, we've come to end of our week of giveaways. Wow, it's been fun!! I made some new friends, found some old ones, actually, and have loved reading all your comments. Thank you all for helping me celebrate reaching my goal of 100 followers. Remember, you have until Saturday to spread the word and enter all the giveaways.
Without further ado, here's today's giveaway: Another knitted headband, this time in cream or let's call it winter white. :) That's more fun.
So if you want to win this here's
what you have to do:
1. Be a follower! Sometimes it's good to follow. :)
Leave me a comment and let me know you are following. If you are already a
follower, leave me a comment and tell me.
Extra entries:
2. Like The Brown Eyes Have It on Facebook.
Spread the word about my giveaway
week:
3. Post about it on your blog, link
to your blog in a comment.
4. Tweet it
5. Post it on Facebook using @The
Brown Eyes Have It so I'll see it, too.
Please leave a separate comment for
each entry letting me know what you've done.
Five chances to win!
Giveaway will end Saturday, Dec.17 and winners will be announced Monday, Dec
19.
I forgot all about the giveaway today. Oops! This posting everyday thing is work. lol
Today's giveaway - a super cute (I think, anyway) ring. The face is slightly bigger than a quarter, and it's on an adjustable ring base, so you can fit it to your size.
So if you want this fun ring here's what you have to do:
1. Be a follower!
Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment and let me know you are
following. If you are already a follower, leave me a comment and tell
me.
I have a super cute giveaway today! My sister, Leslie, has a great little shop called Cornflower Attic, and she has generously donated one of her super cute Zuzu dresses for me to giveaway today. This is the exact dress YOU can win!
Isn't it SO cute!! For the colder months now, pair it with a long sleeve shirt or cardigan. This will fit from about 1 year to around 6 years old, transforming from cute little dress to a tunic top. Now that's getting your money's worth!
Here's my little girls in their cute tunics a couple years ago. Thanks, Leslie!
So if you want this hot pink and green damask dress here's what you have to do:
1. Be a follower!
Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment and let me know you are
following. If you are already a follower, leave me a comment and tell
me.
Well, better late than never today. :) Here's giveaway #4:
This is a little girl size knitted hat. It's a charcoal gray color. Yup, my mom made this one, too. She's just awesome! It's just like the one my daughter, Cheyenne, has on in this picture. Isn't she so cute! :)
So if you want it here's what you have to do:
1. Be a follower! Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment
and let me know you are following. If you are already a follower, leave me a
comment and tell me.
Good morning everyone! My husband surprised me today by taking the day off so my schedules a little off. We've just been relaxing this morning, and then I think we might finish up a couple gifts left to get or go to a movie or something. :)
So today's giveaway is the red bead necklace I made here. They were so fun to make that I made one for you, too.
So if you want it here's what you have to do:
1. Be a follower! Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment
and let me know you are following. If you are already a follower, leave me a
comment and tell me.
Giveaway #2 sneak peek: (because facebook is dumb, or I am lol, and it only posts my first picture)
But first, exciting news today - I'm doing my first guest posting today over at Type A Decorating. Go check out my Christmas Planner post (or come back tomorrow and I'll share it here.)
Now on to today's giveaway. My mom has generously given me one of her super cute headbands that she was working on here.
You know, it's kind of hard to photograph these headbands without modeling them. I tried about 5 different "poses" to get something that looked sort of normal. :)
So if you want to win this cute, mustard yellow knitted headband, here's what you need to do to enter:
1. Be a follower! Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment
and let me know you are following. If you are already a follower, leave me a
comment and tell me.
I DID IT!! I MADE MY GOAL OF 100 FOLLOWERS! Yeah, I'm so excited (can you tell!) A few months ago, I was at a crossroad - do I quit blogging (just my family/personal blog), because I haven't been keeping it up, or do I focus more on the crafts and everyday stuff I do and make it a public blog. I decided to give it a try. I had no idea how much work it is. I mean I thought, "I'm doing this stuff every day so how hard could it be." But the reality of posts two or three times a week, linking to parties every day and all that goes with that, trying to figure out this whole other language as I try to tweak my blog, it's work. However, I'm loving it!! So to watch that follower number increase was awesome. I can't tell you how excited I was to have my first follower that wasn't my mom or sisters (not that my mom and sisters aren't awesome, of course they were the first to sign up.) So THANK YOU to all of you that actually read this blog, I really am honored because I know I have some serious competition for your attention and mostly your time.
Let's celebrate! I have a week full of giveaways planned, a new giveaway every day. So spread the news, come back and check it out and win some Christmas presents for YOU.
Today's giveaway:
A leather band wrap watch. Sorry, I just couldn't get a really good picture of this, but it's a brown leather band with a brushed nickel face. It also has an adjustable chain to make it various lengths.
So how to enter:
1. Be a follower! Sometimes it's good to follow. :) Leave me a comment and let me know you are. If you are already a follower, leave me a comment and tell me.
I'm so excited! I have my very first review and giveaway to share with you today. Liz from My Memories contacted me a few weeks ago about sharing this great digital scrapbooking software with you. Since I've recently become a full convert of digital scrapbooking, I jumped on the chance to try it out.
Before I get into this software, let me tell you why I'm a convert, especially because I get asked this question all the time. Having 6 kids, plus our family book to work on I have A LOT to scrapbook. Needless to say, I'm very behind. So I was trying to find a faster, easier way to get caught up. I decided digital scrapbooking was the answer. However, I still loved working with my hands and the actually putting together of a great page. So I decided I'd scrapbook our family book the old way with the tangible papers, embellishments, etc. and I'd do my kids books digitally. That way I could make one Christmas page and change out the main picture and put it in 6 books. Well, that was before I actually tried it out. I had so much fun on the computer, and it was so quick, who needs to do the cutting by hand. :) This summer as Cheyenne and I were scrapbooking, I got 9 pages done (just changing the focal point pictures and a little journaling) in the time it took her to do 2 or 3, and she's a very simple, not many embellishments kind of scrapbooker. It was so fun! I still got to pick out all my embellishments and papers, but didn't have to run to the store to find the perfect thing every time. Plus, the whole reason Bill bought me the software is so my scraping area stays clean, he hates a mess. When I had to stop in the middle of a page to run a kid somewhere, I just clicked "save" and I picked right back up the next time I had a minute. No rushing to clean up all my scraps, trying very carefully not to move the perfect layout before it's glued on, or kids getting into what I've done while I had to go cook dinner. Another advantage to digital, the cost. Digital kits are so much cheaper, usually, than buying the same amount of papers and embellishments from the store. Plus, you get to use them over and over again.
So back to Liz. I got to download the My Memories Suite software and play with it for a while. My review - I really liked it. It was very simple to use and had some great features. After a few minutes, okay about 1/2 half hour, I had this page completely done.
It was so easy, the part that took the longest was deciding which pictures I was going to use. Even more fun, when I look at this on my computer, or if I burned it to a cd, it has nice background music to it and I can click on one of the pictures and it shows me a cute little video of these three. So cool!! I also made an awesome page of Billy playing football and added the clip of one of his games. Now that is fun! I know several people who burn their books onto dvd's and just watch their scrapbooks on tv, this is a great feature to merge all those videos with the pictures you take. I love this feature!
I also made a cute card, well, it was much cuter until I remembered I don't have a color printer anymore and had to change things to black and white. But it's still okay. Just picture this in whatever fun colors you like, and think of how quickly you could make lots of fun, cute cards so easily.
My Memories also has many kits to purchase, but also many free kits. This is one of my favorites:
Or if you don't like all the "cutesy" stuff, like my mom, I really like this pack, too:
Plus, if you can't find the perfect kit or alphabet on their site, you can download papers and stuff from other sites to use in this software. That was an important thing to me, since there are SOOO many sites with free scrapbooking items. (Just one thing to note on this, however, be careful and make sure you're downloading things from a reputable site. I did get a virus attached to something I downloaded and it really messed my computer up.)
You can do so much more than scrapbook, too. You can make calendars (great for Christmas presents), cards, posters, handouts for church lessons or visiting teaching, party invitations, teacher gifts (how fun would it be to make a little book of your child's classmates with a little note from each child and/or parents) and much more.
If I haven't convinced you yet, watch this quick video clip or this longer one to give you more info.
Now for the very best part!! I get to giveaway a My Memories Suite, a $40 value, to one of my wonderful visitors. Or if you can't wait or don't want to take your chances, you can use this code: STMMMS28745, and get $10 off the purchase price. Plus, the software comes with a $10 off code to the My Memories Store, so your $40 is now only $20. Woo, hoo!! That is a great price!
To enter the contest:
1. Follow me - see the side bar
2. Check out Mymemories.com and tell me which kit you like or could use most.
