Christmas Straw Flag Printable & Giveaway

When Kristin asked me to participate in her 12 Days of Christmas Printables Party I was more than happy to join in and I was also super excited to create my very own Christmas printable! I absolutely love paper straws, so I decided to make a straw flag printable using one of Moo & Puppy’s super cute digital scrapbook papers and give you a chance to win 30 red and white striped paper straws just in time for Christmas!

Please visit  A Simply Klassic Home for this free printable and to be entered to win 30 red and white paper straws!

12 Days of Christmas Printables Party!

I am so excited to announce that Kristin from A Simply Klassic Home is hosting a 12 Days of Christmas Printables Party! What does this mean exactly, well for 12 days starting December 1st Kristin will be providing amazing inspirational Christmas printables for free to all of our readers. I'm super excited and honored that she has asked me as well as a few other wonderful friends to join the party! There will be gift tags, scripture, banners, subway art, movie quotes and more! There will also be a giveaway and a linky party.

Please visit A Simply Klassic Home for all the fabulous details and don't forget to mark your calenders for December 1st!

Quaintly Amusing Giveaway

Cool Kids, one of my favorite blogs is hosting a Quaintly Amusing Giveaway! This giveaway is for a $30 gift certificate to my shop. I will be adding new items to the shop this week, so now is the perfect time to visit Quaintly Amusing Etsy Shop and an even better time to win a $30 gift certificate. Please visit Cool Kids for all the details!

Thanks to Cool Kids for hosting this giveaway!

Winner of the Quaintly Amusing Giveaway!

The winner of the Quaintly Amusing $50 Etsy Shopping Spree is Kristin from Betty Crocker Wannabe & Simply Klassic Design! Kristin has been a long time follower and an awesome blog friend, when I imputed the information into Random.org and went back to see comment 3 I was so pleasantly surprised. Kristin is a wonderful mommy of a gorgeous little boy named Cooper, their story is definitely a heartwarming one that I feel everyone should take time to read; she also just started her very own blog design company, so if your looking to update your blogs look please stop by Simply Klassic Design . Kristin is super busy at the moment with a very special arrival to the family but I'm pretty sure she'll make great use of this Etsy shopping spree!

Thank you to all who entered, please keep following along and stop by Quaintly Amusing, I'll be adding more items soon!

Winning Comment:

The Launch of Quaintly Amusing & Giveaway!

Celebrating! The Launch of Quaintly Amusing
I am happy to announce that after countless trials and much hard work hunting for the perfect party supplies and decor, I have decided to offer my “quaintly amusing” finds for all to buy!

Planning the perfect party isn’t easy and surely enough accessorizing your perfect day can be daunting. Finding all the right accessories at one store is impossible. In fact, those perfect party gems or “quaintly amusing” treasures are often scattered amongst thousands of distributors, stores and sites. As a purveyor of quirky, unique and fun party supplies, I only feel it’s fair to pass these goodies along to be enjoyed and cherished by others.

The Quaintly Amusing  Story
I’m a bit of a scavenger hunter and I love finding party supplies, especially items that no one would every necessarily consider using as part of a party. After planning my son's 1st birthday party I received tons of emails and requests from party planning moms looking for some of the same products and vendors I used. The majority of the time, I’m asked if there are any leftover items that I would be willing to sell; and the answer is yes, I do! 

I have affectionately named my new shop Quaintly Amusing and I will be selling party supplies and party decor. To me, Quaintly Amusing is the expression of the precious moments created by the unique décor and accessories used to detail a party in order for it to come to life. I love party planning and I appreciate the memories created by the special accents of whimsy. Quaintly Amusing celebrates those extra touches. Quaintly Amusing celebrates the details.

I hope to eventually expand and have been getting some great advice from my friend and Marketing Consultant, Caroline. I already have a few things listed (mostly reserved listings) at my shop, but plan on adding a lot more items in the following few weeks. With Quaintly Amusing, I hope to provide the items, products and décor that will one day be part of everyone’s quaintly amusing party or event.

Quaintly Amusing finds will be available on Etsy, simply the craftiest website out there!

The Big Giveaway!

No celebration would be complete without a big giveaway! As a great big thank you to all my followers and party planning mommies, I'm having a Quaintly Amusing Giveaway! One lucky follower will receive a $50 Etsy shopping spree, on me!

The winner can pick an item or items from “any” Etsy Shop in the amount of $50 dollars and I will gladly pay for the purchase!

To enter this giveaway:

• Become a follower on this blog and leave a comment on this post letting me know that you are a new follower. Or if you are already a follower just leave a comment on this post letting me know that you are.
• Join Etsy.com and add Quaintly Amusing to your favorite shops for 2 extra entries.
• Follow Quaintly Amusing on Facebook and/or Twitter for 1 extra entry (each).
• Add Quaintly Amusing's button to your blog for 1 extra entry.
• Post a link of this giveaway on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc for 1 extra entry for each link posted.

This giveaway will end at midnight February 14th 2011 and the winner will be announced on February 15th 2011. Please make sure to stop by on February 15th to see if you're the lucky winner. You can also contact me in advance through my "contact me" button if you would like me to email you if you're the lucky winner!
Goodluck!

 

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A Slice of Smith Life: Jewelry Giveaway

Tracy from A Slice of Smith Life just won my Blogoversary Giveaway and it turns out she has a giveaway of her very own, I didn't really want to share this information because I want to win the jewelry set for my mom, who absolutely adores handmade jewelry; but I must not be greedy and allow others a chance to win too!

Here is a little information about Tracy's Giveaway, please visit 

A Slice of Smith Life for the whole wonderful story; but hurry because entries close Tuesday, August 31 at 9:00 PM EST!

As a way to celebrate my birthday today and to keep my grandparent's un-birthday gift tradition alive, I would like to give one blessed reader a "Happy UN-Birthday!" gift. (including S & H by me!) The gift for this giveaway is this beautiful hand-made necklace and matching earrings:

This long necklace is silver-platted with green clear beads with small blue flowers in the beads. The matching earrings are surgical steel that are hooked backs. The earrings are also the same green color beads as the necklace with small blue flowers in them.

Blogoversary Giveaway WINNER is...

I really couldn't be happier for 

Tracy @ A Slice of Smith Life, not only did she win my first giveaway, but it's also Tracy's 35th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Tracy, I'll be contacting you about your gift card! Thank you so much to ALL of you who entered. Have a great week and please continue to follow along!

38. Tracy said...

ENTRY #3: I just blogged about your giveaway on my blog here: http://asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com/2010/08/and-baby-makes-three-blogversary-50.html

I included your giveaway post from my blog on the Bloggy Moms "Rockin Bloggers" posts. :)

I hope I win since you will picking the winner on my 35th Birthday! I would LOVE to win the gift card from Amazon.com for my birthday! Thanks for hosting!

PS: I voted for you on the Picket Fence button and on the Mommy Blog button!

Thanks!

Tracy at A Slice of Smith Life

http://www.asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com

Welcome New Followers

I recently joined a few blogging websites and I'm amazed at all the traffic and new followers that have been stopping by. I've had a chance to visit some pretty amazing and inspiring blogs and although keeping up is a bit overwhelming it has been a very fun experience! I just want to thank all of my new followers for following along. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and don't forget to join and baby makes three's...Blogoversary Giveaway and invite your friends for an extra chance to win!

Just added! As a bonus for following along, if you have a blog and win the Blogoversary Giveaway and want to be featured on and baby makes three... I will happily feature your blog or the purchase you make with your new gift card!

Thanks

&

Good Luck!

Blogoversary Giveaway: $50 Gift Card {CLOSED}

and baby makes three... will be celebrating its one year Blogoversary one week from today on Tuesday, August 24th.  It’s been such an amazing year (I can't believe I've been blogging for almost a year now), I have met so many wonderful people and in celebration I thought it would be fun to have my very first giveaway to thank all of you for following along! For my 1 year Blogoversary I will be giving away a $50 gift card to one of the following stores, winners choice of course!

HomeGoods

Target
Babies"R"Us

Sur La Table

Tuesday Morning 

Jo-Ann's Fabric
Amazon.com

Comments equal giveaway entries, so the more comments you make on this post according to the rules below, the more chances you will have to win! Please remember to include which gift card you would like in at least one of your comments.

To enter this blogoversary giveaway:

• Become a follower and leave a comment on this post letting me know that you are a new follower.
• If you're already a follower just leave a comment on this post letting me know that you are and tell me your favorite and baby makes three... post. 
• Add my button to your blog or if you already have, leave a comment on this post letting me know that you did.
• Invite your friends to follow and if they become a follower you get 1 extra comment per friend (just leave a comment on this post letting me know your friend is now a follower too).
• If you were invited by a friend and become a follower, leave a comment on this post and this will enter you in the giveaway too!
• Post a link of this giveaway on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc and leave a comment on this post with the URL.

This giveaway will end at midnight August 23rd 2010 and the winner will be announced on August 24th. Please make sure to stop by on August 24th, to see if you're the lucky winner. The winner will have 5 days to claim their gift card by contacting me through my "contact me" button. You can also contact me in advance through my "contact me" button if you would like me to email you, if you are the lucky winner.  

Good Luck!