Over the moon happy for EasyCanvasPrints!

I was recently contacted with a sweet opportunity. Megan at EasyCanvasPrints offered me a free Canvas Print in exchange for a sponsorship on my sidebar and this post.  I was stocked!!! Right away I had a brilliant idea - make one for our office - so that's what I did.


I don't have a picture of it, since my camera charger is lost, but here is the image I uploaded to EasyCanvasPrints.com (cute website btw):

And it turned out looking 99.9999% exactly like the image. Honestly, I thought it might turn out a bit blurry since they blew it up so large, but no it was crystal clear.


I LOVE IT!!! I can't express how easy the process was and how thrilled I am with the outcome. It arrived at my door early and it was packaged perfectly. Everyone in our office can't stop looking at it and my husband was very impressed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you EasyCanvasPrints - you guys rock!!!

Seriously people, if you want a canvas print - hang it over the mantel, or your bed, or do one for the office like I did - please please check out EasyCanvasPrints. You won't be disappointed!

Drumroll please....

The winners for our latest giveaway are Cynthia, Mandy and Abby! Congrats girls!! Look for an email from us to discus the details.

For everyone else who entered but did not win - you are still winners today!! Email us within the week (dreamupstudios@gmail.com) and we'll send you a 20% off coupon to be used towards a DreamUp Studios design order of your choice!

CSN Stores Review - Food Processor and Scissors

Remember this post? Well it's time for the official review! Instead of the shiny red processor I decided to get a simple white one so that it would match my other small appliances. Plus it was cheaper which meant - scissors!

  Hamilton Beach 10-CupFood Processor in White

Zwilling JA Henckels 5 Piece Scissors Set

I LOVE these two items! The first time I used the processor I wondered how I ever lived without it. It's that good. I made many dinners and deserts with it already. I WAS able to crush up candy canes and put them on top of cupcakes for Christmas just like I had dreamed. And last night I made chicken balls; this baby cut my prep time in half!

The scissors are great too. They work well and I love the variety this pack provides. I was always looking for scissors before but now there is always one clean and waiting in the drawer to be used. I'm smiling just thinking about them - I'm so so in love!! Thanks CSN your products ROCK!!

All you readers out there, please remember CSN Stores when doing any online shopping.

Lovely Followers

Got an award from the lovely DT @ Here I Scribble for simply following her blog. How cool is that?!

It really got me thinking of how much I love my followers, how excited I get when I see another person join, and how I never do anything for you guys. I might be smelling a giveaway of some kind in your near future (if you aren't a follower of mine go ahead and press that button so you'll qualify later).






This lovely award is going to my latest follower, a pretty awesome gal, Lyndsey @ Designer Wife. Congrates girl and thanks everyone for following me :)

Thursday was Awesome

Thursday was my time to shine, and boy did I feel shinny. I received about 20 new followers and 420 new comments in that one day. That's more than all of my previous comments combined. I had a blast reading everyone's kind words and replying to the ones that I could (if I didn't respond to your comment please check out this post). Found some amazing blogs to follow and even got some business from the deal!

I couldn't help the tears streaming down when I read some of the especially sweet and thoughtful comments. I felt so pretty and popular!! Yes Thursday was awesome.

Thank you so much SITS girls, Tiffany & Heather. I am so so grateful and hope that some of you will stick around so we can become best bloggy buddies.

Butterfly Flutter by

The lovely Ann gave me this butterfly award. "Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes." Author Unknown.

I'd like to pass it on to my new friends:

Ave @ Made in Canarias
Shelly @ that girl blogs
Connie @ Young and Relentless
Kristi @ Orange Juice

Please take this award, put it on your blog and share it with whomever you wish :)

Lovely Blogs

Design it Chic has given me an award! I am so honored, I've seen this one all over the place but never thought I would get it. I really admire blogs that are able to be lovely all the time (such as the ones I have choosen), and secretly wish that I mine was one of them. So thanks Design it Chic :)

Here are the rules:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here are the blogs I have chosen:

Pour Some Sugar on Me

The Maternal Lens

Serenity Now

All That is Good

My Crazy Life with 4 Kids

The Great Umbrella

Blog Baby

Mighty M Family

Domestically Challenged

Marshmallow Circus

Farmgirl Paints

Brown Eyed Fox

Life in Grace

Pink Sugar Desserts

Dandee

I'm a kreativ blogger?!

I won another award, this time from Young Momma! It's the Kreativ Blogger Award. I don't know how kreativ a blogger I am but I'll take it! She listed seven things she loved, well that's pretty much all I ever blog about so I'm gonna be kreativ and tell you three things that are bothering me instead.

1. About 6 weeks ago my sister-in-law's dog chewed up my purse. I got a little peeved and told a few people I was upset that she {I didn't use her name when telling the story} didn't offer to pay for it. She got offended that I shared my opinion and is still {red faced, steam blowing out of her ears} mad. I think she's being a childish diva for the stupidest reason and I fear that she will find this post somehow, realize that it was me who wrote it and kill me in my sleep.

2. Hubby and I asked his father to help us out at Ikea today. We had already been there before and picked out what we wanted, we just needed a way to get it home. His father has a truck and we do not. Well he kept "suggesting" that we do more shopping around. Some reason he thought we were only buying the stuff cause it was on sale. He offered to pay for us if we bought from somewhere else. He's always giving us money and offering to pay. No matter how many times we tell him that we are doing fine, and that I am making money from home, he doesn't believe us.

3. I keep biting my nails cause I'm nervous. I've never posted anything negative on this blog before and fear I will be booed out of the Blogosphere. I'm also hungry and I just ate. I think it's that time. Where's my water bottle at?

Thankful Thursday

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Today I'm thankful for:

Only burning one side of my sandwich

Feeling a bit better

Getting some work done

Clean laundry and dishes

Yummy candles

Music my computer and fan

Being deemed a Princess and given a crown

Sisterhood award

I won another award thanks to Tanielle! It's called the Sisterhood award, I like that. I am still new to blogging but I have made so many wonderful friends already, blog sisters if you will. I love getting your comments and reading your posts. Here is who I am passing this along to:

1. Young Momma - Love her rambiling and honesty.

2. Debbie - She's real, random and funny!

3. The Blonde Duck - She has a new blog that is oh so cute. And she writes lots of cute stories about chickens.

4. Juls - She was my first follower. She also gives away wonderful packages!

5. Michelle - Every post she writes makes me laugh for one reason or another!

6. Stesha - she has such a popular blog, expecially now with the Wenda thing, but she always finds time to leave me sweet comments.

7. Francesca - She is in on the Wenda thing but she has adorable kids and left me one of my favorite comments yet!

8. Deb - She's the co-creater of Tuesday's Tribute. I love doing that.

9. Tiffany - She is a great writter and even good at taking pictures.

10. Jenni - She's fun and clever, kind of like me.

p.s. I'm commenting all of you right now to let you know, I think that's what I'm suppose to do? Well keep in mind that it's 6 am and I'm kind of loopy right now!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for four wonderful ladies. Why? Because they rock! And because I won their giveaways!!

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The first one was This Small House. This lady is really talented when it comes to making pillows, they are so so cute. Her bog is very helpful and crafty; the package I received from her definitely reflexes that. My kitchen is red so this matches brilliantly. I think it is just prefect and Hubby really likes the sparkly LOVE sign, go figure right?!

The other three ladies are the Crazee Scotts. You can't go wrong having your teenagers pick out a gift for me! This package had Katie written all over it. Bright fun playful and CANDY! Not to mention the bubble wrap and the wonderful smell when I opened it. It even included a really nice picture frame that matches my living room to a t. Seriously I think all these ladies secretly snuck into my house.

Thank you all so much, I feel so special!

And the awards go to...

Me!! I received a few awards from Every Day is a Crazee Day, I won their contest too remember? I feel special. The rules are to "list 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!" I'm not so interesting, even when dug deep, but I'll give it a shot.


I...

1. Love acoustic guitar. Am a sucker for serenade.

2. Can be very messy for an organized, controlling, perfectionist. I'm not always a controlling perfectionist, but sometimes I can be.

3. Like to put cake frosting on Ritz crackers and eat them.

4. Secretly dream of being a cake decorator, although I am no good at it.

5. Love to be prepared. Have five new soaps and bubble baths waiting to be used.

6. Cried on Hubby shoulders when I showed him my dying flowers.

7. Met my husband on Myspace. Shhhh... don't tell.

8. Still bite my nails and have never gotten a mani/pedi.

9. Love the color pink but tell people my favorite color is purple because of nostalgic purposes.

10. Hate having raw meat in the fridge. When I buy it, it goes strait to the freezer, even if I'm going to use it the next day.

I'm also suppose to pass it on to 10 people. Since I'm new at this blogging thing, I don't quite know 10 people. I promice to pass on my next award when I am more fully prepared. Hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little more, and feel free to be my people, I am pretty awesome so this next award may come soon.

RAWR!

Hubby sent me a link to this image. I thought it was cute! Also I won a contest!! Over at Every Day is a Crazee Day they asked for family questions. I asked them "What would you do if someone dropped off three truck loads of pudding on your front lawn?" Read their answer here.