Sponsor Giveaway | Everyday Keepsakes, May Flaum for Big Picture Classes, Karen Maezen Miller
GIVEAWAY | Two people will receive a $50 gift certificate to Everyday Keepsakes.
Everyday Keepsakes is a small independent jewelry company that makes unique handmade custom and personalized jewelry. Each piece is designed and made with care. Your lovely purchase will come packaged in a small kraft jewelry box, perfect for gift-giving or as a gift for yourself. Become of fan on Facebook and get a $10 coupon to use in the store. Sign up for the newsletter for special discounts and new product notifications.
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GIVEAWAY | Two people will receive a spot in May Flaum's upcoming Big Picture Classes workshop "May With May."
Sharing your name with a month isn’t always easy, but long time Big Picture instructor May Flaum has turned this month of May into a big scrapbooking party! In this 31 day class students will find daily inspiration delivered to them via email, as well as a classroom where videos, handouts, an active message board, and so much more awaits. Filled with both new layouts and all time scrapbooking favorites, May with May is going to be a crafty good time.
To make this class even better – it’s priced at just $19 so it’s budget friendly too.
The fun starts May 1.
GIVEAWAY | One person will receive a signed copy of Momma Zen and one person will receive a signed copy of Hand Wash Cold from Karen Maezen Miller.
About Hand Wash Cold | It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a self-described errant wife and delinquent mother reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen sink, and the peace possible in one’s own backyard. Readers follow the author through youthful ambition and self-absorption, beyond a broken marriage, and into the steady calm of a so-called ordinary life. Household chores and caregiving tasks become opportunities for self-examination, lessons in relationship, and liberating moments of selflessness. Miller shows that with attention, it’s the little things — even the unexpected, unpleasant, and unwanted things — that count.
About Momma Zen | The daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of our lives. Combining humor, honesty and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of early motherhood into vignettes of Zen wisdom. This compelling and wise memoir follows the timeline of early motherhood from pregnancy through toddlerhood. Miller takes readers on a transformative journey, charting a mother’s growth beyond naive expectations and disorientation to finding fulfillment in ordinary tasks, developing greater self-awareness and self-acceptance – to the gradual discovery of “maternal bliss,” a state of abiding happiness and ease available to us all.
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Wow! Amazing giveaways this week - have wnated to check out Mamma Zen for awhile now so hope I win!! Thanks for the chance!
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Wonderful giveaways Ali. Thanks so much!
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Thank you so much for the opportunity to win!
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Totally awesome giveaways!!! Thanks so much for the chance to win! You rock.
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Love it all. Refocusing my life on creativity. Any are all will be a boost.
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Everyday Keepsakes looks really awesome. I love that Tree with "family" on it. Thanks for the giveaways!
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Wow what great giveaways thank you so much xx
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Love all the sponsor prizes! Such a great way to start off the weekend dreaming about winning an awesome prize! Thanks Ali and thanks to your sponsors!
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Thank you for the chance to win! How cool are those charms?!
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Ali, what wonderful giveaways you've arranged for us here. Thank you for all that you share each day and in each post.
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Thanks for the chance!
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What wonderful giveaways! Thanks for the opportunities!
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Fun giveaways!
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Thanks for the great giveaways!
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Any one of these prizes would be fabulous! As always, Ali, thanks for the chance to win, and introducing us to these artists!
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Awesome giveaways Ali! Thank you.
It seems everything you've recommended this week from blogs to books has been just what I've needed. A Saturday that should be a family day and where is my hubby? Sadly, working! Going back to work from my maternity leave in just 2 weeks, the stresses of how to drop off a 7 yr old at school, a 2 yr old at preschool and 1 yr old twins to daycare, AND how to arrive to work on time (with clean clothes on and having a shower) all have been weighing on my mind. And that doesn't cover all the everyday "stuff" that needs to get done. And, since I'm not fortunate enough to have a maid or a cook :) (just me), to say I'm feeling overwhelmed these days is an understatement.
I do carve out a few moments each and every day to check your blog - your piece of the web is one I just love. Giveaways or not. I appreciate your openness and honesty and unique way of making your blog such a positive place, without that "oh, and by the way, did I tell you I'm superwoman, yes SUPERWOMAN" kind of way. I don't know how you do it, but you do.
Keep up the awesome work you do, Ali! Your blog is one of super quality and these days with SO many women operating blogs, yours is really the standout.
Have a great weekend!
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Thanks for a chance to win a fun giveaway!
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All look wonderful!! Thanks for the chance to win!
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"Sweet" - this is also my word for the year. Thank you Ali.
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Great giveaways!! Thanks!!
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Each of these seem very special, and I would lvoe to win one.
Rinda
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Great sponsors and great giveaways! Thanks once again Ali!
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Very nice giveaway! Thanks for the fun opportunity.
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My fingers are crossed, do I feel lucky? YEP - thanks for the chance to win - it's my birthday this week!!
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Very cOol. Thanks for doing another great giveaway :)
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