{Winner winner!} for December's Final Friday Giveaway

Hello all!  Hope you are enjoying your holidays.  I just wanted to pop in with a quick post to announce the December winner of my 2011 Monthly Final Friday Giveaway.  You guys ready?  The lucky winner this month is....

Lucky #41, who is none other than Cheryl M!

Congratulations to you Cheryl!

Thank you all for playing along with me this month and throughout the year!  Wish you all a wonderful 2012 and hope you'll keep visiting my corner of the world! There are lots of fun things coming up in January...namely the new Occasions Mini Catalog and Sale-a-bration!  Enjoy the rest of the year and hope you have a fantastic New Year ahead :)

Ciao for now!

{stamps and ribbons} for December Final Friday Giveaway!

Hello there blog friends!  I know we just finished with the Blog Hop and Blog Candy announcement, but tis the season for giving, so that means it's time to announce this month's Final Friday Giveaway! You could be a winner of the Afterthoughts wood mount stamp set and some pretty Stampin'Up! ribbon!  I love the sentiments in the Afterthoughts stamps - they're in such cute font and all are nice and practical sentiments you'll use throughout the year.  All you have to do to play along is leave me a comment on this post (for my Facebook friends viewing this post on my Facebook page, you'll actually need to get to my actual blog post here.

Here's what you need to do to play:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, Dec 28, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

I'll announce the winner on my blog on Friday, December 30th, so be sure to check back!  You can leave me a comment about anything, or you can tell me what one craft item you would love to get for Christmas.  Who knows - maybe Santa's one of my blog readers, so he may even get it for you if you've been on his "good list" ;)  {heehee!}

Hope you all have a great week and are enjoying the Holiday Season!  I'll catch up with you guys soon. Bye for now.

November Blog Candy Winners!

Hi all!  Did you have a good Black Friday?  I know I did - I was able to get lots fo my Christmas shopping done!  But let me tell you what happened this morning.  I had my cup of coffee in hand and ready to turn on the computer to draw my winners on random.org, but discovered that my computer would not turn on!  Already, I thought...oh no.  I didn't back up my pictures or docs from the last month.  Please let me be able to recover all of that!  Thankfully, it turned out that my computer's power supply went dead, but the good folks over at the local Best Buy were able to install a new one.  Yay!  Disaster averted.  For now anyway.

So let's fast forward.  Shop, shop shop, nap, play with the baby and feed him.  Eat dinner.  Watch Shawshank Redemption with the hubs and my in-laws.  And now, here I am ready to post my winners.  Whew!  You ready to find out who the 2 lucky winners are?  Well let's do it, shall we?  The first winner is for the November Final Friday Giveaway, which is the Something To Celebrate clear mount stamp set and Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon.  The winner is...

Lucky # 33, who happens to be Ilene B!  Here's her sweet comment:

Congrats, Ilene!!!  I will be emailing you soon.

The lucky winner for the November Blog Candy Bonus - the Merry wood mount stamp set - is...

Lucky #46, who happens to be Lisa!  Here is her comment:

Congrats to you, Lisa!  I will be leaving on comment on your blog!

Thanks to all of you for your fun comments.  It truly is so much fun to read them and I appreciate you all sharing your thoughts with me and all my blog friends that stop in for a visit :) Thanks so much.  Hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend!  Good night for now!!

November Blog Candy is here!

Hello dear friends!  I'm back with some fun giveaways for November!  As I had mentioned in my previous post, not only will I have this month's Final Friday Giveaway, but I will also have a 2nd prize bonus giveaway since I've just passed my 250,000 blog hits!!  Thanks to all of YOU :)  So, what does that mean? Well, if you leave me a comment on this post, you are eligible to win:

November Final Friday Blog Candy

"Something to Celebrate" Clear Mount stamp set and Always Artichoke Seam Binding Ribbon

or

the November Bonus Giveaway

"Merry" Wood Mount stamp set

I will announce the 2 lucky winners next Friday, November 25th, so be sure to come back and see if you won!

Here are the deets to play:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, November 23, 2011.

2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

You can leave me a comment about anything or you can tell me about your Thanksgiving plans this year.  If you're an international friend, then I would love for you to tell me about your fall season traditions!  I look forward to reading your comments.  Good luck, all!



Woot Woot Winner Time!

Hi bloggie peeps!  Happy Friday to you all!  It's time to announce this month's Final Friday Winner.  I was SO excited to be able to easily see the NUMBERED comments - yippee!  And this month's lucky winner truly had luck on her side....ready to find out?  Here we go.  The lucky winner is:

Lucky #22, who happens to be:

TanySol!  I was so pleased to discover that it also happened to be her BIRTHDAY on Oct 25th!  Congratulations, Lucky Birthday Girl!!! 

I enjoyed reading your comments and discovered from TanySol and many of our international friends that they don't celebrate Halloween in their countries.  For those of you that DO celebrate Halloween, I had fun reading up on your traditions and memories!  It's so nice to hear your stories.  Thanks so much for playing along! 

On a side note - how do you guys like my little banner?  I am having so much fun tinkering with My Digital Studio!  There's so much you can do with digital images...not only can you scrapbook, but for blogging, I'm finding that it's a GREAT way for me to create images for my blog.  I am discovering that the possibilities truly are endless!  And...I'm excited to share a little tidbit - next week Stampin'Up! will be giving away free digital Downloads at mydigitalstudio.net!  Stay tuned...more info to come soon :)

In the meantime, hope you all have a FABULOUS weekend!  Bye for now!

October Final Friday Giveaway is here!

Hello there blog friends! Are you ready for this month's Final Friday Giveaway? It's a great all occasion stamp set called Slice of Life that was offered earlier this year as a Hostess Set! With these versatile images, you can create, Birthday, Wedding, Thank You, Baby, Valentine, or general thinking of you cards with a snap! Would you like to win this set?

All you have to do to play is follow these simple rules, only enforced by the "Honor System":

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, October 25th, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

Feel free to comment on anything, or if you'd like, you can tell me about a favorite Halloween memory or Halloween tradition.  For me, I think this year will be a memorable one with EVERY holiday, since it's going to be Denver's firsts!  I'm excited about this Halloween and seeing him dressed up...he's going to be a Lion!  Of course, I had to tie it into our Africa Safari trip ;)  I'll definitely post pictures of him once we have them.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will like being in his costume!  I'm looking forward to reading your comments.  You guys are so fun to play along and humor me.  So, as you ponder your memory or tradition, sit, stay a while, and enjoy the music on the bloggie blog or perusing past Halloween posts to get you in the Halloween Spooky spirit!

 

Have a great day and thanks for popping by!

{PS - If you happen to be reading this post in your inbox, or on Facebook, please make sure to leave me a comment on my blog to play along for the giveaway!}

September Final Friday Winner!!

Hi all!  I know I'm a day late in posting the winner for September, so let's find out who it is, shall we?  The lucky winner of the Bliss stamp set is.....

#9 who happens to be SueBee!

Congrats to you SueBee and thanks to all of you guys that played along this month.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your happy September moments.  So much fun to find out more about you, dear blog friends :)

I know today is October 1st, so stay tuned for a post later today for this month's giveaway!! :)

Chat with you all soon!  Enjoy your weekend in the meantime.  Ciao

{Bliss}ful September Final Friday Giveaway!

Hi all!  Would you like to have another chance at Bliss?  Well, I'm happy to announce that this month's Final Friday Giveaway is the beautiful Bliss stamp set from this past Stampin'Up! Sale-a-bration! Soooo...if you love this stamp set and didn't get a chance to earn it thru Sale-a-bration, you can have your chance by leaving me a comment on this blog post.  {A quick note to my dear readers on Facebook, you'll have to go to my blog and leave me a comment here!}

Here are the rules {only enforced by the "Honor System"}:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, September 28th, 2011.

2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.

3. One comment per person please. :)

4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

Now, your comment can be about anything, but just for kicks and so that we can get to know each other better, how about you tell me about one memorable, funny, or happy thing that's happened to you this month?  For me, one very memorable thing that's happened this month that put a smile on my face was when Denver started cooing along with me to "You are my Sunshine."  It was the cutest thing ever and I'll never forget it!  Can't wait to read your comments!

Have a great day!

August Final Friday Winner!!

Happy Friday, all!  How are you guys?  Hope all is well!  In know it's been a little quiet on the blog front over here, so thanks to all of you that have continued to peek in on me these last couple of weeks!  I truly underestimated how busy I'd be with a little baby...and on top of it all, I've been trying to mentally prepare going back to work next week! YIKES!  Well, that can be a whole 'nother post, so let's get on with the task at hand, shall we?  :)

It's the last Friday of the month, so that means it's time to announce this month's Final Friday Winner. Thank you so much for the warm Anniversary wishes!  We had a good one...we actually went on our first date post baby!  We had a nice dinner and we were able to survive being away from the wee one for two and a half hrs.  Can you believe it?  Anyway, here I go again digressing....  So now, let's get ready to find out who the lucky winner of the Pennant Parade Stamp Set is.  The August Final Friday winner goes to...

lucky number 71, who is

littlebitoftoto  {aka tlfletcher}

Congratulations to you!!!

Thank you all for playing this month!  I really do love reading all the comments :)  Stay tuned for next month's Final Friday Giveaway.  In the meantime, hope you have a fabulous weekend, my dear bloggie friends!  I'll catch up with you guys soon.  Toodles for now.

Happy August!..ready to see this month's giveaway?

Hi all!  I can't believe I am actually posting this month's giveaway on the first day of the month!  That's quite a first {at least in a very very long while!}!!  I personally LOVE this Pennant Parade stamp set, and I hope you do, too.  It coordinates perfectly with the new punch called Petite Pennants Builder - soo cute and so easy to make those darling pennant cards!

Anyway, all you have to do to play is follow these simple rules {only enforced by the "Honor System"}:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, August 24, 2011. 

2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com. 

3. One comment per person please. :) 

4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

Your comment can be about anything, or if you'd like to share some fun tidbit about yourself, I would love to here it!  Some fun August facts about me - my dear hubby and I will be celebrating our 11th anniversary on August 12th!  Woo Hoo!!  I am such a lucky girl to have the best hubby :)  And as for my dear son, Denver will be 2 months old on August 7th!  Time is flying by and I don't know how he does it, but he gets more precious by the day.  I'll post some pics of him soon... :)

As for this month's winner, I'll be drawing the person at random using Random.org and then posting the lucky winner on the bloggie blog on Friday, August 26th!  Good luck to you!

Bye for now :)

Winner Winner!

Hi all!  Happy Friday!  It's that time to announce July's Winner!  Are you ready?  The lucky winner this month is.....

Lucky #25, who happens to be Nicole Cracco!!!  Congrats, Nicole!!!

Thanks to all of you for playing this month!  It's always fun to read your comments. :)  Hope you guys have a great weekend and I will catch up with you soon.  I'll be posting August's Final Friday Giveaway on Monday, so stay tuned...I think you guys will like it!  Bye for now ;)

Here's July's Final Friday Giveaway!!

Hi all!  I know that I missed June's Final Friday giveaway altogether, so for July, I've got something fun!  First, there's the Square Lattice embossing folder pictured above.  Then, I'm also adding the cute little Petite Pockets projects I posted yesterday!!

How about that?  Worth playing for??  Here's what you gotta do to play:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, July 27, 2011.

2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email or blog address (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.

3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

You can leave me a comment about anything, or tell me what your one favorite color is - it can be a Stampin'Up! color {if you have a fave} or any color you choose!  Look forward to reading your comments.

I'll be posting the winner on my blog on Friday, July 29th!  Hope you have a great Friday today and a wonderful weekend!

May Final Friday Winner!

Hi all!  Hope you guys had a good week!  Sorry for being a day late to post this, but I had the lovely surprise of getting a virus on my computer yesterday....so not fun!  After spending all morning researching and working to get it off of our computer, I think I was able to quarantine and take care of it {fingers crossed}.  So, without further adieu, one day later....let's find out who the winner is, shall we?  So the lucky winner is....

Lucky #7, who happens to be Brenda H!  Congrats, Brenda!

Thanks all for playing in May's abbreviated Final Friday Giveaway!  I will let you all enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day weekend.  I'll try and post more crafty things soon...I promise!

Toodles, for now :)

May Final Friday Giveaway!

Hey there blog friends...I know I'm a little late this month for my May giveaway, but here it is if you'd like to play!!!  It's the Sweet Summer set from Sale-a-bration!

Here are the rules to play:
1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, May 25, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

The lucky winner will be announced on my blog on Friday, May 27th!
 
You can leave me a comment about anything, or you can tell me if you have any fun plans for Memorial day weekend!!!  Look forward to reading your comments!

April Final Friday Winner!

Hi all!  I almost let April escape me before announcing this month's winner!  Sorry for the delay, dear friends.  Are you ready to find out who this month's lucky winner is?  Then let's hear it for....

Lucky number 10, who happens to be Rosalee!!  Woo Hooo! 

It was lots of fun reading about everyone's furthest travels in the world!  I have to check a map, but I think my upcoming vacation may be my furthest travel location.  In any case, we're super excited!  I'll let you guys know soon enough.  You'll definitely see some pictures!

Anyway, hope you guys had a wonderful April!  Time to gear up for May.  I hope to sprinkle some more posts on the bloggie blog this month, so pop on by for a visit every now and then! 

Time to go to bed for now.  Thanks again to all that played in April's Final Friday.  Ciao for now! :)

April's Final Friday Giveaway!

Hello blog friends!  How are you all?  Have a good week?  Hope so.  I missed you guys and wish I had more time to craft this past week, too.  Oh well - it's just one of those busy times where there's just not a whole lot of free time for me, so I just need to bite the bullet for a while.  :)  So, how about we talk about some fun crafting stuff for a quick second?  First of all, it's time for April's Final Friday Giveaway!  I know it's taken me forever to post this, but at last, here it is!

This month, you can win this fun Punch Potpourri stamp set!  It's a current level 1 Hostess Set and it coordinates with 4 of Stampin'Up's cool punches (sorry folks, punches are not included!) 
Here are the rules {only enforced by the "Honor System"}:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, April 27, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

You can leave me a comment about anything, or you can answer this question - where is the furthest destination you've travelled in the world?  For me, I'd say that so far to date, the furthest I've travelled has been to and from the Philippines.  The first time was when I emigrated to the United States as a child, and then I've gone a couple times after that to visit.  The airline I took coming to America that very first time was Pan Am.  Some of you may not have even heard of that, I bet!  I remember getting a coloring book with Pandas in it and a small box of crayons.  That was a long time ago! What a blast from the past.  Now it's your turn - would love to hear about your furthest travels!

But wait - there's more!  This week also marks my 200,000 blog hits!!  WooHoo!!  I have you guys to thank for getting to this big milestone.  I know I should have had more fanfare on the bloggie blog, but I didn't get a chance to post when it happened mid week!  So, I'm offering another giveaway in my next post...be sue to check first thing tomorrow.  Feel free to leave a comment on that post for a chance to win...you'll have to read the post to see what I'm giving away!

Have a great night and look forward to hearing about your travels!!  I'll be announcing the winner on my blog on Friday, April 29th!

March Final Friday Giveaway!

Hello there blog friends!  I've got a fun giveaway for you this month!  How would you like to win the cute Funky Four stamp set and 6x6 stack of the Delicate Dots paper (32 sheets total, 8 sheets each of 4 double sided designs!).  Just in time for Spring! 

Are you ready to play?  Here are the rules {only enforced by the "Honor System"}:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, March 23, 2011.
2. On your comment, please make sure to include a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.
3. One comment per person please. :)  Please leave your first name and last initial in the comment, too!
4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

Now you can leave me a comment about anything, or you can tell me one thing about the town you live in.  I love to travel and visiting places, so I would love to hear more about the places where you live!  If I were to go there, where is one place I absolutely would have to go?  I can tell you about where I live.  Last weekend, there was a Whale of a Day festival near the Pt Vicente lighthouse.  This is the time of year where you can see the whales migrating!  Unfortunately, this past weekend, we didn't see any.  It is still early in March, so I think we'll go and see if we can spot any these next couple of weekends.

Can't wait to hear your comments!  I'll be announcing the winner my blog on Friday, March 25th, so be sure to check back then.  Have a great day!

February Final Friday Winner!!

Hello there bloggie friends!  It's the final Friday of the month, so that means it's time to announce this month's lucky winner!!  I am happy to share that the February Final Friday Giveaway winner is....

Lucky number 41, who happens to be

Catherine Dewaal!

Congratulations to you, Catherine!

Thank you all for playing along this month and leaving me fun comments.  You guys are awesome!  Hope you enjoy your Friday and I'll catch up with you guys in a bit!

Toodles for now :)

February's Final Friday Giveaway - ready to play?

Hi all!  How about this little package for February's Final Friday Giveaway?  The lucky winner will get:

*Picture This Clear Mount Stamp Set

*Bermuda Bay Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon

*Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon

(sorry, shopping cart not included!)

Now, for the details on how to play - they're pretty simple!

Here are the rules {only enforced by the "Honor System"}:

1. Leave me a comment on this post by midnight Pacific Time, Wed, February 23, 2011.

2. On your comment, please make sure to include your first name and last initial, a valid email address or a blog URL (where I can leave a comment or have a way of contacting you). For those of you that are uncomfortable with leaving an email in a post, you can write your info like this: yourname at emailaccount dot com.

3. One comment per person please. :)

4. Anyone can play - international visitors welcome!

You can comment about anything or tell me one thing about you that you'd like to share!  I always love finding out more about you guys! ;)

Look forward to reading your comments!  Have a great day!

January Final Friday Winner!!

Hi all!  Sorry for being so absent on the bloggie blog this week....such a crazy busy time!  Anyway, I have not forgotten about January's Winner...as a matter of fact....are you ready to find out who it is?  Drumroll please....the lucky winner is:

Lucky number 17, who happens to be Steph D. sweet craf-tea chick!!!  A BIG congrats to you, dear Steph!!!

Thanks so much to you all for playing!! I will be posting later today, but for now, gotta run.  Have a fantastic Saturday!!!