The lia sophia Jewellery giveaway winner is...

Congrats to Helen Svoboda! You have won an amazing $150 worth of lia sophia Jewellery.

Thanks so much to everyone that entered the contest.  It was a lot of fun reading all the comments as I numbered the entries.  Thanks for all the entertaining comments as well as nice compliments about my blog.  I wish I could give the prize away to everyone...maybe when I win the lottery!

With that said, there are lots of fantastic promotions available on lia sophia Jewellery so don't hesitate to contact Christina to learn more.  If you are interested in buying anything from the current catalogue or would like a future catalogue as it becomes available, feel free to contact her using the contact information provided below.

For anyone (anywhere in Canada) that is interested in hosting a show or would like some information sent to you about this amazing business opportunity, please contact Christina directly via her website (http://www.liasophia.ca/sites/christina), e-mail (chic7@shaw.ca) or phone (403) 889-4521.  Please let her know that I referred you even if it's a few weeks or months from now. 

Also, I would love to feature more small (or big), unique businesses (especially ones run by mommies) so let me know if you or someone you know might want to volunteer some goodies for a future contest.

A Couple More Etsy Giveaways

Here are some more fun Etsy giveaways on a couple mommy blogs that I follow.  Feel free to check out their blogs and enter their contests!   Make sure you click through to their sites to leave your comments (entries).

As for the current giveaway on my blog, I'll be announcing the winner of the lia sophia Jewellery giveaway tomorrow once I get all the entries numbered and a winner chosen. 

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une petite plume: {Oh la la, it’s giveaway time!}:

Tara from Boutique Karma is offering a Coffee sleeve or a Mug hugger of the winner's choice and a coupon code of 10% off any order to all my blog readers!

Coupon code

During checkout, enter this coupon code to get 10% off: plume

  

Giveaway – How to enter

   1. Become a follower of my blog an leave a comment below to let me know.

   2. Go to Boutique Karma and leave a comment on this post saying which item is your favourite.

*For an additional entry, like Boutique Karma on Facebook.  Don't forget to leave a comment on this post when it's done!

Good luck! I will pick a winner Monday, January 24, through random.org.

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Food & Whine: Ideas for Packed Lunches and a GIVEAWAY!:

Anytime Sacks Giveaway:

You can win a snack and sandwich sack of your choice from the listed on their Etsy shop. It can be a matching set or different fabrics.

To enter, just leave a comment mentioning one of your favorite things to pack in lunches. Make sure I have your email address so I can contact you if you win.

You can receive bonus entries by doing any of the following (just make sure to leave a separate comment to tell me each bonus entry you do):

• Add Anytime Sacks to your Etsy Favorites
• Share this giveaway on Facebook, Twitter, or blog
• Follow us on Google Friend Connect
• Subscribe to us by Email
• Follow us on Twitter
• Become a fan on our Facebook page (by clicking 'Like')

This contest will close Thursday January 27 2011 at midnight PST.

Digital Scrapbooking with Photoshop

I meant to post these masterpieces a long time ago and kept forgetting.  I mentioned in a previous post that I signed up for Smilebox for the year where I intend to organize photos and create some large prints for photo albums.  I am going to buy them through Costco or something like that rather than spend all that money on ink cartridges.  Smilebox basically provides a large selection of pre-made pages that you can just add your photos into.   It's quick and convenient which is a very good thing for me right now.   Another fun feature of Smilebox is that it can create digital slideshows that you can share with friends and family.  Here's the one I created using our Christmas Photos.

Before I knew about this convenient service, I created the pages I posted here using Adobe Photoshop with the help of some free online scrapbooking elements.  It was very time consuming but I am proud of the finished products!   Honestly, I am very happy to use an actual digital scrapbooking program now but I can see how creating pages yourself is a fun way to express creativity.  There is also a certain level of accomplisment you feel when constructing the pages youself too.  However, in reality, I just don't have the time to do it.  Ironically, it probably looks like I just threw these together in a few minutes but it actually took about two days to create all three pages.  Everything was done manually...well, as manual as you can get with a computer anyway.  Enjoy!

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For anyone that has been procrastinating and hasn't entered the lia sophia Jewellery giveaway yet, here's a link to the post.  The contest will end tomorrow night and then I'll announce the lucky winner on Saturday.