Wednesday Giveaway : Superhero
Tags:Today I want to celebrate a wonderful blogger, jewelry artist, mother, and life coach who has become a friend: Andrea Scher of Superhero Designs. [ photo below by Boho Girl Denise Andrade ]
Andrea is the reason I began blogging back in 2004. I was working on a project for a workshop about designing with color (& color inspiration) and was searching the internet using the search terms "colorful jewelry." I stumbled onto Andrea's Superhero site (and of course I had to order a handmade necklace as part of my research), started reading her blog and checking out all her inspiring links, and decided then and there that what she was doing was cool and I wanted to start my own blog.
I finally got to meet Andrea in person last summer after corresponding back and forth from time to time over the past four years. It was awesome. She has a heart of gold, a wonderful written voice, and a gift for helping people get in touch with their own inner superhero.
Today, lucky readers, Andrea is giving away a one of her fantastic, colorful bead necklaces. In addition, she has a special holiday sale happening now that includes $20 off necklaces bead necklaces. Passion would make a great gift for a special friend (or a suggestion for a spouse who may need a little help in choosing a Valentine gift).
Here's a little FAQ on her lovely necklaces. She has also added these very cool silver pendant necklaces to her offerings.
To be entered into the drawing today leave a comment that highlights your own personal superpower (or superpowers). And before you think you have none, stop and consider the possibility
for a moment. What is something you are just awesome at? Take a
minute to be proud of something about ourselves and share it publicly.
I bet you are your very own superhero in some very special way.
Comments will be closed at 8pm Pacific tonight with the winner posted shortly after.


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My superpower is my ability to make awesome chocolate chip cookies. Either that or my super back scratches my kids ask endlessly for.
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Listening. I love to listen and people love to share. Everyone has a story to tell and it's a joy to hear them.
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My Superpower...raising a bigger family than I bargained for, because somebody made some bad choices. And becoming a better person for having done it. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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LOVE the jewelry! My superpower? My husband is a youth pastor, and is fantastic at dreaming...coming up with the BIG things. My superpower is figuring out all of the details to make his big plans come true. :)
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I am super good at reading stories aloud. That's my super power. And I'd look so super in that necklace while reading stories.
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I have faith and an overwhelming sense of joy and I share it with others. I hold tight to it everyday and hope that by my smile or kind word or goofy joke, I made a difference, however small, in someone's day.
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So many have said Supermom (and rightfully so!)...Hmmm...My superpower is...SHUFFLING. Yes. But not with cards (although, a trip to Vegas to get away doesn't sound bad! Mmmm...buffets...) I shuffle 20 5th graders every day, their papers, their lessons, their attitides, their complaints, their triumphs. I shuffle my ever growing district duties (I HAVE to have my hands in every pie it seems!). But most of all, I shuffle my day to spend every possible minute with my lil man, Oliver. He makes me supershuffle, he makes me supermom. Love my boy!
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I have loved her necklaces since I first saw them - at Tara Whitney's blog, I think.
Thanks for the chance, Ali!
:)
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Like the scout motto - "Be Prepared." I think I am good at that. After raising three girls, I think I had to learn how to be prepared or perish.
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Andrea rocks! Great giveaway! My superpower is I am an amazing cook. I'm usually humble about it but not today. :)
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Love this colorful jewelry! Thanks for the giveaway. I think one of my superpowers is getting a healthy meal on the table almost every night (I usually take a break one weekend night). I love the time we spend together as a family around the table, saving money by eating at home, and eating healthy food.
-Brooke
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i love this ali. right now i feel like my real superpower is being a mama. to my one-year-old and baby growing inside of me!
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I'm a labor and delivery nurse and I'm *super* at starting IV's!
Oh, and I've birthed three children of mine own, which is altogether powerful!
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Aren't we all thrilled that you read her blog and decided to start your own - you enrich our lives so much. My superpower - I am the eternal encourager. I try to keep everyone looking at the glass as half full instead of half empty. I have so enjoyed reading everyone's superpowers. I also identify with the finder of lost things - that is my role at our home as well. Must be a "woman thing". Also, loved the "I make milk" and growing a baby. We do tend to take ourselves for granted! Raising families requires many superpowers!
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Wow what a necklace. My superhero qualities have been in the last year while my husband has been in a very demanding school I have handled everything that keep us going and my husbands motivation. That included finding and buying a house all while moving from another state and unpacking and keeping food in front of my husband. He graduated in December and told me on graduation that I was the only reason he made it and I deserved some jewerly for that. I was so shocked that he had realized I had been pulling for both of us for 10 months!!!
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Hi Ali...
First, I hope today finds you feeling well as you anxiously await Baby A.
As for any superhero power I have...those that receive cards and notes from me say that I have a lovely way of expressing my thoughts in order to make the receipient feel special. I do feel I am much better at writing than speaking, so it makes me feel nice to know that my family and friends enjoy what I say. It's a bit of pressure sometimes when you think someone is expecting you to be profound, and I don't write nearly as many notes as I'd like, but when I do, I think I do it well.
As for a real superpower...I asked Santa for the one that Bewitched had, and I'll keep asking until my twitching nose works...wouldn't that be a great power for all women to have?
Thanks for sharing one of your personal favorites with us...Angela
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I am especially adept at humor. I can usually diffuse any tense situation with a comment that is subtle and humorous and helps folks put the situation into perspective. I am also told that I am the consummate diplomat. I believe that its my quirky and midwestern (though I am not from the midwest) sense of humor that are my true superhero powers. Love her jewelry.thank you for sharing your friend wtih all of us.
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I would have to say my superpower is organization and keeping the household running smoothly with the meals, laundry, and mostly LOVE!
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I don't think I am a superhero at anything then I think of how deeply I love-I love with everything I have-I give it all and sometimes I get hurt but I never stop loving this way.
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listening. as a middle school guidance counselor i have to have superpower listening skills.
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