Wednesday Sponsor Giveaways: Studio Calico, Shabby Straps, Simplify 101, & Songbird Ave
Studio Calico • one person will take home the fabulous April kit
For more from Studio Calico be sure to check out their blog + galleries.
Shabby Straps • one person will receive a camera strap & one person a wrist strap
ShabbyStraps offers you a fun and unique way to accessorize your SLR/DSLR camera and your point & shoot camera. ShabbyStraps are all made of the highest quality to ensure the safety of your camera. Each strap is extra thick and comfortable to wear for the shutterbug hobbyist or professional. Whether you are in the mood for polka dots, paisleys or stripes, ShabbyStraps has you covered!
Simplify 101 • one person will receive a spot in the online workshop Organize Your Paper Clutter with Aby Garvey
Paper, paper everywhere! That paper mountain growing on your countertop
represents a loss of freedom, a loss of control, and a nagging feeling
in your gut that something important isn’t getting attended to. Your
paper, and the feelings it creates, makes it hard to relax, focus or
even have fun.
Here’s
the good news: there is a better way! With the right paper organizing
systems in place—those created with you, your paper, and your home in
mind—you can free yourself from paper clutter and the stress that comes
along with it. In Organize Your Paper Clutter, you’ll learn a
step-by-step process on how to decide if you need a piece of paper (and
for how long!) and how to organize it so you’ll find it again right
when you need it! Your piles (and your stress!) will be replaced by
organizing systems you love, and feelings of confidence, relief and
peace of mind!
Start date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
End date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Registration status: open!
Read more specific details for the workshop here.
Songbird Ave • 5 Bloom & Grow digital kits
This month I am excited to announce that I have teamed up with Songbird Ave and their talented team of designers to create a kit with 100% of the proceeds benefiting Autism Speaks in honor of Autism Awareness Month. The huge kit, including 5 exclusive layered templates, is $8 and can be purchased/downloaded here.
To be entered into today's drawing leave a comment below sharing your favorite book (or a good one you recommend). Comments will be closed at 8pm Pacific with the winner's posted shortly after.
I really love the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke. I just can't get enough sci-fi!
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I just finished reading The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan - loved it! And I'm about to start The Shack.
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I'm currently reading Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo for our book group...it's a great read...a little long, but worth it.
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I like your new blog header. & You have some nice things to give away today. I found The Secret Garden Cookbook to go with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I am going to read the classic with my daughter and try some of the recipes.
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I'm reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan right now. VERY interesting, eye-opening book. His basic question is given that humans can eat a whole lot of things, how have we ended up with the particular (and fairly narrow) foods usually on our plates these days? Lots of discussion of the melding of organic and industrial agriculture as well. In the world of fiction, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying will always be a favorite.
Can't wait to read this list at the end of the day. Thanks, Ali!
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What a great list of books. Probably because I'm rereading them, but I'd have to say the Harry Potter series. If I really think...The Diary of Anne Frank. Changed my world when I read it in middle school.
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a childhood classic which still sticks with me is
Watership Down.
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My favorite books of late are anything by Debbie Macomber or Mary Kay Andrews. Debbie Macomber is a great story teller. She builds her characters and by the end of the book you feel like they are real and you know them! :) Mary Kay Andrews has a way of looking at things and an opinion that is sure to leave you laughing. I know it's not A book....but it's what's in my bag right now! :)
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I am currently reading Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter to my daughter. I love Pollyanna's "glad" approach to life.
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I don't read alot of books so my favourite is Photography for Scrapbookers by Tracy White
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My favourite book at the moment apart from the Twilight series is "My Sister Keeper" by Jodi Picoult, it's such an emotional book about the bond of two sisters. Being away from my sister at the moment, it made it worst and tears were flowing everywhere... It's a beautiful book
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My favorite book was given to me by my mother in law 10 years ago. It is Simple Abundance. It sits on my bedside table, and every now and then I'll read the story for that day. It's always uplifting. Even though I've probably read it all the way through several times, it always feels new.
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I love "The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series by Alexander McCall Smith. They are an easy read, but not in a simplistic way. They are charming, heart-warming, and often very funny. Highly recommended!
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My foavortie books are cookboks, all kinds I read them like regular books and have made a pack with myself to make one new recipe each week from one of my many cookbooks.
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I am a reader so I love this topic. I love 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' 'The Glass Castle' and 'The Red Tent'. I also finished 'The Book Thief' a couple days ago and it was very good.
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I love East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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My very favorite book would have to be Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Thank you for the chance to win!
Alyson
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This is such a hard question to answer...I think I'd say The Memory Keepers Daughter. It was such a heart wrenching story that pulled you in and kept you engrossed the entire time. I highly recommend reading it if you haven't.
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i read these books a couple years ago. i really enjoyed them! they gave my spirit a jump start. hope you enjoy them.
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Wow more give aways!!! Love those camera straps, and as for my favorite book---Twilight the whole series of course. I am reading it for the third time at the moment. It's defenitely the love store part that keeps me coming back, and the whole Vampire thing, well all I can say is yum. lol
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"Where The Heart Is" by Billie Letts is a great book - much better than the movie!
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My favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Such a classic and great to read over and over again.
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My Favorite book is "House" by Danielle Steele. Such a good book and a Fairy Tale ending.
Although, I must say, READING Scrapbook magazines and scrapbook idea books are the top of my list also.
Have a blessed day!
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I still haven't found a book I couldn't put down and loved as much as Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. Loved it.
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My favorite is probably a crock of gold, but recently I've been enjoying Mistress of Spices.
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