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.
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I'm in kid world right now, so the first thing that comes to my mind is my favorite kids author . . . Judy Blume. I love them all . . . Tales of the 4th Grade Nothing, Superfudge, oh they are all great!
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My favorie book would have to be "Anne of Green Gables". She was so full of imagination.
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My favorite book this year so far is The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. It's about written correspondence shared between an author living in London & people on the island of Guernsey right after WWII. The book is fabulous & I even created a "potato peel pie" for the book club we just read it for.
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I really enjoy jodi picoult, love getting to the end!
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Favorite book right now: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
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My favorite book series are the Plum books by Janet Evanovich! They are hilarioius!
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great stuff!
one of my all time fave books is 'boy's life' by robert mccammon. it's such a good story about a boy and his adventures. it's so well written you can almost feel the sunshine and smell the fresh cut grass...
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My favourite book right now is the Three Cups of Tea. Very powerful!
Shelley P.
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I'm not usually a non-fiction fan, but I just read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson, and really enjoyed it. It's about a serial killer and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Reads like fiction, but it's not. Lot's of history and many famous names float in and out of the book as well.
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I would have to say I am huge fan of the Harry Potter books.
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Oh wow, I would so LOVE to win any of these things Ali! Thank you for doing this. My favorite book would have to be "My Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. I loved every page and I cried my eyes out at the end. A close second would be "The Time Travelers Wife". And now I'm off to read what everyone else wrote and put together a spreadsheet. I'm ALWAYS looking for a good read!
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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
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In college I had to read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It is about experiences of soldiers during the Vietnam War. It was very interesting and I ended up keeping the book so I could read it again. It's not my favorite book, but a great one.
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My current fav author is Jodi Picoult. It is hard to narrow down to my favorite book, but I would have to say My Sisters Keeper. Excellent, riveting stories.
http://www.jodipicoult.com/
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I am enjoying "PRide and Prejudice and Zombies." i know, I can just feel my English teachers cringing. I feel no need to be high brow about my reading selections, Master's Degree be darned.
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The Manual of Detection
by Jedediah Berry
A debut novel featuring a personal clerk who catalogues all the cases that his detective boss, Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing, Charles Unwin is promoted to find and solve the case. He enters a world where all the alarm clocks have been stolen. Different and enjoyable and a good novel for a first outing by an author.
Unpredictable to say the least!
http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Detection-Jedediah-Berry/dp/1594202117
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The best book I have read in the past few years was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I stayed up late for two nights, completely transfixed by it and crying. My friends who don't have kids read it, but didn't have the same intense reaction I did.
Thanks!
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One of my favorite books is The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. I love a book that keeps you thinking long after you have read it and inspires you to be a better person.
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The Manual of Detection
by Jedediah Berry
A debut novel featuring a personal clerk who catalogues all the cases that his detective boss, Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing, Charles Unwin is promoted to find and solve the case. He enters a world where all the alarm clocks have been stolen. Different and enjoyable and a good novel for a first outing by an author.
Unpredictable to say the least!
http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Detection-Jedediah-Berry/dp/1594202117
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The best book I have read in a long time that has really had a profound impact on my life is The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker by Wendy Smedley and Aby Garvey. I also have recently taken the class at BPS but had the book long before. I would highly recommend this book for anyone that needs to organize their scrap space.
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