Sponsor Giveaway : Elle's Studio

very nice stuff from elle's studio!!
my best summer vacation was last year (i was 17, turned to 18 while i was in vacation). i was visiting old friends in canada and we went to a lake that had wonderful white sandy beach!! it was great!!!

My favorite memory is trips to the beach in San Diego from our house in Arizona. We went most every summer that I can remember.

my favorite memory of summer is riding my bike with my older brother... following him everywhere... exploring, sometimes, scared of getting lost.

My favorite childhood memory was one of our many camping trips to Carlyle Lake in Illinois. Upon returning our mom came back out of the house - before any of us exited the truck - with a laundry basket and instructions to throw dirty clothes in it and run in the house and get a few more days worth. They surprised us with a turn around trip to the Lake of the Ozarks. It was so cool.

My favorite childhood summertime memory is having an annual block party with the neighbors. I always looked forward to hanging out with my friends and watching the adults have fun! Ah....the good old days. I'd love to win one of the awesome prizes!

My favourite summer time memory must be the time I spent with my cousins on the farm in Alberta. We would play hide and seek amongst the hay bails, out buildings and windrows. We fed the chickens, made secret hideouts in the dusty outbuildings, and slept under the stars on the trampoline (listening to the coyotes howl).
Happy Summer!

My favorite summer memory is camping. We basically lived at a camp ground about an hour north of home. It was beautiful and it was eventually the place where I met my husband!

In the summers as a child I would listen to Mr Softee the ice cream truck to come by he had this distinctive tune. I lved near my grandparents and often was there in the evening and would turn to my grandfather and smile and bat my eyelashes grab his hand and get a chocolate cone with sprinkles.... Thanks for the memories Ali love your giveaway. Grace xoxoxo

my favorite childhood memory is when my family went camping and we hiked.... too far for us kids to hike back and my dad had to hitch hike back to get the car.

Some of my favorite summer time memories are of camping, swimming outside, riding bikes until it was almost dark and of course the "backyard camping"! Now I'm doing all these things with my own kids and I love it just as much! :)

My favorite memories from childhood are of going to the sand dunes on the coast of Lake Michigan with my family.
Amy M.

My family used to always go from SC to OH to visit my aunt every summer. My brother, sister, and I had to crowd three-across in the backseat for 10 hours to get there, but we had such fun and always looked forward to that trip!

We woke up every Saturday morning to get in the pool with all of my parent's friends and their kids. We swam from daylight to dark each week. They don't make Saturdays like that anymore.

My happiest memories are when my friends and I would explore the wooded areas around our neighborhood and catch Horny Toads, make club houses, have talent shows and our own rock concerts on our street. Those were the days!

It was camping with my Mom and Dad and brother at Whitby Island in Washington state. we had a tent trailer that we loaded up and we always went with the same family friends that had 2 girls the same age as me and my brother...Whitby island has fantastic sand dunes!

Swimming all day, everyday even if it meant asking total strangers to say they were our chaperones (community pool).

Oh, one of my favorite memories is catching lightning bugs in a mason jar and then sneaking them into my bedroom closet. That was my secret reading room and I always hoped I would catch enough to read by. That never happened but I never stopped hoping.

Eating meals straight out of the garden as a child.

I remember it clearly. We were in Tahoe, my sister, brother & I. It was a clear morning, warm & sunny. By the afternoon, the clouds rolled in, but it was still warm. Within a half hour the sky was dark and the fat drops were pouring down, creating the best puddles outside our rented condo. We ran outside in our play clothes and did a russian happy dance in the rain. Totally getting soaked, but enjoying every minute of it. To this day, the smell of wet cement reminds me of that afternoon and the simple pleasure of family & rain.

running around the neighborhood at night playing ghost and the graveyard.