Blogaversary Giveaway!

The weekend is here Friends. Yay! Happy TGIF to you All. 

I mentioned recently that my 2 year blogaversary came along last week. I still can't believe it's been 2 years already. It has definitely flown by! And I've loved every second of it. I enjoy this time with you, my dear Friends, so much and I hope to do it for a long time to come! In order to thank all of you - as you really make blogging the joy it is for me - I wanted to do a little giveway.  I thought I would focus on the Christmas spirit and the holidays ahead.

So in the spirit of Christmas and the holidays I have a few fun goodies and even one thing not shown yet!  

First of all, we have a lovely abalone angel necklace. Because I have a thing for angels anyway, plus they remind me of the real reason for the season. And she's just pretty. I got her at a local gift shop in the area and she was made in Canada. (I live pretty close to the border in northern WI).

And what is Christmas without pretty ornaments for the tree? This was also a local gift shop find and it represents my northwoods so well. We have deer around here constantly! Plus 3/4 of the ornament looks like part of a birch tree - and I practically live in forests of birch around here. So maybe it will help you think of your little northwoods friend each year you put it out. ;) 

And frosted cranberry holiday soap. Well, because - FUN! 

**And the item not pictured is the tin of sugared pecans you will be getting as well. My homemade (famous for them) sugared pecans. They stay good for weeks. They're wonderful to just munch. Or they're superb on a holiday salad you may want to serve! 

So if these goodies sound good to you, please leave me a comment about one of your favorite things about Christmas.....or a fun holiday memory. Any wonderful comment will enter you to win. You don't have to live in the U.S. to win either. One week from today - next Friday - I will have my lovely assistant (Miss Annie) help me draw one winner at random and I will announce the winner then. Again, thanks for making blogging such a joy for me! I'm so thankful for you all!! 

Good luck. ;) xo

Weigh in Wednesday + Fab-ruary Day 11(& give-away!)

Sorry I am posting so late today dear Friends! 

 I was a busy Gal all day with my Mom-in-law and the appointments she had today. Plus errands I needed to run for a big event at my daughter's school tomorrow. I'm on the PTA there and involved on several committees. I feel blessed to be a SAHM and have the time to be involved in both my kiddos' school lives and activities.

To weigh-in this week I wanted to share that I've been pretty good (not as much as I'd like yet though) with my exercising. I actually have to dash again soon to play wallyball (a sport where you play volleyball in racquetball court and can bank the ball off the walls) with a group of gals that I organize. It's so much fun, yet a tremendous 2 hour workout!! I have been wearing my fitbit more, drinking my water like a good girl and being more active. I'm still not working out total as many days a week as I'd like, but I'm getting there. This ties in a bit with my linking with Helen at I Will Bloom for Fab-ruary Day 11.

My answer to when I feel most alive would have to be when I'm being physically active.  I LOVE how I feel after I've expended all that energy at wallyball. Or when I've done a good hard workout on my treadmill. But most of all when I'm outdoors. I love taking walks, running around with my kiddos and our dog Ruby outside. That is definitely when I feel most alive! The beauty of the outdoors just energizes me and how just breathing the very air out there is different than when I'm stuck indoors. God makes some pretty darn beautiful stuff out there and it speaks to my soul.

this is from several years ago after playing outside in the snow together

I also wanted to share a couple of other things with you. I'm also weighing in to share that I've been taking more time for my crafts and scrapbooking too. It's amazing when you turn of the t.v. a little more how many other things get done! Lol One craft I'm starting to toy with is a journal that I would love to do as a give-away to one of you dear folks. I'm still quite new to this blogging world but you all make it such a joy for me and so easy to want to visit this space every day. Here's a little peek:

I've been collecting lots of fun bits over the past several weeks....some new bits and some old bits I already have around - that I would like to use to embellish this brand new journal.  It's a romantic month so I'm using romantic pretty papers, linen tags, twine, flowers etc.... I know a lot of us use our blogging space as a type of journal, but I figure that's why even a hands on journal might be a fun thing to give away as we're obviously a journaling kind of people. It would be a lovely place to write thoughts, blog post ideas, sketch pictures, paste memories. Possibilities are endless (I just love a good journal!) I will be working on it over the course of the next week or so and then give you a real look at it and post the give-away plan and date and where you enter to win. What do you think?

 

I also wanted to leave you with an early Valentine from my pretty Ruby. She had her "haircut" recently and they always doll her up after. My Mom-in-law was with my that day and Ruby was giving her lots of kisses!! Lol 

On that note I must go - but I'll try to get around to as many of you as I can later tonight and say hello. xo