Friday, December 4, 2009

Wish List Holiday Survey

I saw this little wish list on Vintage Creations and she did it because there is an amazing giveaway over at Today's Mama... She has a sleigh full of amazing items from a bike with the little bucket to a Dyson vacuum to a cricut machine...oh what i could do with a cricut!

To enter this giveaway is super easy!
To participate you must include all of the text, including the links, in bold below on your blog post or facebook and e-mail a link to your post to info@todaysmama.com with “Wish List Meme” in the subject line.

I thought it would be fun to do, so here's mine.


Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.


1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
-spa day

-new jeans! My pants are falling down, lol. I've been losing the baby weight still thanks to nursing.

-Porters (local craft store) gift card to get myself a Cricut and other scrapbooking supplies

-Scrapbook Storage Cubes- I still have too much stuff that needs a place!

-to be near all my family and close friends more

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
all of them! My most recent handmade gift was a vinyl board for my son's room that says
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Do you Know How Loved you are?"
I don't get many handmade gifts anymore since people must think since she does scrapbooking what else could she need...trust me there's tons of crafts the I don't know how to make! Plus I'm not the greatest sewer!

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
anything with vinyl (I'll be tackling it before Christmas though) or a T-shirt quilt

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
-any of the group kids' gifts - it was just so exciting: video game systems, air hockey table...I was more of a tomboy when I was younger =D

5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
- well my son is 1 so I'm making his list....we're going to get him some sort of child's chair because he loves sitting on us or on pillows.

6. What is your favorite holiday food?
- pretty much all homemade treats!

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
- a vinyl board that says Our Greatest Joy, Our Grandkids

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
-A Christmas Carol...my dad always said the name SCROOOOGE just like the movies

9. Favorite holiday song?
-Christmas Shoes

10. Favorite holiday pastime?
- we just started this in our small family, but decorating a gingerbread house and any holiday cooking and baking


Enter the giveaway. Leave a comment here with a link to your wish list too! I'd love to read it!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Books Read in 2009

Books Read in 2009 (32)

**Christmas Jars Reunion by Jason F. Wright 12.31.09
*The Mist of Quarry Harbor by Liz Adair 11.10.09
****Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright 12.14.09
***The Silence of Snow by Anita Stansfield 12.10.09
**Too Good to be True by Taunia L. Bean 10.26.09
**Timeless Waltz (2nd time) by Anita Stansfield 10.8.09
*Loved Like That by Julie Wright 9.23.09
Keepers of the Heart (2nd time by accident) by JoAnn Jolley (9.16.09)
Shelter from the Storm by Anita Stansfield 8.28.09
***CTR's Ring by Melissa Ann Aylstock 8.13.09
I Just Got a Letter from Allyson Pringle by Anya Bateman 8.3.09
*****Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2nd time) by J.K. Rowling 7.22.09
****Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2nd time) by J.K. Rowling 7.9.09
*****Breaking Dawn (2nd time) by Stephenie Meyer 6.28.09
Just One Wish by Janette Rallison 6.24.09
*****Eclipse (2nd time) by Stephenie Meyer 6.7.09
***New Moon (2nd Time) by Stephenie Meyers 5.20.09
****Twilight (2nd Time) by Stephenie Meyers 5.14.09
Bright Blue Miracle by Becca Wilhite 5.7.09
Lost Without You by Annette Lyon 4.30.09
A Life of My Own by Lisa McKendrick 4.23.09
Shadow of Doubt by Amy Maida Wadsworth 4.8.09
***Winds of Hope by Anita Stansfield 4.8.09
**The Crayon Messages by Christine Thackeray 3.10.09
Delicious Conversation by Jennifer Stewart Griffith 3.8.09
A Little Sisterly Advice by Jennifer Stewart Griffith 3.5.09
Choosing Mr. Right by Jennifer Stewart Griffith 3.2.09
Never Too Late by Nancy Cratty 2.25.09
The First Year by Crystal Liechty
*A Chance for Sarah by Susan Dean Elzey
Eyes of a Stranger by Rachel Ann Nunes
*The Sound of Thunder by Anita Stansfield

Crafty Goals in 2009

I've decided to clean up my sidebars more so I'm posting my Crafty Goals here: things that I aspire to make someday or things that I need to make ASAP.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Kodak Online

I don't know if you've seen the $15 certificate code for Kodak but I signed up for it to try them out. I ordered a framed picture. The frame was perfect and the cherry color matched perfectly with my other cherry wood stuff. Very nice!


BUT I was disappointed with the pictures prints that I also ordered. The paper quality is super thin and flimsy. Unfortunately, I most likely will not be ordering from them again.
I love Shutterfly and their quality. Plus they always seem to be doing offers for free prints. Plus through other sites, I've received at least 2 free photo book offers for Shutterfly. Then I already had 2 other offers from them.
When I need prints quick, I usually go to Walgreens or Wal-mart one hour online. I am pleased with their quality too. The one thing I don't like about Walgreens pictures though; is that they don't have the date of the picture on the back like most places do. I hate not knowing the date of my pictures!


*I wasn't compensated in any way for this post. See my Disclosure Policy.

Disclosure Policy

New Federal Trade Commission guidelines
"The guidelines will mandate that bloggers that have a material connection to advertisers must disclose the relationship. Why? Well, according to what I [The Coupon Project] can piece together, the FTC feels it's misleading for readers to remain unaware that bloggers may be receiving money or products for their posts. To some degree, I can understand that. What is going to be difficult, however, is determining the level of disclosures needed."
Starting - December 1st - all bloggers must disclose if they receive compensation (including products) as a result of their post, or they could be subjected to a fine of $11,000 per occurrence. That ain't no parking ticket, folks.


Well I don't know if this really applies to me and I don't understand all of it so just in case I've kinda put something together. I have not yet received any compensation as of today, December 1st, but I would like to start trying to in more efforts to spread the word about all other people like me who are crafty and are trying to sell their craft items.


Crafty Mommy Diva Disclosure Policy
1 December 2009
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