More Luckiness!

So I keep forgetting to post this to share with you how you can win giveaways too! These are all the giveaways/contests I've won in the last 6 months - total of 18. Pretty sweet huh!
Typically I only enter giveaways that have less than 100 comments on them because then I feel like I have a decent shot at them. Some giveaways require you to do/make something which are fun to try.
Most blogs/sites just want people to enter their giveaways so they get more exposure for their blog. That's another reason I enter a lot of low commented giveaways because I feel bad that not many have entered so I try to spread the word about their site and giveaway. Because I'm in the same boat often. I feel like I have to beg people to enter my giveaways.
Even if you don't personally want/need the item being given away, I'm sure there's someone else that would love it. I've given a couple of friends some of my "extra" stuff and they are so grateful!
Most giveaways too have many ways to enter. Plus it's not hard to enter especially when they don't have word verification up. When that's up, it does take too much time to enter more than one entry.
Check my Facebook Fan Page for info about some low entry giveaways going on and enter them! You could be as lucky as me! You never know if you don't try!

Forever and a Day - 3 Hats of my choice! (1/4/10) I chose all 3 to be the style below except one with pink instead of blue

won 6 silhouette ornaments from Fabric Creations on Somewhat Simple's 12 Giveaways of Christmas (1/4/10)

Sweetie Pie Bakery Giveaway on Cherry Blossoms (2/12/10)

Sweet Love Valentine’s Day Collection of printables from The TomKat Studio on The Shopping Mama

Tooth Fairy Pillow from Baby Paige on Smile a Day Giveaways (2/13/10)

American Idol Kids Tent from CSN Stores on Smile a Day Giveaways (2/13/10)

HALO Early Walker SleepSack on Just for Me and You (2/15/10)
Yup it has feet holes so they can walk with their sleepsack. This one is 12-18 months but it is super huge!!! I tied it in the back with my ponytails so that he could walk in it. He's 15 months and he's the right weight and height for it - oh well it will be great when he's older.

2nd Place (children's books and 20% coupon) in the Valentine's Day Box Contest at Cedar Fort Books

ScrapJunkie tote from The Scrap Shoppe (2/18/10)

Border Punch from Yellow Umbrella Designs for participating in her Weekly  Layout Challenge (3/15/10)

Blue Easter Bunny Canvas from The Preppy Pink Olive (3/16/10)

Child's Belt of my choosing from One Little Belt at Someday Crafts. (3/23/10)

$20 Fancy Pants Gift Certificate at Life as Lori (4/2/10)

Words in a Word Game (how many words can you think of from the words: Spring Fling - I think I had about 140) and Bonus Challenge (see picture below of my entry) at Scrap For a Cure's Spring Fling. (4/12/10)

Yummy Sugar Cookies (bought from The Chocolate, a Dessert Cafe) from Craving Chocolate and Lazy Days (4/17/10)

EconoME program-(teacher program that helps teach kids how to budget and real life stuff) at How Does She (4/20/10)


Scrapbook Stuff from Heart Sparrow for helping choose colors for her header. (4/21/10)


H.O.T. Challenge on Pampering Divas' Online Crop at Creative Scrapbooking Divas (6/10/10)


$10 Stash Cash to spend here from The Scrappiest (6/12/10)

Fashionable Fridays #11

For this week's Fashionable Fridays. I wanted to share with you a site called Lookville, a place to share advice and fashion tips about clothing styles and looks. Right now you can only enter it by invitation only so I decided to give it a try. You upload a full body picture of clothes and get opinions from others on it. I decided to upload this one because it's a favorite of mine out of all the Fashionable Fridays I've shared so far.

But apparently it's not a favorite of very many people!
Here are the first 4 comments I received - talk about ouch! When I give comments I like to share at least something positive too.

@chast113: firstly, i dont exactly like the shoes with the cardigan. And secondly, maybe another color of cardigan would suite the skirt. Sorry.


@jackson1992: change the shoes and change the under shirt to a white or gray.!

@suivreamely: The length of that skirt requires a higher heel, because it's making your legs look a wee bit short. I'd rather you wear this with a white or cream colored sexy camisole

@kikii: the length of the skirt is wrong, it should sit above the knee and taper in, and the color of the cardi is to bright try something softer.
 
 
At least there were some positives in the next 11 comments I received.

@wendyw721: Maryann, I like the cardigan not tucked in, probably more comfortable if you are sitting down. As for the skirt length, it could be a tiny bit shorter, as Kiki Blue said, and perhaps black kitten heels might look nice, very low key. I actually like the emerald green color of your cardigan, it complements your lovely skin tones and dark hair. Since you are visiting your church, I know you are going for a more modest look.


@smaltwnfash00: I think you look cute! What would help the outfit to be better is a more form fitting skirt and some higher heels.

@VeronicaSchiller: I would put higher heels and if you have get a simple cardigan without any details in the front cause you already have the buttons of the skirt... I always use J crew cardigans, I find them to be the most comfortable cause they are not too heavy and they have them in different lengths! They also have v necks instead that I think wold give a nice touch to the outfit and it will make you look more elongated in the torso

@beautynut: this is a cute outfit. I wouldn't have know that was a cardigan had you not pointed it out. you look lovely

@LadyChaos78: your giving yourself a very rectangular shape. What you want is curves. untuck the cardigan and add a belt.

@kerri2218: I like the tucked in look although i think a belt around the waist with a plain more fitted pencil skirt would work better. If you are going to wear a skirt that length you need to wear higher heels to accentuate the legs and make them look longer.

@TauriTigerpaw: I love the skirt and I'd build on that with a pair of solid black strappy higher heels for a more feminine feel to balance out the skirt. I don't care for the tucked in top, or that color of green. It looks like you may have a dark camisole underneath and maybe a dark loose jacket over the camisole would soften the boxiness of the skirt and give you a professional and sexy look.

@KaylaMarieCraig: Definitely a higher heel and not the grey I would either do a slick shiny looking shoe in the green color a slick black but a higher heel would work much better.

@SSVintage: I think you pull off the tucked in cardigan nicely. :) You look super cute.

@alexx: this whole look is just a no. the shoes are so fall, the skirt is fine...but the cardigan and that purple thing go terribly!!! find a cute tank blouse that has some nice colors and design on it, and find patent leather pumps, rather than pointy toes

@4everbeauty1: Change the shoes to something totally black or black with green lace or something..those shoes are definitely a no.
 
I understand that I could have had better, higher heels. Maybe I should have pulled up my pencil skirt more to show my knees. I liked wendy's comment since she realized that I am more modest.
No one seems to like color either. I don't see anything wrong with the green and purple. I should try and send this in to What not to Wear and see what Stacy and Clinton say. I trust their opinion.
Another thing is I'm not rich! I slowly am buying a new wardrobe to fit my new post-baby body. Cut me a little slack please. The few pictures I saw, most were more immodest, super tight clothed women and they had such nice comments - sheesh.
 
I'm debating about sharing this picture with them....should I be brave!? I don't know if I can!
 

 
If you'd like to give it a try, the first 5 people can sign -up with this link: http://lookville.com/signup?u=6139&c=blue wool
I think you can just share outfits too without actually wearing them.

Scrapbooking Birthday Party

I had a scrapbooking birthday party for my 25th back in October. I keep meaning to share the details of it and now I finally am so I can hopefully be included in Tip Junkie's Birthday Party Bash June 14-19.

I based the colors off my Scrappy Gifts site.

Cake
Brittany's Cake World made my cake as well using the colors of Scrappy Gifts. I also gave her some of my scrapbooking flowers for the centerpiece on it.

Candles on the cake...



Games/Activities
1. People could get into pairs or do it themselves, but they had to create a scrapbooking page for me using the supplies I provided. This was awesome! Then all I had to do later was add pictures of the party to the pages they created. I did have to create a couple more, but the process was so simple! So if you love scrapbooking, have guests create the pages for you.

Scrapbooking stuff for people to make my birthday scrapbook pages for me ;)

Guests starting to scrapbook


Layouts my friends created. I just added pictures and a couple more embellishments. Also I had everyone write a birthday wish on 4x6 notecard I created to match the layout.

2. All About Me Question Game
3. Friends' File Activity: I had Friends Files starting back when I was in 8th Grade. It's just a book where all your friends write down their favorites and vote for people for best whatever under specific page catergoires. I had bought them from Sanrio back then and wasn't able to find any now. So I made my own using the colors from my birthday party.


Prizes
mostly Scrapbooking related Prizes for everyone! Winners of games were able to choose first.



So do you think it's wrong to host your own birthday party? I didn't want to be disappointed and not have a 25th birthday party. (My husband isn't good at throwing me a party-birthdays aren't as big of a deal in his family). I love parties so I threw myself one and I wasn't disappointed. I planned my birthday parties way in advance when I was younger too. Now that I'm older I only will throw myself one for the "big" birthdays if no one else is giving me one. 7.23.10 - OK I lied I have plans for a Murder Mystery Birthday Party this year; 30 is too far away to save it.

Mario Party Wii Birthday Party

We had a Mario Party Wii Birthday Party for our son's 1st birthday back in November. I keep meaning to share the details of it and now I finally am so I can hopefully be included in Tip Junkie's Birthday Party Bash June 14-19. This makes the most sense if you've ever played any version of Mario Party.

Decorations

Welcome Picture of the Wii Mario Party Host and some of our favorite Wii Mario Party characters.

Red streamers.

Red, Yellow, Green and Blue Balloons.

Happy 1st Birthday Sign again with Wii Mario Party Host and some of our favorite Wii Mario Party characters.

Stars! That's the goal in the game to get the most stars!

Star Balloon for the birthday boy!

Games

Real life Mario Party Gameboard: I cut out 1/4 red 6x6 squares and 3/4 blue 6x6 squares. Then 1 yellow Star square - (land on it and you get to go the secret star room to get a free star). Had them laminated right next to each other in 2 long rows (spacing a red square after 2-4 blue squares). Then taped the two parts to my wall.

I took images online and printed them out of all the Wii Mario Party characters and the host and laminated them. The Mario Party characters were used as the game pieces with velcro on the back. Then a piece of velcro was placed on each square as well so they could move across the board.

A Gold Star Piece was placed at the end.

Star Bags from Oriental Trading to keep track of their coins and stars earned in the game.

Mini Games: games that you play after each family had one turn. We just did 3 mini games total to keep it shorter.

1. Bowling - each couple was a team and each person rolled the ball once backwards and through their legs.

2. All About Birthday Boy quiz (questions about his life)

3. Bullseye: each person had to throw 3 little balls at the bullseye and then each couple's scores were added up. I let each person make sure their ball stuck to the bullseye.

Prizes

What's a game without prizes! I traded with lots of sites to help them get more exposure for their site.

All prizes were baby/children related since this party was for our 1 year old son.

Prizes were given to winners of mini games and then the family that had the most starts at the end of the game. After that, any family who didn't get a prize could go choose one. I like letting everyone be a winner.

The Piece de Resistance: The Cakes!

Cakes were made by Brittany's Cake World. I came up with the idea of the cakes, and she made my visions come to life!

Wii Mario Party Host Cake with 3 Mario Party Characters: Mario, Boo and Yoshi.

Wii Cake with remote (life size)

Bomb Smash Cake for my son

For his 2nd birthday, we're thinking DragonBall Z....my husband wants to attempt to make a Goku cake on our own. We'll see though =D

Fashionable Fridays #10

I'm linking up to One Crafty Mommy's Fashionable Fridays! Check it out! One Crafty Mommy and Fashionista on a Dime are working together to share affordable fashion! You can link up posts of your fashion, questions about fashion, etc.!

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More casual looks for this week's Fashionable Fridays. I've been showing you a lot of dress up look since I've mostly been getting ready only for church on Sundays. I guess that's what happens when you're child is being weaned from a pacifier and get his 2nd year molars thus not sleeping as well which means I'm not sleeping as well. Who wants to get ready for the day when you're tired and not going anywhere?

Well I've been better this week....

Here is what I wore last Saturday just to go and run errands around town. I like the red to bring a pop of color. The headband helps add more interest to my outfit too plus helps my hair look a little better since all I did was brush it (so ignore the poofiness of it). Headbands are from Old School Trading. She had a mega sale on these a couple months ago and I chose 8 of them for less than $4 a piece. The clothes I'm wearing are so old that I have no idea where I bought them from and what the prices were.

I wore this outfit on Memorial Day....I should have worn something with red or blue though - huh?

I love this grey top. It's from bpriceless clothing at Brittany Rae's Boutique. She has affordable modest fashion! I bought this for $15. It is super comfortable and cute!

Also the headband I'm wearing here is from The Essig Motif also sold at Brittany Rae's Boutique.

As you can see, my son wanted to be in the picture with me =D

Let me know what you think! =D