Small world and gorgeous jewelry

We all know it's a small world, right? Even though I know this, I was still so surprised to see the face of someone I was in youth group with (though she was in high school and I was in middle school), someone whose little brother I asked to a dance in 7th grade, someone whose parents were my Kindergarten Sunday School teachers, on one of my favorite blogs!

Kate at Southern Belle Simple is giving away a GORGEOUS Diana Warner necklace. Yup, Diana's parents were my Sunday School teachers when my family first joined our church back in 1992.

See what I mean?

Small.

World.

But don't click here. Because then you'll enter the contest. And my chances of winning will go down!

Big, Huge Favor???

I have a giant favor to ask...

Will you vote for me? Kroger is running a contest to design their new reusable bags, and the winner gets $1000! You can vote every day between now and May 21st, and I need all the help I can get!

Here is what my design looks like:

And, if you design one yourself, you'll get a credit added to your Kroger Plus Card for a free reusable bag in their store! Just be sure to use your Plus Card when you check out, and you won't be charged for the bag.


And, if you post about this on your blog, come back and leave me a comment with the link (be sure to include a link to my voting page in your post). Then if I win, you'll be entered to win something fabulous that I'll buy with some of the prize money. Deal? 

Thank you! You guys are the best!

Ummm..Ad-or-a-ble!

Have you seen these???

 

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These are camera strap cozys, sold by Holy Macro on Etsy. And on my gosh, do I want one! They fit over your existing SLR (whether digital or otherwise) camera strap so you can be chic while you shoot! Lucky for me (and all of you), the super cute Hilary of Blissfully Enamored is giving one away! Scoot on over to her blog and check it out! And even if you're not a photographer, enter anyway, and then you can give it to me if you win!

(disclaimer: despite evidence to the contrary on this blog, I do L-O-V-E photography, and a new DSLR all my own is on the shopping list--we're just waiting on the specific camera I want to come back in stock...I hope to start posting more pictures here soon!)

Why are you still here reading? GO ENTER!

xoxo,

Contest over at BEB!

My friend (and grandlittle in our sorority) Julie has a fabulous blog. She's already managed to attract more than 100 followers, a feat that still leaves me amazed! In celebration of reaching this goal, she's hosting a giveaway, and it's just as FAB as she is.

{the awesome stuff you can win at Brown Eyed Belle}

What are you waiting for? Go enter!

xoxo

Letterpress

Who doesn't love some good letterpress? Planning my wedding left me knee-deep in paper lust, particularly the yummy goodness of thick paper pressed with beautiful inks. And when I say lust, I mean that there was no way we could have afforded it, unless of course I decided to forgo getting a wedding dress. And only invited 5 people. I might have been able to afford 5 letterpress invitations for the price of my wedding dress. Or I might be exaggerating.

But now you'll understand why I'm BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS excited about this contest I discovered from Claremont Road (Weddingbee love!). Bespoke Press is based in Australia, and their.stuff.is.beautiful. Not only do they have an amazing letterpress studio to create those coveted invitations, they started a project to feature up-and-coming illustrators. As such, they now have a line of 10 beautiful letterpress prints available in their shop. Swoon! Supporting fledgling artists and creating pretty things. I think I'm in love!


I'd love to give some of these prints as gifts...if even to myself! What are you waiting on? Go visit Bespoke! (and enter the contest to get all 10 Illustrator prints for FREE!)

Chesney

It's been a Chesney kind of day. It started this morning, when the radio show I listen to on my way to work (Kris and Marisa in the Morning on Love 89) asked listeners to call in and tell how they came to be pet owners. As my story is unique, I called in and was on the radio!

Here's the story: my college roommate, Natalie, and I decided that when we moved off campus for our senior year, we'd love to have a cat. We decided we didn't really want to pay a hefty adoption fee, though, so we just put the idea on the back burner, bringing it up every now and then. Halloween came around, and we had a party at our apartment. While some of our guests were out on our back patio, this little guy appeared: only skin and bones, and so hungry he ate a hot dog bun.

A friend announced that she was going to keep the kitty, so imagine my surprise when I took the trash out after the party was over, and this furry friend ran in the front door and straight up the stairs. I yelled "Natalie, I think we have a cat!" I went to the 24-hour Kroger, got a litter box and some cat food, and now Chesney lives with my husband and me in our apartment.

After my morning radio feature (ha!) I got to work, and as I was reading updates from TweetDeck, I saw this: Your pets will love this Glamour Giveaway : Enter to Win a FURminator: http://glamourthis.com. That's right, Kelly (the fabulous Mrs. Flamingo from Weddingbee) is giving away a Furminator on her blog, Glamour This. Kelly is also @blushink on Twitter. So, to enter the contest, I told her my second Chesney story:

Funny pet story: My cat, Chesney, adopted my college roommate and I after a Halloween party two years ago. When he adopted us, we checked for gender, saw nothing of consequence and deemed him a girl. We took him to the vet so they could shave his/her belly to see if she/he had been spayed, and found no scar. Deciding she was an unspayed female, we took her/him to the spay/neuter clinic to do our pet-owner duty. The clinic called 30 minutes later, laughing, telling me we had brought in an already-neutered boy to be spayed…Oops!

I also tweeted her message, and now I'm blogging for a third shot at the furminator! If you can't tell from the picture above, Chesney is described as a "medium hair" domestic cat. That means my apartment has little tufts of blonde hair EV.ERY.WHERE. How awesome would a furminator be to eliminate that mess! So, Kelly, please: Pick me!