Posted on | April 28, 2011 | 74 Comments
happy thursday friends! today i’d like to to introduce you to Faith over at Simplicity. today she’d like to give one lucky reader a spot in her July photography e-course: 30 Days of Simply SLR! if you’re anything like me, you may have a DSLR and not a clue how to use it beyond auto – this class is for you (and me). her goal with this course is to have you shooting in manual in just 30 days, learning aperture, shutter speed, ISO and white balance. and since it’s all online, anyone can take the class! perfect.
be sure to go over to her blog where she shares her photography and other fun adventures, as well as check out her other photography e-classes to see if there is another you’d like to register for. and thanks to Faith for offering up a spot to one of you!
to enter to win, simply leave a comment here telling me what you’d like to learn about taking photos. for me, i’m pretty nervous about even turning my camera onto manual. how about you?
i will pick a winner on Sunday!
Posted on | April 20, 2011 | 13 Comments
dudes! so stoked. our bloggers for babies team is rocking and we only have 9 short days left until the walk! i can’t believe how quickly time has flown and here we are just over a week from the event. i want to say thank you SO MUCH to my amazing team and everyone who has donated – we set our original goal at $1000 back in january and we blew through it! we upped the new goal to $2000 and we are so close. so. close.
i’m also here to remind you about the RAD giveaway we started back then to raise money and let you know you can still donate to enter! for every five dollars you donate, receive one entry for a chance to win one of these awesometastic prizes:
so! if you have 5 dollars to spare for some chitlin’s AND want a chance to win some sweet swag, please click here to donate to the March of Dimes and contribute to our goal! our team is 30 walkers strong including bloggers, hubbies, kidlets and pups! i’m so looking forward to walk day and supporting March of Dimes with some really wonderful people by my side. thank you so much to everyone who has helped make this happen.
if you end up donating, please leave a comment here so i can match your donation to you. i will announce the giveaway winners the monday after the walk with lots of photos and details with how the event went. please to be crossing your fingers for no rain!
unrelated side note: um, you guys RULE. thanks so much for helping me move up the ladder at the 25 Top Moms with Style list. i’d appreciate your vote daily if you’ve ever been inspired by this here blog. smootches, you’re the very best!
Posted on | February 13, 2011 | 101 Comments
so you know Mae, right? of course you do. she’s my BIFF (best internet friend forever). my right hand lady on the web. and one of the best, most awesomest, funniest friends i’ve ever known. i mean, i met her on the internet, but we are real life friends. forever and ever amen.
and she has started a business. and it’s lovely. so i wanted to share it with you.
life’s candy is her new etsy shop where she is creating and selling pretty tablewear like napkins and placemats. her and her hubby, Christopher, have other fun things up their sleeves for the future, too.
she’s making gorgeous napkins and placemats out of pretty and fun fabrics that i just love. they’re all formal enough for say, dinner parties, but at the same time, casual for a fun brunch (or tea party! i wanna have a tea party…). especially awesome? she’ll do custom orders! see a placemat you’d like to be a napkin or vise versa? want that print with that trim? mkay. convo her on etsy. ta naa!
the napkins Mae sent me are adorable and i’m in love (birdies! in cages!).
adorable, yes? and since Mae is da best and super generous, she wants to give one reader of the haps a $30 credit to life’s candy! there are a few ways to enter, so check it out:
mandatory entry: go over to life’s candy and tell me here what your favorite item is in the shop.
additional entries:
- leave a comment here guessing where the shops name came from…do you know? (you don’t have to be right for the entry to count, btw).
- follow life’s candy on twitter and leave a comment here saying you did so.
ready go! get your entries in by friday february 18th at midnight PST. and thanks to my lovely and talented friend Mae for hosting this giveaway, always answering my blackberry messenger freakouts, skyping with me, and generally putting up with all my shenanigans.
Posted on | February 7, 2011 | 280 Comments
it’s no secret how much i adore gregg and megan of Modern Bird Studios. it’s safe to say some of my favorite items in my entire house came from them. i’d grab my MB pieces if my house caught on fire and i had an extra moment. seriously.
so when they told me they were starting another venture, geared towards kiddos called ModTots, i swooned. i knew they’d knock it out of the park. when they told me there would be a narwhal? let’s just say that pants? peed. and when my narwhal (and Harrison the Fox) arrived on my doorstep, they were as amazing as i knew anything by gregg would be.
they’re making these little pieces of awesome in all sorts of animals, and have recently added robots (!) and monsters and dinosaurs are on their way. these works of art are customizable (choose your background color after you choose your animal or robot) and the perfect addition to any nursery, kids room, or even home office (what? no i will not steal the narwhal from Harper and put it in my workspace. ::side eye::).
each piece is handmade, one at a time, by gregg. yours is created when you order it. super sweet extra to ModTots? if you’re the first to order an animal, robot, or soon monsters and dinosaurs – you get to name it. from then on, that animal (etc) is named after you or your kid. i love it!
and because the modsters are the amazing people that they are, they’d like to give one of you a $100 gift certificate to use at ModTots! To enter, simply do the following (multiple entry chances):
- go over to ModTots, peek around and tell me what you’d get if you won!
- follow ModTots on the Twitter
- like ModTots on the Facebook
please remember! leave a separate comment for each of these yo do!
this is open to residents of the US and Canada. if you don’t want to wait to win, and get to naming an animal or robot, use the code HARPER at checkout for 10% off your order at ModTots, now through february 21st. i will draw a winner using random.org and announce the winner monday the 14th. please get all your entries in by midnight PST on the 13th!
ready? go!
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