Wordful Wednesday - Tow Mater Fun

A few weeks ago the Disney Store's Facebook Fan Page had a contest.  It was a Car's contest.  To enter you needed to upload a photo of a cars character.  I entered this photo I took at Hollywood Studios.  When I checked back to see the finalists I never saw my photo so I figured oh well, better luck next time.  Well, Tuesday afternoon I received an e-mail from Disney stating my photo won second prize!  How cool is that!  Thank you!

For more WW check out 5 Minutes for Mom, Seven Clown Circus  Parenting by Dummies, & The InfoMouse

Thank you for stopping by my entry for this weeks letter.  This blog meme was created by Heidi.  You can stop by her blog to see more entries for the letter of the week.  =)

Wordful Wednesday - Marie

Lily LOVED seeing Marie.  After we visited with her, Lily decided she had to go buy a Marie stuffed animal.

I entered this photo in a contest over on facebook.  I would appreciate it if you clicked here and "liked" the photo.  THANK YOU sooooo much!

For more WW check out 5 Minutes for Mom, Seven Clown Circus & Parenting by Dummies.

Favorite

Because I LOVE photo challenges I am linking up this week over at Paper Mama.
This week's challenge is: Absolute Favorite
I am also linking to Chatting at the Sky and Life with my 3 boybarians.

I had a hard time picking my absolute favorite.  I have many favorites and they seem to change each day.
I am really smitten with this one lately.  {it's my facebook profile pic right now}
I REALLY LOVE my new lens.

Check out all of the other favorites at the Paper Mama.

Sweet Shots:

Tuesday's Unwrapped

Silly Lily

One day a few months ago I took the kids to Wendy's and got them kids meals. In the meals there were these "secret agent" badges you could disguise with stickers. I was busy doing something that afternoon and looked up to see Lily disguising herself and she was pretty proud, too. I love how she put the eyes up by her actual eyes. She can be so silly.


I am entering this silly photo of Lily in the Silly Kids Photo Contest on 5 Minutes for Mom.

(I had a really hard time narrowing down the Lily silliness photos, remember here & here?)

I can not believe...

That fall is just around the corner! It is very hard to imagine, especially since we have been having a bit of a heat wave here in Buffalo. YAY, summer finally arrived here. (It has been a weird summer here)

Anywho, with fall around the corner I am itching to make new ornaments. Here are a couple that are in my shop. These made their debut last fall, but I love them. I bought a glittered tree at Michael's (with a 40% coupon) last year and hung them all over it. I put the pumpkin clusters and kitties underneath.

Mr & Mrs BOO

Glenda - The Flying Witch

Clusters of Pumpkins, Single Pumpkin Ornaments & Black Cats

On another note, I entered my cake place card holders in the Martha Stewart's DIY Wedding Crafts Contest. You can find my entry here. I would love if everyone could give me 5 stars and leave a comment. The contest ends Sept 1st. and will be announced Oct. 15th. I have loved Martha Stewart Weddings ever since I was planning my wedding 12 years ago and saw the daisy themed wedding they did (I still have that magazine). After seeing that article I decided that I would use daisies as my theme. I made all of my favors for my wedding, polymer clay daisy magnets. Please Note: You do have to create an account with Martha Stewart's site to leave a comment or give me 5 stars.

I still can not believe that fall is just around the corner!

Doing Happy Dance!!!

I received my Flip Mino HD Video Player today!! I won it over at A Cowboy's Wife in a photo contest. YAY!!

"I Love Summer" Photo Contest

While Ian is at Swim Lessons this summer we are loving the town wading pool.

To find out more about the "I Love Summer" Photo Contest on An Island Life click here.

I ♥ Faces - Week 21

Week 21 Theme - "Anything Goes" Pets

Check out other entries here: I ♥ Faces

I ♥ Faces - Week 19

This weeks theme at I ♥ Faces is Blurb Book Photo Contest.

***edited to add, I took this picture a few weeks ago of my daughter. I did not crop the photo, I just zoomed in close.

I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.

Wordless Wednesday

Ok, not so wordless....

These pictures were taken with my new camera. (LOVE IT!!)

Giraffes are my favorite animal & I couldn't stop smiling (and did a little happy dance) when she came over to greet me. Maybe that's why she stared at me for so long?

They were taken at the Erie Zoo in Erie, PA on April 25th, 2009. (btw....it's one of my favorite zoos)

**Please vote for me #6 here.

**Don't forget my about my giveaway, here.

Please VOTE for ME!

So I entered this picture in a Mother's Day Contest over at glimpse. Please go over and vote here for #6 (poll on the right side bar).

Thank you sooooo much!! =D

Giveaway - Scoop up some Fall Treats

So I just stumbled upon this fabulous giveaway that is including one of my fellow Fabulous Artistic Moms, Marisa, from Elegant Snobbery.


Little Ida is having a Craftsbury Kids Autumn Fun Giveaway here. Craftsbury Kids has a new Shopping Section, and is bigger and better than ever with over 70 artist partners and counting! To celebrate, they're giving away this fun-filled prize package.



Here's What the Winner Gets!As shown above from left to right: Click the links below for more information about the artists and items: Gnome Doll by projectgrabbag (one doll, exact style not pictured), Pumpkin Monster Cape by Baby Leo Designs, Fox Creature Mask by Abigail Brown, Itty Bitty Oak Tree by Hi Tree!, Four Pewter Drawer Pulls by f. is for frank, Owl Bonnet by Beek (size 2-4T), Spool Doll Family by Erica Daley, Caterpillar Pull Toy by Brian Driscoll, 'Hello Friend' Print by Marisa Hopkins


BTW...Marisa is holding her own giveaway on her blog here. Go and check it out. I love her blog and her artwork is fabulous. She is also having an October sweepstakes for a $50 Elegant Snobbery shopping spree. For every purchase made in the entire month of October, you will receive one entry to win. The winner of the $50 shopping spree will be announced November 1st. Her daughter is talented, too. You should also check out TootsieandGrace, it's a Mom and Daughter collaboration. Three year old Gracie designs each piece using a black permanent marker. Next, mama Marisa uses colored pencils to enhance each picture and fill them in with bold and bright colors.

I Want One Of These

I would love this new camera strap from tanyBug's etsy shop. Most of my friends and family know how much I love to take pictures and scrapbook. As a child my father took lots of pictures of my sister and I with his Kodak 35 millimeter camera. When my son was born 7 years ago my parents came up and they let me use their camera. I took some beautiful pictures. After they left, I was stuck using my cheaper camera and boy there is a difference. I talked my husband into buying a nice 35 millimeter camera with an extra telephoto lens. Since then I have taken beautiful pictures of my family and even pictures for a wedding. I love taking my camera everywhere. Yes, I am still using film. I only use my digital camera for my blog/etsy site. My husband likes to call our outings photo ops. I still have the original camera strap that came in my camera kit. Oh yeah, my old camera strap has even been spit up on by my son.

I did it again.

I found another new giveaway. Lila Tueller Designs is giving away 2 beautiful bags. Her work is beautiful. Come check out her blog & designs.

Contests and Giveaways

As most of my friends know I love giveaways and contests. This past weekend I won a pair of earrings. Last week I won soap and a couple of weeks ago I won a gift certificate to a fantastic jewelry shop on Etsy. As I receive the items I will do write ups on the lovely shops and share my fantastic items I receive.



I received this fabulous Sweet Shea Butter Soap in the mail this week. This natural & organic soap is from the etsy store Soapcre8ions, http://www.soapcr8ions.etsy.com/. I won this because I killed a thread on Esty Forums. I should have a complex, but I don't because this is fabulous bar of soap smells so good. I gave this to my friend today for a little something nice. She loved it!

Not only do they have homemade soaps, they also have spa salts, scrubs and balms.






The Etsy group I belong to, FAM, is running a Back to School contest. This contest is running from July 28th through August 10th, 2008. To play find the Hidden Owls or make a purchase to be entered into a drawing for amazing FAM BUCK prizes. Go get all of the details here http://fam-fabulousartisticmoms.blogspot.com/.


So I have spent the past couple of days entering blog giveaways. This site does this quarterly, maybe next quarter I will participate. Wow, when I started on Monday there were 100 as of this evening there are 900 of them. So many good things to win and so many great blogs to read. Check out the contest by clicking on the bloggy giveaways button on my page.