Holiday Season 2011

The holiday season has arrived in my house.

Did you know there is only 47 days until Christmas? 

****A little service announcement about my shop****

I am going to stop taking CUSTOM orders the 1st of December until the new year.  So if you have anything special in mind please contact me ASAP and I can let you know if I can make it and how much it will be.  (Please note; custom orders are items I have never made before.  I can change colors and remake things you may find in my Facebook albums.)

Other than that, I have no plans on a cut off for all regular orders. (This may change.)
You can purchase my items through my website here; http://www.whimsicalcreations.bigcartel.com/.

My turn around is 7-14days from payment on orders right now and I am hoping to keep it that way for the next 5wks.  Once orders are shipped, I can not guarantee the post office times.   With that in mind, if you have something you would like to purchase, I would do it sooner rather than later.


Here is to a happy holiday season!!  :)

Wedding Cake Giveaway! - CLOSED

To celebrate the month of July I am having a giveaway.

I have many special things upcoming in July...

My 11th wedding anniversary (on the 11th...lol, just noticed that),
my son's 8th birthday (on the 18th),
my friend's wedding (on the 25th),
and my 1 year blogiversary (on the 18th).
Also my parent's (39yrs) & my husband's parents (42yrs...I think) wedding anniversaries are also this month. (on the 17th & 25th)
Not to mention, tomorrow is the 4th of July!
Whew...I am tired just thinking about all those celebrations!

So what am I giving away?

One Pair of Photo Holders with navy ribbon!

To enter:

• Leave a comment telling me what your July plans are, yep that's it.

Extra Entries:

• Follow my blog (current followers count). Leave a separate comment letting me know you are following my blog.
• Blog about this contest and link it back to this blog. Leave a separate comment with the link to the post for an additional entry.

Anyone (yep, I ship worldwide) can enter this contest, please make sure you leave me an e-mail so I can contact you if you won. This giveaway will end on Friday, July 17th around midnight, EST.

Thanks for the past year! =D

XOXO

Not Me Monday - wk9

Welcome to my 9th week of Not me! Monday.

This week I did not change around my blog in an attempt to make it look a bit cleaner. Not at all because every time I posted my blog link to facebook it wouldn't pull the photo's I wanted it to. I did not read a TON of code and tutorials and did not rewrite most of my blog code myself. I know I could pay for a new design...I am not frugal. I also do not like writing code at all. Actually, I have a degree in Engineering Science and in college (way back when) I learned how to write code. At the time when I learned how to write code the wild world of the Internet wasn't like it is today, though.


Anywho...


There are now 4 columns, one post column on the left and 3 on the right side (one wide at the top & 2 below that).


I also did not add a navigation bar. I had installed one a few weeks ago with photo buttons I made, but I prefer just text now. It is not driving me insane because that text is underlined and I have no idea on how to make it not underlined. Oh well.

I did not add the blog contest widgets to the bottom of my blog. I have to thank Sara from Subjective Beauty for posting an answer and a tutorial to my question about scroll bars. She ROCKS!! The scroll bar saves soooo much space on my blog. She also has another tutorial on how to add a moving marque scroll bar. Check out her ask sara posts for all the tutorials.

On Saturday I did not host a shower for my friend at her house. I am her only bridesmaid in her July 25th wedding (you can click here to see my bridesmaid dress). I did not make an army of wedding cakes as my present (62 total, but who's counting? Not ME!).I also did not make an army of daisies as favors and description holders for the food.I did not spend 3 hours making the food on Friday. I did not make Chicken Wing Dip, Taco Dip, Chile & Cheese Spirals, GoGo Asiago Dip and Beer Bread. I was not pissed because someone volunteered to bring the tortilla chips & punch bowl showed up 30 minutes late....and didn't even say she was sorry! Oh yeah...the punch bowl was dirty, too. While there I did not get to see the sassy girl (bride to be's daughter) I watched during summers for the past 3 years. This summer she isn't coming to my home because they moved. I do not miss her one bit. *sniff*
After opening presents I did not make this beautiful hat for my friend. I would not make her stand there so I could take photos of her wearing it. She loves me!! =D
This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Tuesday Blog Party

From now until May 12th, I am holding this giveaway to help benefit the Tuesday Fiona Whitt Foundation.

For those who don't know me and are coming over from the Tuesday Blog Party, welcome. For those that have been here before, thank you for coming back. My name is Melanie and I am stay at home mom of 2. I love to make whimsical creations out of polymer clay. I joined a group name SITS, where I read of Tuesday and her story. Tuesday was the beautiful twin daughter of Jessica Kate who bravely fought and sadly lost her 8 month battle with stage 4 neuroblastoma in January of this year. This annual blog party to help raise funds to fight pediatric cancer, specifically neuroblastoma, as it is the least funded of ALL cancers yet one of the most fatal.

I am auctioning off this Coach Sunglasses Case with lens cloth (yep, it's an actual genuine Coach case) & a choice of this Cherry Blossoms Necklace or Daisy Necklace pictured.

All you have to do to enter to win this auction is simply click the button below and donate to the Tuesday Fiona Foundation.

For every $1 you donate, please leave a comment.
So if you donate $5.00 you get 5 entries = 5 comments.
Please note: This is on the honor system.

If I reach 100 entries, I will add to the giveaway. I am not sure yet what, but suggestions are always welcome. =D


Contest ends May 12th at midnight.
It is also open worldwide. I will ship anywhere.


Thank you & good luck!

PS....If you haven't yet, please go over and vote here for me, #6 (poll on the right side bar).