Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Better late than never!

Congrats to:

Email me your info and I will get them in the mail straight away!!!

So, if looks like you want more scrapbooking posts. 

I do plan on delievering.

Eventually.

Actually, the new house we are going to be moving into has the perfect little craft room.

I'm hoping that once I get my space set up,

I will be inspired to scrap again.

I've been in quite a funk for, like, I don't know, a year?

But I do miss it.

A lot.

I have pictures stacking up.

Paper gathering dusts.

JoAnn's coupon's gone unused.

Unfortunately, after Craft x NW is over, I won't be crafting for a while.

I don't know how I will survive!

Ack!

The thought of not being able to create makes me antsy.

LOL!

It really keeps me sane!

But it needs to be boxed for the move.

::sigh::

Anyway...

CONGRATS HEATHER!!!

NO ONE? It's FREE people!!

Just leave a comment *here*

I love you! Blog Candy! Thank you!

Thanks so much for reading!

I feel blessed that so many people visit my hodge-podge blog!

Let me share the love with you!

I'll have the "official" give-away post on Saturday!

Sweet Dreams!

KISSES!

Drum Roll PLEASE!

The winner of my blog candy will be announced at the end of this post. First, I'd like to share with you the list of books that everyone came up with, like I said before, there were so many good ones.

I couldn't make an objective decision so I printed out all your comments, cut and folded them up, put them in a box, shook the dickens out of it and pulled out a winner.

But first... the books (and who submitted them)!

• The Sawyer Family - The Important Book
• Bonnie - The Hungry Caterpillar
• Toccara - Big Sister, Little Sister by Marci Curtis
• Roxybonds - Love You Forever
• Julia - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• ~Erica~ - The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
• Lori - Goodnight, Sweet Butterflies
• ValleyScrapper1 - Your Kind of Mommy by Marjorie Blain Parker
• Crystal - Daddy's Girl
• Devon - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• Heather - Goodnight, Moon
• Melanie - Oh What a Busy Day by Gyo Fujikawa
• Kristine - Little Orphan Annie
• Lacey - Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

...and the winner of the fabulous blog candy (who I am happy to say is a NEW follower!!!) is...

• Nancy Mendelson - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis.

Nancy, please email me (see address on my sidebar) with your info and I will get your kit in the mail ASAP!

And since I couldn't resist playing along... I thought I would tell you a little about MY favorite children's book. It's called "Owly" by Mike Thaler and is long out of print. It was my book when I was a baby and it has survied four other children and made it to Goose (with some mending, of course). Several years ago (when the book was still being enjoyed by my little sisters and before Goose was born) I found a paperback copy of the book for Hubs... he was still "boyfriend" at the time.

It's the sweet little story about Owly and his mother and the lessons she teaches him about life. Lessons, she allows him to learn by exploring the world on his own. Lessons like how high the sky is and how many waves are in the ocean.


And my favorite line... this is the last page of the book, after Owly's mother tells him that she has more hugs for him "than there are stars in the sky or waves in the ocean."

I love reading it to Goose, having fond memories of my own mother reading it to me and then having the chance to read it to my sisters when they were babies. Hopefully, we'll be able to hand it down to the next generation.

Thank you so much to everyone who played along and a DOUBLE thanks to those of you who signed up to follow @GetBenderNow on Twitter.

And OF COURSE, thank you to everyone who reads my blog everyday. You ad some validation to my life that *maybe* I actually CAN still be interesting AND a mom. Sometimes... I forget that!

Last Chance

To win a super fantastic scrapbooking kit just for being a loyal reader. Just tell me your favorite children's story and quote!

Last day to play!

Winner announced tomorrow!




PS - Thank you all for making this so hard to choose a winner! There are so many good books that have been listed that I love too! And the ones that I haven't read, are certainly going to be put on our library list! We love books @ our house!!!

Delicioso!!!

AWESOME BLOG CANDY!!!

Want some?  

I got lots to send to one lucky person who can do these two little things for me...

1. Become a loyal follower.  I KNOW you are already reading anyway... might as well accept me as your leader and follow blindly. (Bonus points if you are on Twitter and sign up to follow @GetBenderNow, read this post to see why...)
2. Leave a comment telling me your favorite children's book and include a quote from the book.  

This little give-away is inspired by my 6000+ visitor (and I know that I haven't hit "refresh" that many times!) and by the fact that I have WAY too much stuff and want to share the wealth.  

And of course, Goose.  I told you before that we were reading "A Light in the Attic", well... we finished that and have now moved on to "Where the Sidewalk Ends."  I think this poem is particularly fitting for this give-away too.

Come In

If you are a dreamer,

come in. 

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, 

a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. 

If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, 

for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. 

Come in! 

Come in!

And of course, what you really want... pics of the loot!

10 American Design CS, 10 Colorbok Forest Friends PP, 5 Forest Friends CB, 2 Artisan Forest Friends PP, 8 4x6 mats, 15 journaling spots, 1 Love, Elsie CB album, 1 Autumn Leaves Alpha Rub-ons, 1 pack jewel stickers, 1 Making Memories Ribbon Pack, 1 Daisy D's Rub-on Stitches, 1 pack Teardrop Jewel Brads, 3 Butterfly stickpins, AND 1 pack dimensional stickers.

I'll announce a winner, picked solely on my discretion (so make your comments good! :-P)  Anyway, I'll announce a winner on May 5th, Cinco de Mayo! And we'll all drink margaritas and toast to the winner of this AWESOME blog candy! 

Holy S*IT!

I have 6000+ hits!

This is cause to celebrate!

Check back tomorrow.

I'm gonna throw together a scrap kit from my stash and give away a little CANDY!!!

Check in tomorrow for your chance to win!

If the blogs RAOK-ing then...

It's only cuz I WON a prize!!! Every month over at Blueprint Sketches, my friend Andrea offers a LO contest based on the sketches she posts each month. Well, I, yes lil ole me, won last months prize. Yippee!

How stinkin' cute is this stuff from Elle's Studio (her very gracious sponser!)?


I am just IN LOVE with these stamps:


And I cannot WAIT to use these darling journaling cards!




Thanks SO MUCH Andrea!! I don't even care that you rigged (*wink*wink*) the contest. ;-P

TFL!

The Votes are IN!

The VOTES are IN!

They have been counted and recounted.

They were then entered into Random.org's number genterator...

and

the

WINNER

IS...
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Margaret!

I was especially touched by your birthday story and I am so sorry that anyone would have to endure what you have. Hopefully things are looking good (and pregnant) for you these days! Please get in touch with me at * jillalltrades AT hotmail DOT com * (not spelled out... you get it I'm sure) so we can talk about your jewelry set!

I count my lucky stars everyday that I like, hell, I love my MIL!

And THANK YOU so much to everyone who played along!!!

Tally-ing the Votes!

Be back soon to post a winner!

Sweet Can(DY)

You know you want some... go leave a comment on this post!

Today is the LAST DAY to enter.

I will be announcing a winner sometime tomorrow.



You want some (FREE) customized jewelry, right?

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment!

Go on... you know you want to!

Jill of All Trades is ONE today!

That's right, boys and girls, my blog is ONE today!

I gotta say, I've surprised myself that I have been able to keep this up and going as long as I have. Blogging really isn't all that bad... in fact, I think I kinda like it. Might just have to keep this up for another year.

So to celebrate, I thought I would offer up a little Birthday Present from me to you!

The prize will be similar to the set below (earrings, bracelet, brooch and bobby pin, a $30+ dollar value) but will be COMPLETELY customized for YOU (unless you would prefer to just pick out items from my shoppe)! Take a look around my Etsy Shoppe to take a look at the type of work I do and you can get an idea of what I can make. I can do any color/combo.



Here's what you have to do to win.
1. Post a link on your blog about my blog's Birthday.
2. Leave a comment describing your BEST or WORST birthday memory.

(If you post on your blog you get 1 entry and if you leave a comment, you get 1 entry... so if you do BOTH, you will be entered twice, so DOUBLE your opprotunity to win!!!)

Winner will be chose at random by me on April 1st so you have one week to leave your comments!

Happy Birthday, Blog!!!

Blog Candy!

Super cute candy over at Mal's Place!
But really, you don't have to pass it on... I really want this stuff all to myself! ;)

Scrap for Charity!!!

Spread the word and you can win this...



One of my dear bloggy-buddies Julia, from Sweet as Punkin Pie is holding a scrap contest to raise money to help out her sister, who happens to be a Doctor who is hosting the second annual Handle With Care charity event. The money raised will go to the HIV Testing and Treatment Dept. of the Los Angeles Christian Health Center.

This contest is done in two parts. First, if you can spread the word on your blog, you can win the prize above (handcrafted and donated by your's truely). Second is the actual scrapping contest.

1) Create a LO using RED ribbon and email a picture of it to jladewski51@gmail.com.
2) Donate at least $2 (or more) to play. Julia will send you instructions on how to donate after recieving your LO.

Here is what you could win:


Your layout AND donation must be received by Sunday, March 15th at 11:59pm EST to be considered. The winner will be picked based on their overall layout, but creativity of the use of red ribbon will be heavily weighed. So get creative.

I have also taken this a step further and decided to create a Scrap Red section for my Etsy store. $1 of the proceeds from the purchase of any Scrap Red will go straight to Julia in addition to the $2 I will be contributing to play her LO contest.

So go check out Julia's site (click link/pic below) and spread the word! You have a chance to win not one but TWO fabulous prizes and it's for charity, so could it get any better?

Projects... and Gnomes!

Meet Henry,



He was my first Gnome. A gift from a co=worker for last years Christmas gift exchange. We had to write down 3 things, to give our Secret Santa some ideas and I just wrote down some random stuff. I never in a million years thought A) she would be able to find a gnome in winter and B) that the gnome was actually the giFt she purchased. Not that I'm complaining.

I love gnomes, I don't really know why, but there is an unexplained soft spot in my heart for them. Maybe it's from that episode of King of the Hill (Gnomenclature... oh Bobby Hill) or maybe its just carrying over from my other current obsession of all things woodland.  Maybe it's both, maybe its neither... I can never really be sure.

Speaking of woodland, remember those cute little terrriums I talked about in this post? Well, I finally got around to making a couple at naptime today. I froze my butt off while I was outside building them, but at least it wasn't raining.



Here is Conrad,


And this is Norman,


I think I remember reading that they need to be covered, but I can't really confirm that. And I'm not much of a green thumb. In fact, I think my thumbs just may be the grim reaper to plants, so we shall see how these fare. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I'll have to keep you posted on the outcome.

And projects... maybe I should have called this post "Gnomes... and Projects" instead. No, I think I'm okay. The terrariums were projects, right?

Did you happen to notice the dessert trays in the previous pictures? Well... I made them. 

A while back I bought these two blue candle holders from the dollar store with this project from Once Wed in mind. So anyway, I was trying to take the easy way out and just match the blue candle holder to a plate... not as easy as I thought though. Apparently, this particular blue is a difficult shade to match

So after looking 4 EVR with no luck I finally found the plates... in the gardening department of Tuesday Morning (a retail discount store kinda like BIg Lots) of all places.



They were glazed terra cotta planter bottoms and the matched perfectly and for only $3 bucks a piece, they were exactly what I was looking for. I painted the bottoms red and then added some cute trims to finish them off. I plan on using them for Goose's birthday (in less than a month *tears*) so, I will probably trow some paper doilies on top and call it a day. To attach the trim to the plate I used Fabri-Tac (love it!) and to attach the plate to the candle holder I used E600 (also love it!).

I also worked on this nifty little package of pretty blog candy for my friend Julia:

Wanna find out how to win it? Click on the button below to find out ALL about it!

I'll post more details about Julia's contest later, but right now I am going to go put my feet up and try not to fall asleep on the couch before Goose's bedtime.  Mamma is tired!

Blog Candy from Shanna!

Shanna recently won my blog give-away so now she is sharing the love and doing a little give-away of her own!

It's a super cute Maya Road chipboard album, embossed and in the shape of a CUPCAKE!

So..... go check it out!

Hurry up and check it out, she will be randomly picking a winner on February 13th!

And the winner is... for REALS!

as randomly picked by Hubs...

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...

SHANNA!

Normally, here is where I would ask for your info... but I already have it, so your prize will be on it's way to you shortly!

Congrats!

And the WINNER is...

Going to be announced later today after I tally the votes! Probably at naptime...

Sorry to get your hopes up....

Actually...

No...

 I did it on purpose! LOL! ;)

Upping the ante...

I don't know if I told you all how much I love making these brooches! So I decided to add it to my blog candy! Have you entered yet? It ends today!



Doesn't it look cute paired with the earrings? (Don't worry, those are my pair.)


You can still enter! Just click on the pic above! You know you want to!!