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Tethered Mommy check your email to claim your prize!! If you didn’t win, come back on Monday when I will start another Blog Design giveaway. Good Luck!!
Congratulations Yesi!! Check your email to claim your prize. If you didn’t win, you still have today to enter my Animated Blog Button giveaway or I will be starting a new blog design giveaway for Sept.
For those of you that don’t know, we had to move and haven’t been able to close on the house we want yet so we have put most everything we own into storage and have moved in with family until we can close on this house. {Latest update, they countered our offer for lower…who does that?? But ok} I guess that comes with trying to buy a short sell house and in the end it will be so worth it!!
But most of my crafting supplies are packed away in storage. I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to you guys for sticking with me during this time. Especially as I don’t have a lot of great crafty tutorials to post.
But I am still doing Book Club, and I am still running the monthly blog design giveaway, and I have some great new series coming up and some AWESOME guest bloggers.
However, since my biggest crafting tool right now is my laptop, I will probably be doing a lot of digital design for you guys. I like printables. I hope you do too. And once I get settled you can bet I will have a TON of tutorials as we get the house situated and decorated {and I’m itching to get back at it} So thank you thank you for sticking in there with me.
And here is a printable for you all:
Printable Gift Tags
Click on the image above to download
Just print these babies out and cut them apart then you can punch a hole and tie them to your package or you can tape them down. You can write a name in the middle like this:
I hope you like these. Don’t forget about Book Club Meeting coming up on Thursday. We are reading The Help and it’s a great read!! Also If you want to win your own animated blog button, Make sure and enter my giveaway!!
Hello all and welcome to another edition of Funny finds for Friday. I hope you liked last weeks roundup. And I hope this weeks post gets your weekend off on a laugh.
This first quote I came across while perusing {yep perusing} linky parties. It just made me laugh out loud.
Flamingo toes is doing a retro ads post. The 50’s didn’t know how funny they were!!
I wonder if this company is still in business. What do you think?
I’m sure they meant this next ad to be cute but what is the look on little Susie’s face? And cellophane enriched bread? Yummy?!?
Those of us whacking our way through the html jungle will like this tattoo:
um really….
love how the fence keeps going. Come on then, follow the path.
Construction with a sense of humor:
Honey, I’m just gonna step out for some fresh air…oh
And last but not least…my next craft project {not}
Hope you enjoyed your laugh this week. If you find something funny please send it to me.
I have a great hair tutorial for you guys today. It looks like a low side bun from the front.
{Ignore the strained smile on “Love’s” face. She is still gorgeous!!}
Simple, Elegant, Cute right? But in the back there is a surprise twist:
I love this hair style because it seriously takes no time to do. And it’s easy. Here is the video tutorial:
Here is the link to the Easy bun if you need a refresher on how to do that. I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial. If you have any questions feel free to let me know!!
Hello everyone!! Thanks so much for stopping by for A blogtastic Extravaganza!! I have had so much fun with this event and hope you all have too!!
We have 3 lucky winners today!!
3 winners of a seat in the Profitable blogging for beginners class from Blogelina!!
and 1 winner wins the class from Blogelina and the Loveable labels!!
Congratulations!!
If you didn’t win there is still time to enter my monthly blog design giveaway!!
This month you could win an Animated Blog button
Welcome, Welcome, I’m so excited to welcome all you new followers from A Blogtastic Extravaganza!! I could go on and on here but lets get to the reason you are all here….to win some FABULOUS prizes!!
My prize package is called GETTING BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS!!
School is starting so it’s a good time to get back into the swing of things. Long lazy days of summer and family vacations are coming to a close. Now we can focus on getting kids back to school and working on our blogs. Since I am such a proponent of anything that will help families and anything that will help bloggers, I knew I had to have some of each for this giveaway.
Profitable Blogging for Beginners Class from Blogelina
I’m sure you have all heard of Blogelina {and if you haven’t, where have you been?}. This class is a $100 value and Blogelina has given us 3 seats to give away!! These classes teach you how to make your blog profitable. It’s personalized attention where you can get your questions answered. The information is invaluable but that is not all you get. The class manual comes with over 60 pages chock full of information and references for you. But what I am MOST excited for is: with this class, you get a year of FREE webhosting!! That’s an $84 value!! For those of you that don’t know, web hosting is so so so important for your blog!!! There are many reasons why you want a self hosted blog but basically it puts you in control of your blog. You own all your content and you are not subject to the restrictions that come with free blogging platforms {i.e. blogger or other places that give you a free blog} I can’t imagine how I would feel if I spent so much time building my blog and my followers and then just had it turned off. I would loose everything. That is why web Hosting is important.
This class is $100 value but they only charge $10 for the whole package. If you only did this to get your web hosting for a year {$84 value} it would be a huge deal!! But you get all their knowledge teaching you how to make your blog profitable!! I am SO going to sign up myself. Click here to check it out yourself.
Item #2
Back to school pack from Lovable Labels
Lovable Labels has generously supplied us with a “Back To School Pack” {$45 value} for one lucky winner! Thanks, Lovable Labels!
Their Back to School Pack includes the following:
15 Regular Sticker Labels
80 Slim line Labels
48 Press N’ Stick Clothing DOTS
12 Shoe Labels
12 Multi-Purpose Square Labels
2 Tags
These great labels for your Kids are Waterproof, Dishwasher/Microwave safe, Laundry and Dryer safe, Sun safe, Bleach safe, Sunscreen safe, and Temperature Safe. Plus they are super cute. We got the Diva package and it’s perfect for girls!!
They absolutely love it!! We also think this would be perfect for someone going off to college. To keep their things separate from the roommates. There are lots of different styles to choose from. Click here to see them all!! I have a fun tutorial coming up showing what I did with these labels. Be sure to check back for it!!
To enter this giveaway package, there is only one requirement. You must be a follower of Measured by the Heart. There are several other optional entries, so you can do the mandatory entry and move on or you can try for more entries. I will be drawing 3 winners. 2 will win Profitable blogging for beginners class from Blogelina and 1 lucky person will win the class plus the Loveable Labels!! Just fill in the form below to enter!!
Giveaways end the the 21st and are open to US and CANADA.
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We are so happy to be back here, this time to share a fun and easy tutorial for you. I am all about headbands lately. My hubbie calls it my “hippie look” my grandma calls it the “flower child look” and she would know (wink wink) but whatever you want to call it, it is totally in and I am totally digging it. Today I am going to share a very simple way to sport your own hippie look. (BTW the hippie look works best when you don’t wash your hair, or even do it!) Now you know why I love it so much! For this headband all you will need is scraps of felt, a sewing machine and elastic. I measured my head from ear to ear to figure out how long a needed to make my felt shape strip. Cut out shapes from your felt. I chose circles and circles, but you can chose whatever makes you smile. I am imagining butterflies, hearts, flowers even triangles! The possibilities are endless. I traced the shapes on my felt pieces then cut them out.
Next send them through your sewing machine. Try to leave as little space between each shape with out over lapping them at all.
When your strip of felt is as long as you need it to be, sew a piece of ribbon to each end. You could also use elastic, whatever is more comfortable on your head.
Viola! Now go and sport your very own hippie look proudly!
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See I told you it was awesome!! I can see many possibilities here. You guys have to go visit J and M’s eye candy and their shoppe. Then make this headband. And let me know how yours came out!!
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hiltons of Branson for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
You guys probably don’t know that I LOVE to travel!! It is one of my absolute favorite things to do. I think it’s important to Make Memories with my family. Taking time to be together, just us, exploring new places, there is nothing like it. I really need to blog more of travel related posts.
Today I am excited to introduce you to Branson Mo. and give you 3 tips for a great vacation:
Take advantage of great package deals.
The Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing and the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel currently have a not to be missed package. The Branson Best Value Package gives you deluxe accomadations at either hotel, Two adult and two childrens tickets to the Legend of Kung Fu show at the White house Theater, Two adults and two childrens 2 day passes to Silver Dollar City (R), a $25 gift card for shopping and a $25 gift card for dinner at Level 2 Steakhouse. On top of all that, your 3rd night is free.
Pack the right shoes
This one is crucial. Almost every vacation requires lots of walking. Branson is no different. With an Historic Downtown District, an international award-winning theme park, great shopping and dining and live performance theaters, your feet will hit the pavement. Especially if you go to the amusement park. I learned this one the hard way at Disneyland.
We left the snow and cold and went on vacation. I was so happy to get to sunny California and break out the summer clothes. I threw on my flip flops and forgot that my feet weren’t used to wearing them. I got big blisters on the first day and had to deal with hurting feet the whole time. It definitely didn’t ruin the trip but take it from me, wear broken in shoes. I know you got some super cute new shoes that will look AMAZING in your vacation photos. It’s not worth it. Trust me.
Don’t forget to use the sunscreen
I know you want that I just back from vacation glow. But you are not used to how strong the sun can be in these new locations.
This picture is from Hawaii {one of our favorite, favorite places.} We slathered on the sunscreen every hour and a half as directed. We got the strongest we could find and of course the waterproof kind. But still we ended up with a little bit of a sunburn. Just enough to bug us. I cannot imagine what it would have been like if the girls or me or the hubbs got a major burn. So take precautions here.
There you have it. A great place to visit and a great deal. Plus some tips to make your traveling experience better. Would you like to see more traveling posts? Things like places to visit and things to do there. I can also give some tips for getting great travel deals from a former airline insider. If you’d like to see more travel tips let me know in the comments section.
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