Winners Abound

Ladies and Gentlemen (yes that is you Captain Dumbass and Skylers Dad)
I am proud to announce my newest winners!

Drum roll please. (yeah, we see the guys have their best air drums going)!

I would like to Congratulate
3 Monkey's in Disguise and M and M for winning in my last two giveaways.

3 Monkey's in Disguise will be getting a copy of this "rainbow tree" from Jayde's Lil Corner. I would like to thank Jayde for hosting this giveaway. And for my copy of the "rainbow tree" too!

M and M won the second copy of Crave! I so enjoyed reading this book by Chris Tomlinson. I can so recognize the desire to fill the craving I have. And weather it be for donuts, relationships or God we all have those empty spots we are looking to fill. The secret is to know if we are filling them with the right items? I want to thank Chris for sharing "Crave: Wanting So Much More of God" with me and hosting this giveaway!

Win a Magical Photo

I have a friend over at Jayde's Little Corner and she has a fantastic giveaway going on.

Is it a new car? Or a house all redone for one lucky winner? How about your bills paid for a year?

Would be amazing, but alas she is not that rich or magical. But she can do something I find fantastic. She can alter photos to make the neatest looks ever. And she is going to do that for one lucky winner. (Maybe me?) Well, ok you can go and enter to win too.

But, first let me share just a lil about Jayde. She is a mom to two teen/tweens. A beauty of a blond headed girl who has eyes just like her mom. And a tow head boy who still remembers that the imagination is the greatest toy! Jayde also has a sexy as heck boyfriend. Why do I say that? Well, because he makes me laugh...and that is the best sex appeal I know of. They have a hoard of pets (dog, cats and snakes). Jayde works as a manager of a convenience store and knows how hard it is to keep business up during such hard times. But she stays positive and has great customer appeal.

And now off to show you a little of her work. Jayde hope you don't mind me showing off for you!
And don't forget to go and enter so you can have an original to give or receive as a Christmas Present. And remember all of these photos belong to Jayde. But the one she makes for the winner is all theirs to do with as they wish.

Promote Yourself

Well y'all know how I help out at Mary's Bed & Bath. It is my favorite get away. So today I am going to use UPrinting.com to help me out with them. I am going to be receiving 100 Brochures from UPrinting.com for hosting this giveaway. So I plan on using the brochures to help advertise for Mary's Bed & Bath here in Comanche Texas.

In doing so you too can also reap the benifits. How? Well just enter and win for yourself! Now what would you do with this? Well all those Etsy shop owners could use this to help advertise their stores! And you crafters--time to toot your own horn! Time to get creative! Think how this can be turned into really interesting Christmas Cards or that Annual Newsletter with photos for all to see.

Giveaway Prize: 100 Brochures for One Lucky Winner
100 8.5 x11" Brochure / Flyers on 100lb gloss text paper ; 4 color printing on both sides
Folding Choices: Half fold; Trifold/Letterfold; Z-fold; Accordion (4 panels) Roll Fold (4 Panels)
Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping
Eligibility: Limited to US Residents due to shipping costs. We will negotiate better shipping rates soon.

If you would like to know more about UPrinting then you can check out UPrinting Reviews on Yelp.com. A winner will be selected and his/her email sent to blogs@uprinting.com by November 10, 2009.

You can join the giveaway by leaving a comment on this post. Tell me how you will use the brochures/flyers? Of course I will give you entries for following, twittering, blogging, facebook mentions and sending friends this way too! Just let me know one comment for each item you do. OH AND DON'T FORGET TO MAKE SURE I CAN CONTACT YOU TOO!

Favorite Photo Blog Hop

I LOVE mckLinky's blog hops! They are SO fun! Anyone reading who hasn't done this before should, because it is a blast! Today's theme is favorite photo, so you all know that means I have to show off a picture.

This is Emma. She is College Girls lil sister yet not my child. Yeah in this crazy way of relationships this should make sense. Anyway, we love her so much. And having her visit always makes our day. So Emma thanks for sharing your smiling face for the blog hop.

Art Give Away

Yes we are lucky enough to have another give away.

YIPPPEEE!

I know that everyone here loves a good ol give away.

And who would not love getting a special family treasure.

I know that for many years I did children's photography for a living.

And having photos of our kids is the fastest way to make any mom or dad happy.

So this time we are giving you---your kids or pets or sunrise or what ever you wish.

How? Well because your going to get a

Large Format Posters is the online printing website hosting this week’s giveaway. They are going to give one of my lucky readers Custom Poster Printing. Will that not be fantastic?

Large Format Posters loves photos as much as I do. If you don't believe that you should see my walls. They are ceiling to "couch" covered in photos.

From CRAZED MIND

Well, now is your chance to enlarge that special photo you’ve been wanting to display. The photo can be of anything you want, as long it will make you happy to see it enlarged! Large Format Posters are offering a free High-gloss or Semi-gloss 18x24" Digitally Printed Posters for one of my readers!

I am going to get one too!

Doesn't that make me a lucky woman. Well I think so. I am not sure what picture I am going to use just yet. There are so many to choose from.

From CRAZED MIND

This is some Granny M's beautiful flowers that she has grown in her garden.

From CRAZED MIND

Here is a very lovely church here in my town. I think it would make a beautiful piece on my wall.

From CRAZED MIND

Of course I would love another photo of my College Girl!

SO MAKE SURE YOU ENTER TOO!

You can enter the giveaway by leaving a comment telling me what photo you would have a Custom Poster Printing done.

You can also add extra ways to enter by blogging about this giveaway and leaving me a link in the comments.

Another entry will be to post this giveaway on Twitter. Make sure I know about it.

Send someone to my blog and they let me know and you get an extra entry.

OF COURSE make sure you are one of my Followers for an entry (post this please).

And if you have my button button who has the button on your blog use that as another extra entry (again please post on the comments).

So you can get 6 entries into this give away! Make sure you use them all.

Now for the fine print! Here are the details when the LUCKY one wins.

Blog Winner Poster Printing will be awarded by a coupon code on Friday August 7, 2009. The email sent out with the coupon code will also include directions on how to order. Make sure you have your high-resolution photo ready. SO be really sure I have a way of contacting you if you win. Giveaway is open to US/CAN residents. Ground shipping of prizes is free, but there is a $5 handling fee that must be paid by winner. Large Format Posters reserves the right not to print obscene or offensive materials. All designs submitted in the form of a giveaway may be used by Large Format Posters for online marketing and promotional uses. The designs will be used solely as examples and will not be printed or commercially distributed.

Making Myself into a Masterpiece

There is a site that will put your photo to canvas so you can have a beautiful professional "painting" for your walls. My grandparents had done this with their photo before. It is so beautiful and does come across as if the photo is a painting. I have seen this done on a small scale but would love to see it as a sofa size photo. Have you ever done this?

Well, most people have the same ol' same ol' look. But I love to have something different. Have you ever seen a Lichtestein or a Pop Art style photo? I love these two styles. Pop Art looks like a Warhol print and Lichtenstein is like a comic book style. And I could get one of my photos to look like that!
Well I would like to do one like that since I adore bright colorful things. Just ask Juls at Crazee Scotts, she has seen my place.

So I was trying to decide which photo I would do in one of these styles. Help me decide!

Me being introspective? This is dull in black and white. But would look good with color of a Pop Art style.

My bright cheerful self, but hate the phone in my hands! Wonder if they could omit that? And the wrinkles on my forehead too!

Or a family favorite of me as a Spoon Sucker. Long story but this does show my Crazed personality.

Let me know which you would pick. And which style too!
Go and look at the photo on canvas site to figure out what you would like.

Guessing Game

1st I would like to ask you to visit my
100 item give away blog
and these other give aways too!
Thank you.

I have a guessing game from my 100 items give away.
The following photos are close ups of some of the items you may win.
I am sorry some of the photos become blurry when they are enlarged.

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Good luck.
I hope you figure out what they are.
Let me know in the comment section.