All entries will be featured in a blog post on Dec 19th. The voting will begin. You and your friends will be able to vote once a day for your ornament entry from the time the post is up until midnight on Monday, December 22nd. *If you're posting an ornament photo for the kids 12 and under contest, please include child's name and age with the entry.
MOST IMAGINATIVE--win one of the large doodle books! yay. yay. Check out these really fun books here on yesterday's post. They're pretty great and make fantastic presents for kids AND imaginative adults.
KIDS MAKE THE BEST ORNAMENTS!--kids 12 and under contest. Post a photo of your child's brilliant ornament, and they may win this set of Gnome Ornaments from POPchristmas. If you don't have a child, post your brother's or sister's or niece's or nephew's or grandbaby's or the ornament of a stranger kid living on your street. You may post for more than one child...all the stranger kids on your street for example.
Isn't that bird feeder great?! It has some nice reviews on amazon with pics. Here are a few more... these birds like it
Here are the winners of the facebook summer giveaways!
Linda Joy Katy Krystal Jen Husband Dion picked the winners randomly from pieces of paper. He says, "Congratulations!" Check back next week for a simpler contest with Pinterest. I'll send prizes shortly. Thanks so much for participating! Here's a photo of some branches. I like it when Husband Dion says, "Whose branches are these?" Mine of course.
How are you making your today world beautiful?
if you liked this story, will you please share it with a friend? or all of them? do you have many friends? if not would you consider sharing it with a stranger? How about lots of strangers? If you didn't like this story, would you still consider sharing? friends or strangers...either one really.
Discount grocery stores are a great way to buy/try new teas. Inexpensive, there's no guilt in adding a few new boxes to the tea pantry...something I can get pretty excited about.
tea tasting!
Make-up is another great find at discount stores. Now. This is not a beauty blog as in physical, womanly beautiness. But it is about color, beauty, and creative process, and make-up can be a form of that. Growing up, I mostly wanted to pretend four things. 1. school (teacher) 2.flower shop using glass bottles for vases and ferns for currency 3. Dr. Doom I think it was, and build forts in the woods where we camped 4. haircutter/makeuper.
Ask Friend Angie.
Friend Angie and I rode Bus 4 together for most of our school years. She was my good buddy, with a mother cool enough to let her watch Dirty Dancing. It was during late elementary school, somewhere in my "I wish I could wear Cindi Lauper make-up and also toe-nail polish like teenagers do" phase.
I rode along with my mom, who did not entertain the idea of school dances, let alone dirty ones, to the Bargain Barn. And there it was waiting for me. Bright blue (and very much used) eye shadow for 25 cents.
And so the next morning, during our five minutes of Bus 4 ride time together, Friend Angie and I indulged in a mini, blue-eye shadow make-up session.
We were something that day, wearing our bright blue eye shadow. It was all going so well, until Friend Angie got pink eye. Thus ending future applications of blue eye shadow from the Bargain Barn.
Later, beginning somewhere around the 1oth grade, I began a 10-15 year phase of declaring make-up to be stupid. I thought wearing it conformed to a misguided, social standard and belief that women are not beautiful enough left to our natural selves, and that wearing it placed too much emphasis on a desire to impress.
But it's paint for faces! How does a creative completely cut-off from the chance to paint faces? Walking through a nail polish section is like walking through sample paint cards at Home Depot. so. much. COLOR.
And in a discount store, a make-up aisle is a gift of happiness.
So now I look like Cindi Lauper every day.
That to say, from time to time, we may talk make-up here. If make-up isn't a fun part of your creative process, go ahead and skip over these posts. I'm sure Husband Dion will. It won't hurt my feelings. Now let's talk MAKE-UP!
Lip Stains: There's no time at work to find a mirror and apply smudgy lipstick, so the CG stains are great. The gloss that comes with the stain, or a cheap chapstick can be quickly re-applied over top throughout the day. The Kardashian lip gloss is really pretty over Rose Pearl.
Lip gloss: Lip glosses are my preference for all year long. These LA Girl lip balms
were 2 dollars each in the dollar-type bins on a Walgreens end cap.
They're pretty and smell like strawberries. I've worn Burt's Bees Lip Shimmers for years. The champagne is my all time favorite, but apricot is my summer pick. They're minty.
When buying lipsticks/glosses, I smell them. (am I alone in this?) Some of them are just smelly. in a bad way.
Summer Eyeliner:
It's
difficult finding an eyeliner that doesn't make me look racoony by the
time my work night is through. The liquid NYX liner doesn't smudge. It's
a little tricky getting a precise, thin line with the included
applicator brush, so I use a skinny marker applicator from another
eyeliner to make it easier.
Would you like to have one of these favorite summer things?
Remember the red Rimmel lipstick in Thrift Store Finds and an Armadillo? Above is a similar shade. This week they're on clearance at Walgreens.
Enter to win the facebook giveaway by sharing your favorite storybook-cottage post on FB. Let me know that you've shared in the comments below. Five random winners will be drawn and announced on Thursday.
Next week they'll be another chance for pinteresters and five more winners.
and now that I'm thinking of Kombucha...here are my summer favorite youtubers...so funny these guys.
What are your favorite finds so far this summer?
How are you making your today world beautiful? (tell me stuff. and go win.)
if you liked this story, will you please share it with a friend? or all of them? do you have many friends? if not would you consider sharing it with a stranger? How about lots of strangers? If you didn't like this story, would you still consider sharing? friends or strangers...either one really.
