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Eat In with Castle Wood Lunch Meat // $100 Giveaway

0 · Dec 14, 2012 · 8 Comments

Life is crazy these days! The girls are all in three different schools, with three different sets of activities. The little guy and I are ALWAYS busy working on WhipperBerry at home. By the time Mike’s home from work dinner is the last thing I want to think about. It’s always so tempting to just grab everyone and head off to one of our local restaurants, but that’s sooooo expensive. It’s fine a few times a month, but more than that the wallets really starts to feel the pinch. We MUST figure out how to make dinner fast and inexpensive at the same time… I was giving the opportunity to visit our local Sam’s Club this week to try out their Castle Wood deli section to create a sandwich for our family on the go.

Yesterday was super busy. I had a ton of work to do AND a whole bunch of Hales a.k.a. Lil’Whip friend’s were coming over after school. They all needed head shots for an audition next week for the school musical, and I offered to help them with that.

Needless to say, the schedule was tight, plus I had even more mouths to feed. I headed over to Sam’s Club and shopped for sandwich fixin’s for our crew. You can join me over at Google+ to follow along while I sign-up for a Sam’s Club membership and shop for our busy night.

Gage and I found all kinds of goodies for our busy dinner in the Castle Wood section. We finally decided on a few Castle Wood products for our sandwiches…

Then we headed home to put together our yummy dinner. Now, you may think sandwiches are boring, but they don’t have to be. I kept our sandwich simple, but it is FULL of flavor. The key is working with good, flavor packed ingredients.

I selected to use The Castle Wood Four Pepper Oven Roasted Turkey Breast along with the Castle Wood Pepper Jack. Then I paired those two stars with a fabulous supporting cast of tomatoes, cucumber and hummus… Yes, hummus! It’s a full flavor, less fat option to mayonnaise or Miracle Whip.

Recipe

2 slices of bread

1-2 T hummus

1-2 oz. Castle Wood Four Pepper Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

1-2 slices of Castle Wood Pepper Jack cheese

8-10 slices of cucumber

2-4 slices of tomato

Spread hummus on bread and then layer the turkey, cheese, cucumber and tomato.

Servings // 1

This sandwich is bursting with flavor and is perfect for those meals when you would like to save on time and money. With Castle Wood Lunch Meat Sam’s Club signature brand, you can create a fabulous sandwich for $1… Yep, that’s ONE DOLLAR!! You can’t get that at your local sandwich shop. This was perfect for our busy night of photos for all the high school kiddos. I made up a bunch of sandwiches, wrapped them in parchment paper to keep them fresh and served them with sweet potato chips and a couple of cookies and they were HAPPY and I was happy that I was able to feed the crowd without breaking the budget.

The folks at Sam’s Club would love to help you Eat In a little more often with a $100 gift card. Follow the directions in the Rafflecopter box below to enter!

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Holiday Decorating with Sterling Pear // GIVEAWAY

1 · Dec 10, 2012 · 4 Comments

Pinch me… I have found the perfect stocking hanger from Sterling Pear (who was recently featured on HGTV) and I am so excited to share it with you guys today!

Have you heard of Sterling Pear? I hadn’t until they contacted my about reviewing some of their products. I thought it was just a run of the mill holiday décor company, but I was so wrong. Sterling Pear is an online boutique that specializes in innovative holiday décor solutions! For example, the stocking hangers…

They are brilliant! I selected the Stocking Scroll to use with my faux mantle. It’s perfect for ornate type edges and will hold your stocking perfectly in place without causing any damage to your wood work. It’s masterfully designed to use counter weight in conjunction with a special grip pad that holds it in place without causing any damage to your mantle, or faux mantle in my case. It can even hold a filled stocking up to ten pounds!!! I LOVE them!!

I also took their adjustable wreath hanger for a test drive. Again another very innovative product.

The adjustable wreath hanger is perfect for any size door and it has protective pads at all the pressure points to protect your door. They also have these amazing garland ties designed to be not only stylish but functional… Think wired twist tie that looks great, is functional and protects your wood work.

SterlingPear.com was launched by two friends, Heather Dietrich and Janet Hayden, in time for the 2007 holiday season. What started with a different idea altogether, designing and selling Christmas decorating kits, morphed into something else entirely. As part of the Christmas decorating kits we ended up designing an ornament storage chest unlike any other that had ever existed. It was luxurious and sophisticated, something fitting to hold the treasures of one's collection of precious heirloom ornaments. It was like a jewelry box for your ornaments. We new we had something special and we decided to just focus on this box since we didn't have the time and funds to roll out the whole kit at that time. We launched with our Keepsake Ornament Storage Chest and a few other Christmas decorating products. And every year we've been adding new products ever since, with an emphasis on ingenious design and sophistication.

Our most popular item last year was the Candy Cane Stocking Hanger.

Last year it was a total surprise how quickly the Candy Cane Stocking Hangers sold out! We did not predict they would be as popular as they were. They are a bit more cute and whimsical than our other metal finished stocking hangers and we just didn't know how they would sell with our normal elegant and sophisticated product line. Last year we started with approx 1,200 Candy Cane Stocking Hangers ready for the holiday season and, to our surprise, they sold out in less than four days! Now for this year, the 2012 holiday season, we have an enormous supply on hand and we think we are prepared for the demand. We just hope they last through the end of Christmas!

What's so exciting about all of our Stocking Hangers is that they are child and pet friendly. The weight of the stocking pulls down on the stocking hanger and holds it securely to the mantel. And even if the stocking hanger did come off, they only weigh a few ounces and wouldn't hurt your little ones! (Unlike the heavy, clunky type of stocking hangers that sit on top of the mantel, which could injure a child if they were to tug on the stocking.)

The lovely ladies at Sterling Pear would love to give away an elegant Home Décor prize pack to one of you!! That would include a set of four stocking hangers, an adjustable wreath hanger and a set of garland ties. SCORE!! Just follow the directions in the Rafflecopter box below to enter the giveaway…

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For those of you looking for a great deal on Sterling Pear products… They are having a free shipping day on December 17th!

Win the New Silhouette Portrait // Giveaway

1 · Nov 19, 2012 · 53 Comments

Have you heard about the new kid on the crafting block? Silhouette has introduced their new cutting machine, The Silhouette Portrait… It’s small in size, small in price & BIG on features!

The Portrait has an 8 inch width cutting surface and can cut up to 10 feet in length. It still does everything else that a CAMEO can do, just with a smaller cutting width. Here’s a little video showing you what this little beauty can do…

Here is a holiday decor project that I created this weekend with the Portrait…

Check it out… the Portrait can handle BIG and small projects. This is a full size cream can that I used to made a festive Christmas sign out of red vinyl for my front porch. I created the image in the Silhouette Designer Edition software…

Once I had the wording just right I added a holly berry from Echo Park in the Silhouette image library and the image was perfect! Then I worked on my small project with the small star ornament…

Again, I just cut a simple “Joy” out of the gold vinyl from Silhouette and affixed it to this rustic wood ornament.

BIG and small… this fabulous new cutting machine is perfect for any job!

What I love most about the Portrait is it’s compact size. It fits into my craft hutch drawer and is so easy to pull out and connect to my computer. You wouldn’t be able to do that with a CAMEO, unless you have a really big drawer.

Soooo, have I tickled your creative mind? Would you love to add this Silhouette Portrait to your crafting arsenal? The best thing about this new deal is the small price!! It’s $199… a price that is a little easier on the whole crafting budget. Even better would be FREE!! Who would like to win one of these little babies?

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Follow the instruction in the Rafflecopter box below for a chance to win a Silhouette Portrait just in time for the holidays!

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Here are some other gals giving away a Silhouette Cameo or Portrait this week too:

Sawdust and Paperscraps

Southern Hospitality

Beneath my Heart

Today’s Creative Blog

Positively Splendid

Home Stories A to Z

Makely School for Girls

Craftaholics Anonymous

Holiday KitchenAid & Keurig GIVEAWAY

0 · Oct 31, 2012 · 321 Comments

'Tis the season for baking & entertaining & we're kicking it off in a BIG, BIG way!
Whether you're a pumpkin & spice kind of baker or a peppermint & chocolate lover there's no doubt that this Holiday Entertaining Giveaway will be used for years to come!

One lucky winner will win a KitchenAid Stand-Up Mixer & a Keurig Elite Coffee Machine!

This elite group of creative bloggers listed below has teamed up to offer you this amazing Holiday Entertaining Giveaway! We are all lovers of food, family & holiday creating & we want to spread our Holiday cheer by offering this special giveaway to one of our readers!

Even if you have all these appliances in your own kitchen, how wonderful would it be to win this for someone on your Christmas list!

To Enter:
*Follow the guidelines in the Rafflecopter box below.
*Please make sure you do what is asked, because we will be verifying the winner & their entries!
*In addition to the entries below, you also have the option to tweet about this giveaway everyday for additional entries!
*It is very important that you do every single step. Don't forget!

This giveaway will end in 10 days. It is our goal to get this Entertaining Giveaway to the doorstep of the winner by Thanksgiving week!

We hope you stick around for some more awesomeness along the way because this is only the beginning of what's to come for the holiday season!
Thanks for stopping by & good luck!

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