Aileen's Musings: 1000 Steampunk Creations Giveaway

Aileen's Musings: 1000 Steampunk Creations Giveaway: "Its Here! If you love the steampunk style art you'll find this book to be very inspiring to look through and it will surely get surely get your creative juices flowing!" Be sure to click on the link and enter Aileen's give-away.

1000 Steampunk Creations Book Cover

What I love about steam punk is it reminds me so much of my Dad. He was a "junque" collector and always saw the potential of other peoples' cast-offs - so often metal and machinery. Our back yard was "steam punk" way before its time - LOL! I would love to start putting some things together in memory of him. It is awesome of Aileen to have a give-away of the book. I haven't done any steam punk yet, but would love to give it a try. This may be a new direction in my art endeavors. I am a little like my dad in that I see potential in everything - it is a gift and a curse! Ha.

52 FLEA: Romantic Prairie Style and A Give Back

52 FLEA: Romantic Prairie Style and A Give Back is having the most wonderful give-away of this book. Stop by her blog and read her wonderful review of this book. If you love all things family and simplicity and re-purposed and heirlooms, you will love what she wrote.

Word for the Year - "BREATHE"

My word for this year will be “breathe”, because I have been having real difficulty with that this year. My doctor says a lot of it is stress-induced, so I have to learn to live my life so that I can breathe. When you can’t breathe, it becomes oh so much more important to you! When I get to the point that I can't inhale and fill my lungs, I hyperventilate and then pass out. NOT FUN. And then I get to spend the rest of the day recovering.

Lisa Leonard is having a give-away over at her blog: LisaLeonardOnline.com. She makes wonderful jewelry. Drop over and check out her necklaces and enter for a chance to win one yourself!

Learning to slow the pace of my life will help to enhance stress management. I also need to stay away from people who use me or stab me in the back while pretending to be my "friend". With friends like that, who needs enemies! A true friend is one who appreciates your good qualities while forgiving those idiosyncrasies that make you sometimes unlovable. I am fortunate some true friends like that in my life and part of my New Year's resolution is to spend more time with them and less time with the others.

Learning to slow down will not be easy for me. I have always lived life at a very fast pace and I have been having trouble accepting that as I get older, I can't do the same things I used to be able to. But God and my friends have been reminding me of my limitations, and when I don't listen to them, my body speaks to me loud and clear!

So for this year - BREATHE! It is a wonderful feeling!

Lovely Give-away at Jones Design Co

There is a lovely freebie of printable gift tags and a fabulous December give-away over at  http://jonesdesigncompany.com/. You should really take a few minutes to browse her blog. She has wonderful ideas and a beautiful blog and some great tutorials.  Plus, you might win something really pretty. All you have to do is comment on her blog.  Here is a peek at one of her photos showing some of her darling gift tags.

I'm definitely going to print them out and use them this year. Have fun and good luck!

Give-away at Jones Design Company Blog!

There is a lovely give-away happening over at Jones Design Company. There are several fabulous things that she is giving away. Check it out over at Jones Design Company.
All you have to do is subscribe to her blog to enter.

And while you are over there, take time to view some of her tutorials. They are fabulous!

Lovely Give-Aways on Diane's and Miss Sandy's Blogs

There is a lovely give-away for Valentine's Day At Diane Knott's Musings. 

You should truly go over and visit her blog; it is really wonderful. 

Another great give-away is over at Quill Cottage .

Miss Sandy has a lovely kit that she is giving away.

 

  

A Charming Home Give-Away

I visited a lovely blog today as part of Pink Saturday. She is a fellow Michigander. She has made a beautiful pink bracelet in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and is hosting a give-away. All you need to do to enter is to post a comment on her blog and post about it on your own blog. Then you will be entered into the drawing. It is a generous way to help increase awareness about Breast Cancer, plus she has a wonderful blog to browse. So hop on over there and enter!
A Charming Home Give-Away