Necklace Giveaway from Vintage Pearl

Win a new custom necklace from Vintage Pearl

http://thevintagepearl.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-rustic-bloom-necklace-giveaway.html

Projector Giveaway

A basically awesome projector giveaway!  You can win an art projector to help you with all sorts of painting, drawing, and lots more.  I bet you could possibly even rig it for CAKE decorating!!!
Go here to win!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Click here to enter to win a Silhouette machine!!
SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!: "silhouette secret"

Easter Season!

Happy Easter! Peanut, IT Guy and I spent the day baking bread and making cupcakes, which is really not a bad way to spend Holy Saturday.
We made some cupcakes from the book "Hello Cupcake"

I think they turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself.

They really were not too difficult, and Peanut was excited to finally have real cake instead of my April fool's spaghetti cake with ricotta cheese frosting. I am an evil mom.

My new spice rack!

Ok, I think I am completely too excited about my new spice rack.



I finally got sick of buying multiples of the same spices and even still not being able to find what I needed. All the ready made spice racks didn't have enough jars or spots for my bagillion spices... so I made my own.
I bought a 12x24" piece of sheet metal from home depot, about 10$
punched holes in it where the hinge screws and door handle screws went, and one extra hole in the upper right corner. Then I (or more accurately, husband :) ) mounted it onto the cabinet door.
I got these little containers from the container store. It shows a spice rack at the top but the pack of 3 metal containers is 5.99 under the "we also recommend." I also found a 20% off coupon for an entire order and picked them up in the store. Total was about 50$ and I have some left to fill.

Or there are some plastic ones that are cheaper, but I splurged.

Dump your spices in the containers and you are good to go... unless you want to actually know whats in them :)
So I labeled them with some Avery "clear" (which are really more like frosted) address labels.

Ta DA instant organizational bliss. :)

Another Stroller?

Yup! You can have a chance to win a Britax Blink Umbrella Stroller over at 5 minutes for giveaways. Just click here!
We were just thinking of getting an umbrella stroller when packing for our last vacation I asked IT Guy, "Do you think we should bring Peanut's stroller"? We both glanced at the trunk of our overflowing Honda Accord.... hrmm guess it doesn't matter! Short of strapping it to our roof, it would not be going. So our trip to Amish county, where you walk everywhere, would be sans stroller! OOPS!
I also can't tell you how many times I've gone somewhere and forgotten I've removed the bulky stroller from the trunk to fit groceries, Target hauls or crafty goodies in it. Annoying! BUT, the Britax Blink Stroller folds up tiny so you can leave it in your trunk AND still fit all your errand running loot, or jam it into an already packed trunk! Awesome!

Heritage Blocks

Ok, so I saw this post and this post over on Heritage Unwrapped.
Aren't these basically the COOLEST things ever? They're cheaper than expensive table top frames, AND they're Peanut proof. How awesome is that?? He can sit there and stack Great Grandma and Grandpa... or have Uncle Bob slam into Uncle Fred... or the floor and who cares! Excellent!