6 Handmade Holiday & A Giveaway

Welcome to week 2 of Handmade Holiday!  The winner of last week's giveaway is:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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This post sponsored by:

 

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With over 100 different patterns of washi tape to choose from, this versatile paper tape can be used forcrafting, scrapbooking, card making, and can basically fancy up any drab item in your home.

This is the next big craze!

Go check it out for yourself, Downtowntape.com.  And when you sign up for their newsletter, you receive free downloadable tags ($10 value) so everyone is a winner!

 Onto the handmade goodness:

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0 Deck the Holidays with... DUCK TAPE!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Duck Brand® for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Duck® Brand challenged me to use their Holiday themed Duck Tape® to Deck My Halls this Holiday.

0 Sharpie® your Season!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sharpie® for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I'm pretty sure most crafters are Sharpie® fans, am I right?  They are versatile and come in a wide variety of colors.  Case in point, just search Pinterest for Sharpie® Mug!  My love for Sharpies began in high school, where I doodled all over my backback and Chuck's, and it hasn't diminished in the 10+ years since!  I'm thinking I would have loved receiving a 12 pack of Sharpie® Markers in my stocking then as much as I would now (seriously, check out that eye candy).

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1 Christmas is about giving...

And in that spirit I give to you free printable Christmas gift tags!   Enjoy!

Kim is a Marketing Director by day and Crafter/Blogger/Blog Designer by night. She lives with her husband, three beautiful children, and her dog and cat. You can also visit her design site, seven thirty three – – – creative blog design.  For even more seven thirty three fun, like her on Facebook or follow along via Twitter!

4 Expecting A Baby is a Gift...

A gift that I will most likely not experience again.  However, I do get to live vicariously through my friends, right?  So when my friend Krista, who is due in March, asked me to help her create some wall art for her little girl's bedroom I was excited to say yes!
This is one version of our creation:

 

Clicking the image will bring you to the download via Google Docs.

Kim is a Marketing Director by day and Crafter/Blogger/Blog Designer by night. She lives with her husband, three beautiful children, and her dog. You can also visit her design site, seven thirty three – – – creative blog design.  For even more seven thirty three fun, like her on Facebook or follow along via Twitter!

0 And the winner is...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congrats to Linda for winning the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition!  Check your email.

1 Handmade Holiday & a Giveaway

The Holidays are upon us and it is not too late to have a Handmade Holiday!
Each Friday for the next 4 weeks I will be sharing links to 10 Handmade Gift Tutorials that you can pull off in a short period of time!  There will be a little for everybody, kids, neighbors, teachers.
Plus, there will be a little giveaway at the end of each post to reward YOU for taking the initiative of crafting your way through the Holidays!

0 BLACK FRIDAY IS HERE & I HAVE A SILHOUETTE DEAL FOR YOU!

1 Today I am Thankful for:

My family.  

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2 Home is...

GIVEAWAY: Silhouette Studio Designer Edition

Silhouette is here today to offer up one lucky seven thirty three winner the chance to win a copy of the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition, retails for $49.99. 

Peppermint Pattie Hot Cocoa with International Delight

I am not a coffee drinker, but that does not stop me from indulging during the Holiday season with a little International Delight!  Did you know that you can use ID Coffee Creamer to give a little kick to your Hot Cocoa too?  And what screams Holiday time more than peppermint? 

You know that the season is upon us when you see the seasonal flavors in the International Delight freezer.  Unfortunately my grocer is a little behind schedule this year because they haven't put it out yet!  But don't fear, I was still able to make a yummy  Peppermint Pattie Hot Cocoa (instead of the Peppermint Mocha I had planned) using International Delights York Peppermint Pattie Creamer!  

This is a favorite of my kids after playing outside in the cold Vermont winters.  They come inside and instantly ask for their hot cocoa and every now and again I will spike it with a little Peppermint zing.

0 Ready for a tasty treat?

UPDATE:   I never heard back from the original winner so I picked a new name, shown below.   The winner of the delicious Hostess Apple Cinnamon Donettes is:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Check your email!

Kim is a Marketing Director by day and Crafter/Blogger/Blog Designer by night. She lives with her husband, three beautiful children, and her dog and cat. You can also visit her design site, seven thirty three – – – creative blog design.  For even more seven thirty three fun, like her on Facebook or follow along via Twitter!

1 Thanksgiving Feast - A Preschool Counting and Number Game

My daughter came home from daycare this week with a huge smile on her face and a small little baggie in her hand.  They have been learning all about Thanksgiving, including pilgrims, native americans and the first Thanksgiving Feast.  As a tie in, her daycare provider created this fun little counting and number game.  It could easily be dressed up, or created on the computer.  

2 An Old Favorite... DIY Coupon Books {with Free Printable}

What is one of the best gifts a child can give? A Coupon Book of course!  

1 What are little boys made of? #138

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Operation Christmas Child - Help a Child in Need

This year my family decided to participate in Operation Christmas Child, a Charity run by Samaritan's Purse, International Relief (sidenote: even though this is a non-compensated, sponsored post, we had actually already packed the box and I took pictures with the intent of posting BEFORE I received the invite to participate). Basically, pack up a shoebox (or other similarly sized box) with items for a child located overseas, living in poverty. I felt like this would be a great organization to support, as well as be a great teaching moment for my children.

7 Celebrating the Small Moments of our Lives

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We are well into Fall here in Vermont and one of the things my children love most about the cooler fall weather is the fact that they get to enjoy a good cup of cocoa.  It is one thing we love to do as a family.  Rake some leaves, maybe making a pile and jumping in a few during the process, and then as a way to celebrate the fact that we completed the task we head into the house for a cup of cocoa around the kitchen table.

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Party Guidelines: 1) please link to your blog post (not your blog main page) so people can go directly to your project and 2) Enter your blog name and in parenthesis add the name of your project so we can clearly see what it is 3) Don't forget, these should be BOY RELATED (Big Boy projects are accepted too)! AND PLEASE grab my button!

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4 Staying Organized

I have this little ole' bloggy you see, and even though I am usually a very organized person, I was not really doing anything to keep track of my growth, or my posts, or my ideas, or my giveaways.  I guess I could go on and on, but I won't.  My way of "staying organized" was filing emails in certain folders.  That was my only system.  A few months back Beckie from Infarrantly Creative shared the blog planner she created and I thought, "wow!  I should do something like that."  But then I didn't. Don't you just love when that happens?

1 Having fun with Greeting Cards

 My nieces 6th Birthday was October 17 which was while we were in Florida.   Before we left I decided to create a really fun card for her and then have Mickey Mouse sign it.   I made sure to take a picture with him and the card and then mailed it home to her.  Both the card and the Mouse were a hit!

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