Holiday Swap

I love participating and hosting swaps. They are the funnest things ever!!! Who doesn't like getting a package in the mail? That is what swaps do - you send someone something and someone sends you something. Win win situation!!


Click here to read about this super awesome, super all-about-mom, Christmas Stocking Swap. Basically, you will sign up, be paired up with someone and send that person a Christmas Stocking. How fun is that? So go over here, read all about it and then sign up (I did!)

I'm in love with my mail man

I'm kidding... but I do LOVE getting pretty packages in my mail box. I hosted a flip-flop swap and got mine in the mail yesterday!

Look at what I got!! Her Household sent me these totally fab-u-lous green flip-flops and 3 bottles of nail color! I already painted my tootsies last night with one of the colors she sent and I strutted around the house in my new flip-flops last night!

These flip-flops are super-de-duper comfortable and they are my most favorite color! LOVE THEM!!! Thanks to ever so cute Lady of the House at Her Household!

REMINDER

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE FLIP-FLOP SWAP:
Today is the deadline to mail out your flip-flops!

This was a fun swap...hope everybody had fun!

QUICK REMINDER:

If you signed up for the Flip-Flop Swap and haven't returned your questionnaire to me, please do so right away. There are a few people I haven't heard back from and I want to get partners names out to everyone and obviously I need everyone's questionnaires back in order to partner everyone!

Thanks!!!

LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THE FLIP FLOP SWAP

We have quite a few participants, but I would love to get some more. Please click here to read the rules for the Flip Flop Swap and then hurry and sign up! It will be loads of fun!

If you've already signed up and have not received an email questionnaire from me I promise it is on it's way, I fell a little behind! I think this is going to be a lot of fun, we have some great people signed up! I can't wait to get a new pair of flip flops!

My mom flies into town today - I am SO excited to see her! We have lots of crafty stuff planned to do while she is here.. I promise to post pictures!

Have you? I have...

Have you signed up for the Flip Flop Swap? I did.

There are quite a few people participating, but I would still love to have more involved! Click here to sign up or send me an email.

Go do it... you know you want to! :-)

Flip Flop Swap!

With the weather still cold and icky here I find myself getting more and more anxious for spring to get here - and I don't just mean the date that the calendar says spring begins - I am talking about sunshine and warmth!

In light of spring making its way our direction, I want to host a flip-flop swap! Doesn't that sound like fun? What better way to ring in spring than to participate in a flip-flop swap? In the spring/summer I am in flip-flops most of the time. I big puffy heart me some flip-flops!

Here are the rules:

1. Send me an email or comment here, if you are interested in joining, BY MARCH 26th! Please include your email address or have your comment link back to email. **There is no need to have a blog to participate, just an email address.**

2. Have your package mailed out by April 16th

3. You will be sending a pair of fun flip-flops to your partner and you will not reveal yourself until you ship the package!

4. The amount you should spend on the flip-flops is $5.00 - 10.00 (you are welcome to spend more if you like, but please do not be offended if your swap partner doesn't.)

6. As soon as you receive your flip-flop package, please blog about it (with pictures).

PLEASE HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD SO WE CAN HAVE LOTS OF PARTICIPANTS!

As soon as I hear from you I will send you a small questionnaire so that I can match partners together.

I will get your swap partner's email and/or blog address to you by April 1st which gives you 2 weeks of shopping.

Ornament Swap

I participated in the Secret Ornament Swap with Its a Wonderful Life and I received my package already! I was so excited to come home to not one, but two boxes sitting on my front porch! YAY! Then when I went to take pictures... no batteries! ACK!

So after making it to the store to get some batteries then I was able to unpack the boxes! I wouldn't open the boxes until I could take pictures - do you know how hard it was to leave the boxes unopened next to the couch? It was haaaarrrrdddd I tell you!

Here is what I got:All in all I got a total of 9 ornaments, a cranberry candle, a very cute card and a wonderful wreath for my door!



Here is a close up of the ornaments:

**I got alllllllllll this wonderful stuff from Lovemy2dogs! Thanks girl!!

We usually put up our Christmas decorations on or around Thanksgiving so these will be proudly displayed next week! I will take more pictures after I get them hung up and post here again!

SENSE-sational Swap

My family participated in a swap that Rainy Day In May hosted. We got our package in the mail a week or so ago and the kids had SO much fun tearing into it. Seriously, the excitement matched that of Christmas morning! The swap package was to include something for the five senses (see, smell, touch, taste and hear).

The kids were tearing into things so quickly I didn't get a chance to photograph, and quite possibly didn't get a chance to SEE, everything but I think we got (Please forgive me if there is something I missed...):

*4 packs of popcorn and a 4-pack of popcorn toppers (cheese, nacho cheese, sour cream and onion and bacon cheddar)
*Skittles
*Each kid was sent a cool rubber ball with these cool "floating" things inside of it!
*Scented stickers (a huge hit with all the kids but especially Lady Bug....she begged her brothers to let her keep ALL the stickers.... I believe that one is still in negotiations!)
*Each kid got a set of the coolest scented pencils. I mean these things are SO cool. I wanted to keep them for myself, but clearly they were not for me.
*Play-Doh
*A homemade CD with a fun handmade cover
*I-Spy game

Sooooooo, the night we got the package, after dinner, we promptly popped popcorn and taste-tested the popcorn flavorings/toppings, ate some Skittles and played the game. Lady Bug snatched up the CD and immediately put it in her room... little stinker!

This was such a fun swap to participate in and it was a family swap so my kids and I worked hard putting our package together (I love activities we can do together as a family)....Mr. Man was so busy all summer he had very little input into our package, but he was with us in spirit!

Ornament Swap

I participated in a Secret Ornament Swap with many others over at Abbilyeverafter I got my ornament in the mail from Sterlingirl ! I knew as soon as I read her sweet card that I was sure to like whatever I got:

Merry Christmas!

Hope you get a kick out of

your ornament. I can't

be from the Memphis area

and not honor The King.

So I gathered everyone around to open it! I carefully unwrapped the paper and look what I found!

Is that the cutest thing E.V.E.R.??? The kids really love it and are fighting over who gets to hang it up next year...I finally I said "I do! It is mine ya know!"

THANKS JANA AT STERLINGIRL! We love our new ornament!

I participated in this same swap last year and really had a good time so if she does this next year (and I hope she will) and you didn't participate this year then you have to participate next year! It is so fun!