congrats to terre! send me your contact info and i will pass the info to tawyna!
and the winner is . . .
and the winner is . . .
congrats to terre! send me your contact info and i will pass the info to tawyna!
congrats to terre! send me your contact info and i will pass the info to tawyna!
contest & feature friday: introducing tawnya @ the favor box
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| click to check out her fabulous etsy shop!! |
although her listings feature specific quantities, tawnya will make up custom listings for any quantity you need (minimums may apply).
tawnya recently purchased one of my premade designs and we customized the colors for her.
WIN this set of holiday gift boxes!
yes, tawnya is giving away a set of 8 holiday gift boxes (a $28 value) to one of my lucky readers!
the winner will receive:
- 8 - 8 X 5 X 5 gable gift boxes in color of your choice (white, natural or black)
- 8 - Personalized labels in design shown above in color of your choice. We can also custom color, just let me know what colors you would like in the message box at checkout.
- 10 yards of ribbon in color of your choice (45" per box) {pink, bright pink, red, orange, yellow, green, sage, hunter, blue, aqua, aruba, navy, lilac, plum, brown, grey, black and white
to enter, you need to "like" the favor box's facebook page here, then come back and comment below. a lucky winner will be chosen at random on monday!
when did you open your business?
I originally opened my business in 2005. I have two Etsy shops The Favor Box and Cupcakemix Favors www.cupcakemixfavors.etsy.com along with my original website vintagebakeshop.com. We started out selling cupcake mixes and then cupcake mixes as party and wedding favors. Our packaging was very popular and we had many requests for our boxes and labels so we started The Favor Box on etsy.
how did you come up with your business name?
The Favor Box was an easy name, I was selling exactly what it says. We
have since expanded our offerings beyond favor boxes, but it still works.
I actually don't run my business from my home (any more). I started
with a home office, then my business took over my garage along with my living
room and dining room. I now have an office and warehouse in Rancho Santa
Margarita along with kitchen space I rent in Orange. I do still work from home
a lot at night and on weekends.
in searching for a logo, did you know what you wanted ahead of time or did you just find one you loved and it fit?
in searching for a logo, did you know what you wanted ahead of time or did you just find one you loved and it fit?
I had been searching for a logo for a while. I would have had
something custom designed but I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted. When I saw
the logo on your site I knew it was exactly what I was searching for:)
When I have time to do whatever I want, I don't care where I am or what
I am doing as long as I am spending time with my family.
thank you tawnya for your business and your generous donation to my readers. now ladies, go like her page and come back to win those boxes for your holiday baked goodies!!!
premade logos for photographers: owl logo design
new logo in my shop
sweet logo with owl and swirls,
wedding silhouette logo
sweet logo with owl and swirls,
wedding silhouette logo
are you ready for a contest??
make sure you check back friday to enter a contest featuring one of my clients and we are giving away one of their products!!!!
i am so excited to finally start this. stay tuned for interviews, fun and prized!!!
i am so excited to finally start this. stay tuned for interviews, fun and prized!!!
thanksgiving crafts: garland of gratitude
i got this idea from the high heeled mama , while searching for some thanksgiving crafts to do with autumn. this one caught my eye right away and it cost nothing to make. we gathered some scrapbook paper from our stock, i printed some fall leaf shapes and we started to craft.
what you need:
what you need:
- paper in all sorts of fall colors
- markers or crayons
- printed leaf shapes (or you can trace around a real leaf)
- scissors
- string
- hole punch
after cutting out all the shapes, we started to color, outline, etc and then we wrote things we are thankful for on them. i even got the boys to write too.
some things written on our garland of gratitude:
"i am thankful for freedom"
"i am thankful for lazy sundays"
"i am thankful for all i have been given and all i can earn"
"i am thankful for my pets"
"i am thankful for my family"
"i am thankful for second chances"
so, what are you thankful for?
my little princess
another year, another princess costume.
and with another year, came another milestone.... peyton didn't dress up, so bittersweet to see your kids grow up (sometimes more bitter then sweet). the sad thing is you never really know when you are experiencing their "last" of something.. .last year i didn't know it was the last time he would trick or treat with his sister.. i would have taken more photos (yes, i can take more photos), i would have taken my camera as we went door to door, i would have recorded his voice that is getting to manly as he said "trick or treat", i would have put that away to listen later and remember forever, but now it is gone, my little guy is growing up and walked with us adults as his little sister trick or treated with friends.... cherish every moment with your kids, it just may be your last . . .
i hope you all had a great halloween.
and with another year, came another milestone.... peyton didn't dress up, so bittersweet to see your kids grow up (sometimes more bitter then sweet). the sad thing is you never really know when you are experiencing their "last" of something.. .last year i didn't know it was the last time he would trick or treat with his sister.. i would have taken more photos (yes, i can take more photos), i would have taken my camera as we went door to door, i would have recorded his voice that is getting to manly as he said "trick or treat", i would have put that away to listen later and remember forever, but now it is gone, my little guy is growing up and walked with us adults as his little sister trick or treated with friends.... cherish every moment with your kids, it just may be your last . . .
i hope you all had a great halloween.
a soldier... private first class....
not sure which is correct, but they both sound very foreign rolling off my tongue, but it is official, on october 30th, on a warm autumn night in san diego, my oldest was officially sworn in to the United States Army.... (i just had to take a deep breath as i typed that).
he decided this in june, took the ASVAB test in August, and like always, he passed the test with flying colors (in the 99th percentile), so was lucky and was able to get to choose the field. he has enough college credits to enter at a higher level paygrade too. because of the appendectomy, he had to wait until this month to go to MEPS for his physical....
the night before last, I asked him again if this is what he really wants and he said yeah.... it is what he wants to do. he is now part of something bigger then himself, bigger then our family.
a new journey, i am scared for him, i am sure all moms are, but i am proud of him too... this is good, right? right...
he reports to fort benning in georgia in january . . . here we go.
she is E-I-G-H-T now. . . .
this little girl may know how to give the camera the look, but she can also pitch a mean pitch on the pitchers mound on an (almost) all boys team :) she is strong, yet cuddly, stubborn, yet sweet, and beautiful inside and out!
it is almost halloween
do you have your kids costumes yet? miss autumn has been a different princess the last 4 years, this year, she chose Rapunzel we took her to downtown disney and she picked everything out :) this is her in the store with her loot :)
cougar football week three
another week of football :) here is one of my little (big) guy carrying the ball (i am so proud) and another of me and him with my new shirt from "this belle sews" visit her Facebook here
cougar football week two
first game at their new sports complex. it was raining, but when the rain cleared, we got this!!!
cougars win!!!!
my son and his team won the first game of their season.... i have been looking forward to high school football for years and it is finally here. AND i get to be on the field as the team photographer.. so i bring you the weekly installment of cougar football 2012:
my peyton
my second grader
miss autumn... ladies, how does time fly by so fast? didn't i just have her? how is she in the second grade???
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