Weird Esty Facebook app thingy!!!

I’m not quite sure how I stumbled on to this. But, it’s kind of neat. Some of it’s a little silly, but I think it’s a great way to show you what handmade creations you can find for your friends. I believe it goes through and finds what your friends “like” on facebook and it shows you some gift ideas. Click here to try it for yourself.

I played around and found some cute things by looking up a few of my friends.

Etsy and Facebook think my brother might like these things:

I like the Top Gun glasses on a stick!

Etsy and Facebook think Amy from A Good Life might like these things:

I don’t know, what do you think Amy? I like the WA state pillow!

Etsy and Facebook think Jess from I Rock So What might like these things:

Ha, the naps thing makes me laugh.

Etsy and Facebook think Melissa from Hi, Baby might like these things:

I like many things in her selection!

Etsy and Facebook think my sister, Nicole, from Mermaid Tracks might like these things:

One thing that sort of sucks is you can’t look up yourself! Sometimes I find searching through Etsy a little overwhelming. It would be neat to see my stuff. Find stuff for your friends here.

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Happiness is playing with something your mom doesn’t want you to play with… But, you do it anyway because you love it. Happiness.


Oh little baby. You have quite a naughty habit now. If I try to take something from you… something you REALLY want… you hide it behind your back. Where did you learn that? Then, if I do take it from you, there’s a melt down. A baby melt down. A crying, crawling, head hanging down meltdown.

Yes, I’m sure you REALLY enjoy eating the cat hair, dirt, leaves, hair pins, and everything else… BUT, I’d prefer if you didn’t. We have a lovely variety of toys for you to choose from. They all like to be chewed on. Oh, and could you not bite me? I know you’re teething, but ouch.

Yeah, that egg carton is pretty cool! But, I can only imagine how nasty dirty it is. Oh well. You had fun!

Love,
Mama

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Lasy days of the Holiday Card/Photo challenge!!!

You now have a couple more days to enter your Holiday photo/card for my challenge! Lots of prizes! December 3rd is the last day!!! Saturday I will post the top 20 cards (as chosen by a panel of judges I have gathered). From there voting will go through Monday night.

We have some pretty cool entries so far! There are 41 entries! I wanted to share them with you all. You can click on each photo to see a larger version. After that, go ahead and enter your photo/card! I’ve added the entry linky to this post.

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I Heart Faces: Scenic Black and White

Mike and Ruari walking through the snow on Thanksgiving day.
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Hey all! Don’t forget to enter your photo/card into the my Holiday Card/Photo Challenge! The last day to enter is Friday!!!

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My holiday in photos.

Driving to Washington on Tuesday…

We arrive to our destination to find leftover snow on the ground!

AND, to my VERY excited eyes… we wake up on Thanksgiving day to snow falling! I LOVE snow. Ruari has never been in snow. It DID snow last year on December 29th… But, Ruari was about 10 days old and had no idea what was going on. Snow sort of made everything a pain that day…. 4 hours to go a couple miles. Mike got home from work after driving 6 hours.

Ruari really wasn’t too impressed with the snow… mostly just annoyed with the 50 layers we put on her! Do you like her jacket? I LOVE it. I found it at a little thrift shop by my house for $5. 

For Thanksgiving dinner… Ruari tried turkey for the first time ever! Her first taste of meat. She really likes it (Ummm…. I’m not too sure I’m liking how horrible it makes her poo though!). Look at her cute outfit!

She wasn’t too sure about the Turkey at first….

BUT, she quickly decided it was awesome!

Mike and I like to wander the malls on Black Friday. Not so much on the shopping part… more on the people watching part! This was Ruari’s first year joining us!

Yeah… of course we had to stop for cupcakes! Man, I need to start working out.

Then… Mike and I got to go out for a couple of hours while his parents watched our screaming sweet baby.

That’s ALL folks! I really hope you all had a lovely weekend as well!


I’m linking my manic weekend up with Manic Monday

Manic Monday


A couple deals for you for this Cyber Monday only!!!:

BabyLegs Leg Warmers, Baby Socks and Girls Tights

  • BabyLegs: BabyLegs will be offering a select assortment of BabyLegs for 3 for $10 (that’s a $36 value, valid only on 11/29/2010). I guess it’s they’re biggest sale they’ve ever had. Enter this code during checkout: cyber8

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  • Tiny Prints: 10% off $99; 15% off $149; 20% off $199. Code: CYBERMON

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AND AND AND…. the Holiday Photo/Card challenge ENDS this Friday! It’s your last day to enter! TONS of wonderful sponsors have donated their goodies for you to win! Enter here:

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday

1. Black and White: Ruari’s first time in the snow. SOOOooo not impressed.



2. I Ate This: Well…. I didn’t. Ruari did!

3. Historic: I love old buildings. The little details, like the brick walls, are wonderful.

4. Off-Center: Mmmm.

This is my fave shot of the week. ๐Ÿ˜€
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5. The End: Close the curtains! The weekends over! Hope you all had a lovely weekend too!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

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The Paper Mama Photo Challenge: Black and White

November 27th – December 2nd 
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This weeks guest judge: 
Tez from: Not Always Picture Perfect.

This weeks challenge: Black and White.
The challenge: The challenge will be based around your children. Take or find a photo of your baby (or kid… or puppy… or kitty) in a black and white photo. This week I’m encouraging you to work with photo editing programs. Just play with it and have fun. I’ll include some links to some free editing programs (If you don’t already have one).

Tezzie’s examples of Black and White:

My example of Black and White:

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Here are a couple links to some free photo editing software if you don’t already have something:
Picnik
Picasa
Gimp
Pixlr

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There always has to be rules… I know, boring right? But, it’s to help me and you. ๐Ÿ™‚ Click on the link for more details… Each entry does need to link back to my blog… Click here to see last weeks winner… All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 2nd…
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Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… 2 more challenges to go…

Winners so far:
Cozy: … Hi, Baby.
Eyes: … Bunch of Barrons
Black and White: … no one yet …
Blessings: … no one yet …

AND, don’t forget to take your holiday photos for the Holiday Card Challenge!

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