Friday, August 27, 2010

The Felted Pear ~ GIVEAWAY! CLOSED

Congratulations #85 Julie, you won!

For those of you who didn't win, remember...

Susan is also offering my readers a limited time 20% discount code! She will refund 20% of your purchase when you enter the code 1plus1plus1! If you have any questions you can contact Susan through Etsy. This discount code is good now through 9/17/10.

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To say we LOVE our felt food from The Felted Pear would be a total understatement!!!! I knew we would like it, I had no idea how much my children {all 3 of them} would LOVE it!!!

Susan from Chasing Marcus has been a long time blog reader and Tot School participant, so when I saw she opened up her own Etsy store I was super excited for her!!! She sent us the most amazing package, it was like Christmas in July when we opened it. IMG_5997

The night we opened it, the 2 littles had a bit of a fight over who got to be in control of the food pile, it was so funny. IMG_3202

Ladybug enjoyed putting it in and out of her bag. Stirring the food is a fun event for her also!IMG_4155IMG_3220

After the littles got their time, my oldest, Pac Man {who is 8}, spent some time playing with all of the food by himself. He LOVED it and asked me to pull up the website to look at what we could possibly order. He fell in love with the spaghetti, the omelet, and the sandwich! It was precious seeing how excited he got browsing through her site. He was also amazed that it was all hand made.

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From a mom’s perspective, I was VERY impressed. The attention to detail was amazing! Susan does a wonderful job creating a one of a kind toy for your children.

BUY IT!

You can purchase your own hand made felt food here from The Felted Pear. Isn’t it lovely to know you are not only getting a great product but also supporting a fellow mom! Susan is also offering my readers a limited time 20% discount code! She will refund 20% of your purchase when you enter the code 1plus1plus1! If you have any questions you can contact Susan through Etsy. This discount code is good now through 9/17/10.

WIN IT!!

Susan is generously donating a $40 Gift Certificate to The Felted Pear! That means you get to choose any combination that you want!!!!

Mandatory Entry…

Visit The Felted Pear and tell me what your favorite item{s} is after you browse around the site a bit. Leave the name of the item{s} in your 1st comment!

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

  1. If you Follow/Subscribe to 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry.
  2. If you Follow/Subscribe to Chasing Marcus {Susan’s blog} give yourself an extra entry.
  3. If you LIKE The Felted Pear on Facebook, give yourself an extra entry!
  4. If you follow @1plus1plus1 on Twitter AND tweet about the giveaway, give yourself an extra entry! Feel free to copy and tweet this: @1plus1plus1 is hosting a giveaway for hand made felt food here... http://bit.ly/cozVaL
  5. If you have no sewing skills what so ever and could never even dream of making felt food on your own, give yourself an extra entry! ;-)

This Giveaway is open for anyone!

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS September 12, 2010. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

YANCY ~ Rock-N-Happy Heart CD Giveaway CLOSED

Congratulations Jen and Stacy! You each win a CD!


imageI was recently sent an awesome Yancy Rock-N-Happy Heart CD and devotional book to review. I had never heard of Yancy but am always looking for awesome products for preteen girls specifically. I developed and lead the God’s Girls program at our inner-city church. We lead a group of about twelve 10-13 year old girls each year and spend an intense week teaching them about what God’s word says about many issues. We put an major focus on modesty and purity, while also sharing about many other issues relevant to young girls today. This week long program then turns into our weekly God's Girls Sunday school class which I also lead.

When I was contacted to see if I would be interested in reviewing this CD and devotional I was thrilled, as I immediately thought of the possibility that it could be a great new resource for the God’s Girls program in addition to sharing the music with my own children!

The daily devotional book is wonderful. I will definitely be using it as a resource with my God’s Girls!!!

After listening to the music, I was excited to learn a few things…

  1. I LIKE the music! I have actually added a couple of the tracks to my “Mommy’s Quiet Music” playlist on my iPod!
  2. It is scripturally based! I am very picky when it comes to music, even Christian music ;-). I was happy to listen and even hear verses within the songs. The message of Jesus is loud and clear, I love it!
  3. It is COOL! Yup, it’s hip, modern, cool and awesome!!!!

I would highly recommend this CD especially if you have kids {of any age}!!!! I like the music, so I can imagine that those of you with kids will really enjoy this music along with your children! With all of the worldly music out there for young kids {especially in the preteen age range}, it is nice to see a cd that is “cool” and Godly!!!

The songs are mostly all written by Yancy herself, which I think is so awesome. I absolutely adore singer/songwriters!!! I was also surprised and happy to hear the song “My Savior, My God” written by Aaron Shust, a well known Christian song these days!. You can see lyrics to all of the songs on the cd here in an awesome PDF format.

In case you’re not convinced yet, here's two videos I found on YouTube. This is the awesome song Shout it Out

Here’s one that gave me chills, a little 4 year old singing Shout it Out with Yancy, it’s so cute!!!!

BUY IT…

You can purchase Yancy’s Rock-N-Happy Heart cd on her site, and also here on Amazon, or here on CBD. If you order both the CD and the devotional book, you can get the best deal on her site by getting them both for $20 {the option is listed right under the cd purchasing info}. They are also located in Christian book stores around the country!

WIN IT!!!

Yancy is giving away 2 copies of her CD Rock-N-Happy Heart! That means 2 of you will win!!

Mandatory Entry…

Visit Yancy’s website and just take a peek! You don’t have to do anything special, just visit the site and leave a comment to say you’d like to win!

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

  1. If you subscribe/follow 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry
  2. If you follow @1plus1plus1 on Twitter give yourself an extra entry
  3. If you follow @yancynotnancy on Twitter give yourself an extra entry
  4. If you Like 1+1+1=1 on Facebook give yourself an extra entry
  5. If you would blog about your win give yourself an extra entry

This Giveaway is open for USA/Canada only.

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS August 25, 2009. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.