So remember how I was designing a hoodie for my mom for Mother’s Day on Spreadshirt?
It came out exactly like the on-screen design! She loved it! It fit her perfectly and she thought it was pretty nifty how I also included the fur children on it. :) (To be honest, I have to compete with our black lab Madison for attention when I go home.)
I’m thinking about making one for my dad for Father’s Day, but I have yet to come up with the perfect design.
MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE AND GIVEAWAY!
ecosystem is an AWESOME company. I didn’t know much about them until they sent me a few notebooks and planners to try and I, a devoted Moleskine lover, have made the switch. The paper is a bit more hefty than Moleskine and I like the bright, fun colors. It’s also fun to enter in your code online and see where your notebook was made. The blue notebook above was produced or received ingredients from/in Maine, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and South Carolina.
Another fun thing to use the notebooks for: I like to jot down blog ideas while I’m on the Metro. I always get these genius ideas for posts on the train, but then I never have a pen or paper and writing them in my phone just isn’t the same. Besides that, I use my ecosystem notebooks to take down notes in meetings or at work and love the bit of color and style next to all the other plain yellow legal pads. Making my coworkers jealous, one cute office supply item at a time.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS!
You can win an awesome prize from ecosystem!
HOW TO ENTER:
You can enter this giveaway until midnight Monday, May 10.
The winner will be randomly selected and announced on Tuesday, May 11!
(I can’t wait for Tuesday!)
MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE - ALL UNDER $50
If you’re on a budget (like me!), sometimes a really extravagant gift for mom is out of the question. (Sorry, no cruise this year!) Never fear. You can get some awesome, really special gifts for under $50, though!
Check out some of these perfect Mother’s Day gifts:
MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE AND GIVEAWAY!
Nahui Ollin sent me one of their candy wrapper bags to check out (picture to come!) and I was impressed with the quality of these colorful, eco-friendly bags. These bags and clutches are made from recycled materials—up to four thousand candy wrappers for one bag!
For an environmentally-conscious mother, this is an awesome gift.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
You can win the bag above ($54)!
HOW TO ENTER:
Super easy!
You can enter this giveaway until midnight Monday, May 10.
The winner will be randomly selected and announced on Tuesday, May 11!
MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE & GIVEAWAY!
I wore this necklace courtesy of Lia Sophia yesterday and wanted to tell about it!
This is Lia Sophia’s Glamorama necklace ($78) and I love it for Mother’s Day because even if you already have a gift for mom—or just want to get a little something for yourself—this necklace was specially designed for Dress for Success and a portion of the proceeds go to them as well. So, you are not only getting something for yourself or your mom, but you are also helping a charity that helps women—and mothers—get back on their feet.
Here is a close-up of the necklace:
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
This is an awesome giveaway from Lia Sophia! I’m so thrilled! If you win, you can select ANY piece from their online catalog!
HOW TO ENTER:
Entering is easy and quick!
You can enter this giveaway until midnight Monday, May 10.
The winner will be randomly selected and announced on Tuesday, May 11!
Happy (almost) Mother’s Day and keep your eye out for more gift ideas and giveaways!
Spreadshirt read my post about my Mother’s Day panic attack and came to my rescue with this free hoodie!
I really like customizable items—I’ve done t-shirts before for some events I’ve worked on and of course, our holiday cards (that we never sent out, but that’s another story…) and a few other things. I like being able to design myself exactly what goes on the tee or sweatshirt—and I’d never really thought about doing a customized hoodie for my mom, but came up with a great idea!
First of all, my mother is not just a mother to my sister and I. She’s got Brandon now, for one, and two, she treats her dog Madison like a child. (I can’t judge, I do the same to Molly & Milo.) Speaking of Molly and Milo, she calls them her grandpuppies. When we reference my mom to Molly & Milo, she is referred to as “Nana.” Lots of craziness!
So I got this great idea to make an image in Photoshop of ALL my mom’s kids: dogs, son-in-law and actual daughters.
Here’s what I came up with:
From left: Milo (or Molly); Madison; Brandon; Me; Jera (my sister); Molly (or Milo)
Then, I went to Spreadshirt’s custom tee section and uploaded the graphic:
Then, because I wanted to add a little something extra, I put “Happy Mother’s Day” on the front:
It was easy and fast and my mom wears hoodies all the time—around the house, after the pool, going to the movies, while she’s teaching, while they are grilling food—so I know she’ll actually wear it. (Sometimes it’s hard to buy my mom clothes…she’s as picky as I am. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.)
Now to wait and see how it looks in person! It should be here by Friday and I can’t wait!
Brandon and I saw a sign this weekend that said, “9 Days ‘Til Mother’s Day” and I turned to him with huge deer-in-the-headlights eyes and said, “WHAT?!”
Time is sneaking up on me. I’m not sure what I’m getting my mom yet this year, but I’m going to put together a little (affordable) gift guide in case you are in the same boat I’m in—a last minute, oops-I-can’t-keep-track-of-the-month boat.
Stay tuned! :)
(The picture above is my mom when she was a little pipsqueak herself. Little did she know that I would be just as—if not more—mischievous than her!)
This Valentine’s Day, I don’t want flowers.
Let me tell you also that even if you’re single, you shouldn’t feel like you’re left out of the game. Buy yourself something amazing. One of the most important things to realize in life, I believe, is that you should never be defined by your significant other or lack thereof. If you are your own best cheerleader, then you will have a step up over a lot of other people and will be happier for it. The trick is to have a significant other that you don’t need to “fix” to make work, that doesn’t need to fix you and is just a compliment of everything you already are.
Well, preachy paragraph above aside, send yourself something fabulous for Valentine’s Day. Send it to your office, actually. Don’t lie and say it’s from a “secret lover,” either. If you’re single, say, “I’m a grown-up and buy things for myself.” If you have a significant other, show them this post. Either way, don’t be afraid to express what you want! If you hate Valentine’s Day, order pizza and watch Apocalypse Now. If you love Valentine’s Day but hate flowers, don’t ask for flowers. Gift giving just to conform to expected cliches is so cliche. Stop and think about what you really want to do, give and get.
What that being said, here’s what I’d like for Valentine’s Day!
I’m kind of over flowers, if you couldn’t tell. For $80, you can sure get a lot of other nice things that won’t die in a week and get thrown in the trash. If you do decide to get flowers, please stop at a local market, local florist or Whole Foods and pick up flowers for less than $15. Do not get suckered in to the commercial ridiculousness that is FTD, Flowers.com, 1-800-Flowers, etc.
Let’s explore my alternate gift ideas! (P.S. Brandon asked me the other night what I wanted. I usually never make lists of what I want for holidays or birthdays, but he begged me, so voila.)
Total: $91
Compare the $91 above to $91 of overpriced, FedEx’d flowers:
I’ll take the lotion, please!
One of My Favorite Christmas Movies (That You’ve Never Heard Of)
One Special Night was a TV movie made for CBS with Julie Andrews (love!) and James Garner (also love!). It’s a little cheesy, but it’s so heart-warming and Christmasy and is a really lovely story. It’ll become one of your new favorites, I promise!
P.S. I feel so old. I feel like I JUST watched this on CBS and apparently it aired in 1999. Eek!
Alice’s Etsy store is to-die-for. The jewelry is exquisite and so affordable! You could pick almost anything in the store and it’d be the perfect gift for someone on your list: a friend, sister, co-worker.
I couldn’t choose just one favorite, so here’s three:
I’m a huge bicycling fan and completely in love with this necklace.
Owls! Everyone loves owls!
This is so whimsical and pretty…the kind of thing my sister would wear!
Also, check out Alice’s blog for a deal on free earrings!
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