FGF - Precious Pink Designs

The power has been restored!!! Well, some of it. Anyways, sorry for the delay, but here is this week's FREE GIVEAWAY FRIDAY WINNER!!!

comment #37 - Megan - Wandering DC!!!

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Here are your random numbers:37
Timestamp: 2008-09-16 16:35:19 UTC

Thanks to everyone who entered to win, and remember, if you'd like to be featured for your product and donate a giveaway item, please email me! Thanks again to Precious Pink Designs!

In case anyone was wondering why I was MIA and there was no Thoughtful Thurdays, it was because I hurt my back. I spent the whole day laying on the couch, taking drugs and turning the heating pad on and off every 15 minutes. I wasn't about to try to sit up and post a blog. too painful. But today, I'm sitting up (very uncomfortably) long enough to get some stuff done at work. The couch misses me. I must return to it and the heating pad...




Anyways, today is FREE GIVEAWAY FRIDAY! I wouldnt' miss this for anything. This week's giveaway is gorgeous. I am so excited to feature Nicole's Precious Pink Designs!!! She's got her own Etsy Page as well as Website for Precious Pink Designs. Click on the links and check out her products!

Today's giveaway is.....

Dreamcatcher Necklace Electric Blue

"Beautiful Pendant wire wrapped dreamcatcher style with electric blue fresh water pearl. This is hung on a flat sterling silver chain. Because of the flat shape of the chain links, the chain itself catches a lot of sparkle with every move. "

Isn't that beautiful? Ok, I know I say this every week, but I really want to win my own giveaway!!! Selfish? Maybe. But I'm not going to keep it, so that's generous, right??? Thanks, Nicole, for sharing your wonderful talent with us!

Ok, wanna win? Do these things:

Rules:
1) Visit either Nicole's Etsy Page or Website and leave me a comment answering the question below. One comment per person, please!


2) Please mention my giveaway and blog link on your blog!!! If you do so, you may leave ONE more comment on my page for an extra chance to win!!


3) Winner will be posted Monday morning at 9 am. You have until 8 am to enter to win! I will use random.org to pick a comment number winner.


4) Tell alllllll your lovely friends to enter for a chance to win! Who doesn't want to win an awesome gift like this?

Question:
What was your favorite item on either of Nicole's websites?

Hilarities: Hubby's Hot Hats

Luckily, my wonderfully hubby doesn't check my blog often enough, so the probability is that he won't see today's post :)


We love this local restaurant, Lynn's Paradise Cafe (featured on Oprah for their mac & cheese) and they have this gift shop in their waiting area with these awesome hats:

Lookin' good, husband! he should totally be a hat model, don't you think?

Trendy Tuesday - Sweet Treats

If you have read People recently, you've probably seen some of these on the Beauty page. I fell in love with all these and wanted ALL of them, so I had to share with everyone about these awesome treats!!!

You can totally enjoy each one of these delicious-looking morsels without taking in a calorie or adding a pound! what could be better??? these are some of my most favs from People, as well as some I've found :)

Jelly Pong Pong Soap, Popsicle

jellypongpong.com

$7 a popsicle

Lush Heavenly Bodies

lushusa.com $9.45

Fizzy Baker Cupcake Bath Bomb, Raspberry

amazon.com/beauty $5.50

Luxury Delight Bath Truffle Selection

freshfacecosmetics.co.uk

Well, I now must have something sweet. My mouth is drooling after posting these :)

ps...how are things coming along for the FAVORITE THINGS SWAP? have you sent your package yet? or have you received your gift from your buddy? Don't forget, your package MUST be postmarked by Friday, Sept. 19 at the very latest! And remember to send me pictures of your gift!!!

Monday Mayhem - Doggy Swim Day

Fez had a great weekend. It was his first "Doggy Swim Party"!!! One of the local state parks that has a dog park hosted its annual Dog Swim Day where they drain the public pool down and let all state registered dogs come and swim all day! They even had doggy party bags filled with treats! It was hysterical...dogs running around the pool, jumping in and out, playing fetch and doing the doggy paddle :)

Here are some pics from Fez's party. He made quite a few friends, but his most favorite thing to do was play fetch with the tennis ball. He loves to swim, but it was a bit overwhelming with so many big dogs swimming around. So he stayed more in the shallow end, and constantly wanted us to throw the ball out into the water.

In other news, here's the update on our deck! Zack was able to finish the end banisters, and now the last project is to find a gate! There's a shop where this lady buys items from estate sales and resells them, and she has quite a collection of cast iron gates, so we're going to go check that out today.

And finally, we decided to grill out burgers and corn on the cob last night. lately, a multitute of pesky flies have been ruining our outdoor meals, so we decided to create our own fly trap while the burgers were grilling. amazingly enough, no flies came around! maybe it was the smell of the gorilla glue, or the view of their dead friend that frightened them away, but they steered clear last night!

Our makeshift fly trap:

Our first and only victim: HAHA!!!

ps...check out this awesome giveaway on Glamerous Housewife's page!

FGF - Mom's Photography

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Congrats to comment #12...My Home - My Life

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Here are your random numbers:12
Timestamp: 2008-09-08 13:08:36 UTC

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Please email me your contact info so we can send you your prize!

Thanks for everyone who entered, and for sending so many wonderful birthday wishes to my mom!

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***if you would like to be featured on The Pink Potpourri for your product/etsy page/business, please email me! we'd love to giveaway your donated item, and feature you on our blog!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!!

Today is my mom's 54th birthday! The Lord has blessed her with 54 wonderful years, and we are celebrating today with a FREE GIVEAWAY FRIDAY!!!

Because of this special day of celebration, my Mom has graciously donated one of her pieces as the giveaway today!!! The winner will be able to pick 1 of the following pieces as their prize! Each piece is a 4x6 photograph that is in a 8x10 double matte. She has started a new business with matted photos as well as handmade jewelry called Nanners NickNacks! An etsy page is in the works, so I'll let you know when it is up and running!

"Fanciful Fall Foliage: A glimpse of a gifted oak tree from my father to my mother"

"Vibrant Beauty"

"The Wedding White: flowers that graced the entrance to our home a month before our daughter's wedding"

"Saturday Sunset in Atlanta, Georgia"

"A Palate of Midnight Watercolor"

Aren't these just beautiful? Good luck to the winner, you can only pick one of these :)

***READ THE ENTRY RULES!!!***

they're a bit different today :)

Rules:
1) Visit Mom's Blog. LEAVE HER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMMENT! if you are able...i'm not sure if you can leave one if you don't already have a xanga account...

2) THEN come back here and leave a comment telling me which photography piece posted above you like best! The entry on THIS BLOG will be the one I select the winner from on Monday


3) Please mention my giveaway and blog link on your blog!!! If you do so, you may leave ONE more comment on my page for an extra chance to win!!


4) Winner will be posted Monday morning at 9 am. You have until 8 am to enter to win! I will use random.org to pick a comment number winner.

5) Tell alllllll your lovely friends to enter for a chance to win! Who doesn't want to win an awesome gift like this?