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Oh yes my dears! You’ve read correctly!
You can win a pair of these really fun and flirty “Fine Silver & Sterling Silver Mini Dangling Hoops”
(a value of US$21.00):
To enter the giveaway, simply visit my giveaway post to my friend Pam’s blog right here at Country Mouse, City Mouse, and follow the instructions to enter the draw! Good luck to everyone!!!
P.s. I have 'closed' the comments section on this post, because you all need to go to Pam's blog to enter this giveaway... Have fun!
Laurie of Made by Swirly Girl just awarded me the Premio Meme Award. I’m very flattered to have been selected by Laurie, who’s shop I love! Thanks Laurie! Make sure to visit her shop, there’s so many gorgeous things in there. I even recently featured her Calla Lily card set. It rocks!
The rules of this award is that I am to give 7 facts about myself and pass it to 7 people. Here we go!
1. I can only wear Florida style Birkenstocks sandals.
2. I love to read books.
3. I have 3 tattoos.
4. I don’t color my hair.
5. My husband and I got married on the bridge of the Enterprise at the Hilton Las Vegas .
6. Kickboxing is my favorite workout.
7. My husband and I are ‘owned’ by two spunky little Yorkies, Trixie and Diesel.
Now to pass this award along to 7 deserving blog owners (in no particular order):
Please be sure you visit and follow these wonderful blogs!
And… visit Canadian Rockies Art on Etsy!
Wow! I just had to share this right away…
I'm obviously not just about Handmade Metal Jewelry... I'm also slowly but surely working on losing weight and improving my health :)
Well, this morning I stumbled upon this awesome website called Hungry Girl when I read a review on Amazon that not only her “200 under 200 calories meals” cookbook is pretty awesome (scroll down on the right hand side of my blog for the cover and direct link to Amazon.com), but the author has a website and you can not only sign-up to receive free recipes, healthy products reviews and other tips by Email, but you will also find a lot of easy healthy recipes (including regular, vegetarian and vegan recipes/options, so there’s lots of choices) directly on her website.
You can find lots of FREE healthy quick to make recipes here along with some great product reviews - these are basically the info she has sent out in past emails, so I would suggest that you sign up for the email delivery and then check back in her archives for those you have missed out on. There's some great products that she talks about as well as lots of recipes mixed in that section of her site.
Also, what I like the most about it is that there’s an educational process to all this - you get the healthy recipe on the left of each recipe page and it is compared to the original/higher calorie recipe on the right, on the same page. That way, you can learn how to trim back some calories and make some old favorite recipes much healthier – that’s a great tool for men and women alike to learn how to improve some old favorite recipes, or to learn how to cook in a healthier way without sacrificing taste.
It’s really educational, it’s super easy, AND you get the calorie counts and Weight Watchers Points as well for each recipe, and you get loads of healthy recipe and healthier products ideas! What more can a person ask for? And I'm just talking about the one section of her website. There's lots of great info throughout, so make sure to check it all out :-)
Fleur 4 - Art Photography by Hope of Hope Images on Etsy, in Sacramento.
Liquid Vortex – Art Photography by Marshall L. Snyder of Photomars on Etsy, in Portland.
Equine Elegance – Art Photography by Kenneth and Alicia of Vorpal on Etsy, in Portland.
Visit these fine photographers’ Etsy shop by clicking on the above images – support Etsy artists!
Cheers!
- Nathalie from Canadian Rockies Art on Etsy :)
I had mentioned it to some of my customers, and I also had it announced in my Etsy shop for awhile and then I got sidetracked, and finally, the time has arrived: I’ve set up some listings for some sparkling High Quality gemstone Hoop Charms in my shop! Here’s a few samples on how they can be used:
And now, you can also purchase my Iziel Sterling Swirly earrings (they allow you to change the charms on them, as a “solo” pair of earrings (no charms) and you can buy gemstone charms of your choice separately (Convo me if you want other colors or other types of gemstones, I have a good inventory, so I most likely have what you’re looking for), and you can change the look by changing the charms.
The options are pretty much endless! So dress up hoops that you already own, or grab some hoops in my shop, and then pick some charms – these charms also make great gifts. This is just a sampling:
As some of you know, I started a tradition a little while back when I discovered Kiva where we can make small loans via Paypal to help others around the world grow their small business and be able to support their families.
I really love this concept of empowering people to run their own small business, and I have started partially getting paid back on some of the loans we’ve made so far, so it’s nice to be able to re-loan it out to someone else, etc. It works quite well, and the Internet makes it possible for us to help people around the world with a few clicks of a mouse. It doesn’t get any easier than that!
So, today, for Father’s Day, my family and I have decided to make a loan to Yolanda in Peru. She grows plantains, citrus fruits (oranges and tangerines) as well as pineapple. Her and her husband have 4 children and they have been married for 15 years.
You can follow the progress and read about the lovely people that my family and I are helping on my lender’s page here. I feel connected to these people, and I know these loans are important to them and helping them out. Every dollar counts and makes a difference in someone’s life.
Happy Father’s Day to my father, my husband and my father-in-law! You all make a difference in my life!
Since I’m in a Star Trek mood this week (see my post earlier this week, we saw the new Star Trek movie), I wanted to name my latest creation in honor of one of my favorite Star Trek actors, Connor Trinneer, who brilliantly interpreted the role of Commander Charles “Trip” Tucker in Star Trek Enterprise on television, and whom my husband and I had the chance to meet in person back in ‘03 at the Sci-Fi Convention in Toronto.
Here’s a picture that I took of him while he was trying to sign our autograph, and having fun spelling my French name and my husband’s Austrian name – Say “Bonjour” Connor! – He’s such a sweetheart:
He’s also well known for the role of the famous Wraith “Michael Kenmore” in Stargate Atltantis:
So, please meet “Connor”, my first chainmaille bracelet for men… it’s sleek, sexy, and hot!
I’m excited! I’m elated!
We have a new member of the family, the cutest little Prairie Dog ever! He/She has moved in under the front porch of our house, and it (I’ll have to say ‘it’ cuz I have no clue if it’s a boy or a girl) has been prancing around our backyard and munching on the grass out front… you can see it looking at me sideways from the hole under the porch here:
If you want to learn more about Prairie Dogs, there’s a few pictures and some nice info, right here.
I took the picture a couple of days ago, but we’ve had nasty thunderstorms and after losing a couple of blog posts when the power went out in the middle of writing them, I decided to wait until the weather cleared once and for all to re-write my posts again. I don’t care for power outages!!!
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