Winner Of Book Giveaway Announced!

Sorry for the delay folks, it's been a mad dash around here to get ready for Ol' St. Nick!

One of my favorite linen holiday hand towels.

The winner of the signed copy of Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews is...

I asked my daughter for the first number that came to mind between 1-25 when she was grabbing two cookies that just came out of the oven. Her pick?

It rhymes with blue, it's number two, the readers name is Kathysue!!! Please send me an email with your address and I'll pop the book in the mail to you this week.

Thank you to everyone who participated!!!

Mary Kay Andrews: Blue Christmas Book Giveaway!

Not all email is created equally. Email via my blog, in general, is always good. Some days it's really good. Last week, I received an email from Meg at Tandem Literary who works closely with Mary Kay Andrews and she happened to know we read each others blogs! So this email I knew was going to fall into the really good category. Really good for my readers!

No secret I love books, from the classics to the lighthearted. Have I mentioned we've had some plans drawn up to expand our library? More on that another day. Today is all about passing on a favorite holiday read to one of you to keep or maybe give as a gift!

I received a hard copy of Blue Christmas yesterday, signed by Mary Kay Andrews, to give away to one of my readers. She's one of my favorite southern authors. I wrote about MKA here and gave you a little tour of her beach house. Her books are just so much fun. Page turners, hard to put down. This one definitely involves decorating!

To enter simply become a follower, if you're not one already, and leave me a comment by midnight Thursday. Please make sure you leave an email address if you don't have a google account! I'll pick a random winner Friday.

PS: Just in case you want to read it now, this book is available from any e-book retailer for $1.99 through December 23rd only!

Giveaway Winners Announced!!!

Thank you to all the readers, both old and new, who participated in my Linnea Lights giveaway. I decided to give all 5 scents away! I tried to use the Random.org site, but couldn't figure out how to get it on my post page. For the future, if anyone can explain it, please send me an email.

So although it was random, my sad little method involved my son, who I drove to pick up yesterday after completing his first year of collage! I told him about my giveaway and asked him to pick 2 numbers between 1 and 58, but not 17. That was a comment from me.

The winning numbers he chose were 34 (Irie Children-Lavender and French Pear) and 48 (Jessabells-Mimosa and Yuza) . And since my bloggy friend Kim sent so many of you to A&A for this giveaway, I am sending one (Ocean) to her. I will be in contact to get your addresses or you can email them to me. I hope to have these packed up and in the mail by early next week.


Happy Hump Day to all the winner's!!!

My Good Luck Equals A Giveaway!

It's so odd how disconnected I feel lately from blog world and realize how much I miss the dialogue and visiting bloggy friends! The A&A house is under a good bit of interior chaos and the battle to keep and find an Internet connection and not have everyone freaking out because there is no television is on-going!!!

People and things are getting ignored and I am seeing a lot of long faces and a few household occupants don't appear overly excited to hear about the details of the custom mantle I am creating. Instead, there are grumblings about things I am forgetting to do, shortened walks and the lack of "real" food. No one is convinced that Chipotle's Carnitas Salad covers all the major food groups and cereal and yogurt is a meal. Sigh. At least I have my people in blog world who get this obsession with design.


Shoved outside again...alone...for hours. Very sad.

The sound of nail guns and saws has me longing for the serenity of the beach and only the sound of the surf. But until then, I've had candles in the most amazing scents to soothe my senses. I was the lucky winner of two different giveaways. My first wins ever and they came back to back.
  

A dozen amazing scents!


My first win was from Megan at Beach Bungalow 8. One friend already claimed 2 of the four scents from West Third Brand (W3) candles . I'm keeping the others. Thank you Megan! The other win was from Interior Connector. They have a fantastic newsletter you can sign up for with plenty of news, information and sources on home furnishing and interior design. Just for signing up, I was the random winner of a years supply of Linnea's Lights!!! I was thrilled when I received Natalie's email telling me. Thank you Interior Connector!


Ocean & Mimosa



Yuzu. Such a fun name!



Lavender & French Pear

It just seems selfish to keep all of these. Therefore, I am giving away 2 candles to one lucky reader from the 5 I selected above!!! It was hard to choose scents, so I ended up picking ones that seemed like spring and summer scents.  I am super particular about giveaways. I turn down most because I won't talk up anything I wouldn't use or that fits the style of my blog. My first, and only other, giveaway was from a fellow blogger with a wonderful online store. I loved that format and her things, but sadly the winner didn't leave us a way to get in touch so we could mail the items!


Under each candle lid is a pack of matches! An impressive detail.

Tell me in a comment which two scents (any combination) you would choose, and of course I would love for you to become a follower, but most importantly if you don't have a blogger/google account, be sure to include your email address. I will run this through Monday and a random winner will be announced on Wednesday.

Good luck and have a great weekend!!!

And the winner is...

After writing the names on  pieces of paper...many of you twice....the good old fashioned way....and sticking my hand into the bowl....the winner of my first givaway is....

Congratulations to Flip Flop and Fancy Free!!!

Thank you to everyone who particpated! And, many thanks to Amy of Pemberly Collections!

Tuesday Tip...with a Twist!

Tuesdays are generally reserved for tips on ways  to Live Beautiful Everyday (LBE) often using my 20/10 rule.  Just to refresh, it is a way for me to share ideas on how to create or incorporate something beautiful, decorative or simply pass along information to make life easier for $20 or less in about 10 minutes.

Well.......my tip today is to guide you through a givaway!  The very generous Amy of  Pemberley Style  has offered to host my first givaway!!!  With summer not far off, she came up with idea to indulge my love of beautiful soaps and containers by giving away a soap dish with a fantastic shell motif and coordinating  beach soap.  The translucent lightweight oval glass dish is sized to hold a large bath bar or several small soaps of your own!  The soap is triple milled and handmade of the finest ingredients in Sussex, England.

So visit her online shop Pemberly Collections and have a look at the wonderful items she offers and then come back here and leave me a comment about what your favorite item was to be entered.  If you would like to be entered twice let me know that you are also a follower of my blog or become one today.  That's it!

The last day to enter will be Saturday May 8th.  The winner will be randomly picked and announced Monday May 10th.  Good Luck!!!