Animal Alphabet Giveaway

I've put some new ABC cards up in the shop--look familiar? I originally made them as posters, but I'm kind of loving the smaller size of the 4 inch by 5 inch cards. I made a fun little book for my kiddos by putting the Animal shaped Alphabet Cards into a simple photo album. My animal loving sweetie has been enthralled with it. 

They've been a bit of a hit, and we really haven't had a giveaway for a long time . . . so we're having a giveaway! 

To enter for the printable Animal Alphabet leave a comment telling me what you'd do with the Animal cards. 

Giveaway ends Monday, May 7th. One winner will be posted May 8th. 

enjoy!

ABC Poster Giveaway

Young, Yippy, Youthful Y is for Yak.  Yahoo. The ABC posters are up in the shop. I've even included a printed option. (well, most of the ABC's are up. The stomach flu this week postponed a few things, alas). So to celebrate we are doing a giveaway!

One printed poster and two printable pdf posters for three different winners. The letter of your choice.

Here's how . . . .

1. Leave a comment telling me your favorite animal
2. Leave a SECOND comment if you follow me
2. Winner will be announced Wednesday November 23

goodluck!

ABC Giveaway Winner!!

Hey guys, the buddy and I did an old school drawing. (after the sun went down, sorry for the bad lighting)

And we've got some winners!

Jeanine and KevinandJenn congrats! Email me at yellowmum (at) gmail (dot) com and I will email the files to you!

If you didn't get it this time, they are still in my shop. I'm also thinking we're going to have to do giveaway's more often. I've already got one planned for when I finish all the Animal Alphabet posters. 

Thanks for playing!!

ABC Flashcards Giveaway!!

I must be on an ABC kick what with getting the little buddy ready for preschool! Yep, we're just doing a little joy school, so it will be fun to be one of his teachers. We're both pretty excited about that. So I hung up these ABC flashcards to take pictures of them, but they were so fun up on the wall that we've decided to make them a permanent fixture.

So maybe it's mean trickery that these aren't a freebie . . . but I do have them up in my etsy shop! I know my blogs probably mostly just good for freebies, but occasionally I spend a whole lot of time working on something and I feel like it's worth a little more than just free :) Sometimes it's a hard call whether to give something away or sale it. Don't hate me.

Anyway, onto the giveaway. I will be giving away TWO pdf Printable ABC Polka Dot flashcard sets away. These cool ABC's are each different, yet only use red, yellow and blue. The different sized polka dots make the red and yellow, or red and blue, or yellow and blue turn into secondary colors (same idea behind pointilism). Simple and fun fun fun.

Here are the rules:

1. Comment and tell me your favorite letter of the alphabet
2. Get a second "entry" by following me, or telling me you already do.
3. Giveaway will be announced next Thursday, September 1st.

Enjoy!

and the winner is!

First of all I want to thank you all for your great ideas. I love getting input. Sometimes it's nice for me to have a jumping off point when I'm in creative brain freeze. I'm always open to new ideas. So. . . without further ado.


The winner of my first ever giveaway is Tabitha! I will be in contact with you!

This was fun. I think we'll have to have another one!

FF-Fall Memory Game and other tid bits

You guys have had some really great ideas so far for freebie fridays, and I'm definitely going to use some of them. If you haven't yet entered my first giveaway, you can find it here. It ends next Friday, November 5th.

So, for today I've put together a little Turkey Day game to keep you, or the kids, busy while you wait for food :) But, for those of you who may not celebrate Thanksgiving, I've tried to stick kind of close to fall themes. You can download it here. (It's mainly dark brown, but it would print well in black and white if you don't want to use color).

 The three year old buddy and I had fun playing it last night. He did fine for awhile but the 18 matches may have been a little much for his attention span. He was pretty excited about me pulling out the pennies though. He grabbed a hand full and said, "money, money, money" mimicking Ham on Toy Story. I had a good laugh. So if you're playing with preschoolers, I might recommend playing the opposite way: start blank and have them find the matching images and cover them with tokens. That seemed to work better for the buddy.

In other news, I've finally cleaned up my crafting space enough to dare show it to you! But, for your enjoyment, here is the "before" aka. regular look, I'll post the "after" on Monday. (and by "after" I mean the clean, spruced up, want-everyone-to-think-it-always-looks-this-good version).

I promise I didn't make it look worse than normal. I honestly went in and just took a picture. It's terrible, I know.

First Ever Giveaway

Okay, so I'm kind of stoked to have 100 followers. really. I know, I'm lame. But I thought we could all celebrate with a little giveaway. So here are the goods:


A festive little rosette brooch



I call this a star paper note. They look really cool hung up, or laying flat. . . plus they fold up into a cute little package.

And the alphabet plus some of 4.25 x 5.5 ABC cards. Use them for cute signs, banners, frame them, use as flashcards. The colors are red, orange, yellow and green, but the orange is pretty red. You just never know with those printers . . .


Anyway, so you know you want these. Here's how to enter:

*GIVEAWAY ENDS NOVEMBER 5, 2010
*unfortunately open to US and Canada residents only.



1. {required} leave a comment telling me what you would like to see as a freebie friday.


For extra entries (leave a comment for each):

2. Become a follower (or tell me you already are).
3. Post, tweet, or facebook about the giveaway with a link back.


*Make sure to leave an email address so I can contact you!

ABC cards & a giveaway

The little buddy has been struggling with his lowercase alphabet. He does great with uppercase-but when I ask him what a lower case letter is, it's hit and miss. So I've made some fun mini flashcards to help him out.

These are fun to use as a matching game, a memory game, or even as go-fish cards. You can download them free by clicking here. To use them just print and cut the paper in quarters the long way and in half the short way-making each card 2.75" x 4.25" Perfect for a rainy day like we're having today!

*Also, I wanted to share a great giveaway going on over at Simple Serendipity's blog. She has the coolest shop ever on etsy where she sells jewelry-all for under $5. But if you want to get a $20 gift card go leave a comment about the best thing your mother ever taught you.

Pillow Giveaway

picture courtesy of grosgrainfabulous

I love the bright colors of these pillows! They look so fun and friendly-check them out and a free giveaway at Grosgrain: Pillow Factory Alphabet Down Filled Pillow GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!