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KitchenAid Tips + KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway

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KitchenAid stand mixer giveaway: your chance to add this gorgeous and versatile appliance to your collection.

I’m so excited to be a part of this giveaway because I love my KitchenAid so much. I use my mixer for so many different things. You totally don’t need to be a foodie or a blogger or a semi-professional baker to get a ton of use out of this thing. In fact, here are my favorite KitchenAid uses:

  1. Using the KitchenAid to easily shred chicken, which only makes my easy weeknight chicken tacos that much faster.
  2. Using the paddle attachment to mix bread or pizza dough, and the dough hook attachment to do the kneading. No doughy hands!
  3. Your KitchenAid can do all the dirty work involved with making creamy mashed potatoes- or twice-baked potato casserole.
  4. The mixer perfectly mixes pound cakes and quick breads without the hassle of hauling out your hand mixer.
  5. I love to use my KitchenAid mixer to cream butter and sugar or make meringues and whipped creams without totally wearing out your arm.

If you don’t own a KitchenAid- or if you know someone who needs one- you’ve got to enter this giveaway!

KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway

Now it’s time to introduce some of the members of our Foodies Go Social group and announce our first group giveaway!

KitchenAid stand mixer giveaway: your chance to add this gorgeous and versatile appliance to your collection.

Everyday Made Fresh | Feast + West | Our Mini Family | Flavours and Frosting
A Savory Feast | Gather for Bread | Winstead Wandering | According to Laura Jean
Dash of Herbs | Stay Gold Autumn | Love Pasta and a Toolbelt | Sustaining the Powers
Cute as a Fox | Boone + Owl | Polka Dotted Blue Jay | Wetherills Say I Do

We are so excited to share this giveaway with our readers! Enter March 7-14th to win a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer! All entries will be verified, so please play fair. Embrace your inner foodie with a beautiful stand mixer.

KitchenAid stand mixer giveaway: your chance to add this gorgeous and versatile appliance to your collection.

Enter below:

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summer reading swap box + a book review

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Book swap boxes are a fun way to meet new people and discover great books. Here’s what I got in my box + what I thought of my first book.

Book swap boxes are a fun way to meet new people and discover great books. Here's what I got in my box + what I thought of my first book.

I’ve always been a reader. You know the words people use to describe those who love to read? Avid, voracious, insatiable? I am all of those things. I love words. I love discovering brilliant combinations of words. I love that paradoxical race to finish a book and the anxiety of leaving the characters behind when you do.

Because I love to read, and because I enjoy connecting with others who love it, too, I was glad to have stumbled upon the summer reading book swap hosted by Chelsie at Life with Rosie.

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the kinfolk table cookbook giveaway

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Hannah at Just Bee // Courtney at Familiar Friend // Betsy at Heavens to Betsy
Rebecca at Caravan Sonnet // Laura at According to Laura Jean
Abby at Winstead Wandering // Stephanie at Sustaining the Powers // Emily & Sydney at The After Hours Chef

Happy Monday! I’ve teamed up with some other amazing bloggers to offer you the chance to win your own copy of “The Kinfolk Table” cookbook! “The Kinfolk Table” is a hardcover book full of beautiful pictures, wholesome recipes, and heartwarming stories of people’s lives around the world. It doubles as a cookbook and a gorgeous coffee table book. 🙂 We’re very excited about this opportunity to bless someone with a great product. Entering to win is super easy – just check out the options below! Best of luck!

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crooked letter creations giveaway {closed}

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Meet Gentry. We go way back, all the way to the clogged showers and chilly halls of first floor Lat-Webb, our freshman dorm.

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Gentry and I worked together on campus and became good friends during our time in college. Such good friends, in fact, that Gentry flew to Oregon in 2008 to be a bridesmaid in my wedding.

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It’s been nearly six years- how is that even possible!?- since Gentry and I graduated from college. We don’t see each other nearly as much as I’d like, but we keep in touch and she was gracious enough to team up with me to offer a giveaway.

Gentry owns an Etsy shop, Crooked Letter Creations, where she makes custom appliqué designs. Her shop features both ready-made designs and custom options.

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To introduce herself a little more, Gentry answered a few questions for me.

Tell us about the story behind your shop. How and why did you get started?

Growing up, my mom always sewed and made our Christmas and Easter dresses herself. She made it look so easy! She taught me early how to needlepoint, cross stitch, and generally sew or mend things by hand. I never used a sewing machine until I received my Singer 4423 for My birthday. Pinterest is both inspiring and humbling…and of course I started sewing with incredibly ambitious ideas. Anyone seen this pin?

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Yeah, this was my first project! Ha after that I began exploring appliqué -more structured and no ruffles – and made a shirt for myself with our school logo. When other teachers began requesting them, I thought it would be more convenient to have ready-made options! I decided to open an Etsy shop and wanted it to reflect all that I’d learned to create while living in Mississippi – and that’s how Crooked Letter Creations began!

What is your favorite part of running Crooked Letter Creations?

I love giving gifts! I love handmade gifts! I started making onesies for baby gifts a few years ago. I think the most rewarding time so far is when I was able to make several preemie onesies for a sweet friend of mine. Her baby boy was so tiny and had lots of extra room in even the newborn onesies.

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I loved seeing the look on my friend’s face and seeing her sweet preemie in his personalized outfits! Preemie clothes are harder to find, especially when you want something customized, so I love being able to offer this option!

What are your hopes and goals for Crooked Letter Creations five years from now?

Five years from now, I imagine we may have our own baby that I will begin dressing in lots of Crooked Letter Creations items! Iove customizing clothing, but I also hope to expand the variety of products offered. I hope to receive lots of feedback from customers about what they like and what they’d like to see in the shop

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I know products will change as styles and preferences change, but I always want to remain approachable in my business and be open to creating custom designs and items for friends and Etsy/Facebook customers!

***I also got an embroidery machine for Christmas this year, so hopefully CLC will begin offering monogramming by the end of summer 2015!***

the giveaway

Gentry is giving away a bunny applique t-shirt from Crooked Letter Creations in the color and fabric of your choice, size 12 months through youth medium, subject to availability. Shirt colors and fabric options include a variety for both boys and girls. To enter, complete any or all of the tasks below.

 

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hunter boots giveaway {closed}

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Spring is right around the corner! While I’ll be more than happy to leave this nasty winter behind, spring means rain. We may live in Mississippi now, far away from the perpetual showers of the PNW, but The South knows how to bring it, too. Every time I have to go somewhere during a massive downpour, I long for a pair of these gorgeous boots.

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Because I know I’m not the only one who wants to wear stylish footwear even on- maybe especially on?- the dreariest of days, I’ve teamed up with a some fellow bloggers to give away a pair of Hunter Boots. Go ahead and complete the entry options below as you dream about what color you’d choose…
Hunter Boots

 

Winstead
Wandering / Heavens to Betsy / The Gift
of Gab

Two
Miracles / Northeast Bloggers / Rad
Maverix

Grace
Believer / My Little HEA / Can’t Google
Everything

Are you ready to win some Hunter Boots?
Enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win!

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