I adore Patrice, she makes amazing clothing and is an outstanding photographer to boot. She currently is hosting a giveaway for this darling dress in linen and available in Egg Robin Blue, Butter Yellow, or Petal Pink and made in your choice of size 1 yr to 4 yrs!
YAY I want this so badly for Little Lola!! XOXO
Here’s her awesome blog>>
Happy Birthday this weekend to inspiring mommy blogger Stephanie Nielson (Nie Nie)! We love you so much and wish you the happiest Birthday ever! To celebrate @sweettoothfairy is baking up yummy yummy’s!!
If you haven’t read Nie’s blog before, we can promise you’ll walk away feeling more love for your family, for life’s gifts, and for your faith than you ever thought possible. Now scoot over to the Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shop in Utah this Saturday, from 11am to 7pm. All proceeds from the sales of the VaNIElla Squared cupcakes will benefit the Nie Recovery.
My sister in law Nicole is absolutely in love with these gorgeous Pincushion Rings from Grosgrain Blog. She works so hard, is such a good Mommy, and has so many creative talents. I am aiming to win a ring for her! (yes I’d love one for myself, but Nicole needs this even more!!)
Here’s the Giveaway where you can enter and lower her chances. LOL!!
My iPhone external speaker suddenly fizzled last night, with crazy distortion. It shocked me because the 2G never really was loud enough to blow a speaker, but it happened.
Anyway I called Apple Care today, and they informed me that I was 7 Days out of warranty and they probably couldn’t help me. I told him that my family was crazy for Apple and we basically decorate our homes with their products, he laughed so hard. Then he said hang on, and left for about 5 minutes. When he returned the product specialist granted me a CSCode, which means I can run in to the Calgary store tomorrow and they will swap out my old iphone for a new or refurbished one! SCORE!
This touching story has been brought to you by Apple and Boutique Cafe 
- Daria
Aren’t they precious? My Twitter family portrait! It took so long to get us all looking in the same direction. LOL!!
I’m crazy about Twitter for business and pleasure. I can’t shout it from the rooftops loud enough that if you have a business and you want to get your message out there to the world, Twitter can be a valuable tool to make that happen! In just a few seconds you can reach out to your network, and the results and replys are instant. It takes awhile to build a following, but keep at it and have fun. I use my Twitter account to promote Boutique Cafe but also to connect with friends, and network with people who have similar interests.
Add me to your network of Twitter Buddy’s and I’ll be most pleased to follow you. I love to read my friends tweets and see what they are up to.** It can be a time suck, just be warned. But with a cattle prod at the ready, I can easily be tempted away from the screen. LOL! Enjoy and I’ll see you guys on Twitter. – Daria
I haven’t posted about it yet, but I’m so excited I can hardly stand it! My talented sister-in-law Liz is creating the most amazing original quilt design for our Little Miss. Tomorrow she is revealing pictures of the quilt top on her blog Pigtails and Snails, so if you want to pop by to “ooohhhhh and ahhhhhh” at her talents please do so.
I can’t wait to hear what you all think. I commissioned her to do this for Little Misses room, but gave her Full Creative Control once I purchased the Tanya Whelan Fabrics I wanted. I’m just so thrilled and can’t wait to see what she has come up with for my little girl. While we are waiting for the post to go up, I figure I have time to rave about Liz. She designed a quilt for Patty Young last fall at Quilt Market that was literally a show stopper! You can view that past design here at LizzyAnne.com, and you can even order it there too. I’m sure you’ll agree that there are Big Things on the horizon for Liz, with talent like that she’s sure to be the next Martha Stewart (but she’s way cuter!).
Prayers have been answered!! Influential and inspiring mommy blogger Stephanie Nielson (”Nie Nie” as she is known to her vast audience of blog fans) and her husband Christian were in a terrible plane crash on August 16th. Since then, word has spread across the globe, with heartfelt messages, events and donations pouring in for the family. Now for the good news…Nie Nie is BACK and blogging!!
We love you Nie, welcome back! XOXO
I’m looking out for all of my friends, you don’t want to miss out on redeeming your hard earned Gymbucks at Gymboree. Redemption starts today – I’ve already redeemed my online ones this morning and boy was it fun!!
We Canadians have a different redemption structure than in the US. We have to use ours in-store and only in Canada. Thankfully I ordered some things online before Christmas and was able to use those online ones this morning, since I’m far from a Gymbo store. Whew!!
Now if I can just make it up to Calgary this week to use the rest – those Gymbucks wanna go home! LOL
Here’s proof positive that my MIL’s Famous holiday fruit tea fights colds and wards off sickness. When she breezed through our town my Mom in Law made up a gigantic pot of mulled cider/tea for us, it was amazing as always. I drank tons of the stuff and felt fit as a fiddle, it’s just delicious. Jump forward to a few days ago when we finally ran out of Mom’s batch and I decided to crack open the recipe book make it myself.
Well now I’m sick with a cold and sore throat!! Ummmm that’s not supposed to happen. Obviously Mom has held back with her published recipe, and has a super secret ingredient that she adds to the concoction we don’t know about!! LOL!
