Support those in Newtown, CT

As I mentioned in my last post, the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut area has burdened me greatly.While I deal with high schoolers at my church weekly, I have always had a heart for small children as well. As soon as I heard about this horrific ordeal, I knew in my heart that I wanted to do something to help. But what?
I logged onto the computer and saw that my friend, Amber at Damask Love, was also burdened for this community and wanted to do something. I immediately contacted her and asked what she had in mind. While there are so many different ways we can help, I wanted to “team-up” (for lack of a better word) with her and join her idea. Amber is a pediatric psychologist and has an understanding with how to help children dealing with grief and difficult situations. After hearing her idea, I immediately jumped on board and am going to do everything I can to help.
Amber did a great job describing exactly what this specific cause will do, so I’m just going to direct you to her blog- CLICK HERE to view the direct post with all the details.
You all know I don’t ask for much from you– however, whatever you can do to help this cause, I urge you to. Whether it’s donating financially, sending cards, or sending supplies for this cause, we each can help in sharing our love to those in Connecticut.
While I know our words cannot erase the pain and grief, our thoughts & prayers and these actions of love will at the very least show them others are standing behind them. We are grieving with them. We are behind them. 
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or you can contact Amber at her blog. Thank you, sweet friends, for spreading the word and supporting this cause……

Prayers for Connecticut + Join A Cause

As I type this, my eyes are filled with tears, my heart is heavy and full of emotions and my mind still not fully grasping everything that happened in CT today. I haven’t been able to concentrate on anything– all I have been able to do is pray for those affected by this horrific event.

If you know me, you know I’m a person of action. I had a dream of starting a challenge and went for it. I have big dreams for my blog and I’m going for it. Yes, there are times I have far fetched dreams, but overall, I try to be a person who has an idea and goes for it. Today’s event brought that out in me yet again.

Working on the details….but stay tuned, YOU can help join a cause that will make a difference. I know my readers are ones with BIG hearts, so I wanted to let you in on this, even though I don’t have all the details just yet. There will be several different ways you can help out- a BIG one will be in helping to spread the word once the details go live.

In the meantime, please join me in thoughts and prayers for the families. A mere 11 days before Christmas and their world has changed forever. I cannot even begin to fathom….

We cannot take for granted a single moment with the ones we love. We are never guaranteed tomorrow, so let them how much you treasure and love them.

I love you guys. I’ll give you details as soon as I have them.

Thankful Thursday: December 13th

Oh my goodness…..I just came from the 10 Minute Craft Dash #8 entries…..speechless!  The talent on these items is mind-blowing. I’m so glad I already lined up some helpers for when it comes time to announce the highlights post. If you haven’t entered yet, don’t worry, there’s still time! You have until Saturday night to get your item(s) submitted!
 
Today I wanted to do a different take on my Thankful Thursday post. Since I get some amazing comments from my blog followers, I thought I would list some of the SWEET people who leave me comments regularly.
  • Melissa Shea– my dear, you seriously leave me the sweetest comments. You know how to give me the warm & fuzzies…thank you for your sweet words and also your tweets. You’re such a day brightener!
  • Tina Milbourn– oh girl, where do I even start? You never cease to make me laugh. You always know what to say to bring a smile to my face. I’m fairly certain you’re my biggest cheerleader. So grateful for you!
  • Lisa Elton– I can still remember the day when I got my first comment from you on this blog. You always leave such encouraging comments! I’m honored you have followed me and my endeavors over here!
  • Lauren (readysetlove)– I’m so happy you found me via the 10 Minute Craft Dash. It’s been neat to follow you on your blog and Instagram and get to know you. I’m thankful for you and your sweet comments!
  • Stacy– I always enjoy seeing your name pop up in my Inbox. You’re such a sweetie pie and I really enjoy reading each of your thoughtful comments.

While I really could keep going, these are the gals who consistently leave me comments. I truly am thankful for you gals. You encourage me in so many different way- in both crafting and blogging in general.

I loved doing this feature; I may do it again in the future! Thank you to ALL of you that leave me comments, whether it be regularly or sporadically, I truly appreciate them all. Your encouraging words, words of wisdom, and everything in between just makes me so happy to read. :)

Now my question to you….what are YOU thankful for today?

 

Christmas Ornaments

Yikes! Is it true there are only 13 days until Christmas? I need to get moving on these Christmas cards- I’m only half way through my list! Oh my, let’s not even start with finishing up the shopping or wrapping the presents! Let’s hope that this sickness bug goes away soon so I can get everything done in time!

For today’s card I decided to go more traditional in my colors. While I absolutely love unique and whimsical Christmas colors, the classic Christmas always tug at my heart strings. The greens with the bright red….. *swoon*

I am such a fan of larger stamps- especially ones where I can stamp inside of them. For this card I used the Large Ornament from DeNami Design. Seriously love this stamp! For those who follow the DeNami blog, you may remember that I did a video with this stamp last year.

Click here to view the blog post and video. 

Well, dearies, that’s going to wrap up this blog post. I’m so grateful you stopped by today. These past few days you all have left some of the SWEETEST comments- I feel so blessed. Thank you for making me a part of your day; hope you leave inspired!

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Giveaway Winner!

I’ve been feeling under the weather, so this is going to be a quick post. Sadly all I want to do is eat hot soup, warm cozy pajamas and socks and sleep. Hoping this sickness bug goes away soon- it doesn’t make life very easy when I have things to do!

Since the giveaway for this beautiful teapot has ended, I figured I should probably post the winner.  Have I mentioned how grateful I am for Random.org? It picks a winner for me which is good- I want to choose everyone as a lucky winner! A great big thank you to all who entered. I had so much fun reading your favorite items in the re.Served store and also hearing you have “liked” them on Facebook. The owner is such a sweetheart and you all know I love supporting small businesses. :)
Congratulations to Unordinary Love! Please email me your contact information and we can get this teapot mailed out to you.
A great big thank you to Victoria over at re.Served for this amazing giveaway. I have a feeling you’ll be seeing more of her products here on the blog- I’m such a big fan now!
Talk with you later….. stay healthy!

Sweet Times, Sweet Memories

Remember the saying “time goes by faster when you get older”? I have found this to be all too true. Granted, I turned 25 this year, so I’m still on the younger side, but it’s true nonetheless. As the years are going by, I am amazed at how the days,weeks and months blend together.

I will be the first to admit that while I enjoy taking snapshots from day to day {find me on Instagram: prettypinkposh}, I’m not particularly fond of getting MY picture taken. I am overly critical and always find others look better in pictures. Their outfits are cuter, their make-up and hair more flawless, they look so skinny in comparison to me…. the reasons are endless. However, as the years go by, I’m realizing that I really need to get over this. I simply LOVE looking back on photos of special times, memories and moments of goofiness, but I’ve noticed I’m not in too many of them. I have missed out on many sweet moments for a moment of being vain. Many of these moments I won’t be able to get back- why did I REALLY care so much as to not just get a picture taken?

Since the accident, I’ve re-learned that each moment is not to be taken for granted. As we close the last part of 2012 and ring in a new year soon, I’m vowing to take more pictures and BE in more pictures. I want to be able to treasure these precious times.

As I was thinking on this subject, I realized some of you may struggle with this too. I’m going to challenge YOU to also BE in more pictures, to document special times and to set aside a moment of being vain. Do any of you struggle with this also? Will you take this on with me? 

Looking forward to seeing your responses. Let’s TREASURE the moments we have, sweet friends!

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Pretty Packaging Blog Hop

I hope that you all have enjoyed the Pretty Packaging Blog Hop so far. If you’re just stopping in, I would encourage you to visit the DeNami blog for the list of participants. I have a feeling that there are LOTS of fabulous packaging ideas which will come in handy with Christmas sneaking up on us. For those who have hopped the whole way through, you should be coming from the super sweet Lisa Elton’s blog!
I’ll be honest with you, I struggled terribly on knowing what to create for today. Since all of my “good” ideas were used on the DeNami blog this week, I feel like my creativity has been zapped. After creating {and tossing} a few projects, I finally decided on this one. Quick and simple, but still super festive. Also, since I’m obsessed with washi tape, I love how it looks on the boxes.

Around the holidays, my mom always makes caramel corn. Oh goodness, if I could give you some through the computer screen, I would. This stuff is so yummy and addicting- I will admit I was snacking on it while I was creating. While I decided on filling the boxes with popcorn, you could put in candy, cookies or other small treats. 

Don’t forget to leave comments on each of the stops- there’s a chance you could win one of the $20 DeNami gift certificates! With the newest addition of washi tape and the new release coming next month, that will definitely come in handy! 
Before I close, I want to mention this also fits in into the 10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge this week. Each box took about 5 minutes to make, which is perfect if you need to make a lot as party favors! All of the supplies will be listed below. 
Thank you for stopping by today. I will see you back here tomorrow!
 
 NOT LISTED: popcorn

Busy Week

Can you all believe that there are only 17 days until Christmas? If you follow the Pretty PinkPosh Facebook page, you saw that yesterday I did a little bit of Christmas shopping. While I am far from finished, it was great to get some of it taken care of. Normally I’m on top of it a little bit more, but this year with everything that has happened, it’s taken me a bit longer to get in the shopping mood. Hoping I can finish everything on time!
Last week I started a new feature called the “Week in Review”. It sounds like this might be something you all will enjoy, so we’ll give it a little trial run until 2013.
I want to remind you all that TOMORROW is the last day to enter the giveaway I’m hosting. If you haven’t already, be sure to enter! Click here for the details! Reading your favorite items from the re.Served store has been so fun- now I’m eying even more over there! 
Whew, this week has been filled jam packed for me! In between the two blogs I write on, the videos I’ve been filming, work and planning for the first six months of 2013 sponsorships, I haven’t been able to find much time to create things. Hopefully I can knock out quite a bit today; especially since I’m participating in the DeNami Pretty Packaging Blog Hop tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by and for all the sweet comments you’ve left this week. Hope you’ll join me tomorrow for my blog hop project!  

Holiday Trees

A few years ago, I would have never thought to put pink and red together on a card. In my mind, the colors weren’t supposed to mesh– it was a one or the other. Somewhere along my crafting journey, these colors found their way together and well, it’s one of my favorite color combinations now.

Since I absolutely LOVE the current 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge, I created quite a few items for it. Not sure I’ll be able to showcase them all before the challenge ends- I’ll do my best though!

For this card I pulled out a little Christmas tree I’ve had stashed away for a while. One of my favorite things to do with little stamp- create patterned backgrounds with them! It’s amazing how a single stamp can make such fun backgrounds!

Time it took to create: 6 minutes 12 seconds 

For those who are new to my blog, I’m a huge fan of anything sparkly. It is very rare for card to not have either glitter or rhinestones on it. As you can see, this card wasn’t an exception….

 

If you want a beautiful and inexpensive Christmas gift idea, you’ll want to stop by the DeNami blog today. I have a new video there AND it works for the 10 Minute Craft Dash! Hope you’ll stop by and check it out!

That’s going to wrap up this post. I’ve loved all the entries that have come in so far for the challenge- looking forward to seeing yours!

Thankful Thursday: December 6th

It’s been two weeks since my last Thankful Thursday feature. Since I started a new giveaway last week {hurry and get your entries in}, along with a lengthly post, I figured you all wouldn’t mind me skipping a week. However, I want to finish out the rest of the year with this feature….let’s get back to it, shall we?

  • I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again- I have the BEST crafty friends a girl could ever ask for. So blessed by their emails, comments and support.
  • Eggnog. It makes even the longest work days better.
  • White Chocolate Peppermint Hershey Kisses. Have you tried them? They’re delicious.
  • New Bath & Body Works hand soaps. I just stocked up on a bunch of them- especially the yummy smelling holiday ones!
  • Freshly painted ink pad storage shelves. The craft studio is getting organized little by little!
  • My Life Group girls at church. Random texts from them saying they miss me= the BEST!
Well, my dear blog friends, that’s it for me. What are YOU thankful for this week? Big or small, I would love to hear your lists!

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