Winners Winners and Winners!!!!

Let's first start off with announcing our 3 winners from the wonderful N-fini Shape giveaway. You lucky people, here you are....
Winning numbers randomly selected 53 22 229.
#1 Yasmine
#2 cdziuba
#3 yadgirl

Now it is time to announce the Etsy Easter Extravaganza Winners. I hope everyone takes time to revisit these wonderful shops. If there was anything you were hoping to win and didn't, you still have time to order and get your item before Easter. Please try to do so in the next two days. This will give them the weekend to get your package ready and out by Monday. Be sure to let the Store know you are there from Catch the Drift and would like your item by Easter also check to see if the store had any discounts available from the party. Here is the link with all participating stores.

Crazy About Chenille: #154 Oona
Tactile Baby: #56 Andreah
Illia: #55 Amweeks
Annie's Powder Room: #6 dctm
Pretty girls Bows: #113 Mom2aNutBall
The Broken House: #64 gahome2mom
LaDesign2 baskets: #135 Amy


I have emailed each individual and they have been given 48 hours to reply. No exceptions for the Etsy Easter giveaways. These need to be in ASAP in order for the Etsy stores to get there things sent for Easter!

Thank you everyone and Happy Easter Soon! ;)

Mr. Linky!..... Oh and buy 1 get one FREE Blizzard at Diary Queen!

I totally deserve some ice cream right now and my guess is you do to. So if you have a Dairy Queen near by, here is your excuse to get it! Right now if you join the Blizzard Fan Club you will get a Buy 1 get 1 Free coupon sent to your email. Go here to sign up. (You will see the info near the bottom of the DQ page)

Now it's time for Mr. Linky. He is back for another weekend of giveaways. The Etsy Easter Extravaganza is coming to a close today. Thank you all who participated. This was a fun Easter Party and I can't wait for the next one. I especially want to thank all the wonderful Etsy Stores who sponsored the giveaways. They are such talented people and I am sure everyone feel in love with their stores as much as I.

Also don't forget about the "Virtual Girls Night Out" over at Ann's. Please make sure all giveaways are Family Friendly. Sorry, no adult content. Thanks.

Interested in being part of a review panel?

For those of you who love doing reviews and giveaways yourselves here is a great opportunity to be part of a review panel at great blogging network site called "The Classy Closet". I have been a member of The Classy Closet since I began my own journey and gathered so much information and tips from other bloggers. Not only can you learn more about blogging, you can ask anything on their forums (Parenting, Christmas ideas, etc) or become involves in any of their clubs(Mother Club, Homeschool Club, Recipe Club.... and more) to learn more about everything else your interested in!
Well recently I was contaced by the owner to be over a review panle and so here I am searching for a great group of bloggers who not only blog, but who are also willing to vlog. You don't have to have experience in vlogging, just the confidence and capability on your computer to do a video review. This is a new thing many PR's want to take place with their reviews.

* If you are interested please email me at Hail2theSnowQueen@gmail.com (Let me know if you can vlog and I will need your URL to your site. You also may want to include any information about you and your site that you think the panel could benifit from (This is up to you).

* But first you have to join or all ready be a member at The Classy Closet. Sorry, as part of this great review opportunity we will be having one main post at The Classy Closet which has all the links of the other reviews. We also hope to get some awesome giveaway opportunities from this. Hopefully they will be BIGGER then ever! I am so excited.

Try to get with me by Saturday. This is when I am going to go through all applications and choose 3-5 people to be a part of this group. After this takes off there may be other openings later on for more. Even if you don't feel you want to be a part of a review panel you may want to check out The Classy Closet as they have much to offer including fun parties!

Current giveaways!!!!!

Etsy Easter Extravaganza is Ending tomorrow (and most likely in the morning) so hurry on over and enter!


Newest giveaway Paper Shouts $25!

Next week we have some more new and exciting giveaways!

FREE card from Hallmark!

IS there a special someone you have had on your mind, someone you would love to send a card to. Well here is your chance to do it absolutely FREE.
I will just say this.... "Somehow the Easter Bunny found out about this offer and is sending my kids a cute Easter card". What a generous Easter Bunny!

Go to Hallmark, register if you are not already registered, create a custom card for your recipient and use this code: TRIAL.

Got to love Freebies and the Easter Bunny of course!

Paper Shouts review and giveaway!

Thanks once again to my girls from Extraordinary Mothers for hooking me up on this great review and giveaway. If you haven't checked Extraordinary Mothers out yet, it is time you do so. You will meet so many other great bloggers, find tons of giveaways and find some fun and useful information regarding blogging, parenting, etc.

Recently I got to visit Paper Shouts site and pick out any item I wanted to review. There was so much to choose from and all were great options. I first want to give Paper Shouts five stars for their easy navigation. Their site is made so well, and they make it extremely easy for you to find what your looking for. Everything is categorized by events, stationery's etc. If you do happen find what you were looking for under another category other then what you were looking for, their items can be changed by selecting their personalized button.

I chose to get the "Green and Chocolate border" Note Cards for the review. Although you can personalize them by adding your name on the top, I decided I wanted to use them as Thank You cards. It seems I am always running out of thank you cards and when I go to buy new ones they are either to cheesy or to girly. I thought these would have the perfect touch of style, yet could be given to either a women or a man. As Paper Shouts promised, these cards were printed on a high quality and heavyweight matte finish paper. They were made very well and included all the envelopes. I REALLY APPRECIATED the fact that with the cards I ordered, Paper Shouts informed me that the card I was looking at would need additional postage when I sent them to people. (You can find this information bolded off to the right side under "Please Note"). I don't know about you, but this is always something I wish I knew before purchasing cards. Especially if I am going to be sending a lot out at once.



Overall my experience with their site and information was excellent. My experience with their products was just as great. Next time you need announcements or invites made go check out Paper Shouts.



Giveaway: Paper Shouts is giving away a $25 gift certificate to one winner.

To Enter: Visit Paper Shouts and look around. Then come back here and tell me what you would like to order.

*Bonus Entries*
-Add my button
-Subscribe to my feed
-Post this giveaway on your blog, twitter or facebook!

Please leave a separate comment for each one and what it is for!

Rules: In order to win, you must provide a valid email. I will be notifying the winner by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to me with their name and address. If this information is not received within 48 hours new winner will be chosen.

Giveaway Ends: April 13, 2009

Kids Cooking and Sewing Winners...

Congrats to these two winners.

The Sewing Activities goes to #59 Deb who said...
"I love the sewing one. My daughter has been 'playing' on the sewing machine for over a year and it's time for her to learn some basics. I especially like their video links that show the sewing machine and fabric."

The Cooking for Kids goes to #72 Chelle who said...
"Oh I am so excited about both of these!!!! So I have to pick just one huh?

I have triplets. One is really into cooking and one is really into crafts.

2 of them already have something special we do just with them, SO I'll pick the Cooking e-book so I can have something special to do just with my son. Of course I would do this with all of them, but I would have a special time with just him.

And I love the 3 month menu planner with recipes. Yes- I subscribed to both of these sites. Thank you!"

Enjoy your time with your children with these fun activities.

Current Giveaways!!!!!

**Ending TONIGHT is the Cooking and Sewing review/giveaway! Hurry and enter!

* Ending SOON N-fini Shape review and giveaway. ends 4/2

Then of course this is your last week to enter all of the Esty Easter Extravaganza giveaways. There are 7 separate giveaways. click on the button bellow and it will send you to the main page with all the links. Enjoy!

Secret Family Recipes Revealed!

So it is time to pull out an old family recipe. This has always been one of my favorites. Of course it's not the healthiest, but it is really easy to make. I also realize this recipe is probably in other homes as well, but I like to think it all started in my childhood home ;)
You will want to let these set over night so they rise. Let me know what you think!

Sticky Buns

*20 Rhodes Frozen dinner Rolls
*1/2 Cup brown sugar
*1/4 Cup of chopped pecans (if desired)
*1 small pkg. non-instant vanilla pudding (I like to use butterscotch pudding)
*1 cube butter, melted

Grease angel food cake pan (Don't use the one with removable bottom). Layers in order as follows: 10 rolls, brown sugar, pecans, 10 more rolls, vanilla pudding, melted butter. Cover with plastic wrap, then place towel on top. Leave on Counter overnight. In the morning, they will have risen and are ready to bake. Remove towel and plastic and bake in 350 oven for 30 min(I would actually start checking them at 12 -15 min. Mine always cook much faster then 30 min. Just poke a toothpick in it or look for edges to turn golden brown).

Don't eat them all by yourself or you may get a tummy ache! ;)

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