All Things Domestic Blog Link Party with E Mealz

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from

E-mealz is an online menu planning service that offers a menu plan for busy moms or wives. They have over 20 menu plans for a family ranging from 2-6 based on options that include low carb, low fat, point system, gluten-free and vegetarian as well as different grocery stores and mass retailers. This way they can help families save money based on weekly sales at their chosen grocery store.

Their goal is to provide:

Delicious family friendly recipes

Ingredients bought on special and/or at the best price available

An easy and stress free home-cooked dinner

Precious moments with the most special people in your life.

Each meal plan is only $1.25 per week and represents many hours of recipe and menu planning, price shopping, and recipe testing. All of these plans are designed with your whole family in mind, even the specialty plans created for weight management... and now they also have plans for just two people!

The Giveaway:
2 (yep, TWO!) lucky people will win a free 3 month subscription to the E-Mealz menu plan of their choice!

How to Enter:

Leave us a comment with the meal plan you'd like to win!

Additional Entries:

- Blog, tweet, or facebook about this giveaway
- Become a fan of E Mealz on Facebook
- Followe E Mealz on Twitter

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

We will pick the winner and announce their name next Tuesday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out! 

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.
3. Do not enter links to online shops or links to advertise giveaways.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part or all of your post including pictures in a spotlight on somewhat simple and Crazy Domestic. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

ATD Blog Link Party with Wimzie Prints

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from

Wimzie Prints is a DARLING line of greeting cards featuring the creative artwork of Graphic Designer Tanya Goodall Smith. I am a huge fan of Tanya’s artwork- the whimsical feel just makes me smile, which is exactly the reason I begged and pleaded with her to design a logo for my other site somewhat simple.  This is the logo she "whipped up" and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out!

Tanya is so talented, take a look at a few of my favorite designs from her Whimsy Prints Collection:

The Giveaway:

Want to send a unique Christmas card this year instead of the same massed produced cards everyone else purchased at Wal-Mart? These limited edition greeting cards with matching brightly colored envelopes will surely stand out in the mail. The 5" x 7" cards are printed on heavy recycled card stock with soy ink, so they're good for the earth, too!

One lucky Crazy Domestic follower will receive 2 packs of 6 Holiday Cards (a $35 value).

How to Enter:

1. Visit Wimzie Prints and browse a bit. Then, leave us a comment telling us what design is your favorite.

 Additional Entries:

•Blog, tweet, or facebook about this giveaway

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling us of all the entries you completed. We will enter your name for as many times as you have entries.

We will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email us to claim your prize or you miss out! 

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.
3. Do not enter links to online shops or links to advertise giveaways.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part or all of your post including pictures in a spotlight on somewhat simple and Crazy Domestic. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

ATD Blog Link Party with somewhat simple

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from

 somewhat simple is Steph's other site where she shares and features a whole variety of creative inspiration.

The Giveaway:
We actually had another company lined up to give a cute product away today, but some things came up and they had to postpone their giveaway just a bit. Not wanting to leave our readers empty handed, we came up with this great prize:

1 lucky person will win a free 30-day ad spot on somewhatsimple.com, a value of $25!

With over 3,000 followers and more than 4,000 daily page views, an ad on somewhatsimple is the perfect way to get your site noticed by thousands of holiday shoppers!

*The winning shop is subject to approval. All ads on somewhatsimple.com will be taken down for the Studio Boutique on Black Friday. 

How to Enter:

1. Leave us a comment with the link of the website you want advertised. It can be your blog that you are trying to build your audience for, your etsy shop or online store etc.

 Additional Entries:

•Blog, tweet, or facebook about this giveaway

•Become a fan of somewhat simple, or tell me that you already are.

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

I will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out! 

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.
3. Do not enter links to online shops or links to advertise giveaways.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part or all of your post including pictures in a spotlight on somewhat simple and Crazy Domestic. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

ATD Blog Link Party with Cinnamon Sticks

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from

Cinnamon Sticks is a fabulous online jewelry shop that sells beautiful jewelry. Take a look at some of my favorite pieces:

The Giveaway:
Cinnamon Sticks has offered to give 1 lucky reader a $50 Gift Card to use on anything in their shop!!

How to Enter:

1. Visit Cinnamon Sticks and tell me what you would love to have.

2. Blog, twitter or facebook about this giveaway

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

I will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out! 

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part of your post including pictures in a spotlight. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

Picture This Workshop- Week 5 of 5

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Hey there it's Jenny again from J. Van Allen Photography. This is our final week with the workshop. Today we'll be answering some of the questions I've received and we'll be doing a giveaway!

Q & A

1. I'm just starting out can you recommend a good lens, I noticed that I cannot get a small aperture with my lens.
If you' re a Canon user this lens is fantastic and it's under a 100 dollars which is great! The aperture goes all the way down to 1.8 and is fantastic for portraits and has that great fuzzy background that we all love!
I don't want to leave you Nikon users out of the loop either! This is also same type of lens (and just as fantastic) and is around 120 dollars!

2. What type of Software do you recommend for beginners?
When I first started to edit my pictures, I used Photoshop elements. It does all the basic photo editing you would need. Also there are a lot of designers out there making all sorts of actions for photoshop elements to make editing even faster. {what is an action you ask?? An action is little more than a series of steps that you perform on an image, with a click of a button-- with some adjusting here and there of course!}

3.What are some good websites to check out for actions using Photoshop Elements?
*I just wanted to let everyone know that I purely just love these websites and think their fantastic, I'm not endorsing anyone for money.

Here are a couple of websites that have some great tutorials and actions for PSE (photoshop elements) and some are even FREE!

The coffeeshop blog
Pioneer Woman
Flora Bella Collection
MCP actions


Giveaway

These hats are made by Audrey from Ahh Baby Boutique. She makes the most adorable knit hats. I've been honored to feature these posh little hats in some of my newborn photography shoots. I absolutely love them they're so soft and snuggly, perfect for sweet babies. Audrey has generously offered to give away one of her adorable hats.

don't you just love them??

And for all you local Arizonans, I'm excited to give away $50 gift certificate toward a photography session of your choice!

To enter for one of those gorgeous hats check out Ahh baby and leave a comment here letting us know what hat you adore.

Finally to enter the giveaway for the photography gift certificate, click here and become a subscriber to J. Van Allen Photography (just leave your email). and leave a comment here letting me know you're a subscriber and let me know what type of session you'd love to do!

A winner for each prize will be chosen at random and announced here at the top of this site on Monday!

Thanks again for this opportunity and happy picture taking!

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HUGE thanks to Jenny for putting on such a fun and informational workshop series for this month! I have learned so much and can't wait to keep practicing! Please visit her site and her blog and let her know how much you loved this workshop series. Thanks Jenny! Lets do lunch again soon!!!

ATD Blog Link Party with Tweedle Dee Designs

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from our creative friend Brandi, from Tweedle Dee Designs.

Brandi is the sweet girl who just wrapped up an awesome Cupcake Workshop that published right here every Wednesday in August.

She blogs, she bakes, she designs, and she sells her darling creations on etsy too!Take a look at some of these great products from her etsy shop:

Invitations, Cupcake toppers, tutu's and more!!!

The Giveaway:
Brandi has offered to give 1 lucky reader a Cupcake Love Starter Kit!

Ready to bake?  The Cupcake Love Starter Kit is here to get you started.  Inspired by our Cupcake Love Workshop, we've put together a few of our favorite cupcake goodies to help you create simple, but gorgeous cupcakes or to give as a gift to the cupcake lover in your life. 

The Cupcake Love Starter Kit includes:

- Approximately 150 Cupcake Liners (assorted pink/brown colors)
- Large Closed Star Decorating Tip
- Large Open Star Decorating Tip
- 5 Disposable Decorating Bags

How to Enter:
(Choose any or all of the following. 1 Entry per task completed)

1. Visit Tweedle Dee Designs's Etsy Shop and tell me what you would most.
2. Visit Brandi's Blog and leave her a nice comment
3. Become a follower of Brandi's Blog

2. Blog, twitter or facebook about this giveaway

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

I will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out! 

The Cupcake Love Starter Kit is also available for purchase ($18 + shipping) in the Tweedle Dee Designs Etsy Shop

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part of your post including pictures in a spotlight. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

All Things Domestic with Clean Mama

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. It could be just about anything- A makeover, a project, artwork, a great recipe... we're not picky! We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from our dear friend Becky, from Clean Mama Printables.

Becky is the creative lady who just wrapped up an awesome Summer Declutter workshop series that published right here every Wednesday in July. We love Becky and can't wait to show you this awesome giveaway!

She blogs, she cleans, she organizes, she sells Shaklee and she designs darling printables that help make our lives easier! Take a look at some of these great printables:

Christmas lists, to do lists, shopping lists, exercise lists, calendars and more!!!

The Giveaway:
Clean Mama has offered to give 2 lucky readers a printable Cleaning Kit AND the Christmas in July Planning Kit!

The Cleaning Kit is made up of three documents designed to keep your homekeeping and cleaning manageable and on-track.  Clean Mama has assembled all the tasks that should be done in homes in an attractive, easy to use format that will work beautifully for you and your busy family. The lists are designed to be used together - one for rotating tasks to do year round and one for weekly tasks. For a more detailed description of this product, click HERE.

The Christmas in July Planning Kit is a great way to plan ahead. It includes 5 pdf documents in coordinating fonts and colors to keep the planning cute and fun! The Kit includes a December Perpetual Calendar, Make It/ Bake It Checklist, Gift Record, Decorations to Remember sheet and a Traditions to Remember sheet.  

You will receive both kits in a PDF file, so you can print them on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and use them month after month, year after year. Since this is a digital file, you can print your pdf files as many times as you want for your personal use.

How to Enter:

1. Visit Clean Mama's Etsy Shop and tell me what printable you would love to have.
2. Visit Becky's Blog and leave her a nice comment
3. Become a follower of Becky's Blog

2. Blog, twitter or facebook about this giveaway

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

I will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out!

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part of your post including pictures in a spotlight. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

All Things Domestic with Brambleberry Lane

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 On the first Tuesday of every month, we get together to share our newest domestic creations. It could be just about anything- A makeover, a project, artwork, a great recipe... we're not picky! We plan to feature our favorites, so feel free to link up as many projects and creations as you wish! 

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Today's giveaway is a great prize from one of our Sponsors, Brambleberry Lane.

AmyLynn is the creative designer at Brambleberry Lane and she has a great collection of prints that would look fantastic in any home. Take a look at one of my favorites from her new Vintage Collection:

Its a fabulous place setting print on an 8x10 vintage dictionary page that would look great in my kitchen!!!

And with so many prints to choose from, I think everyone could find one they would want in their home! Here are some more of my favorites:

(Isn't that skeleton one a bit freaky? I don't know where I'd put it, but for some reason I like it! Maybe a Halloween Decoration?)


I love how unique these piece of artwork are. I would love to get 3 coordinating prints and put them in a collage on my wall.

The Giveaway:
Brambleberry Lane has offered to give 1 lucky reader a $25 giftcard to their shop!

How to Enter:

1. Visit Brambleberry's Etsy Shop and tell me what print you would love to have for your home.

2. Blog, twitter or facebook about this giveaway

*You must be a follower of Crazy Domestic to be eligible to win. 

Please enter only one comment telling me of all the entries you completed. I will enter your name for as many times as you have entries. I am just trying to cut down on the amount of comments I get for giveaways because my inbox tends to get overloaded. Thanks!

I will pick the winner and announce their name next Monday at the top of this site. The winner must "be present" to win, meaning if you see your name, you have to email me to claim your prize or you miss out!

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And now for the Link Party!  
We are on the hunt for items to feature and people to guest blog so show us what you got!

Here are the rules just to make sure we are all playing fair:

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

2. Grab our party button so everyone can get in on the fun.

This link party will start at 1am Tuesday and end at 6pm Friday (Arizona time!) By entering your link, you are giving us permission to use any part of your post including pictures in a spotlight. (Proper credit and links will be given to you, of course!)

<a href="http://crazydomestic.com"><img alt="linkparty" width="125" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a342/stephd757/linkparty.jpg" height="125"/></a>

Let's Eat Workshop- Week 5 of 5

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We have now spent the last 4 weeks discussing ways to meal plan. There are probably some of you who are excited to give it a try, others who are thinking it is way too much work, and even some of you who stopped checking Crazy Domestic each Wednesday because you're simply not interested! Today, however, we have an awesome giveaway that should appeal to all of us!

Take a look at this:

The Monthly Pocket Meal Planner from Pocket Full of Posies!

The monthly pocket system is a cute magnetic folder divided into 4 weekly pockets, one for every week of the month. Each pocket is filled with a recipe pack, which includes 5 recipes and 1 ingredient list. Each ingredient list categorizes every ingredient you will use from each of the 5 recipes in the recipe pack, which will come in handy when making your shopping list!

(If you haven't heard of Pocket Full of Posies or don't know how awesome these meal planners are and how they work, watch THIS video.) 

Here is what the recipes for Package 1 are:

I love the variety of the meals! This system takes the guesswork out of planning meals for your family, it saves time and money and makes grocery shopping quick and easy. It truly will organize your life in the kitchen.

THE GIVEAWAY:

One lucky winner will receive the Monthly Pocket Package 1, the most popular meal planning kit. 

HOW TO ENTER: 

(Choose any or all of the following 2 ways to enter this giveaway and leave me 1 comment for each entry.)

1. Visit Pocket Full of Posies and look through some of their creative ideas and tell me what you like about their site. (Aren't those sisters so crafty and talented!? I could browse their site for hours!)

2. Become a fan of their Facebook page

*All entrants must also be followers of Crazy Domestic to qualify to win

The winner will be chosen next Monday, July 5th and announced here on Crazy Domestic. You must "be present" to win, meaning I'll announce your name, and you have to email me sometime that day, otherwise I'll pick someone else! 

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I hope you have enjoyed this workshop series and felt inspired to organize yourselves just a bit more in the kitchen. Next week we will kick off our workshop series for July featuring ideas from Becky at CleanMamaPrintables. She'll be here every Wednesday in July for our "Summer DeClutter" Workshop and her ideas and checklists are amazing, you won't want to miss it!!!