UPrinting's Cool Business Cards Giveaway!

                   Great UPrinting Business Cards Giveaway!
          Your chance to win die cut business cards prints! Designer Cards, blogger cards and so much more… From marketing materials to personal cards, business cards have developed from the plain boring to a more modern and rounded corners, square cards and slim cards.

               




 
                                      Giveaway Prize:
 
250 Die Cut Business Cards for One (1) Winner



2 x 3.5”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card)


Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle


Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated


Color: 4Color Front, Blank Back; 4Color Front, Black Back; 4Color Both Sides


Limited to US residents only 18 years old and above.  Giveaway ends on September 27, 2010.

   I will not receive any money for this giveaway.  I will  be receiving 250 Die Cut Business Cards from UPrinting.com for hosting this giveaway.

                                         
                                 Please leave a comment for each entry with your email in at least one comment so I can contact you if you win.  If all of your entries cannot be verified as completed, your entry will be removed.  This is my first giveaway, so the rules are very easy:

                                                  MANDETORY ENTRY:
1.  Go to UPrinting and look around at all their wonderful products.
    Then let me know something you saw that interested you:        Mandetory: 1 entry.

                                                      EXTRA ENTRIES:
2.  Follow my blog on Google Connect and leave me a comment telling me you are following: 2 entries.
3.  Blog about this giveaway on your blog, and send me the link where you posted:  3 entries.

FALL FUN

HALLOWEEN FREEBIE!  I have included for your creating endeavors a NEW Vintage Postcard!  Just scroll down and then right-click on the image and save.  Happy Creating!

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Madeline at Shabby Vanity for helping me so much with my blog!  Check her out...she is awesome! 

ALSO, check out Shelly's Mary Kay site for out of this world "Back to School" bargains!

Hey yall....please check out this eloquent vintage silver giveaway from The Lazy Peacock at:  http://thelazypeacock.blogspot.com/
Lots of goodies here!

ONE WEEK DOWN

One full week of school successfully behind us…only 15 more to go until Christmas break…


The first week wasn’t too bad. Actually, it was very good. Most of the students didn’t really wake up until Thursday. Hopefully, they learned some things. I know I did.

On Monday during our Bible lesson I was teaching about the challenge of living up to God’s standards. As an example, I related an incident that happened to me that morning. When I was getting my coffee, I used the last of the cream in the creamer bowl. Knowing my husband would be wanting coffee when he got up, I reasoned that since he had much more time in the morning than I had, he could refill the creamer bowl (I hate refilling the creamer bowl). Suddenly, the words, “God’s Standards” flashed into my mind. Bummer. I reached down in the cabinet and retrieved the jar of creamer powder, and filled that creamer bowl.


As I told the story to the students, I stressed that it’s the LITTLE THINGS that trip us up sometimes. Putting others first is not always what we want to do; but if we are trying to live up to God’s standards, we will make the effort, even in the everyday little things.


Bible is the last period of the day, and by that time in the afternoon, most of the students were dozing off or staring glassy-eyed into space. A little frustrated that they weren’t hanging on my every word, I figured it was time to wind up the lesson and get ready to go home.


The following day as we were lining up for lunch, one of the boys,
who had been “staring off” during the previous day’s Bible lesson, started telling me about letting his brother borrow one of his favorite books.


“Uh huh,” I absent-mindedly murmured, still trying to get the line out the door to lunch.


As he proceeded out the door, he turned to me and said, “You know, Mrs. P., it was one of those “Little Things” you talked about.”






LESSONS LEARNED: Children hear what we say even when they’re “not paying attention!” And, Children really do want to do what is right.




August is almost over! Apple pickin’ time and Halloween are just around the corner! I have never embraced the pagan beliefs for which Halloween represents. However, I do like the innocent, traditional fun of children dressing up in cute costumes and enjoying a little “Trick or Treating” around the neighborhood. Therefore, I am offering a free Halloween image for you to use in your creative endeavors. Just right-click to save.


Also, please check out the “Fairy Good Mommy” link to see all the exciting Halloween giveaways for your chance to win some very creative Halloween treats!

END OF SUMMER

Life is full of endings and new beginnings: One season ends, the next one begins; a relationship ends, leaving room for the start of a new one; supper ends, dessert begins (unless you realize how short life is and decide to eat dessert first); and so it goes.

 August always brings a realization that summer, with its lazy, carefree days, is fast coming to a close; and another new, sometimes hectic, school year is about to begin. No more slow summer mornings, enjoying coffee on the back porch, greeted by heavenly blue morning glories, breathing in the sweet honeysuckle and the fresh promises of a new day. No more piddling in the garden; no more leisurely lunches sipping southern-sweet tea by the pool; and no more designing and creating at all hours of the day or night.

 No, in August, any designing or creation is now focused on my classroom, preparing for the arrival of a new batch of second graders, full of new promises and new goals for the coming year. The mornings will be greeted with little heavenly faces, rather than blue morning glories. Coffee breaks and leisurely lunches give way to spilled milk, forgotten lunch money, and choking down a PB&J while opening Slim Jims and juice bottles.

 Though I’m always sad to see summer end, August does bring with it some nice beginnings. The temperature drops to the low 90’s, humidity a mere 89%, and afternoon rain showers bring relief to the now brown stick-flowers in the forgotten garden.

 Seriously, though, as the routine of school begins, structure returns to my life, and I begin to focus on my students with their needs and goals. The responsibility of teaching them and helping to shape their lives toward service to God is as awesome as it is exciting. Watching them light up when subtraction finally makes sense, or seeing their smile when they successfully sound out a word truly makes the end of summer seem less of a loss.


August brings other new beginnings too: A new grade level, new friendships, and all those shiny, new school supplies. It’s a kind of new year of sorts, a time to reassess goals, implement new strategies, develop new ideas, try new projects. It brings the awareness that fall is just around the corner, the hope of cooler temperatures, festivals, craft shows, and before we know it, Thanksgiving.

 This week has been spent re-orienting myself to a daily schedule, hard work, and a focus outside of myself. Next week, when the students come back, I will be ready with a renewed spirit, a clean classroom, and great possibilities to begin this new school year.


Reflecting on all the new beginnings that August brings makes saying good-bye to summer a little easier---that and the fact that I realized we only have sixteen weeks until Christmas vacation!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!