Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Mother's Day Gift Guide Giveaways

Mother's Day has come and gone and so has our giveaway.  Julie and I both had so much fun with this.  I say that as we both breathed a collective sigh of relief when it was all over.  You guys rocked and made the giveaway extravaganza a BIG success!!!  Thanks to each and everyone of you for entering and spreading the word. Muah!!

Our sponsors really came through and generously provided all kinds of great products for Julie & I to review.  I hope our gift guide helped to make your Mother's Day shopping easier.

Shopping online or even by phone makes gift giving so easy. We hope that we provided you with some great shopping options for the next time you're shopping for that birthday, holiday or just because gift.

Now it's time to announce our lucky winners

ToiletTree Products

Professional Skin Care System

The winner is: Deb N.

Shampoo & Soap Shower Dispenser

The winner is: Melissa G.

Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil

The winners are:  Inez M. and Kalais

Montagne Jeunesse Face Mask

The winners are:  LaTanya T. & Melissa S.

Light 'n Go Bonfire Log

The winner is:  Jhing K.

Kerusso Christian T-Shirt & Mug

The winner is: Laura T.

The Bouqs Flowers

The winner is:  Shelley P.

Swiss Colony Spring Flower Tower or Petits Fours

The winner is:  Suzanne D.

All our lucky winners have been contacted and claimed their prizes, and will be enjoying them very soon.  

If you enjoyed this giveaway extravaganza then you'll want to stay tuned to see what's in store for Father's Day!!!

Please leave me a comment if you'd like to see more giveaways like this.  What's something that you would really like to win?  Tell me something reasonable and then throw in something totally mind blowing for fun!!!  The more I hear from you, the more content I can provide that you'll enjoy.  Plus, be a friend - new or old and talk to me because I get tired of hearing myself. 

A big thank you goes out to my partner Julie @ Mamawj's Moment Away for this week long giveaway event.  I could never have done it without all the hard work she put in.

   xx MUAH xx Julie!!

Love you all...

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

~ John 1:16

Light 'n Go Bonfire Log Giveaway - Marshmallows and Good Times - #MothersDay

Disclosure:  The Essay Group provided me with the Light 'n Go Bonfire Log to share with you.  As always all opinions are 100% my own.

It's day 4 already in our Mother's Day Gift Guide.  Have you been following our giveaways everyday?  

Today's sponsored giveaway is from the Essay Group.  This should get you fired up about Mother's Day.  I couldn't resist!

I love bonfires - they're just so much fun.  I'm always telling Neil I want to roast some marshmallows, but it's just too much of a hassle to set it all up.   Thanks to the Light 'n Go Bonfire Log it just got a whole lot easier.

Light 'n Go is an all-natural pure kiln dried birch stump that's made to light with just one match.  No chemicals, it just starts with a paperboard starter. It can't get any easier than that.  No mess - no wait, it's just an instant good time.

One of my favorite features is the simple rope they've attached to the side, making the Light 'n Go log portable.  Grab it and go.

I have the best memories of my dad and I getting ready for marshmallow and weenie roasts.  We would have bonfires at the beach for the whole family or even birthdays parties with bonfires in the back yard.  Dad & I would head out to a wooded piece of property we owned, to gather palmetto stems to make roasting sticks.  These are the little moments that build the best memories.

We would cut as many palm fronds as we needed and then just cut the leaves off.  On one end we would shave it to a sharp point to put the goodies on.  That's it.  Palmettos are so easy to whittle down and only take a second.  They make the best sticks to use for roasting! The hard part was lighting the fire in those days. Boy, don't I wish we'd had the Light 'n Go back then.  There would have been a lot more of those fun times.

I'm not a s'mores kinda a girl.  I like my marshmallows simple. So last night that's just what Neil & I had, some good old fashion roasted marshmallows.  The only thing that could have made it better would have been having the grandkids here to enjoy it with us.  My son Ty would love this, because when the were living here a year ago, they always took logs out to the beach for bonfires.  That rope on the side makes it so easy and portable.

This may seem like an unusual Mother's Day gift but it's something I'd love to receive and I think so would a lot of other mothers.  Here's and idea for a great way to present it. Get a big galvanized tub, sit your Light n' Go log in the center and add a mixture of your favorite beverages around it.  Wrap up all the makings for some gourmet s'mores in a pretty cellophane wrapper or put them in a tin and add a bow. You're giving mom the best gift of all, a night of fun with her family!!

The Bonfire burns for more than 1.5 hours, while the Bonfire Jumbo goes for about 2.5 hours.  Both can be used indoors in a fireplace or outdoors in a fire pit or chiminea. You can sit the Bonfire on a few rocks or in sand with no worries.  You can even sit a pan on it to cook eggs if you're out camping. How cool is that?
*Never place the Bonfire on concrete or similar surface when burning as the heat will crack and pop the cement and burning embers may be dispersed.

You can purchase the Light 'n Go at your local Home Depot. Mine sells them for $10.98.  If you'd like to know more about the Essay Group, the Light 'n Go Bonfire Log and a whole array of other all natural-items you can visit their website here: http://essay-group.com/.

Win One

This time Julie and I are having a joint giveaway and one lucky reader from one of our blogs will get their own Light 'n Go Bonfire to enjoy.  Just enter using the simple form below.

After you enter, you'll want to check out the 2014 Mother's Day Gift Guide page so you can enter ALL the giveaways we're having this week.  The fun's not nearly over.  We have some fabulous prizes in store for the next 3 days too.  So come back each day to for more chances at more great prizes.

Though this giveaway is a duel giveaway, meaning Julie from Mamawj's Moment Away and I are giving away one prize between us, many of the others are not.  That gives you to separate chances to win on the others.  So you absolutely want to be sure to visit Julie to read her thoughts on the Light 'n Go Bonfire and enter her other giveaways.  Just click HERE.

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Have fun y'all...

Who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

~ Deuteronomy 1:33

Free Paint, New Baby and Camping - What a Weekend

Spring may not officially start till Wednesday but it was definitely Spring here.  Ever since Ty brought his family back home from New York they have spent more weekends than not at the beach.  It's like winter forgot us and they've loved it.

Sometimes it's really good to live in Florida!  This weekend we had that perfect weather that I wish we had more of.  Not to hot to go outside - just perfect!  The first week of Spring looks like it living up to Spring expectations.

Some may look at the coming rain with a frown but not me.  It's been way to dry and there's already a breakout of wildfires, so I say bring it on.  Plus the rain will awesome for the yard.  Oh' and do you see the weatherman's warning of a cold front coming? Yep' it looks like behind that rain is a cool down.  We may not even reach the 60's. he-he.  Truth is we hardly had a winter at all and as much as I love having beautiful weekends like this past one, cold is good for killing off pest and weeds, and even we Floridians enjoy a change in weather.

Neil & I spent Saturday grocery shopping and picking up my FREE paint from Ace Hardware.  Did y'all get yours?

That evening I received a call from my sister reporting that her newest grandbaby was on it's way.  That's right I'm a new great aunt to Ava Leigh born in Atlanta March 16, 2013.

  Isn't she precious and she has such a beautiful Southern name.

Ty, Christal & the grandkids did something a little more fun then grocery shopping and a little less strenuous than having a baby.  They went on there first beach camping trip.  They spent all day over at Amelia Island which is only about 20 miles away.  It's where I spent all my summers growing up at the beach and where I raise Ty to be the surf boy he is.  I love knowing Zach and Ki'a are enjoying there childhoods there too.

 Ending a long day with a marshmallows and a campfire is what sweet dreams are made of!

Ty's best friend brought his family down for a while too.  His cute little daughter Tallulah seems to be having fun.  I think it's neat that Ty's daughter's name, Ki'a means Start of the Sea and his best friends daughter's name Tallulah means leaping water.

After a sweet night of sleeping to the sound of crashing waves and the scent of the sea they woke up to this beautiful view.

I'd love to open my eyes to this view every morning.  How can you not be in AWE of GOD's  amazing wonders when you see the sun rising over the ocean.

 

It was such a gorgeous day that Neil and I decided to spend it outside cleaning up the yard.  The family came over and pitched in.  It was just to nice to stay inside.  If we did we would have missed this.

 It was a dolphin right in front of the house!  That's the first time I've ever seen one out there.  Lucky for him an alligator didn't decide to have him for dinner.  He was having so much fun out there and everything just stopped when we saw him.  You can't buy moments like those.

It was such a wonderful weekend.  I hope yours was too.

Love Y'all....Tracy ♥