2014 Mother's Day Gift Guide

Mothers are the hardest working people on earth and that's why it's so important to remember them on Mother's Day. They give all year long day in and day out.  Whether a mother is 19 or 91, there's not a day that goes by when she doesn't think about her children.

This year Julie and I have decided to put together a Mother's Day Gift Guide.  We're busy putting together an awesome selection of products that we really like and want to share with you.  It will serve two purposes:

• #1 - We'll give you our honest opinion on gifts that will be perfect for the mom in your life, even if that's you.
• #2 - Some of our sponsors will even be providing products for you to win!!

So for all our Cotton Pickin Cute and Mamawj's Moment Away readers, don't forget to come back on April 28th, when we'll get this party started!

If you are a company or business owner, and are interested in having your product featured, I would love to talk to you.  I can be reached at cottonpickincute(at)hotmail(dot)com.  

We would love to include some of you Etsy artiste (how's my French accent?) in our Mother's Day Gift Guide too!! Contact me to see how you can be featured.

Hugs Y'all...

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right.  Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise - that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life.

~ Ephesians 6:1-3

Lots of Giveaways Going On

It's been a fun and busy week here friends, I'll tell you more about that later.  Right now it's time to buckle down and play catch up.  So just to tide you over, and because I love y'all, I'm gonna share a few good giveaways that my friends are having.

First I thought you might enjoy seeing what I won.

I was the lucky winner of Mary's Vitabath prize pack at Nuts 4 Stuff.  I received my choice of which Vitabath fragrance I would like.  I chose the Spa Day Cucumber and White Tea. Oh man, I wish you could smell it.  It's so clean and fresh smelling.  I was worried about choosing a fragrance without being able to smell it first, but I had nothing to worry about.  I did good!  The smell almost makes you feel cool on a warm day.  It's very soft and light.  A crisp cucumber mixed with soft water florals and soothing white tea. Click HERE to read Mary's review and learn more.

The Bundle includes: Body Wash, Lotion and Fragrance Mist.  Thanks again Mary, I'm thrilled and feeling pampered with my Vitabath collection.

More about Mary:

Mary loves hosting giveaways almost as much as she loves winning them or reviewing products. Here are a couple of her latest giveaways that you can go by and enter:

• Bioken's Pequi All Natural Body Lotion and Sulfate Free Body Wash ($40) Giveaway - Ends 3/24

• Trophy Skin's RedMD High Power LED Anti-Aging Light Therapy Device ($399) Giveaway - Ends 3/25

• Kō Denmark's Anti-Aging Face Cream Cleanser ($28) Giveaway - Ends 3/28

Stop by Marys and take a chance on winning her great prizes. I know she'd love to meet you.  Be sure to tell her I sent you.

Giveaways From Julie:

Second but certainly not least is Julie over at Mamawj's Moment Away.  She hardly needs any introduction if you're a regular visitor of my blog.  Julie and I are good friends and often work together to bring you all those great giveaways.   For those of you that are new here, besides being a product tester and giveaway queen, Julie's also a sweet blogger, who enjoys crafting and creating.  Here's a few giveaways that Julie has going on now:

• Snickers Movie Prize Pack, $15 Fandango Gift Card and 5 Snickers bars - Ends 3/17

• Scott's Liquid Gold March Spring Clean Prize Pack Giveaway - Ends 4/7

• Mini Clock Product Spring Forward Daylight Savings Time Mini Clock ($40) Giveaway - Ends 4/1

• Dial Deep Cleansing Hand Soap Giveaway, *3 Winners - Ends 3/20

• Orkin Bed Bug Home Prevention Prize Pack Giveaway - Ends 3/31

Julie's been busy putting together all kinds of giveaways for you to enter and she can't wait for you to stop by, so go show her some love!

I'm rooting for some Cotton Pickin Cute readers to win these giveaways.  Don't forget to come back and let me know if you win one. I love hearing about what others win, especially if it's one of my readers.  Plus I have some giveaways of my own coming up in very soon!!  I hope you'll take a second to answer a question for me - about how many giveaways do you enter each week?   Leave me a comment below.  I love it when I'm not the only one doing the talking.  :)  

Good Luck Y'all...

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

~Philippians 2:3

Why Not Win Something Before The Festivities Start

Boy do I have some giveaways to share today.  My dear friend Julie @ Mamawj's Moment Away is having several and I knew you'd all want to hear about them.  So lets get right to it.

First up you can enter to win 6 Months of EquityLock Protector and a $15 Home Maintenance Cash Gift Card - good for use at any home improvement store.


This giveaway ends on 7/8 so hurry and enter You can enter her giveaway HERE.

Her next giveaway:

She's going to be choosing 2 winners for a FREE #Dial Body Wash Coupon.  I love Dial's fresh scents and you will too.  Go enter HERE.  This giveaway ends on 8/5.

How about a 3rd giveaway from Miss Julie?


Well it's your lucky day. She's also giving away a Jack The Giant Slayer Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet).  Click HERE and go enter. Hurry this one ends tomorrow on 7/5

While you're there you have to take a peek at Julie's sweet sunflower laundry clothespin bag.  It's so cute it'll even put a smile on your face while hanging your clothes out to dry.

You don't just get to see it, Julie even shows you how you can make one for yourself!  She's sweet that way.  Very talented too.  I don't think there's anything she won't tackle and do a darn tooten good job at it too!

Well I hope you'll get a chance to go over before your 4th of  July business takes hold this morning or at least bookmark it to get over there on this long weekend.  Remember you can't win if you don't enter.

Don't forget to go HERE to enter my Olay Regenerist giveaway.


And go HERE to enter my 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster Giveaway.

Well that should keep you busy for awhile.

I hope everyone has a fun 4th of July and y'all remember to be safe!!!

Hugs...Tracy 

Mamawj's Moment Away Chick-Fil-A Giveaway

Want the chance to #Win 2 FREE Chick-fil-A Salad Coupons?  Then you're in luck because Julie at Mamawj's Moment Away is having a giveaway for exactly that same thing.

I don't think I can wait and even though I enter, I'm going  to have to head over to Chick-fil-A and pick up one today.  I love Chick-Fil-A anyway.   And these sound so good with summer coming on.  Kinda cool and refreshing.  Just click here to visit my friend Julie (such a sweet person) and enter her Chick-fil-A giveaway.

Good Luck Y'all !!!

***Don't forget to come back and enter my 2 giveaways below:

• Enter to win your own Tuna Squish here.

•   Enter to win New Soft Scrub Mold and Mildew Stain         Remover here.

 

Remember you can't win our giveaways unless you enter.

Now go have some fun!

I'm a New Mother This Year But I'm Always Proudest to Say I'm An Old Mother

Thank goodness for the small things.

I'd like to introduce you to the newest member of the family and the co-editor of Cotton Pickin Cute.  His name is Izzy (pronounced 'is he').  As in - Is he cute? or - Where is he?

I'm in love with him because he has the sweetest personality.  Out of 5 kittens I fell in love with his sweet loving personality right off.  Though he can't take the place of Mattie, he is helping my heart feel a little better.  God is so good to provide me something to love just when I've lost my baby.

I want to thank everyone for all the comforting words.  There have been so many of you, Deb, Debbie and so many more, that I wanted to contact this weekend but haven't.  The fact is my feet look like they are heeling on the outside but someone forgot to tell the inside.  It's been a rough weekend with them.  Lots of meds and sleep and whining. 

I've tried to get up a few post that needed to go up but that's all I've managed to do.  I still have winners to announce, hopefully this afternoon.  Don't forget to enter my giveaways.They're listed on the right sidebar, just click on the photo.

I hope you all had a beautiful Mother's Day yesterday.  I thought a lot about my own mama, grandma's, aunt and  mother-in-laws - both past and present.  All these women are gone now but each left a big imprint on my life.  I also thought about how lucky my Grandchildren are to have such an involved mother, who devotes so much love and time to them,  I've said that I was blessed with my son, since the day he was born.  God gave me child that was so easy to raise.  Always a good boy, he made my job so simple.  I am so, so grateful to be called his mother.

Have a blessed week Ya'll...♥ Tracy

Low Entry Yanni Giveaway Ends Tonight - Hurry!

My giveaway ends tonight.  There is only 5 entries for the new Yanni Truth of Touch CD and it ends tonight at midnight EST.  This gives you great odds of winning! Just click here or on the picture above.


Hugs....Tracy :)


P.S.  I also have the FRESCHETTA By The Slice Giveaway which includes a 3 piece storage set.  It ends on 4/26.  Just click here to enter.

$25 Publix Give Card Giveaway Reminder! MIL Update

I have very few family photos with us all gathered together.  Our 2 cherished grandchildren Ki'a  with the birthday doll I made her and Zack with our fur baby Mattie.  The back row is my DIL Christal, Me, our son Ty (you can see he got my height- haa), MIL Nadine and Neil.  I love seeing everyone laughing.

What a busy day.  Neil and I just got home from the hospital.  We received a phone call this morning and Nadine's sugar was as high as 467 (normal is 72 - 100).  It was about 4 times as high as it should have been.  She has never had sugar diabetes.  This was really scary.  It's still very high but they have her on insulin and are checking her sugar every 4 hours.  It is coming down and they say they can control it.  They don't know why it shot up but it could be the feeding tube formula she is on.  They're doing tests to try and figure that out.


But on to better news....
The last few days she had gotten hard to communicate with.  Kind of glassy eyed and hazed.  Not even saying I love you and hardly responding at all.  Then last night I was really worried because we couldn't even get her to open her eyes the whole time we were there.  No response at all.  The nurse had some trouble with that this morning too.  But once they addressed the insulin issue we saw an amazing change.  This afternoon we really had a nice visit.  I had made her a mini photo album with a picture of her high school, I included a copy of her bio she wrote for her 50th graduation book, some of her wedding pictures with a copy of her marriage certificate and even notes she wrote in her wedding book about her meeting Neils dad for the first time and memories of their engagement.  I also included her house when the kids were little all the way through to girlfriends and great-grand children.  I labeled the pictures with husband, son, granddaughter, home, etc....  I was so happy to see her spending time looking at it.  She was a little confused but I think she really enjoyed it and will be spending a lot of time with it. I hope this will help her with her memory so she won't be so confused when we come and go. 

 This was taken during Halloween, duh!! When our son and his family were last home. You can see Neil and his Mom on the first row next to our precious granddaughter Ki'a.  Then Me and our sweet grandson Zack on the 2nd step.  And on the 3rd step is our one and only child Ty and our DIL Christal.

Thank each and everyone of you for your prayers.  I truly know in my heart that your prayers were heard and have lead to a miraculous difference!  Thank you Father for answered prayers and thank you all my prayer warriors.  You're all amazing and I love you.

Just a reminder.  If you haven't enter the giveaway please be sure to if you have a Publix near you or maybe a family member does that you'd like to share this with.  $25.00 at the grocery store would help anyone out.  Did you hear?  They are talking about gas being over $5.00 a gallon by May!  Unbelievable.  You can enter the giveaway here. 
Have a blessed and peaceful night y'all.    
Tracy :)

Giveaways Are A Theme This Week

Oh goody!  One of the sweetest girls I know is celebrating and she's doing it with a giveaway.  Sweet Kymberly at Free Trinkets and Free Treasures has reached her 100th post. And look at how she is celebrating.

She is going to post

100 free images

 in the next

10 posts!

 

  Plus,

   she's also having a drawing for a giveaway.  And no jumping through hoops to enter either.  You can get 4 entries and only leave one comment.  Easy Peasy!  But as you can see you win either way because she's so kind hearted and sharing her images with you anyway and that's a prize in itself.

I hope you'll go by and congratulate her and meet this Dear Sweet person.  You'll think you've known her all your life.

P.S.  Don't forget I've listed a couple of my own giveaways this week and share a few others as well.  So keep going back and reading those past post! 

 

Michelle's Fabulous Vintage Giveaway

I found a wonderful new blog.  Well new to me and she's celebrating her First Year Anniversary with her First Giveaway.  It's Michelle at Petite Michelle Louise. You MUST go see all the vintagey goodness yourself.  Michelle has put on quite the giveaway.  She'll be drawing a winner on Oct 16th, so don't you wait ~ 

Be blessed Y'all.........Tracy :)

P.S.  I have several other giveaways listed including a sponsored one here and another sponsored one I'll be listing next.  So go back a few post and enter those too.

Last Day To Enter My Giveaway

Pincushion and More Giveaway

Just a little reminder.  This is the last day to enter my 1 year blogiversary giveaway.  Just click here or on the picture above to enter at that post (not here, Sweeties).

Good Luck to everyone.  And thank you for blessing me with so many kind comments.  I've had the time of my life reading them!

Hugs...Tracy :)

Another Giveaway To Share

Is anyone getting tired of GIVEAWAYS?  I didn't think so.  Well I have a brand new one for you.  This is a new blog to me as well.  Linda over at the Prairie Flower Farm is having a Christmas Bundle Giveaway to get you started.  You do know it will be here way before you know it, don't you?   I think you'll like her blog as much as her giveaway.  It's a cozy place you'll enjoy visiting.  Linda is a faith loving woman of the Lord.  She has cute tutorials and is a very crafty gal.  Please go by and say hey but do it soon, her giveaway ends on August 20th.


Love and Hugs Friends....T :)


P.S.   Thank you all for the overwhelming response to my giveaway.  I just love, love, love reading your comments.  It's been a huge bright spot for me.  If you haven't entered there's still time, just click here. 

I've been posting all the giveaways I can find so take a look at the recent post.

I'm Back and Have Some New Giveaways To Share

First I want to thank all my friends for there kind comments and well wishes. Ya'll make me feel so loved and I love you too!

UPDATE: I thought I was back last night when I wrote this post but now I'm second thinking that. Feeling sicky still but different, sore throat, tired and yada, yada, yada. I won't bore you all with that. Just know I'm thinking of you all and will be back with some decent post as soon as I feel up to it. I'm working on some tags little by little and almost done. I hope to mail them tomorrow and will post pics after that.

Hugs and back to the original post.......



I listed a couple of new giveaways that I found for ya'll to take a look at.



The first one is:

Linda over at Robin Egg Blues. She's giving away 3 Inspirations kits celebrating her 100th post. You read right ~ there will be 3 winners. Make sure you click here or click her blue swan on my sidebar and go by Linda's blog and congratulate her on her 100th post and then maybe I'll be congratulating you on winning.



The second giveaway is:

Donna over at Brynwood Needleworks. She's got a fabulous giveaway as well. Just tons of great items to celebrate her 200th post. I hope you'll all stop in and see her lovely creations and enter her contest too. You can click here or go to the button on my side bar.