Category Archives: Blogging

Peet’s Coffee Wants To Know What You Give A Cup About: Listen to one mom’s story

Posted on by July 12, 2013

What do you care about? What I mean is, what gets your heart thumpin’? Is it soccer? Women’s rights? Same-sex marriage? Money? Coffee?

This post is sponsored by Peet’s Coffee & Tea, which is conducting what it calls the first social sampling experiment to launch their new Single Cups. It took them five years to develop this product — sounds like they’re fellow perfectionists, right? But that’s good, because you know you want your coffee done right. For this experiment called Give A Cup… Read more ...

BlogHer announces Voices of The Year for 2013

Posted on by July 5, 2013

I’ve got big news. No not pregnant. But it’s equally miraculous.

A couple months ago I submitted some of my blog posts for BlogHer’s Voices of The Year. For my friends who aren’t really into blogging, but thankfully read mine, BlogHer is the largest community of women bloggers. It’s got an audience of 92 million each month.

Anyway, each year a committee selects posts to be recognized as one of the Voices of The Year and a handful the honoreees read their post at the … Read more ...

The Winner of the $100 Gift Card Giveaway Is….

Posted on by May 17, 2013

I’m excited to announce the winner of my $100 gift card giveaway! It’s none other than the DIY blogger Laughing Abi.

There were tons of entries and through Rafflecopter, she was randomly selected as the recipient. I want to thank everyone who entered my biggest giveaway ever, especially those dedicated folks who entered time and time and time again. I very rarely enter giveaways, so it was neat for me to see your diligence through the continual stream of comments and Tweets.

Also, … Read more ...

Scotts Miracle-Gro to fix my ‘green thumb’ and my biggest giveaway ever

Posted on by May 9, 2013

Remember my earlier post about my lack of a green thumb? Well, you can imagine how happy I was when Scotts Miracle-Gro contacted me about writing a sponsored post. They gave me a couple gift cards and I hit up the local Home Depot to buy some new Miracle-Gro Premium Plants.

These plants boast of vibrant blooms that are fast-growing and last all season. Sounds good, right? It seemed like the perfect match for my not-so-green thumb. They’re a new product and only available … Read more ...

The E-Chain Mail: A few things you might not have known about me

Posted on by April 19, 2013

A hilarious and amazingly creative friend of mine, Laughing Abi, tagged me for writing what I consider to be the chain letter of blog posts. Anyway, here’s the questions and my answers, take a look you may find out something new or interesting. Or at least look at the pictures because it took a bit for me to find them all.

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was celebrating my 21st birthday. Kidding. We had just purchased our townhome and I … Read more ...