***GIVEAWAY Winner!!*** Merchandise Monday 10/24/11

Good morning lovely bloggers! 

As you know, our Organo Gold coffee giveaway ended last night, so we have a winner!!

Using random.org, the comment number selected was:

#8 Nikki, who said "I'm a follower!"

Congrats Nikki!! shoot me an email at:

littlebirdiebaby {at} gmail {dot} com 

I will get you in touch with Mary to order your choice of 

black, latte, mocha, or a special variety box of all-natural, gourmet Organo Gold coffee!

Thanks to Mary and Organo Gold for a great giveaway, and you can find her button in my sidebar under "sponsors" if you would like to check out her website and order a box for yourself! :)

More giveaways coming soon!! Tune in next Monday!!

Have a great week!!

XOXO

***GIVEAWAY Winner!!*** Merchandise Monday 10/17/11

Good morning bloggers! 

Last night marked the end of the 10/3 giveaway from Bows & Caps by princESS, so that means...

 WE HAVE A WINNER!! :)

Using www.random.org, our random comment number selected was:

#2 - Chrissy Barile

who said, 

"I'm your newest follower! Chrissy @ ForMamas"

Ok Chrissy, shoot me an email and I'll get you all hooked up with Erica for your prize!

littlebirdiebaby {at} gmail {dot} com

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We still have open giveaways!!

{Organo Gold all-natural, premium, gourmet coffees}

If you haven't entered to win the giveaway from Organo Gold Coffee, you still have time to get your entries in there. The Organo Gold Giveaway will be open until this Sunday, October 23rd at 8pm. Click HERE to go straight to the entry page!

Stay tuned for Tutorial Tuesday & Linky Party tomorrow morning!!

Have a great week!

XOXO

Merchandise Monday - We have a WINNER!! {Freschetta Giveaway!}

Good morning all!! Before we get started, I need a little whoop whoop! for getting some internet in this new house!! I have been feeling like I was missing an appendage without my internet. I mean, I have internet capabilities on my phone, but I am touch screen impaired so I felt like a mute all week, haha!

However, we are up and running again and I am so happy to be re-connected! So now, first things first... you guys have got to be ready to hear about a winner on this Freschetta Giveaway... also known as the longest giveaway EVER. ;)

Without further ado, and according to our lovely little counter at random.org our winner is...

#12 Kaytee, who said...

Congrats Kaytee! I'll be sending you an email shortly, so be looking for it! I'll need your mailing address so I can send this baby out to you along with your coupon for a FREE Freschetta Simply Inspired Pizza!

Look forward to our first tutorial guest post tomorrow along with the resurrection of Tutorial Tuesday! I have LOTS of new things coming up, and I can't wait to hit the ground running again. Boy, oh boy, have I missed you guys!!


XOXO

We have a Scentsy WINNER!!

We have a WINNER!!

Using random.org, we have chosen a winner... Congrats to lucky number 15!

who said....

Congrats you lucky girl!! You have won the $30 gift certificate for your choice of products from the Scentsy line!Mary and I both hope you love your Scentsy products as much as we do!

Thanks to everyone for participating!!

If you haven't checked out the newest giveaway HERE, go enter now!

XOXO

Making Your Own Tags & A WINNER!

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful, stress-free weekend and are ready for a fun week ahead! I'm sure you're all anxious to see who our OceanBelle Tree of Hope winner is, so let's not waste any time!

Thanks to random.org for choosing....

And our winner is...

#10, Kelli

Who said...

Congrats, Kelli! Shoot me an email in the next 48 hours to claim your prize!

Now on to the Monday fun!

I've seen lots of talk going on in blog land, on facebook, and in the etsy forums about product labels. I'm not talking about CIPSA regulation stuff, but something cute and easy to put on your products to really make them your own. I had been thinking about it quite some time when I came across this:

Sew-In, colorfast, printable fabric sheets! Perfect! I'm always a sucker for doing it yourself!! Only $8.99 per pack at Hobby Lobby, and with your trusty online 40% off coupon, like $5. Pretty good for all the labels you can get out of this package! I think I got like 70 labels from one sheet alone.

There are instructions on the package, but I'll go ahead and roll through them so you can see just how easy it was to do this little project...

First you're going to want to design your image on the computer. You can use whatever software you're comfortable in. I used pixlr {free online illustrator software} to design the logo and then imported it into a Word document so I could format the logo into an 8x12" printable format.

Each sheet is white, so keep that in mind when designing your logo to be printed onto the page. Also, probably not a bad idea to print a test page just to make sure everything is lined up properly and you have enough room to cut between the tags. PRINT.

Once your sheet is finished printing, let it dry and peel the paper backing from the fabric.

{Here comes the weird part...}

In order to make your design colorfast, you must rinse fabric gently in cold water. Lay flat to dry and dab excess moisture with a cry towel.

See? Easy. Now iron over your fabric using the highest setting possible. TA-DA! Done.

Now, just take your rotary cutter and go to town until you have a whooooole bunch of little taggies. Then, sew them on to your {whatever you make} and you have a fully branded piece of merchandise.

{forgive the terrible stiching here... I was having a little disagreement with my machine tension, haha!}

Now, of course you can always order yourself some fancy, pre-folded satin labels in an array of colors from any of about a million online shops. I know this. I also know that costs alot, and in most cases you don't get to see the actual finished product until it ships to you. This is just a quick and easy, low-commitment alternative that only costs around 2 cents per label.

Thanks again to Brandy at OceanBelle for sponsoring our latest giveaway! Those of you who didn't win today and would like to purchase from her shop can find a link to OceanBelle in my sidebar!

See ya tomorrow for another tutorial and linky party!!

XOXO

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What the Tweet? and a WINNER!!

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Good Monday morning to all of my bloggy friends!! I hope you all had a MARVELOUS weekend! :)

So... I'm pretty sure I know what you all are waiting for, so I'll just cut to the chase... 

WE HAVE A WINNER for The Taffy Box custom stamped, sterling silver washer necklace!

#25, Brandy @ Oceanbelle who said...

Congrats Brandy!! 

Send me an email and I'll put you in touch with Koryn to order your lovely necklace! :)

Now, onward to the Monday Fun!

No matter how hard you may try and avoid it, there's just no getting around the fact that everyone and their dog is now on Twitter. It's the next big social networking front, and can certainly be an asset to growing your following. Since I, for the most part, am a total Twitter goof, I have asked Celesa (Lilly Bunns Boutique), a fellow member of the SAHM of Etsy group and the SAHM of Etsy Blog Leader, to share her recent instructional post about Twitter with you guys. She'll give you the 411 on setting up your account, as well as fill us in on some of these Twitter-specific terms we keep hearing everywhere. YAY! Take it away Celesa...

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Twitter is so hugely popular, and is actually a great little social media platform.  Who'da thunk that posting short little blurbs would have taken off so much?  I've been on it for a while, but still have so much to learn when it comes to what all the darn symbols mean. Sometimes it looks like someone is speaking gibberish on their posts.  So I've decided to finally learn the lingo, and let you all in on it!  

Before we really get started with all the info, you'll need to set up your account.  It's so simple I'm not even gonna walk you through it.  Just follow the steps and you'll be great!  But if you just can't figure it out, here's a great tutorial on YouTube

Now that your account is all set up, it's time to change the appearance of your profile. You'll get to a page that looks something like this.  Just follow the links on the right to set up your avatar, and change your profile appearance.

Now your all ready to send out your first tweet!

The Jargon (click the term to see Twitter's definitions):

Tweet: The little 140 word message you send out.  

Hash tags: A hash tag will have the # symbol followed by a word.  For example #etsytreasuries might be one. it's a way for twitterers to post things according to a topic.  Popular hash tags, get moved up to "trending topics."

Mentions and Replies: Just like on facebook, you can mention someone in your post by putting the @ symbol in front of their username.  You can also reply to a tweet by doing the same. Twitter keeps up with replies and mentions under the mention tab on your account home page.

ReTweet: Shown in the tweet with an RT in the message.  

Following: Following is pretty straight forward.  It simply means that you choose someone who you'd like to see their tweets!  Don't forget to follow @lillybunns!

To get noticed in Twitter, it's a good idea to follow lots, retweet, and mention lots, and do hash tags on the trending topics.  

I hope that clears up a few things for you.  Twitter can be such a great way to communicate with others, and publicize yourself to the world!

You can find Celesa:

on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lillybunnsboutique

on her blog: Lilly Bunns Boutique

and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lillybunnsboutique

and of course... on Twitter!! http://twitter.com/lillybunns {@lillybunns}

Thanks Celesa! Now, everyone go get tweeting! :)

XOXO