Say I Love You with Etsy + Giveaway

Paris Heart Map via Explore Your Heart

Remember those days back in elementary school when we gave little valentines to each other that came out of a box from the store? I used to love getting them (as I'm sure you did), but now that I'm an adult I love looking around for handmade cards I can give my special Valentine like these sweet ones from Etsy. Ok the first one isn't an actual card, but it would be very fun to get and keep on your wall year-round non?

I Think I Kind of Really Love You a Little Bit card via Sea and Lake

Bonus, these special cards are all made in Canada which makes my heart skip an extra beat.

A New Reason to Love You card via Ulysses Design (Instant Download!)

Ombre Hearts card via Sea and Lake

So here's an extra, extra bonus: Etsy wants to help you say I love you to your special someone by giving you a chance to win a $50 gift card so you can buy all the cards you want. Check out the nifty little Rafflecopter gadget below to enter. The contest will run until February 10 and we'll let you know if you've won!

Have a great week!

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super sweet crochet animals + giveaway!

That's my sister Kaite on the left and Jess on the right - don't they look like stinkers?

When I was growing up, the little girl next door, Jess, was my little sister's best friend. They did everything together: caused trouble, sold lemonade, drove me crazy - you know, regular little sister & little sister's friend stuff.

Well Jess is all grown up now and she's got her hands into a new adventure - crocheting cute little animals. She's been crocheting up a zoo for the last few months to open her own shop Crochet by Jessica.

Aren't they sweet?

To celebrate the opening of her new shop, Jess would like to give away one of her zoo animals to a lucky reader. Visit her Facebook page and come back here to let me know which one you would like.

I'll pick the winner next Thursday, May 9.

Happy Thursday!

and the blurb winner is......

Drum Roll!

christylaura!

christylaura said... 

Would absolutely use Blurb to make a baby book for my little boy, Matthew! Love what they've showcased on their site. Thanks for the contest!

Congrats! Be sure to email me using the contact button above - I don't have your email address!

Thanks everyone for playing along - check out Blurb for some photo book ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the Istagram book - they're too cool!

Happy Thursday!

giveaway time! blurb

If you like photo books as much as I do then you'll likely love this giveaway. The nice folks at Blurb approached me to give one lucky reader $35 to make their own Blurb book!

There are some pretty cool options to choose from, but the main one that caught my eye is the Instagram Book.

 How cool would it be to make a little coffee table book full of all your cool Instagram photos?

Another option is a cookbook for all you foodies out there:

Or you can do what the cool people of BlogPodium did and make a notebook!

Here's the deal: All you have to do is to visit Blurb and come back here to leave a comment telling me what type of book you'd make. That's it!

If you want extra entries you can also:

• Follow/subscribe to lealou by clicking that nifty blue "Join this site" button on the right
• Like lealou on Facebook 
• Tweet the giveaway using @lealou so I can keep track of your tweets

Be sure to leave separate comments telling me what you did!

The deadline to enter will be next Wednesday, June 27 so you have lots of time to think about what type of book you'd like to make! I'll choose the winner randomly and announce it on June 28.

***This contest is open to Canadian residents only - sorry to all my U.S. friends! **

Good luck!