Cyber Monday!

Following closely with Black Friday,  Cyber is another favorite day of mine! Sales on all the fabulous items I've had my eyes on. In the comfort of my home & my lovely macbook. Ahhhh!

Here are some sites to visit today:

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Here's to many more hours of Happy Hunting!

Cheers!

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Fancy & Black Friday!

It's one of my favorite holidays! And I will have to make do on the streets of Europe! I hope they celebrate like we do! :)

Here are a few of my favorite Black Friday sites:

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I also wanted to link up with Long Distance Loving for her Friday's Fancies. Today I put together a little something that would be perfect for a serious shopping day, comfy & cute:

All Madewell. All on sale!
1 // 2 // 3 // 4

Happy Hunting! 

Keep me posted on some other fabulous finds!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Eat, Drink & Give Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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Pinterested Thanksgiving + WINNERS!

Thanksgiving is tomorrow! I can't believe it's almost the end of 2011! Where did the time go?!

I am linking up with The Vintage Apple for her, Oh How Pinteresting link up. And appropriately have all pins Thanksgiving for you!

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So excited to announce all the winners from last week!

Here are the lucky winners:

MegMac Designs

Winner: All of a Sudden Life is Amazing

Lulu & Drew

Winner: Creative Index

Primele

Winner: Punctuation Mark

Oatmeal Lace Design

Winner: {Coral Cafe}

Flying Junction

Winner: Jeffshan
*All winners were chosen at random through random.org.*

Congrats! I will put you in touch with the hosts for your winnings!

I am off to LONDON today! I am so excited for my adventure with my bestie! Can't wait to tell you all about the trip when I get back.

I will hopefully post some picture updates while I'm away! If not, don't forget about me :)

Xo

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Name tags

I had a fun time creating DIY name tags last year for Thanksgiving! Unfortunately, I don't have a picture. But they were leaf cutouts, with festive ribbon & sparkling pens.

They looked very similar to these:

Here are a few I found this year:

Happy DIYing!

Thank you all for being a part of my 100 week! I loved celebrating you all!

The winners will be selected this evening and announced tomorrow morning!

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Thanksgiving Eats!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! And is truly a holiday all about eating... whether we want to admit it or not!

I love being 'thankful' just as much as the next girl... but lets get to the good stuff!

Here are some fun, diy desserts that will definitely be the life of the party:

Teepee Cupcakes via

Pilgrim Hats via

Corn Cookies via

Little Gobbler via

Acorn Holes via

All of these tutorials look super fun... and VERY easy! Perfect!

And I put together a Thanksgiving in the barn:

Pottery Barn always has some amazing finds, if you can front the dough. Ugh!

But lets dream, shall we?!

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Happy Thanksgiving Decorating!

PS. There's still time to enter all 5 giveaways from last week!
Winners will be announced Wednesday morning, November 23rd!

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Friday's Fancies & Giveaway: Flying Friday

Happy Friday all! What a fabulous week it has been! Thank you all for being so loyal to my blog & helping me celebrate my 100+ followers! Xo

First of all, I didn't want to miss Friday's Fancies with Long Distance Loving. So I put a little something together for her Mix & Match week:

 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5

And to our final giveaway...

Today I have a super giveaway for you all!

Ace, from Flying Junction is here and is giving away a set of 3 Subway Sign Prints.

His collection is amazing!

The winner of this giveaway will get to chose a Collection of 3 from the following cities:

NYC/Manhattan, NYC/Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, and London

To ENTER:
Required
• Follow Birdie to be
• Visit his shop and tell me which city you would chose

Extras
• Follow Birdie to be on Twitter
• Follow Flying Junction on Twitter

Leave a separate comment for each.
Winner will be selected & announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

Thank you again! 

Have a great weekend!

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Giveaway Treats (x2)

I have 2 special treats for you guys today!

The first is a sweet $25 gift card to Oatmeal Lace Design. Her store is fantastic!

She has so many different styles to chose from!

Great for bridesmaid's gifts, holiday parties, and presents!

To ENTER:
Required
• Follow Birdie to be
• Visit her shop and tell me which is your favorite

Extras
• Follow Birdie to be on Twitter
• Follow Oatmeal Lace on Twitter
• Follow Oatmeal Lace Design blog

Leave a separate comment for each.
Winner will be selected & announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

And secondly, Brevity has been so kind to offer ALL my followers a 10% coupon all month long!

Her collection is fabulous!

A calligraphic take on the Carrie necklace ;)

Here is your secret code: BIRDIE10

Valid through the end of November

Don't miss the grand finale tomorrow. Here is a sneak peak at Friday's giveaway:

See you manana!

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Pinterest & Giveaway #3

I am linking up with The Vintage Apple today for her Oh How Pinteresting link up! Here are a few of my favorite pins for the week:

And to the giveaway...

One of my favorite new purchases came from Primele, your giveaway today! When the bird & I moved into our new house... I had to have one of these:

That does this:

Only... with our names on it ;)

And I think you need one too!

Today, Rachel from Primele is giving away a custom stamp of your choice!

To ENTER:
Required
• Follow Birdie to be
• Visit her shop and tell me which one you would choose

Extras
• Follow Birdie to be on Twitter
• Follow Primele here
• And here
 

Leave a separate comment for each.
Winner will be selected & announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

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Giveaway: Day 2, with Lulu!

Hello all! I have a fabulous gift card available for you guys today!

Stephanie, from Lulu & Drew, is graciously giving away a $30 gift card!

Look how gorgeous her pieces are:

These would make for a perfect gift! (Giving to yourself counts too!)

To ENTER:
Required
• Follow Birdie to be
• Visit her shop and tell me your favorite piece

Extras
• Follow Birdie to be on Twitter
• Follow Lulu & Drew on Twitter

Leave a separate comment for each.
Winner will be selected & announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

And ps... Don't forget about yesterday's lovely giveaway from MegMac
AND
come back tomorrow for Day 3!


Easy as pie! Good luck!

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MegMac + Giveaway (numero uno)

Hi Birdie Fans!

Meghan here, from MegMac Designs. 

First of all, many many congrats to Jessica on 100 followers! 

whoop-whoop!

 Jessica was kind enough to ask me to participate in her 100 week, 

and OF COURSE I said yes.

Let’s get acquainted, shall we?

where do you live and what is your favorite thing to do?

I currently live in Chicago, IL., land of the eternal winter.

(alright maybe I’m just a little bitter because we had our first snow already....)

I love all things crafty & DIY, a good bargain, baking, playing music & photographing...anything (seriously, never without my camera)

how did you start your business/shop?

My whole life I’ve been reffered to by family & friends as “The Crafty Beaver”

I always handmade cards, gifts, etc. I always got feedback that I should sell my stuff & for awhile I did it as a little side income. Jut recently I took the plunge into full-time self employment, and while it’s definitely taxing, it’s so fun to be able to make a living doing what I love. 

what is your dream job? if you could do anything in the world what would it be?

Honestly, this is my dream job, 

(wouldn’t mind making more money, but you gotta start somewhere, right?) 

I would love the opportunity to work with the queen bee, Martha,

and I would be totally open for touring as a back-up singer for a rockstar.

Hey, you said dream job, didn’t you?

what are you currently working on?

Well, it’s Christmas season, so I’ve got lot’s of card designs to work on. I’m always working on weddings & bachelorette parties too.

(Check out the shop to see if I can help you too)

tell me about your giveaway...

The giveaway! Free Stuff! Yay!

I’m offering a complimentary set of personalized 3x5 notecards. 

I generally work on a custom basis, so we can dream up any design your little heart desires, 

but here & here are some designs I’ve done in the past.

Good luck, readers! Pleasure meeting all of you! Stop by MegMac Designs and say hi or give us a thumbs up on Facebook!

Have a great day!

To ENTER:

Required

• Follow Birdie to be

• Follow MegMac

Extras

• Follow Birdie to be on Twitter

• Like MegMac on FB

Leave a separate comment for each. Good Luck!

Winner selected & announced Tuesday, November 22nd!

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Friday's Fancies: Sparkled

First of all, Happy 11.11.11! I bet there are some lucky couples out there getting married today! Seriously cool anniversary!

I am linking up with Long Distance Loving today for her Friday's Fancies. I always have so much fun putting together outfits. I had an especially fabulous time this week, putting together this sparkly number! Does this scream a super cute NYE get up, or what?!

Brought to you by Anthropologie

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And lastly, ALL next week I will be celebrating my fabulous 100 followers! Stay tuned for some sweet giveaways & guest posts to come! Yipee!

Happy Weekend! Xo

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Its a wrap!

I found some lovely gift wrap ideas I wanted to share!

I am all for diy & lovely unique wrapping. Make your gifts stand out from the rest. :)

Real Simple

Chewing the Cud

A Little Hut

Formal Fringe

Velvet Moss via Last-Minute Knitted Crafts

If only we had these gift wrap stations at home...

Crafty Nest

Martha Stewart via Home Decorators

Family Circle

Happy Wrapping!

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