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WIN the ULTIMATE “Valentine’s Day Basket” + Blog Hop {now closed}

January 15, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 667 Comments

Love is in the air, friends!

We are celebrating February, 14th 2014 with an incredible giveaway that you won’t want to miss!

Are you ready for this?! TWENTY-EIGHT of our FAVORITE bloggers have put together amazing Valentine’s Day baskets filled with everything you will need for fun, romantic night! That’s right, ladies… no more stressing over what to do or scrambling at the last minute to pull together a memorable evening.

Valentine’s Day is 100% planned for the lucky recipients of these twenty-eight gorgeous baskets!

Each of us are giving away a unique themed date night basket valued at over $100 each to make your evening something you will treasure forever!

Here’s a peak at all 28 giveaway baskets:

See the whole post.

Are you ready for a chance to enter 28 AMAZING Giveaways AND meet some of our favorite blogging friends? Welcome to The ULTIMATE Valentine’s Day Basket + Blog Hop!!

Here’s What You Do:

#1) Are you sitting down?!! Ready to feast on all the delicious eye candy of the amazing giveaways you are about to enter? I thought so!

#2) Scroll down further in this post to get a more DETAILED description of what WE’RE giving away.

#3) Enter OUR giveaway at the very bottom of the post.

#4) Time to start “blog-hopping!” Click on each of our friends’ links below and enter ALL of their giveaways!

#5) Definitely take time to check out each of these sites. We have quite the variety of talented ladies participating in this! You are in for a REAL treat!!

I am super excited about my date night giveaway basket! Here’s a little sneak peek. Let’s just say it involves chocolate and lots of it!

Click on each link to view each site, and enter to win their “Valentine’s Date Night” basket. If you receive an error message, click to the blog’s home page. So many amazing dates right at your fingertips!

1. The Dating Divas 2. Bombshell Bling 3. Thirty Handmade Days 4. All Things Thrifty 5. No Biggie 6. A Little Tipsy 7. The Crafting Chicks 8. Capturing Joy with Kristen Duke 9. Skip To My Lou 10. Snap 11. Fun Cheap Or Free 12. Positively Spendid 13. My Sister’s Suitcase 14. The 36th Avenue 15. Smitten By 16. The Idea Room 17. 4 Men 1 Lady 18. Girl Loves Glam 19. The Diva Dish 20. Entirely Eventful Day 21. Tatertots & Jello 22. Just A Girl 23. Dollar Store Crafts 24. The SITS Girls 25. Lolly Jane 26. Design Dazzle 27. My Insanity 28. Not Just A Housewife

Our basket includes everything needed for a romantic and indulgent evening of Chocolate Tasting. Did you know that there really is a “proper way” to taste chocolate? Do you know what the different % of Cacao on those fancy chocolate bars even means? Well, with this basket, you too can become a chocolate connoisseur!

You’ll find : six premium chocolate bars (Ghiradellhi, Godiva, Lindt, etc) ranging from intense dark to white, little red bucket, cinnamon scented candles and glass holders, “A Love Like Ours” book of love quotes, cute little love box to put love a love note or small gift in, two wine glasses, heart table scatter, felt heart stickers, four styles of ribbon, two rolls of washi tape, two black place mats, two white plates, heart napkins, two pens, felt heart garland, tasting mat, score care and chocolate tasting date instructions.

You want it, right? Though, if no one enters I can keep it. 😉

And, just in case you want to plan this one o your own, check out the Dating Divas where they give you the full chocolate tasting date details.

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Giveaway is open to U.S. residents and closes midnight MST on January 24th.

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Garage Mud Room with Metal Lockers

January 9, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 7 Comments

Post sponsored by schoollockers.com.

I have always wanted a mud room, but let’s be real, in this house it just isn’t going to happen. There is no room inside to convert. Not even a closet I could make do. So, I got to looking around and there was a space that would work right outside the door in the garage. There is an odd place where the wall sticks out that we never really did anything with. It was a junk collecting place, but now it is the perfect place for each of my boys to have a little space of their own.

Read on to see before and afters!

As you can see, the before is not impressive. It was a dumping ground for junk, in this case boxes from Christmas. Anyone do much of their shopping online?

We started by getting three metal lockers from schoollockers.com. I ordered gray, but they come in a rainbow of colors. They are 15″ x 15″ x 54″ and are the perfect size for my little boys and even for my husband. I’ll show you what I mean a little later. We all got to work putting them together. The assembly is super simple. My three year old and six year old could easily help with the nuts and bolts.

Once the lockers were all put together, we placed them in the garage. Our garage floor is sloped so we did not bolt the lockers together, but with them up against the wall we felt they were secure enough individually.

My boys love having their own space to fill how they like and I love that there are tons of hooks for storage. For my six year old that means: coat, backpack, snow boots, basketball and hat. My husband’s holds his cleats and multiple jackets and my three year old’s holds snow clothes and umbrellas. I love that men’s size jackets fit and little kid jackets and backpacks leave room for items on the floor. I’ll be adding carpet squares (they have some at the dollar store I can cut to size) to the bottom to catch water from dripping clothes/boots.

We have limited storage in our house and with our boys transitioning to share a room we needed space in their closet. Vertical space is a nice commodity so we added some plastic storage bins on top of the lockers to hold, sports gear, sleeping bags, etc. that were cluttering up their closet. The current sport can be housed in their locker (thus the basketball) and the rest on top in the bins until their season comes around again.

I am loving this garage mud room and the boys think the lockers are super cool like the kind they’ll get at school when they are big kids. Mom is happy because I have a feeling metal lockers will be able to take a beating from growing boys and now some of the closet clutter has an organized home. My kids can’t wait to personalize their lockers with name magnets. I also think we will add a shelf above the bins for trophies and awards. It’s the perfect place to show off their collections without having an overly crowded dresser top.

What do you think? Would you use metal lockers in your garage/home?

Disclosure: I was provided lockers for review. I liked the lockers so much that I purchased a third to have one for each of my guys. The opinions and ideas are all my own.

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January Visiting Teaching Message Handout

January 7, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 2 Comments

The January Visiting Teaching Message is titled: The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Exemplar. It talks of how as we understand that Jesus Christ is our example in all things, we can increase our desire to follow Him.

I love this quote by Linda K. Burton Relief Society general president. She says, “As we understand that Jesus Christ is our example in all things, we can increase our desire to follow Him.”