Bloggy Carnival- Day 2 Giveaway

Have you been over to Bloggy Giveaways for their Bloggy Carnival? There are a TON of giveaways right now across the blog globe! We are offering prizes everyday. Did you get a chance to enter our contest from yesterday for a $50 gift certificate to Sweet Pea Cakes, etc.? Well hop on over here and enter!!

Now for today's giveaway! It is for U.S. only and runs til midnight on Saturday, August 2nd! Make sure when you enter that you leave a valid email address so that I can contact you when you win!

The prize we are giving away is an adorable gift basket filled with Bath and Body works Sweet Pea soap, lotion and shimmering lotion, along with one of our travel manicure or pedicure sets in vanilla. (ribbon will be in pinks and purples). You will also find a sponge and candles. (valued at $50)

Basket is wrapped in cellophane and ribbons and ready for anyone needing some pampering. Here is a picture of our travel sets. I will post a picture of the basket as soon as I get my camera battery charged... and after I find the charger. I have a feeling some little hands have hidden it from me!

Now here is what you have to do to enter or your comment will not be entered:

simply visit our site and let us know your favorite and any suggestion for a new themed diaper cake or towel cake. That's it. Please add your email address. If you would like a bonus entry, simply add our button to your blog. (you can find the button code at the bottom of our home page)

Good Luck!! stop by again tomorrow to enter more contests. Feel free to add us to your favorites or grab our feed so you are always updated on what is going on here!

~Dawn

Bloggy Carnival- Day 1 Giveaway

Well it is that time of the year for the quarterly Bloggy Giveaways Carnvial! I am going to hold a giveway each day this week! So please stop back to see each post since you will have to enter each contest separately. All contests are for U.S. Shipping only! And please make sure to post your email address in your comments so that I may contact you!

Ok so I have been trying to decide on what cool gifts to give out this year and what you can do to win them! Here goes giveaway #1:

The mission is to travel to Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. and take a look around. If you can answer these 3 questions you will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to our store! If you add our banner (which can be found at the bottom of the home page) you will receive an extra entry to the contest. Please tell me this in your comment!!

Question #1: Name an item in our 100% all organic diaper cakes.

Question #2: All our diaper cakes come with 54 diapers and 15 items hidden inside. Name one item found inside the diaper cake.

Question #3: Name one of our baby bath time towel cakes or children bath time towel cakes.

Bonus Question: What was your favorite item?

That's it!! Good luck on winning the $50 gift certificate!! Don't forget to come back each day this week to enter. This contest ends at midnight on Friday August 1st!! Duplicate entries will be deleted as well as spam. If you don't answer the questions your comment will be deleted. Thank you!! Once you are done here head back over to the Bloggy Carnivals to enter all the hundreds of giveaways!!

~Dawn

Winners from the 100th Post Contest!

I am back in town and finally got all caught up in my work, orders, house cleaning, and summer fun with the kids that I can now post the winners to the contest that are way over due! I apologize to everyone who has been waiting. Now you had to answer all the questions correctly to then be entered into the drawing to win! Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter and to email me the results!!

Here are the answers and here are the winners:

1. Visit Monkey-Toes and look around. How many different pairs of shoes do they offer?
There are 11 pairs of shoes! (two different types of shoes but 11 designs)

2. Visit Baby Candy and check out the organic onesies. Finish this saying "Sugar in ......."
in the raw!

3. Hop over to A Frog in my Soup. How many little "frogs" are there and are they boys or girls?
There are 6 little boy frogs!

4. Munchie Mallow offers adorable accessories for your little girls. Name 3 things from her site.
She offers hair accessories, heart necklaces, tutus, flower hats, flower headbands, clippies.

5. When you can't have edible cake, you can have non-edible at Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. How many items come hidden in the cake? Name one.
15 items
1 handmade swaddle blanket, 2 handmade reversible bibs, Johnson & Johnson body wash, lotion, shampoo, and powder, soothing lotion, desitin, 2 binkie clips, 2 binkies, 2 baby items.

The winner of the $15 gift certificate is: Cindi Hoppes
The winner of the $5 Starbucks gift certificate is: Melissa Jennings
The winner of the onesie size 0-3 months is: (please let me know for boy or for girl): Michelle Rosborough
The winner of The Baby Gizmo Buying Guide is: Greta

All winners have been emailed and have 3 days to send me their address. If I don't hear from them I will draw new names! Thank you again for enterig! Check out my giveaways for the Bloggy Carnival this week!

Have a great week!
~Dawn

Wordless Wednesday- Family Time

Family time in Medora, ND on our camping trip last week. Check out other WW at 5 Minutes for Mom!

~Dawn

Wordless Wednesday- Passing the Test

Monkey got her orange belt on Friday! She passed her test and went from yellow to orange!

Check out other Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Mom!

~Dawn

Wordless Wednesday- The Pond

Water running into the pond, the pond at my mom's and Peanut watching the little fish swimming. Check out all the other Wordless Wednesday posts at 5 Minutes for Mom.

~Dawn

P.S. Please stop by my 100th post party that's going on right now to win some prizes and play some games. Click here to head over!

Here it is.. post 100!! Party time!

Well it's been quite the road in the blogsphere this year! It started off with just a simple pink little blog with a post here and there. I wasn't sure who read it, what to write and even to go and read others. But after being involved with The MomPack and meeting mom bloggers, I have been introduced to the world of blogging. I found out about the product reviews (with help from Olivia owner of BabyCandy), contests, where to submit my products too, meme's, carnivals, stories and getting to make friends with other moms! It's been such a great experience. I also gave my blog a makeover courtesy of Shera from Sweet 'n Simple Designs, started offering product reviews, and hanging out at 5 Minutes for Mom!

So here it is post #100! I was trying to decide what kind of party to throw, what food to offer and prizes to giveaway! First, being its summer I think it's only fitting to have a beach party right here right now! So grab your bathing suit, towel, sunscreen and beach balls and lets held out to get some sun, drink some lemonade and relax by the pool. I have some ice cream sandwiches, cookies and fruit pizza for us to snack on!

Now on to prizes... I didn't even realize how close I was to #100 til it was too late. Otherwise I would have searched high and low for sponsors and giveaways and what not. But instead we are headed to the prize closet to see what we can pull out and giveaway! I have one last copy of The Baby Gizmo buying guide, $5 gift card to Starbucks, $15 gift certificate to Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. and a custom onesie size 0-3 months for the little baby. So now let's see what you have to do to win...

we are going on a scavenger hunt! You must go to all 5 places and come back here with all 5 CORRECT answers to win! Then I will draw 4 winners to receive 1 prize from the list above on July 9th! Winner will have 3 days to claim prize before I draw another winner! Good luck to everyone! Have fun and thanks for celebrating with me! *** NOTE it has been changed so that no one copies anyones answers, I am requesting that instead of leaving a comment here that you email me your answers and I will draw the names. My email is sweetpeacakesetc (at) yahoo (dot) com. I have turned off the comments but still have the people who left one in the drawing! Thank you! ***

1. Visit Monkey-Toes and look around. How many different pairs of shoes do they offer?
2. Visit Baby Candy and check out the organic onesies. Finish this saying "Sugar in ......."
3. Hop over to A Frog in my Soup. How many little "frogs" are there and are they boys or girls?
4. Munchie Mallow offers adorable accessories for your little girls. Name 3 things from her site.
5. When you can't have edible cake, you can have non-edible at Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. How many items come hidden in the cake? Name one.

OK that's it! Have fun and good luck! Check back to see who wins. Make sure to leave a valid email address in your comment so I can contact you. Watch for an email from sweetpeacakesetc (at) yahoo (dot) com!

Thanks!
~Dawn

#99 and when we hit 100 It's party time!

This post right here is post number 99! I can not believe it. So I thought when I write post 100 it should have some kind of celebration... a party.... maybe a giveaway of sorts. So you will have to visit back this weekend and see what happens!! Up ahead I will have a product review for Parking Pal!! I just need to get some pictures of the kids and get that posted up. You will love this one!

This week I have been slacking a bit in the blogging department. I didn't get a Tackle it Tuesday post up, I got the Wordless Wednesday up DURING the day on Wednesday instead of Tuesday night, I didn't even make it to Works for Me Wednesday! It has been a bit crazy. I have been trying to come up with some new cake designs for the website. I have also been trying to "find" my website on Google. Just a few weeks ago I was bouncing between page 2 and page 3 for diaper cakes, THEN I DISAPPEARED. I have no idea what happened. I show up on page 2 for diaper cake centerpieces, I believe page 3 or 5 for diaper cupcakes, page 1 for wedding towel cakes and organic diaper cakes and so forth. So I have no idea what happened. I am trying not to lose sleep over it but I am. I am still working on getting my products into gift shops and they are now in a hospital gift shop in New Hampshire. :) I also have about 10 websites drop shipping the exclusive diaper cakes. I decided to design cakes that were only for whole sale and drop shipping and not available on my site to keep people buying from the other retailers and not traveling over to shop. So we will see how that goes.

Now onto the next thing: my part time job. I got tired of my child support coming in whenever it wanted and I was also nervous how my sales would be this summer since last summer was beyond SLOW. But of course the first weekend of June I had multiple orders every day and I actually got child support. And now I am stuck with a job. It's not too bad just a few hours a day in the afternoon while Peanut naps at Grandma's and Monkey plays with the neighbor kids. I make calls for an Insurance company and then go back home to work on Sweet Pea Cakes. I guess as a single mom you've got to do what you got to do right?

UGH then there is all the cleaning and laundry to do which is just not that fun during the summer months when you want to take the kids to the pool, park, zoo, museums and everything else OUTSIDE. How does one stay motivated?!?!? I have been enjoying penciling in some time for myself to read each night. I find it helps clear my head and relieve some stress. I am hoping to finish a book a week for the rest of the summer. **crossing fingers**

This weekend I am going to be setting up a booth at the local park for a summer event by my friends realty group. I am hoping it brings in some good exposure and that I don't get sun burned. I also am joining in with a great group of WAHM for a Summer Sample Sale at a local cupcake bakery in Denver. I am really excited about this. I think this will be a fun way to display some great local companies and enjoy some sweets too. We haven't done this before so it will be a great way to see what this brings for each company.

So how is your summer going? What are some unique ways you are having fun? What would you like to see at the 100th Post Party??

Hey can you believe all these floods and tornadoes? The economy stinks and now we have Mother Nature kicking us while we are down? What can we do to help???

~Dawn

Wordless Wednesday- Flowers

Taking some pictures of the beautiful flowers at my mom's house. Check out other Wordless Wednesday posts over at 5 minutes for mom!

Sensational Sunday

With yesterday being Father's Day, I did not get the Sensational Sunday post up! But here it is anyway, just a day late.

When it comes to love and our children, love is not hard at all. While they try our patients, create messes, run and scream, at the end of the day they are still our children we love deeply. At times it can be straining to give all children their own undivided attention, especially if you have several children, but how important it is that we do. While being present with them at the dinner table, at bath time, cleaning up after them is part of the daily routine, actually spending quality time to find out who they are is number 1, and often the last thing done.

Finding activities to do as a family is a great thing to do. But I have found too that I must schedule play dates individually with each of my girls. Not only because of their age difference but because they have very different personalities. My little one gets her one on one play time, walks, reading and cuddle time, while my oldest gets trips out and about, talks over ice cream, spending time writing together and reading.

As they get older and hit the teen years, I am hoping we continue to do this. I want to be able to protect them and for them to seek comfort in their family life instead of adding to their already stressful teen years. What are you doing with your children? How are you creating a trusting, loving environment to soften the busy work week?

At church our pastor played a video, to remind parents on protecting their children with their "wings" just as Jesus did with his. Instead of adding heat to our children's desert, we should be a spot for shade and rest. Here is the video:



I love this song too. It's "Everything" by Lifehouse. :)
Have fun with your kids this week!
~Dawn

Winners and Contests

The winner of the Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. contest for a $50 gift certificate is....

comment #13- Mattie. Winner has been left a comment on her blog and has 5 days to claim her prize!

Thank you all for stopping by! This month we will be offering FREE SHIPPING and other giveaways! Be sure to check Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. often!

In the meantime, here is another contest you can enter:

Little Ladybug Designs is giving away a custom mommy calling card design to one lucky winner! The contest ends June 30th at 6:00pm. The design is designed with Vista Print's specifications so that you can print your own cards.

Visit http://www.littleladybugdesigns.com/contact.php to Enter the Little Ladybug Designs Mommy Calling Card Design Contest!!! Please put Mommy Calling Card Contest in the comments box. All contest entries will be added to our newsletter list. Winners will be picked randomly. Only one entry per per person.

Have a great weekend! Stop by tomorrow for Sensational Sunday and new updates!
~Dawn

Wordless Wednesday- Baseball Games

Date night for Monkey and I at Saturday night's Rockies Game. We had amazing seats down the first base line and watched the Rockies hit a Grand Slam in the first inning. Truly amazing! Such a fun night! Check out all other Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Mom!

~Dawn

Sensational Sunday

This Sunday I just want to put in a little saying or quote if you will, that can get you inspired to think about where you are at in life. How do you react when something goes wrong? How do you handle pressure? When you get stressed out do you find yourself taking it out on the kids? Your husband? Your wife? Anyone around you? How do you "reconnect"? I have found breathing deep, listening to relaxing music, lighting some candles and meditating has really helped me reach a new found sense of clarity, calm and reconnect to what is important to me.

"Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied- that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of God working through us all."

Can you tell when you have a "sign" in your life? Can you follow your gut instinct? I find it can be hard to catch the signs unless you are clear and looking for them. Is it a sign from God that I should meet this person or my own attraction? Should I be doing this job because I am meant to do it or it's testing my faith in the job I am at now? It's hard to know what is or isn't. But giving faith and praying can bring unexpected answers.

~Dawn

Lemonade, baseball and fun!

I haven't gotten to post much lately since the big day was finally here! Yes that's right Lemonade Days arrived! It was finally time for Monkey to set up her charity lemonade stand to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation! There was a lot to do to prepare for it and the last finishing touches on the stand needed to be made. Friday morning we were running a bit behind trying to get balloons and ice and get set up that we missed FOX news! But that's ok our local paper came to take pictures and Saturday came to interview us. It was HOT on Friday and Monkey ended up a bit sunburned after being outside for 5 hours! But day 1 was busy and we had a decent turn out. On Saturday Channel 2 News came out and we ended up on the 9:00 news! Very exciting. We had a better turnout although we were hoping to have a flood of people. But there is always next year. We are still excepting donations online til early next year. Our plan is to set up the lemonade stand every year and help collect money to find a cure for childhood cancer! Maybe we will get others to hold one too. It was very enjoyable and I had a great time hanging with my daughter knowing she was doing something good for other children. It wasn't about her it was about what she can do to help others, since she is a smart and healthy girl! I hope that she feels inspired to do more as time goes on.

After we shut down the stand on Saturday, we ventured out to the Rockies game to try and get a Tulo bobblehead doll. They were OUT when we got there. Amazing. Luckily, Grandpa got their early and got us one! We enjoyed the game- just the two of us- while Peanut stayed home with Grandma. In the first inning the Rockies hit a Grand Slam followed by another home run ! It was very exciting. What a fun game to go to.

Today we enjoyed some good weather and sporting our new dresses for church. Then of course there was the cleaning to do, grocery shopping, diaper cake making and all of the "usual" duties! Now here is it late and I am trying to get all the blogging done, pictures loaded, get a couple of loads of laundry done and that's about it! Check back for Wordless Wednesday to see some more pictures.

Have a good one!

~Dawn

And the winner is..

Hey everyone sorry to take forever to announce winners! This week has been crazy (posts on it will be coming up shortly!) But I do have the winners for the Inspired by Angels contest and for Mainely Naturals!

So first off is the winner for a free design or 50 business cards from Inspired by Angels..

comment #6 Kristinia!! I have left a message for her and wait to hear back!

The winner for the $20 gift certificate for Mainely Naturals is...

Comment #8 Jinxy and me! I have left a message for her as well!

If I don't hear back from either winner in 5 days I will draw again!

Don't forget to enter into the Sweet Pea Cakes, etc. Contest for a $50 gift certificate good for anything in the store- diaper cakes, swaddle blankets, towel cakes, and more!

Thanks everyone for entering!

~Dawn