Wino Wednesday

I love wine. You love wine. So why not dedicate the middle of the week to talking about wine?

Today's wine is a family favorite and so good that we buy it by the case.

Raymond Cabernet - we currently are drinking the 2008.

It's lush, vanilla-y, dark cherry, and as formal reviews say "On the palate, this big, bold, well-structured Cabernet has concentrated flavors of dark chocolate, tobacco and spice, with a toasty, long finish."

It's pretty freakin yummy.

It's a great go-to for parties or just sitting around the house in sweatpants.

Yes. Sweatpants.

At about $18 a bottle, it's a winner!

My Memories Digital Scrabook - GIVEAWAY!

I'm. NOT. Crafty.

I glue my fingers together.
I staple my shirt to the paper.
I maybe get more glitter in my hair than I do on the paper.

So when My Memories approached me about reviewing Digital Scrapbooking Software, my ears perked up. I love computers. I am always more comfortable with computers. I sit on one all day at my job and I am in charge of most of our technological training.

You can say that I may be creative, but not good with my hands!

Downloading couldn't have been easier.

Once I downloaded the product, I started poking around.
I picked a standard template and started tweaking it.

I started changing colors and text and adding photos, with many easy to understand buttons and menus to choose from.

 Finished Product:

I know this is a little simple, but it literally took me 10 minutes. I can't imagine what I could come up with if I had an hour to sit and play around.

If you look closely to the menu bar on the left hand side of the software, there are templates you can download for free if you aren't finding what you need already loaded.

Basically the possibilities are ENDLESS.

My favorite part about My Memories has to be the endless creative outlets. I created a photobook through another software over the holidays and I was very limited in design and extras. This is just like paper scrapbooking with with easy edits and NO GLUE!

Here's the fun part for YOU!

You can get the My Memories Suite for $29.97 using the code STMMMS23148, PLUS get a $10 coupon for the My Memories.com store! Just visit this link and add the Suite to your cart, enter the promo code at checkout to receive the $10 off.

One of you will win the My Memories Suite ( a $39.97 value)!

To Enter: 

• Visit My Memories and leave me a comment telling me what caught your eye.

For extra entries: 

• "Like" My Memories on Facebook and leave a comment.
• Follow My Memories on Twitter and leave a comment.

I will close this down on Thursday and announce the winner on Friday! Good luck!!

*Thank you to My Memories for the software so that I could review, giveaway, and have a new obsession :) *

Product of the Week

It's not a secret that I am a bit of a wino. Therefore I thought it would be most appropriate if my product of the week was wine related.

For Christmas I was given the ultimate of coolest gifts.

A Corkcicle.

WHAT is a Corkcicle you ask?

It's this:

Via: Amazon

It's this nifty little thing you put in your white wine to keep it cold so you can leave it on the table and reduce those pesky trips to the refrigerator.

The only downside?

I have yet to have a bottle of wine last long enough to really use it much...

Don't judge me.

So, my fellow wine lovers, get yourself a Corkcicle!

Life's too short to get up a bajillonty times to refill your glass!

Link up and tell us your product of the week!

Mission Organization

I have been on a bit of an organization kick.

See we live in a 1,200 square foot 1954 "ranch" house. 3 bedrooms, one bath. We are cozy to say the least.

I mean, I have to share one bathroom with my husband folks!

Needless to say, things get piled and shoved around until I can't take it anymore and i do something about it.

First I attacked the Living Room Play Room. I went to Target and bought 2 pop up laundry baskets to sort toys. One has little toys, one has the bigger ones.

This makes cleaning up at night so much faster. Plus as we teach him to sort and put things away I can feel like I am super mom for thinking up a learning game!

Then I designated another basket for stuff that has parts that need to stay together, like his wooden puzzle train, etc.
I also chose another shelf for his books. Granted all he wants to do right now is pull them all off the shelf, but at least when he is in bed it looks like I deliberately put the books there.

Now let's ignore the fingerprints on the glass door...

Now onto the 3rd bedroom in our house which is a dual function Guest Room and Office. I have been drooling over the Pottery Barn Office System for YEARS. Finally I just splurged and ordered it. Now above the desk is a mini command center that will hopefully help keep junk off the desk itself.

Have you been organizing lately? Any big projects?

Girly Baby Shower

Saturday morning I co-hosted a shower for a very good friend of mine, Carlin! This is her second baby but it's a girl so it was time to lavish her in all things pink!

The Table

The Cake - Nothing "Bundt" Cakes

The bud vase holds up the letter

Menu

Blood Orange Mimosas

Katie - my co-host

Salmon

French Toast, potatoes, eggs, chicken sausage, and fruit to make you feel healthy!

Congrats Carlin!

Product of the Week

Well hello there everyone, welcome!

It's that time of the week where I tell you all about something that makes me super happy in some way. While the obvious thing would be wine, I decided to think hard about something that makes life better and settled on this:

Williams Sonoma

Flexible measuring cups.

For one - GENIUS!

For two - it is a set of three - so you don't have to dirty the large one to measure one cup of wine liquid for a recipe. You can microwave them too. There is even a picture of someone using an immersion blender in the large one.

Woah.

So these cups make my kitchen time happy.

To be fair, these do too:

Which should need no explanation...

*Check out other Products of the Week here!

Where I Blog

I saw this going around and decided to participate.

The hard part about this is that I don't always blog in the same place. Sometimes I blog from our office at home. Sometimes I blog at the kitchen table. Most of the time I blog while I watch TV at night after Logan is asleep. It usually looks like this:

I first saw this over at Coffee Lovin Mom (we could be the same person I think...) and then there is a bigger link up here:



Enjoy!