Giveaway Winner!

We Have A Winner!

{My apologies that this is a day early - it looks like Mat and I are going to be on the road all day tomorrow and I would much rather not leave you all hanging in suspense}


Random.org provided me with with the #8...

The 8th person to comment was Leslie!

Leslie wrote:
We would hang stockings on christmas eve and then "santa" would come while we were sleeping but my parents were jerks about it in the morning. (if you know my mom, this is all the funnier) We'd be up at 7:00am and we'd go into our parents room because we weren't allowed to go downstairs to see the presents until everyone was ready. This is where they became jerks: My parents would go downstairs and put on coffee. We'd sit on the stairs waiting for the coffee to brew.. then they'd pour themselves a cup and my mom and dad would come upstairs and climb BACK into bed, sitting up against the headboard slowly sipping their coffee with a smirk. We'd have to wait til they finished their coffee before going downstairs. it was christmas HELL. ;) But now that I look back, it was funny. They only did it because they enjoyed giving us a hard time. I see you and Mat doing the same thing.

Congrats Les! Your cards will be in the mail soon!

Thanks to everyone who entered - be sure to check back again as I'll be doing more giveaways in December!

Also - the photo a day will be on a bit of a hiatus as well since we'll be away for a few days. But that just means there'll be one BIG posting when I return!

Toodles!

Giveaway!

Since it's almost Christmas time & I'm in a giving mood, I thought a giveaway would be appropriate for my internet friends.

{I'm also cheating & making it the photo of the day for Nov 23rd}

I thought I would giveaway this pack of 5 'Neapolitan' all occasion cards.

They're all handmade by me, & are perfect for little thank you notes or you can wrap the whole set & re-gift them to someone as a stocking stuffer for Christmas!

{I'm all for re-gifting}

To top it all off, they come in this cute little collection box.

To win, please leave me a comment about your favorite Christmas tradition - ps. you can have an EXTRA chance to win if you refer a friend & have them enter the contest too, but make sure to tell them to mention your name in their comment!

The winner will be announced Thursday December 10th.

Bread

Photo for Nov 22nd 2009

My Homemade/Handmade Bread

Pre-Baked

Baking

Baked

Yum.
So good.
So easy.

Super Quick & Easy Bread for Lazy Bakers

INGREDIENTS:
4 cups warm water
8 TBSP white sugar
4 TBSP instant yeast
4 TBSP extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp. salt
7-9 cups flour

DIRECTIONS:
Mix sugar in 1 cup of warm water until sugar is dissolved.
Stir in yeast.
Let sit until it doubles in size.

Put oil & salt in a large bowl.
Add yeast/sugar mix & remaining 3 cups of warm water.
Stir in flour 2/3 cups at a time - (until stirring is no longer possible)
Turn dough over on to a floured surface & knead in remaining flour (no more than 9 cups)

Cut dough into three equal pieces & let rise for 15 minutes.

Grease three loaf pans while you're waiting & preheat over to 350 degrees.

Place each piece of dough into a loaf pan & let rise again for 15/20 minutes.

NOTE: Make sure the dough is in a warm area while its rising. I'll place the loaf pans on the stove, while the oven in preheating to keep them warm.

Once doughs have rising, place in the oven for 30/40 minutes.

Let cool on baking rack for a few minutes & then pop them out of the loaf pans.



These loaves freeze well. Enjoy!

Oh & stay tuned for giveaway details!!

Technicalities

Photo for - Nov 21 2009

Some of you may think this is cheating - photographing the cards I made on the 20th - but technically I got home after midnight so it counts.

{yay for technicalities!}

Besides, I finished a whole bunch of them on the 21st.

64 cards done.

I'll take pics of all them them later.
{Maybe this week if you're lucky & I'm not lazy}

& maybe since I like some of you I'll do a little giveaway this week!
Stay tuned for details!

Welcome!

Hi Everyone and welcome to SweetLimeDesign!

This blog is my attempt to share my love for scrapbooking and card-making with the worldwide creative community.

I hope to share with you many pictures of my work, tutorials, product reviews, give-aways, tips, tricks and techniques.

My hope is that yuo'll find something interesting here to incorporate into your own work and then share it with me!


But scrapbooking isn't all. I also hope to share a bit of my life online. I'm a twentysomething Christian, happily married, living in Ontario, working with an awesome youth organization (Youth Unlimited). I just recently graduated from an amazing university with a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies. My hubby and I have many hopes and dreams and I'd like to share just a bit of that journey with everyone through scrapbooking.

I welcome you and I am so excited to get to know you! So who are you anyway? Where are you from? How long have you been scrapbooking or card making?

Oh, and much and many thanks to my friend, Jay MacKay for his incredible help with this blog. He's a great guy...no really...great.