Sunday, February 26, 2012

THE GIANT GIVEAWAY AUCTION sneak peek!

If you have been following along this month you know I have had my 1000th sale on etsy!! To celebrate this March 1 there will be a multi vendor auction featuring the work of
http://www.everydaydiamonds.etsy.com/

http://www.purpleowlwitch.etsy.com/

http://www.turtlefly.etsy.com/

http://www.duncanclay.deviantart.com/

http://www.auntkatymadeit.etsy.com/

http://www.julieellyndesigns.etsy.com/

http://www.tattingforspirit.etsy.com/

http://www.berboo.etsy.com/

http://www.ginalouisedesigns.com/

http://www.whimsicalwishesbystormy.etsy.com/

http://www.jaimeddesigns.com/
http://www.eruckman.etsy.com/

http://www.thevividpeach.etsy.com/

http://www.throughmylens.etsy.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/samanthaRmontgomery?ref=ss_profile

http://www.karenswimmer.etsy.com/



as well as gift items also donated by
 http://www.upstateherbworks.etsy.com/
http://www.justkiddingcreations.com/
http://www.beatricclanore.etsy.com/

On March1  I will be adding a folder chock full of items at great starting prices! Each seller receives all the money and each payment will go through a PayPal invoice. The auction will run March 1 at 9 am -March 3 at 9 pm.  Each initial bid on any item will be counted as an entry into the giant giveaway of $300 worth of handmade fabulous creations.

The gift basket includes:
set of 2 hair pins, a pair of frog fun earrings, a pair of hand tatted silk flower earrings, a tutu, a matted moon flower picture, an original mixed media art print, a crocheted newsboy hat, a stuffed rabbit fleece, hand stamped necklace and bracelet,$20 gift certificate to the vivid peach, 2 bars of cold process soap, $20 gift certificate to JulieEllyn Designs, a $25 gift certificate to Jaime D Designs, an original water color painting, a set of chap sticks, a $20 gift certificate to Whimsical Wished by Stormy,a set of upcycled arm warmers as well as a $50 gift certificate to karenswimmer.

To be entered into the GIANT giveaway, please visit each shop, leave your favorite item from each shop here or on my all at www.facebook.com/DuncanCreative

Friday, February 24, 2012

Giant Giveaway Part 2

We are getting so close to the giveaway and Auction..I can barely keep it together with all the cute things coming into this house!!!
New shops added to the list:
http://www.jaimeddesigns.com/
http://www.upstateherbworks.etsy.com/
http://www.purpleowlwitch.etsy.com/
http://www.originalfrosties.etsy.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/samanthaRmontgomery?ref=ss_profile





I am so lucky to know such talented sellers.  Up next for All Things DuncanCreative.  Auction sellers and Auction Start on March 1-3rd.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Giant Giveaway Part 1

I am so thankful to all the great etsy sand facebook sellers I have met in the last year! In honor of 1000 sales on etsy I contacted some of these amazing sellers and together we have put together a gift basket and an auction.
Gift Basket Donors:
www.beatriceclanore.etsy.com
www.tattingforspirit.etsy.com
www.berboo.etsy.com
www.julieellyn.etsy.com
www.justkiddingcreations.etsy.com
www.facebook.com/AuntKatyMadeIt
www.lifethroughmylens.etsy.com
www.whimsicalwishesbystormy.etsy.com
www.eruckman.etsy.com
www.ginalousiedesigns.etsy.com
www.thevividpeach.etsy.com
www.facebook.com/EverydayDiamonds
To enter..leave a comment here or on www.facebook.com/DuncanCreative
and like each shop.

March 1-3rd
Giftbasket donors as well as a few surprise sellers will be auctioning off their fabulous wares on my facebook page..all initial entries will be used as additional entries. A few visuals for the giveaway...look for part 2 at the end of the week:)




Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Hearts Day

Today was filled with love...and so was yesterday and tomorrow. valentines Day has changed around here. No longer is it a quest to say what my husband and I did...dinner, flowers, candy..actually I am not 100% we ever did all the traditional things in one go ever. This year was about watching Brady fill out all 17 cards, and the joy of showing all of the ones he received. It was watching Ryan toy with being cool...and his love of candy warring. (he brought them to school...but didn't write any names). Mitchell is learning via friends the balance of liking a girl and how to appropriately show this. Each child looks at girls and love in a different way. Some of Mitchell's friends are dating, Ryan admitted to his first crush on a long time friend, and Brady wrote adorable love letters to his friend Sofia...and forgot to give them to her in the chaos of Valentines Day.

Tonight Randy is working. Last night he walked in with my favorite iced coffee and a bottle of wine. Tomorrow I will make his favorite dinner of sloppy joes and tater tots. The small things add up all year,which makes feb 14 th just a day on the calendar.
But since it is Valentines Day the bast gift..pizza and wing delivery from my parents. No cooking, or dishes..happy kids, happy mom.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Duncan Dinner Time Feb

Well it is that time again..food in the house is down to those choices no one really wants..or left over from the last big shopping trip. Amazing the amount that was left..boxes of rice, a whole chicken, a bunch of bread mixes, cans galore. Went about this month with a better idea of what he still had left over and decided I wasn't as good at sticking to my plan last month...I had 5 dinners that were not even made so I am chalking those up to takeout, cereal, or fend for yourself.

Feb dinners:
1. Ham steaks with mashed cauliflower and broccoli spears
2. Supper nachos
3. Red lentil soup
4. Pulled pork (crockpot) and cornbread
5. Mr bowjangles(chicken Bow tie and broccoli with sweet sauce)
6. Mostly green chicken curry over rice (Rachel ray)
7. Roasted 40 clove chicken and roasted root veg
8. Dinosaur BBQ Mac and cheese shpeards pie
9. Tuscan style white bean soup(crockpot..left over from last month menu)
10. Mke your own heart pizza
11. Sloppy Joes and Tater Tots (valentines day dinner for randy...blech)
12. Tacos
13. Yellow bow ties of texas( bow tie pasta, ground turkey black beans..spicy)
14 picadillo( left over from the month before)
15. Data fajita salad
16. Egg noodles , spicy sausage, broccoli..ry's fav dinner
17. The big chili
18. Wowi Maui chicken
19 shrimp pasta and pesto over angel hair
20. Rope Beja and Mexican rice
21. Chicken parm and salad and garlic bread
22. Kielbasa and egg noodles and salad
23. Notsagna ( Mitchell's fav)
24. Chicken cous cous and baked zucchini
25 beef stew

I pulled out one of my favorite low fat cookbooks "crazy plates" and I will post those recipes thought the month.