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Day 21: Sweet Shoppe Saturday 5/21

Happy Saturday Sweet Shoppers! Your favorite day of the week is here and I have lots of sweet treats for you to indulge in, so here’s your first look at this week’s sweet new stuff… The end of the school year is just about here and we have some amazing kits to send off the […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 20: bookworm

Hello! I’m Julie Billingsley and I’m a bookworm! LOL I know I’m not alone, because the Sweet Shoppe forum has frequent discussions of books and e-readers. In the craziness that plagues most of my days, there are few things that bring me bliss like quiet time with a good book. My love of reading was […]

365 Days of Bliss: Day 19 – The end is only the beginning…

Hello everyone!! Laurie  (LibbysMommy) here and today I get to share some thoughts on something that is really pretty big in our lives right now. Can you believe it’s nearing the end of the school year already? I know I can’t. It seems like just yesterday that my daughter Libby was entering Kindergarten. I remember […]

365 Days of Bliss: Day 18 – Making Whoopie!

Pies that is! Hey Sweet Shopper’s Nikki (nikkiARNGwife) here with a post about one of my absolute favorite things to do…BAKE! lol So when I was thinking of what I wanted to feature for our first recipe post I knew it would have to be something “sweet” and so for days and days I went […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 17: Life Choice Gathering

Going back to Sept. 2010, my 17yr old dd Charlie Gonzalez passed away. She was declared officially brain dead on 9.25.10 and that is when my family and I were approached by Donate Life. They humbly asked if we had ever talked about organ donation with Charlie because she was so young and what our […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 16: Engaging and LOTW

This weekend my hubby and I celebrated the anniversary of our engagement. (Don’t ask him when it was, because he will absolutely NOT know. I am lucky when he remembers our actual wedding anniversary!) Thinking back on that day is wonderful! I was ornery, then surprised, and completely ecstatic. In my scrapping lately I have […]

365 Days Of Bliss – Day 15: Making Plans

Hello, I’m Andrea and I am so pleased to be here on the blog today as I have an exciting announcement I am ………………… I know that those of you who enjoy doing any kind of craft will share in my excitement at the thought of a new craft room.  Somewhere to keep all my crafty stash […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 14: Sweet Shoppe Saturday

Hey Hey Sweet Shoppers! Another super scrumptious Sweet Shoppe Saturday is here. We had an absolutely incredible NSD thanks to all of you, and we really hope you enjoyed spending the day with us too. Thanks sooo much for being patient last weekend with the extremely heavy loads on the server, your understanding means the […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 13: 15 years

This year marks my 15th wedding anniversary! I made the decision that we would finally take a trip and getaway for a long weekend without the boys. So I started brainstorming. I thought maybe we could go here… …and of course my husband laughed at me. So then I thought that’s fine. What about here? Then […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 12: Day out with Thomas

Hey Everyone! Kristin here with a blog post about my youngest child’s FAVOURITE thing Thomas the Train! Now.. I can’t even tell you when this obsession with trains started. Somewhere after his 1st birthday I think but I could be wrong.. I first learned about “Day out with Thomas” from our forums here at Sweet […]

365 Days of Bliss – Day 11: Sowing ‘n growing

Hi!  Sara here with a nice random post about life in the Lively household. Over the past couple of weeks, our son, Alex & I have been sowing seeds – just on a small scale – together.  It combines three of his favourite things: water, mud & telling his mother what to do! We do […]

365 Days of Bliss Day 10 – Surprises and Sacrifices

I’m thinking everyone must be up for a bit of bliss on this Tuesday following iNSD if you can still bring yourself in front of a computer terminal. Like Aggie our part of the world celebrates Mother’s day on the 2nd Sunday in May. I also celebrate another year of aging at the same time. […]

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