Life is Beautiful

Motherhood, Sewing, Family

ch ch ch changes.

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pss.  we got a new blog header.
they are the photos we took for our christmas cards.
  
these were the runner-ups.  
i still can’t decide which out of the three i like best.

which one do you think we should send out as our christmas cards?

A photoshoot session giveaway by All Smiles Photography

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We have a giveaway for you for a mini photoshoot session that’s a $100 value by All Smiles Photography. This giveaway is open to UT residents only or for someone you know who reside in UT.  Alli is a talented photographer who takes beautiful photos for any occasion, a wedding, a birth story, engagements, family, babies, you name it!  Or you can also gift any session for Your family/friends for Christmas!  The giveaway winner will get a 30-minute session where Alli will shoot one roll of color film and 1 roll of bw film.  The result: 15-20 proofs in a personalized online gallery  and a custom 5×7 linen print.
To enter the giveaway, please comment below this post by December 6th, 11:59 p.m, est.  
for extra entries(please leave a separate comment for each entry):
–like All Smiles Photography on Facebook.
-visit the blog and leave a comment on any of the posts.
–like S.T Collection on Facebook
-Subscribe to my blog and/or become a GFC follower.
Go to her website here.
Check out her blog here.
Contact her through email: [email protected]
or phone: 801.232.7572.

*Alli is also offering a 15% discount off any session booked before the end of the year (can be for a session shot next year) for any reader who mentions this post!

*And for any lovebirds out there, Alli will offer 25% off a custom wedding package to the first reader (who mentions this post) to book wedding coverage for 2012!

Best luck everyone!

*and the winner is:
congratulations Kristen!  I will be emailing you shortly. 🙂
thanks for all who entered!

chocolate spoons? say what?

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we went to jay’s friend’s wedding where they served hot chocolate 
for the guests.  one of the things they had for the sides besides 
candy canes and marshmallows were chocolate dipped spoons! 
 how genius is that?  don’t you sometimes see something like this
that are so simple yet so genius and think, 
man!  i wish i was more creative and thought of that!!!

so our girls of course wanted one, and then one more, and then one more 
to take on the road and couldn’t stop talking about it ever since. 
and they really know how to eat them, instead of stirring the spoon
in the hot chocolate, they just suck it like a lollipop.  
so one day after we picked up adi from her preschool, we came home
and made hot chocolate and chocolate dipped spoons.
plethora of marshmallows, m & m’s & sprinkles scattered everywhere later
(mostly in their mouths), we discovered our new favorite winter treat.  
romwe giveaway winner announced here.
last day to enter the winter moon album here.


Mindy Gledhill Winter Moon Giveaway.

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We have a giveaway for you for a copy of Mindy Gledhill’s newest album, Winter Moon.
I recently transformed her dress she wore for her music video Winter Moon.
Image via mindy’s blogpost: The reinvention of a dress
Image via mindy’s blogpost: What a weekend
So I’m so happy to host this giveaway for Mindy Gledhill.  I personally own Winter Moon, and I’m swooned! (Swoon?  It’s falling over! -for those of you who’ve listened to #11 know what I’m talking about!)  Her voice is so soothing, beautiful, and happy and i just can’t help but to dance and sing along to her songs.  her songs transmit more than just a happy, beautiful tune, it conveys more depth than that.  When I listened to her song Anchor, I got teary-eyed a few times.  It’s spiritual!  It makes you want to be a better person.  There are not many non-gospel songs that can do that.  And that depth carries onto her Christmas album, Winter Moon.  It makes me happy.  It makes me want to be a better person.  Oh, I just love her!!!  
You can preview her album here.  She offers many classical Christmas tunes such as Santa Claus is coming to town, Little saint nick, and Silent Night, and offers my favorites which are her original songs: Little Soldier and Winter Moon.  Little Soldier’s lyrics are simply deep and beautiful, especially as a mother, and Winter Moon, I put on replay and listen to it over and over and over again.  And nope, not sick of it!  And her bonus track which is Winter Moon with puppets is so darling and fun.  My girls are in love with that one and asks me to turn on “the puppet song” every time we get in the car.  I pretend not to know that the puppets are going to chime in in the middle of the song and when they do, I make a surprised face and say, “Huh?  Who is this guy singing?  He sounds funny!”  And the girls just crack up every single time, no matter how many times we listen to it. 🙂  And it sure is nice to play the song because when we’re not listening to “the puppet song”, we’re listening to the Disney Princess Christmas CD, which gets old after a song or two.  I mean, who can listen to Snow White’s ridiculously high pitched singing for more than a few minutes?  My ears sure get tired.
Anywho, that was pretty much a novel but I can go on about it a lot longer, so shall we?
Nah, just kidding!  Don’t be too disappointed. 😉
To enter the giveaway, please comment on this blog post by Tuesday, November 29th 
for a chance to win Mindy’s amazing Christmas album.
For extra entries(please leave a seperate comment for each entry)
-“like” Mindy Glehill’s page on Facebook.
–preview any of her songs from Winter Moon and comment which is your favorite(s).
-“like” S.T Collection on Facebook.
-follow my blog via GFC.
-post this giveaway on your facebook, tumblr, blog, twitter, pinterest 
and comment with a link.(1 entry each)
best luck!  
*and the winner is:

congratulations sarah!  please email me at sarahmchoi{at}gmail.com!

thanks for playing, everyone!