A Chance to win $4,000 with Better Homes & Gardens Pinning Your Dream Home

Wouldn't it be great to have a chance of winning a US$4,000 cheque doing something you love, pinning your dream home using Pinterest!  Better Homes and Gardens (BHG) are running a fabulous competition where you can put together a mood board via Pinterest of images of your dream home. You need to have at least 10 images pinned and all images must come from the BHG website. Unfortunately you do have to be a USA citizen or the district of Columbia resident to have a chance of winning, so sadly that rules me out. Nevertheless, I wanted to share this great opportunity to do something fun and have a chance to win in case this news hadn't reached you.

If your not aware of Pinterest, check it out as It's a great place where you can search images, create mood boards re-pin and upload images from anywhere on the web. Although it is actually a social network site, its's a little bit different than the norm. I actually get a lot of traffic passing through my blog though pinning direct from my blog posts so it's worth checking out for marketing purposes.

As I've already said, sadly I cannot enter this competition, however I have put together my French style Dream home anyway and you can see a few of the images below, along with a link to my complete board at the end of this post.

Full instructions can be found on the official contents rules page "here" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to see more of my dream home images on Pinterest

all images from BHG

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Lee oxo

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Poppy

Seeing Flowers - Is this a sign to get back into my artwork?

I absolutely love this image I discovered on Pinterest, I have tried to find the photographer with no success so if you recognise the work please let me know so I can credit it accordingly.  I see this as a sign that I must plan my next painting.

Hope your weekend was full of fun and sunshine 

Lee oxo

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Poppy

Gift Wrapped - Christmas Inspiration 2012

I am not one for solely following tradition and those 1 metre rolls of shiny paper scattered with trees and snowmen and candy bars are definitely past their "sell by date". Myself, I keep a stock of embellishments on hand which are really great for last minute wrapping. Collect vintage beads or jewelry, broken vintage pieces and old buckles can be put to use. Buckles can be threaded onto wide or narrow ribbon and secured around your parcel. Pieces of jewelry can be hot glued onto the ribbon or parcel itself. There are endless ways to wrap.  

I have been browsing the Internet and found some "non traditional" but fabulous ways to wrap your gifts. lots more inspiration can be seen on my Pinterest board, I have added a link at the end of this post.

 

You can find many more gift wrap ideas on my Pinterest board "Gift Wrapped"

Happy wrapping!

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I Did Tell You

1| Image via Style Me Pretty 
2|Collage created by Lee Caroline - Via Style Me Pretty 
3|Collage created by Lee Caroline - Via Style Me Pretty.


Sending out prayers to all the familes affected by the tradgedy of Newtown CT

Happy New Year from Auckland, New Zealand

Put on a sparkly dress, diamond bracelet and a pair of Jimmy Choo’s. Mix and mingle with great company and toast the New Year...
Well it doesn't hurt to dream! ☺

  HAPPY NEW YEAR

Shoes, Lauren by Jimmy Choo, bracelet, De Beers luxury collection. Images via Pinterest, collage by LCArt

 May all your dreams & goals come to fruition and may you have health, wealth and happiness for 2012

Lee oxo

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 Poppy

An Addiction and Two Winners

I don't know about you all, but I have a serious addiction. In my opinion it is one of the best ideas EVER! I was one of those strange people who had huge three ring binders full of pages I had ripped out of magazines. I had seven (yes, seven!) total binders and they were each at least two inches thick, and every last one of them was jam packed full of images from wedding ideas, to crafts to home design. As much as I loved having everything neatly organized once I had Lillie and then Dear Lillie started I never had time to add to those binders. In fact, I think it has been well over three years since I had actually filed anything in them. I had ripped images out of magazines since then, of course, but had just stuffed them in folders or drawers figuring maybe someday I would have time to file them. So, when I discovered pinterest this past spring I fell madly in love! I could finally have everything organized again but it was going to be a million times easier and quicker. Along with adding new pins daily to my own account, it is also fun seeing items from our blog and shop being pinned too! Anyway, I thought I would share a few of my favorite images and ideas that I have pinned over the last several months. 

First is this gorgeous shot of Marilyn's home that was featured as a Cottage of the Month this May 

at The Old Painted Cottage. I am in love with every single thing in this room!

And how amazing are these flowers made from cornhusks from Crissy's Crafts?

This mudroom is amazing (and about as big as our whole downstairs!) Look at that ceiling!

I really want to make some of these adorable stars like Aina of Modern Country for our tree this year.

 

I am drooling looking at this recipe by The Girl Who Ate Everything! I want to try this soon!

Even though it has been five years since Jon and I got married I still LOVE looking at wedding ideas. This cake (photographed by Jen Huang) is so charming! 

And this reception that was featured on Style Me Pretty is stunning!

So, if somehow you don't know about Pinterest I highly recommend heading on over and checking it out. I think you will fall in love too!

Also, we were gone all weekend at a basketball tournament in Lynchburg and got home late last night so I am terribly behind on e-mails. I will start working on them this afternoon during nap time, though! 

I hope you all have a wonderful Monday! Can you believe Thanksgiving is just three days away?

P.S. Also we should have one more batch of the Ruffled Burlap Stockings and Quilted Burlap Stockings available later today. After that, I am not sure we will have time to get any more done because we are working on several more large batches of pillows.

P.P.S. And I almost forgot! Here are the two winners of our Joy to the World Pillow Cover Giveaway!
First up:

Congratulations to Jenna!

 And now for winner two:

 

Congratulations Jessica!

Just send us and e-mail to dearlillie@hotmail.com with your shipping address ladies and we will get those shipped right on out to you! If we haven't heard anything in 3 days we will pick another winner!

Thank you all for entering! We have more giveaways planned for the holiday season including one hopefully later this week!