My Memories Scrapbook Suite Giveaway!

Hi everyone! Let me tell you, I'm so excited! I was recently contacted by Liz, who sells MyMemories digital scrapbooking software, offering a giveaway on my blog. (See below for more info.)

I received from her, the MyMemories Suite (and one for you too!!!) for me to use and review. Free things, now that's my language!  

I played around with it a bit first, well, let's be honest, not a bit. A lot! Then, I thought, focus, girl, focus, and I dug through my overwhelming number of photos in my computer, and used various elements offered, to make this beautiful scrapbook page.

My twist on it, though, is I'm not going to use this in a scrapbook, I'm going to frame it. So, as opposed to having a plain picture in a frame, mine will be nicely embellished! I have to say, I'm loving that option!

I then played around with the idea of making some cards. In my case, this is a saying I have on my wall in my livingroom. I picked one of the paper textures, which I must say, I was blown away over just how many textures there were. Then, you add to that the different paper colors, and the various embellishments. Oh, and did I mention the many fonts?!

You could, for that matter, make beautiful place setting markers for dinner parties

Or perhaps, your desire may be to make a funky banner for a family gathering, be it birthday, anniverary, fourth of July (for you in the States, and for us in Canada, you guessed it, Canada Day, lol!) by stringing a series together of memorable occasions.

You can even make videos with this program!

The options this scrapbook software offers are really, endless...

Just thought I would slide in here, a picture of moi and Mr. House Pretty, while in the Dominican Republic, roughly one week after I found out I was pregnant. I was feeling so awful in this photo!

How about making up personalized, colorful, invitations...

They also have professionally designed layouts, which you can design your own, or use one of their designs. There are just so many options to choose from with their program. There are so many possibilities!

Even if you don't win, I still have a little something for you! I have a promo code for you to save $10 off the MyMemories Suite V3 scrapbook software. And, the software also comes with a $10 coupon for a total of $20 off! Whoo! Hoo! This just keeps getting better and better!

Enter this when ordering your software (It's $40 normally, I believe).

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HOW TO ENTER:

1. Visit www.mymemories.com and leave a comment telling me what your favorite "Digital Scrapbooking Kit" or "Bestseller" is on the main home page.

2.  Become a follower of House Pretty to receive one entry.

3.  Do a post on your blog about the giveaway, leaving a comment with a link to the post, to receive one entry.

4.  For two additional entries, link this giveaway to each of your Facebook or Twitter accounts (one entry for each).  

5. If you aren't a Google member just leave your comment under "Anonymous" but tell me your name and email address in case you win!

So, that adds up to a total of five (5) possible ways to enter this draw! 

The winner will be selected by name draw.

Giveaway will be open until Saturday, June 9, at 9pm. The winner will be notified via email on Sunday.

A New Twist On Pretty For Pennies

Here's the thing.  And, I would love your honest opinion.  I am seriously considering, as in, I am going through them one by one to see which ones I can make work,  I want to take each of these that will work...

and there are more, and take them in, and wear them.  The only itsybitsyteenytiny issue is that they are all from this collection of my...

  maternity clothing!

So, here's the thing. I loved my maternity clothing!  I mean, as I've stated in my profile, it took us almost 10 years to conceive.  I spent a long time on the infertility roller coaster!  I don't wish it on anyone.  It was so hard to go through!  Although, ironically enough, just over the last year, before I conceived, we were starting to really acknowledge the benefits of being a "couple"...time to ourselves...ahhh!...ok, back to reality.

Anyway, when I finally conceived, I thought, hey, this will probably only happen once, after all, I was 40 years old!  We had always wanted three or four children, but at least God was finally blessing us with one.  I wasn't sure if He would ever bless us with another.  Sadly, not.  Unless another miracle happens. 

Ok, back to my "this will probably only happen once" situation.  I figured that if I was only getting one chance at it, I was going to do it in style!  I wanted to look pretty, becaused I felt pretty!  On a side note, this was just after my first trimester of constant nausea!  Yuck!  Anyway, I felt attractive, I felt in the best health I had ever felt, and I wanted pretty clothing.  So, pretty is what I did. 

I purchased a decent wardrobe of clothing. Problem was, after I gave birth, well, a couple of months after I gave birth, and everything was too sloppy on me, it all got packed away.  I had always hoped to be able to wear it again, but as I said previous, God did not see fit to bless us again.  I missed being able to wear all my pretty clothes, however.  Boo!hoo!

Phew, we're finally getting to the end!  Sorry about the long way around it!  Most of my tops pretty much fit along the bustline (with a few exceptions, where I can take them in), because I didn't shrink back to my original size, whoo! hoo! (that's from Mr. House Pretty).  And, as far as the tummy area, I can take that in as well, thereby converting most of my whole pregnancy wardrobe into a huge addition to my regular summer wardrobe, for free!  And, I would get to wear all those pretty clothes again! 

Now, tell me, who out there thinks I've totally gone "around the bend", and I'm completely nuts?!  It's not like I'm going to go around showing everyone my "Motherhood Maternity", and other such, labels!

I would love to hear from you all on this!

Oh, and don't forget to pop on by tomorrow morning for my giveaway surprise!

Sue