The lucky winner of this giveaway will get ONE DOZEN pieces of their choice of:

S’mores or

Chocolate-Dipped Oreos

…or a combination of the two:-)

All made fresh and packed up carefully.  I can send them anywhere in the US or Canada.

I will include a little Juicybags surprise gift too:-)

Are you ready for a sweet treat??

Here ’s how to enter this contest!

1) Click through the current auctions I have posted for my Weekend to End Breast Cancer Fundraiser, then come back here and tell us which is your favourite item and why.

2) Tweet about my auctions and post a link to your tweet here. Here is a sample tweet you could use:

‘Help fight breast cancer,bid on some fantastic donated items and support handmade too! http://triagefromhome.com pls RT’

3) Blog about my breast cancer auctions with a link back here (2 entries) -leave 2 comments (and post the link to your blog entry)

4) Blog about this giveaway with a link back here (2 entries) -leave 2 comments (and post the link to your blog entry)

5) BID on one of my current auction items (3 entries)-leave 3 comments

6) Donate instantly to this great cause by either going to my online donation page, or to the Paypal DONATE link up in the top right corner of this blog  (Paypal takes their little cut off the top, so the online donation page is preferable) (5 entries for any donation $5.00 or more)

Good luck!

This giveaway contest will run for 2 weeks, ending on March 28th at noon Pacific DST

I will notify the winner via email and the winner will have 48 hours to respond to receive their prize.

~~Don’t forget to follow the instructions to enter~~

~~Comments saying just ‘yummy’ or ‘those look good’ will not be counted as entries and will be deleted!~~

It sounds like my daughter is settling in Calgary pretty well. She and her friend have moved into their shared townhouse (2 other roomies) and she’s working quite a bit at her hostess job at a restaurant. She’s even looking for a second job! She’s lost her debit card (for about the millionth time) so of course it’s going to be mom to the rescue again going to her bank here to get her a new one and mail it out. Luckily I’m still joint on her account, so they should let me do it.  The best part about her living there is that we don’t argue anymore- AT ALL. I guess it’s difficult to argue with someone when your only contact is text, facebook and phone:-)

I just finished my set of 4 shifts and now I’m off for 5 days. I’ll be doing some local pick-ups of garage sale donations and some more trolling for more. I’m hoping I can get a helium tank donated for balloons and maybe some coffee from Tims or Starbucks. Anyone have a connection? I think my brother can hook me up for some tables. I’m going to need LOTS. I can’t believe all the stuff I’ve collected for the sale. Now to try to figure out how to display it all effectively. I have SO many books. Still trying to work out how to put those out without taking up too much space. I have some great free-standing display grids that I can use to hang clothing on and some hangers my mom gave me. No idea how I’m going to find time to sort through all the stuff and pricing it all?? Yikes…I really hope this sale goes well after all this work.  One thing I thought I might try: I sent a request to the local mall to see if I can set up outside one of the entrances on the Sunday prior to the sale and hand out flyers about it and sell my homemade treats. It’s a short notice request: their website states that non-profit requests need to be made 90 days prior. I guess it was worth a try anyway.

I took my goodies in to work the other day when I had my in-office day. I sold them for $1 a piece as donations to the walk, and I made $60! Everyone raved over the homemade marshmallow Smores. Now, I’m working on getting more marshamallows made to supply trays of goodies in the volunteers’ office at the hockey rink during my son’s Spring Break Tournament next week.  If I have to be there nearly everyday helping out, I might as well troll for donations too, right?

Last night it was pretty quiet on the phones, and I was playing on Twitter a bit and posting some new auctions. I found Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Shaquille O’neil and MCHammer! They all tweet, and it was fun watching everyone try to chat with Ashton and Demi for a while. I just wish I could get any ONE of them to re-tweet about my blog auctions. Can you imagine the clicks I could get? Ashton has something like 250,000 followers! I can dream anyway:-)

It’s very addicting. I’ve shopped myself silly through links I’ve followed from Tweets (shhh- don’t tell my hubby…oh yeah, he reads my blog too*giggle*) Don’t worry honey- I would have been shopping for Christmas anyway, right?

Anyway, have you heard of Magpie? It’s a way to advertise your shop or business through Twitter, but you don’t have to do the tweeting yourself. Your magpie (me, or someone else who tweets about things that are relevant to your shop) will do the tweeting for you, automatically. You get to set the code words that are important to you. For me it would be things like ‘crafts’ ‘etsy’ ‘ownthehour’ ‘handmade’ and other craft related topics. This way, your magpie tweets will reach the people who are interested in what you offer.

Check it out. Email me and I’ll show you their advertiser’s guide which explains it really well.
juicybags.info@gmail.com

I’ve been working all day yesterday and today, so haven’t done any sewing. I’ve been cutting open and cleaning, and then drying the juice pouches instead. That’s the ‘dirty’ part of the job. I found a little white plastic scraper that helps get the adhesive off the pouches more easily. (my fingernails were taking a beating before) It feels good to be making useful stuff out of something that would end up in the landfills though. Jon tells me there are stats somewhere that say that these little foil juice pouches have one of the lowest rates of return of all the returnable drink containers! Probably because they are usually taken to school by kids who just chuck them into the garbage when they are done:-(
I wish I knew a way to re-direct those empty pouches to me! Let me know if you have any ideas.
(although by the time these craft fairs are over I might be so sick of sewing that I never want to make another bag- we’ll have to see)