We’re so excited to feature a great company in today’s giveaway!  Wall Written specializes in beautiful word art, quotes, and vinyl decor pieces.  These are made with matte finish vinyl, which gives the illusion of having something hand painted on your wall, but without the cost or effort.  It’s cut and spaced perfectly so all you have to do is apply it to your wall.  What’s better is that if you need to remove it, it comes right off without …

This giveaway is now closed.  Winner has been contacted and received their prize! Have you seen this cook book yet?  It’s a monster of a book!  It’s a collection of 2,000 recipes (yes, you read that right!) from 20 years of Cook’s Illustrated.  I’ve shared some of my favorite CI recipes, like this amazing chocolate cake, my go-to chocolate chip cookies, and most recently, yesterday’s mulitgrain bread. If you’ve never used a Cook’s Illustrated magazine or cook book, one of …

Enter here to win a $150 gift card to Whole Foods!  We seriously love Whole Foods; I am counting down the days until the one in my city opens (Too bad it’s not happening until next year :()!  They have an amazing cheese selection, so use this $$ on cheese to create your own cheese board, or on anything else you want! NOTE:  This giveaway is now closed.  Congratulations to #255, Toni!

After my Snow Globe post, there were lots of questions about my advent calendar, so here some more details about what I do with my family.  Having an advent calendar has been one of my most favorite traditions since I was a little girl, so I am always excited to do things with my kids.  This year I wanted to find a new calendar, and I bookmarked 547 of them (okay not really, but lots) from the web and pinterest, …

NOTE: This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to #246: Pam, #1318: Michele, #332:Shirley Elizabeth and #644: Tanis! All winners have been contacted, congratulations!  Remember, you still have until Dec. 15th to use the code OBB25 to get 25% off your entire order, so get shopping!   If you’re looking for a unique gift idea for people on your Christmas lists, I’ve got the perfect thing for ya! I love these watches.  My husband has had one for a while now, …

You may have not won our Silhouette Cameo giveaway, but you can get a great deal on one starting this Friday.  Here are the details! First of all, almost everything in the Silhouette On-line Store is on  sale already, like vinyl, tote bags (that’s what I’m buying!) sketch pens, software, and more: But we can make it even better.  Skip the code mentioned in the ad above and instead use the code”BITES” and instead of 30% you’ll get 40% of …

Note:  This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to lucky number #274 Aimee Jongejan! Aimee, I’ve sent you an email! For the rest of you…stay tuned.  I will be posting details for the Black Friday Silhouette deal in a new post very soon.  For those of you already mapping out your shopping strategy, I’ll tell you that Silhouette is offering a 30% discount on the entire store starting on Black Friday, and with a special OBB code you can get another …

NOTE:  This giveaway is now closed. The lucky winner is #1327, Lynda M.  Congrats Lynda, we’ve emailed you!   So last week while Sara was surfing it up in Hawaii, I had the chance to spend a few days in Ohio to attend the Around the Family Table with Smucker’s event. I had such a fabulous time meeting all the incredibly nice people associated with Smucker’s, other bloggers, and taking a peek behind the scenes. Right after I arrived, I …

This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats Mendi and Lindsay! Click here to read all about this great cook book (but note that link is NOT the giveaway post; that is a previous giveaway).  Kate and I both contributed a few recipes, along with some of our favorite food bloggers! We’re giving away two more copies! To Enter:  Leave one comment below; tell us an ingredient you always keep stocked in your kitchen for quick and easy meal prep.  Giveaway open …

ATTENTION: This giveaway is now closed.  Winner has been contacted and claimed their prize! A fun fact about Sara and Kate, which you may or may not know: we have a crazy obsession with office supplies.  Remember the time Kate found out you could buy mini sharpies on key chains?  Life changing.  About as life changing for me was the invention of see through sticky notes.  You have no idea how many packs of sticky notes I buy.  Partially because …

I love love love looking at other people’s seasonal decorations, because it always inspires me and gives me new ideas, so I thought I’d give you a little peek into the cornucopia of fun at my house :)  I mostly decorate for the autumn season, and then I have Halloween-y things that  I blend in during October. My mantle is built for a tv.  I choose to believe it was built to hold ridiculously large pumpkins. What you ask, are …

If you guys don’t know already, I love to read. In fact, sometimes, I know it’s better for me not to start reading a book because I tend to get sucked in and kind of ignore everything else in my life. So when Jif contacted us to see if we would be interested in giving away an Amazon Kindle and helping them out with their Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich contest, I was totally on board. I mean, how could …

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