Free Stuff Friday!!
July 23, 2010 5:50 am Allie Contests, Crafts, Free Stuff Friday!!, Paper Crafts, Scrapbooking
Enter to win this craft pack from Paper Accents! This prize comes with a Pound O’ Paper, Create Your Own Journal and Scrapbook, as well as rectangle and pennants chipboard pieces.
The Pound O’ Paper are wonderful packs of paper that comes with a new variety each time. These varieties are great for making cards, invitations, tags or adding special accents to scrapbook and memory pages. It’s an assortment pack , the sizes and kind of paper change with each package. Create Your Own Journals are made with heavy chipboard on the front and back with 25 pages inside. Have fun decorating and personalizing these journals with stamps, stickers, embellishments, marking pens, and more. Each journal is spiral bound so they are easy to flip and stay together! Create Your Own Chipboard Pennants are great for Banners, Seasonal Sentiments, Names and much more. Made with heavy weight chipboard, they are acid free, and ready to decorate to your personal taste.
Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winner and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please. Contest opened to all US residents, no purchase necessary.
Question of week: What is your favorite summer memory from your childhood, or your children’s.
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Jingle :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 5:56 AM
My favorite childhood summer memory is spending LOTS of time on the beach in Maine with my family!
Sue :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:09 AM
Playing tag was always a fun summer time event on the block! Please enter me, I love paper!
Sharon :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:11 AM
How creative can I get with paper supplies? Let’s find out when I win! I am hoping to have some luck this week with the prize offer.
michelle :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:15 AM
my favorite childhood memories revolve around endless summer days on the beach at the NJ shore…where we always went for our family summer vacation…
the smell of salt air…picking seashells….playing in the sand with my cousins…and especially walking WAYYY out into the ocean by going from one sandbar to the other….
living on 2 islands all of my life…until the present..leave me with the ability to still smell the salt air..enjoy the boardwalk…and walks on the beach..if i choose…
thanks for giving me reason to spend a few minutes remembering these wonderful days and memories of my childhood and young adult life..
Jenn :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:15 AM
When we lived in Arizona I remember being outside all the time. I remember playing Ghost in the Graveyard and also selling glasses of water in my front yard
Rae :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:18 AM
When I was in about 5th grade a friend from school invited me with her mother and brother for the day. We went huckleberry picking (it was my first time) and then we had a picnic and played at the river bank in the sand. It was sunny and warm and such a great outing!
chris :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:21 AM
My favorite memory from childhood is riding my bike all over town. We put miles and miles on those bikes. On Friday’s in the summer we would go to the 7-11 and get to spend $2.. that got you alot of candy!!!! AAhhh, the good old days
Cath :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:23 AM
Going to Expo 67 in Montreal with my family. When I was looking at Wikipedia just now to check the official name of the world’s fair I had to laugh at the poster of the woman wearing white gloves. Ladies of a certain age: do we miss white gloves? I guess they do keep your hands clean.
Holyscrapp! :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:27 AM
One of my favorite childhood summer memories while growing up in NE Ohio is waiting for twilight to come so my sister and I could catch lightning bugs! We would put them in a canning jar and cover the top w/ tinfoil and keep them in our room overnight.
Di :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:29 AM
During the summers we used to meet up with our cousins and walk or take the bus to the local YMCA and go swimming for hours. We’d all be hungry afterwards and take our pocket money to the corner store and load up on junk food. Had fun hanging around each other and joking around.
kitturah :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:32 AM
My favorite memory from my childhood summers is sitting on the back steps blowing bubbles, and playing in the little cabin my grandfather made for me.
Ashleigh R. :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:19 AM
Growing up my dad was an over-road truck driver. When school was out, my brother, mom, and I would camp in the livingroom on summer nights. Staying up late, playing video games, watching movies and eating popcorn. I don’t remember it being as fun then, but when I look back, I realize just how much fun it was. Great times with my mom and brother. Wow, now I really miss those carefree days.
Kelly Massman :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:46 AM
Looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
I remember playing outside a lot. Kids don’t seem to do that anymore.
Whitney Asay :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:59 AM
We spent every weekend at the lake nearby and it brings back wonderful memories of family and friends.
Chris Steele :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:19 AM
Going camping with my family in Mammoth Lakes, Ca. We went every year to the same campground, and made some fantastic memories.
Marie :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:39 AM
i think one of my favorites is making a home made slip ‘n slide with my brother, mother and other neighborhood kids in our front yard. it was just a bunch of garbage bags taped together but it provided us with hours of fun in the hot California sun.
Staci Jones :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:51 AM
My favorit summer mempries were visiting my grandparents in Seattle. It would take us 2 1/2 days to get there so we usually stayed for awhile. I loved going to the zoo and aquarium. It was so much fun.
Stacey :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:53 AM
The day my brother and I “baked” a mud pie that smelled like real food due to the wild onions we’d thrown in. We were so excited hehe
Donna Jones :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 9:15 AM
My favorite summertime childhood memory was when the entire neighborhood would get into these huge water fights. Everyone would turn on their hoses and kids would sneak around trying to get my dad wet. It was awesome fun
CindyP :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 9:27 AM
Fireflies. Playing Sardines with the huge gang of neighborhood kids. The buzz of cicadas and finding their castoff skins. NO HOMEWORK. Marco Polo at the pool. The smell of cut grass and of hot sidewalk after a rainstorm.
Amy :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 9:54 AM
We call it the summer on the river. It was hot all summer and everyday mom would pack a picnic and we’d meet all of our friends at the beach on the Columbia and just hang out. Had so much fun.
MaryEllen :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 10:24 AM
My family (Mom, Dad, & 3 sisters) and I went to the Seattle’s World Fair in 1962. What an beautiful and enjoyable day…. Pavilions, food, games, rides, and sunshine! However, the view from the top of the Space Needle was totally awesome! That day is so special to me that I can feel, taste, and smell that day when I reminisce! Thanks for the opportunity to enter this contest.
Raedeen Mitchell :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 10:34 AM
I believe my favorite summer memory would be helping deliver baby calves with my grandpa on the family farm and learning or rather struugle to drive a old farmall tractor at 12 years old.
mables mom :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 10:45 AM
One summer we took Mable and her sister on tubes and floated down the Virgin River outside Zion Nat. Park.
Mary Darnell :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 11:06 AM
My favorite summer memories are of growing up on the farm. In the summer my mother and neighbor ladies would cook dinner, box it up, and carry it to the field. There, my father and our neighbors were always helping each other in the hay field or they were combining wheat or bringing in some other crop in southwest Nebraska. What carefree and uninhibited days those were! I often wish I could go back to that time–but then again–I’m glad I can”t.
Ginger :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 11:40 AM
My favorite summer memories have to be my kids’ soon to be memories. Camping on our river property for a week with no TV, Cell phone or any electronics at all and just enjoying each other for an entire week. Fun in the sun, water, campfire and s’mores, what could be better?
Elizabeth Brunner :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 1:39 PM
Favorite summer memory from my own childhood — driving in big cross-country loop from California to visit relatives in Wisconsin and Louisiana during the 1976 Bicentennial year. Five kids and a dachshund in a stationwagon. Staying at Howard Johnson motels, buying plastic dolls at one tacky tourist shack after another, briefly forgetting our dog at a rest stop, and playing silly eye-spy games in the backseat. I was age thirteen so most the highlights involved spotting cute boys in passing vehicles or motel swimming pools.
Virginia Ogg :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 2:03 PM
My favorite summer memmory from my childhood is spending summer vacation at my aunt and uncle’s in Vermont. We didn’t do anything fancy but we sure had a lot of fun. Shopping,riding around the countryside counting the deer in early evening,miniature golf,swimming,walking thru my grand mothers garden,picking my aunt’s raspberries, I even painted their back porch using water and a paint brush. (I guess I was easily ammused.) Those were the greatet times and I still have to run over to Vermont every time I visit my home in NY.
PAULA DAVIS :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 6:45 PM
I WAS NOT FORTUNATE TO GO ANYWHERE OR DO ANYTHING SPECIAL! I JUST USED MY TALENTS DRAWING AND WRITING POETRY. ALSO I HAD TONS OF FUN WITH THE WATER HOSE AND THE INFLATABLE SWIMMING POOL.
Mary :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:11 PM
My favorite summer memory was the big family reunion with all the great aunts and great uncles. We had lots of food, fun stories, and a huge softball game in the park. Great loving memories!
cindy mccarthy :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:12 PM
My favorite summer memories are of going crabbing on the beaches of New Jersey every weekend that the weather cooperated. We always had friends or cousins sleeping over, and would bring them, too. When we couldn’t go for some reason, I’d spend the rest of the time in my room, keeping occupied with all kinds of crafts.
Lynda :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:24 PM
My favorite childhood memory for my girls has been their first trip to Disneyland… the look on their faces when they saw the Princesses for the first time was priceless…truly is a magical place to take children! Thank you for the chance to win!
April Linnell :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 7:35 PM
My favorite childhood memory is camping on the coast with my family. We would load us our car till we could barely squeeze my parents, myself, my brother and my sister in then we would head to the coast for about 2 weeks. camping and crabbing, picking berries. These are the best memories I have out of a childhood full of chaos.
Christine N :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:06 PM
My favorite memories have to be the times we spent and my grandpa’s farm. One time my sister and I were playing barbies in a dry irrigation ditch. We didn’t realize grandpa was irrigating that day until water starting coming down the ditch. Luckily, we were able to get all our dolls out of the way so they didn’t have to take a swim!!!
TishSch :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 8:13 PM
My favorite childhood memories are the camping trips we took to a local lake. It was a huge affair for several days at a time. It was my parents, my brother, my aunt and uncle and alot of my cousins, even the ones who’s parents didn’t come. We’d all sleep in a big huge tent, and I remember always waking up to the smell of breakfast cooking. My uncle had a boat so we’d take countless boat rides around the lake. I didn’t get to waterski like my older cousins did (mom thought I was too little-I WAS only a little kid) but I loved riding in the boat as my uncle’s watcher (I’d have to tell him when the skier fell down!). We’d play at the beach, the playground, ride our bikes countless miles around the campground, and we’d make home made ice cream!
Bonnie Rabon :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 9:20 PM
My favorite memory was swimming at the old swimming hole. Times where so innocent then.
Chris Davis :
Date: July 23, 2010 @ 9:37 PM
The clan’s reunion on my maternal grandmother’s side was in the summer time and it coincided with when the mango orchards would be ready to harvest. There was this one ancient tree whose trunk was parallel to the ground where I would spend the afternoons in, away from the other kids, just daydreaming, surrounded by green fruit on their long stems. I can almost feel the summer breeze now
Lydia Wiley :
Date: July 24, 2010 @ 3:15 AM
My favorite childhood memory is catching lightening bugs with my brothers. We would get an old jar and “sneak” up on them. Mom would always let us keep a few till we fell asleep. I’m pretty sure she let them go before going to bed herself. I love those relaxed, carefree childhood days.
laura stewart :
Date: July 25, 2010 @ 12:04 PM
camping with my Grandpa when he would take his horses along