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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

10 Year Blog Anniversary Giveaways!

Holy smokes! It's been 10 years since I started my blog! There's been a lot of evolution over the last ten years. I started my blog to review things I bought on Etsy and to show some of my simple DIYs. Then I did that thing where I became a professional crafter. After that, I did that thing where I didn't blog at all because I was so busy having three kids. Now finally, I have no idea what I'm doing but you're here for it and I love you!

I started this blog a few months after I had my oldest son. I had stopped working and I was getting so depressed. This blog has been such a blessing to me! I met SO MANY AMAZING FRIENDS that I could cry tears of joy. I have friendships I made through this blog that I've had the entire life of the blog. TEN YEARS of friendship based on being bloggers, crafters, and makers. I accomplished so many things and have gotten several different jobs based on this blog. This blog keeps nourishing my soul and I could not thank it enough.

One of the amazing friends I met is my friend Racquel of Racquel Always who took these amazing photos for me and made my vision come true. You can see more of her beautiful photography and life on her Racquel Always Instagram Account.

Enough sappy stuff! Let's get to the GIVEAWAYS! These giveaways have been so kindly donated by my friends who I've met along this journey. HUGE thank you to each and every one of the kind people who gave a prize!

Since I want this to be BIG, I've decided that we will only have 2 winners. You MUST have Facebook and Instagram to enter these giveaways. Prize Number One is available to anyone with a United States mailing address. (Sorry, some of these companies have strict rules about shipping out of the country.) Prize Number Two is available for local pickup only. I can try to gather a few of the prizes to my house for you to pick up and we can meet at a coffee shop or boba tea to get you the prize. Also, each prize will have a little gift from me. I'm gathering more things but here's a peek.

Prize Number One:

Boss Lady set from The Kachet Life

doTerra Breathe Oil from The Inverted Nurse

Whitening Toothpaste from Nu Skin Consultant Melinda Zhang

Shine-a-Light Book from Usbourne Consultant Waiyee

Perfectly Posh Gift Set from Consultant Anita Autore

An Outfit Handpicked for You up to $100 value by Lularoe Consultant Heather Frick

Two sets of Color Street nail polish strips and a file from Consultant Jenn

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Prize Number Two:
(Local pick up required)

Gift Basket and $50 Gift Certificate to Fats Restaurants

One pound of coffee and a $10 gift certificate to Coffee Spot Co

NewSongs School of Music $50 Gift Certificate and Bracelet

Jojoba Scrub from Maven Mindy

Stress Away Infused Bath Salts from Young Living Distributor Summer

bottle of oil not included

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck and thank you so much!!!

Monday, August 21, 2017

$10 at Target: Giveaway Month! $100 Giveaway!

Hi friends! This month, the hostesses at $10 at Target decided to kick off the school year with a fun giveaway for you all! You can enter for your chance to win a $100 Target gift card or you can get the $100 in PayPal if Target is not your thing (I don't know even know?) or if Target is not available in your area. Check out the Rafflecopter below to enter! The giveaway ends on Sunday Aug 29 so hurry and enter!

Additionally, I am giving away these awesome food pins I found when I was shopping at Target. These are so cute and would look awesome on a jean jacket or a tote bag or wherever you like to put pins. Entering for these is simple, just leave a comment letting me know what your favorite food is and I will pick a winner next week! Be sure to leave a way for me to contact you if you win.

Check out the giveaway:

a Rafflecopter giveaway / Link up your Target finds so we can check them out too!

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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

10: A Story of Birth, Pizza, and Father's Day

Ten years. That seems like such a long time but it went by in the blink of an eye. June 18, 2017 is my son's 10th birthday. It's been TEN years since I started this new chapter of my life. Ten years that my heart has been walking around outside my body.

Today, I'm sharing with you a fun fact about my oldest son's birth and how life comes full circle. Also a giveaway because what's a birthday with no presents. (This will not be graphic but might be TMI/gross for some, namely people who aren't moms.)

I remember waking up on June 17, 2007 being so ginormously pregnant. It was SO hot that summer in Sacramento and I was miserable and certain that this baby would never leave my body. It was a Sunday and it actually happened to be Father's Day but I was in no mood to celebrate as there was a watermelon on my front side. I was laying in bed watching Food Network shows (as I'm certain most pregnant with their first baby women do) when I felt like I was leaking something. Not a lot but something was happening.

May 2007
Photo from Mystic Eye Photography

I called the hospital and they told me to go to Labor and Delivery to get checked out. They told me on the phone that I could shower first and take my time since they were just being safe. I get up, shower, and take all sorts of precautions about the leaking i.e. wearing pad, carrying a waterproof blanket to sit on in the car, etc... We drive to the hospital and I waddle up to L&D. After being scolded for showering (hello, I asked on the phone), I get settled into my hospital gown and they swab me and tell me I am not leaking anything. In fact, I'm barely dilated and this baby isn't coming any time soon so just go home and relax. Thanks nurses.

Of course as a first time mom, I feel sheepish. I'm one of THOSE ladies who ran to the hospital for nothing and now I just have to go home. Since it was Father's Day and we were already out and dressed, I told my hubby that we should go to a late lunch and treat ourselves to a little food as a pre-baby Father's Day celebration. We went home to drop off all the hospital stuff since I had a laptop, a camera, and all sorts of stuff in there.

Father's Day Lunch

My husband LOVES pizza so we headed to Steve's Pizza which was right by our house at the time. We had a delicious late lunch and I'm sure I had a bunch of soda or water so I had to go to the bathroom before we left. After using the restroom, I went over to wash my hands and there's a young lady in there, teens or maybe early twenties. A sensation came over me, I grabbed onto the sink and made some sort of face causing the girl to say "are you ok?" I remember thinking "AM I OK?" I told her that I think I might be going into labor but I just went to the hospital and they told me that the baby wasn't coming.

The bathroom where I went into labor

I leave the bathroom and go to find Dustin. I see Dustin standing the middle of the restaurant with the receipts. I think "Oh good, he paid!" I'm walking across the restaurant and mid-stride that leaking I felt turned into more than just a drip. I remember Dustin looking at me like what's going on. I am horrified and I say "I think my water just broke." He says "What do you want to do?" And I say "I need to get outside so it doesn't get on the carpet" then I start running. Pregnant lady running through the pizza place leaving my husband in my dust I just HAVE to make it to the door before I feel the fluid on my calves. I made it!

This is a long way to pregnant waddle run

We hopped in the car, went home and grabbed the bag, and 27 hours of labor later I had the sweetest, most perfect baby boy. (And yes, upon returning to the hospital they asked me if I was sure my water actually broke. :/ ) I ended up having a few complication after birth with retained placenta and when I wrote up my birth story, I totally forgot to include this part in it since I was so traumatized and tired from everything that happened. But to this day, that story is one of my favorites. We were these young kids and I just remembered thinking that it would be to horrific to have your water break in public the whole time I was pregnant. I also remember my doctor telling me that it happened in less than 10% of labors.

June 18, 2007

Earlier this year, Steve's Pizza start following me on Instagram and one day I decided to leave them a comment and tell them my story. Their social media manager Eric told me that I should tell the staff next time I went to Steve's. I got a chance to talk to the owner when I went in a few months ago and he told me that he thought that the world would love to hear my story. Now, ten years later with all this mothering under my belt, I took my son back to Steve's Pizza to tell him the story about the boy who wanted to be born at the pizza place.

Steve's Pizza was kind enough to give me 2 gift cards worth $25 each to give to my readers. These are good at ANY Steve's Pizza locations. I am giving one away on my Instagram and one of my Facebook, just look for the post with one of these pizza photos of us. Here are the direct links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashleynewell.me/photos/a.1396042983748504.1073741829.1230784223607715/1540170339335767/?type=3&theater
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVVLGg_BdmT/

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Scrap Happy Deal Haul and Giveaway!

Hi friends! I hope you are well! We are ok. We have ALLERGIES in full effect in California right now, let me tell you! It is crazy! But the weather is absolutely stunning right now so I guess you win some you lose some.

Today, I have a SPECIAL treat for you all! I'm doing a GIVEAWAY! We sweet friend Kim opened up a store in February called Scrap Happy Deals. I have been shopping with Kim for quite some time, previously she had her store on Facebook. Kim always gets the latest hottest releases from awesome companies that I love like American Crafts, Jillibean Soup, Simple Stories, Lawn Fawn, and lots lots more! I shop at Scrap Happy Deals a lot. She offers 10% off retail prices on EVERYTHING everyday! She also has an option for people to put all their purchases into a "Monthly Box" and have it ship once a month instead of placing lots of small orders and paying for shipping multiple times. This is the option I use to save on shipping.

Here is my most recent haul. I know it's a big one but this is where I got all my CHA releases for this year. I'm so excited to put all this in my Pocket Scrapbooking album! (All of these items were purchased by me for my personal use.)

Kim also has challenges every month where you can win store credit. I try to play along when I can because who doesn't love a good challenge? You can find the challenges in Scrap Happy Deals Facebook Group. The group is also where she shows new items, items that are on sale, and other fun promotions.

Today, I collaborated to bring you a giveaway! Would you like to win a $20 Gift Certificate to Scrap Happy Deals? I would. But I can't win, only YOU can!

How to win:

~ MANDATORY: Join the Scrap Happy Deals Facebook Group and then leave a comment HERE to tell me you did.

~ Optional: Share this blog post on Facebook, Twitter, blog, or any other social platform. Leave me a LINK to the post where you shared. Leave 1 comment per link. You can share as many times as you'd like but only 1 comment per method per day will be accepted. Example: if you share today on Facebook and Twitter, please leave 1 comment for a Facebook link and 1 comment for a Twitter link. If you want to share again tomorrow, you can leave new comments tomorrow with NEW links of new posts you shared.

This giveaway will end April 18, 2016 at 11:59pm and winner will be announced on my blog. You will have to email me to claim your prize. Good luck!

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Seasons Giving Blog Hop 4

Hi Friends! I hope you're having a WONDERFUL day! We are doing great! The kiddos are going to try to stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year, wish us luck!

This year, I finally got my act together to participate in my friend Latisha's amazing Seasons Givings Blog Hop. This is the fourth year of this amazing hop. The hop is just a bunch of crafters and crafting companies giving back to the crafting community. A huge THANK YOU for the past year. Each stop on this blog hop will have a giveaway. It's a wonderful out pouring of generosity and I'm so glad I get to participate this year!

I made a card for this hop. :) By the time this blog hop goes live, it will still be my birthday (Dec 31) so I made a birthday card. Let's be 100% honest, I don't even really know how to make cards anymore. I mostly do Pocket Scrapbooking and the cards I made this year usually had the elements provided by my amazing friend Rachel at her crops. I figured I would just pull out some of my favorite items and let them speak to me. I used an old collection from Dear Lizzy Daydreamer which I have used also every single bit of. I've never used so much of a 6x6 pad before, I only have 3 whole sheets left in that pad. The image is a sticker from the collection. I added some Chickaniddy enamel hearts and a Paper Smooches sentiment. I thought it would be cute to stamp the sentiment in pink but it's a little hard to see.

GIVEAWAY: Today, I'm giving away one (1) $15 gift certificate to 1 of my favorite online stores. One winner will be able to pick a gift certificate from either: Butterfly Reflections Ink, Ellen Hutson, or Paper Issues. Just leave a comment and I will pick a winner and post on Jan 7.

Please follow my blog to see my new posts in the new year. You can also follow my Heart Hugs Designs Facebook Page.

The next stop on the hop is my DEAR DEAR friend Nicole Maki. Please check out the rest of the hop:

Lawn Fawn

Lawnfawn.blogspot.com

Scrapbook Cards & Today Magazine

http://www.scrapbookandcardstodaymag.typepad.com

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

http://www.scrapbook-adhesives.com/blog

Reverse Confetti

https://reverseconfetti.com/blog/

Technique Tuesday

http://techniquetuesday.typepad.com

CAS-ual Friday Stamps

http://cas-ualfridaysstamps.blogspot.com