!!!Pretty Organizer GIVEAWAY!!!- Santa Letter SALE!!!

Leave a comment to enter giveaway... Winner announced on Thursday!

WARNING-- LONG POST!  Get ready for a sale and something FREE!!

I love giving things away but I have to admit... shhh... don't tell anyone... it's a marketing campaign!  I know, you all thought I'm the giveaway girl... well, id like to be but really I need your help.

I need help spreading the word about my Santa Letters.  I am only offering them for another 26 days and I need the word about these meaningful letters to spread like wildfire!!  Remember, all the proceeds go to pay down the adoption tab of our two girls soo...  good cause!

!!!Sale!!!

As a promotion I am offering the Santa Letters for only $5 each until Next Monday morning.

AND I am offering anyone willing to post my button on their blog from today until Dec. 12th,  50 cents for every letter bought that you referred!  You need to email me your name, blogname and address so I can keep track of how many referrals you gave and I will pay you after the 13th via my PayPal account.  Emails should be sent toNorthPoleSecretary@gmail.com  Remind everyone to use your name OR blog name in the referal box on the form.

Copy this code into your html gadget and the button and link will be ready to go!

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Now, go out bloggossip this to all you family, friends and co-workers.  Prices will go up next Monday!  Tell everyone to check out all 8 letters and remind them that each has a message from Santa about the true meaning of Christmas: The baby Jesus, loving and serving others!  All letters have a money back guarantee for delivery!!!

!!GIVEAWAY!!

You voted and a Pretty Organizer won for today's giveaway.  

Here's the deal... a custom box will be given away to a lucky winner who leaves a comment!  AND you can pick the colors.  The hatbox will be a 8x10x4.5 inch rectangular box and I hope to get it in the mail by the beginning of next week.

Of course... now that we're 38! yes 38! days away from Christmas it's time to get hopping with shopping!  So, visit my etsy store and buy something grand for a loved one.   The shop will be closed next weekend-- I have 2 boutiques! What was I thinking!!! Crazy week:)

Bedside Storage & a Giveaway Vote!

Help!! My formatting is goooooofy! Sorry people!

I read. A. Lot! , I have a cold, my kids have colds, I need a snack, I want a drink of water... the list goes on... bedsides collect STUFF.

Here's a few ways to tame the bedside clutter.

Buy a very expensive piece of furniture to put your books and Kleenex in... I DREAM of doing this... but.... I'm paying off debt...



Fairly Cheap Bedside Organizer... @ Kaboodle.com

Same deal... do it your self pattern.

Bedside table top organizer



Pretty Organizer!

Get Ready for another giveaway announcement on Monday!!!

I'm taking votes for:

Santa Letters for all the kids in one lucky family

OR

A Pretty Organizer

Tell your friends, spread the word, I'll count votes Sunday evening and the Giveaway will start Monday!

Time to Blogossip to Your Friends!

Open For Business Officially!

  www.NorthPoleSecretary.com is up and running (still needs a few more letters added to the portfolio- no worries they'll be done within a day) and already taking orders.  

ONLY 45 days 'till Christmas and less than that to order a letter from Santa that talks about the true meaning of Christmas... the baby Jesus, loving, caring and serving.  These letters do a great job to combine Santa and what Christmas is all about.  

First batch being mailed out day after Thanksgiving.  Letters include:

• Personal letter from Santa
• Postage stamp canceled out form North Pole, Alaska (clearly the closest post office to NP)
• Message from Santa about Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas
• Sent on decorative paper (varies depending upon suppliers stock)
• Price breaks for multiple letters!! $8 for first 2, $6 for next 2, and $5 for each thereafter!

Go order quick!  Orders will not be accepted after Dec. 13th! That gives you 33 days!  Sooner you get yours in, the sooner you'll watch the expression on your kiddos face when they open their letter from Santa sent from the North Pole.

As promised 5 lucky families won the Free Santa Letter Giveaway!

So, congrats to: Jane, Wendy, Angela, Tausha, and Ky  for leaving the lucky comments!  Ladies, can you shoot me an email at NorthPoleSecretary@gmail.com so we can work out details?

To others, we'll have another giveaway soon.  But here's another deal...  If you order one of my PrettyOrganizers from my etsy store, (see this blog)  I'll throw in a letter from Santa for free!!!  I know, shameless marketing... don't hate me!

 Thanks to all of you blogossipers who blogged about this to your friends. If you haven't you still have time to claim a lazy day and blog about www.NorthPoleSanta.com or my blog and how much you love it and what a great idea it is and how fabulous the lady behind it is.... is that a little much? You can link to my blog if you'd like. I'll have a button up soon for NorthPoleSecretary.  Now go check out the website!

All proceeds are going toward paying down our 2 adoptions so we're out of debt.

Let me know what you think!

AND THE WINNER IS........

A GIANORMOUS thank you to the Mother Bird

"Nester" for her inspiration and encouragement to let some of her best loved flock migrate to my warm south west Palace for a day.... please know dear birdies that you are welcome back any time and I'd love to have a few winter over a little longer.

Of note: This little Home-made Holiday booked me 3 boutiques in 1 day, allowed me to offer my services for a much needed charity silent auction to be held this weekend (see info below), and I'm trying to get quotes to a hat maker in Santa Monica to be their "hat box designer" who knew the market was so ready for
PrettyOrganized boxes? Thank you for your feedback! I am so grateful.

The proceeds I make are going directly to pay off the adoptions of 2 of our beautiful girls. Your interest has really been encouraging to me. Thank you.

So, without further ado, adeiu, a deu??? The winner of the 3 custom nesting hatboxes is.... DRUM ROLL............................................

Sarah & Crew

Congratulations. If you go to my Etsy store and click on the contact me button (to the right) you can let me know your colors, contact info and where to send them!

To everyone else... I'm trying to visit all your blogs. There is so much talent out there. I need pointers from all of you html visually gifted bloggers on how in the world to make my heading look like a real banner and not just an imported family pic..

By the way...the Etsy store is going to have a few more items soon.. my hands are covered in spray paint (wedding ring needs a good scrub!) and I have red spray paint boogers.... can I say that on the web? Some boxes even have fringe.... Oooooo.....and finials.... AHhhhhhhh.... and toile....Ohhhhh!


I will be offering a large 14" hatbox in the Silent Auction being held for a very ill sweetheart named Zoe. There are tons of things to bid on and I encourage you to check out my box as well as the other offerings. Proceeds will go directly to Zoe's parents to help cover living and medical expenses.

You're all invited back now ya' hear? We're going on an eye candy adventure of Pretty Organized and decorated homes in the south west... follow me, subscribe to me, Mr. Linky me, tell your friends because you don't want to miss it! Monday is the big Day!

Easy to Store Halloween Decor- and Toy Furniture

This is the last day to leave comments for the Free PrettyOrganized Giveaway.  In honor of NestingPlace's Handmade Holidays.  See yesterdays post and don't forget to visit my etsy store!  Stay tuned- I'll be stocking the store shelves with a splash of red and a little toile!

Alright ladies,

First off, I love Fall- but I'm not too "into" Halloween.  I also have a family of 8 and as you can imagine, storage space is a constant issue.  This is the decore that currently adorns my Palace. (please ignore the uncut grass,  for you lucky 4 season climates it's overseeding time in Arizona- that means we scalp our summer lawn and plant another winter lawn over the top... and we do it every year! Crazy.)  I made these out of the left over chinese lanters (they lay flat when stored) from my brothers wedding.  Just spray painted them then decorated faces.... 

Next up!  Anyone have Lego's, Imaginext, K'nex, or Barbies?  We have a few budding architects in the house and an entire Imanginext system.  It's so huge that my kids can't construct their proper "universe" in their own rooms.  So, I turned over the theatre room (which also doubles as the game room, music conservatory, library, and family room) for storage.  

This chest came to us for free.  I think it had been painted 5 times before I got it.  It was beyond another paint job so I wallpapered it with craft paper... Modpodge.  

Too lazy to paint the sides so I brushed on black then attacked it with a clean decorating stamp.  Walla!

Now the building supplies are PrettyOrganized.  

Here's a view from the top.  I embellished the top with music motif (both me and the hubby hold degrees in music... and now the kids have taken up instruments), paint, printwork.... 

The piece screams attention.  I thought I might not be able to pass it off as furniture but so far the guests all rave about what a neat chest I have.

So, if you have those yucky pretend wood wrapped K-Mart special assemble yourselves and end up with a few extra pieces kind of drawers or shelves laying around... even if they've been retired to your closet- they can still be used!  Just buy a few gallons of Mod-Podge and get to work!  A cool piece of furniture sure beats those RubberMaid boxes.  You can be Pretty Organized too! 

Don't forget to visit tomorrow to se who won the Free Hat Box Giveaway!!!  

Freebie for the Nester!

Okay,

Since I'm totally an apprentice blogger I'm attempting to exercise the advice of my tutor The Nester.  (I don't think she even knows she's my tutor)  Anyway, being a blogging genius and the Queen of Crafy, The Nester has earned the Pretty Organized Palatial Blogspot award.  Head on over to her site for some real southern home decor tips that will having you reaching for your glue gun holster and turning up the heat!

DRUM ROLLL.........

My Free give away!! 

Here's what you get!  I'll hand paint 3 nesting hat boxes  similar to these just for you in colors that will coordinate with wherever you hang The Nesters Tassels  Or, if you want to use mine in the bathroom and can't hang a tassel over your toilet, I'll create them for whatever room, person, lamp, animal... (you get the idea).  Your choice of rounds or rectangulars!

Leave a comment on my very empty comment page and I'll let you know who the winner is on my page by Friday!  Sound fun?

Let's keep this capitalistic creativity flowing and help those great moms make a little extra dough for Christmas!  Time to get PrettyOrganized for the holidays. Visit My etsy Shop and don't forget to check back with my blog for more ideas on how to multi-task and keep your nose above the water while you're swimming in to-do's for the Holiday Season! ... humble thanks Nester.