CONTEST INFO***(added 11/16) This contest started on November 1st so you will have to go to my home page for this weeks question. Please go to my home page to see where the contest is at as this is a month long contest with weekly drawings. Just click on Real World Martha at the top or home.*******
Today I am starting my month long contest “TIS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE”.
This month is my birthday month, Thanksgiving and the start of the Christmas season (after Thanksgiving, k?). What better way to celebrate this wonderful month by focusing on others. And that will be the way to win as well.
These are not daily prizes but a weekly giveaway. That’s right, you will win the entire weeks prizes that have been featured! Isn’t that AWESOME?
To enter this weeks prizes you must answer the question in the comments and leave a link about the contest on your blog.
This weeks question: Question for Week 1 – Tell me something that you do/done, individually or as a family, that really shows it is better to give than to receive. Do you give food to the food bank every month? Have you adopted a “grandma or grandpa”? Tell me about it.And remember only one entry a day!
Prize 1 /Week 1
Here’s just one of the prizes for this week from Julesmaeclothing
Flower Velour Headband
“Made from a brown vintage men’s necktie overlaid with a soft green velvety ribbon. Hand embroidered details include floral embellishments and edge stitching in a salmon pink. Lined with a soft pink floral print cotton. Guaranteed a one of a kind Jules Mae Original.”
Isn’t that the cutest thing?
About Jules:
I’m just a girl who grew up in the sleepy countryside just outside of Vancouver, BC
I studied Fine Arts in Halifax, and there I discovered my love of embroidery. There seemed something so beautiful to me about this painstaking process of committing a design to a surface. My plight was to “draw quickly” with this slow process as though I were jotting down quick sketches or “memo notes”. On my daily transit to and from school I would sit and embroider on carefully chosen rescued fabrics. I still have those projects tucked away and they inspire me forward.
I’ve sewn for as long as I can remember, or at least as long as my mother would let me have-at her sewing machine. She instilled in me such a respect for the female form and how it is expressed in garments. She was an amazing woman, and is dearly missed. Now I’ve had to grow up into my own right as a dressmaker. To be honest, I wish she was around for consultation!
Fashion is about the ego. I made a decision a while back that this venture can’t be about ego, not in it’s vision, anyway. (We all know ego is difficult to evade.) There is no point in me chasing this dream if it’s only about ego. My commitment is to finding eco-friendly and socially responsible ways to get involved in making a difference in both local and international communities; in people’s lives. It’s a lofty goal, but a worthy one. I’m still working out all the logistics, and if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear from you at julie(at)julesmae(dot)com.
Here is all her info:
and her ETSY Shop
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5252543
Be sure to check out all her fun stuff and don’t forget to leave your comment for a chance to win this adorable headband.
Have a “Cute” Day!
Real World Martha's Weblog 
November 5, 2008 at 5:13 am
A christmas….thanks to our Father, God, for making it possible, I had a whole $37 to my name. My sister had announced they would not be having christmas due ot lack of money. They had each other and three kids. By God’s grace, I went to walmart, spent $30 on them (a gift for each) and STILL made it financially through the week. I will never forget this because she always decorated her house and did the whole shabang thing, then to come over one day and find nothing up….I wouldn’t hear of it (in a non-ego way) and went that day to walmart. GOD made it possible, I was just the deliverer of gifts.
November 5, 2008 at 10:20 am
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November 5, 2008 at 2:44 pm
When my 6yo daughter was 2 we started giving money to the bell ringers. As soon as I parked my car, I would take money out of my purse and give it to her so that she could put it into the bucket. It has become such a tradition that her 2yo sister now enjoys it, too.
November 15, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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November 15, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Ever since I was in high school (and didn’t have much money to my name!) I’ve been supporting a girl through Compassion International. Supporting her reminds me of how much I have, and how blessed I am, and how incredible it is that I can help her out by giving such a small amount per month.
November 16, 2008 at 6:09 am
My Dad worked at a place called Sunny Glen Children’s Home for many years as a carpenter so over the years my family has adopted one or two of the children for Christmas. We also try to sponsor them for their summer vacation. We also talk to many organizations about donating to this wonderful place for kids. My grandchildren are very involved with this just as my children were.
I lost my Dad 9 years ago but recently one of the women from Sunny Glen called me and said they had some beds that my Dad had made and would I like them. My grandchildren are now sleeping in beds made by my father. It is dear to my heart when I see them sleeping on something made by my fathers hands.
Thanks so much!
November 16, 2008 at 8:16 am
Well, we do support our food pantry. And each year at Christmas, we “adopt” a family. The kids purchase gifts fr that family and we do a food storecard as well.
Lalycairn (at) gmail.com
November 16, 2008 at 2:11 pm
We give to our church’s manna ministry in addition to help serve a Thanksgiving meal to the homeless or needy at our church. The grandkids help me to fill shoesboxes for Operation Christmas Child.
November 21, 2008 at 4:05 am
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