Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Today, April 1st, we are Giving Away... (PRIZES CLAIMED)


Two $25.00 Gift Certificates to the Darling Online Shoppe Hand Picked Daisy

Have you ever looked at something and it made your heart happy? That is how I felt when I received my new journal from Hand Picked Daisy. I must confess, I have always been, and will probably always be, a journal geek. I love to record my feelings, experiences, and thoughts. And I love it even more when I go back and read those feelings, experiences, and thoughts. It helps me to remember special times in my life, reflect on experiences that have shaped who I am today, and it reminds me of little things my children have said and done that have long been forgotten. Oh, the beauty of the written word.


So when I received my beautiful journal from Hand Picked Daisy and it was wrapped in lovely paper, tied with brown twine, with my name carefully placed on back, I was in journal-geek heaven. And not only did I order one for myself, but I also ordered one to give to my six-year-old daughter for Easter. She loves to write and I know she will enjoy writing in her pretty journal from Hand Picked Daisy. After our journals arrived and I saw how great they were (and at such an excellent price), I ordered one for three other people (I’m not going to reveal who—they may be reading) for a birthday, Mother’s Day, and a friend who is experiencing a hard time due to illness. If you are one of our winners today, you could use your gift certificate on a journal from Hand Picked Daisy for you or to give as a gift to someone you know.

But let’s suppose journal writing isn’t your thing, that’s okay, because you could also use your gift certificate on a perpetual calendar which will help you to remember the birthdays of the special people in your life:
And then you can spend the remainder of your gift certificate on buying one of those special people a card which also doubles as a gift because it comes with adorable magnets:

Hand Picked Daisy also sells the most adorable scripture totes for boys:

And girls:
Hand Picked Daisy also offers Visiting Teaching Kits for each month of the year:

How cute are those?

Each person can enter to win the $25.00 Gift Certificate to Hand Picked Daisy up to THREE times today.

For one entry, leave your first and last name in a comment.
Example: Jane Doe

For a second entry visit Hand Picked Daisy’s online shoppe here. Look at all of Hand Picked Daisy’s adorable products. Then come back to Give Away Today and in a NEW comment tell us your first and last name and what you would spend your $25.00 on if you win.
Example: Jane Doe: Scripture Tote for my Daughter

For a third entry, I told my little sister Traci, who I swear loves April Fool's Day more than Christmas, that I would help her get some funny prank ideas from the readers of Give Away Today. So in a NEW comment leave your first and last name and tell us a good prank you have done to someone, someone has done to you, or one of which you have heard.
Example: Jane Doe: Our neighbor told my husband his aunt needed some advice on something. Our neighbor asked my husband to give his aunt, Myra Mains, a call. When my husband called he asked, "Is Myra there?" The person on the other end asked, "Who?" My husband said, "Myra Mains." Come to find out my husband had called a morgue and he was asking the employee if his remains (Myra Mains) was available to speak.

The winners of the products from Hand Picked Daisy will be announced tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2nd. Please visit us then to see if you are our winner and to check out our new giveaway for the day.

1212 Comments:

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Apryle Moss said...

Apryle Moss: Spiritual Journal Large

Sadie said...

Sadie Lyman: Scripture tote

Sadie said...

Sadie Lyman: I get my husband every year. last year, I called him at work and told him that our 6 year old had fallen and broken her leg and i was on my way to the ER. He hung up and told his boss and coworkers, then I called him and said, "April Fools!" He hated me for a month... lol

Bryants said...

Lisa Rhea Bryant: Spiritual Journal

Bryants said...

Lisa Rhea Bryant: I don't really do the April fool's thing, but today I told my Mom I was pregnant--which I'm not--she didn't think it was very funny!

Nicole said...

Nicole Gardner

Cory and Melissa said...

melissa wells

Jenna said...

Jenna Turner

Nicole said...

Nicoole Gardner - so many fun things! Spiritual journals for me, daughter and both Moms.

Cory and Melissa said...

melissa wells-journal

BAKAB said...

amanda anders

Jenna said...

Jenna Turner-magnets and scripture tote!

Nat said...

Natalie Erickson: A large and small spiritual journal

Nat said...

Natalie Erickson: Our friends came over for dessert on April 1st one year. We had completely forgotten it was April Fool's Day. They gave us a little gift with a card addressed to Aunt Nat and Uncle Jeff telling us they were pregnant. Yes we totally fell for it.

Anonymous said...

Colleen Crapo

Anonymous said...

Jessica Ballard

Anonymous said...

Jessica Ballard: Perpetual Calendar

Anonymous said...

Jessica Ballard: someone I know told me they are moving to North Dakota to join a commune and will now be known as "EarthFlower." lol

Jenn said...

Jennifer Speakman

ewstephens said...

emily stephens

Anonymous said...

Melissa Tingey

ewstephens said...

emily stephens: Magnets for my coworker who is my biggest help

ewstephens said...

emily stephens: I told my daughter's playgroup

Jenn said...

Jennifer Speakman: I'd buy a April Visiting Teaching, Spiritual scripture and Calendar!

jjbolda said...

Jessica Bolda

Blair Campbell said...

Blair Campbell

Blair Campbell said...

Blair Campbell: visiting teaching kits

Ludvigson Family said...

Jody Ludvigson

Hiatt Family said...

Anjane' Hiatt

kim wilson said...

kim wilson; scripture tote

Ludvigson Family said...

Jody Ludvigson: My husband always wants a sip of my drink, so I got a hot sauce packet and sut a tiny slit in the corner and stuck the straw in and put it back in the drink with the lid on. This time when he wanted a drink he got a little more than a sip of coke. His face was priceless! Pretty simple and funny.

Hiatt Family said...

Anjane' Hiatt: April VT handout for the 4 sisters I visit & a journal

Ludvigson Family said...

Jody Ludvigson: Journal

Johnson Family said...

Vaueli Johnson: Journal (Black and White) for family and/or Perpetual Journal for me =)

Nanny said...

I would love to win this!

Scott and Shay said...

Shaylene Morris

Anonymous said...

Heather Walker

Anonymous said...

Heather Walker-scripture tote

Anonymous said...

Heather Walker-I remember someone tying a rubber band around the nozzle for the sink sprayer so when you turned on the water it sprayed you.

The Foster Clan said...

Cathy Foster

Scott and Shay said...

Shaylene Morris: Visiting teaching guide and journal

Scott and Shay said...

Shaylene Morris...fill oreo cookies with toothpaste...the taste is a shocker!

The Cluff's said...

Kylee Cluff: Scripture Tote for girls

The Foster Clan said...

cathy foster Spiritual Journal (large)

Anonymous said...

Michael Davis

Kristin Kimber said...

kristin kimber

Anonymous said...

Alicia Broome

Anonymous said...

Michael Davis: Perpetual Calendar

Anonymous said...

Alicia Broome: Visiting teaching kits

Anonymous said...

Michael Davis: My mom put soap in her peanut butter balls candy. Yuck

Spruce It Up said...

Karen Kunz

Spruce It Up said...

Karen Kunz - April VT Kits

Anonymous said...

Josee Archubald

Anonymous said...

Donna Hainsworth
I really like the boys scripture tote. It's hard to find them for boys.

Anonymous said...

LeAnn Hammond

Anonymous said...

Charlee Goode

Anonymous said...

Miriam Bailey

kathy said...

kathy gregory: perpetual calendar

Jason and Susie said...

Susan Wade

Anonymous said...

Ali Painter

Cindy Price said...

Cindy Price - Perpetual Calendar and Spiritual Journal

Cindy Price said...

Cindy Price - One year, I tricked my husband. About a week before April 1st we had major leak under the kitchen sink. Oh, how he hates to fix the plumbing!! Anyway, he got it all repaired with umpteen trips to the hardware store. When he came home from work on April's Fool's Day, I shared with him the troubling news that the kitchen sink was leaking again. At first he didn't believe me. I'm not sure how I managed not to giggle!! But I had him look under the sink and there was a convincing bucket filled with water!! Too funny!! He was very relieved that the pipes were still good as new.

Anonymous said...

Ali Painter: Perpetual Calander, Journal, anything they are all so cute!

Jen said...

Jennifer Cantafio

Anonymous said...

Treasure Love

Anonymous said...

Treasure Love- scripture tote for my son

Anonymous said...

Treasure Love- The good old "i'm pregnant" joke

Idaho Jill said...

Jill Washburn: When my sister and I were little, we lived in the midwest and had snow days. Mom and Dad told us that we had school on a Saturday (which just happened to be April 1st) to make up for it. They even went so far as to get us up, get us dressed, get us COMPLETELY ready for school before they gave my sister a note "for her teacher" - then they made us read it on our way out to the bus stop and it said April Fools. It was at least 25 years ago, but I will NEVER forget it!

Idaho Jill said...

Jill Washburn: perpetual calendar

Unknown said...

Kendra Gillilan

Unknown said...

love the Scripture tote

Jan said...

Janice Checketts

Leslie said...

Leslie Nikolaus

Leslie said...

Leslie Nikolaus: Journal Black and white big

Patricia said...

Patricia Lee

Patricia said...

Patricia Lee: Scripture Tote for my daughter

Leslie said...

Leslie Nikolaus: I have a remote control tooting machine. One April Fool's I was student teaching and everytime I would turn around to write on the board, I'd rip one. The kids thought it was my bean burrito I ate at lunch.

Camilla said...

Camilla Starks

Camilla said...

Camilla Starks: Visiting Teaching Packets

Missy said...

missy henderson

Angela said...

Angela Hodges: Scripture tote for girls!

Anonymous said...

Pam Robbins

Unknown said...

Sherrill Cushing

Anonymous said...

Pam Robbins-site must not be able to handle all the traffic. I would us a certificate towards a journal.

Unknown said...

Sherrill Cushing- 4 magnets. I use them for young women each week.

Becky J. said...

Becky Jensen: Visiting teaching kits

Shauna said...

Shauna Burton

Jan said...

Janice Checketts: scripture tote

Unknown said...

Sherrill Cushing- I rolled cotton balls in chocolate and took them to work for everyone to eat.

Shauna said...

Shauna Burton - scripture tote for girls

Becky J. said...

Becky Jensen: My mom was the April Fool's queen. She did crazy stuff all day, every single year. She would change my clock during the night so I'd wake up and think I was late for Seminary, then when I was in the shower she would hide all my underwear. When we were in grade school and she was making our lunches she would often put hard-boiled eggs into them. But on April Fool's they were raw and when we'd crack them they'd go all over the table. Cruel!

Jan said...

Janice Checketts: We were remodeling the house and put a toilet on the neighbors front lawn.

Chablis Cottam said...

Chablis Cottam

Chablis Cottam said...

Chablis Cottam: sunday totes for boys....

Chablis Cottam said...

Hearing that your pregant....

Ogden Family said...

Alena Ogden

Trieste said...

Trieste Phillipps: Scripture tote for girls

steph.miles.miley said...

Stephanie Harrison

Melinda said...

Melinda Page

Lindsay Quinney said...

Lindsay Quinney

steph.miles.miley said...

Stephanie Harrison : Spiritual Journal and the magnets

Trieste said...

Trieste Phillipps: A resource teacher at my school had a farting machiney thing that she put underneath a chair...when each group came in, she would have it go off every now and then and everyone would look around trying to figure out who had done it. She also hid her husband's shoes in the shower!

Lindsay Quinney said...

Lindsay Quinney: Perpetual Calendar

Jess said...

Jessica Hutchings

Jess said...

Jessica Hutchings: April Visiting Teaching Kit

Mrs. B said...

Amber Barber

Anonymous said...

Kalyne Nicholes

Anonymous said...

Kalyne Nicholes: Journal

vboackle said...

vicky boackle

Anonymous said...

ann bennett

Anonymous said...

Debbie Webster

Mrs. B said...

Amber Barber: Perpetual Calendar for my mother (has ton of people to keep up with) and a couple of journals - as I am too a journal nerd.

Mrs. B said...

Amber Barber: My mother always puts garlic in soap dispensers. (Girls Camp, April Fools to the family, all sorts of days)

Suzy said...

Suzanne Taylor

Utah Funeral Directors Cremation Center said...

Laurel Ford

Utah Funeral Directors Cremation Center said...

Laurel Ford: Visiting Teaching Kits for the next few months!

Anonymous said...

Debbie Webster: Scripture tote for my son and those cute visit teaching helps. I would accully go.

Anonymous said...

Debbie Webster
One year I placed a rubber band on the kitchen sink sprayer, (tried and true prank), so that whoever turned on the water they would immediately get sprayed. Just remember that "you" did it because it back fired on me. I was the one who forgot and got sprayed all over. The kids laughed so hard and I was embarrassed because I was trying to get them. "I Fooled Myself" Needless to say I am more careful of where and what I do so that I don't get myself ever again.

Another year I put the kid's clocks forwar 1 hour so that when they woke up it was an hour earlier. I made them a very good breakfast though. Eggs, bacon, & waffles so they weren't too mad.

Marianne said...

Marianne Nattress

Sheila Hickmon said...

Sheila Hickmon

Sheila Hickmon said...

Sheila Hickmon: Spiritual Journal

Sheila Hickmon said...

Sheila Hickmon: I put a chicken Bullion cube in the shower head last night, so when my husband took a shower this morning it sprayed out yellow and he smelled like chicken!

Ivy Dawn said...

Ivy Carroll

Ivy Dawn said...

Ivy Carroll: My Perpetual Calendar

Michelle Pearson said...

Michelle C. Pearson: Spiritual Journal

Sarah Jimenez said...

Sarah Jimenez

nonmuggle85 said...

Megan Leonard - Spiritual Journal. So cute!

momma said...

Jenny Brown

nonmuggle85 said...

Megan Leonard - The night before April Fool's one year we went to my dad's office building and put trash bags over all the toilets on every floor except the first, and signs on all the doors telling people the bathrooms were out of order and they had to go down to the first floor to use the bathroom. It was pretty great.

And this morning I tried to pull the whole "your shoelace is untied" thing on my roommate... it didn't work :( so I don't recommend that on anyone over the age of 6. Hehe.

Anonymous said...

Lina Khoury

Marce said...

Marci Chapman

Anonymous said...

Lina Khoury- Magnets and the spiritual journal

Heather said...

Heather Givens

Heather said...

Heather Givens; I did the classic rubberband around the sprayer at the kitchen sink so when you turn it on it sprays you.

becky said...

Becky Packer

Heather said...

Heather Givens; spiritual journal

Heather said...

Heather Givens; spiritual journal

Anonymous said...

Nicole Sheahan

Anonymous said...

Melanie Lever

Brittney Withers said...

Brittney Withers

Anonymous said...

Nicole Sheahan: Spiritual Journal for my mom

Anonymous said...

melanie lever: Scripture tote for girls

Anonymous said...

Nicole Sheahan: My teacher told me today that when he was in college, he talked to his roommate's sister's dad (who did not like the sister's boyfriend), and he pretended to be the boyfriend. He asked for his daughter's hand in marriage and the dad started going off, quoting her patriarchal blessing...etc. His dad lived in the Philippines and they don't celebrate April Fools day there so he was clueless. Finally the roommate took the phone back and tried to calm his dad down.

becky said...

Becky Packer: Journal black & white

becky said...

Becky Packer: one year we turned everything in my roommate's room upside down - pictures, mattress, etc.

Lamse said...

diane woodward

Lamse said...

diane woodward: scripture tote for my daughter

Anonymous said...

Juliana Wade

Anonymous said...

Juliana Wade: My husband posted on my blog today that we were pregnant with twins... (we just got married) at the very bottom he said April fools but we got several people worked up today

wendy wallach said...

wendy wallach

Lamse said...

diane woodward: I was expecting and sent out fake baby announcements. I took photos at Kiddie Kandids of my two year old son holding a lifelike doll.

Anonymous said...

Juliana Wade: Pleated Hobo Bag

Nicole Pettit said...

Nicole Pettit

Becca said...

Becca Baughman

Becca said...

Becca Baughman: Perpetual Calendar

Kristen said...

Kristen Conley

Kristen said...

Kristen Conley:
I like the Black and White Journal.

Julie said...

Julie Bigler

Julie said...

Julie Bigler--scripture tote for my girls

Kristen said...

Kristen Conley:
The best April Fools joke I remember is when I was a kid. We all ran down stairs screaming for our babysitter. We told her the toilet was overflowing and there was poo everywhere...hee hee. She freaked out. What parent subjects a babysitter to their kid's on April Fools. It was soo innocent. But we still talk about it.

Anonymous said...

Donna Hunt

Andrea said...

Andrea Stewart

The Geists said...

Stephanie Geist

Andrea said...

Andrea Stewart, I need a perpetual calender!

Steph said...

Stephanie Abbott

Steph said...

Stephanie Abbott

mmentor said...

thanks for the chance

Anonymous said...

Donna Hunt: Journal Black and White

Steph said...

Stephanie Abbott-VT kits

Andrea said...

Andrea Stewart, We "forked" a neighbor's lawn (you take a ton of plastic forks and stick the tips of them into the ground) last summer.

Lisa said...

Lisa Liddell

Lisa said...

Lisa Liddell: My 11 year old son switched cereal bags in the cereal boxes so when we poured our cereal we were a bit surprised when the wrong one came out!

Anonymous said...

rebecca j ostler

Anonymous said...

Rebecca Ostler: Scripture tote for son.

Lisa said...

Lisa Liddell: perpetual calendar

The Montgomerys said...

Jessica Montgomery

The Montgomerys said...

Jessica montgomery : my perpetual calender

The Montgomerys said...

I called my husband with the ultra sound results and said we were having twins! He was in shock! That lasted about a day!I though that was funny:)

Tiffany said...

Tiffany Hillam: I love the journals

Tiffany said...

Tiffany Hillam: my friend has his in-laws staying with him and he's turning off the water and saying his wife forgot to pay the water bill.

Anonymous said...

Randy Bennett

Anonymous said...

Danna Gray

Alyss Paige said...

Amber Bennett

Cory and Sara Jane said...

Sara Jane Taylor

Alyss Paige said...

Amber Bennett: Magnets

Anonymous said...

Randy Bennett: Magnets

Anonymous said...

Danna Gray: Magnets

Cory and Sara Jane said...

Sara Jane Taylor: magnets

Cory and Sara Jane said...

Sara Jane Taylor: My friend called me last year and told me "hey, I just heard your name on the radio! you have to call in to claim your prize!!" Then she gave me a phone #. When I called it was a phone sex number! hahahaha...she still gets people with it every year.

Anonymous said...

Elizabeth Curtis

Anonymous said...

Elizabeth Curtis: Scripture Tote

Tiffany said...
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Anonymous said...

Danna Gray: My granddaughter called her dad and asked him to text her that they were moving so she could get her friends. He agreed but at the end of the text he told her it was really true and they weren't going to tell her until the whole family was together. He also called his wife so she was in on the joke too. My granddaughter was so scared all day that they were really going to be moving.

Shannon and Kevin Mills said...

Shannon Mills

Anonymous said...

Elizabeth Curtis: Someone I know put a positive pregnancy test in her bathroom (she used one from her pregnant friend). When her husband came home and saw it he was surprised that they were going to have a baby. Only to find out later that it was just an april fools joke.

Jennie said...

Jennie Smith

AnJilleen said...

AnJilleen McKinstry

AnJilleen said...

AnJilleen McKinstry: My Perpetual Calendar

Jill Hunt said...

Jill Hunt

Ashley said...

Ashley Isenbarger

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