Abby Grace's 7th Birthday

Yesterday was our dear Abby's 7th birthday. Goodness, I can rembember the night she was born, 7 years ago! It seemes like it was yesterday! As always we wanted to share her birthday pictures so please enjoy. ~Bethany for the Wards

Rose Belles

This past weekend Ashley and I were able to be Rose Belles! For those that remember Azalea Belles last spring, this i very similar except it was a one day event were we greeted visitors to the Goodman Museum here for the Rose Festival. It was a lot of fun working at the 150 year old museum and greeting visitors! Enjoy our pictures! ~Bethany

All the lovely belles. :D

Ashley & I with Patricia, the lady who started the Roe Belles idea.

One of the rooms in the museum

One of the bedrooms in the museum

The Goodman museum

My Book Bliss Photo Contest Entries!

Miss Raquel is having a photo contest and the theme is books! So here are my two entries!

Learn more about Raquel's contest by clicking HERE!

Blessings,

Bethany

Giveaway Blog Update...

For all of you who have inquired about my giveaway blogs permission only viewing and not being able to view the blog: I am so sorry about that! I had the settings on invited viewers only since I was still getting it up and in the designing stage. But I have now fixed it so anyone can view it! Please visit it HERE or click the below button! Thanks!
Bethany

A New Giveaway Blog!

Hello!

I wanted to let you all know that I just opened a blog called Giveaways of Blessing! I will be posting several giveaway/product reviews on this blog per month and wanted to let you all know about it! Right now there is a giveaway for some lovely tea time cards, sponsored by Scripture Designs so check it out! I would love for you all to help spread the word about this blog, thank so much!

Blessings,

Bethany

View Giveaways of Blessing HERE!

Earring Giveaway Winner!!!

Hello Ladies!

The giveaway for the lovely flower earrings sponsored by Amula Designs has ended {I chose to end it a day early} and I used random.org to draw the winner! Before I announce the winners name I would like to thank each and every young lady that entered, I never though I'd have had as many entries as I got! Thanks so much! :D

And now, the winner of the lovely flower earrings is:

MISS JOHANNA KAUTTS!!!!

Congratulations! Now Miss Johanna, if you would comment on this post with your first and last name, email and home address {this comment will not be posted} then I will contact Amy and we will get you your earrings as soon as possible!

I would like to thank Amula Designs for sponsoring this review and giveaway! Thanks so much! For those of you who did not win, then please feel free to view Amy's shop and take a look around HERE!

Have a lovely day!

Blessings,

Bethany

P.S. Would you ladies be interested in seeing more giveaways? If so then please let me know in the comment box!

Courtney's 9th Birthday!

September 4th was Corky's 9th birthday! Wow! The time has flown away waaay to fast! This year Corky let me get a lot of good pictures of her so please enjoy!

Singing happy birthday to Corky

Product Review & Giveaway :: Amula Designs

Hello Ladies!

Today I have a lovely product review AND giveaway for you guys! The sponsor is the Etsy shop Amula Designs. She sells such cute things! Here are some of my favorites:

 

{Wedding Ivory Cream Pearl Earrings}



{Mint Green Rose Flower Ring}

{Dusty Pink Swarovski Pearl Lariat Necklace}

{Classic Brown Cameo Necklace in Antique Brass}

Amy was so sweet to allow me to review these lovely metallic purple czech flower bead earrings from her shop:

{Metallic Purple Czech Flower Bead Earrings}

I absolutely loved these earrings from the second I laid eyes on them and was so pleased to find them in my mailbox shortly thereafter! Great job on the packaging as she made if pretty yet safe and secure so nothing would break and mailed it to me rather quickly! She was such a sweet lady and I really enjoyed working with her! I highly recommend her lovely shop and suggest that you take a look around HERE!

Here are some pictures of the earrings once I got them:

I just love these earrings! I wear them all the time and love their elegant touch that they add to any outfit! They aren't very heavy so you barley feel them in! Plus I just love the vintage-y ness of them and their antique feel and look! :D

Now, Amy has been so sweet to allow me to giveaway a pair of the metallic purple czech flower bead earring to the blessed winner of this giveaway! Wouldn't you love to win these pretties? Before telling you how to enter lets go over a few things you need to know before entering:

• Please leave one separate comment for each entry or it will not count as separate entries!
• Please leave some way for me to contact you if you win such as blog address or email address. I would hate for you to win and then not be able to contact you!
• This giveaway will go on until September 15th, 2011 and will end at noon central. The winner will be drawn by random.org and posted later that afternoon.
• Please leave comments on this post only.

Okay here are some things you can do to enter!

• Mandatory Entry: Go visit Amula Designs and let me know what you like!
• Follow the Ward Family Blog {1 Entry}
• Check out my friend and I's ministry blog: Royal Daughters of the King and read a post and let me know what you think! {2 Entries, leave two comments}
• Heart Amula Designs on Etsy {1 Entry}
• Add Amula Designs to your Etsy circle {2 Entries, leave two comments}
• Tell me five things you are thankful for! {1 Enrty}
• Tell me your favorite Bible verse! {1 Entry}
• Post about this giveaway on your blog {Please leave link in your comment. 1 entry}

Now you can start entering! Before I close this post I would like to thank Amy for sponsoring this lovely giveaway as well as the product review! I  just love you shop and pray that God would bless it and your hard work for it!

Blessings!
Bethany Ann

{Looking for another great giveaway? Well on my other blog Royal Daughters of the King we are having a huge giveaway with several neat prizes! Check it out HERE!}

Product Reviews - Pieces of April

Pieces of April is a neat little Etsy shop which I have had the pleasure of reviewing! Pieces of April specializes in cute bobby pins, rings, earrings and more! The owner of this shop is Mrs. April Reech and she is such a sweet lady and was lots of fun to work with! When I contacted her about possibly reviewing something from her shop she got back with me very quickly and was very friendly and generous!

Here are a few of the many items that Mrs. April sells {Click on name for more info}



Mediano Trio Bobbies-Flowers Aqua,White, Pink



Mini Chrysanthum



Enamorado Con Purple Earrings



Ebony and Ivory Ring



Dear Friend - Note Card



After looking through her beautiful items I chose to review a set which consisted of 2 bobby pins and 2 pairs of earrings. I was so excited to be able to review these things and once the what-seemed-to-be-long-wait for the package to arrive { :D } I was pleased to find the items packaged nicely and ready for me to review! April is a Scensty consultant, which I did not know until I received my package and found that she sent along a Scentsy scent circle to try as in the lush gardenia fragrance!

I was delighted to find the items as well a Scentsy catalog and a scent circle!

I just love this set! My favorite things were the rose earrings but I loved them all!  Here are some pictures of them in detail:

I love the bobbies! However if you do purchase some of your own I suggest that you handle them carefully and not pull on the actually embellishment but on the bobby pin itself to prevent the embellishment from breaking. This is due to the fact that the since the space in small, the embellishment and bobby are only attached in one place.

I just love the earrings! They aren't to heavy on my ear holes, which I love! {When my mother was younger she wore heavy earring and eventually her ear hole was damaged and she had to have a new hole put in}

So know that you have seen a bit of what all is in Mrs. April's shop and have seen how amazing her products are I encourage you to check out her site HERE! I am sure she would love to have a few more sales so if you have some extra money then try something from her shop! I highly recommend her items to you! In all of her 126 sales she has had 100% positive feedback so you know that you'll get something that's a great quality with friendly service! Since she had 101 items for sale I'm sure you'll find something you love!

Also, go check out her blog HERE! And you can find her on Twitter HERE!

Oh, and don't forget to check out her Scentsy site  HERE and look around! I am sure that you will love what you see! I was delighted to try one of their scent circles and though the scent was defiantly strong I am sure it would make anything smell great whither it be a school locker, bathroom, car, closet, etc!

A special thanks to Mrs. April for letting me review these things! I really appreciate your kindness and I am happy that I was able to review your things! :D

~Disclaimer~

All thoughts are my own. I was not paid or requested to write up this product review, but was blessed to have the opportunity to do so.

Would you like to have your Etsy shop publicized? With our blogs 221 page views a month you will be sure to get some! If you are interested in allowing me to review a free product from your shop then please contact me HERE are my other blogs contact form and I would love to review your shop on The Ward Family Blog!!