Thursday, October 1, 2009

so pumped!!!

i can’t tell you how excited i am about the new magazine lonny that just released its premiere edition.  blogs have been buzzing about it all day, but i was driving so i couldn’t look at it.  i just got home and checked it out.  let me tell you, it is absolutely beautiful, and from what i can tell it is going to fill the void that i was left with when domino folded.  best of all you can view the pages completely online.  at first i thought viewing the pages online would be difficult.  just as a personal preference, i have always preferred magazines in print rather than online.  lonny has taken their magazine to the extreme though.  the layouts are amazing.  i personally am loving the full-screen mode.  you can zoom in for better reading and so you can see more details in the photos. 

can you tell i’m pumped!!!  i have to run so i can finish reading the rest of the magazine.  just wanted to go on ahead and do a post so i could get the word out.  enjoy it!!!

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College Care Packages 101


If you've been a reader for a while, you'll probably remember me sending college care packages to my sister in college last spring. Well, as of this fall, I have two Southern Sisters in college, so I had to double the goodies.

This year, I decided to send my usual cookie coupons. They were a hit last year, so I included them again. I also went to Starbucks and bought the 'design your own' tumblers. (I couldn't find them online for some reason though.) I decorated them with cute scrapbook paper and put their monogram it. I didn't take a picture of it, but also went ahead and designed super cute Halloween inserts for this season, too. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday, so I was making them get into the mood with me! ;)
For other ideas, I also put a cute little frame I got from Hobby Lobby, some popcorn bags, Caramel Apple Pops, Blow Pops, a little coin purse I sewed, some hand sanitizer for swine flu protection, some stamps, and rolls of quarters for laundry.
They got them the other day and loved them! I had so much fun putting them all together and hope to make more soon. Now I'm waiting to get those cookie coupons in the mail...

Happy October 1st!!! Love this month!
xoxo Y