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Cookies and cocktails giveaway!!!

The Mermaids are excited to be participating in Junk Salvation by FJS's fun and festive 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Today is our day! It is day 11! We are offering our little, vintage Cookies and Cocktails collection. To enter to win all this loot go to the Funky Junk Sister's Junk Salvation blog and follow their instructions.

The cookies collection includes a vintage cookie press with all of the super neat little nozzles and plates, 2 fun and festive vintage orange pot holders and a great vintage cookie cookbook.

Our cocktail collection includes a vintage pitcher with cocktail recipes printed right on it, the classic Old Mr. Boston's Bartender's Guide book, and a much coveted vintage Tap Icer! What is a Tap Icer, you might ask? This was a genius tool, before the days of crushed ice dispensers on the refrigerator door. You hold the ice cube in the palm of your hand and with a tapping motion, you tap the ice with the spoon-like Tap Icer. Crushed ice- just like that!!!

And... as always we are including chocolate in our giveaway! We chose these amazing, gorgeous milk chocolates by Pixie Dust Chocolates. Yum, yum, yum! They are made right here in Spokane too! What a delicious and perfect giveaway for Pink Saturday! If you want to see more Pink Saturday participants please visit Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.

Hint: You must follow us on our Google Friend's Connect (right-hand sidebar) and or  our Networked Blogs. If you are on Facebook please pop over there and "Like" our Facebook page. (so, you might as well do it now before heading over to visit with Dixie and Linda, aka Funky Junk Sisters) Also, please pop over to our Mermaids of the Lake e-zine and sign up for our free newsletter!

Happy Holidays!!!

Love,

Shelley and Debbie

12 Days of Christmas

Day 1:

The Mermaids are excited to start December off right... by participating in The 12 Days of Christmas by The Funky Junk Sister's at their Junk Salvation blog. Day 1 is a giveaway by Cactus Creek. You must pop over to Junk Salvation by FJS every day, for  12 days and enter to win the fabulous giveways. The Mermaids will be giving away some special items from our own vintage collections. Check back often to see which day is our turn to give!!!

 

Today, Dixie and Linda ask, "What is your favorite Christmas song?" Shelley and Debbie love White Christmas by Bing Crosby. It just says Christmas-time to us. Bing Crosby is from our wonderful little Spokane, Washington and that makes it even more special! When you pop over to Junk Salvation, you can hear it because it is Dixie and Linda's favorite too!

The Mermaids love all things Christmas, and that includes all to the wonderful Christmas songs. Shelley especially loves Santa Baby and Debbie's holidays wouldn't be right without hearing Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer!

Merry Christmas!!!

Huckleberry basket winner!!!

We have a winner! Thank you to each one of you who took the time to comment on the giveaway! We loved reading each and every one of your huckleberry (or lack thereof) experiences.

   

 

In our opinion, there is just nothing better than a huckleberry. They are sweet and tart and unique. Huckleberry pie? - aaaamazing!!!! Huckleberry milkshake? - beyond! Huckleberry syrup? - Oh, my! So if you get a chance to eat huckleberries in any shape or form, do it!!!

 

Huckleberries are also delicious in chocolates and taffy and other sweets. They smell divine in lotions and soaps. Our friends at Simply Northwest in Spokane, WA generously donated this amazing basket full of huckleberry products so one of you can experience a bit of the Northwest's most famous fruit!!! The Huckleberry!!!

 

Please visit them online at www.simplynorthwest.com or in Spokane at:

 

Valley location: 11806 E. Sprague Ave Spokane, WA 99206

Downtown location: North 8 Post Street Spokane, WA 99201

Call SNW: (800) 214-2686 or (509) 927-8206

 

I am sure that the friendly professionals at Simply Northwest would be happy to ship you your very own huckleberry basket!

 

And the Winner Is...

 

Linda K. said:

I was introduced to the huckleberry over 25+ years ago when I moved to Spokane :-).It was a yearly event to pick and freeze. I love a hand full in my morning cereal, baked as a crisp, with ice cream, smoothies - I'm just an all around huckleberry lover! I would love to win the basket to take back to NJ and share with my daughter's future inlaws!

 

Linda, please contact us at mermaids@mermaidsofthelake.comand we will arrange for you to claim your huckleberry basket. Congratulations! You can share with your daughter's future inlaws!

Pink Saturday

I love my little kettle full of succulents. Just look at the sweet pink blooms!

Happy Pink Saturday!  

Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for the list of all of the other Pink Saturday participants.

Don't forget to enter to win this amazing basket full of huckleberry products! See how here.

Missionary Chocolates Giveaway - You may be a winner!

The Mermaids love Portland-based Missionary Chocolates as much as we love our fans and recurring visitors! This week we were feeling particularly generous and have randomly chosen three winners to receive a box of Missionary Chocolates each.

If you are a winner, please click here to contact us to claim your chocolates. We will mail them to you right away! There are no strings attached - just tell your friends about the Mermaids of the Lake e-zine.

The winners are:

• Mermaids of the Lake e-newsletter subscriber - Kelly Kern
• Facebook Fan - Jurene Mason
• Blog friend link - Tales of a retro modern housewife

The truffles are big, very rich, and so delicious - the lucky winners will each receive a box of four truffles. Learn more about Missionary Chocolates.

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More giveaways to come, so please sign up for the e-newsletter, make comments on this blog, make comments on news stories in the e-zine, and link to us. You never know when we'll draw again for more prizes.

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Huckleberry Basket Giveaway

If you would like to win this beautiful Huckleberry Basket, please enter this giveaway as well. Hurry though because you only have a week until the entry closes!

 

Happy Pink Saturday!

By Mermaid Debbie

Summer-time, summer-time, sum, sum, summertime...

 

Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to see all of the Pink Saturday participants.

Scroll down or click here to enter our Huckleberry Giveaway!!!

 

Huckleberry giveaway!

Bears scrounge for them, the Native Americans loved them, and the Mermaids feel privileged to live among them: huckleberries. This tangy little berry comes from the heart of the Northwest, the place we call home. (See full story and delicious Huckleberry recipes on our Mermaids of the Lake e-zine)

Enter to win this fabulous huckleberry basket!!!

Wouldn't you love to win this fantastic basket full of huckleberry products? Our friends at Simply Northwest have agreed to help us out with this fabulous giveaway. Please check out their website or if you are in Spokane, visit them at:

 

Valley location: 11806 East Sprague, Spokane Valley, WA 99206

Downtown location: North 8 Post Street, Spokane, WA 99201

 

To enter:

 

1. Leave a comment at the bottom of this post and tell us if you have ever eaten huckleberries! Have you gone huckleberry picking? What is your favorite way to eat huckleberries?

 

2. Leave a comment at the bottom of the story in our e-zine - Make it: Huckleberry

 

3. We are not requiring that you join our Facebook Fanclub or our Google Friends Connect or that you sign up for our free Mermaids of the Lake E-Newsletter, but it would make us soooooo happy if you would!!!

 

4. Spread the word of our huckleberry giveaway! (also not required, just a nice thing to do)

 

This giveaway ends on Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Please check back on Wednesday, August 4 to see who won!!!

Giveaway and Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday!

Love, The Mermaids
 

Please visit Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound for the list of all of the Pink Saturday Participants. Happy Mother's Day to everyone!

Have you entered our Giveaway yet? We're celebrating our Birthday!

My pretty pantry

By Mermaid Debbie

Look what we did! We were tired of our boring pantries, so we got busy and made them pretty!

 
  Mermaid Debbie

Before...

Boring, messy pantry

After!!!

Pretty in Robin's Egg Blue

 
Cereal in jars, vintage tins for snacks and a Snack Pixie keeping watch

 
Grandma's cookbooks on top, more vintage storage and a vintage apron to hide some of the not-so-pretty items
 

 
Vintage aprons ready to use
 
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Mermaid Jennifer

Before...

Cluttered and boring

After!!!

Organized and pretty in Chocolate Brown

Spice mixes in a pretty container

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  Mermaid Shelley 

Before...

Boring!

After!!!

  
 Pretty, pretty, pretty in Orange Marmalade

Cookbooks and Turkey platter, oh... so pretty!

Vintage wicker shelf, sprayed Candy Apple Green

 Read My pretty pantry, the full story here in Mermaids of the Lake.

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Giveaway! Giveaway! Giveaway!

 

Don't forget to enter our

Birthday Giveaway!

It's our Birthday and we're celebrating with a giveaway!

 

The Mermaids are two today! We officially launched our Mermaids of the Lake e-zine on May 1, 2008. We have loved the last two years and want to thank our readers, friends, followers and fellow bloggers with a Birthday Giveaway!

We are offering:

 
Cleaning Plain and Simple, by Donna Smallin

 Missionary Chocolates

And a fun surprise!

 

 

We would love it if each of you would sign up for our free newsletter, become our friends on Google Friend Connect and Networked Blogs, follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Fan page (all in our right-hand sidebar)

However... you do not need to do any of this to be entered into our Birthday Giveaway! To enter, simply leave us a comment at the bottom of this post. Giveaway ends on Monday, May 11, 2010

We are also very excited about this new issue of Mermaids of the Lake, Dive into getting organized . (May/June issue)

Here are some things you may not know about us...

• We are three best friends who love working and playing together -Jennifer, Shelley, and Debbie
• We publish an online magazine called Mermaids of the Lake
• We also publish this blog of the same name
• We live in a lake community in Eastern Washington and we all three love the water, hence the name!
• Another name for an online magazine is e-zine
• We pulish a new issue of our e-zine every 8 weeks
• We send out a wonderful, free newsletter twice a month, highlighting different stories in the e-zine. You can sign up for it here
• Our e-zine has thoughtful, reflective stories, important information, fashion news, recipes, product reviews, book reviews, stories of local businesses, helpful tips, and so much more!!!
• We love to create, cook, read, celebrate, play, swim, dance...
• We are passionate about Inspiring women to be everything they desire to be!
• We love comments on the blog and on the e-zine
• We love our friends and we love making new friends

Happy Pink Saturday!

We love our Pink Saturday friends and if you are one and you leave a comment we will enter you twice! Just let us know in your comment. Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for the list of all of the Pink Saturday participants.

Also please visit Anna at Frosted Petunias. What a cute blog! We choose her as our new favorite Pink Saturday participant.