Easiest $50 You Might Ever Earn | One House One Couple

Do you like exploring new blogs?

Are you a DIY addict/fiend?

Do you like couple bloggers who keep it real?

Well then run (what are you still here for)

over to One House One Couple 

and get to reading and commenting on their blog

for your chance to win your choice of a $50 gift card

just for reading up, commenting and sharing the link love.

Once more, you'll want to check out their contest here.

It actually ends today, 

UT the beauty is that this is somewhat merit based

(not just random luck) 

so if you're quick on the keyboard,

you could be reading this at 8 pm PT 

(when most folks read this here blog)

and STILL have plenty of time to enter.

Be sure to tell 'em I sent you if you get there from here.

And to share your gift card with me if you win!

Happy commenting!

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I'd Cook More Kitchen - Pinterest Weekly 14

What would your kitchen look like

if you could have YOUR dream kitchen?

This is what inspires my dream kitchen

Cambria USA

(makers of the most awesome, coveted, counters ever)

wants to know what your dream kitchen would look like

and they want you to join in on the Pinterest fun!

Check out this Cambria Dream Kitchen Pinterest contest

because you are addicted to Pinterest

(don't front, you know you are)

I'm sure you can whip up a board or two.

Here's a sneak peak at what I would have in MY dream kitchen

Check out the 

B3HD Cambria Dream Kitchen Wishlist Pinterest Board

for pinspiration!

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Week 77 Random Pinehurst

Summer sunshine

means I spend a lot less time here

and a lot more time

in the yard.

Only time less sleep is worth 

the trade off.

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Shopaholics Unite! ShopYourWay Personal Shopper Program

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ShopYourWay Program for SocialSpark. 

All opinions are 100% mine.

Looking at my budget lately, it is no surprise that I love to shop.

Being without internet for two days 

(and the power outage at work)

is killer. 

Especially since I was right in the middle of signing up 
for the ShopYourWay Personal Shopper Program.

Never fear. 

If, like me, you get booted out by a stroke of God 

in the middle of your sign up,

the nice folks will send you an email that tells you just as much.

There will be a link in that email to complete your sign up. 

So far, so good.

In the meantime, you can log in to your 

ShopYourWay account and see really cool things.

For instance, you can sign up for cliques and download the ap because, of course, there is an ap for that.

For us challenged girls, 

the only way the sign up process could have been easier 

would have been for there to have been an ap for that. 

No, not for the program. 

Just for signing up for it.

I digress.

When you actually have a computer and not just your smart phone, 

you should sign up for the ShopYourWay program too!

I bet you're wondering just what is the
ShopYourWay Personal Shopper program?

Well let me tell you.

It is the BEST thing since sliced bread.

Essentially, I get to create catalogs 

(you've seen my pinterest boards right? Right!)

You get to SHOP from said catalogs.

No more just looking from a distance and longing.

Love my pillows? Get your own!

Love that new rug I have? 

Let me point you to where you can get one too.

It is an affiliate program, but better.

It's as glossy as an online catalog can be

AND it is super social.

It's super social because you can sign up too 

and select me to be your personal shopper via Facebook.

How cool is that?

How EASY is that?

If you don't have a Facebook account 

(my mom just friended me today...I almost cried)

then you can go the email addy route.

I did that because I started my signup at work. 

Where I don't have Facebook.

Now it is your turn.

1. Request an Invite to ShopYourWay

2. Check your email and follow the
"start earning" link in your ShopYourWay Program email

3. "Accept invitation and follow the steps to complete your profile.

4. Invite your friends ("clients") to join. 

Promise I didn't steal all of our mutual friends.

5. Go shopping and create catalogs filled with items you have 

5b. Or fill your catalogs with items you yourself covet.

6. Either way, share your catalogs with friends. 

When anyone buys from your catalog, you get rewarded.

How cool (and simple?) is that!

Here's my welcome wagon howdy to the program

Let me know when you have some catalogs up.

Who knows...maybe this will replace my Pinterest Weekly...

okay.

Complement it.

Photo School - Pinterest Weekly 13

I might be a bit superstitious.

To the point that I was going to put one of my major dream boards up

this week.

But instead, I'm going with a safe

no karma/luck/good juju needed board.

I'm about to go on our annual trip to God only knows where

(another cruise this year, I know where, not all that, but the ROOM!!)

Anyhow, I see great photos and tips and tricks

all the time that I want to try

to improve my photography on Pinterest.

Here are some of my favorite pins

Check out the 

B3HD Papparrazzi Board

for pinspiration!

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Week 76 Random Pinehurst

Obsessed with typography

Ikea poster

Handmade sentimental travel art

Time traveling wall of clocks.

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Green Thumb Gardening - Pinterest Weekly 12

It is no secret

that I was blessed with a green thumb.

I can grow anything.

I grow things that people look at me with a frown on their face

and say "really? You grew that?"

Some things I'm great at through no fault of my own.

The upside is that I actually can pin gorgeous garden ideas on Pinterest

and have true intentions of making them happen.

Gardening is an arena that I have no fear about.
Probably, because my grandmother had an awesome garden
and fostered my love of mud pies and gardening from a young age.
I was making seed cookies and cakes before it was "the rage".


Here's proof:

Here's what I am loving on Pinterest and, soon enough, in my own yard.

I LOVE this time of year.
I wish I would have spent more time

with my grandmother in her garden.

Not just when she asked me.

Check out the 

B3HD In My Secret Garden Pinterest Board

for pinspiration!

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Week 75 Random Pinehurst

Clearly

Summer time means

I don't have time to dust.

Can't wait to snip some peonies for those 

glass bubble vases.

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Naturally Gorgeous - Pinterest Weekly 11

Although everything is lush and green around these parts

I LOVE that my house starts with a very neutral base.

Here are some of the neutral eye candy bits and bobbles

that I'm crushing on right now

don't get me wrong.

Yellow is my favorite color

and RAINBOW really floats my boat.

But check out the 

B3HD Naturally Gorgeous Pinterest Board

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Roadtrip-a-Matic crush | PA is STILL for lovers

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of PA Tourism for SocialSpark. 

All opinions are 100% mine.

You can probably tell by now that I am so ready to hit the road.One summer, back in band camp...
okay...it was longer than band camp.
  it was 4 years of my life.

But back in the day, I lived in Upstate New York.
  In Ithaca.
  Which is gorgeous (or gorges) beyond all belief.

It wasn't until close to my senior year,
  when I was doing the Miss America local pageant scene
  (now THAT is a story for another time)
 that I took a bunch of road trips across Northeast America.

Hands down, my biggest regret is that I didn't spend more time in Pennsylvania.

It was just salt in the wound
that I met my husband
only AFTER he had completed grad school at Penn State.

We've said many a time that we would like to go back for a football game.
Or two.

Essentially, there is nothing like fall in the Northeast.
Football, Foliage and Fun all around!

So while we talked about it
and just didn't make it happen before all heck broke loose
in God's Country
(which, yes, as a Texan, I still smirk at that assertion especially in relation to football).

I really have no excuse now that
You can look up all sorts of pa-roadtrips
  by visiting the VisitPA.com website's Roadtrip-a-Matic.
  They have compiled lots of just get in the car and go
  pre-planned roadtrips for visitors to Pennsylvania.

I was checking it out the other day and here are a few of the things I love about it:

1. Theme travel!

Photogs, shoppers, hikers, history buffs and lovers.
  Something for everyone!

2. Maps included

Some of us are a bit...uhhhm...
  "directionally challenged"

3. ADHD Friendly

They have "worthy detours"
  aka, distractors, sidetracks...ways for me to get really lost

Even if you're like me
and you live about as far from Pennsylvania
as you can get and still be in the continental US of A
you should AT LEAST check out the Roadtrip-a-Matic
  to daydream about bucket list roadtrips a little.

And I can personally testify that it is worth every bit of taking a flight out east, renting a car and making a long weekend of it. I might have some points I need to use just for that.

I need a job where I travel a lot again.
Need further convincing?

Here are my top three picks for trips I would take:

With my mom:

Civil War Trails and Beyond - All Roads Lead to History roadtrip.
Main Street Farmers' Market and the 
highlight of our trip would be the Blairsville Underground Railroad. 
We're both history buffs and this is the part of PA history
we have not explored as much. 
Gettysburgh we've done.

With my puppy:

 Trails Mix All Natural Pennsylvania roadtrip.
Bald Eagle spotting in an even more historic setting than the PNW.
My puppy could hit the trails with me
and bird spotting is totally her thing.

By myself:

Shutterbugs - The Picture Perfect Roadtrip.
Route 6, Route 120, Route 144
I LOVE just driving on non Interstates and seeing the countryside.
Especially if I can just pull over whenever
to take a photo. Or a Nap.
Or just take in the beauty of it all.

It is a given that hubby would be on any trip to PA
(even the one "by myself")
because really, there is no way I'm going to be
on that side of the country
(aka, airfare already covered)
with a place to stay
(aka, hotel already covered)
and then us NOT
find a way to get him out there too.

I'm publicly committing right now.
Within the next 3 years.

Even if I have to pay for the whole trip out of pocket.
I will make it to PA and a roadtrip will be part of the adventure.

Week 74 Random Pinehurst

Home.

In so many more ways

than you will ever know.

I love gardening.

And mini houses.

And terrariums.

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Summer Around Pinehurst - 2011

Summer is starting to tease us around these parts.

I can't wait to break out the light and airy summer decor.

Here are a few photos from Pinehurst 2011 

when the sun was coming out.

Ashley's Chase Sticks, snake plant and primitive comb on mantel

Another snake plant, rattan ball and planter, 
photos and natural finds (coral and rock)

Another snake plant; thinking man tealight holder, 

carved wood love keeper woman.
Sadly, the mini palm in the yellow planter didn't make it past Christmas, 2011.

My beloved apothecary lamp, free printable, wooden airplane.

Cut glass star taper holders and a mini cloche and mini clay pot. Books, of course.

My absolute fave throw.

A zinc pot on my side table with a stack of books,

a ceramic urn and a wood finial.

All up against a wall of Ansel Adams calendar prints.

Can't wait to get some sun,

break out the summer decor

and show you what we have going on this year.

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