I started blogging for many of the reasons that a lot of Moms do - I needed an outlet for some of my Mommy-stress and a place to share the funny little stories that my kids tend to generate every day.
To say thanks to the online friends who've shared their stories in return, I have arranged for a giveaway of one of my favorite things. (Yeah, I have Oprah delusions. Sue me.)
When I was pregnant with my oldest son, Nick, I was browsing the rows of the Wisconsin Exposition Center during the Wisconsin State Fair. It was hot, I was pregnant and I needed the AC more than I needed the items being hawked by the hundreds of vendors. Then I saw one of the coolest things and I knew I had to have one.
Matters of the Heart is a company based in southeast Wisconsin. They make custom-cut photo mats, like the ones I purchased after each son was born:
Both of these are custom-order pieces.
My kids are still very young, but you can see I put a picture behind each letter, their hospital photo on the left, leading up to a more recent picture on the right.In honor of my "blogoversary", they are giving away a FAMILY mat and frame to one of my readers. Want to enter? Visit their site and tell me, in a comment, what mat and frame colors you would like should you win.
The contest will close this Thursday night, May 22nd at 10 p.m. Central, at which time I will draw and announce the winner (to be chosen randomly). You can be entered only once unless you write a post telling people about my contest (send me an email to tell me you've done this). Then you will get two additional entries. Sorry - we will only ship this prize to people in the US.
