Wait Til Your Father Gets Home

Just a bit of all the little bits of life at home!

{favorite pins friday #5 and my first giveaway}

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There is a fun giveaway at the end of this post!  Make sure to enter to win a $10 Jo Ann’s gift card and other fun prizes.

Here’s what I’ve be pinning this week…

I’m all about red, white, and blue lately, and I love this Star and Stripes Plaque from Jill at Two Yellow Birds Decor.  The simplicity of it is awesome and I think you could use it in so many different areas around the house!  I might just have to make a couple to celebrate this 4th of July.

{Source: Two Yellow Birds Decor}

I’m all about sewing projects lately, and I’ve definitely got way more ideas and projects floating around in my head than I need to, but these are so stinkin’ cute.  I wish I had a friend that was getting married soon, so I could make these for a shower gift.

{Source: Très Michelle}

This may seem silly, but I think cutting melon (of any kind) is both tedious and difficult.  Jessica at Mom 4 Real has solved the melon cutting crisis of America.  She explains how to pick the perfect melon and then provides detailed pictures on how to slice it perfectly.  Brilliant!

{Source: Mom 4 Real}

Once a teacher, always a teacher.  I think kids need to be excited about reading, starting at a very young age.  What better way to get your kids pumped about a little reading time each day this summer than by using a summer reading log?  Now, my little guy isn’t ready for his own reading log yet, but we definitely read a couple books each day.  He’s really starting to actually pay attention to the books, which tells me that I’ve got to keep it up!

{Source: Simple As That}

I’m all about simple, inexpensive, crafts that take under 5 minutes to complete.  These paperclips would be a perfect addition to a greeting card, a book, a journal…the possibilities are endless!

{Source: The Sweet Talk Shop}

Those are some of my favorites from the week.  What have you been pinning lately?!

If you made the list, feel free to grab the featured button in my footer !  All featured pins will be on my {favorite pins friday} pin board!

Enjoy!

Please leave a comment, I love to hear from my readers.

*If you do pin any of these ideas, please visit the highlighted source link below each picture and  pin from the original source!  I’m sure they’d love to know you’re pinning and enjoying their ideas!  The Pinterest icon from above can be found here.

And now, as promised to my loyal Facebook Followers, my first…

I’m so excited to have over 100 “likes” on Facebook!  To celebrate, I wanted to do a little something for my awesome readers.

I’ll be giving away a $10 Jo Ann’s gift card and a fun little prize pack of some favorite finds (think cute Target, Michael’s, and Jo Ann’s dollar bin items) to one lucky reader!

There are a couple of ways to enter to win.  Please leave a separate comment on this blog post, per entry!

There will be one winner chosen using Random.org on Wednesday, June 20th and announced here.

Good luck to all of you, and thank you so much for being a follower of {Wait Til Your Father Gets Home}!

Ways to enter:

1.  “Like” Wait Til Your Father Gets Home on Facebook.

2.  Follow @WaitTYFGHome on Twitter.  (Leave your twitter handle in the comment so I can follow you back).

3.  Tweet about the giveaway.  (Leave the url for the tweet in your comment).

4.  Follow {Wait Til Your Father Gets Home} via Linky followers (found in my sidebar).

5.  And for fun, tell me your fondest birthday memory from childhood 🙂

So that’s up to five ways to enter to win the giveaway!  Remember to leave a separate comment on this blog post per entry!

Thanks for reading and good luck to you all!

After removing my own comments, I entered the remaining comments into Random.Org’s True Random Generator and…

Comment #30, Katie from The Terpblog is the winner!

Congratulations Katie!  I’m sending you an email now to get your information 🙂

And thanks again to all of you for entering my first giveaway!

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  2. sara @ applestone drive says

    My favorite birthday memory is that every year my dad would make the most amazing cake for me. Whatever my interest was that year, he would design it and it would be awesome. And he’d always incorporate coconut since it’s my fave! 🙂

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  5. Michelle says

    My fondest birthday memory is the backyard birthday pool parties my twin brother and I used to have together, our friends still talk about them!

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  7. Lisa ~ The SweetTalk Shop says

    Thanks for sharing my Sweet and Easy Bookmarks. I still have tons floating around my office and home. Love them and give them away to friends and family all the time. I even leave a few at the library just for fun!

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  18. Mary Dailey says

    My sister and I were only 1 year, five days apart, so every year we celebrated our birthdays together. Those were my favorite birthdays. When she moved away after she got married, we sure did miss those birthdays together.
    marika200@hotmail.com

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  21. Maureen says

    My fondest childhood birthday memory would probably be my roller skating party in 4th grade (I know I am showing my age with this one!!). I am a winter baby, so many of my parties got cancelled due to snow, and I was looking forward to having this one at the roller rink and it came off without a hitch! I can still remember how happy I was. Funny the things that make you happy when you are little. . .

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  24. Aubrey says

    My fondest B day memory is when my mom hired a magician to come to our house when I was 5! I had so much fun 🙂 My birthday is tomorrow so hopefully I will have more great birthday memories!
    family74014 at gmail dot com

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  25. Jill says

    Thanks so much for featuring my Star and Stripes Plaque!! You are so sweet!!
    What a fun giveaway!! I am so excited!
    For my first entry…I just followed you on facebook!

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  26. Jill says

    My favorite birthday memory is when my mom did a treasure hunt throughout my house and yard. I thought it was the greatest thing! I ended up in the shower where there was a big surprise…although I can’t remember what it was!! HAHA!!

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  34. Barbara says

    Well I’m a follower on everything, but now Linky too! I am also tweeting about your giveaway! Good luck! My fondest memory from childhood is one I just relived with my boys this weekend unintentionally! It’s simple–my dad used to take me to get an ice cream cone at Thrifty’s (a drug store chain in the west). We recently moved to a neighborhood that has a Thrifty (now it’s a Rite Aid) in it and his past Saturday night I decided to stop there to get a cone for the boys. As I was walking out of the store, it hit me! My dad used to do this with me weekly like 30 years ago and it was my favorite daddy and me time! So appropriate because I got to tell my dad the story on Father’s Day Sunday:) Sorry that was a long one! Thanks for the giveaway friend! XO, Barbara

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  37. Kadie says

    When I was a kid I would always ask for my mom to make me a pumpkin pie instead of a cake. Pumpkin pie is my all time favorite desert and you only get to have it once of twice a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas). She was so nice she made it almost every year.:)

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  40. Dawn @ Come Over For Coffee says

    Fondest birthday memory – while I was out with friends, my whole family TP’d my bedroom. They used at least 10 rolls of TP and covered it from floor to ceiling and wall to wall. It was a mess to clean up, but we all laughed as we walked over and under it.

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