There are two giveaways across the web today.

First up, Lindsay Roberts is giving away a bundle of goodies on her instagram account. You can see all of the goodies, RIGHT HERE.

Secondly, the amazing Aarean of the great blog The Color Issue is giving away two pairs on her blog, RIGHT HERE.

I hope you win!

I bought the kid’s their summer swim suits in February this year. What? We had a really l-o-n-g winter here in Utah. I’ve since bought them a couple more because my kids live in swim suits during the summer. Do your kids live in their swim suits? Click through for the sources.

For the little miss

For the little mr.

For momma

For protection

Also, don’t forget to wear sunscreen!

Lately we’ve been eating breakfast for dinner almsot every night, is that a #fail as a mom?  I need your help though, what are your favorite breakfast recipes? Click through to see some of mine.

The Alison Show – Blueberry Breakfast Strata

Stephmodo – Blueberry Sour Cream Waffles

Say Yes to Hoboken – Dutch Baby Pancakes

You are My Fave – Crepe Cones 

I adore this video for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Lisa is the best.

Thank you everyone for your entries! We’ve picked winners for Instagram, Facebook and the blog, they are:

Instagram: @merenate

Facebook: Kristina Khomich

Blog: Fleurishing Blog

We are hosting our biggest giveaway to date! We would LOVE for you to tell us, ‘What makes Freshly Picked moccs unique’?

We think that we know what makes the moccs unique, but we would LOVE your opinion.

What is it that makes our moccs unique?

(a) The unique look and cut of the front fringe on the moccs?

(b) The fringe around the collar?

(c) The overall unique look and feel?

(d) All of the above?

The winner(s) will receive a $500 gift certificate to our shop. We want you to enter and the guidelines are below.

1. This contest is open to everyone, winner(s) chosen at random.*

2. You have three chances to win. You can either;

• Create an instagram image telling us what makes Freshly Picked moccs unique. Tagging the image #freshandunique
• Create a Facebook post or share our post again telling us what makes Freshly Picked moccs unique. Then let us know on Facebook that you’ve entered
• Create a blog post telling us what makes Freshly Picked moccs unique, let us know in the comments of this post by linking to your post

3. This contest will end on Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 11:59 PM – MST. The winners will be announced on Thursday, March 28th 2013 in the morning.

If you would like to create your own image you can use any of the pictures off of the shop, within our look book or we’ve created a Flickr page of images for you to use as well.

Good luck! I hope that you win!

I’ve partnered with Martha Stewart Crafts this year to post a project once a month, they’ve sent me the supplies and I get to share the project with you guys exciting, right? This month, I’m sharing how to finger knit. I’ve done this project with Hattie to show you guys, if a 6 year old can do it, you can too! Click through for the full tutorial!

Start with little fingers, yarn and scissors.

Hold the end of the yarn with your thumb to keep it in place.

Begin by weaving in and out of your fingers.

Then double back.

Repeat

You’ll have two rows of yarn on each finger.

Pull the bottom row over the top row and over your finger.

Like so.

Repeat the steps until you have a nice long finger knit tube!

Happy crafting.

I’m so excited to show you guys our brand new shop! It’s a labor of love and I’m so happy that it’s finished. We also have some new colors, an old color and cobalt blue anyone? And starting right now for the next 24 hours, we are offering 15% off of your entire purchase, enter the code FRESH15 at checkout.

Visit our shop here!

I’ve partnered with Martha Stewart Crafts this year to post a project once a month, they’ve sent me the supplies and I get to share with you guys, exciting, right? This month, I’m sharing an easy valentines envelope, fill it with candy or letters of love.

Start with a piece of paper, I used this awesome xoxoxo paper from the Martha Stewart Valentines Paper Pad.

Here is the underside, cute right?

I cut it down to be about 5 inches across.

Fold in your ends about 3/4′s of an inch

Fold up the bottom half and secure with glue or sticky dots.

Make a triangle at the top

Seal with washi tape, stickers or kisses.

Right after I got done bragging to all of my friends how we haven’t gotten sick this winter, we came down with a wicked cold. So we buckled down for a couple of days and stayed in doors. I have a couple of things that I need when I’m sick, what are your essentials? Click through for mine.

Also, isn’t this video cute? Check out their galler on Facebook and share with someone special.

My laundry is out of control. I spent my my holiday break eating pigs in a blanket and watching really bad movies and now that we’re back to our routine someone has to tackle the laundry and I guess that it has to be me. Click through for my laundry essentials.

Downy beads

Oxy Clean

Shirt folder

Fresh stack of white towels

Also, this video from Amy Sadaris is hilarious.

I love a new year, I love pulling out a crisp piece of paper and a pen and writing down all that I want to accomplish, the milestones that I want to reach and the person that I want to become in the coming 12 months. Although goal setting now comes easily for me, it wasn’t always so. Year after year, I would fill my paper with things like, ‘be happy, get in shape, eat less’. Although these are good ideas, and even good things to aspire to, they are not measurable or even very specific and within a couple of weeks I was off my ‘goals’ and a little dissapointed in myself. I would love to share with you how I define my goal setting now.

Goal Setting 101
1. Map it out (Tell me what you want, what you really, really want)

You can’t set a goal until you become clear about what you want, like really want. Be honest with yourself and give yourself permission to reach for the stars – baby you’ve earned it. What does your life look like in your fairy tale? In your 12 year old self’s journal? What do you want to accomplish with your self, your family, your house, your job? This year, next year and in the years to come. This vision of yourself need not be set in stone. Your wishes and dreams will change with each goal that you accomplish because more of life will be open to you. Consider this an open letter to your soul.

2. Get Specific

For example if I want to ‘get in shape’, then what does that mean, what does it look like? Not what it takes to get in shape, but if I were in shape, then what would I be doing? For me being in shape would mean (among other things) that I would be able to run a 10k in under an hour at some point during this year. Now I could probably go out and run a 10k on January 1st. It would be a hot mess and It would probably take me the better part of 2 hours, but I’m pretty sure that I could do it and finish. However, what the 10k means is that I’m in shape and therefore training for the 10k is what I’m really after, the run is just the result.

3. Assign value to your goal and make a plan

The goal that I would then write would be;
Run a 10k in less than an hour before July 1st

I assigned two values to my goal, a time and a date. First thing that I would do then is look up 10k’s in my area that happen in June. I found this one that is happening on June 8th and I have already signed up for it. The next step would be to find a running and nutrition schedule that would have me on pace to run a 10k in under an hour by June 8th. And that schedule would break down monthly, weekly and daily what I should be doing to be on pace to accomplish my goal. If you assign a value to your goal and then work backwards from where you want to be to where you are, you slice your goal and the work to achieve that goal into bite size manageable pieces.

4. Get to work

Once your goal has been set and the value assigned and your plan mapped out, get started. Start right where you are standing today. Don’t start tomorrow. Even if it is just researching something online – get going. I find that if I ‘start tomorrow’, I in fact do not start at all. Envision it, map it, start doing.

5. Be flexible with yourself

Once you get started on a goal, you may realize that in fact you do not want to make a million dollars, that money doesn’t motivate you and certainly doesn’t get you out of bed in the morning. Allow room to adjust and even let yourself throw in the towel if you need to. There are many times that I’ve started on a goal and realized a couple of weeks into it that I wanted nothing to do with that life that I was creating if I accomplished the goal. This is an awesome part about goal setting and please don’t become discouraged by it. It means that you’re growing and changing and you’re becoming someone different than you were when  you first started setting goals. Just head back to the drawing board and rewrite your future. It’s as easy and as fun as that.