First, we’d like to say, we wish we could take each of the entrants with us. How fun would that be? But, we can’t. We had to choose one guest.
So, without further ado…
Congratulations Wendi! You are the winner of the trip!
You will be joining us at the GE Experience Center in Kentucky from May 15-17 with a handful of other bloggers to cook, eat and share tips we’ve learned for making entertaining simple. GE has some other wonderful things planned and we are thrilled you will be going with us!
When you see this kitchen, what do you think about?
Being in a baking cook-off? Piling up your fresh vegetables, sharp knives and flavorful herbs to get started making an amazing meal? Does it make you want to experiment, try new recipes or risk it all in an “iron-chef” type cook off? Or does it simply want to make you renovate your current kitchen?
This is the GE Monogram Kitchen at the GE Monogram Experience Center in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s a theater for the senses! It is a 10,000 sq.-ft. complex filled with an array of stimulating and appealing spaces. These spaces have been designed to showcase the latest in innovation with their GE Monogram appliances. Are you hungry yet?
Guess what? We’ve been invited to visit! But, that’s not all! We are allowed to bring a guest with us…all expenses paid.
This is what we know about the trip…We will be arriving in Louisville, Kentucky on May 15 and returning home May 17. We are promised a luxurious learning experience. (They used the word luxurious a number of times to describe this trip.) The GE Momsperience will have experiences around the themes “Biggest Challenges in the Kitchen” and “Entertaining Made Simple”. We will also be exploring some of Louisville’s hotspots.
Like we said, we get to bring a guest with us! That guest will have all their travel plans taken care of by GE’s concierge. Your travel expenses, hotel and food will be covered by GE Appliances. We don’t know about you, but we are already (mentally) packing our bags and looking forward to a weekend full of new experience!
Please check your calendars and if May 15-17 is open for you, leave a comment and tell us how you make entertaining simple. We will choose one guest to join us at the GE Momsperience 2011 Getaway. We will be running this giveaway until April 19.
There’s a lot of plates of this and that serving up on LoveFeast Table right now. First off we have a necklace winner, then some reminders AND most importantly a head’s up to our GETAWAY with ONE OF OUR READERS!! So, check out the current “table talk”…
We are happy to announce that the winner of our LoveFeast Table Mother’s Tree of Life Necklace Giveaway is Anna from Girl With Blog. She was chosen out of 8 bloggers who wrote about the latest BlogLove event, Spark & Style event sponsored by Therapon Skin. Anna was the first blogger to buy a ticket for Spark & Style She has been so supportive of our LoveFeast endeavors ~ we were happy that Random.org randomly chose her to win our necklace! Anna is a lovely and beautiful blogger who is currently mama to one puppy.
No matter, this necklace is beautiful just as she is!
We are going to have the Mother’s Tree of Life necklace in our LoveFeast boutique (hopefully by the end of this week!) ~just in time for Mother’s Day. Check back and see!
Also~ there’s been a little talk on Twitter among Minnesota bloggers about the Savvy MN event Savvy In The City. Savvy MN gave LoveFeast Table readers a special discount code: Savvy_lovefeast to get $10 off the ticket price. You can get tickets for the Savvy In The City event here.
And, let’s talk about this!! LoveFeast girls are going to be meeting up again (someplace other than a dark alley in Baltimore)!! This time in Louisville, Kentucky!! We’re heading to the GE Momsperience! But, here’s the scoop!! We get to bring ONE OF OUR READERS with us!!! That could be you! Check back tomorrow to find out more!! And, check your calendars for May 15-17!
And, finally Fancy Friday this Friday is all about “Spring Sprucing”! Have a tip, project or inspiration you would like to share? Come back Friday when we get inspired around sprucing for spring!! (That just may be a fancy way to say spring cleaning! LOL)
That’s what’s on our table? What’s on yours?
Last Saturday night Kristin and I hosted our 5th BlogLove™ event. This was our 3rd event in Minnesota. Our BlogLove™ events bring bloggers, businesses and brands together for what we hope is an inspiring time. Kristin and I were so happy to have so many guests join us for BlogLove™ Spark & Style!
DJ Kane kept the Houndstooth energy popping!!
Thanks to our models who worked their own “Spark & Style” walking the room in Houndstooth fashion. Amber from Houndstooth, dressed the “Spark & Style” blogger models who were: Missy ~ Marketing Mama, Jennifer ~ 30 Days of Honey, Jilene ~ Be Put Together, Kristin & Chris Ann ~LoveFeast Table, Kristin ~ High Heels And A Hammer, Kara ~ LaunchHER, Sasha ~ Fabuliss. These gals all have tons of their own spark & style! And, they were gracious to help us out!!
The evening was upbeat and fun! There were familiar faces and new faces. We hope you all got to meet someone new and reconnect with a bloggy friend in real life!
Thank you to Christina representing Therapon, who sponsored our evening networking event. Therapon is a clinical grade skin care line that knows that beauty and quality comes from within. We were excited to be able to shared the quality of their product that we believe will give you that outside spark! We were inspired by all the spark and style reppresented at this BlogLove event.
We hope your time at BlogLove™ left you inspired as well! (Cristina ~ Therapon, Kristin & Chris Ann)
Bloggers who attended BlogLove™ “Spark & Style” are invited to link their recap posts here. “Spark & Style” recap posts by bloggers who attended this event that are linked to this post will be entered into a giveaway for our LoveFeast Mother’s Tree Of Life necklace with birthstones. The giveaway will be drawn on Sat, April 9th.
Over the past week I’ve gotten a lot of IRL (In Real Life) time with some of my blogging friends. One of the things I like about blogging is the community it builds as well as the friendships it launches.
Meeting for coffee or lunch is a welcome break from solo time behind the computer. Sometimes you just have to reach out and do lunch IRL style. And, I have been doing just that lately.
(Anna from Motherly Law, Jennifer ~ Grow With Graces, Kate ~ Kate In The Kitchen, Elle ~ All Things Bright & Beautiful, Maggie ~ Gussy Sews & not shown but at our table, Anna ~ Girl With Blog)
Of course a chat over a hot drink gets the ideas percolating.
With all that IRL time comes inspiration to work together. Today I’m going to tell you about the adorable and handy LoveFeast inspired /Gussy made “Takes Flight” clutch bags! The “Takes Flight” Clutch is going to be part of the swag we are giving away this Friday at our BlogLove™ event in Baltimore, Maryland. We’re going to be giving away 5 of these cute bags at our “Take Flight” Event. Here’s a closer look at the LoveFeast Gussy “Takes Flight” Clutch.
We chose 2 color styles for the clutches. We started with a fresh green color palate and the caged bird fabric. We meant for the fabric to symbolize your ideas and passions that are ready to fly! Each clutch has coordinating inside liners in a different coordinating color as well as either a plum ruffle or a floral ruffle. The clutch is 10″w x 7″deep, with a wrist strap.
We also designed it to have a fabric divider inside. Sections are always handy. In the case of the chance that you are a blogger we thought they would be a handy divider for business cards to give and business cards you receive at blogger events. And, of course there is plenty of room for a small flat camera and a phone.
Here’s some more news! These very bags are going to be selling exclusively in our LoveFeast Shop in March when we launch our new website. (Oh ya…we have lots to catch up on!!) But for now here’s a last peek!
**If you are a blogger~it is not to late to come to BlogLove™ Baltimore “Takes Flight”! We’d like to spend some IRL time with you! Inspiration & ideas take flight when we’re together encouraging each other! You can get a ticket here: http://bloglovetakesflight.eventbrite.com
What are your aspirations? What ideas do you have that you would like to see take flight? Leave a comment and share your story to WIN your in “Takes Flight” Clutch! (Giveaway ends 1/23/11 at 2 eastern.) VISIT Gussy Sews for more cute bag inspiration!
We know they are yummy. Velvet plushness waiting to adorn your mantels, table tops, ledges and bowls.
One of our lucky readers will have this special trio, from Plush Pumpkins, sent to them just in time for Thanksgiving!
Our pumpkin trio giveaway *sponsored by Plush Pumpkins* is going to go through Friday, November 19th, 1pm Central!! Winner must live in the U.S. due to the shipping weight of the pumpkins. Here are 2 ways to getting yourself some pumpkin love! Make sure to leave a comment that says what you did!
l. Comment where you think you’d like to decorate with these pumpkins.
2. Twitter this: @lovefeast #Giveaway~Plush velvet pumpkins decoration for your Thanksgiving table!
Want more pumpkins OR different colors? Shop our LoveFeast Shop ~pumpkins selling through Friday 4pm Central to ship for Thanksgiving! And, check back tomorrow to see how the mantel-scape project went.
Something landed on our doorstep this weekend. Something very, very good.
And, we’ll give you a hint. You just might like it.
So, spread the word, and keep a look out! Something amazing might be given away in a blog you read!
Just sayin’.
Cause we kinda like our Brevs’, around here.
Check them out at Breville USA.
And, keep your eye’s peeled.
It could happen.
Drum roll please!
It’s official. The drawing was done scientifically (ie…mixing bowl and whisk). And the winner of our Sweet Goddess Chocolate trio is Jamie!
Jamie, your sauces are on the way! Make sure you come back and let us know if the Dark Chocolate Blackberry tasted good in your coffee! We’d love to hear from you!
Thank you everyone else for participating and making our first Gift-Away, a lot of fun! We have another Gift-Away up our sleeves! We promise you’ll want to pay attention! We promise you, the fun has just begun!!!
This is a first here at LoveFeast Table! We are having our first “Gift-Away”! We are gifting-away a trio of Sweet Goddess Chocolate Sauces. The flavors are Caramel, Blackberry Hot Fudge (Dark Chocolate) and Lemon Lavender (White Chocolate). Chris Ann stumbled on Sweet Goddess Chocolates at the local Prior Lake Farmer’s Market.
Sweet Goddess, has a variety of high quality candy barks, toffees, and dessert sauces.
Sweet Goddess has a Sweet Story!
Last night we sampled the trio! We warmed the Lemon Lavender, we double dipped on the Blackberry Hot Fudge and we swooned over the Caramel.
You want to taste them now, don’t you? You can, if you’re the lucky winner…here’s how!
1. Leave a comment here at this post. (one post per person, please.) Telling us what food you would serve one of the sauces with and who you’d share it with.
2. You will get another chance to win if you twitter a link to our post and @lovefeast us.
3. You will get yet another chance to win if you leave a link on your facebook page and let us know.
We will choose a winner on Monday, October 19th at 9:00pm.
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