The SG Notebook

We, or should I say the Lord, has chosen a winner for our latest giveaway. Whenever I put names or anything else in a little basket or bag and someone “randomly” chooses one of them, I always feel the Lord is deciding, since nothing happens by chance! And He has decided that Cheryl, one of the commenters, would be our winner. She had indicated in her comment that if she were to win, she thought she might use this lovely wall art as a giveaway at their church women’s ministry. Now wouldn’t that be nice! So I will be writing Cheryl soon to get her address to send her our gift, praying that it will eventually fall into the hands of that person whom the Lord wants to bless in a special way. Thanks for participating, Cheryl, and thanks to all of you who took part.

Also, we will be sending the extra gift of the little promise box to my friend Laurie, who was the first person to place an order with one of our affiliates. We KNOW this little box of encouragements from God’s Word will be a special blessing to Laurie, who has already been a blessing to us here at SG.

So, thanks again! And come back on a regular basis to see what we have cooking here. There will be more giveaways in the future and we have some new products being introduced soon. Also, we still encourage you to go often to our special offers page to see what’s posted there.

Blessings to you and your household!

Beverly and Maxine

Did you know that Speakable Gifts is an affiliate of three organizations whom we know and trust? You probably didn’t, so we’re telling you now! The three companies are Amazon, Christianbook, and DaySpring. What this means is that we have partnered with these companies so that we may provide links to products that we recommend or to special deals at their websites and we receive a commission if you happen to purchase something after clicking over. It doesn’t have to be the particular item we recommend, but if you were to buy something within twenty-four hours at Amazon, four hours at Christianbook, or ninety days at DaySpring we would get credit for the referral.

If you know us, you know how much we love to help people give Christian gifts, and we feel this is just another way to accomplish that. These three organizations all have plenty of good Christian literature and gifts that you would like having for yourself and for your gift giving. Our newest partnership is with DaySpring, and to celebrate that……we’re having another giveaway! And needless to say, it will be one of DaySpring’s gift items, a framed wall art with the message of Micah 6:8, a favorite of many of us. Here is a quick peek:

You can find out more about it here:
Act Justly – Wall Art

How do you enter?

1. Just make a comment to this post. And while you’re at it, let us know if you would like to have it for your own home or will be saving it to give as a gift. We’re just curious.

2. If you want your name put in again, link back to this post from your blog. Then comment again to tell us you did.

3. AND, as an added bonus, we have another small gift (click here to see it!) for the first person to order from DaySpring or Christianbook after clicking from our website page. You would have to be the first to email us and tell us so. You can buy whatever you want. Remember, though, you would have to actually place an order after clicking on one of the affiliate links on our home page or special offers page. Actually, it would be a win/win situation: You get a nice Christian product, we get a commission, and you MAY even get an extra gift (if you’re first).

We’re not sure how long we’ll keep this giveaway open; we’ll see how it goes. Sure do appreciate your working with us!

Note: This giveaway is only open to people living in the continental US. Thanks!

UPDATE: Drawing will be on Monday, March 1, 2010.

Beverly and Maxine

We have a couple of winners in our writing contest! You can get to the winning entries from the contest page, so hop over and view them if you get a chance

Just wanted to make a quick reminder that we have a writing contest going on! Entries have started coming in, but there is still plenty of time for your children to get their thinking caps on and come up with a thoughtful, and even fun, submission. Kids have had a lot of fun doing our writing contest in the past and I know yours would too. And remember, if they participated before, they still can again, as long as they are in the right grade.

We LOVE hearing from the children and are waiting to hear from yours!

Blessings, Maxine

You still have time! We are currently accepting submissions for our third writing contest and wanted to encourage you to have your children join in. Hope some of your children are already thinking about, and working on, their entries. You didn’t know about it? Well, hop on over to our contest page and get all the info! We LOVE reading the creative work that children send in. It’s always a delight to hear what they have to say.

I thought I should mention one area where there sometimes is some confusion: When sending in your entries by email, please copy the child’s original writing within the body of the email. Sorry, but we cannot accept attachments. Thanks for understanding!

Hope you’re having a great fall so far.

Maxine

Happy to see September again? I am. I’ve always loved this month. We’re back to school in our house and we’re back to many other things at Speakable Gifts. While we start the Junior year of high school here and preschool at Bev’s house, we’ve also just published another edition of the newsletter. Somehow, we’re wading through the technical issues, partly due to the fact that Bev has agreed to do the bulk of the work. We’ve spent a lot of phone time trying to resolve our computer woes, but we’ve managed to persevere! You would not believe what yesterday was like, but we got it done and sent. If you haven’t subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? It’s as easy as one, two, three, so hop over and sign up! If so, you’ll get the current edition right away.

We’re also back with another writing contest for your children. As usual, we have the two categories utilizing two of our Speakables: Second to fourth graders on the Aesop fable and fifth to sixth graders on a very popular saying (proverb). Want more details? You can find them here.

And new products are about to emerge. We’re excited about them and are in the process of finding the best way to have them published here at Speakable Press. We’re hopeful (and prayerful) that God will see us through and we can offer them to you very soon. Of course, we’ll let it be known as soon as these publications are available.

God’s blessings to you and your household. Have a wonderful, wonderful fall of the year. Whatever your schooling situation, hope you get off to a good start.

For His glory,

Maxine

Here at Speakable Gifts, we cannot stress enough the importance of good reading materials for children. The Christian Children’s Book Review is such a good resource for parents (and grandparents, and uncles and aunts and friends). I am excited to announce that CCBR is hosting a giveaway starting today!

Go to the giveaway post to read the details. CCBR is giving away over 10 titles!

In Him,

Beverly

We have our first winner in our first giveaway! My husband just drew out the name and the person who will receive the junior version of either Scrabble or Monopoly is . . . . Barbara, who has a blog called “Ramblings From an English Garden.” I hadn’t known Barbara before, but I can see we have a lot in common. As I went for a quick visit a few minutes ago I can see that she loves the same Lord that I do and is enjoying grandmotherhood as much as I am. In fact, according to her last post made yesterday, she’s expecting to have a granddaughter born today! I have contacted Barbara to let her know, though I doubt if she has time for this today.

Thanks so much to all of you who participated. It was fun having this little giveaway and I seriously doubt if this will be the last one. Don’t forget to visit here often to see what’s going on. It’s here that we’ll be announcing our special sales, writing contests, and whatever else we we may be doing. We’ll be having household tips, especially regarding your children, and plenty of links, not just to things of interest at our own site, but to other places as well. So, pop on over often!

Thanks again for helping out; we appreciate it so much!

Maxine, a/k/a Nanna

Just wanted to let everyone know that comments are now closed for the giveaway and that hopefully we’ll be announcing the winner on Wednesday. Thanks for all who took part! We don’t expect this to be the last time that we give something away, so don’t forget about us.

Thanks for those of you who linked to our post–that was a great help. And we’re tickled pink that some of you signed up for the newsletter. We intentially do not send one out that often, but now those of you who subscribed will hear from us from time to time, so that way you won’t forget us! But even if you just left a comment, thanks for that too!

God bless!!

Everybody else is doing it, so why shouldn’t we? That’s right, here we are, telling you about our first giveaway. And what will it be? A board game for you to play with your children! We’re even giving the winner a choice between two games. We’ve just purchased these two games, one for one of you out there and one for either my household or Bev’s to keep for gift-giving. Board games are great for family entertainment and growth, in my estimation. But then you already knew that, right?

We have the junior versions of two of the most popular: Monopoly and Scrabble. Some folks are big fans of either or both of the adult versions. For me, it’s Monopoly, but I know a host of Scrabble fans. I can’t tell you how many hours of fun we had when my younger daughter and I would take some time in the evening to play the junior Monopoly game. It’s supposedly designed for ages 5 through 8, but honestly I enjoyed it as much as she did, and when older siblings join in to play with the younger ones AND a parent, it makes for a truly nice family building time. It’s not as time consuming and intense as the adult version and much can be learned by the younger kids. My guess is that the same holds true for the junior version of Scrabble. By the way, both games are for two to four players at a time.

So here is how our giveaway will work: Your name will go in once for each of the following:

1. You comment on this post, telling us you would like to have one of the games for your family or to give as a gift. If you have no children or grandchildren to play it with, then surely you know it would make a great gift for another family!

2. You subscribe to our feed. If you do, comment again and tell us so. The feed is at the top of the page and also on the sidebar after all the links.

3. You tell about our giveaway at your blog and link back to us. (Click on the title of this post for the link.) You would be doing us a huge favor by doing this, as we want more people to know we are here! If you do, please comment again and tell us.

4. You subscribe to our bi-monthly enewsletter, “Helping Children Grow.” More information and a form to subscribe is here. If you do decide to subscribe, please comment again and tell us.

So your name will be entered up to four times for any of the above, or a combination thereof. This is so much fun, don’t you think? Bev and I are excited about seeing who will be our first winner. If it’s you, you will go down in history as the first official Speakable Gifts giveaway winner! Now that is quite an achievement. And needless to say, we will link back to your blog, if you have one, and tell others a little bit about it. But non bloggers are welcome to enter also.

Thanks for coming. Thanks for entering. I suppose I’ll post a quick note to let folks know when we’ve closed comments. One of our husbands will pick a winner early next week. Since this coming weekend is a holiday, we’ll probably let this go until Wednesday to announce.

For His Glory,

Maxine, a/k/a Nanna