A Few of my Favorite Summer-ish Things: A Random Giveaway

WE HAVE OUR WINNER!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS…
#2067  Edie Jones!
I think you will all so appreciate the first sentence of her comment:

“My husband is in Afghanistan and a few ‘favorite things’ would brighten my day!”

How about that, Sisters?!? OK, Edie, please contact Living Proof Ministries at toll free (888) 700-1999 and give us an address. Please ask for Kimberly or Susan. Knowing what we now know, all of us here would want so much to send you to the beach…but, instead, we’re sending the beach to you. ENJOY!!!

PROCEED WITH CAUTION: this post will embody most everything you anticipate and perhaps even despise about women’s ministry. There will even be pink nail polish. As the great Professor Thornbury said a few weeks ago on the Twitterverse “something is not a stumbling block if you can see it coming.” So, consider yourself warned.

Colin and I just returned from a week at the beach in Mexico. It was crazy fantastic. I slept. I read classic literature. I also swam with a dolphin named Duey. And on the day I returned home I was greeted abrasively by a stomach bug and a crick in my neck so bad I could barely move my head. Oh, and then my 100 lb puppy Winston ate my over-priced prescription eye-glasses. But how can I really be frustrated with this bad boy?

Anyway, since this weekend was the Memorial Day holiday I scrolled through numerous tweets from people who were somewhere fabulous while I was at home with a bag of frozen corn under my neck. And I began to weep for the serenity of the ocean and my dolphin Duey.

But enough about me.

I want to talk about you.

I got to thinking that there may be some of you who won’t get a break this summer. While nearly everyone you know is off to some fabulous island, you won’t get a moment’s rest. For whatever reason, you won’t be able to retreat to the beach or the mountains or to wherever else makes your heart happy. We want to send a little fun and lots of love your direction so we’re doing a random give-away. And it will not include commentaries, concordances, or anything super useful or meaningful.

This giveaway is simply full of some of my personal favorite summer things including: Bobbi Brown Beach parfum (seriously smells exactly like the beach!), classic Ray-Ban aviators, Votivo Candle in White Ocean Sands, a pair of bright yellow Moleskine notebooks, Tea Forte’ Pomegranate Blackberry Iced Tea, and America’s Test Kitchen Best Summer Dessert recipes. See the contents below:

 

 

 

There are really no conditions for this giveaway. My hope, of course, is that this gift makes it into the hands of someone who simply can’t get a break this year and not someone who is heading to the Maldives or Bora Bora next week to stay in one of those little huts with glass floors sprawled across sparkling turquoise waters. But truly, if this gift brings a big smile to a single one of your faces that is quite enough for me.

So, please enter your name in the comments section if you could use a little sunshine in your world. We’ll do a random drawing and announce the winner at noon on this Thursday the 31st.

 

You are loved.

Melissa

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  1. 851
    Emily says:

    How fun!

  2. 852
    Stacey says:

    It all looks fabulous! Makes me want to pack the car full of beach towels and sunscreen and head south.

  3. 853
    Kristi Walker says:

    You have notebooks (of ANY kind!), pink nail polish AND a dessert cookbook! I’m fairly certain that’s my idea of vacation right there! “Yay!!!” for whoever wins this!

  4. 854

    I’ll be in the middle of Nebraska all summer, instead of in Florida like last summer. I could really use this!

  5. 855
    Cathy Day says:

    I.LOVE.THE.BEACH!!!!!

  6. 856
  7. 857
    kim arrowood says:

    Its been rough and I could totally use a break. Kim needs a pick me up…plus my bday is saturday

  8. 858
    Annette says:

    My husband is half way through his MBA so for the second summer in a row, no vacation for us. God is good though and we are getting through this busy time.

  9. 859
    Kelli Johnson says:

    This momma to seven kiddos, wife to the hardest working hubby and watch guard of my 84 year old mother thinks this sounds almost like a trip to the spa! ahhhh…. Bring it on!

  10. 860
    kate says:

    Looks like a great collection of summerness!

  11. 861
    Jenn says:

    Thank you for putting a smile in our hearts not just with this but all year long! Happy Summer!

  12. 862
    Shelly says:

    How fun and thoughtful! Thanks! -Shelly:)

  13. 863
    Kim says:

    I just love following Beth and her two gals on twitter!! You ladies brighten my day.

  14. 864
    Ashley Haupt says:

    Yes please! Ashley H.

  15. 865
    Ashley Phelps says:

    ✿ Just when I think you Moore girls couldn’t be any more fantastic! What a fun & thoughtful giveaway! ✿

  16. 866
    ForeverHis says:

    It is so nice of you to think of us. Glad you had fun!

    Lawan Rivera
    Phil 4:8

  17. 867
    Melissa F. says:

    What a great give away. Would love to win and share with others who can’t get away.

  18. 868
    Brittany says:

    Such a fun idea!

  19. 869
    Rene says:

    Thank you for thinking of us all!!!

  20. 870
    Sarah Winslow says:

    If I am drawn, I am sure someone else is more deserving, so please pass me by. As I do work all summer long, I have an awesome job (planning a country music event) so that makes up for the lack of vacation. However, I was wondering if you could post where these items can be purchased?

  21. 871
    Marjie R. says:

    Love those aviators!!!!!

  22. 872
    Karen, Lincoln, NE says:

    Seriously? I’m stuck here in Nebraska with no ocean and no mountains! A little faux beach sounds great!!!

  23. 873
    pam b says:

    Put my name in- Pam Branch

  24. 874

    Oh yeah….that would be me. Not going anywhere fabulous in the forseeable future! We are too old to go to fun places anymore! ha Celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary this Thursday, May 31st, and plan to drive an hour away to tour the Casey Jones Railroad Museum and then eat the lunch buffet at the Old Country Store. That’s about the extent of my “getting away” this summer I imagine.

    Hope you are feeling well by now Melissa!

  25. 875
    Michele Hurst says:

    How fun! It appears that I will get my gall badder removed. How is that for a vacation!

  26. 876
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    Molly says:

    I’m moving unexpectedly across the country. I would *love* to daydream my stress away with this package 🙂

  28. 878
    Brandy says:

    How nice! I will be at home all summer with the kids, adjusting to my husband’s new job and schedule. Would love this!

  29. 879
    Hilary says:

    This would be such a nice treat! I’m a graduate student and was supposed to be in school all summer, but instead had a MAJOR knee surgery last week and I’m stuck in bed for a month, and I’m not able to walk for a few months which will lead me right up to when I’m able to go back to school. Thanks so much for caring for us who aren’t able to go on vacations right now and praying for those of us struggling which is what is preventing said vacation!

  30. 880
    Deborah Sherman says:

    What a sweet idea…and no, we won’t be having a vacation, so this would be fun.

  31. 881
    Kay says:

    That would be a lovely gift to receive.. since there are no vacation plans here!!

  32. 882
    Kimberly Bock says:

    Pick a foster mom… I have had a BAD foster mom day and it is national foster care month… a foster mom could use that between ER, DR, dentist, RX… we could use some beach between the boils…

  33. 883
    Marla says:

    Looks like so much fun. Definitely brings a smile to my face! – Marla Sanca

  34. 884
    Casey says:

    I’ve got beach fever!!

  35. 885
    Julie Melton says:

    Yes please…

  36. 886
    Shelley Sexton says:

    This would be so wonderful!!!

  37. 887

    Neat stuff for summer fun even at home!

  38. 888
    Jan Tyson says:

    This sounds great. Enter my name please Jan Tyson

  39. 889
    Jessie Kennedy says:

    Hello –
    What a great way to welcome summer!
    If my name is picked, I would love to give this bag to my sister . . . she needs a bit of sunshine in her life right now as she is walking a cloudy road right now.
    Thanks and have a great week.
    Jessie

  40. 890
    Corie Clark says:

    I love all things summer! What a fun little giveaway!

  41. 891
    shana says:

    count me in, please! my name is shana and I get the opposite of a vacation 10 days from now :: the minute my 6 precious kiddos get out of school for the summer. fun, but not a “break” by any definition that I am aware of!
    thanks,
    shana

  42. 892
    Jamie says:

    I’d love this!!! My name is Jamie Little.

  43. 893
    Kimmee says:

    That looks like a little piece of home.

  44. 894
    Pam Paulsen says:

    I Pam Paulsen could use and would absolutely appreciate every one of these fabulous items!!!

  45. 895
    Heather Jacobs says:

    I could use a little sunshine in my life…literally!!
    I live in FL…we are day 3 of TS Berly.

  46. 896
    Sherri Stotler says:

    Ahhhh – that sounds sooo nice right now!

    Sherri Stotler

  47. 897
    Terri Jo Perry says:

    I could sooooooo use a break today! Winston is mighty handsome. And I love me some puppies … I currently have 7 seven week old Labrador Retriever puppies (5 chocolate and 2 blacks). Pick me, pick me! 🙂

  48. 898
    Shannon Mims says:

    Ok . . I am obnoxiously waving my hand wildly in the air screaming “pick me! pick me!” Not kidding.

  49. 899
    Amy Welty says:

    A stay action is probably what’s in my future this summer. Thanks for the contest. Blessings to you!

  50. 900
    Dena says:

    What a thoughtful thing to do!

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