Ladies! I think a Friday afternoon deserves a celebration. We’ve almost made it through the entire work week! Woo hoo! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This is always the hardest part of the giveaway because we’d love to gift all 3,911 of you, but alas, we cannot, which I guess is what makes a giveaway so fun. With that said, join me in celebrating our SIX beloved winners for this fabulous giveaway. Believe me when I say we here at the office are coveting each of the gifts and almost threw a fit when we realized we couldn’t enter the giveaway ourselves. We love fun stuff like this just as much as you do!
So, without further ado, congratulations to…
Grand Prize Winner: Cara Koski
Second Prize Winner: Ansley DuRant
Gift number 3: Victoria Gelberg
Gift number 4: Kim Tipton
Gift number 5: Anne Dailey
Gift number 6: Leslie Wood
If y’all would please email me (Lindsee) at [email protected] with your mailing address we willl get these prizes to you ASAP. We love y’all so very, very much. Thanks for playing along. Hope you each have a beautiful, fall weekend!
DEAR SIESTAS! THE MERE THOUGHT OF YOU IS MAKING ME GO ALL-CAPSY.
It has been FOREVER and then some but I have been thinking about you. I know I haven’t been in this here blog-space much recently but I can assure you that I’m still at LPM. My days are full since I’m working and going to school part-time. AGAIN. Yes, again. Somehow even when I vow to walk away for good, I end up right back in the classroom in some capacity. This time around I’m working slowly on a M.A. in Biblical Languages at Houston Baptist University. When I’m not researching something for a project at LPM, I’m taking a Greek class in the Septuagint and a Hebrew readings class in the Joseph narrative. Oh, and how could I forget to mention Winston Jeffrey Fitzpatrick?! A little over a year ago Colin brought home a baby rottweiler and our life has never been the same since (even when I desperately want it to be!). Winnie is SO, SO bad but we love him madly.
Here is W posing in my dining room. Or demanding a filet mignon cooked over medium, I’m not really sure.
Here he is again furious about having to wear his birthday hat:
But really, enough about us.
I want to talk about YOU and a fall giveaway we are doing because we love you and appreciate you.
Now, I should mention at this point that if you are one of those people who is SO OVER all the talk about pumpkin-flavored anything, then you will want to run for your life.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.
Do I have a faithful fall remnant?
This weekend we had our first legit “cold-front” here in Houston. It was even down in the forties one night. Glory be! The crisp cold air in my lungs got to me in the best way possible and, of all things, I wanted to cook. There’s just something about fall that always brings me back to the kitchen. Nothing better than listening to a little Norah Jones or The Civil Wars with the windows cracked open, cool breeze dancing through the house, while a chili or stew simmers on the stove. I thought just maybe fall might do the same for some of you so the grand prize winner will get a red Le Creuset signature round dutch oven (red not orange like the one on the box).
I love it passionately and do not want to let it go. I even enjoy posing with the beloved dutch oven:
The second prize to be claimed is a $100 gift card to Pottery Barn because, let’s be honest, Pottery Barn during the fall season is heaven on earth:
Gift number 3 includes an amazing decorative pillow, fall flower arrangement, and Hill Country Home candle.
Gift number 4 includes a fun little clutch from Anthro, a scarf, several pairs of boot socks, and some gorgeous MAC makeup in fallish colors.
Here is Lindsee modeling the scarf. Love her and she can work a scarf better than anyone I know:
This MAC stuff is tough to photograph but fantastic (includes three eye shadow kits and two lipsticks in shades of Russian Red and Viva Glam III).
Gift number 5 has a bunch of fun stuff: Cook’s Illustrated Fall Entertaining magazine, kitchen towels, mulling spices, Hill Country Home candle (again this is one of my faves!), autumn cupcake decorating set, beautiful engraved silver dish, Trader Joe’s Pumpkin bread mix, and more.
Gift number 6 comes with a fun autumn welcome mat, potpourri, decorative kitchen towel, and my favorite ever mulled apple cider candle. DIVINE.
Here is Mom sorting out all the gifts. Isn’t she cute?
So dear friend, for a chance to win one of the six prizes, please leave a comment with your first and last name and tell us something you love about fall.
We love you so much,
Melissa
(Lindsee not pictured here ONLY because she was out of the office when we snapped this photo)
What I love about fall? I love the coziness! I love the fireplace warming the kitchen as I’m cooking up pumpkin muffins while my two teen daughters are doing their homework nearby. I love the crisp air outside and being warm inside! I love the smells from my oven and from my yummy Yankee pumpkin buttercream candle. Heaven!
Fall is my favorite season so I have *many* favorites. One favorite of fall is the cool, crisp, Seattle air.
Jane Green
Fall in Indiana used to be getting things ready for snow and getting outdoor furniture put inside. Fall in Houston means vacuuming the outdoor cushions and washing patio furniture and getting ready to use your patios after a long hot summer!! I miss colorful leaves but looking forward to sitting outside!!
My name is Sloan Rhodes and my favorite things about Fall are football season, flannel pajamas, scarves, and fall candles. Oh, and the leaves changing and the food. It makes me want to eat chilli and spaghetti and soups! Yum!
Hi Melissa and Beth and Lindsee!
Thank you so much for doing this giveaway – it all is so FUN! There are SO many things I love about fall but one of my favorite is the VIEW. I love when the sky gets dark and the trees just POP against the cloudy backdrop – always there is a sense of peace at that view!
Thank you again!!!
LOVE YOU GUYS!
Ruth from Kansas 🙂
My name is Lisa Ostrander, I’m new to fall,
have lived in AZ my whole life! But a year ago
we moved to Minnesota for the kids, love the
trees, caramel apples, baking day with neighbors,
apple orchards, could go on and on! I am
loving fall!
I love New England in the fall! I love apple picking, and making homemade applesauce, chilly
Nights, crackling fires in the fireplace, and Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice coffee!
Jennifer
Easton, MA
I live in the hills of Western Arkansas and I LOVE the way the trees changes colors in Fall. It’s SO gorgeous!
I love the beautiful colours of the leaves changing. Creation really shouts praise to God in the fall.
I love Fall for the beautiful leaves here in Alabama and because my birthday and several of my friends’ birthday comes in October. Summer is over and it is time to watch football games and get out and enjoy God’s creation.
I love fall weather! Sweater weather and the smell of fall candles, plus who can resist the leaves changing. I grew up in Florida and my husband and I live in Illinois now…such a blessing to see leaves change 🙂
Hi!
My name Shirleen Wills and Autumn is my FAVORITE season!! I am like a kid in a candy store when the leaves change to the vibrant golds,reds, oranges, and everything inbetween. God is so talented with His paint brush! Love the soups, sweaters, and snuggling!
I love fall but not for the changing colors of the leaves…when you live in H-town we don’t get to experience that in the fall. Sometimes we do in January…LOL! I enjoy the smells of pumpkin and spices. I LOVE to bake so all the baking with pumpkin is heavenly. Also, it means football and a few hints of cooler weather. (A much needed relief to the seemingly endless summer heat.) Granted this fall in H-town hasn’t been very cool but when we have it, it’s GLORIOUS! Something we don’t take for granted around here! But the biggest reason I love fall is it means time with family at Thanksgiving and it means we are closer to CHRISTMAS!!
There are so many things to love about this season but I narrowed it down to 5 things:
1. Aggie Football
2. PUMPKIN flavored everything-candles, Pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks and of course pumpkin bread
3. Bonfires
4. My family gathering around the table for warmth and laughter
5.My wedding anniversary!
I love the beauty of the fall leaves and the masterpiece God paints with them!! And it’s the time I bring out what my husband calls the “Flannel Trench Coat”. It’s the most wonderful fleece house coat made many, many years ago by my mother and given to me for my birthday. It’s like wrapping up in a blanket. Perfect for cold nights, with a good book, hot cup of tea, fire in the fireplace and some lovely Christmas music playing in the background. Ahhhhh…..
Julie Biesiadecki
I love fall because the cool fresh air is invigorating and makes you feel so alive. Then the beauty of the turning leaves and the magnificent colors are such a wonderful way to experience God’s love for us. I always feel like God is just providing such beauty to awe his children. Fall just makes me want to praise the Lord continually.
The cooler, less humid fresh air and vibrant fall colors are so invigorating, especially after a slower paced, very hot summer.
My name is Valerie and I live in beautiful Taylors, SC. I love Fall because of the glorious colors, the cooler temp and the vibrantly blue skies – all of which reminds me of how much God loves us. He goes beyond beyond showing off His creation 🙂
My name is Kristi Belt. I love the smell of fall candles, the feel of warm blankets on cool days, the sound of leaves crunching under foot, and my 17 month old son discovering fall leaves for the first time!
My favorite thing about fall is all the leaves changing! I often drive for work and I’m always in awe of God’s creation when I see all the trees with different color leaves! It’s the time of year I enjoy driving and praising God for all he’s done and continues to do!
Tiffany Miller
I love to cool weather, beautiful colors and drinking hot coffee on the front porch.
I love fall. We visited New England about 20 years ago and it was the first time I had ever really “experienced” fall. I’m a Texas girl and we don’t get much fall weather. 😉 I also love the holidays and fall means that they are right around the corner! My name is Beverly Toney. Thanks for a fun fall giveaway!
I love fall because its the time I get to get out w my kids & do lots of activities outdoors other than swiimming. Summers are Hot in houston. Looking forward to fun outings.
I like fall because here in northeast Ohio, you can drive around and see pretty much every color of the 64-count Crayola crayon box. Then, when the leaves fall, they make a pretty variegated-color carpet on the ground. It’s gorgeous!
HI! My name is Jordan Strobeck and I especially love fall this year because I just got married! My favorite thing this fall is waking up early, making a cup of strongly brewed coffee and going on a long brisk walk with my new hubby! We just moved to Boston and have used our mornings this fall to explore this new city!
I love being able to wear hoodies and sipping a hot chocolate by the fireplace. I will also eat pretty much anything pumpkin!
Kelly Barb
I love many things about fall!!! The colors of leaves changing, the smell of fall scents and of course the delicious foods. I especially love Thanksgiving and spending time with family and friends.
Thanks for thinking of us
Tammy
My name is Brandi Allen. My favorite thing about fall is gathering around the dinner table with family for hot soup and baked yummies! Cooler weather always gets me in the mood for hot soup and baking for my little ones (although not so little anymore)!
What I love about Fall is ORANGE anything and everything!!! Especially the beautiful ORANGE and yellow leaves. Orange pumpkins, pie, Oreos, sweaters, pants, purses, Tennessee Vols Orange football games, orange slices in my sweet tea, etc… Not to mention the orange malted milk balls I found the other day….mmmmmmm 😀
Hi I’m Melissa Scroggins, and I have always loved Fall! It means a chance to slow down, or shouldn’t it?
I love the changing leaves the bright color show and of course mountains of Chocolate chip pumpkin bread!! Ack now I need to go start baking!
Kristen Follis
I love the smells of fall. A girl can’t have enough candles!
I love crunching in the leaves and the crisp air of fall!
My favorite thing about Fall is pumpkins! And this Fall I’m doing the James study. It is marvelous. Thank you!!
Melissa!
This is such a fun idea! I ADORE Fall! It’s truly my favorite season…so cozy.
And the colors and smells of the season? Divine!
Much love to you!
Shelly Elston
I’m fairly new to the LPM blog (and loving it) and so excited to talk about Fall!!! It is my favorite season. My birthday falls at the beginning of the season and I just love, love, LOVE cooler weather. Crisp Autumn mornings!!! Such a blessing! I just love what God does with color in the Fall—just fantastic! And, of course, like many, Fall gets me back in the kitchen. It’s a time of change-the menu, soundtrack, weather, and of course, it’s a great time for regrouping ourselves and our priorities! Happy Fall everyone! God bless.
I love driving on a windy day while all the beautiful leaves are falling. I love the colors and pumpkin anything!
Hmmm…some things I love about Fall:
Well, being from New Brunswick, Canada, our Fall foliage is second to none. A lovely walk along the river near my home, listening to my Praise & Worship music, is pretty much divine.
Fall is time to start the ‘real’ cooking again. Leave all the salads and BBQ behind and break out the comfort foods…anything in the crockpot will do. : )
And baking of course! Homemade pies, bread, gingerbread…need I say more?
Have I mentioned pickles? In this neck of the woods, nothing says Fall like the smell of Sweet Mustard Pickles on the cooktop.
Fall also signals the time to start a new Beth Moore Bible Study with my gals at church. I lead a group of about 12-15 ladies during the Sunday School hour. We have started ‘Living Beyond Yourself’ this Fall.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. Fall rocks!!
Oh my. Those prizes! My name is Michelle Medina and I love ALL things fall. How appropriate that I was born during this season 🙂 I love the smell of freshly sharpened pencils in a new backpack, the crunching of leaves under my boot-covered feet, the smell of crip air and the wind hitting the scarf around my neck, a salted caramel mocha warming up the gloves around my hand and pumpkin pancakes at the original house of pancakes! These and so much more!!! You all are wonderful! Bless the lucky winner! Happy Fall Everyone <3
Being from South Florida I was never able to enjoy seasons- we had two: hot and hotter. It was a great joy to be able to exspirence the joys of fall and all if its beauty my first year of college. I graduated in July and have not wanted to leave the lovely mountains of East Tennessee. The autumn leaves are a such a wonderful canvas painted by God! I cannot believe I missed out on my now favorite season for so many years.
Fall is my all-time favorite season! There is nothing I don’t love about it! From the splendor of the changing leaves, to the coolness of the air (finally!!), and who can forget pumpkin everything, I look forward to this time of year most. For me, Fall is equated with Thanksgiving and that means time spent with my family, something that I have come to covet since being away at school.
I live in PA and I love fall because the changing of leaves gets gorgeous around here. I am always reminded of what an awesome Creator we have!
I love fall because it means our ladies’ Bible Study regroups from the summer break, the kids go back to school and we all are ready for some much needed adult, girly conversations!
Hey ladies! My name is Nikki Murdock and Fall is simply my favorite time of the year. I think my favorite part is the crisp and clear air. I’ve always said if I was to get married outside it would be in the fall. The sky is so blue, the colors in the trees are simply gorgeous and it’s chilly enough for scarves and boots but not too cold! I’ve been blessed to live in TN for the majority of my life and there is nothing like Fall in Franklin Tn! Although this year I’m up in New Jersey and I’ve got to say, it’s simply lovely up here as well!
Happy Fall Y’all!
I’m Robin Priestley – from Los Alamos, NM. My hubby and I just got back from a weekend away in San Francisco, and I have to say I now have a new favorite fall thing…..ready for this???
Ghiradelli chocolate squares with pumpkin spice caramel! OMG – it is to die for good!
EVERYTHING! The weather. The way the leaves sound when the wind is blowing; watching the colors in the falling leaves. Having my girls ask me if it is cold outside in the mornings (it is the only time of year they talk to me in the mornings 🙂 ) The food! Homemade soups; pumkin flavored anything. College Football and all that goes with it..Even if I am an Auburn Tiger (War Eagle). Fall Festivals and children eating candy. Hay rides and scarecrows; wearing a jacket and an outside fire. The feel of a loved ones cool ear on my neck when they come in my blowing the leaves..
Fall…My FAVORITE time of the year!
I love fall because my husband and I like to go on long walks together and admire the pretty leaves
The crispness in the air and wearing warmer clothes and boots. I love scarves and boots!!!
I love the leaves and their beautiful colors!
Thank you for all the giveaways!
My favorite part of fall is the crisp, cold mornings and the sunshiney afternoons…you never know what you’ll get in up north Wisconsin!
I love the beautiful colors on sunshiny days!