Holiday Savings

Only 47 Days Until Christmas

If you are looking for holiday shopping savings, this weekend may be a good time to get some Veteran's Day deals. Here are some links for Free Shipping and savings I have received:

Press Dough - Free Shipping on select holiday cookie cutters

www.pressdough.com/store/home.php

Wal-Mart - $0.97 Shipping

http://www.pressdough.com/resources_affil_site.htm Click on Wal-Mart Icon

Potpourri – Up to 60% savings
http://www.potpourrigift.com/search.asp?skw=RSALE110308&srccode=RE8199&ver=3&GEN1=Fall+Back+Savings
Hanes – Free Shipping with $75 online purchase

http://www.hanes.com/

Lands End Free Shipping unti Nov 11th.

Enter in: Promotion code FREESHIP and the PIN 181990108
http://www.landsend.com/

One Step Ahead – Free Shipping on orders over $100 (until Nove 11th)

Enter promotion code SHPFREBE
http://www.onestepahead.com/

Pottery Barn Kids – Veteran’s Day Sale – Until Nov. 12th.

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/shop/sale/index.cfm?&bnrid=3501652&cm_ven=Email&cm_cat=Veterans_Day_Sale&cm_pla=DTC&cm_ite=dtc_shop_all_sale

Shop Irish – Free Shipping Plus $10 off $60 or more order (see details)

$4.99 Shipping on all other orders until Nov 20th.
Enter code FSDBL at checkout to receive discount.
http://www.shopirish.com/

MQT: Do you know of any holiday deals? If so, share them with us and post a comment. We have to look out for each other. After all, isn't that what true holiday spirit is all about?

Holiday Calendar Planning and Tips

Testing out the Press Dough multi-cutter, I am knee deep in making salt dough ornaments...and it is not even November! They are turning out pretty good. If you are thinking of making some of your own gifts, this is a great idea.

In the wake of my "projects", I decided to create a working calendar for the holidays to help plan, provide tips and promote events that come my way. It can be found at http://www.pressdough.com/resources.html

Here is a preview of some of the ornaments I have made:

MQT: Have you begun planning out your holiday budget, shopping, baking, and celebrations?

Shoppe For Tradition

73 More Days Until Christmas! New Look! New Features!

I want to help you create some great traditions this year! You will find an opportunity to pick and choose the traditions you hold most dear, all the while saving you time.

Join me each week as I feature products, many that help our special needs children (motor skills, visual/pretend play), post a countdown planning calendar, activity tips or suggestions, and holiday links to events. If you know of any major events (holiday extravaganza's) happening in your town, please leave me a comment and I will add it to our calendar.

For additional fun, great new Press Dough products are developing for the season.

Don't forget to sign up for our Press Dough Cookie Cutter weekly giveaway!

MQT: Do you have a plan/to-do list for the holiday season?

High School + Heart Cookies = Yummy Fun

Well, I think I just found the most famous cookie cutouts ever:

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/10/05/zac-vanessa-are-cookie-cutter/comment-page-6/#comments

If you are looking for something to do during a fun night of sleepovers, a night of movies or friendly gathering, try baking up some cookie cutouts. Recipes for either sugar cookie cutouts or chocolate chip cutouts can be found at: http://www.pressdough.com/resources.html#recipes

Bake up some fun using the Press Dough Heart Multi-Cookie Cutter:
http://www.pressdough.com/store/product.php?productid=2&cat=8&page=1

Your tween and her friends can create fun "cookie" messages while chatting about the latest and greatest styles or celebrity gossip.
Yummy, hip, and fun! You are sure to be voted "Most Popular Party".

Don't forget, holidays are coming.

MQT: What name or message would you write on your own heart cookies? Who would you give it to?

I would give a cookie heart to my daughter with her name printed, mini m&m's lining the edge, and pink icing dotted throughout. For my son, I would bake a chocolate chip heart - knowing he would never eat such a sweet indulgence - print a big letter R in the center (for his name) in Red (favorite color), line the edge with a thin layer of red, swirly icing and stick a candle in the center (since choc. chip cookies can be cooked softer) and sing a melody of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". Keep in mind, my kids are still very young.

Cookie Cutter Giveaway

89 Days Until Christmas!

Today, we kick off the holiday countdown with a weekly cookie cutter giveaway. Each week until Christmas, we will give away one of our exclusive holiday cookie cutters. Be sure to sign up for your chance at: http://www.pressdough.com/store/register.php. Get in on the fun early.

The Press Dough Multi Cookie Cutter solves the need for cookie speed. Just press and go. Make your holidays memorable and fun.

MQT: Are you already shopping for the holidays?

For me, I have found that when I begin too early, I tend to buy more because I forget what I already purchased early on.