Prepping for Christmas 2012

Happy Friday!  Did you know you only have another 354 days till Christmas??  I know… you just packed up all your Christmas goodies and the scent of lingering evergreen is all but gone… but you really do want to think about Christmas again.  I’m already prepping for my 2012 Christmas shopping everyday just by the way I search. 

Have you heard about Swagbucks?

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Swagbucks “allows web users to earn virtual currency by doing the things they do every day – search the web, shopping at their favorite retailers, and by engaging in other activities such as phone recycling, submitting polls, and completing special offers. Swagbucks.com is the only place on the web to get what you want without ever having to spend a dime.”

Ok… that’s how they describe it… for me it’s the search engine I use where I can earn Swagbucks that I exchange for Amazon gift cardsIt’s SO EASY!!!

In the last years that I’ve been using swagbucks I’ve purchase household items, Christmas presents and birthday gifts with the Amazon cards I’ve earned.

When you signup you can make swagbucks your default search engine… so it makes it so simple.  The more you search, the better chance you have to win!  For me, this means I do a swagbucks search for everything.  You know all your favorites that are saved as bookmarks… I type those in as searches.  It may take a few extra seconds… but I might win some swagbucks!

It’s Mega Swagbucks Day.  Every Friday you can earn even more on your searches.  If you haven’t signed up yet, just click away and start getting ready for Christmas too!

Search & Win

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Making Network Buttons…

I’ve got another blog tutorial for you guys.  See right over there on my sidebar… my stay in touch section… I’m going to show you where I grabbed those icon buttons and the code to link it all up.

social media buttons

I found those cute buttons and the crumpled paper ones I had before my bloggy makeover at

Icons Etc.

They have a ton of social media icons… all sorts of colors and styles!

I promise you’ll have fun searching around.

Download the icons you want and save it on your hard drive.  I have a file where I keep all my blog design images.

Then you need to upload the image to a photo hosting site…  there are lots out there.  Recently I’ve been using

Tiny Pic

I love it because it’s free & has no maximum broadband.

When you upload your icon image you will see a page like this…

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You need the “Direct Link for Layouts” code.

To put your icon on your blog and link, you will use this code:

<a target="_blank" href="place the link you want it directed to here"><img src="your Direct Link for Layouts code here" border="0" width="75" height="75" border="0" alt="ImageHost.org" />

So if you are linking to your facebook page, you’d place your facebook address in the 1st spot (RED).  Like my facebook profile link is:  http://www.facebook.com/people/Domestically-Speaking/100000653041453

So I would place that in the red area to link my facebook icon image.  Make sure you place it between the quotes!

If you want an EMAIL ME icon you will place this in the red spot: mailto:youremailaddress

like mine has mailto:domesticallyspeaking@yahoo.com

The blue area in the code is where you copy and paste the code from your uploaded icon images  Direct Link for Layouts (where the arrow is pointing at above). Once again, make sure you place it between the quotes!

Once your code is complete you will copy and paste it into your sidebar.  In blogger you go to the “Design” area and click “Add a Gadget.”  Click HTML/JavaScript.  In the TITLE box you can put a title (you don’t have to though)… mine is Stay in Touch.  In the content box you will paste in your code.

Save your code.

Now view your blog and test it out.  When you click the icon it should take you to the link you inputted in the code.  If it doesn’t work, double check that you’ve placed the info in the right place and that the quotes are still there.

Once you have your buttons up and running your blog visitors will easily be able to follow you or email you.

GO YOU!!!

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Just a reminder… FRIDAYS are MEGA Swagbuck days.  What does that mean… well you can win more swagbucks on Friday.  I won 39 in one win today!  WAHOO!!!

To sign up you can click this button…

Search & Win

To learn more about Swagbucks you can read this post I recently wrote HERE.

Happy Friday friends… thanks for stopping by!

 

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Swagbucker I am!

Do you swag?

I have been a swagbucker (ok, that sounds like a pirate name) for almost a year now and every time I win swagbucks I still smile.

Swagbucks “allows web users to earn virtual currency by doing the things they do every day – search the web, shopping at their favorite retailers, and by engaging in other activities such as phone recycling, submitting polls, and completing special offers. Swagbucks.com is the only place on the web to get what you want without ever having to spend a dime.”

Ok… that’s how they describe it… for me it’s the search engine I use where I can earn Swagbucks to change into Amazon giftcardsIt’s SO EASY!!!

I’ve used swagbucks to purchase our household items, Christmas presents, birthday gifts with the Amazon cards I’ve earned.

The more you search, the more you will earn.  For me, this means I do a swagbucks search for everything.  You know all your favorites that are saved… I type those in.

Even better… Fridays are Mega Swagbucks Day.  You can earn even more on your searches today.  If you haven’t signed up yet, just click here:

Search & Win

 

You have one day left to enter the DIY Club’s Monthly Project Party!!!

DIY Club

If you haven’t entered yet, head on over with your best tutorial this month and share it for a chance to win the awesome jackpot of amazing prizes!

And lastly…now through May 30th you can get a $5 rebate for each gallon of Behr paint you purchase.

Happy Painting!

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Gift Cards, Coupons and Cost Plus

If you’ve hung around my blog for a while you know I LOVE a bargain!  Whether it’s a roadside DIY project, cheap paint at Habitat for Humanities ReStore or scoring gift cards for my internet searching… I’m game!

I’ve shared about Swagbucks before… but just incase you haven’t signed up yet… let me share why I love it so!  Swagbucks is a search engine where every time you search you have a shot at winning what are called Swagbucks.  Usually when you win it’s 5- 15 swag dollars, but you can win the bigger amounts too.  Then you can take your swagbucks and trade them in for gift cards… Amazon being my favorite.  I’ve been using swagbucks for almost a year now… I’ve used them to purchase a good chunk of my household items, Christmas presents, makeup and more!

So how do you sign up???

Just click here…

Search & Win 

Recently Swagbucks added coupons to the ways you can earn Swagbucks.  Once you sign up you can go here…

swagcoupons

and select which coupons you’d like to print.  For each coupon you print & use you earn 10 swagbucks!!!

And finally… If you got some shopping to do this weekend, I came across a 25% off coupon for Cost Plus World Market.  Click HERE to print your own!

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Winner, Friday Bonus and Future Giveaway

Happy Friday!

Guess what… the generous folks over at CSN have offered to host another giveaway with me… yippee!  That means one of you lucky readers will be getting some free Christmas shopping done. CSN has SO MANY items… LOVE them.

I’d love to get the kiddos these barstools for our counter.  They have a huge selection of home bar furniture.

So that giveaway will be coming next week.

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Now… let’s find out who the winner of one of my “Burlap Beauties” is…

burlap winner

#15…  Allison who said… Looove the Laundry sign!!

Congrats Allison!

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And finally… If you do Swagbucks, don’t forget Friday’s are…

If you don’t do Swag Bucks, but are interested you can read all about it in THIS previous post.  I was just placing an Amazon order last night with the gift cards I received by just using Swag Bucks to do my searching… LOVE them!

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