Worthwhile Wednesday~Notes, Notes, Notes, Oh My!

This Worthwhile Wednesday, we are highlighting some of our notecards. Notes make such perfect gifts for any occassion or the perfect little "surprise" or "pick me up" for a friend. Our note sets come wrapped up neatly~ready for gift giving! These are also great addtions to gifts or good hostess gifts to keep on hand. They are affordable and with your purchase, you are helping some worthwhile causes!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we have added two new note sets to highlight this cause. There are two designs "Think Pink" and "Love and Hope" from our talented Kara Rosenberry Co. They are perfect for writing a lovely thinking of you note to a friend, a thank you note, or to use as a greeting card and can and should be used year round.

This note set is sold in sets of 8 and come neatly packaged in a clear sleeve with coordinating ribbon~perfect for gift giving. We are also happy to personalize with any text you would like free of charge. This is a great way to add a personalized touch or honor someone fighting this battle.

Throughout the month of October, we will donate 10% of each sale from our "Think Pink" or "Love and Hope" Notes to Spirit Jump, a wonderful cause dedicated to lifting cancer fighters spirits. Help us support this great charity. This is truly a fantastic and worthwhile charity with such dedicated people behind it.

If you haven't visited our Social Stationery page, you must go now. We have such great and unique sets to offer. One of my new favorites is the birdcage recycled stationery set. You get your choice of light blue or milkweed/beige colors. It was so hard to find stylish recycled stationery and we are thrilled to have something fun to offer.

All Coyne and Pinckney Stationery Sets are now marked 10% off. We love these designs and sets. Send a note to a friend on the adirondack chairs remembering summer memories or looking forward to sitting together chatting on similar chairs in the future. Now is a great time to stock up.

Also, Molly Lou Gifts gives back. We are giving 10% of all profits to our dear friend, Shaina at Post Smith to help in her quest to raise funds for the Monroe County Humane Society. Friday is the last day to help us donate to her worthwhile cause. We are so proud of her and admire her efforts! Think ahead for gifts or special items you've had your eye on lately as we give back! (See top left for more information.)

Pop over to our shop to see our offerings. Don't forget to enter our 200th Post Giveaway Fun! Tell a friend!

Have a great day!

Hopeful...

Could it be true? I am so pumped that there is a great possibility that the 2016 Summer Olympics may be in Chicago. I HEART the "Windy City" and would love for this great city to be the home to the world games. Chicago has so much to offer and if Oprah calls it home, then you know it must be something special!

I also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Olympics. At the Molly Lou house, we have an Opening Ceremony party which is an elite guest list and we have been known to make some homemade Olympic ring cookies. I get glued to the television and catch myself getting up to watch television in the middle of the night to catch some events. Last summer, I was about to explode with Mini #2 and couldn't sleep anyway. This worked out PERFECTLY for catching all the happenings in Beijing.

I have a BFF, friends, and family that live in or very near Chicago. Selfishly, I also am excited that our family may get the chance to go. It is hard to believe, but Mini #1 will be 10 (almost 11) and Mini #2 will be 7 (almost 8) when these games are conducted and at ages to appreciate and enjoy what is going on.

I can't wait for October 2nd for the decision to be made...I am rooting for you, Chicago!!!

Have a great day!

PS-Have you entered our 200th Post Giveaway Fun yet? You don't want to miss it! Tell a friend!

Happy Birthday To You...

Happy, Happy 1st Birthday to my dear, sweet, beautiful little girl! I can't believe she is one...how time flies!

12 things I LOVE about my 12 month old:

1. I love her smile and beautiful blue eyes.

2. I love her infectious laugh. There is no sweeter sound and I love that she can get tickled over the smallest things. (Just look at that first picture.)

3. I love the way she can dance to the music.

4. I love her developing shoe obsession. She will crawl over to her shoes, pick them up and say "shoos" over and over. (Her favorite pair are her pink patent leather mocs.)

5. I love the way her face lights up and she get so excited when daddy walks through the door at night.

6. I love that she will eat ANYTHING that is put in front of her.

7. I love the way she sings to herself in the car. She sings louder when she is tired.

8. I love that she is in love with her brother and loves to just be in the room with him even though he doesn't typically pay any attention to her.

9. I love her budding interest in the world. She studies things so carefully.

10. I love the way she waves backwards.

11. I love when she reach for me saying "Mama" and then bury your face in my chest when I pick you up. I love smooching you and could kiss and cuddle you all day long.

12. I love everything about this sweet little girl including some of the things that drive me crazy. I love that it doesn't phase her one bit to be completely, disgustingly dirty or that she is perfectly content to crawl and will not walk no matter how many times we try, I love her headstrong spirit-there are just some things she will do.

I can't wait to see what the next year brings us. We are so blessed that she is in our life and love her to the moon and back. Happy, Happy Birthday sweet girl!

200th Post Giveaway Fun!!

Are you all wearing your party hats? Sound the noisemakers, shoot the confetti, and let's bust out the cake!

It is Molly Lou Gifts' 200th POST!! Isn't it exciting?!?!?!

Thanks friends for helping us get this far. We had such a busy weekend in the Molly Lou house that I decided to wait to post this exciting giveaway and post for today rather than yesterday. I love all the friends that I have made in Blogland and so appreciate you all joining us on this crazy and exciting journey.

So, let's get to the fun part. In honor of Molly Lou Gifts' 200th post, we are giving away a prize pack from our shop. We decided that we wanted to highlight some of the fabulous vendors that we are so thrilled to work with. This prize pack will include:

*a large personalized fall pail that says Happy Fall from Lima Bean Kids
*One set of Kara Rosenberry Co. Think Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Notes
*One set of folded notes from Ink Obsession Designs
*One set of Coyne and Pinckney folded notes of choice
*One set of Bitsy Creations Thank You typewriter notes
*One Fine Whines Linen Towel
*One personalized bag tag of choice from Moo Lou Fine Designs
*One $10.00 Gift Certificate to Molly Lou Gifts

This prize pack is valued over $80.00. Make sure you check out Molly Lou Gifts to see all the fantastic products...we have been adding so many new things.

**As a special incentive, if we can get 200 people to enter this contest, we will also give away 20 $20 gift certificates! What's that?? That's right, 20 $20 Gift Certificates!!!

Contest will run from now until Monday, October 5, 2009 at 11:59 pm. The winner(s) will be announced on Tuesday, October 6th.

There are several ways to enter, but you must be a follower of this blog to be entered (it gets you an entry too-see #1.)

1-Become a follower of this blog or let us know you already are.
2-Become a follower on Twitter (mollylougifts) or let us know you already are.
3-Blog about this giveaway extravaganza on your blog and link it back to us.
4-Tweet about this giveaway with a tweet that links us to it (@mollylougifts)
5-Tell us a funny little something...we like anything and just really love to laugh.

For extra entries, you can do these easy peasy things to rack up the entries:
6-Refer a friend. For every new friend you get to follow us on Twitter or the blog, you'll receive an extra entry for each referral. .
7-Become a follower of the Good Will Grace blog (goodwillgrace.blogspot.com). We promise that new posts are being worked on! You can also follow us on twitter (@goodwillgrace). Each of those followings will earn you an entry.
8-For every $10 you spend in our shop, you get an entry. For example, spend $50 at Molly Lou Gifts on fun and unique holiday gifts, get 5 extra entries.
9-Purchase one of our new Kara Rosenberry Co. "Think Pink" or "Love and Hope" folded note sets and receive 5 extra entries. We are donating 10% of the sale of each of these sets to Spirit Jump (and don't forget we are donating to our dear friend Post Smith's quest for the Humane Society-see top left for more information.)

Whew! That is nine ways to enter and some will earn you more than one entry. Random.org will make it easy for us by choosing the winner and we will let you know the winning number and display the winning entry. Help spread the word!

Have a great day. Hope you all had great weekends.

Snapshot Saturday~Congratulations and FIOF Winners!!!

This week's Snapshot Saturday is a great, BIG shoutout to Molly Lou Sister Lindsey!

A year ago in August, my sister started Weight Watchers and has lost over 60 lbs. and this week will be recognized at her meeting for meeting and maintaining her lifetime goal weight. She achieved her goal weight a month ago (and has lost more since.) On the WW plan, you must maintain for a month, then you receive your Lifetime Award (and no longer have to pay.)

This is such a HUGE accomplishment. I am so proud of her and admire what she has done. She jumped in to this, made the committment and has worked so hard to achieve this goal.

CONGRATULATIONS SWEET BABY LINDS! We are so, so, so proud of you!

(This picture was taken by my aunt when she was here a few weeks ago to show off my sister and her husband's loft. It is the most recent picture of her that I have.)

Send us your Snapshot Saturday submission. Email us and include a .jpg picture and a brief description on the pic. We love hearwarming, funny, interesting, fun, adorable, cute, slightly bizarre, breathtaking, etc. pictures!

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Now, on to Figure It Out Friday winners! Thanks to all who entered. This week was a television and movie mix up!

The answers are

1. "The Office"

2. The Godfather

3. "Friends"

4. As Good As It Gets

This week's QUEEN is Carla C. and the PRINCESS is Gina from Namaste By Day! YAY to the winners and welcome to the royal court of MLG FIOF Girls! Email us and we will get you hooked up with your royal winnings.

PS-the 200th GIVEAWAY post is coming tomorrow! You don't want to miss it!

Figure It Out Friday~Mix it Up!

Happy weekend friends! Hope you all have fabulous weekends and I look forward to hearing all about them next week.It's back folks...that day of the week that we have all come to love-FIGURE IT OUT FRIDAY!!!

As always, below are quotes that you try to place with the appropriate movie (1/3 from telelvision, 2/4 movie). Email me your answers to each line.

There will be a QUEEN and PRINCESS crowned this week. You have until TONIGHT night at 11:59 pm to send in your submissions to be a part of the royal court. Winners will be chosen on Saturday.

We are getting quite the line up of ladies. You know you want to win and have the title of QUEEN and the fabulous MLG prize you receive! The PRINCESS is chosen randomly from all participants. Don't know all the answers? It's fine...leave us a witty comment and you might win or answer what you do know!

Here is this week's dose:

1. "Phyllis is like our Mrs. Butterworth. Kind of a less urban Aunt Jemima."

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse..."

3. "Oh, my God, you can do a duet of 'Ebony and Ivory' all by yourself."

4. "When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke."

Ready, Set, GO!! Have a great weekend!

PS-Did you see our new "Think Pink" and "Love and Hope" Breast Cancer awareness notes? They are fantastic and Molly Lou Gifts is giving 10% of each sale of these cards to Spirit Jump.

Think Pink~Love and Hope

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Many of us have lost someone we know and love to Breast Cancer or have a brave soul in our lives currently battling this disease. Our dear friend, Kara Rosenberry Co. has designed something to highlight Breast Cancer awareness and Molly Lou Gifts is thrilled to add this to our collection.

These can also be personalized with a different saying or quote on the front, or have a note added on the back to honor someone you know who is fighting Breast Cancer or to honor someone who has lost their fight to this disease. We are happy to do the custom printing free of charge if that is something you want to do!

The design is a delicate pink ribbon on white card stock with dove gray French Script font.There are two designs "Think Pink" and "Love and Hope."

They are perfect for writing a lovely thinking of you note to a friend, a thank you note, or to use as a greeting card and can and should be used year round. This note set is sold in sets of 8 and come neatly packaged in a clear sleeve with coordinating ribbon~perfect for gift giving.

Throughout the rest of this month & all of October, Molly Lou Gifts will donate 10% of each sale from our "Think Pink" or "Love and Hope" Notes to Spirit Jump, a wonderful cause dedicated to lifting cancer fighters spirits. Help us support this great charity.

Show your support! Thanks Kara for designing these delicate and fabulous notes!