You know I love unicorns, but I also love small and local business offerings.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Shop Small, Shop Local, Shop Educational
You know I love unicorns, but I also love small and local business offerings.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
It's Christmas Romance Time
It's Christmas romance time!
To celebrate, I am doing a giveaway. What do you need to do to enter? It's easy. Follow my author Instagram account (@authorpeggyurry) for all the details. The contest will run today, Nov 17, through Thursday, Nov 19, midnight.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Online Bookshop Supports Local Bookstores
Reading on the beach is a favorite for many of us. We also have our favorite bookstore haunts. Maybe you already knew about this one, but I just learned about Bookshop from Eschler Editing. It's very cool.
Bookshop (a new-ish but powerhouse outlet) allows you to blend gifting your favorite books with supporting your favorite local/indie bookstore. Hooray!
I absolutely love this!
Eschler Editing says this about Bookshop: "Dreamed up and founded by Literary Hub co-founder Andy Hunter, its purpose is to allow independent bookstores to create their own shopfront on the site, and the stores receive the full profit margin."
See why this is a big deal? Maybe you think it can't rival that giant online bookstore. Customer service and shipping are handled by Bookshop and its distribution partners with books being shipped within two to three days. In addition, titles are offered at a small discount. I dare you to give it a try.
Shop local and shop small this holiday season. Link is also in my sidebar.
Friday, October 9, 2020
Holiday Mission (it's BIG)
This came in my inbox and I wanted to share with you because I love not only her devotion to helping others, but the cool jewelry she sells (100% of the profits go to charity). This is an opportunity to get some beautiful gifts for the people in your life AND to contribute to a great cause.
I'm so excited to be writing to you today because I have big things to share. If you are new around here, I want you to know that Sela Designs is changing the world and you are part of it. This holiday season, we are going to do amazing things - together.
Every holiday season, we choose one BIG mission goal. Here are the last three we've completed:
2017: $5,000 given to Life House to help break the cycle of generational poverty
2018: $6,300 given to fully fund a sex trafficking rescue mission through IJM
2019: $10,000 given to build a well in Malawi through charity: water
For 2020, the dream has grown. The mission has grown. Our community has grown.
My heart is racing as I type these words: our mission for Holiday 2020 is to FULLY FUND 3 SEX TRAFFICKING RESCUE MISSIONS.
Yes, you read that correctly! Not one mission, THREE! It's a lofty goal to give $20,000, but friend, think about those women and children who will be freed. Picture their faces. Imagine what rescue means to them.
From now through December, we're going to make every sale count toward our big, outrageous goal. Here's what you can do:
1. Share Sela Designs and our mission with your friends, family, and co-workers.
2. Wear the jewelry & talk about our purpose.
3. Share us on social media. Like, comment, save & share. It all helps.
4. Gift Sela Designs to teachers, friends, family & anyone else you can think of. Let them be a part of this mission too!
This mission is big and bold, just the way we like it! Let's do this.
Friday, August 7, 2020
NEW from author Deirdra Eden
Now Available
Time Management for Creative People
by Deirdra Eden
Guidance for being in the right mind for right-brained people.
Chances are you’ve tried spreadsheets, agendas, day planners, and other linear, mathematical ways mainstream culture measures time. Applying industrial production systems to a creative mind can dampen the joy of your work, knock you off balance, and block your energy flow.
Time Management for Creative People offers a fun, organic approach to balancing, organizing, and prioritizing all you need to get done by living your life in creative cycles and seasons while maximizing your high and low energy times the way you were meant to.
Your creativity is a uniquely powerful force that can be harnessed, focused, controlled, commanded, and become a powerful ability as you masterfully channel your desire to create into the powerful motivating force it is meant to be.
Get your copy today: Time Management for Creative People
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Also from Anika Arrington
GoodreadsMonday, May 18, 2020
Something New (I wish it was a book!)
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The old shower matched the lovely mauve and cream cultured marble of the countertop complete with matching brass fixtures/doors. Who wouldn't want to keep that?
Oddly (at least in my opinion), it is relatively the same cost to throw in a pre-fab shower as it is to hire someone to tile it. So of course I went with the tile option.
After several trips to Home Depot and a lot of hours perusing our option, we settled on this lovely greige subway tile and gray penny tile for the floor. We also picked out a new countertop and brushed nickel faucet. The cabinets got a new coat of white paint as well (thanks to our cute renter). I think it turned out much better than I anticipated.
Granite Countertops |
This isn't unlike writing a book. I just wish I could write one in two weeks rather than years and years. It takes way more preparation and work than I imagine. But I hope the stories turn out just as lovely after I put in the work.
Friday, February 28, 2020
To Every Love a Season
Enter to Win prizes (today is the last day)!
You can visit Stacy at her website, Amazon author page, Facebook, and Bookbub.
Back of the Book:
You can buy the e-book or paperback at Amazon.
Which one will you read first? (Do you go in order like I do or pick and choose where to start?)
Book Sale!
Need some sweet romance to sigh your way through the holidays? Here you go: Merry Christmas and happy wishes for however you celebrate!
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Need some sweet romance to sigh your way through the holidays? Here you go: Merry Christmas and happy wishes for however you celebrate!
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