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Well as promised I have something VERY exciting to share with your readers today! As you know I am a big fan of Toss Designs and they have offered to host a GIVEAWAY! However, it gets even better: TWO readers have a chance to win something pink and green and preppy all over. Thrilling I know, is it not?
One reader will win the Balboa Cosmetic Caddy:
Then another reader will win the Balboa Weekender:
Adding some spice to your trip is a must and what better a way to start off your new year!To enter the giveaway please leave a comment on this very post by 12am EST on Monday, December 22nd, 2008. To be a valid entry you must share a way you hope to give back to someone else or touch someone's life in 2009. From simple as writing a letter to an elaborate ball you are chairing, everything can make a difference! I think it is so very important to give back to others and I only hope these feelings can carry over to my readers. Though I vowed never to do this I am giving all followers a second entry into the giveaway. These are just such wonderful products and you are all so faithful that you are deserving! As this year comes to an end I just want to thank you all for being so faithful and standing by me. I feel as if I know many of you personally and look forward to getting to know many more of you in the future!
Good luck and let's spread the pink and green love all around!!! Remember the code PREP is still valid for 10% off your Toss order through January 1st, 2009!
77 comments:
I LOVE LOVE LoVe Toss! In 2009 I want to volunteer at a high school near the college I attend and lead a youth group or help out with their campus ministry!
Wow! How generous of them.
Well, this seems like so little, but our friends are moving to Ukraine to teach at an orphanage school and we have pledged to help support them financially. I know that isn't very active, but they need all the support they can get.
I love that you have to add something to "enter".
In 2009 i'm going to continue to volunteer at the Dana Farber Cancer hospital in Boston, but this year I will try to attend every event and even become a big sister to one of the cancer patients like I have in years past! I stopped doing the big sister part of it becuase mine past away and it was very tough on me. But I know how happy I made her and that is all i needed to know!
Thank you for letting me know about the people who make headers and designs! What a great giveaway!
In 2009 I am planning on becoming a volunteer at a local nursing home. I love meeting the elderly and hearing about their lives. If I can make just one person have a better day than that makes mine that much better.
I love the weekender bag! In 2009 for all my friends and whatnot I'm buying them Tom's shoes because for every pair your buy they make and donate a pair to a child in need! Check 'em out, they're awesome! Great giveaway!
Cute giveaway! Hmm...in the new year I want to do everything I can to become a better teacher. Not only will it make me happy but I know I will be helping children more. I also would like to get my students in the coming year more involved in community service projects. :) Happy Holidays!
WOW! I love both products, how generous of Toss!!
My plan for 2009 is to join a family friend in volunteering for Habitat for Humanity on a monthly basis. I have been meaning to get involved with the organization for ages, and I am finally going to do it!
I am a great believer in food pantries. It gets help to those who need it quickly, with little overhead or middlemen. I am going to be volunteering at our local food pantry - helping to organize food on the shelves and to bag food for pickup.
I love the weekender!! I hope to be able to spend a couple weekend visiting kids at the hospital with Children's Miracle Network. They are always the cutest kids :)
Hello Kappa, I teach third grade at an all Boys' school, so I like to think I give back everyday. I try to go the extra mile and be kind and polite to everyone I see. I believe in teaching and leading by example. I plan to give back by donating clothes, and books to our school drive. Thanks, Becs
Oh WOW!! Those quite generous gifts.. I love what I do for a living- running a non profit that serves inner city kids- because every day I know that I make decisions that have an impact on kids' futures. In the New year I hope to exceed my fundraising budget so that I can help more kids that we planned. I hope to be a good role model to them and live up to their high expectations of me. xo
We will be participating in a program that sends U.S. high school students to the Far East to help teach students there about Christ and spread the Gospel in part of the world which so desperately is in need of hearing about His grace and salvation!
thank you for the generous give away. One thing I'm going I be doing is based off of what I'm doing tonight. Tonight I'm writing the acknowledgments section of my dissertation. This is a moment 5 and a half years in the making. As I've planned what to write and who to thank, I've realized how much different teachers helped guide me to where I am today. I am going to send each of them a copy of the section along with a note of how they've impacted me. On that note I want to start being a volunteer tutor for public high school kids. I want to be able to help others like those teachers helped me.
ohmy! that weekender bag is adorable! In 2009, i really want to step up my giving back efforts.
my mother passed away in 2003 from a brain tumor so I really want to participate in the annual brain tumor walk/run at Soldier Field this year and raise money to research.
I also really want to volunteer at a soup kitchen like I used to in high school as well as do Habitat for Humanity.
I am a Teacher for the Deaf and this coming year I plan on doing more home visits to encourage the parents to use sign language in the home.
I need one of those to match my rolling duffel.
In 2009 I am organizing a career closet for the local women's shelter. This "closet" will include career-styled clothes for women who are victims of domestic violence to "borrow" when they go on job interviews. As you probably know, most women who find their way to a shelter usually do so with nothing more than the clothes on their back. Also, most women were forbidden by their abuser to work (one way they were controlled) so even if they were able to grab a few things before they left chances are they don't have anything suitable for the workplace.
The women's shelter here does not have anything like this available on site. They usually send the women to Goodwill to pick out things, which is OK for the long run but I plan to create a one-stop shop that includes suits, shoes, stockings, handbags, etc. to make it easier for them.
I love your blog you always have something new and fun to report! In 2009 I am going to continue my volunteer efforts with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Each year I voluneer at their summer camp as a camp attendant, essentially being the eyes and ears for a child with MD for a week. I am crossing my fingers I can make it to the telethon next year with Jerry Lewis - such a fun time!!! Merry Christmas!
Have you entered my Toss giveaway? Hopefully they will get a lot of business!
I hope to volunteer after I graduate. Possibly work in a pre-school for low income families.
How generous of Toss and you!
This year I'll be giving back by teaching a legal methods course to the female inmates at a local prison. I also try to give back by tutoring local high school students.
Happy Holidays!
Oh wow these bags are so cute! Love the colors.
My plan for 2009 is to continue taking care of my 84 year old grandmother, at the moment she is my chartible organization, Ha!
Those bags are precious! I have started donating most of my clothes to Goodwill rather than selling them on eBay. I would rather have them be available to everyone! Great idea for a giveaway!
In 2009, I hope to volunteer at our Children's Hospital. I have volunteered there before, and loved it. I know personally how depressing and down you can get while you are in the hospital, so if it's just spending time with the patients I just want to bring a little cheer to their day!
Cuuuuute pattern!
In 2009 I'm going to hit my "use or lose" cap on vacation time with about 90 extra hours. Instead of going on vacation, I'm donating the extra hours to our company "pot" that is used to help people under extraordinary circumstances who run through their own leave.
Wow!! This is so generous & beautiful! So exciting!!
This year I am volunteering at a riding facility that works with children special abilities & teaches them to ride to the best of their ability. I'm super excited to give back something that has given so much to me over the years.
Oh. My. Word! I am drooling over those fabulous bags!!
Oh my 2009 alraedy has big plans. I of course will continue advising my sorority chapter but I have committed to help them more than ever before too. We really want to increase our philanthropic efforts and they need old people (read: me....yes in the college world I am not considered old) to show them how to really make a difference. I've also re-joined the Junior League (I was a member, then transferred up here, then took a year off and now am all about it again and can't wait until Jan!). And I am determined to find a church that I love up here. I've not had one that I really felt at home in for many years. I'm a girl on a mission!
There's nothing better than pink and green! Love your blog!
That should have read that I am NOW considered old. Sad but true. Oh and I finally signed up to follow your blog- you're my first- though I am yet unclear on what it means to "follow" you.
enter me!
I will be working with a small group to house and provide clothing to needy children in our region.Possible mission trip to Africa in store for 2009!
You are just the best Kappa Prep. You introduce us to so many fun finds. How we all love a discount too! These items are adorable. That weekender--oh, my! Wouldn't that be stylish for all of the little overnight trips this Christmas season!
I'm chairing a project involving a Christian inner city school. The children are so eager to learn. We are providing them with opportunities that they might not have otherwise encountered. It's my goal that we can really make a difference.
I hope we can all strive to make giving part of our personalities. It feels good to give!
I will make sure that I fill a bag for a Vet every time the AmVets Foundation drop off a pink donation bag. They especially need clothing and I'm sure my closet could do with some thinning out and hey my book shelves could be a little lighter too!
LOVE LOVE LOVE TOSS!!!
Last summer at the spur of the moment I ended up volunteering at a special education school in Guatemala. Problem was I had not supplies and didn't speak enough Spanish. So I have already started taking private Spanish classes so I can go back with supplies this year to volunteer with the a class of children with Down Syndrome in Guatemala again.
I am volunteering to teach Sunday school with my best friend Nicole. Also I am volunteering at my elementary school in the fourth grade. A teacher there just had surgery and needs a little extra help!
Fantastic Giveaway!
I'm in awe of other readers' truly inspirational acts of volunteerism. In 2009, I'll continue to give back in small ways by always donating my old clothes to the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation and books to an organization that distributes them to foreign countries.
I just discovered Toss! Too, too cute!
What I have just decided to do, and this is going to start after the first of the year is become a Meals on Wheels volunteer. I am going to be one of the drivers that helps deliver the meals! I am so excited to be able to do this and can't wait to actually start!
My youngest sister just had baby #3 in 3 1/2 yrs. The first two are boys and this new little guy is a little boy. So three energizer bunnies. I have been taking #2 son out at least once a week if not more for close to two yrs. In fact just yesterday my husband and I had little Master Emmett for the whole day. He feels his position in the family has been usurped. The older little guys likes being with mommy and Emmett has energy to burn. The #3 son is just days old. My sister needed to get some rest and still be there for her newborn. My mother stated Emmett wanted to go out and about. I came in and my husband and I kept him with us for the day. According to my sister he felt like king because the attention was all on him. He didn't have to share us with his brothers. I have a special bond with Emmett and I love seeing him smile.
My sister is a nurse and she quit her job back in 2000 when my other sister became sick with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and became the other sister's private duty oncology nurse for almost 2 yrs during all the treatment and recovery. This same sister has helped me with the DVT that I live with. She did go back to work until a few weeks before she had her first child. So While I am helping my nephews I feel like it is helping me too.
(Sorry so long!)
Thanks to TOSS for their generosity! I plan to give back by supporting the wounded warriors at Lanstuhl Regional Medical center with donations of phone cards.
I have loved the toss designs since you first mentioned them on here. I love reading all of these plans & ideas...and it has my mind spinning. My main focus next year will be how to instill an sense of giving/service in our children (3 & 5). We hope to work with the local Ronald McDonald house so they (esp the 5 yr old) can see how her outreach can affect even a child her age. A neighbor of ours recently spent a lot of time in & out of the RMH at CHOP...and she sings their praises as a life line.
how awesome! i plan to give more in 2009 by really taking time out for friends and being willing to find new friends, as well. i find that i sometimes don't stop long enough to just BE with friends...listening, just sitting, etc. is just as good if not better than talking all the time! i also plan to work more in my church to help it grow!
does following you in my google reader count for a 2nd entry? b/c i've done that for a long time... =)
What a great giveaway!
To give back this year I plan on a significant move in which 90% of my belongings are being donated. All of my old towels and blankets will be donated to local animal shelters, my furniture to a local mission, and my old clothes to a battered women's shelter.
I tagged you in my latest post - have a look!
I LOVE this design from TOSS. In 2009, I am organizing a group of working moms to adopt the daycare center at the local public high school. I think it is so important for these young woman to see that they have a bright future and have the support of local women.
I'm going to join the Junior League so I can get involved in my community, and I'm also going to start doing Big Brothers Big Sisters! My actual sister does this and gets so much out of it, she's inspired me to do it too!
What a great giveaway! I will be volunteering at our local middle school. Our school system sends food home on Fridays with children who do not have enough to eat in their homes. A friend and I will be putting the food in the lockers of these children. A wonderful service from our schools and a wonderful feeling to help them carry out the project!! Merry, Merry Hopsy!!
I am going to tutor the children that come to our church two afternoons a week after school. They are so sweet and deserving of the attention we can give them!
Oooh la la! Thanks for sharing and how exciting. In 2009 I am serving at my local soup kitchen and volunteering to help homeless with legal needs. Xoxo-BLC
Hi sweets! Besides joining the JL-Plano, I'm volunteering at the McKinney Humane Society as well as Operation Kindness, which is located in Carrollton. I don't know if this was spreading the love for ALL mankind, including our furry babies, but my heart definitely goes out to those who do not have a voice of thier own. I recently came across a story of a sweet Yorkie baby girl who's previous owner abandoned her on a park bench with one can of food. She was too scared to jump down, so she stayed there in the freezing cold until someone samaritan rescued her. My goodness, WHO would do such a thing? It's stories like these that let me know that volunteering for animals is where God wants to me to be. thanks for this giveaway! That weekender bag is soooooo cute!
oh my goodness! enter me! in 2009 my family is sponsoring our second child in africa. It feels great to do something like that!
Hi Kappa Prep! What a wonderful thing Toss is doing! I know, this doesn't count as 2009 yet, but I am passing out Christmas wreaths and decorations, etc to people in need this year (I'm also planning on doing it next year and many many years to come!). So many of us get wrapped up in the parties and gifts, we forget what the holidays are really about!
My hope is very simple...Hub and I have been blessed with wonderful friends and family who have stepped up to the plate over and over again, doing whatever they can to help us through what has turned out to be a period of great difficulty on several levels. I want to be in the position, by this time next year, to be the one doing the helping. I would like to be able to give back to the amazing people who have given so much.
I have been a guidance counselor at a wonderful school near the beach; lots of gifted students and parents. However, I feel that something has been missing! I believe that if you are to be truly blessed, then you must be a blessing to others. So, I've moved to an inner city school where the students are really needy and need to be loved! It's both a reward and a challenge!
I think a toss design bag would help me carry my "stuff" and bring some beauty to my office!
LOVE the bags! What a nice thing to do!
I'll be taking over for my dear MIL who sends cards to the shut-ins in our church.
H, you are the best - I am so glad you use your blog to inspire people! Also I love the toss bags :) I've already sent my contact info to the Maryland Volunteer Lawyer Service and the DC Catholic Charities lawyers, so I can help people dealing with everything from foreclosures to spousal abuse / child custody. I hope they call me soon!
Oh, Hopsy! What a wonderful giveaway! I really really really want to win. I am hoping to give back in 2009 by working with the Junior League more. They help so many different people and it is SUCH a wonderful group. Children, the elderly, the poor....they help them all! I hope to attend more "Done in a day" projects and to volunteer for everything I can. 2009 will be DIVINE!
In 2009 during the 2nd week of January i'm flying up to New York to single-handedly organize an event for the Relief Organizations for the Victims of Disasters from the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. (With help from my friends and other people in the organizations). I'm taking a week out of school to do so, because it's something i feel very passionate about. I'm also doing volunteer work for the May Clinic.
This is a small and personal contribution, but my best friend's mom has been diagnosed with breast cancer and we are going to decorate her hospital room with the ambiance of her favorite restaurant, and bring her food from there.
I also did volunteer work with the The Arc of the United States charity, but i don't want to say i'm doing that for sure this year because they tend to have a lot of volunteers and might now even need me! But i will without a doubt get in contact with them again.
That's so inspiring what everyone does! I think it's so amazing that so many people are involved in charities.
this is so nice! i would love one--thank you for hosting and toss for the giveaway.
as i am sure it is with y'all, the economy downtour is depressing. even though i'm in law school (and also facing being strapped for cash and loans not as plentiful), i wanted to help others as best i could. i've been volunteering my legal services to help those who are being evicted from their homes or whose homes are in states of foreclosure. these individuals are so worthy, but cannot afford legal representation. just meeting and talking with them as been a reward in itself. i pray for quick relief and an upturn.
Plan on donating a lot of my unused stuff. I have way too much that I don't use....
Leigh Ann
Am I too late?
Anyhow, I'll share my plan for 2009...giving birth a second time and caring for a tiny little life. Those are my big plans for 2009. Not really giving back, but maybe after the baby is born I can figure something out!!
Happy Holidays!!!
How cute! I don't know if I am too late.
I am the PR Chair of my JL provisional project this year!
-E
I'm going to become a "friend" of the local public library and help host events and raise money.
I hope I am not too late. Those bags are both ADORABLE!!! In 2009, I plan on visiting my mamaw and papa C more. They are getting older, and I don't visit them near enough. I love them, and they are precious. But, I just don't take the time to show it. That is all changing in 2009!
How exciting! I would like to volunteer more in 2009 and I am trying to convince my husband to let me adopt a pet from the local shelter.
Now that I have turned 40 this year and no longer have to work, I am going back to school to become a nurse. Having worked 20 yrs in long term care, I now have the time to offer elderly people the care and respect that they deserve. This has been a shock to my family, but for me it is a way to give back for all the happy years I have spent with the elderly. I start school Jan 20th, 2009. I remember when Hurricane Katrina forced people out their homes and my husband was at College Station as a volunteer nurse R.N. on one of the critical floors, and I wanted to give more help than I had knowledge to do so. Now as a nurse I can offer that support.
In 2009, I am going to continue working with our church's 5th & 6th grade girls. Recently, my son's class visited a nursing home (Christmas caroling) and I was touched at how happy the residents were to see us. I want to find a way to help make their days a little brighter!
Ohhh HFG, I'm DYING over these little (or actually very BIG) goodies!!! 2009 - I will volunteer more, make more phone calls to loved ones, write more thank you notes and hopefully continue making a difference ONE smile at a time because in most situations a smile to a stranger can make all the difference in that person life as well as your own!!! Here's to 2009, my dear friend!!! With love, Nina
I recently joined the City Impact committee for my church, Reliant Lutheran in St. Louis MO. We're working on ways to impact our community and reach out to others. I've already started researching groups to help, we primarily want to work on serving the homeless, children, and adolescents in our area. I can't wait to see how the members of our church can lead change in our church neighborhood and I'm excited to be a part of all of the planning and organizing of it!
Oh what a lovely giveaway!!! I think giving back is very important too, in the current economy and state of affairs its even more important than ever. I recently started working in the nonprofit world and in 2009 i hope to get many of my ideas out there to helping members of my community that need it the most. Also, don't know if this counts - but, my mother, her best friend, my best friend and i plan to do the Avon Breast Cancer Walk together in May!! I can't wait to be a part of all that woman-power :)
Happy Holidays Hopsy!
LOVE both items! What a fantastic giveaway!
In 2009 I hope to help others by writing more letters to our soldiers (thank you for the list!), and hopefully volunteer at a local soup kitchen. I always donate to goodwill and foodbanks, but I am going to try and step it up by actually volunteering my time as well. :)
Love these! Please enter me :) I have been meaning to sit down and write a heartfelt letter to my closest relatives and let them know how much they mean to me. I want to include special memories in each letter. I have been putting this off, and I think my goal is going to be to give each person this letter on their birthday in 2009!
Love this giveaway. We are starting early on our good deads. Today we are putting together a package for a student in my sons class and his family. My son found out that her dad lost his job and that he is in the hospital and might get to come home CHristmas eve. We were not sure what they needed so we got books toys and a Walmart gift card. I have my own monogramming business and my son wanted me to make blankets for both girls in the family. We are not going to tell them who they are from just some Santa's ELves here in our town.
Thanks for the great giveaway. Merry Christmas
I would Love either one! I just love Toss, but have been unable to treat myself!
I am doing JLD work, teaching Sunday school, co-chairing the Feast of Lights at SMAA. I am sure there will be more, but thats it for now. Oh, I also raise funds for March of Dimes (on the twins behalf)
These are great!! Love them!
I really want to start volunteering at an animal shelter here in town and also I plan to sponsor a family at Christmas time every year. A new tradition for Hubs and I! :)
These are super cute and I am addicted to their website.. thanks to you! :)
I hope to give back by having a shoe drive. Since I run so much, and know so many people who do, I want to have a running shoe giveback that people can donate their shoes for and then the shoes that I collect will be sent to Africa to children who don't have shoes at all. :) Thanks Kappa!
Wow, what a treat?!
I have just signed up to spend some of my time on the weekends to read to little kids at the bookstore and give them books to take home and read. I am also helping a school to plan a trip to New Orleans to do some more Hurricane Katrina cleanup.
I LOVE Toss! Recently I have really been trying to help others. This thanksgiving I reflected on everything I am thankful for and realized it is a lot. I have had a very blessed year and want to help others.
I already started by "adopting" two families this Christmas. One with my friends and one with my family. We bought and wrapped lots of Christmas presents for underpriveliged children and their families.
I really feel the spirit of Christmas this year and want to turn this intoa tradition and get more people involved next year and start spreading the love throught the whole year, not just at Christmas!
ooooh!! im going to go to our inner city elementary school and teach deaf children and their parents to sign! did you know 96% of deaf children are born to hearing parents who cant sign to them?
cute bags!
Recently when we've gone out my friend (or her family) has paid for my meal/ticket/whatever. In 2009 (after I get a job!) I want to take her out and treat her to something, whether a meal or a movie. :-)
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