Today is more like a Monday since I took the day off to be with the kiddos yesterday. So much to blog about, but I feel like we should play catch up first on a few things. What do you say? 🙂

Seattle Workshop Ladies!

Sunday night came to soon Seattle Workshop Ladies! Brian and I miss laughing with all of you! Yesterday we talked about the workshop, and how we feel blessed once again to have had such a wonderful group of women attend. The Seattle Workshop was the last workshop for 2008, and what a great way to wrap up the year! A big hug and thanks to all of you who attended. It was a honor to spend the time with you that we had. As soon as Kevin emails me our group photo, I’ll email it out to the rest of you!

Did You Have Issues Getting the Anniversary Sale Discount????

If you had issues using your coupon code and emailed Brian, we will still honor your discount. For the most part, it looks like a majority of the people didn’t have any issues with the BIG Anniversary Sale that we did. We’re so sorry that a handful of you did. If you ran into problems and haven’t heard from Brian yet, he will be getting back to you shortly. He is working his way through the list of emails he received. We appreciate your patience! AND, we are more than happy to still honor the discount without question!

New Photo Contest!

I love, love, love the idea of “Simple Gifts” being the new theme for the Photo Contest! Let’s go for it!

Submit a photo of something that has to do with Simple Gifts (see Submission Guidelines below). Your photo can be as “out of the box” as you’d like!

As far as prizes, I’ve got a great idea for what the finalist should get, but I have to talk with someone and okay it first. 🙂 I’ll keep you posted!

I know I said last Monday that we’d post the Five Finalists for the Inspirational Object Photo Contest last week. But last week was insane. One of my best friend’s from college emailed and said she was driving two hours to come see me (her surprise visit was water to my soul!). We also finished putting our house back together and then the workshop started. Can I just say that I’m so glad the holidays are here? I feel like the next few weeks is going to be the first down time we’ve had in a long, long while, and it will feel so good to get caught up, rest and celebrate the magic of the season. Inspirational Object Finalists coming soon! 🙂

Submission Guidelines and Deadline for the “Simple Gifts” Photo Contest:

1. Email your Simple Gifts image to contest@fioria.us.

2. Make sure you’ve attached your image as a small JPG. Do NOT put your image in the text of your email. Attach it to make it easier for us.

3. Since this is a Simple Gift that connects to you personally, we invite you to write a couple sentences on why you chose the photo you are sending.

4.SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, January 4th 2009 at Midnight PST.

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