Feature Friday...

.....Meet JPATPURSES

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Here you will find all styles of bag loveliness!

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This shop has over 200 items to choose from.

With a wide variety of styles, colors and prices you are sure to find something you love!

Hop over to the shop and find your favorite item. Come back here and leave a comment with your favorite and a way to contact you. I will draw a name on Wednesday and the winner will win this fabulous little zip pouch in Chocolate Blooms.

For extra entries: (Leave a new comment for each one!)

* Blog about this giveaway or email 5 friends telling them about JPAT and the giveaway

* Purchase an item from JPAT. Come back here and let me know what you got!

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*Follow this blog

Thanks to JPATPURSES for sharing your lovely shop with us and providing this fantastic giveaway!

Happy Friday to all of you and good luck!

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Congratulations.....

Jennifer!

You are the winner of the soap

gift set from Intentions!

Let me know your address

so you can start enjoying this wonderful gift!

Thanks so much, Carol for this lovely giveaway

and for sharing your shop with us!

Campfire Cookies (S'mores Cookies)

This is an yummy cookie that is easy to put together. If you are in The Woodlands and don't want to take the time to make them, go here and I'll make them for you. I'll even deliver them to your doorstep along with a pint of cold milk! :)

Campfire Cookies~

2 cups all purpose flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup butter, melted

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips

For topping:

mini marshmallows

1/2 cup melted chocolate chips

graham cracker crumbs and small chunks

Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, cocoa, soda and salt. Set aside. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy (several minutes). Add eggs one at a time and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture. Fold in chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet (I prefer to use ungreased parchment paper). Bake 8-10 minutes.

Note: (You will need to watch the cookies and take them out when they are still soft, but not mushy. My oven is very lazy and would rather make cracking and hissing noises that heat up, so I actually baked mine for about 11 minutes. I ALWAYS take cookies out of the oven early, when they are still soft, letting them remain on the hot pan for 1 minute to "set". Then remove them to a plate to cool. )

Remove the cookies from the oven and place 3-4 marshmallows on each cookie, slightly pressing them into the cookie. Place them back in the oven for 1 more minute to soften the marshmallows. Then take them out and top each cookie with graham cracker crumbs and chunks. Drizzle melted chocolate on each cookie. ( I use a ziplock bag with the corner cut away). Place the cookies in the freezer for about 10 minutes for the chocolate to harden.

Yield: about 3 dozen

Enjoy!

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We headed out to the backyard this weekend for a game of catch.

Of course, we drowned ourselves in mosquito spray 1st.

Yes, we live in Houston.

(Let me take this moment to say, if you are considering moving to Houston....

reconsider.)

It was all fun and games until someone took a softball to the face.

(He was fine) :)

Still time to enter the giveaway!

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New Featured Shop~

I found Intentions when I saw this gorgeous soap featured on the front page of Etsy~

So I contacted Carol right away to see if I could feature her shop.

Her soaps are stunning.

Honestly, I want to eat them.

I have enlarged the images over and over on my screen to try to figure out how she got her company name imprinted on the bars. Don't know how she did that, but it is fabulous!

In her shop you will also find lotion bars, body butter, products specifically for men and gift sets. Be sure to check out her past sales section for a gallery of her beautiful work!

Carol has generously offered one of you lucky readers a gorgeous gift set!

It comes with a bar of soap, a lotion bar and a soap dish...all packaged in a reusable gift bag!

To enter the giveaway, visit Intentions.

Come back here and tell me your favorite item in the shop (and be sure I know how to contact you in case you are the winner).

For extra entries:

* Blog about this giveaway or email 5 of your friends telling them about Intentions and the giveaway. Leave a new comment here telling me you did.

*Make a purchase from Intentions. For this you will receive 5 extra entries! Comment here telling me the transaction #.

*Follow this blog. Comment telling me you did (or already do)

In addition to this great giveaway, Carol has offered 15% off any order during the duration of this feature. Just put "Splendid Things" in the message to seller section at checkout.

Winner will be drawn this coming Wednesday! Good luck!

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New in the shop.....

.... I fell in love with this Heather Bailey fabric!

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Congrats, LittlePinkPlum! You are the birdie winner! Remember to add homesweetwalls to your fav!

Check back Friday for another featured seller and giveaway!