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(this is THE PAM of the THE pam's cheesecake…) Procter & Gamble has a campaign called Have You Tried this Yet? where you can get inspired to try and learn about high performing products from brands like CrestÆ, OlayÆ, PampersÆ and TideÆ. You can also check out product reviews, receive great savings including coupons and samples and even score expert beauty, family and home advice. They asked me to participate and write what i thought about one of their new products.
I am picky about it though, too. There are two different versions of this product so I got them both. The Olay helps soothe irritation from shaving and conditions your skin. The applicator is different than most solids. I used it before my four mile run, and i can say that is works! P&G has a website that has all the information about their new products. In addition, BlogHer is giving away a $100 Visa gift card! To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment telling me … how would Secret Outlast Deodorant make your life easier? Rules: Be sure to visit the P&G Have You Tried This Yet? brand page on BlogHer.com where you can read other bloggersí reviews and find more chances to win!
I have dry winter skin. I’d use Olay’s Vanilla Winter Retreat Ultra Moisture Body Wash. i love secret it works great for me I seem to need more deodorant now than I used to. I’d like to try this so my co-workers won’t need to spray air freshener around. tweet It wouldn’t stain my clothing I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/MsTofuFairy/status/285788174549127168 Seeing as how most of the brands of deodorant that I have used in the past are no longer working for me, it would change my life by hopefully working so that I could stop worrying and having to try different brands! I only use a deodorant. I blogged: maybe I wouldn’t have to reapply deodorant/antiperspirant several times a day after taking the stairs! this will be great so i wont be sweaty and perfect for my delicate skin I would certainly use secret before my morning jog so i dont have to take a 2nd shower after jogging before i go to work! Thanks for a super giveaway! It would keep my dry during work I haven’t seen this yet – I’ll have to look for it I haven’t seen this yet – I’ll have to check it out! Would be perfect to keep the stink away for the whole family! Secret Outlast would really help on the days I go to the gym or walk, especially once warm weather comes. it makes my life easier because it last longer than the other deodorants which not only keeps me dry but smelling fresh. sweepmorey at gmail dot com I like the Olay makes is smooth and creamy and gentle on my delicate skin. I love the fact it can go 48 hours! I do use deodorant every day, BUT now and then I’m running really late and have to dash back in the house to apply which makes me even later. With this product I won’t have to worry ! some days i am so busy with kids stuff that i don’t shower before out the door, so this would be great to be protected without having to reapply deod Easier b/c its once a day, goes on clear so no residue on clothes, & Secret so I know it works I only use Secret – it’s great for my treadmill workouts! Secret Outlast would keep my dry and smelling good all day long while working and also during workouts. The Secret Outlast Deodorant would make my life easier by keeping me dry while I run errands! tweeted: Secret Outlast Deodorant would make my life easier cos I’m always sweating, even in the winter. That would help me feels and smell clean for sure. i tweeted here: this sounds great! I love that it’s long lasting! 2ND ENTRY TWEET https://twitter.com/kytah00/status/284142013438373888 WELL, I haven’t tried this particular product before, BUT if it’s anything like the “Secret Clinical Strength Deodorant” (same brand… same effects?) then I’d buy it in a heartbeat. It’s so nice when you only have to apply 1 coat of deodorant everyday (verses 5, or 6). I use it already and it is amazing. I run around all day doing errands and chores and I would not have to worry about being sweaty. Tweeted I do use this and it keeps me dry all day! I definitely need a antiperspirant that I feel confident that will keep me dry during the day, while running errands, and chasing a few of the little ones. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think it would keep me smelling fresh from the time I go to work through my workout at the end of the day! Riding my horse always has me in a sweat. I’d try this. It sounds like a deodorant that really works and keeps odor away so it would make my life easier because I wouldn’t have to keep searching for the “best” deodorant out there. i’m reaching peri menopause so i sweat more. i could use it to deal!!! Thanks for a chance to win and have a great day! As a mom, I sometimes don’t always get a shower when I want to, so 48 protection would be a very good thing! 🙂 I actually use this everyday and I love it.i really like the smell Secret Outlast Deodorant keeps me dry and clean all day long! Living and working in Florida, I’m often outside “glistening” while entertaining clients. With the heat and humidity, I sometimes worry if I’m stinky so I’d like to give this a try. Cool applicator! love that it lasts! I would love to be able to wear soilds without sweat rings! I only want to have to think about deo once a day! Will have to try Secret Outlast! I work out about 5 days a week and am always soaked with sweat. I am always up for trying new products that may help prevent heavy sweating! it is not fun to smell a little stinky when my husband comes in for a kiss… embarrassing. im sure this would help! I am a busy bee- all day long! I can’t sit still and need to be active and productive. I need a deo. that can keep up with me. I would love to try this and not worry about being smelly and sweat marks. January will hopefully be bringing exercise back into my life, so I need all the help I can get! My daughter uses Secret and she loves it! It would allow me not to even think about sweat marks! Yesss~ thanks for the hookup on the free samples/coupons. I’d seen the Outlast commercials and wondered about how much better that could work. Now I can give it a try without buying a whole stick. 😉 um…the 48 hours part sounds terrific…you know, in case i forget on day 2 😉 love secret’s deoderants. have been a fan for years! Would make me less stinky and hey maybe motivate me to walk or exercise lightly on days I don’t have time to reshower Like you, I want to be able to apply deodorant and not worry about it during the day. This would make my life easier because I wouldn’t even think about if I smell 🙂 I love to workout. Secret would help me be less stinky. Thanks for this info! I went to their site and requested the coupons and samples! I’m normally not an overly sweaty person, but some days you get the unexpected like this week when I ended up putting up the Christmas tree at my workplace, in the front entry with the sun streaming through the windows. My normal deodorant didn’t really cut it and I worried the rest of the day about if I was smelly. The extra protection would have been nice to have that day! Girl, I am a sweaty kind of girl, too. I’ve been doing the 30 day Shred (Yay, me!) and that Jillian kicks my butt so this would be nice to try 🙂 I’m 51. This secret outlast deodorant would make my life so much easier because i sweat so much on the basketball court! it would be great to have a deodorant that lasts the whole day. 🙂 The Secret Outlast Deodorant would make my life easier by keeping me smelling fresh and clean Would be happy to try a product that actually works!! This Deo might save my Pregnancy! LOL. I am prego for the first time and never was one to really need deodorant. I played year round sports growing up and never sweat. Now that I’m expecting and my hormones are all over the place – I need Deo. I have tried two other brands and have not been pleased. I already went to PGeveryday and signed up for samples and coupons. I am defiantly going to try this Deo! Maybe it will be THE ONE! 🙂 i have not tried this yet…but i need too!!! I’m big and fat and pregnant with baby number 5…. any thing to make me feel better (and smell good!) at this point would be great! It would make my life easier because I wouldn’t have to worry about sweat rings when I’m standing up in front of my students in class! I’m a mom of a very active 4-year-old boy as well as infant twins (boy and girl). Some days I don’t get to shower until late in the evening. Or, let’s face it, some days I don’t get to shower at all. So, yeah, sometimes I really do need 48 hours of protection! I’m a runner as well, it would help me not be so self-concious that I stink! I hate these kinds of posts. Seems like such a sell out. Looking forward to trying this. Thanks for sharing your point of view about this product. Would love to try, thank you! this sounds awesome! it’s on the next walmart list 🙂 As a working mom of four kids…showering everyday is sometimes a luxury. I would love the idea of not worrying on those days I may or may not have made it in the shower. I actually HAVE tried it and really like it. As a full-time work-outside-the-home mom who also volunteers heavily, I’m often gone from dawn until dusk. I used to keep an extra deodorant at work but the Outlast works really well so I don’t have to anymore!!! I would not worry about odor later and have assurance it will take me through the entire day I am a mommy of three and I babysit 2 other children That’s 5 kids under the age of 7! needless to say I am lucky if I get to shower every other day. Gross I know but it’s true and it’s exactly why I NEED all the deodorant help I can get! I’d love to know that my deodorant is working all day long. Especially because I run around a lot at work! i work at a hospital and work 12 hr shifts and run around the entire time… i’ve found very few deoderants that make me confident that i’m not going to be stinky. 🙂 i should try this kind! I am a runner, and am currently in training for my 3rd half marathon. I also strength train 2-3 times a week. While sweat is great while I am working out/running, it is NOT good for my day to day activities as a stay at home mom! 🙂 i teach and some days my room is nice and cool and some days it is BLAZING hot! i would like to not smell stinky like my middle schoolers do:) Secret Outlast Deodorant would make my life easier so that I can exercise and feel like my deodorant is working. It would help me work out in public places, like a work out facility or zumba class. Garmin is the best thing to have when training for a 1/2 marathon. I had never ever ran befor and I started in May and ran a 1/2 in Oct. I would still choose my iPod over my Garmin, but the Garmin is SO SO SO helpful when you start getting to higher mileage and want to know how much longer you have to go (suffer) =), and what rate you have been running at. I would try to stay at a 10 min. mile for the first 6 or 7 miles and then go down to a 9.30. I would highly recommend getting one, all my running friends have one and we all LOVE them!!!! I got mineo n Ebay for around $140, but if you look hard you can get them cheaper! Good luck, just keep telling yourself. “I CAN DO HARD THINGS!!! I CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!” I would feel a lot more confident wearing tank tops. I have tried it, and it DOES work! I go to the gym (walking on the treadmill) during my lunch hour and don’t have time to take a shower. This Secret does the best job of keeping me “fresh” and socially acceptable to my co-workers. Hey, I haven’t been called into the HR office yet 😉 Merry Christmas, Meg! I dont want to stink by the time I get out the door for work. I shouldnt have to reapply after just getting ready. Once my deodorant goes on in the morning, I want to know that I’m “protected” all day long … no sweat rings, no stink-o smells coming from my underarms. Simple is becoming my way of life because of some wiser choices and this sounds like another one that I need to make! I use Secret now, so I will have to give this one a try. I don’t want to stink! I have not tried this yet. But I think I will give it a try because like you, I don’t want to think about being sweaty and having BO!! Thanks for the giveaway. I haven’t tried this yet! I run a lot and this would come in handy! i want to not be sweaty! : ) when you were a kid did you get the sears or jcpenney christmas wish book and look at them OVER and OVER? just like my girls do now with the American Girl catalog or Justice. i thought i would be silly and share my grown up wish list that is some parts completely impractical/pure dreaming and some parts regular stuff. you never get too old for that.
tissue garland….that i didn't have to make myself.
i would love to learn to make doughnuts.
a Doughnut Pan
Bossypants
this is my favorite scent at Bath & Body Works…. STRESS RELIEF.
Treadmill …. a good sturdy one that doesn't rattle or shake and is not deafingly loud because i am crazy.
Mad Men Season One
ohhhh… wait…. maybe this one instead.
i have wanted a hot tub since… forever.
this book Decorate Workshop
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so i made this whole list of things i love and "want"
what do i REALLY WANT?
i want Yana to have a mom & dad to take care of her forever.
don't you want to kiss her face?! and hug her tight and never let her go…. i was not planning on writing about this…. i was just making a silly wish list. but God would not let me leave it at that. because all i really WANT today is for Yana to get a family this christmas. THAT is the sparkly glittery dress of real life. jeannett has helped two other sweet babies through Reese's Rainbow find families the past two years and it is so joyous to know i was a part of that. so let's ALL help YANA this year!! go over to Life Rearranged, read all about Yana and you can even enter jeannett's giveaway. it will be the best christmas gift you will give.
Oh Meg. Once again, your random fun gives me a smile. And your baby portion of the post has me thinking more… I’ve always kind of felt a tug at my heart strings for adoption. It kind of flits in and out of my mind. Maybe God has that in the plans for our family. I don’t know. It’s good for you to mention this though, bringing it back to my thoughts. I just can’t imagine a baby without a home. 🙁 BBW Stress Relief is my absolute favorite, too! I hide it away just for me! 🙂 Saw your shoes for half off AND in your size on Pinterest right after reading your blog post. Enjoy!! Check out this website for those Nike shoes. They are discounted like half off and they have an 8.5. Hope they are the ones you are looking for! http://www.tiffanyfreeruns.com/nike-free-30-v4-tiffany-blue-reflective-silver-pure-platinum-p-198.html Ps. I gave u a gift u might like 😉 i want that baby. Thank you for this post Meg. LOVE your blog!!! Love RR and the kiddos on there. Are you sure she isn’t YOUR baby? She is totally totally precious. Great list! She’s so squishable!! Your heart. I like it. I know of the exact tension you write about here. I feel it all the time. I NEVER used to! dangit. Stress relief is my one and only too. Stress + Relief = Good. Loved today’s post! Made me smile! Hi Meg, As a mom of 5 internationally adopted kids I would like to say to someone who might be tempted but unsure… GO FOR IT!! 🙂 Adoption is a blessing and a gift. Nothing you do in life will ever compare. Love your list. all. of. it. you kinda punched me in the stomach with the last one though. the good punch you in the stomach kind. praying for yana today. thanks! I have had my eye on Yana for some time. I too pray she gets a forever home. I splurge and buy swim stuff from Athleta – totally worth it as it holds up so well! Have you looked on the Nike site where you can customize your shoe colors? You should get Bossypants on audiobook. Listening to Tina read it just put me in stitches. Awesome list. I am normally just a lurker but had to suggest Bossypants on audio. I downloaded it on my iPhone and laughed my behind off listening to Tuna Fey read it while working on projects. Meg, your blog ALWAYS makes me smile. And I can see you perfectly in that neon green athleta shirt. Sounds to me like you might be wanting little Yana for your own home . . . I had one of those days yesterday. I was at a Stop Hunger Now meeting talking about how twenty-five cents pays for one meal. I was super humbled when I realized my $3 latte could have provided food for 12 people. Definitely makes you think about needs/ wants. I am so grateful for all of God’s blessings, and so grateful to be able to be used by Him. Oh Reeces Rainbow! L.O.V.E. Meg, I’m reading BossyPants right now. My friend gave it to me last month for my birthday. It’s all right. I don’t find Tina Fey’s writing nearly as funny as I find Jenny McCarthy’s books. SHE cracks me up! Have you read any of her’s? so i thought .. this is a fluffy, i want post… until the end…..beautiful…! Ach! That chair! I have almost the EXACT chair – torn apart in my office. I paid $5!!!! It’s as sturdy as can be with steel springs. It’s OLD and I’m going to re-do it. I can’t believe how much it’s the same. your list is my list…maybe except for the gowns…unless they come in maternity 😉 I love your wish list! I have a wish list of both small and extravagant things also. I think the pink chair could definitely be on mine also! Thanks for brining light to Yana. nick and i saw a young mom with her tiny baby at mass this morning…and i told nick i wanted a baby. oooohmygosh I want those shoes too! I asked for a donut pan and running clothes this year too! Also, I read BossyPants, well some of it, but didn’t like it so took it back to the library. do you send christmas cards? my dad's side of the family always ALWAYS has a family letter. it really is a lovely idea and fun packet to get. but…. i just can't get it done by thanksgiving. BUT i always send christmas cards. are you one that sends just a photo of your kids without you in it?
i chose my cards from mpix.com this year!
but you will have to wait until christmas day to see what picture i chose. i have good news for you!! MPIX.COM is giving away a set of cards leave a comment today telling me your christmas card tradition at your house…. and i will draw a winner thursday so you can still have plenty of time to address your cards! you are my fave!
I send a card with a letter inside. Sometimes the pictures are in the letter, sometimes the picture is on the card. But, I always buy a card. I’m not a newsletter sender person. It has to be with a beautiful, spiritual, Jesus’ birthday type of card. I’m always in the picture. Usually we sit in front of the tree and I run to jump in. It seems like every year we do a funny card, then the following year will be a serious card, then funny, etc. This year it will be a funny card. 🙂 i love cars period. RECIEVING ANG GIVING them! we usually use our family photo from that year in a card and print off other photos to put in card 🙂 everyone <3 's it...they get to see the kiddoz and have the prints till new ones next chrisymas 🙂 Christmas cards are my favorite thing ever! I try to get the word Joy in the card somewhere i used to write letters. and then it changed to just photos. and then the photos would sit in the drawer unmailed until January. 🙂 this year it is email…unless i win. hahahaha. Since I LOVE to receive cards I feel like I have to send them! I just got our family pics back from the photographer and can’t wait to see them on our cards! love it!! I usually do a Photo Collage Christmas Card…More meaningful to me than just a regular card, and then they have photos of the kids. When my preemie first was born, I couldn’t seem to take her picture without her crying… and then, to put the picture on the card, it got stretched, so it was really a terrible card, but I wanted to get a picture of her out to everyone, and well, my husband was not so happy with me for that one…so I haven’t done one since…Now, I am still working on getting my 3 girls together to actually take a picture of ALL of them to put on a card. Was also wanting to start a photo ornament tradition… Love that MPix has it all… 🙂 Our Christmas tradition is having the kids open up one present each early- on Christmas Eve, they always get a pair of new pj’s! My family did this when I was growing up and we loved it! We have our first grandchild this year, so we will be sending out cards for the first time in over ten years! And guess who we used? MPix! : ) I do a picture card (the whole family including ME!) I wish I could hand write a personal note on every single one, because that’s what I WANT to do and think one should do, but with over 100 to send I just don’t have time. My mom spends the weekend after thanksgiving getting all the kids’ critiques on the photos, then we vote via email and she orders them! For my own, I usually take a picture in front of my Christmas tree! The last time I attempted Christmas cards, they went out..in April! Better late than never. However, I really need to try it again since there are all these cool sites out there like MPIX and Snapfish, etc….I’m sure they will make it SO.EASY. My card tradition has always been to make a homemade card with my daughter’s picture included. She has even helped me with the card the last few years so I’ve enjoyed this time with her! This year I’ve decided to simplify my life and use my favorite photo printer (mpix!!) For my holiday card!! Can’t wait to design this week…with the help of my daughter of course;) I try to write a creative Christmas letter each year but the last couple years have been hit and miss. I try to include pics of of the while family however that had been hit and miss also. Every year I think I’m going to get ahead of the game and get cards fine in Nov. but it never happens. Free cards would definitely give me a jump start! Happy holidays!! Took some pictures at Thanksgiving when my college-aged daughter was home. We used MPIX for her senior pictures; excellent quality. Great looking card options! we do a card with picture and a top 12 for the year. We go through pictures from the year to help remember the top 12 things that happened throughout the year. Ideally we have one from each month of the year, but sometimes there is a month where not a lot happened and another month where we have a hard time choosing which things were the best about a certain month. Family update letter including at least one photo…. We always send out a picture card with our family on it. This year we haven’t taken our picture yet. If we don’t get it together by the weekend I forsee generic cards, but I’d rather send a picture card. i haven’t sent out a Christmas card since our daughter was 2. She is now almost 16. that card didn’t even have our youngest in it. he is now 12. it has become a joke with our friends. my family doesn’t seem to think it’s that funny. i don’t know why. i always take a fun photo. but when i go to pick out the card i can’t decide. then they always seem so expensive. then i can’t find everyone’s address because i am unorganized. i wish someone would just do it for me. i would choose the pink and lime striped one. it seems so happy. i have been stressed lately. im in need of some happy :). -tracy My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around to look at lights after Christmas Eve service. 🙂 It’s so peaceful and pretty! I sent out 105 Christmas letters and family pictures this year (I come from a big family). I do it almost every year, even though most of those same people are my friends on Facebook or see me regularly. Normally I only include a picture of my daughters, but this year a friend took a nice picture of our family, so I included that instead. My Christmas card tradition is a family photo. We have such a large, extended family (and a 2 year old) it is hard/time consuming to do much else than sign a card! with a 4yo, 2yo and 1yo…my favorite tradition: eating an early dinner and quick bath and pjs…then cruising the neighborhood with their lovies looking at lights. We go up to the snow every year on Christmas Eve and take a family picture…so our cards are usually more like New Year’s cards:) We send out cards to our family and close friends every year. I think tinyprints is really the best for these type of Christmas cards. We have been through alot of changes over the past three years, so we haven’t got a set tradition for cards. I love sending them, but usually decide on what is the best priced way to go. We’ve done picture cards, cards with pictures inside, and cards without. I’m still deciding on this years’, guess its time to get moving! I always do a photo card, sometimes I’m in it, sometimes I’m not! If I win the contest, I will make sure to be in it this year! We ALWAYS send a photo card, I usually send pics of just my kiddos but since the pictures turned out so nice this year I included myself, my husband, and even our dog 🙂 Mass on Christmas Eve with snacks & drinks following. We always open gifts one at a time, youngest to oldest, so that the magic of giving and receiving lasts just a little bit longer. We always open gifts one at a time, youngest to oldest, so that the magic of giving and receiving lasts just a little bit longer. Annie said she wanted a baby for Christmas…hmmm, I’m sensing a theme here:) Wait til you see mine this year – major CHEESEY factor. My tradition = Done!! Our Christmas card tradition…..ummmmm…is that it is usually in January! I carry on the tradition of my parents and do a family letter each year. The collection of these becomes a family history. I use a lot of photos to tell the stories. These letters are included with a Christmas card. I send them to friends and family who want them. Now that my parents are gone, I’ve picked up their Christmas card list and now send our card and letter to my parents’ friends around the world. I have on the past sent out cards but I just had a baby and sent out thank you cards with pictures of my two girls. I Since I’m on maternity leave, unpaid, I didn’t think I should spend the extra money on Christmas cards. the circle card is darling. I usually try to get a good picture of my three kids and then design a photo card. Noting spectacular but I am always pleased with the outcome and I am always proud to show off my wonderful kids! My boyfriend and I just moved in together so it’s time to start a new tradition. This year’s card will include a picture of our new house! We send a family picture to friends near and far away! We first started sending photo cards when our granddaughter was born in early Dec., kind of like a birth announcement/holiday card. So much more meaningful than a mass-produced card! We love to coordinate our outfits. Since I am the only girl, I have to be flexible! One year we all wore Batman shirts and took the picture at the Christmas tree lot. It was so fun! Thanks for this great link Meg. I was tired of ordering cards from the same company year after year. I love this site and they have such great designs. I’m going to order my cards today! I can’t wait to see yours! I started sending photo cards a few years back. Sometimes just the kids and sometimes the whole family. Photography has become my hobby the last year, so this weekend I’m going to play around with my camera and hopefully capture something creative! Now that we have kids, we do either a photo card or a card with a 4×6 photo enclosed. I also do a letter each year. Some years it’s better than others. And I always make sure to write a hand-written note on each one, and I hand-address each envelope. Because I think letters are a bit generic, I like to personalize each card by writing something personal to the person/family I’m mailing it to. I send a photo card every year, sometimes with a letter — and sometimes just with good intentions. 🙂 I never really had a “tradition” when it comes to sending Christmas cards but this year being my baby girl’s first Christmas I plan on sending out Christmas cards with pictures of her on it from this year and on. I make a card every year with pictures of the kids and a family photo if I can get everyone to look at the camera! I send a Christmas letter each year as well. It takes me forever to write, but I seem to always get a lot of family who look forward to the letter to keep them up-to-date when I can’t talk to them all the time! MPIX ROCKS! My christmas card tradition is to design them myself, but this would be a lot easier on me 😉 I used to do a Christmas letter and loved it, but as time went on I moved to just sending cards with note and they are always late. That’s what makes my card special. It comes a day or two after all of the hustle and bustle. I usually get a couple of phone calls because of it and we laugh because it is expected:) We always used to send cards with photos of the kids. I don’t think we even had any family photos taken ever. I am going through a divorce so it has been a rough couple of years and I haven’t sent out cards since I’ve been struggling financially. This year, though, my daughter turned 18, my son 15 and the realization that they will be on their own very soon prompted me to get some. I chose a card through Mpix with just a minimum purchase so we will have to pick and choose who gets them. But I wanted to make sure I got them this year. I usually send a letter filled with all our news of the year and also a Photo card. Sometimes with just the kids, but last year I set up my tripod and tortured my husband and got a photo with all four of us in it so send out 🙂 A family tradition you asked? We ALWAYS make special Christmas goodies from family recipes! We always do a Christmas photo card. I should do a letter, but don’t. 🙂 Do people really want to know that my daughter plays flute in the band? Or that our 8yr. old lost 3 teeth this year? Oh well. Anyway, can’t wait to see your family photo card!! Every year since my children were born I have sent Christmas cards. This is the first year the entire family will be pictured on the cards. So excited, but stressed, because I can’t find the perfect card. And the holidays are right around the corner. Yikes! I’m just starting the Christmas picture card tradition this year! I’m pregnant with our first child, so I finally feel like we have a picture that people actually want to see… haha! We always do a family pic. I should occasionally do a letter, but don’t. Can’t wait to see your Christmas photo! I usually use pictures of the kiddos and/or the pets. We always think of a cute picture idea. The year that I was preggo with my 1st we sent out a sonogram pic with a little santa hat on my little peanuts head. I would love to win the set of cards I am working on this year from MPix!!! LOVE THEM!!!! I LOOOOVE Christmas Cards. We do a card with a family photo every year. We also display all of the cards we receive! Well I’ve been married to my husband for 7 months now, but we’ve been together for 3 years. I would like to start our first Christmas married with Christmas cards to our friends and family! Our family is spread out all over, which makes the holidays difficult since we can’t be everywhere. We had planned to go see his family in Ohio but since he works Christmas Eve night for UPS there is no way we will make it. A Christmas card and a phone call will be the closest thing we have to being there with them. We would love to win these cards to start our tradition and help send a little smile to our loved ones! We usually do a family photo card – some years I photoshop the kids into oversized presents or things like that and then always have a Christian message for the Holidays. I am having a hard time this year as 2 of my 3 children have moved out so still brainstorming ideas. Love, love, lOVE to send out photo cards with pictures of my kids. I generally send out a letter wirh family updates but this year my 5 year old, who is just learning to write, wants to do the letter. Couldn’t be more thrilled! Would love a set of perfect cards to send! Christmas card tradition is a yearly review so a pic a month! LOVE Mpix I love Mpix! I have always sent a letter and a card. When the kids were little, we did family pics or just kid pics. Now the kids have kids so its just me and the hubby MPIX is my fav!! I’m hit and miss with Christmas cards. We’ve been married for 11 years, but I didn’t feel like I had anything to ‘report’ before we had kids! My oldest is 5 and I’ve been trying to get better, especially since we have two kids now! Last year I did great putting together cards and pictures and sending them early. This year, I have a picture to send from our vacation, but I’ve been lacking inspiration to put the card together to send. Thank you for the motivation to get our faces out to our loved ones! We always try to get all of us on the card (extra 10 pounds and all, LOL!) All of our family is far away and they love it. I’ve never used mpix before but those designs are awesome! I absolutely LOVE getting Christmas cards and I think it’s kinda sad that so many people are getting away from that. I think last year we got 2. TWO! So we stick with old fashion tradition of sending cards, which is usually just a photo card. =) I’m a dork, missed the “card” part. (I think it may be Christmas shopping One tradition we do is get all the kids pjs & an ornament for the tree on Christmas Eve. We did the ornament thing when I was little. The idea was to use those ornaments to decorate our tree when we grew up. Great idea although my mom still has them,lol! I send out a Christmas card each year, but I’m never content to just send a standard newsletter, so I have to jazz it up. Last year, I made my yearly update look like a Pinterest board. The year before, I made it look like a sewing pattern. We’ll see what I do this year! I typically send pictures but no letter- used to send letter but no time! We send out Christmas cards each year-with all of us-extra 10 or 20 lbs included. Even when I was single (which was until I was 31) I sent a photo card out. I love getting photo cards and why let marital status stop you? Your friends want to see YOU no matter marital status, weight, or the overtired Mama eyes that are hard to hide. I always want to do a letter, but never get to it 🙁 We started with a letter and photos and 12 years later we’re down to a photo card! I have tried to send out a card each year. Really and truly. And for sure I always had good intentions! So I guess I’m saying I’m a hit or miss kinda Christmas card gal. THANK YOU! For calling out those who ONLY send a pic of their kiddos! Personal peeve! Our tradition is to send a card-if we can, the last two years, it was too much. But I love to sigh sweetly at friend letters…and laugh at the braggy ones! PS You have driven our photo needs to MPIX, they should give you a fat check, ’cause I am sure I am only one of LOTS AND LOTS! My Christmas Card tradition is to wish/intend/try (depending on the year) to send out Christmas cards, and then to feel guilty that it never happened. :o). Now that my kids are bogger and I am getting a grip on life again, I feel like there is a real shot at it happening. Now to find all those addresses…. Thanks for all the great links and shopping you have had on your blog! Love having more great choices! It seems my pattern has been one year with the whole family, one year with just the kids, the year after that no card at all. But I’m changing it up this year. Already have the pic, just need to find the card design and order- stat! This would surely help. 🙂 ha! what’s funny is only TWO of the MPIX examples feature parents in the photos! MPIX needs to listen to Meg, and maybe feature some parents with 10+++ extra pounds. we don’t have a consistent tradition. i prefer to send out a photo card with a letter. BUT that doesn’t always happen. i guess you could say i consistently send out after-Christmas cards. since i am usually late. 🙂 Nine years ago when my first was born I started the 4×8 photo card. My friends and family love getting pics of the kids every year. I have a special album I put out every year with all the cards. My kids love it. Christmas card tradition? We usually call them Valentines, becaue that’s when they finally go out! We put red ribbon on the back of our front door to make it look like a GIANT present. I teach my kids that our home is a present from GOD and that our friends family pictures, that we tape to the door, are one of our MANY blessings we receive from HIM!! My mom used to have us make Christmas cards for family members by cutting up old Christmas cards we had from the year before and gluing parts of the scenes and words on to construction paper and card stock. i love to put all the cards together for one year and hole punch, then put them together on a ring with fun ribbons. they are more fun to look through than in an album. 🙂 One year one of the pastors at our church asked what type of Christmas card we send. Is it celebrating Christ’s birth? The real meaning behind Christmas? This has stuck with me ever since. I’ve taken the opportunity every since then to choose a card with the message of Christ. I have always been one that takes my time picking out my Christmas cards. They have to be perfect! And after our pastor challenged us with that statement, for years I was always disappointed in the Christian cards. They never looked as pretty or “Christmas-y” to me. But as my walk with The Lord has grown, I have realized that those cards are even more beautiful because of their message and really, how much more Christmas-y can you get than the birth of our Savior? We hang up all the cards we receive because they are all so beautiful! We only receive a handful of photo cards but those tend to stay on the fridge for the whole year! They are so special! ooh, beautiful cards! We send a photo card each year. Baby’s first Christmas we sent a card with just his picture, and each year after that we’ve done a card with our family photo, our dog’s photo, and a photo or two of our little one. No letters… maybe when little dude gets bigger or if we actually go on vacation or do something notable one year. 🙂 Family photos are the best:) so fun to try and get the perfect one. As the kids have gotten a bit older, they love to send funny family photos. Brings and extra smile to those who receive them 🙂 picture of the kids… never parents…. save them every year and love to look back at them! now that the kiddos are older…. 11 and 13… its much tougher to get that pic but i still do it .. no matter what! We do a photo card with the kids or a multi-picture card. I am usually rushing and waiting until the last minute to get them there by Christmas but hopefully this year will be different. 😉 I love hanging out all of the cards we get from some pretty ribbon and tiny clothespins and then I leave them up for a couple of months. It’s so hard to take them down when our friends and family’s faces bring so much cheer to our house. You know I have to tell you, I’m not a fan of the picture card. I can’t stand them up on my mantel and I do not like throwing pictures of my friends kids out! I prefer a traditional Christmas card. I think everyone’s kids are super cute but… Anyway, I guess I’m a little weird like that 😉 I like to send a picture card. I rarely do letters, mine either seem too braggy or too boring. I like to receive letters though. We send a photo card like these (only not so fabulous!). Every other year it seems my husband and I make it on the card, otherwise it’s just the 2 boys. I have made my Christmas cards for the last ten years or so…card stock and stamping and embellishments to boot. But this year I was thinking about the exact point that you made in your post…photos help connect, and I miss seeing my far-away people, too! I love getting their photos, so maybe I should send my own! always a card – sometimes a picture. I think that’s just because I am always the one taking photos so I am not usually in them! Need to make a better effort on that because I totally agree with you about the “just the kids” photos! I try to do a picture of my sons, and this year I may try to include the two dogs! And I have a couple of those card holders that I hang so I can display the cards we receive – I love to do this and so do my sons. My parents never did Christmas cards growing up so I’m having difficulty getting into the tradition. We’ve moved around a ton in our married life though and have loads of people I’d like to keep in touch with so we need to get with the program. oh i’ve been lazy for the past couple years. i’ve written a letter before. loved doing that. and just sending out regular christmas cards. LOVE the chance to win this giveaway! I rarely send out cards. I often will work on a letter or a picture, but then never get around to actually ordering or sending anything. Those MPIX cards are adorable! If I won this I would have no excuses! I generally capture a picture of my kids (2 sets of twins) and then attach it to a handmade card. Some years they are dressed all nice and prim and proper and some years they are making silly faces. I send what I snap — that’s really more honest than trying to pretend they are perfect little angels! We do a card with pictures and a letter! I saw an idea for doing a top 10 list instead of a letter. Although it’s December 5th and is it written? Nope :>) I usually send out cards with a photo of my two standard poodles. (Before he passed on to Rainbow heaven, my weim was in there as well. I like to come up with something different each year. But your comment about putting myself in has given me pause for thought. Maybe I will do something daring this year! Thanks for opportunity! Woops, didn’t realize I was supposed to leave a Christmas CARD tradition. Scrath that earlier comment. Here goes again! When we bought our 100-year old home nine years ago, a friend gave us a front porch swing as a housewarming gift. I took a picture of my boys on that swing for our Christmas card that year. I have done that every year since, and it’s so fun to see how the boys change and grow each year. This will be our 10th Christmas picture on the front porch swing. Our kids always get to open one present on Christmas Eve. And it’s always pajamas! After they open their pjs, they put them on. Then they leave milk and cookies with a note for Santa. Then my husband reads The Night Before Christmas (and I take pictures). Even though our oldest is 12 (going on 17!), we still keep the tradition! We send out a Christmas card every year – but no letter. I can never seem to get that together 🙂 My family never sent out Christmas cards but I always love getting them! I love seeing what long lost friends are up to and they make great decorations for the house! I love sending out Christmas cards! It’s one of my favorite things around Christmas! This would be perfect to win since I haven’t started ours yet We do whatever can get acomplished that year. Sometimes it is a picture card, sometimes a letter, sometimes we send it out by email. Thanks for the chance to win. I haven’t sent cards for a couple of years. I’ve been wanting to send them this year. Usually, we send a photo card printed at Walmart or Target. These mpix cards are gorgeous! I write a Christmas letter every year where I try to straddle the “aren’t my kids great” verbiage with the “this is really what happened this year” verbiage. It is a lot harder than it seems! We stopped doing pictures because it got expensive. Christmas cards are hit or miss from us, some years I get them out and some years I don’t, I wish I was more organized. I TOTALLY agree. Parents really should be in the picture. That’s what we send. Now that my boys are 17 and 18, I usually pick a family photo from some time during the year….thank you for the chance to win!! i am the one it is up to to decide if we do cards or not, what company, who to send to, photo or not, etc… all. me. yikes. so depending on my level of busy that season, we something do cards, sometimes we don’t. yet to see what will happen this year, but these cards would help for sure! I always send out a photo card with EVERYONE’S picture in it BUT I do love to receive photo cards with letters!!! I know it’s a lot of bragging, but I still love it LOL! Christmas cards are one of my favorite parts of the season : ) I send a photo of the kids every year. I think about sending a letter, but that hasn’t happened yet. We got a puppy this year. Do I include him in the picture this year???? I always send out a photo card, although I was a little sad this year our dog would just not cooperate…I laugh because I always set the camera up and take the pic. myself and I always wonder if the people who get them realize how much I’m really sweating in the photo?! lol !!! We usually do a family photo for our Christmas card in early December – my kids are teens and hate having their pictures taken so it’s always chaotic and loud with lots of complaining from the kids, LOL! But, it’s still always a fun tradition. Love sending a picture card. We have done that every year. Sometimes with us and a few without. I love picture cards! Letters are a bonus. I don’t love my picture taken, but I love us ( family!). i TOTALLY agree. parents really should be in the picture. 🙂 it’s a downer when they are not. 🙂 always. always. always send a picture card, and never a letter. 🙂 that’s how i like it…thank you for a chance to win!! Ever since my mom got divorced, we stopped doing christmas cards. I think at first she was embarrassed to send out one without him in it… and eventually we just lost track of sending one out. We always have to include the water in some way! We live along the shoreline and the water is a big part of our lives. But mid-shoot…we always ask “why are we doing this?!” as our dog can’t bear to be by the water without being in the water!! Makes for some good outtakes!! Since having kids it has been hit & miss on the Christmas cards…BOO! I love receiving them though & seeing families change & grow throughout the year! We always send about 100 cards – it is something my Mom always did, and it is so important to my husband -since he is originally from Prince Edward Island and still has extended family there, he wants to stay in touch. Even if it is just a brief note on a photo card of the kids. Okay Meg, you are right the adults should be in there too -and we sometimes are. So far this year I have a cute photo of the kids picked out, but don’t really have love for any of the family shots. Need some time with Blue Lily. i always send photo cards.. love the tradition 🙂 thanks for the giveaway! I haven’t quite figured out my “tradition.” I’ve tried a letter, pics of the kids, both, and have attempted a few family photos with us all in them this year. I at least got in the pictures this year. Before I had my daughter, I used to make my Christmas cards every year…yes by hand, all 150+ of them! One year I made the mistake of making them bigger than normal and had to pay extra shipping! Oops! So yeah, since we’ve had her we do pictures and letters….until last year, we just did pictures. And it’s looking that way again this year! Time people, time! 🙂 I always send a photo card and they always go in the mail at the very last minute. Sometimes just a day or two before Christmas! I figure better late than never. 🙂 No tradition. Usually a pic of the kids 😉 I always make homemade, from scratch, cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning. The smell of cinnamon baking in the oven on Christmas morning will always be our scent of Christmas. 😉 We feel the same about sending a family photo. This will be our 9th family photo Christmas card! Merry Christmas to you and your family! My tradition is to put a picture of the boys on it… you are right… I loeave my husband and I out : ( I will include us on the card this year. We usually write a letter summarizing our year and that goes along with the card… I need to get on the ball… running out of time! We send out a photo card each year. It’s usually one with just the kids but not always. It just depends on the photo and style of card. I do try to be in a picture from time to time so they know I was there and not just the photographer. Merry Christmas to you! We send a photo card of the entire family…so fun 🙂 we send a photo card each year…. it’s a great way to have distant relatives see how the kids have grown! I send a picture out every year (since we’ve had children)!!! This year I made them with our fall family photos & picmonkey! Pilsbury cinnamon rolls and chocolate milk on Christmas morning! We make decorations out of our Christmas cards from the previous year. Usually just a picture of the kids…..but this year you have inspired me to put a picture of the whole family!! Photo with our furbabies — hopefully soon it will be furbabies and real baby lol! I send a family photo with us all and a home made hand made card . It’s just the way I roll. Always about the details. it’s just me and my hound dog so i send a photo card of the 2 of us! its kinda fun and at least the dog is cute! I usually do a letter. My husband helps write it even. We either send a photo card with it or 1-2 4x6s. Our list of friends and family is close to 200 to send out. But, this year, it may end up being just the photo card route. I am running out of time! I love getting photos and letters from our friends and family. I manage to get cards in the mail almost every year… and that is so true about using a pic with the whole family in it – I am always tempted to just do the kids, but I always like seeing the ‘big people’ in the cards we receive. And since I haven’t even taken our Christmas card picture yet (waiting to finish a red and white quilt to use as the background!), maybe I will make sure we’re all in it. Anyway – fun giveaway! I’m so NOT squared away enough to write a letter to include with our Christmas cards. I wish I were. 🙂 We always send out cards though….I love doing that. I’ve ordered from Shutterfly in the past, but the last two years I’ve ordered via TinyPrints. Never heard of Mpx…will have to give it a try. I’m especially excited to send out our card this year because we just adopted our precious baby daughter and have our foster son (who we hope to adopt, too). Our family has grown from a family of 3 to 5 in two months! Super excited to share our family pic via our Christmas card. 🙂 My parents never sent out Christmas cards– too much work and not enough time! But, in my own family, I am trying to at least send a card with a photo each year– partly because I want to watch us grow and change over the years. (I always save at least 1 Christmas card for myself!) I always stress about my card. usually just the kids but have sent the whole family. in the end I always love it!!!! Well I don’t have a tradition with Christmas cards, but now that I have had a baby I would like to start one!:) We always send picture cards, and I haven’t been in one of them since my oldest was a baby! I’m going to change that this year though – thanks to you. 😉 I usually send cards with just the kids. Last year was with all of us. Good advice and perspective about including myself and my husband… Never thought of it that way. Too late for this year, already did the pics but I will remember that for next year! i gave up on cards last year Since getting married five years ago, I have made an effort to send out Christmas or New Years cards every year. They are always the Sams/Costco ones with a picture. Easy. However, every year when I go home to Austin for Christmas, the first thing I always do is read all the cards at my parent’s house. I love, love, love seeing everyone’s faces and seeing their creativity. This is only my second Christmas as a married woman, so we just started our tradition. We like to have a photo card that we send out, but this year I want our photo card to include information about our year, so it’s half-photo card / half-letter all rolled into one colorful, well-designed bundle I always sent picture cards every year. It’s the kids and I on our own now and I’d like to start again. We missed a few years 🙂 I ordered my cards from mpix.com TODAY! Really! But it was a picture of just our 3 girls, not with my husband and I. I tried, but the photographer that took our pictures in August still doesn’t have my files to me! Picture cards, every year, no letter. Really love your blog! I always send out a picture postcard of me and my dog, Jasper. I always have him dressed up real Christmasy and cute. Sometimes I get them out on time…sometimes they’re lucky if they get them by New Year’s. 🙂 I send out a card with multiple pictures every year that represent the last year. Sometimes I include a letter and sometimes I don’t. I love the concept of a family packet of letters and photos, but it would be difficult to get everyone in my family to go for that! 🙂 I always send cards. I make my cards and if I don’t send them out, family and friends squawk! I sometimes send a letter-depends on if it’s been a good year or a bad year. This last year wasn’t the best (we lost my Dad this past spring) so I will just wish everyone a bright and blessed new year. picture cards – of the kids I make goofy cards every year and you better believe I’m in the picture. I make my husband be in it too. Last year I even had Mr. T in my Christmas card picture posing with me & my family. We’re cool like that. I ordered our cards from Mpix and they came last week! Going through the Xmas card basket after school was one of my very favorite things growing up. When I got home from college for the holiday break, that was one of the first things I’d do. For years when I was single and childless, I was always happy to see my girlfriends “stay in the picture” with their families. So when I got to send MY first family card in 2010, you can bet my husband and I are in there. This year we’ll be combining a Xmas card with a birth announcement – twin boys arrived yesterday! xoxo I absolutely love receiving x-mas cards. After x-mas I cut the pictures out and put them in a scrapbook album. I have about 15 years worth of cards. I love to bring out the album each year and see all the families change and grow. We always send Christmas cards. Some years it is just the kids, some years the whole family – this year you inspired me to do a family card. I like to send out a family news letter with pics in it but it depends each year on the money! we usually do a flat card with a photo on each side (i try to make one side JUST the photo so people can keep it up all year without seeing Christmas-y stuff) and then a letter with it. My tradition is a picture card with a small note in it. I have done cards with my kids for 30 years, my husband and I have only been in a few of them, but now we put our kids grandkids and us on them, don’t want to stop the tradition, it’s so fun! I also use mpix, love them and hope I win this because I haven’t ordered yet and it would give me the incentive to get it done. I do not usually do Christmas cards, but since I got married I have been thinking maybe I should. I love the photo cards, but since we do not have children I thought it would be silly sending a photo card of two grown adults. Mine changes year to year. Sometimes it’s a Thanksgiving card, sometimes it’s Christmas, sometimes it’s New Years and sometimes it’s every other year. Depends on what all is going on and if I’ve got a picture to use. Sad, but true. 🙂 My card tradition is sad its only about every other year because I usually can’t get it together, but I will say I do love getting them from friends and family. I generally end up doing something in Feb or March 🙂 I’ve always sent a pic. Last few years I’ve done the letter. There’s nothing that makes me happier than getting my friends and families pics WITH a letter!!! So I decided to start writing one too. But I just don’t feel like I have it in me this year to do the letter:( And I still don’t have pix taken. Poo! I have sent out Christmas cards every year since I was 16, I’m now 38 years young. I start my search in October, I love, love, love it designing and playing around with the templates. I always have to bribe my kiddos to get through the photo session, who doesn’t? We save all the cards we get every year in a big basket that we occasionally look at through the year. It’s so fun to see babies become little boys and girls and then painfully trudge through the teenage years. The circle of life- all through Christmas cards. Eek! I need cards… we’re doing our pictures on Saturday and it’s a tight turnaround but I’m excited every year for it. I always try to do something fun and creative for our cards… they are sent all over the US to all our friends and family and I love sending them, and recieving them. I love happy mail! My tradition is to try my darndest to get around to it! Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s actually looking good this year!! We did a card the first year (or two) our now 6 year old was born and then just fell off the wagon. Christmas is one of the busiest seasons for our family biz, so it just never quite comes together…maybe one of these years we’ll get back with it! I usually send out a photo card–sometimes with all of us and sometimes just the kids. So far this year, nothing. I did start looking around at our pictures from the year to see if I even had one I could use of all of us. i had always sent out cards…sometimes with all of us and sometimes with just the kids. UNTIL i went back to school 3 years ago! 😉 i miss doing them and look forward to getting back to it once i’m finished! i use to send out cards, but haven’t in a couple of years. maybe i’ll win and send them out this year! I send Christmas photo cards to our friends and family. With all the phoo cards we get, I put them all on a binder ring and hang from a hook in our kitchen. Each day, we flip to a new card and pray for that person or family. We always do a card, every other year with more details (letter). We have the tradition of sending out a funny/creative card every year…..the problem is it gets harder and harder to think of something each year! Thanks to Facebook, the people on my Christmas card list see plenty of pics of me. Our Christmas card only has the kids on it and, again, thanks to social media and keeping in touch regularly with people, a letter isn’t necessary either. A couple years ago I started taking the photo cards I receive each year and hole punch them, then add a book ring. I take them out each christmas and add to it. Fun to see the changes each year I have wanted to do photo cards but never have gotten around to it! I always send cards. I handwrite the name(s) of the recipients inside and always include a personal note in each one. I am not a big fan of the computerized letter that gets sent to everyone, but do enjoy reading what friends have been up to over the past year. I keep the cards/letters from the previous year so I can read them prior to writing a note. I like photo cards, but agree with you that the person sending it should be in the picture!! Lots! Food and looking at Christmas lights!!! We send a family picture card. BUT I also really like doing something fun with the cards we receive. Growing up we put them all over our cabinets. This year we’ve adopted that tradition…I just love seeing all the faces of everyone we love. Makes me feel so thankful! I send cards every year (I try to get them with a snowman on it) without fail to everyone – most with a note written in each card. My husband thinks I single handedly keep the post office in business – but come on, who doesn’t love fun mail? 🙂 Oh, I always dream of sending out cards, but I never get it done. I LOVE getting them so I agree that my friends would love to get them from me too. 😉 WE do a picture card usually with just the kids, at least that’s the way its’ been since we quit doing professional photos at Christmas. This year I have a good pic of the family at the pumpkin patch that I’ll probably add to the card. If I don’t get cards out for Christmas we will do a New Year card or a Chinese New Year card for our travel group from our adoptions from China. We don’t do letters. I do cards….sometimes they get in the mailboxes towards new years, but I do them 🙂 I send a photo card with the whole family. And I send a TON of Christmas cards. My husband used to try to get me to narrow down the list because we spend a small fortune on postage, but now he just rolls his eyes and holds his tongue. It makes me SO HAPPY to get Christmas cards in the mail, so I just can’t help but send them out. And my one quirky thing is that I have to hand address all the envelopes – recipient and return address. No labels or printed envelopes – it seems so impersonal. I hand-write all the addresses and I list each member of the receiving family with the address, kids’ names too. hmmm…I just typed out this big comment and then it didnt post:( I wrote to say that Im always behind on sending out my own cards but I reuse the ones we’ve received from friends the previous year to make our gift tags for the coming year. I re-read them and we look at everyone’s pictures. Then I get out a paper punch, pick my spot on the card and punch away, making unique gift tags. Its nice to be able to use the old cards as opposed to just throwing them away. Im always lucky if I can get good old fashioned cards with handwritten messages inside passed out to our closest friends and family during the holidays. Its just something Im never on top of. I send a picture of the Whole family – our kids and grandkids and my husband and I. It goes out after Christmas because we take the picture when we are together at Christmas or New Years, whichever the case may be. I like the picture to be current! I LOVE getting picture cards from my friends at Christmas. We usually do a Photo card. No letter. This is the first we did only a picture of the kids. We ran out of time to try to get a decent one of the whole family. Maybe next year. I too believe your friends want to see a picture of your face. Its fun. I have heard great things about mpix but have yet to order any pics there. However, if I win, it might be worth the effort to try again at a whole family shot! 😉 We send a photo card (with a whole family picture!) and a kind of letter. We do “The Clark Family ABCs”. We list out the alphabet and think of something to say about us for each letter of the alphabet. It’s fun to put together, and kinda tricky sometimes. 🙂 Each year I wonder if people really enjoy getting it or not, but each year I have so many people tell me that they loved it and look forward to it each year. I love love love getting and sending Christmas cards! Unfortunately this year I am so so so behind. I don’t even have a picture of my family. Yikes! Gotta get on that! Might have to send a New Years card instead! Or an Easter card if I need more time! Haha! We always do a picture…usually just one of the kids. But I also love getting a regular ol fashioned christmas card too! I’d love these designs! We haven’t done our photo card yet…hint hint : ). I try to get the cards out by Christmas. Some times it ends up later. And sometimes I send Valentine’s Day cards. It depends on how organized I am! 🙂 This year, it’s Christmas! I take all the grandchildren’s photos (14 and counting) and put together a photo card for my mother to mail out – it is difficult getting them all in and there are more children to come ! A photo card with a list of quotes heard ’round our house during the past year. With three kids under 10, their quotes generally tell our story pretty clearly! I usually send out about 40 cards with a picture inside. But last year I didn’t do anything at all. And it felt great:) We are planning to get a family picture taken this week, so we’ll see if I make it into a card or not. Do people really still send cards…I know, I know!! I just don’t make the time for it. I really, really should!! Hanging my head in shame here… I haven’t done Christmas cards in YEARS in fact it has been 12 years b/c the last ones I did were when my oldest was born. I always take a picture to make one, but just never seem to do it. If I win this I would definitely surprise some people this year! I’m never in the picture I send but now you’ve got me rethinking it! i always send christmas cards…although this year it’s looking iffy since we haven’t taken a picture yet! aaahh. life is so busy! i love receiving christmas cards. we set them out in a basket so we can look all through them the whole christmas season. then when christmas is over, i cut around the photos and put just the photos all over my fridge, replacing last year’s pictures. 🙂 If a baby comes with it, I am going to mpix right now!!! We send cards…just a pic. We throw all the cards we get into a bowl and at dinner we pull one out and pray for that family. My kids love this tradition and it’s a reason to hang on to all the cards. I never knew what to do with them until we started this tradition. LOVE mpix. Still need to order cards. Pick me! I send a photo card every year. This past year, we went to the Grand Canyon, and I had big, BIG plans for the photos that I’d take for this year’s card. Then I settled into my seat on the plane and remembered that my camera was on the front seat of the car back in the parking garage. My tradition is to think about the card for months…then finally order something a few days before (or after) Christmas and rush to send them out. i SO agree with your sentiments about the WHOLE family being a part of the picture! thanks for putting your thoughts out there… maybe people will listen to you 🙂 Those designs are all so beautiful! I always just send out a photo card, so winning this would be great! oh it’s so difficult for me to gather up my six kids in one place at one time and actually have them look decent enough for a photo!!! so far this year i have not taken the picture – i think we will have to meet at a halfway point between our home and the 2 colleges my kids are at over this weekend! ha ha funny about the 10 lbs!! I do that! I just can’t ever do a summer pic for cards… has to be winter!!!! I send a family photo card every year which now includes the kids and grands. It gets harder and harder every year to get everyone together! Next year there will be seven children under five…..oh dear! Going to my mailbox for cards is one of my favorite parts of December! I am one of those who does not like to be in front of the camera so we send a photo of the kids. The past few years my husband has chosen the card design and he has done a good job of it!.when I had 2 and then 4 kids I would mail them Dec. 1st after spending Thanksgiving weekend taking/or choosing a photo and addressing envelopes. Lately it seems we mail,them out the week of In the past, I usually send out a family picture but last year I didn’t like the way I looked so I just sent one of my boys. That might be the case again this year too if I”m have a bad hair day again. I’ve sent cards one year the first year we had a baby and have failed ever since I always have good intentions and this year would be perfect since we now have two four legged family members and our family is complete, feeling a little guilty now.lol Since my two oldest children were 4 and 2 I have sent picture Christmas cards. I love going back and looking at how they’ve grown (23 and 21 now). But now I take the picture of my children, my son-in-law and my two granddaughters. I never get in the pictures. We’ll have to see about changing that next year. I used to be really, really good at sending cards but now I’m lucky if I even get our annual calendar done (presents for aunts, uncles and grandparents). I’ve really been meaning to try this year. Honest. My sweet husband has done our Christmas letter as long as we have been married. He tells a little about the whole year and includes pictures. I love that all of them tell our life story! So fun. We did add an actual photograph a few years back too. We have a family tradition of always getting a cocoa or coffee (for the parents)and going for a ride to look at Christmas lights. We play Christmas songs,and our kids almost always fall asleep! It’s very sweet! I totally agree, I want to see my sweet friends’ faces!! You are preachin’ to the choir. I try to take a fun pic family pic every year…think this year it’s going to be us holding mustache’s up to ourselves and the quote will say, “We whisker you a merry Christmas!”. We send a family photo with a letter. But we only get it done about every other year. I’m not always that organized! And you’re right about getting in the picture. My husband hates getting pics with only people’s kids in it. So we sure won’t do it to anyone else…even though our kids are way cuter than we are. I totally STINK at cards!! Like, really, really bad 🙁 In 12 years of marriage… I think I did it ONCE. Isn’t that awful??? But, this year, we were on it. We took a photo over the weekend and I’m ALL set. I was planning on using mpix, so this would be GREAT! We send cards and photos of the kiddos, they are much cuter ;0) I know, I know, I always hated just seeing friends’ kids – but now that we have kids – we do the same thing!!! I can’t get it all together to look decent for a photo too – ugh!!! So pathetic, I know!!! We send the kids picture 😉 they are much cuter than we are.. We send photo cards. Every night at dinner during the holiday season, we open the Christmas card s we received that day. We do a newsletter and this year will be our tenth edition. i always send a card with a picture of my girls… the last several years i have used individual pics of them… i’m excited this year because i had their pictures taken together for the first time professionally since they were 2 and 6… they’re now 6 and 10… merry christmas to you and your family! We try to do a photo card, sometimes we do a 4×6 photo inside a card, sometimes we do a letter & photo & card. I think the separate photo allows the receiver to keep it out past the holidays or even frame it if they want to. We do send photo cards. I have wondered if it was time to stop that yet, but Gregg (usually Mr. Thrifty) says, “No.” So we choose the photo from all the ones we took during the year, and then they are printed at Costco. I have a system for labels, and this year, I listed our “Top Moments of 2012” rather than writing a letter. We started sending out Christmas cards the 2nd year we were married. we send a photo card with a family photo. And yes, we all are in it, not just the gorgeous toddler. I used mpix this year for my Christmas cards, and just received them yesterday. They look AMAZING! I am so happy with them! AND they were way cheaper (even without a coupon) than the company I used last year. AND the quality was WAY better. Win-win! I love digital scrapbooking, so I uploaded my own 4×8 design. I could not be happier with them! I am in the pictures. 🙂 I agree with you – I want to see my friends, not just my friends’ kids. Our Christmas card tradition is spotty, to say the least. Some years I get them out, others I don’t. It all comes down to getting a photo in time. Now that my kids are older, they want a say in which photo we use and do they ever agree on it?? NO. And like you said, I send a photo of the kids, no parents. But you are so right, I enjoy the ones with the grown-ups more because I miss them! This year we are behind already so maybe I can get a photo of all 4 of us. Thanks! I am one to send a picture of just the kiddos, but I have been inspired to jump in front of the camera this year 🙂 We always send a photo card of our children. My husband & I are included in the family photo about every third year, along w/ a letter. We usually send out photo cards but haven’t gotten around to sending them the past two years. Maybe this is the encouragement we need to get it done! We send a card and a letter. But if I don’t get on it I won’t be sending anything. 🙂 Some years I send them and some years I don’t….what a terribly inconsistent “tradition”, huh? I hope to send a picture Christmas card this year…..and I am a HUGE Mpix fan!!!!!!!!! I’ve been working on a card on their site since the last post that you included them in! They’re so great. I can’t decide on just one. I usually do a photo card with no letter. But I am feeling lazy this year so it might be just a regular card:) I send a card and a letter, and I make the hubs and I smile too! I love to see my friends, so it is important we are in the picture too! I keep them every year, and I figure when I’m like 80, it will be fun to look back at them;-) I love sending Christmas cards, I always, always have. I use to have a Christmas card signing party the night before Thanksgiving, where I would invite my girlfriends over and we would all work on our cards. I would pull out all of Christmas stamps, and bags of confetti. We would listen to Christmas music and eat fudge and drink egg-nog. The goal was to start working on your cards so that you would finish them over the long weekend and mail them out December 1st. I always loved this tradition. As the years have gone by, it has been harder to keep the tradition, but I still love the act of mailing cards, and I try to write something in every single card. I broke down this year and featured the whole family in the photo and not just the cute 10 year old. In these days of FaceBook only greetings, I so want to keep the tradition alive. Sending out Christmas cards is honestly my favorite tradition of the year! Biggest stress? Getting a good enough (for me!) photo!! 🙂 I have totally gotten out of the habit of sending cards but I REALLY want to again! Photo christmas card with all of us on it. I gave up on a letter yeeeeeaaaarssss ago! It’s enough of a challenge just to get the photo cards done. Still working on it…. i don’t have a tradition, but would love to start one! my hubs and i are expecting our first little one, so i know that i really need to start this tradition now! I’m terrible at sending out cards. We never get our family pictures done in time. Those are some really cute designs! Never used to send Christmas cards but we had a baby last year and that changes everything doesn’t it? I like your advice about getting out from behind the camera… I would love if we get some cards this year where we can actually see our friends instead of just their kids… So I will follow that advice too! My husband and I started our family very early in our relationship. Because of this, we’ve always made it a priority to carve out time for ourselves to keep our marriage healthy. Something we’ve done ever since our little ones were born was to open our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve. We light candles, play music, and exchange gifts. It’s a sweet time that we both enjoy. Then, Christmas morning arrives and we have crazy fun opening family gifts!! We always send a picture of all the kids, but never include my husband or I! I think you are right we need to change it up this year and make sure we include ourselves in the picture! We love to send out a family photo but it’s getting really hard with kids getting married and moving away…this year it might just be a pic of the house with a “Merry Christmas from our home to yours” We usually send a photo card that has the nicest picture from the year of our family and then individual pictures of our 3 kids. (We’ve never had professional pictures done so we just choose whatever pictures we think capture our kids and us the best from that year…the closest “professional” picture we’ve had done of our family was one that our mutual friend Jess took of us during last summer’s vacation to the coast of Maine…have you ever been there? you should, and stop by to take our first ever professional pictures!) 🙂 This year we’ll just send a card and a picture of our family, unless of course I win these lovely mpix cards. 😉 Merry Christmas! Sadly, I only sent them out when I was single and my cards included a pic of my dog. One year she was dressed as Santa. Another she was tangled in sparkly garland. Each year she had a ‘SAVE ME!!!’ look on her face. Now that I’m married and have kids, I’ve had intentions of sending cards with pics of our little family, but have never done it. Each year, we sent a Christmas card that is either a photo card or has a photo in addition to the card. A few years ago, we also started writing a family letter to send with the card and photo. I use to send cards with pictures of each kid, now I am lucky if I get the cards out. Would love to do picture cards as I have never done them, and everyone is… I love to send out photo cards – I get coordinating outfits and wrangle a friend to take our picture. I haven’t yet done it yet though….. I have been including a picture of my kids’ visit with Santa with our cards every year. Every year they look that much bigger sitting on his lap! In the UK, most people buy packs of charity Christmas cards where a percentage of the sale of the cards goes to a particular charity. I have never seen American-style family photo-cards here; when we were little we used to get some from American family friends and we thought they were really funny! I only send Christmas cards to family and friends that live far away, not to people we see all the time, and I prefer to buy cards that celebrate Jesus and God’s love for His world. We hang all our cards up and then cut them up for gift tags and decorations for the following year. I love them! Christmas card and letter, lots of work but so worth it 😉 Well I use to do pictures of each child with a card and all, now it is just a card I never have time for a picture and it just all gets away from me… ugh would love to will and do acctually picture cards, as have never done them. Yes I always send cards. Sometimes my husband forces me to. Sometimes I feel it, sometimes I don’t. And I hate when he makes me feel guilty for not sending one. So I force myself, I guess. And you’re right about the whole “who are these kids?!?!?!?” thing. *sigh* I always send a picture card! I love them! & now that we have our little Oliver (he is 9 months old) I am SO excited to send out our card this year! He has stolen my heart 🙂 Happy holidays! My Christmas card tradition is…nonexistent 🙁 Ever since my twins were born (my 3rd and 4th kids), I’ve never sent a holiday card. Life is so busy. This is JUST what I need to kick me back into the tradition! I love to take my own picture for the cards even though I get professional pictures taken every year, I think it makes them fun! I usually send out photo cards but I’m not sure what I’m going to do this year. I just had a baby a few day ago so I don’t have any current family pictures. Maybe, I’ll just send a picture of the babies. Everyone loves babies, right!? We just put our boys on our cards and we send out approx 75. I send to all the family, even if they do not ever send me a card. I think it is important. I picked out a few of the cards that you did as well, when I went through last week. We always make silly faces for our family christmas cards. The playfulness makes me happy and helps send the message to have a ‘merry christmas’. We’re hit and miss…a couple years ago we sent out a Valentine card instead of Christmas. 🙂 This year, we’re on after an impromptu family photo shoot on the bed! I always try to send out christmas photo cards, but I’m really bad about writing a letter. We usually do a photo card with our family in the pic dressed in holiday garb! It’s usually a stressful session, but we make it! I haven’t made mine yet, so would love to win! I send a picture each year – usually with EVERYONE – including the dog! Need to get on it for this year! Sometimes I send cards with no pictures…sometimes I don’t send anything. But this year I have already decided to do the picture card because we’ve never done one 🙂 we usually take our Christmas card picture in the summer while we are on vacation 🙂 Since having the kids, we send out a non-traditional pic of them. for our family card i get a bit more lax with each passing year it seems. however, the past 2 years i have made our card instead of having them printed. i usually include a letter but have not done that for a couple of years…i always feel like i type up the same ol thing! i might have to do a favorites list or something to that affect. the year i didn’t—> i was told by many that they missed it! just all really boils down to the time i have. 🙂 Some years we send and some we don’t. Only once have a done a picture one and I truly did love it, just never seemed to do it again. This year I just have cards to send. We usually do a kids only card…with all our friends on Facebook I feel no guilt for not putting us on there since we post on there all the time. 🙂 I used to make my own cards and send out a photo of my boys (last year was a family photo) This year, no homemade cards and maybe no photo! Unless I win some cards from mpix…. 🙂 I send out homemade Christmas cards and usually try to write a little note to that particular person. I figure between the blog and facebook, they know what’s going on with me, so I don’t send a letter. I send out cards with our family picture and usually include the dog’s picture too ! I used to write a letter and send it with all of the cards, now I send letters to just my great-aunts and a few cousins that we don’t see very often. I do enjoy getting letters and photo cards in the mail this time of year ! U are mean. I haven’t sent a card in maybe 4 years and before that, yep, just the kids. Dammit. I gotta get it done this weekend, guilt on my heart. People need this face in their lives, with lip gloss of course. ha! We try to get a card out every year with all of us in it. Still working on it for this year….thinking we may switch the card to a black and white so I don’t have to try to have everyones outfits color coordinated 🙂 When my boys were growing up, our family sent a letter & a snapshot but then they grew up (sniff, sniff) & a regular store bought card was what I sent but then … the grandchildren came (insert “Hallelujah Chorus”) & now we send a Christmas card (which I have always made at Walmart) with all their pics on it. You make a good point about including a pic of yourself along with the kids … I mean really, these days with all the pics on social media, everyone already knows I haven’t dropped those 10 lbs! 😉 We send out an ecard designed by my husband and iPhoto. 🙂 But I suppose, if I won, I could be coerced to send out an actual card! I send a traditional card with a picture collage in it. I send a Christmas picture and a letter and every year it stresses me out, but it is always worth it. I have never done Christmas cards, but would love to start! I try to send a card. Try being the key word here. I like to include a picture because I like getting pictures! Busy years, my Christmas card becomes a Happy New Year card. :/ I have the desire to send cards, but it never gets done. I mail out two and hand deliver the rest. Mostly because I wait until the week before Christmas to even start thinking about cards. I always have good intentions to send out Christmas cards but usually get too busy. This year I’m determined to do it. I want to do a picture card with my boys and I. Two dogs, a horse, and me…that should be a fun photo shoot! 😉 Usually, we shop the day after Christmas for next years cards…Papyrus. But, this year, we have a new little guy that I can’t wait to send out Christmas picture cards! Yippeee!!!!!!!!!! and so much easier. Last year I loaded our entire address book into the computer and now have labels to make things even speedier! Super fun! I meant “Kramer’s”. Anyway you get the gist. I always send cards! I love getting them and sending them!! I usually send picture cards! These are all very sweet. However. Am I the only one who cringes at “Jensen’s” or “McGregor’s”?… Misused apostrophes are my pet peeve. It’s the editor in me I guess. Ok…we save all of the Christmas cards that we get from year to year. Then instead of using gift tags for the christmas presents, we cut the “picture” part of the card (unless it is a photo) and use that picture as the gift tag! Fun! GB I will this year, if I win! We used to do lovely letters. Now it’s a quick pic of the kids and a nice card. It makes me feel a little lazy. 😉 My Christmas cards must always have kind of glitter on them. I love it when I get this kind because glitter ends up everywhere and it looks so festive! i send out about 60 to 70 cards each year with a letter and picture. this year there will be two picture as one is a gag one…but it will be only of my kids – i am so NOT photogenic! ha! one year i was in it but that’s was the year we go pictures done but you never know….happy christmas to you! Yes, yes, yes! I agree with you that family and friends like to see the adults, too! 🙂 Even before we had a kid, my husband and I would send a photo card of the two of us to our family and friends. Our parents and grandparents ate it up. 🙂 Now it’s even more fun to have our cute son in the photo, too. The week before Christmas I dress up the kids in front of the tree. I then proceed to yell at them to smile and stop making goofy faces and please look at the camera. Ahhhhh, good times! I waffle (ha!) back and forth. My ideal is to get out cards WITH a family (all of us) picture in it AND a letter. But sometimes I don’t get ANYTHING done. But this year I’m determined to do it all! I always send out a photo card. Except I skipped last year. But this year is the first Christmas with our little girls so of course I had to get back on track. 🙂 We have no tradition! Was thinking of sending out a photo card this year though! My husband is an artist so I “commission” him to do our card each year. Some years it’s a simple illustration and one year he did a select few screenprints of the nativity story. We don’t send a pic of us with the card, but I hope to remedy that soon! With just two of us, our self-timed photos aren’t always the best…. 🙂 I send out a picture card every year. It usually has several photos on it, collage style. I include pics of our family, just the girls, etc. This year I couldn’t find a.single.picture. of our whole family. Not one. That must be rectified. As soon as hubby returns from Honduras (putting in a well) we will go get professional family photos done. So, the card this year is a collage of our vacation to the Florida coast – with *warmest* wishes for a Merry Christmas! I LOVE giving and receiving photo cards like these! They are not so expensive and that means a lot to us since my husband is going to dental school. We always make Christmas cookies! No real traditions at our house yet but since our little one is almost 2, I feel like next year will be a whole new story once he figures out what the holiday is all about! My Christmas card tradition is to wait too long to get started on them and then to frantically get them done in time. Haha. I’m one of those who just uses pics of my kids though. We make ornaments with old one’s that come in, including pictures of friends and family. We’ve sent them out before, but it’s been a few years. This year is a new year. We’re sending them again! I usually send out a christmas card with a photo of the entire family – but this year we might just be sending out an e-card, to save paper and postage! Seriously this is what happens every year- Get super motivated in like October, pick out paper, try to make them in November, forget, go hard, miss my December 5th deadline (self imposed), not like the cards, try to find last minute store bought cards that perfectly convey the message of Christ without being too overwhelming, find the box of unsent cards the next October. 🙂 Christmas cards are the one tradition we DON’T have. Every year is riddled with good intentions to get the cards ordered but it’s never happened. Now that our family is complete (newest addition born in June) – I NEED to make it happen this year! I send a picture card every year – except one year where I got the cards done, but never mailed them. Oops! I try my best to get them done by early December, but that rarely happens – usually by the 20th they are all in the mail. Thanks for the chance to win cards from mpix. I love mpix! Love mpix! I’ve totally been eyeing the round cards too! I have good intentions of sending cards, but some years time gets away from me. Like this year. Is it really 3 weeks until Christmas? Sometimes I send Happy New year cards if I miss Christmas. Those cards are amazing!!! Thanks for the chance to win. I always do a picture of the kids for Christmas….maybe this year my husband and I will squeeze in the photo :)! Oh yay! Thank you for the opportunity! Normally we take a picture on Thanksgiving to put on our card. This year we didn’t get it done. I have no idea what will end up on them this year. usually just a picture, but this year we moved and so I’m actually considering writing a letter to update people on life. we’ll see if I get that done! I used to be good about sending picture cards that my husband would format and print for our families… but since our separation, everything has been so out of whack. And I’m not good at formatting. At all. This year I have been REALLY BAD about taking candid photos of me and the boys, but I really want to send a one page letter with a note from me and the 8 y/o, and then maybe a super cute drawing from my 4 y/o. Your tradition of writing about a fun story from this year is excellent. Thanks! I have been very random with getting out christmas cards in the past, but i just got married in august and want to muster up the effort to get out a picture card this year! I’m the same about wanting a FULL family shot from friends and family! I always send out cards. Lately, they have been picture cards with just the kids. My tradition is that I am notoriously late getting and sending my cards! I have sent them as late as Christmas Eve. I still haven’t taken the picture yet! Egads! I have no tradition…but I’m trying REALLY hard to do it this year!!! Well, this is only my second Christmas as a married woman, so I haven’t really figured out a tradition for myself yet. Though I definitely want to send out something this year! But my family loved getting cards and pictures – after Christmas was over, we would collect them all in a basket and each night each of us girls (there are five of us) would pick out a card and pray for that family. It was a beautiful way to finish off the Christmas season. 🙂 We always send a card… picture card. I would never get them out if I wrote a letter too. I am about to order mine from Mpix! Mom always used to send a letter and pictures (the best was the year that she included what we wanted to be when we grew up… and my sister said, “A race car driver with Colin (our brother) in the backseat waving a flag!” Priceless. Typically a photo card, but sometimes I go with an old fashioned hand I do the picture thing for our cards. Simple works best for me, or no cards would ever go out! My goal is always to do a picture and a letter. Some years, just the picture has happened. Hoping to do both this year! I love the idea of the family letter thing! Usually I send a picture of all of us. And I try to get them out by December 1st but this year I didn’t get any ordered 🙁 thanks for the giveaway! We send photo cards every year so everyone can see how much our family has changed!!! we send out copies of vintage postcards! (and a photo of the kids to relatives!) I send cards every year and I LOVE getting them. I leave them up most of the year so I can revisit them. So much fun. I LOVE getting mail and this feeds right into this! I usually send a photo card of the kids. Photo card and letter. I keep thinking I’m not going to do the letter, but I love it when I receive letters so the tradition goes on! Love your family packet idea We almost always send a Christmas card with pics of our family. Jim and Shirley Goering got us onto writing Christmas letters. But we include lots of photos on the letter. We send out to about 60 families I think. We always try to send a picture card of the three boys, since we live so far from family I’m gonna start that Christmas Card giving this year! So excited!! 🙂 I love to send cards with a picture…but we moved right before Thanksgiving last year and I didn’t send out any cards in 2011. This year I’d love to send out a photo-card that shows our family by our fireplace and decorated mantel. I love receiving cards/pictures/letters, too. It’s so fun to see & read what family & friends have been up to over the year! Merry Christmas and God Bless! Susan A. Wow! I love these cards, especially the color combos. I’ve never heard of MPix. I typically order from Shutterfly. I really like the photo you chose, and would probably select the same for our photo this year. I have framed photos of my cards, from the last tree years, on my desk at work. We’ve been sending Christmas cards for years. To receive them, you really have to send them. 🙂 We usually try to come up with something unique for our picture (one year my baby daughter looked like she was hanging inside a stocking with us standing beside her by the fire – my husband is a graphic artist!) This year I have no ideas, and with things being tight, I’d love to win this give away! I send Christmas cards. I am always late when it comes to wanting to do the picture cards like the ones from MPIX.com. I would love to be able to do that this year! It is an awesome giveaway. Thank you both! Merry Christmas!! Bwah ha ha! Christmas cards? Most days I can’t pull it together enough to take a shower. Christmas cards are out of the picture. (Although, if I won, I most certainly would take a shower and a picture of me with the hubs and the kiddos!) The only year we’ve sent out Christmas cards was the year we lived in Hawaii and we kinda wanted to rub it in everyone’s face by sending them a card with a Hawaiian postmark. We’re thoughtful like that. We send a picture. . all of 5 kids and me and hubby. . I agree with you, your friends want to see you too. We also send one of those typed letter. . we try to keep it short and we think interesting. One year we simply did a list where we each shared our favorite things from the year. One year we each filled in the blanks: thankful for _______. dreams of ________. and will always remember from 2012_________. I also write a handwriteen sentence or 2 to my loved ones. . to make it more special. I did a whole post on that. . on how to make sure you Christmas card is their favorite if you want to check it out: If there is one thing I’m a bit obsessive over at Christmas time, it’s my cards! I always have a deadline in my head, they have to go out by a certain date! A December mailbox is such a happy mailbox, isn’t it? I used to send a Christmas card to my grandparents every year as a child! Nowadays, I usually send a card to a friend who lives in another city. Merry Christmas! I tend to send cards to those we don’t see on a normal basis but I’ve gotten lazy. Now that we’ve moved- this would be a great way to start sending them again! I send a picture of my son most years. Just a candid from vacation or sometime throughout the year. I may be on the card this year since we had professional pictures done. i stopped sending Christmas cards a few years ago so we could use that money towards Advent Conspiracy (www.adventsonspiracy.org. but we live in boston and our family is spread out all over the country. it would be wonderful to send them again…with a pic of coarse! We love to dig out the Christmas movies and watch one a night until Christmas. I try to buy a new one every year. I just usually send a card…last few years have not even got that done. All the designs make me happy. Merry Christmas! well i kind of just disappeared. my week just sucked the life out of me. then she went in for her real cast after she had been so sick.
but it will pass… it's temporary.
i focused on my husband for the evening and surprised him with pumpkin pie with homemade pie crust. teenagers can be hard and emotional and confusing…but still wonderful. and that is HARD to deal with day in and day out.
all week what kept me going…kept me from crawling under my covers, drawing the blinds and crying was "saturday is coming".
my girlfriends and i ran the Jingle Bell Run again this year.
and when we run a race we have a tradition of starbucks and massage afterward. oh mama. going for massage is one of the best ways to spend some time.
time away with friends is refreshing. it makes weeks like this feel okay. 🙂
ok…… winner for the MPIX.com canvas: Nanette said…
Right now it is a picture of my 3 boys on the 4th of July…from 2 years ago when my youngest still had rolls of baby fat under his navy blue shortalls…all waving flags, smiling and hugging. It has been front and center on my entry way table for the last few years and always makes me smile and remember how fast they grow!
and the TWO winners for the Lisa Leonard gift certificates: Melissa Hermon said…
My mom's wedding ring. She passed away 11 yrs ago and it is such a great reminder of her. AND Naomi said…
My most meaningful piece of jewellery is a necklace my parents gave me, with my grandfather's nickname for me stamped on to it. ————————————————————————- email me your info and i will hook you up with your prizes!!
Happy Monday…sending you sunshine!! Have a fun week!!! There is NOTHING like seeing your kids suffer. My kiddos have been I missed running this year’s run, good times for a good cause. Did you have a burger? Sending prayers Annie’s way. oh my lands. bless your heart. you’ve had a week. thanks for sharing…good to know i’m not alone. being a mom is way harder than i ever dreamt…so good and so hard. so glad you got your fun saturday. 🙂 we are all living such similar lives!!!!! So sorry for your tough days lately. You’re a great mom, wife, and friend! 🙂 I hear you sister. Thanks for being real! I wish you a fabulous and easy week this week. Hugs! -tracy I’m right there with ya, Momma. My husband (my biggest child) had knee surgery last Wednesday, so he was home the rest of that week. Exhausting. I had to watch my wedding video once more to verify that I DID say “in sickness and in health”, because by Friday…I was at the end of my rope, let’s say. Hey, I often feel like crawling under the covers and crying, without broken bones or flu in the house. And sometimes I do. Poor Annie….poor Mama. And I can walk an easy 6 miles on a good day but run 4 miles!?!? not happening. Good for you! Look forward to getting out of the cast -and hey! Christmas is just around he corner. bless your heart…us mommas. Oh it’s so good to hear you say that about teenagers and junior high kids. I’m telling you it is HARD. Makes me miss those babies! Oh Meg, so sorry to hear of your hard week. If I know one thing though, it’s that you are an AMAZING mom (and woman in general). When I was younger, I had to witness my older brother and sister both make some terrible life choices and costly mistakes, and we didn’t have parents that were involved or really step up to guide us. And you know what? It all worked out. They turned into AWESOME adults. So knowing the kind of mother you are, your kids are going to grow into amazing adults too. I just know it. How can they not? It’ll all come full circle and they’ll come around, eventually. Chin up, girlfriend. Hugs! i have been thinking of you …. and your family… and the struggles that we all face as mom, wife, friend, daughter, and sister…hoping that your routine returns and life settles down….prayers and good thoughts your way…xo Oh Meg so sorry for the crazies of this last week. I totally get it. One thing I have learned as a mom of a few more years under my belt 😉 than you is that there’s one word that helps me. It’s Surrender, which means God has my children in His perfect place and His perfect timing. It’s really not up to me to make their life happen. I can’t follow them everywhere all the time (which I know is the way we want so badly to be) or help them always make decisions, especially those really hard ones like who their friends are, where they will go to school, what stupid things they will do and all I have to remember is pray, pray, pray for them. Don’t ever forget there’s real power in your prayers and after the praying, it’s surrending to our Almighty God. Not easy to do, but it’s what we are supposed to do. Hope this helps a little bit. xoxo So sorry you had a rough week. Nice that you were able to have an enjoyable times with your friends. 🙂 Hope you have a better week this week! The Jingle Bell Run looks awesome. Your outfits were too cute. Glad your weekend was a good one. Sounds like you had a tough week before. Poor Annie, I broke my left arm twice (once roller skating, once ice skating)when I was little. When I was taken into surgery to have my arm pinned they realized that both bones had broken through the skin, so they could not pin it. I also passed out when they took the cast off, which totally freaked out my poor mom as well! Hang in there it will get better and will be off before you know it! fitting that tonight’s advent is “hope” and we know who are hope is in 🙂 teenagers can be hard and emotional and confusing…but still wonderful. I’m so sorry about Annie. Medical stuff is so stressful, especially with our babies. Poor Annie, that is just not fair. My son broke his last Summer and missed out on so many fun things, my heart just broke for him. I hope she can keep her spirits up until the cast come off. In awe of the race by the way, any sort of running in general would make me keel over! yucky week 🙁 but what FUN race pics!! i had a goal to train for a 1/2 marathon after each of my kids…that’s my motivation to lose the weight. your pics make me excited to race again after i have this baby in april. so much to race with friends!! hope this week is waaaay better 🙂 Megan, my 20 month old broke his leg this year and was in a full leg cast for 6 weeks, then he got a vomiting and diarrhoea bug. Talk about HARD! So I know exactly what your week has been like. No wonder you made Pumpkin pie… I love the idea of a Christmas fun run, if only I could get motivated to run. We are currently in a heat wave here in Aussie so I think ill be sticking inside under the air conditioner. Take care. xxx Snuggling with honey and loving on your kids. Far more important time than blog time. Meg, I wish I had all the answers so I could share with you (and write and book and make a fortune!). haha With the faith in God that you share here, I know you are doing the very best you can for your kids, and they will come out just fine. At least, that is what I count on with my kids 🙂 Oh I feel you. I have a broken right foot (which means no driving) and my Sweet Man had the flu and now both my boys do too. And I had a craft fair in the middle. What a week. Praying Annie feels better soon and that you get some peace and rest. You are not going to screw up your kiddos. Just keep on keepin on 🙂 I work in a Middle School so I feel your pain a little. i am a huge fan of Lisa Leonard….her jewelry and HER. you should be adding something to your christmas wish list OR checking off your gifts-to-give in lisa's shop!
and that ring? i would love to have that right next to my wedding ring.
i am loving the glass charms to mark your glass.
i am sure people are asking you "what do you want for christmas?" or find the perfect thing for your sister, mother, grandmother. go together with your siblings and get a necklace for your mom with all the grandkids names! give your friend a bracelet that says "LOVE" because you love her. and i going to make all that really easy for TWO of you today… i am giving away TWO $100 gift cards to Lisa's shop!!! seriously. leave a comment today telling me about the most meaningful piece of jewelry you own. i will pick the winner on saturday!! contest closed.
Wow! This blog looks exactly like my old one! It’s on I got a necklace with my families names on it from Lisa Lenard but it was before my second baby. I need an updated one for sure! I would love to win a giftcard. I sing ‘you are my sunshine’ to my girls and have since they were born 8 & 6 yrs ago and would live to give them the necklaces to always remember our special bond. my grandmother’s engagement ring! it’s from the 20’s and is so super detailed. it fits my very small fingers- bonus! I see the style coming back. she actually gave it to me while she was still living so it was even more special because she could see the joy I had receiving it! My great-grandmother’s wedding ring. I am named after her. It is just a simple gold band with a little “clump” of gold melted on the front. Kind of primitive and a little bent probably from all the hard work she did with her hands. I cherish it and wish I had known her. my engagement ring. we’ve been married 10 years but I still love to look at the ring and remember the exciting time when he proposed. My purity ring I received from my parents in 8th grade when I was confirmed into our church 🙂 I only own one piece of jewelry – my wedding ring.. With everything going on, crafts let alone jewelry are not possible for us but her stuff is really dreamy. My most meaningful pieces of jewelry are: My most treasured pieces of jewelry are both of my Grandmothers wedding rings. Each year, our family draws names for Christmas . One year, my son, Bosston, drew my name. He kept telling me he wanted to buy me a diamond. Our budget that year was smaller, due to economy and such, so we allotted each person $5 to buy a gift for their person. Bosston was so excited to buy me a diamond. It’s actually a giant pearl. A piece of costume jewelry from the jewelry department at walmart. I love it. Mostly because he loves it so much. Every Sunday, I wear it to church. Every Sunday, he has to show any and everyone the “diamond” he bought for his mom!!!! A necklace gold chain necklace with little green hearts that my dad gave my mom when they were dating. 🙂 a diamond ring that was my husbands aunt’s…….. Definitely my wedding ring <3 Eeek!! LOVE Lisa Leonard! Love her site and blog!! My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding band! It reminds me every day of the promise my husband and I made to other seven years ago! I have a diamond ring that my husband bought me when HE graduated from physical therapy school. It was a Thank YOU for all the single parenting I did while he was in school. My wedding ring is of course the most meaningful to me. But I also love my granny’s pearl necklace. It’s not MY piece of jewelry (belongs to my mom- with three sisters, we have to share) but I wore it to prom and to my wedding and it will always be special to me. My wedding ring it says forever and ever….. My hubby had it made I love it and the inside it has our wedding date and our first date… I love love it…. You introduced me to Lisa Leonard and I love her! In fact, I just got a package from her today- something my sister and I ordered for my mom for Christmas. My most meaningful piece of jewelry I received from my Mema. It was a beautiful diamond necklace for when I graduated from high school. Anything from her is special and she was great at picking our jewelry 🙂 Besides my wedding ring, the pearl earrings my mom gave me on my wedding day. Oh and the cross necklace my son/hubby gave me the day we were baptized together. Which coincidentally was also Mother’s Day!, Actually I own two very meaningful pieces of jewelry! One is a small diamond ring that my grandfather gave me when I was 10 years old. It’s a little solitaire and I treasure it! Also, the year my father passed away, my mother had his wedding ring made into a necklace for me. It hangs sideways, with a bail on top that makes it an pendant. In the middle hangs a blue topaz, my father’s birthstone. I cried so hard when mom gave it to me! I have to say my wedding ring 🙂 My former girl’s minister gave me a necklace based off of Psalm 139 that she used to make us read each bible study. I love it. On it it says Cherished, Chosen, Celebrated, and Created. I love the reminder My favorite piece of jewelry are actually 2 bangle bracelets capped off with glass beads. I purchased them in Venice on the best vacation EVER!! Viva Italia! My wedding ring is my favorite, as my husband selected the stone and setting himself. I also have a necklace that says “be fully present” to remind me to enjoy the moments as God gives them. My most meaningful piece of jewelry *is* a Lisa Leonard necklace. I love it and it says “mama” on it. I wear it almost every day. My children finger it when they hug me and my little boy tells me it is *his* favorite piece of jewelry too. my great, great grandmothers wedding ring from the mid 1800’s. It has the most beautiful opals in it. After my grandma passed away, my aunt gave me a long gold necklace she had that had little R charms all around. Her name was Roberta, and since I have the only other R name in the family, it was given to me. I think of her every single time I wear it. In my early twenties, my brother took me to Egypt on a world trip. We met the most beautiful Egyptian man who had been his mentor when my brother was living in Egypt & learning Arabic. It was the first time I met him & before we left, he gave me the most gorgeous blue beaded necklace. I always treasure it. When he left my brother explained how little resource he had & how beautiful it was that he bought that for me. So.. that is mine… I always think of him & pray Gods blessing on him when I wear it… My favorite is a handstamped cuff with my kids names on it. Would look perfectly paired with the new charm bracelet 🙂 my most meaningful piece of jewellery is a charm bracelet I had when I was a little girl, it has a collection of charms from all over the place and has so many great memories to go with it! The most meaningful piece of jewelry I have is a handstamped cuff with my kids names on it. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is of course my wedding ring but after that a Tiffany and Co. bracelet my husband gave me as an anniversary present. 🙂 903 comments? two necklaces…each were given to me the days my daughters were born! I love wearing my grandmother’s jewelry. My Mom passed away a year and a half ago, my dad had died six months before her. I have her engagement and wedding rings, they are so so tiny, and they mean the world to me. I wore them on a chain around my neck when my daughter got married last May. Mom and Dad weren’t there that day, but they were with me. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. My family tree necklace is my second 😉 Besides my wedding ring… probably the necklace my sister in law gave me with the names of my kiddos. I love to have them hanging close to my heart! Besides my wedding ring…..it would be my father’s wedding band. I have worn it since the day of his funeral – 13 years ago. My mother gave it to me. Every time I glance at it, I can picture it on his hand. My mother gave me a gorgeous pearl bracelet when I graduate college and it makes me smile every time I wear it because it reminds me how much she loves me. A plastic pink diamond ring my little boy had to buy for me. Love it. I have a gold necklace, with a heart from my grandma and a ring everyone in my family got when my sister passed away. I wear it everyday! Besides my wedding ring, I cherish a black heart necklace, that was my moms. I have 2 very meaningful pieces of jewelry; my wedding ring and my grandmother’s ring. Of course I cherish my wedding ring but when my grandmother passed away she left me a ring that holds the stones from service pins from her 30+ years with the Kellogg Company from which she retired. I also work for the Kellogg Company, in which I love working for! This ring has two special significances for me 🙂 My most meaningful piece of jewelry is most certainly my wedding ring. I will never desire an “upgrade” or a “trade-in” as I’ll always want to have closest to me the first rings my hubby gave me when we got engaged and married! My wedding ring…and besides that a necklace my dad gave me many many valentines ago! I have a ring that my mom bought me while we were in Italy together. I LOVE it and the memories that we made together! Besides my wedding ring, it would be my grandmother’s sapphire ring. She used to let me wear it when I was little and she gave it to be a few Christmas’s before she died. I wear it on holidays and special occasions. My two Pandora braclets and all the charms that I have got for myself or from my boyfriend 🙂 My favorite piece of jewelry is a Lisa Leonard bracelet that had my wedding date engraved on the back of it. I loved it. But I lost it… I would replace it in a heartbeat! My engagement ring for sure! I would like to say my wedding ring is my most meaningful piece of jewelry. But it’s not. Although I do LOVE my wedding ring, I have a tiny little baby ring that means the world to me. My grandma swears up and down that it was mine when I was little, but my parents say it wasn’t, or that they don’t remember it anyway. It’s just a tarnished little gold colored ring with an N on it. [Another clue that it wasn’t actually mine, since my name does not start with an N]. She gave it to me a few years back and said, “I’ve held on to this for you for so long, it’s one of the only things I’ve been able to keep all this time, and I’m so glad you’re old enough to have it now.” I love my grandma, and even though I have no idea where she picked this ring up… I LOVE IT. I have a necklace with my 2 kids names hands stamped on it. I get compliments on it almost everyday. My wedding ring for sure! 10 yrs later I still love to stare at it 🙂 Would love to own a piece of LL jewelry. one of my favorites is my wedding ring ! then i would have to say my next is this sweet little gold heart charm necklace that my grandparents gave me when i was little. the most meaningful piece i own is the necklace my stepdad had made for my mother. when she could no longer wear it she gave it to me. i adored my stepfather. My wedding ring and a charm bracelet my husband gave me years ago.He has added charms to it for special occasions like the birth of our children, anniversaries etc. One is a necklace my uncle made from a tiger eye rock that he polished on a silver chain… and then you think i would say my wedding ring. But it is actually these seagreen austrian beads that I turned into earrings (and not fancy by any means… but I wear them all the time, with everything). And I think of my sweet brother who brought them back from Austria for me. My moms birthstone ring she wore at 17 or 18. A gold band that was either dad’s or grandpa’s and last but not least my own wedding band given to me twenty one years ago My mom’s birthstone ring that she was wearing in a picture of her at 17 or 18. My siser and I inherited two gold wedding bands the same width same size and one was dad’s and one was grandpas so we each got a golf band and don’t know whose was whose. And last but not least my own wedding ring. My wedding band and engagement ring would be my most meaningful. It symbolizes the love my husband and I share, along with the struggles we’ve overcome. It’s a symbol of strength and delicacy to me. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my sapphire ring. My fiance gave it to me before the engagement ring but it means so much more. It’s the first piece of jewelry he ever gave me and I wore it so much it had to be repaired twice that first year. Even thOugh it is something I never would have picked for myself it’s perfect and I will always love it! My husband gave me a ring with our family’s names/birthstones….I love love love it! A gold braclet my aunt in Germany gave me its the symbol of munich. She gave it for my 6th birthday that I celebrated over there. I own a sterling silver daisy necklace from Tiffany’s. It was pretty inexpensive for that store, but my husband really stretched our budget when he bought it right when we were out of college… but it’s most precious to me because I wore it through all three births. I pretty much wear it everyday for more than 8 years now. A cheap heart necklace that my son bought me from his school christmas store last year when he was in kindergarten. it probalby cost $5 but the look on his face when he gave me this precious gift he picked out was the best gift I could ever have received. I love how proud he is when I wear it. I love my grandmother’s wedding band (she got married in 1926). I love that it twists around my finger just like it did on hers. I love my Lisa Leanord itty bitty hearts necklace with my children’s initials. Would love to add some of her new gold jewelry to my collection! I used to own a beautiful pair of half a carat diamond earrings which were a gift from my grandma. She received them from my grandpa when she retired from teaching. I loved them and wore them all the time. I made sure to get them reset with screwbacks. It was a good idea, until one fell out of my ear on January 6th. I was devastated, heartbroken and just plain emotional, as I was also scheduled to return to work after being home for 4 months with my daughter. After some thought, I would have to say my high school class ring. My best friends mom gave her, her class ring the first month of our senior year. I thought that was the sweetest thing. My mom never graduated from high school so I never had the chance to have that same type of exchange. So at that point, I decided to make a tradition of my own, I worked 2 jobs while in high school to pay for my ring, It was the first thing of value I ever bought myself. Now that I am a mom, I can’t wait until my daughter turns 15 so I can give my ring to her. probably my wedding ring, not only because of the commitment and love it represents but my hubby choose it out himself so I love it that much more because it really represents him…and I LOVE him!:) My Lisa Leonard ring! It has our wedding date and child’s birth date engraved – I never take it off! I love rings …. all sorts of rings! So mine would be the gorgeous platinum diamond band thats my wedding ring and a goregous gold and coral ring that my 6 year son picked out for me that cost less than $15 but he thought i would love it and I do and everytime I wear it, he smiles xx My husband suprised me with a new wedding band on our 30th wedding anniversary. I have a silversmith that I LOVE and my husband and I had her make a (new) wedding band for me that has our initials on it. We took the original stones from my wedding ring and had them put on it. I LOVE this ring. It’s unique and screams my personality and I know no one else has one like it!!! That would be my wedding ring, along with two others. A cross necklace my husband had made for me years ago… in the middle of the cross is my birthstone, the top of the cross has his birthstone, and the other three parts of the cross each have the kid’s birthstones. It’s one of a kind! My wedding ring is tied with my grandma’s ring that grandpa gave her for their 23rd wedding anniversary Mine would be my wedding ring! OH my goodness………….the most precious piece of jewelry that I have besides my wedding ring is a pin my Dad gave to me one Christmas before he passed away. My older sister went shopping with him and together they picked out a different Christmas pin for each one of us (I have 3 sisters!)! But HE picked them……….she had suggested different items through the store but she said HE knew right away the pins were it! Mine is a cute little cat with a wreath around it’s neck and as I am thinking of it right now I am feeling a little teary! It is silver and I am 100% sure it did not cost a whole lot of money back then but to me it is priceless! He passed away 11 years ago and to every year I look forward to getting it out and pinning it on my coat or sweater. It looks old-timey but I don’t care because for some reason people always ask me about it, knowing that it looks old! I tell them it was a gift from the most wonderful man that I knew! MY DAD! Oh Christmas is just that time of year that is SO special! Thank you for letting us have so much fun reading your blog………….your kids have the same kind of childhood that I had and that my boys (I try) have, also! (When you have all boys they just don’t want to sit as much as what my sisters and I use to do for crafts, etc! LOL!) Have a BLESSED CHRISTMAS! My wedding ring, for sure! I have the ring that my grandfather gave to my grandmother for their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married for 60 years before she died. Beside my wedding ring, it would be my lisa leonard necklace with my boys names on it, love it!! Of course my most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring, cherish it for sure. But if I had to pick another it would be my grandfather’s wedding ring. Love it and cherish it as well! LOVE LISA LEONARD! My wedding set is my favorite. It means a lot because I had lost my first ring and my husband got on his knees when he presented me with my “new” ring and made it all so special! An opal ring from my grandmother! My Grandma had this pearl ring that she used to wear and the pearl would spin around (wasn’t supposed to do that). Anyway, I used to sit next to her and spin that pearl around and around. When I got a little older, she had the pearl fixed and replaced but gave me the ring (with the old pearl) I cherish it simply for the memories! my pink watch that my grandpa gave me on our last visit. besides my wedding ring, my favorite piece my necklace from Lisa Leonard. I have the rain or shine necklace, and I LOVE it! My daughter has wanted a necklace like it ever since she saw mine, and I would love to get her her very own. 🙂 My wedding ring! My wedding ring and my moms wedding band are my two most meaningful jewelry pieces. Also a pendant necklace that recited the 10 Commandments that my grandma gave me. It is so unique and special. Sorry…that’s 3. I can’t follow rules well – lol! Other than my wedding ring, I have an inexpensive Avon ring that was my husband’s grandmother’s. She was the coolest grandma ever and wearing it always reminds me of her and how I want to age as gracefully as she did. My engagement ring of course…but I do have a very sentimental piece that I will forever cherish. When my grandmother passed away I was given her 18k gold bangle bracelet that my grandfather had given to her. She wore it everyday and never took it off. It’s priceless! My wedding ring is the most special to me for sure! A close second is a necklace with my 3 girls’ initials on it (Q, R, S)! I have two: one is a silver moonstone ring my mother gave me. I was taken away from her when I was 15 and she gave it to me as a graduation gift. We were still on very rocky terms then, but that she thought of me made it special. The other is a butterfly necklace my husband got me. It is the first (and only) piece of jewelry that he has ever picked and purchased for me because he knows how picky I am. 🙂 My wedding ring is my most cherished piece of jewelry. A close second is the necklace with my three daughters names on it. I wear both pieces every single day. I LOVE Lisa Leonard. (I’m asking for the charm bracelet for Christmas!!) My wedding ring of course! Other than that I don’t have really any other special jewelry, except a few costume pieces. Maybe someday 🙂 My engagement ring. I can’t wear it anymore because we were so young, but I look at it every day! 🙂 LOVE Lisa Leonard! I send a *hint hint* link to my hubby at least once a month! My father would wear some amazing rings that had different stones on them. As a little girl I remember studying my father’s hands. Long lean fingers, but strong. Every time he would switch out a ring, I would ask what stone it was or if the ring had a story. I would ask to try it on. So big on my skinny little finger. One ring in particular was my favorite….A tiger’s eye stone surrounded in a gold band. Years later, my father gave me that ring remembering how much I admired it. Every time I wear it, it is a childhood memory that is treasured. Other than my wedding ring, it is an engagement solitaire ring that my son gave me when he was six for Christmas. He was so excited to give it to me. It came in a little red velvet box with a heart on it. He was so excited when he brought it home from school (bought at the student holiday shop for $3), telling my Mom and Sister about the ring he brought them to tears as he did me on Christmas morning. Love my Jack. I started charm bracelets for me and my girls when we lived in England. I colleted charms from every country we visited in Europe! And of course – my wedding ring 🙂 I love Lisa Leonard!!!!! I have a pair of earrings my grandmother gave me- at the opening of the mall when I was 10, I put my grandma’s name in the drawing and she WON!!! Diamond earrings! My most meaningful jewelry are my necklaces that my four year old son picks out for me for all of my birthdays. I have 3 now, and they are perfect. My husband takes him shopping to pick out a new piece of jewelry and he always has amazing taste. My engagement and wedding rings. 🙂 My mom’s wedding ring. She passed away 11 yrs ago and it is such a great reminder of her. Sadly, my most meaningful jewelry was stolen ~ my grandmother’s engagement ring. I hadn’t been wearing it because diamond was loose. I’d worn it for years and wish I’d gotten it repaired. Actually, twice in my adult life I’ve had my jewelry stolen so now I keep my best pieces in odd places. I think the most meaningful pieces are the ones that I no longer have…I thought I could not part with them as I loved them so much but they taught me that they are just things and the bonds of the people associated with them will always be just as strong with or without the piece of jewelry. Of coarse I adore my wedding ring. I also have the family tree piece by Lisa that I adore and wear almost everyday. Another piece that I love it the flower necklace by Allora Handmade. I have the turquoise one and it is one of my favs also. Jewelry is amazing!!! My mom died recently. My sister and I split her wedding rings, so I have the engagement ring and my sister has the wedding band. I wear it every day and treasure the value my parents placed on marriage. Each time I slip it on I am reminded of long suffering, sacrificial and deep love my parents had for each other and that I strive to share with my husband. The locket I wear that has a baby picture of my daughter on one side and her current picture on the other. A sweet reminder to make every moment count as life moves fast. Definitely my wedding band. My husband bought me a beautiful engagement ring that I loved staring at but when it came time to choose a wedding band I wanted it simple and not hidden under the engagement ring. It’s just a plain band, slightly wider than my engagement band, but it’s definitely the most meaningful piece I own. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a cross necklace from Mexico. My parents bought it for my grandma who didn’t wear much jewelry but she wore the necklace all the time. When she passed away I was given the necklace. I also don’t wear a lot of jewelry but that necklace makes me feel like my grandma is still around. The most precious piece of jewelery that I own is a beaded necklace made by my four year old over 25 years ago. I wear it at least three times a year since it was made by her when she was hospitalized as a wee one. She is now a hospice social worker specializing with sick and dying children and the necklace reminds me of the journey we shared together and how precious life truly is. My Lisa Leonard necklace with my son’s name was my most treasured piece of jewelry, but sadly I lost it. I got married a little over a month ago and my grandma, who is 89 let me borrow some of her diamonds… I wore a set of earrings with little flower clusters and a matching necklace. The next morning she told me the story of my grandpa giving her those on their first Christmas together, over 70 years ago! When she finished her story she had tears in her eyes and said that she was giving them to me! A few years before my grandmother passed in 1995, she gave me a leather lion king watch and I was over the moon for it! ( I was in elementary school) and I still have it in a keepsake box because it was first special piece of jewelry! Like most others… my wedding band holds a pretty high value to me! But aside from the obvious, I have a white gold necklace that my husband bought me before we were even dating in college! No one had ever done that, and he had taken my two little sisters and they picked out what they thought I’d love the most. It was such a sweet, thoughtful gesture and I will always cherish it! By far, my most meaningful piece of jewelry would be my wedding ring. After giving birth to both of my sons, my husband bought me a piece of jewelry with their birthstones on them and presented them to me at the hospital. I wear the necklace and ring nearly every day to remind me of two of the most special days of my life. My wedding ring is the most important piece of jewelry to me. It’s treasured so much! My wedding rings of course, but also my claddaugh necklace. Blessings, Tami I have a necklace with baby feet that I wore as I prayed for the child I would adopt (before I knew who he was!). He’s here now, and the necklace is a great reminder of God’s faithfulness! My engagement ring. It is extra special to me not just for the obvious reason, but because the diamond in it was my grandmother’s. My dad lost his sister when I was in college. For a special gift, he and my mom had her engagement ring reset and resized for me. Every time I wear it, I think of my aunt and how much she loved me. my wedding bands, of course!:) My mums wedding ring is my favourite. Unfortunately it doesn’t fit me as she had lovely fine fingers – maybe it’ll fit my daughter when she’s old enough!! Don’t you just love jewellery that can be passed on. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. I accidentally lost my first one (stupid story), but that summer a few terrible things happened to me and my husband lovingly let me pick me out another one that I adored even more. And after three children IT STILL FITS! Yahoo! There’s the obvious ~ my wedding ring. But after that there are two pieces that are tied. I have a mother’s ring with the birthstone of my children & my husband. I also have a necklace that my husband designed for me one year for Christmas when we weren’t supposed to be getting each other gifts. It’s beautiful and well thought out. My wedding rings, not because of their value or beauty, because of what they represent…. My most precious piece of jewelry is the first mother’s day present I got – a silver ring with a shell-shaped grouping of small diamonds on top. Inside it says “Mom” in filligree. My mother gave it to me, saying my then 11 month old daughter had picked it out all by herself. I don’t take it off. Lisa Leonard’s pieces are beautiful. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Lisa Leonard My late Nana’s engagement ring, it is too worn down now to wear as she never took it off her finger, I love that I have a piece of her with me. Loving the chance to win, Lisa’s work is divine my family tree necklace {by lisa} wowzers! super generous giveaway! absolutely love lisa’s work! I love her pieces and her story!! My husband bought me a piece last year for Christmas and I love it!! Oh, I love Lisa’s beautiful things too! My grandmother gave me a ring for my graduation and engagement that her mother-in-law (my great-grandmother) had given her. It is a beautiful old filigree piece and very precious to me. Absolutely my wedding ring. But I also have my late grandmother’s engagement ring, and that means the world to me. I wear it every day. The most meaningful jewelry I own, besides my wedding rings, is actually from Lisa! a $1 seashell ring my husband gave me when we were first dating. It’s broken now but I still keep it as a reminder of falling in love! Besides my wedding rings, when I was 10, my parents were divorced and decided to re-marry. They gave me and my other 3 sisters a little gold ring as a promise to us that we would stay together as a family. It’s way too small now to wear, but something I treasure to this day. Besides the obvious, my engagement ring and wedding band (family heirloom), I’d say this gorgeous string of Mikimoto pearls my husband totally surprised me with several years ago. He had wanted to get me some for awhile, unbeknownst to me, and got a bonus one April and decided to buy them. The night her presented them to me he was late getting home, I was so mad – boy did I feel stupid when he pulled out a blue bag and I opened the box! My sister in law and I were given matching sister necklaces by a friend of hers. We live far away from each other and we are experiencing some really difficult family situations….being able to wear my matching necklace when we are so far away makes me thankful for the gift given to each of us….. I have a red and white beaded necklace that was my grandmother’s from the 1930s. I never knew her so it feels special when I wear it close to my heart. It actually broke when I was wearing it at work one day. Luckily all the beads spilled down the front of my shirt. (I was huge and preggo at the time so I had AMPLE cleavage!) I’ve since restrung the necklace with “modern” stringing materials. One of my treasured favorites is a tiny diamond necklace I got on my honeymoon…such wonderful memories! My husband bought me two rings that stack. Each one has my girl’s birthstones and diamonds alternating. I wanted something special for me to pass down to each of them. Thank you for such a great giveaway! ~Jena My wedding ring, of course! i had a spoon ring that my mother bought for me when i was 13 years old…i wore it until my daughter turned 13 then it became hers, she now has a 9 month old baby girl that i hope one day will be as happy to receive that ring from her mother as i was to receive it from mine… While I treasure my wedding ring, the piece of jewelry that’s closest to my heart is a “necklace and earrings” my son made for me out of construction paper when he was 4. It’s a mess of paper and tape but I will have them till the day I die. I maybe should say my wedding set, but it’s actually a cheap chain with a bunch of charms that have a special meaning. I have a whale, a mickey mouse head with my initial, a hand with the sign language shape for “I love you”, the initials of my kids, and an angel wing because my husband has always called me “the princess of angels”. So there you have it! I don’t have any “serious” jewelry. I guess the one that is most meaningful would be a beaded necklace I got in San Francisco’s Chinatown. It brings back good memories of our family vacation. We didn’t have any real vacation in few years so I cherish those memories. I didn’t get a senior ring because my family couldn’t afford it at the time… the summer after I graduated my grandma had managed to save enough $ to buy me a white gold ring with a small diamond and sapphire for my ‘senior ring’ I can’t believe all of the things my grandma had to sacrifice in order to buy it for me because they just had enough $ to cover bills each month…. I graduated 11 years ago & still wear it today. It means the world to me. A sapphire ring that was my grandmothers– I wear it everyday. She bought it when she became a teacher with her first paycheck– now, I am a teacher and I wear it everyday to remind me of her and the lessons she taught me. A pin my son made for me in grade school. this summer i picked up a bright green necklace made up of big wooden beads and wooden PARROTS. it was from chinatown in bangkok and cost next to nothing but it has become the only piece of jewellery i consistently travel with. it’s always a conversation starter (i quickly learned how to say ‘parrot’ in hindi), and it makes me feel confident and happy 🙂 because bright green parrots, come on, that’s happy! A beaded necklace my grandmother gave me that was her mothers. It’s beautiful and makes me feel connected to both of them. My favorite piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. It’s beautiful and constantly reminds me that my husband loves me! My anniversary band. Through 16 years of marriage there have been a lot of highs and some very dramatic lows. It represents the covenant that we have worked very hard to maintain. The Claddagh ring my husband got for me when we were dating. Pretty special for its meaning and that he gave it to me when we were “kids”. Love Loyalty and Friendship!! A necklace given to me in the hospital by my birth daughter’s adoptive parents right after I handed them their daughter 🙂 my most meaningful piece of jewelry would have to be my engagement ring. it was my husband’s great-great aunt’s ring that was handed down to him. My favorite piece of jewelry is an amethyst and diamond necklace that used to be my grandma’s. My pearl earrings of course. They’re classic, eye-catching, and used to be my mother’s. Who doesn’t believe that jewelry that’s been passed down isn’t the most beautiful? My wedding ring! My wedding ring, I never take it off, it’s with me everyday. I’m very happily married. I love my Lisa Leonard family tree necklace!! Would love to win another piece! I have a necklace from Dillon Rodgers with both my girl’s names on it…wear it every.single.day. 🙂 Easy question….my wedding ring. 10 years this summer!!! We were married in August and he was deployed through the military the next month. The ring is all I had of him for one year……it is very dear to my heart. I have a ring with my son’s footprints…he only lived 6 hours so I love having a piece of him with me. <3 <3 Of course I love my engagement and wedding rings best. But next to those, I cherish a ring my Dad designed and had made for me when I was a teenager. It has his favorite color stone (rubies for red) and mine (sapphires for blue). I loved his creativity!! i have this teeny diamond solitaire necklace and earrings that were mine when I was a little girl. I have always kept them and look forward to giving them to my daughters someday soon. My wedding ring, it’s really the only jewelry I own, so I could definitely use this prize. 🙂 I love her jewelry, I’ve had a wishlist on her site for over a year, just waiting for my hubby to get me something. Maybe I’ll need to buy myself something in the end. 🙂 My Mikimoto pearl earrings. They were a splurge and I save up while in college and bought them for myself. I wore them to my wedding and every day occasions. I love those earrings! my wedding rings! i just ordered my first piece from her…it’s an ornament for my mother for Christmas and it’s beautiful! My grandmother’s watch and my wedding rings. Three things…my wedding band. It’s by James Avery and I love it. My diamond earrings from my husband’s grandmother. Each diamond is a great, great grandmother’s engagement ring. And my silver cuff my dad gave me. A cross bracelet that matches a necklace my mom wears. I love Lisa too, so creative!! My “God is Bigger” necklace – reminds me that through Him I can do all things. A ring I bought in Germany. I love it, and it brings back so many memories! Engagement/wedding ring of course is the most special, but I always smile when I wear the tiny silver elephant earrings my husband bought for me when he was deployed to Thailand and I jokingly told him to “bring me home an elephant!” I love Lisa too! I got to meet her at The Creative Connection, first year… she bought one of my Lollibag’s, very sweet lady. Everyone is saying wedding band and I do cherish mine also, but I’ll be different and say my Hawaiian bracelet. My hubby is born and raised in hawaii and it’s tradition to have a hawaiian bracelet and pass them down to your daughters. I only have one, but 3 daughters… but with the price of gold now, doubt I’ll be getting any more! Silly as it sounds my pearl necklace from my mother-in-law. I always admired her as a mother and the pearls just seem to be a symbol of being a classy mommy with her act together. After I found out I was pregnant with our first child, she said I didn’t need to borrow her necklace anymore but it was time to have my very own. My wedding ring, not only because it’s my wedding ring, but because it belonged to my husband’s grandma, and I feel so blessed to wear a part of his families memories! love my lisa leonard with the word: heal I love my lisa leonard necklace wuth the word: healed! I would love this!! my engagement ring is a sturdier copy of my great great grandmother’s ring. Hands down, my wedding ring is my favorite piece. Last year (and this year, haha) my husband and I were really hard up for cash. We had skimped on all the holidays and birthdays that presents would usually come with. Randomly, and without provocation, he came home one day with a beautiful necklace. It was the first jewelry he bought me in our marriage other than my wedding rings, and I when I see it it makes me so happy to think of our love and life together. My wedding ring, but I also still have the promise ring my husband gave me when we were in middle school. It’s dented and has a chip of a diamond, but I love it. My engagement ring… my husband picked it out all by himself and it is perfection! I have a locket from my mom that she had put a picture of herself as a little girl in. Love it, and treasure it completely. I have my Grandmas locket that has my Moms teeth marks on it from when she was a little girl and would try to open it. I never met my Grandma but it makes me feel connected to her when I look at it. My treasure is an aquamarine ring my dad had given to my mom many years ago. She gave it to me shortly before she died last winter. She knew I always loved it. I wear it next to my wedding band. My favorite most meaningful piece aside from my wedding ring is an intertwining pair of rings similar to Lisa’s with my children’s names on them. I wear it everyday. I have a necklace with my kids and husband’s name. Kids around daddy’s name 🙂 My most meaningful pieces of jewelry are the two gold bands with sapphires that my mom gave me when I got married. Sapphire is our shared birthstone, and I was married in September as well. They were her wedding and anniversary bands. They are priceless to me. Definitely my wedding ring! But besides that, the diamond necklace my dad gave me when I got married. Very special! My Grandma decided a few years ago that she needed to start cleaning out her closests and drawers. While cleaning out her dresser she came across all of her old costume jewelry. She didn’t want it any longer, but I thought it was all beautiful (okay, most of it). She gave it to me and while most of it is well worn and shows its age I love wearing it knowing that when my Grandma was my age, dealing with all that life brings us at this age no matter what decade it is, that she was wearing the same thing. I love my wedding rings and I wear my grandmas ring as well. I love my Lisa Leonard necklace with all our families names. Besides my wedding ring, of course, my favorite piece is a charm bracelet with 6 charms on it. Three of the charms…two pairs of baby girl shoes and one pair of baby boy shoes…my hubby bought for me the days we found out which kind of sweet baby we were going to be having a few months down the road. And the other three charms were given to me the first Mother’s Day after each of my three babies were born…all of them different and signifying something special about each child. Love it! Thanks for the chance to win! My wedding ring is the most precious, both in value and “specialness” —-it’s actually the only real jewelry I own and I cherish it and the 29 years with the man who gave it to me. Besides my wedding rings, I would say my grandmother’s silhouette charm bracelet. It has the silhouette of each of her children and grandchildren’s heads with their birthdates on the backs of each. Well, my wedding ring of course, but aside from that I would have to say a pair of vintage clip-on earrings. Bright oranges and pinks, most people would probably think they’re hideous!! But they are so “me”, and they remind me every time I wear them to stay true to my style and surround myself with whatever makes me feel fabulous. I have a charm bracelet that wa started when I was young. It started on my first Communion when I was 7 years old. Then I have a charm from every dace recital and every play I was in….The Wizard of Oz, Nutcracker,Annie…then has continued with charms for my wedding and my 2 kids. LOVE it. I don’t weat if often, but when I do- I LOVE it. My wedding rings are my favorite! my wedding ring…it has my grandma’s diamond from her wedding band I don’t wear a lot of jewelry other than my wedding rings. However, one priceless piece that I have is my grandmother’s class ring from high school. My wedding ring <3 my wedding ring:) My own wedding ring is important to me of course, but my mom passed down my great-grandma’s wedding band to me a few years ago for Christmas, and it means so much that she would share it with me. It reminds me of the strong legacy of love that the women in my family have for each other every time I wear it! I cherish my wedding rings and my grandmother’s pearl ring. I have a metal allergy! So I have a hard time finding jewelry that I can wear without getting a rash. sad trombone. However, I keep on my dresser a ring of my mother’s that she got in high school and I just adore its 70s charm. Hi, My wedding rings, because of what they mean! I also received a really beautiful bracelet from my oldest sister on my wedding day–that My wedding rings! I have jewelry that belonged to both of my grandmothers– each piece is very meaningful and sentimental. But the piece of jewelry that carries the greatest amount of meaning has to be my wedding ring simply because it symbolizes the covenant of marriage between me and my husband. My wedding ring…my hubby had it for TWO months before he asked me to wear it! 🙂 My wedding ring. My hubby had it for TWO months before he finally asked me to wear it. :)t I don’t have much “real” jewelry, and I have to agree with the many others who count their wedding band as their most meaningful–and I’ve worn it everyday for 27 years!! I have a charm I bought that has a black heart on it and it has the date 2011. my grandmothers wedding ring. I love to wear it and when I look at my hand, I can visualize her hand . I would have to say my wedding ring!! I absolutely love it! My turquoise ring my grandmother gave me. So unique and special to me. My wedding ring, of course! And then my Lisa Leonard Tiny Initials necklace with my 3 kiddos’ initials. <3 A I had a simple silver bracelet that I loved because it was my present on my first Mother’s Day 11 years ago. I lost it in the last year – the clasp was loose and it must have fallen off. I would love to replace it with a special bracelet from Lisa’s beautiful collection. On my 21st birthday, my mom gave me the ring that my dad gave her on the day I was born. I hope to pass it to my daughter on her 21st! I have several pins from when I was a little girl. Each pin is a miniature version of a pin that my Grandma had. We would wear them when I would spend the day with her. I love to look at them and remember those special days. I am so glad that I still have my Grandma who will be 90 in January! I would love to use this gift card to buy her a special piece from Lisa Leonard. The most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. 21 years and counting married to my best friend. pearls. My wedding ring for all that it represents (the wonderful man who gave it to me). My wedding ring would be my first choice. I also cherish my baby locket. My Daddy bought it for me when I was a baby and I wore it 21 years later for my wedding. My wedding ring. It just is so special… Besides my wedding ring, which is always special, I have the pair of earrings that my Grammie wore on her wedding day and which I wore on mine. My Grammie had gone up to heaven by then, but she was with me on that day in an extra special way. I do not wear much jewelry, so my wedding ring has the most significance by far. By I have been eyeballing LL stuff for several years now, and would LOVE to win a gift certificate! My Great-Grandmother’s ring. I wear it on special occasions! The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is a mother’s bracelet- My husband made it for me on my first mother’s day and added beads each time one of our children was born- my favorite because he put thought and work into it. My wedding ring 🙂 I have admired her jewelry since you first posted about her stuff. My mother’s garnet flower setting ring. My mother gave it to me after i got married. She wore it for a wedding ring after her original ring was stolen from a house break-in. It’s beautiful anitique gold setting with garnets in a flower style. Dainty, classy and precious. My wedding ring, of course, but what is really special to me is the pendant that my grandma wore. It is engraved wtih her name and birthdate….a true treasure for me! Everyday I wear my grandmother’s amethyst ring. Love it! of course, my wedding ring is priceless and irreplaceable, but my hubby gave me a small pair of diamond earrings a few weeks before our wedding. they’re simple and perfect and speak volumes about the man i’ve married 14+ yrs ago. My engagment ring would be first. We bought a house instead of a diamond and on our 10 anniversary, my love took me away for the weekend and re-proposed and gave me a beautiful diamond <3 Second is my "mothers" ring. I remember my grandmothers ring with it's four beautiful stones representing her four daughters and I knew from a very young age that I wanted a mother's ring some day. Now I have one more stone than my grandmother had. She was a wonderful mother and grandmother, oh and great-grandmother and she passed so much onto me without even realizing it! My wedding/engagement rings are my most important jewelry. Best decision of my life to marry that man! 🙂 My husband gave me an antique locket with pictures of my sons in it…most thoughtful gift! WOWSA! Really? I’d just love to win. I had a new baby boy a few weeks ago and I’d love something with his name on it. Right now, my most favorite/special peice of jewelry is my wedding ring. Ive had swollen hands throught my pregnancy and can’t wait til my body is back to normal so I can wear it again. 🙂 my most meaningful thing is my wedding ring… but i love that my parents bought me pearls as “the last piece of jewelry you will receive before you get an engagement ring.” very special. I have a gorgeous diamond ring that I wear. It has been passed down to every first born daughter. I am the fifth generation to wear it on my mother’s side. I adore it! My wedding ring. My husbnad proposed to me in a hot air balloon. I know – I caught a good one :). 23 years. 3 boys later. The ring is still there! Either my wedding/engagement ring (which my husband designed himself) or my grandmother’s engagement ring and anniversary band that I received after she passed away. I can remember being a little girl and admiring her beautiful rings, and I love being reminded of her every day when I put them on. My wedding set- given to me 35 years ago…very simple….most women get a new set after so many years… instead of my husband giving me a bigger diamond…each year since we were married he write a romantic poem for me….I would much rather have 35 beautiful romantic poems than another pretty diamond. This past year I received my great grandmothers engagement ring, which is a vintage ruby in its original setting. It is beautiful, and a beautiful reminder of her. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is definitely my wedding ring, I mean it has the most significance and came from my favorite person ever. But, I do have these amazing puzzle rings that my parents bought me when I was a kid and we lived in the middle east. They remind me of those times together and the amazing opportunity we had to live on the other side of the world. (However, the puzzle rings have come apart and I can’t figure our how to get them back together! HA! So, if anyone has some puzzle ring expertise I would really appreciate it! HAHAHAHA!) I would have to say my wedding ring but also the pearl earrings my husband gave me on our wedding day. He sent his brother (the best man) over to the house I was getting ready at and surprised me! i would say my wedding ring! love it 🙂 A gold heart necklace my husband gave me when we were just two dating 18 year olds. My mom’s 14K gold charm bracelet that I “stole” from her jewelry box when I moved from NY to Texas. My favorite charm is a desk that has a rotating typewriter in the desk top. She used to be a secretary for a Greek shipping company and my dad gave it to her when they were first married. It is so cute!!! My kids love to play with it when I wear it and ask, “mom, what’s a typewriter?” Funny! My wedding band is most meaningful, but since that is boring, I’ll tell you I also love a necklace I have of a hand making a sign language “X” – for my son, Xander. I’d say my wedding ring, for all the obvious reasons. The second piece though, would be my great grandfather’s law school ring that my great aunt and uncle gave me at my high school graduation. I loved the history attached to it, and that they were willing for me to have it. I felt very special and grown up! A gold nugget necklace with a diamond. It is special because my mother took her gold class rings and my fathers gold class rings and had them melted down together to make 3 necklaces for my sister, mother and me. I love it! Most meaningful piece of jewelry? My grandmother’s first engagement ring. A petite diamond-shaped aquamarine stone in a classic gold setting. Just a few months before my little boy was born, my husbands Uncle died. He was like a father to my husband, and so needless to say he was heart broken. We gave our little boy the same middle name as hi uncles. After thinking about it, we realized they had the same initials. JWS. The day he was born, his aunt gave me her old “drop” necklace that his uncle had given her. Its gold with his (and my little boys) initials. It touched my heart soo much that she was willing to give that to me, i know it meant so much to her. I think the most meaningful piece(s) of jewelry I own are pieces that used to belong to my Great Grandma. I have her old pearl necklace and recently had it restrung and two of the pearls made into matching earrings. I also have a lovely ring of hers but I think my favorite piece is a little elephant necklace. I love elephants and it makes me think of her whenever I wear it. I have a few pieces that are super meaningful…first I have a black brooch necklace that was my Great Grandmother’s! I love it so. Then I have my engagement ring, we were not able to purchase nice rings for our wedding so I have that on all the time. And finally I have a mother’s necklace for my twin boys and it actually has two babies on it! I love those pieces so much! Well, I no longer have my most meaningful piece of jewelry, but that is okay. My grandmother had always promised me her ruby ring, and when she developed Parkinson’s disease, she gave it to me and I was so happy! After she passed away, my brother was struggling with life in general, but then met a wonderful girl, and asked her to marry her. He didn’t have any money, so I offered to let him have the ring to give to her, which he did, and now they are happily married with a beautiful daughter and my brother just finished his Master’s degree! I know my grandmother would approve. my engagement ring and a teardrop diamond necklace from my brother and SIL when I graduated college. I have a gold bracelet with large heart charm on it that has by Grandmother’s wedding and engagement ring (welded??) on to the heart charm. My Grandfather had it made for her for a wedding anniversary and it says “love Stanley” on the back with their anniversary date. She wore it every.single.day and left it to me after she passed away. I have my Grandfather Magnus’ Wedding ring that is engraved. LOVE IT. I love the history and the love behind it. Awww. Thanks for the giveaway, I love Lisa’s jewelry!! My most meaningful pieces of jewelry are my wedding rings and a claddaugh ring my mom gave me when I graduated high school that I still wear everyday! My favorite piece of jewelry is an old, purple cut-glass necklace that belonged to my grandma. We have a picture of her wearing it with a purple polka dot dress in the 50s, a picture of my mom as a little girl in the 60s wearing it with a purple dress, and a picture from the 80s of me wearing it with my purple Easter dress! Last October, my mom gave it to me to wear to Grandma’s funeral, because her only request was that everyone wear purple and no black was allowed! …What a lady! I have a ring I wear all the time that says- be happy- on it. it reminds me to find joy, and have a good attitude about things! Wow! I love Lisa!! 🙂 A pearl necklace I have that belonged to my great aunt. A lot of women in my family have worn it. I wore it in my senior picture. And besides all that, it just plain makes me feel classy when I wear it. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my mother and child necklace. My husband gave it to me on Mother’s Day in 2007 and I had just graduated from college the day before. Last year he had our kids’ birthstones added to the inside of the charm. By far this is the most meaningful because my hubby doesn’t usually do things like that for me because he is not a gift person. He would rather take me somewhere and spend time with me or the kids rather than buy me gifts:) I would have to say my wedding ring. I am not a diamond kind of girl so I rarely wear my engagement ring!!! I know it is wrong and I am cast out of the girls club… I have a simple silver necklace that a friend gave me with a charm that says “Believe.” It’s a great reminder every single time I wear it. My mommy necklace with my kids’ names. I wear it almost every day! My Grandmother’s wedding ring. My wedding ring came to mind first but I also received a necklace from my husband for mothers day and my birthday (they are only a few days a part) from Lisa Leonard Designs. It has all my families names on it. I really love it! There are so many other pieces I would want from her jewelry! Love ALL of it! A star necklace I bought for myself during a pretty difficult time, it reminds me that I’m stronger than I feel sometimes. It would be my wedding ring, followed closley with a Moonstone necklace I received as a college graduation gift. It has to be my wedding band! My wedding ring! Definitely my wedding ring. 🙂 My most important piece would be my wedding ring. I don’t have any Lisa Leonard pieces but would love to order some new favorites! Aside from my wedding band and engagement ring, I treasure a necklace with my daughter’s name on it and a turquoise necklace I made with beads I bought in New Mexico in college. My wedding ring… it is an antique that came from my husbands family! My best freind who passed away last September gave me a Lisa Leonard necklace that simply states…By Grace Alone. I feel as if she is always with me when I wear it. My rings are all very meaningful to me – the aquamarine ring I got for my 18th birthday from my parents, the emerald ring (for my mom’s birthday month) I received for my graduation, and my engagement and wedding rings 🙂 I wear my grandmother’s wedding ring everyday! I would be lost without it. What a wonderf gift from the most wonderful woman. I miss her so much! It would have to be my mothers wedding ring set. It is by no means big or fancy but I just always remember how gret it looked on her small hands. I actually pulled it out the other night and can actually get it on my finger now. I’m a Weight Watcher and for every 5lbs I lose my daughter gives me a glass bead for a bracelet she gave me. I’m up to 12 beads now for a total of 60lbs. It centres me when I’m struggling and reminds me how far I’ve come…..I’ve got 8 more beads to go to get to goal. A handmade necklace from my dearest girlfriend that has my kids names on it. This is meaningful to me because she made it, my kids names are represented and my kids are part of my husband. How’s that for everyone important in one necklace! 🙂 The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is a necklace with my daughter’s silhouette on it (designed by my husband). It also has her initials and birthstone. I love it so much, and I love Lisa’s designs too! I’m sure I would have no problem spending that $100! 🙂 when my children were born I took an afternoon with my mom and went to a bead shop where I made a bracelet with their names on it. I then added birthstones for everyone in my family…it is a treasure piece! My wedding band because both my husband and I had “P.S. I love You” and our wedding date engraved on the inside. But my other favorite piece of jewelry is my Lisa Leonard necklace with my daughters’ names engraved on it. my Lisa Leonard brave love necklace with all my boys names on it! love her stuff! I love my wedding ring, but on our wedding night, EVEN THOUGH we agreed to NO gifts, my husband had saved up and bought me this little pair of diamond earrings. They weren’t huge or fancy, but he knew I would like them and had saved up for them. They mean so much to me 🙂 A ruby heart necklace that my husband gave me (before we married )and said, I was far above rubies in his sight :). I wore it on our wedding day. obviously my engagement and wedding ring…most precious for sure. also i love my grandma’s ring and a pearl ring that was my mom’s in junior high. also, the ring my husband gave me on my very first mother’s day. I love Lisa’s jewelry! My favorite(s) are my wedding ring, the sign language I love you necklace my husband gave me when we were dating, my necklace that has the fingerprints of each of my four kids. My husband’s mom suddenly died at the young age of 54 a couple of years ago. One thing I inherited from her was a silver ring with a “K” on it (her name was Karen). I will always think of her when I look at that ring! I think it would be between my engagement/wedding ring (that my husband picked out for me) and my ruby birthstone ring from my parents when I was a girl. 🙂 The promise ring I got from my hubby…I received it for Christmas and a couple years later were married!! It’s been 10 great years..:-) I can’t pick just one! My garnet vintage ring from my Momma given to me my senior year of high school. My wedding ring…for obvious reasons. My Tiffany’s charm bracelet from my honeymoon in NYC, with an added charm from the following year, titled…it’s a boy. AND my Lisa Lenoard necklace with my son’s name, given to me the day he was born. Yeah…I love it all! I know everyone is saying wedding band…and of course that is super special to me, too! But I also have the “Mama” necklace from Lisa Leonard…and I AM OBSESSED:) I get compliments on it everywhere I go and wear it all the time. Her jewelry is AMAZING! my grandmothers wedding rings. she recently passed at the age of 92 and gave me her rings just months earlier. she wore them for 70 years. very precious to me. such a fan of both you & lisa!!! my wedding rind of course. also my precious gold CROSS silver wide ring from my hunky husband that I wear daily. My wedding ring…it makes me smile when I look at it. The ring I wear as my wedding ring is a ring my Grandmother had made out of her engagement ring diamond and the diamonds from my Great-Grandmother’s engagement ring. It is my most prized possession. Lisa’s jewelry is AMAZING!!! My most important piece of jewelry would have to be my engagement ring. My hubby picked it out all on his own & I love it 🙂 The most meaningful piece I own is my wedding ring. But I have a close 2nd and that would be the mother’s ring my husband gave me years ago. I always wanted one but my children had passed away. When we adopted our oldest my husband gave it to me with he had all my children’s names put on it. Now we have adopted 2 more so I need a new ring. LOL But I was so touched because they were not his children and he had it done anyway. my wedding ring. it is just a simple band, but one i love. we lost it for a long time and had to get a replacement. i was so happy when we found it. Though I love my engagement ring, I would have to say my most meaningful piece would be my wedding band. It is a simple platinum band with lots of scratches from wearing it every day for 9.5 years. We had them inscribed separately to surprise each other on our wedding day. Mine simply stated says “Forever my love”! I don’t wear a lot of jewelry — my wedding band, a pair of gold hoops, and my favorite necklace: a very simple gold cross my folks gave me years ago. It hangs on a thick gold chain that my mama wore for many years (a gift from my dad) and its so old, it breaks occasionally and I have to take it to a jeweler to have it fixed. I always feel naked without it while it’s off my neck! But if I won the gift certificate, I’d pick something for my sissy, who loves jewelry more than life itself… well. almost. 🙂 I was given a charm bracelet in junior high (early 70’s) and still have most of the charms on it. I have added other charms, mostly hearts, and it is beautiful! My dad gave it to me for my birthday and he isn’t with us anymore, but every time I wear it, I think about how much he loved me my whole life. I miss him! my mom’s wedding ring. I’d have to say my wedding ring. I love that it’s been on my finger for the last 20 years! My engagement ring…it’s my grandmother’s diamond in a setting I helped to design. For a long time it was my Gucci watch because it was the first thing I saved for all by myself and bought. But now, it’s my wedding ring. Definitely! it is my grandmother’s (who i’m named after and never met) ring. all my mothers jewelry and her mothers jewelry was stolen shortly after she and my dad moved and this was one of the only pieces left. my mama gave it to me on my 18th birthday and i plan on giving it to my daughter on her 18th bday. That’s easy! My wedding ring! I also love the charm bracelet my husband started for me on my first mother’s day. i would definitely say my wedding ring…it has definitely stood the almost 20 years of wear! i remember the day DH proposed like it was yesterday & i remember showing it off! My most meaningful piece of jewellery is a necklace my parents gave me, with my grandfather’s nickname for me stamped on to it. Definitely my wedding ring! 25 years next summer–it’s been fun. My dads wedding ring that I had resized to fit me My favorite is the 1c. diamond solitaire ring my husband bought me for our 30th anniversary…it means the world to me, for many reasons! Love Lisa’s jewelry!! Love Lisa too!! I have a few of her lovely pieces. My absolute most precious piece of jewlery that I own, which was hand made into jewlery, is a necklace made from hardware from a rod that was put in my dad’s back when he broke it. He was creamated when he passed away, the hardware was made out of titanium and survived the creamation, so my brother made us necklaces from it. I will always treasure it!! I wear my great, great grandmother’s wedding ring. It has her and her husband’s initials inscribed in it. Someday I will pass it on to my daughter. Would use the gift card to choose something from the new gold line. Thanks. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is probably my wedding ring, because it symbolizes my commitment to not only my husband, but my kids at well. Lisa’s jewelry is gorgeous. I don’t own any of it, but would love to:) The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is a small opal and diamond ring that my father had made for me for Christmas when I was 16. Dad never bought gifts for us-that was moms job. So it was a shock to both mom AND me that he had gone and had this ring made for me all on his own. I am having it fixed up and re-sized to fit my 14 year old daughter because she thinks my dad(her Papa John) hung the moon! My wedding ring is the most meaningful to me for sure. I cherish it and my hubbie! oh man. how to decide…love my wedding/engagement rings of course, and also have a charm bracelet with my 5 kids birthstone charms on…love it too. I think my wedding and engagement rings are my meaningful pieces of jewelry. I never ever thought I would get married and it is a wonderful reminder of how blessed I am when I see them on my finger every day. my engagement ring! love it and cherish the memories along with it! My favorite item is a little charm I got from my grandmother that has the Apollo 11 logo on it…kinda cheesy but it reminds me of her. When I graduated from college my grandmother had my grandfather’s initial tie clip made into a necklace for me. Up until that time, I never realized we had the same initials! Besides my wedding rings, my most meaningful piece of jewelry is a charm bracelet I started over 20 years ago. Every time my family travels to a new place, I seek out a new silver charm as a memento and add it to the bracelet. It is a history of our family’s explorations and sightseeing adventures that I treasure. My wedding ring for sure!! Sadly I can’t wear it anymore because I have rheumatoid arthritis and it has made my joints a bit swollen. I am hopeful that the swelling will go down someday so that I can wear my ring again and not have to get it resized!! My wedding ring for sure…with my Lisa Leonard heart bracelet a close second. It is stamped with “Love”. I love all her pieces! My most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is actually three pieces. I ordered three “love knot” rings that I wear on my wedding ring finder. One is a rope that symbolizes my husband and I being intertwined forever and the other two are solid gold to symbolize each of my daughters. I also gave each of my girls one to show them they are loved FOREVER without end. My wedding ring and a ring from my Great Great Aunt. My favorite piece of jewelry would difinitely be my engagement ring and wedding band. Everytime I pray, I spin them on my finger. I LOVE Lisa’s jewelry and designs. Thank you for a chance to win! My grandmothers engagement and wedding rings. I have a necklace that used to be my gram’s. Every time I wear it, I feel like she’s close to me. My favorite piece of jewelry is my itty bitty diamond earrings I received on my 16th birthday. They were my first real diamonds 🙂 Definitely my moms’s wedding rings. My ‘family’ ring. I wanted a Mother’s ring, but also wanted to include my husband’s birthstone and mine, which are both amethyst. Aside from my wedding rings, I have an opal and diamond ring my husband gave me when we were dating many, many years ago. Definitely my wedding ring. It is a beautiful reminder of the love my husband and I will share through the eternities. pearls from my grandmother My wedding ring. Besides my wedding ring, my most meaningful piece is my Lisa Leonard initial necklace that has the initials of my two babies I never got to meet on this side of heaven. The most memorable piece of jewelry is a furry pink braclet my daughter gave me when she was 6. It brings back wonderful Christmas memories! I love it and her. My one and only piece of Lisa Leonard jewelry has my name and my husband’s name on it. LOVE it. My great-grandmother’s wedding ring My wedding ring! It is a constant reminder of my commitment to my hubby and God’s commitment to us! Never ending! I love my engagement ring the most because of the effort my husband put into buying it for me. He took a class to learn about diamonds and when he was ready to buy sold his most favorite possession-his mustang car. He loved that car! I have a gold link bracelet that an aunt gave me. I remember sitting in church holding her hand in my lap and twisting and turning the bracelet on her wrist. She reached down undid the clasp and put in on my own wrist. She whispered I’m giving it to you. Thank you so much for this giveaway. I have a necklace with my kids names on it that I love. Then I have a charm bracelet from James Avery that a friend of mine got me the day I graduated with a diploma charm and since then it has had many charms added to it. What a nice generous gift. Lisa is so talented all her jewelry is so beautiful. My wedding ring and engagement ring are so special to me. We did the non-traditional marriage route. I was in school, we already had kids, and so on (it wasn’t top on our lists). After I graduated we were moving to AK, and my now husband needed insurance, so we decided to get married. It meant a lot to him that I had a ring, so we began looking and considering options. We knew we wanted it to be as natural as possible. So we chose platinum (my rugged personality has led to many blemishes), and a Yogo MT sapphire, which is pure untreated stone like a diamond. Our family started in MT, so the Yogo MT sapphire fit us. “Forever Yours” lies inside, which is exactly how my husband feels about us. Over the years, however, the stone has loosened and cracked, ironically happening during rough times for us. But symbolic to marriage, as the stone was mended so too did our marriage, through work (hard) and growing. Marriage and parenting are the hardest and most rewarding experiences and I simply love how our ring has been on this journey through all the great and yes, all the challenges with us. Thanks for letting me relive this memory. My most treasured piece of jewelry is a flat, gold heart engraved with my great-grandmother’s name on it. I wear it all the time. Then recently, I was cleaning out my jewelry box, which used to belong to my grandmother, and I saw something glimmer just inside the velvet edge in the back – it was an IDENTICAL gold heart with my grandmother’s name on it. They must have gotten the necklaces at the same time! So now I wear both of their hearts at the same time 🙂 My then-fiance (hubby Ross) designed an aquamarine cross as my “something blue” gift for my wedding day. My wedding ring for sure– and tomorrow is our 10th anniversary. My wedding ring — I never take it off, other than having it checked or cleaned — it’s just a piece of me just like my relationship with my husband! So thankful for him. My grandmother’s wedding ring. A treasure! My charm bracelet that was a gift from my husband right after our son was born. The first charm is a mother holding her baby with our son’s name and birthdate engraved on it. The other charms were received for special occasions through the years…anniversary, son’s “firsts”, birthdays. Every link is a sweet memory, of both the event and the giver. I have a simple white gold wedding band that matches my husbands. We have been married for 16 years and I have never taken it off! I am a lucky girl….after 3 beautiful daughters together, we still remain devoted. Marriage has been much harder, but also much deeper and richer than I’ve ever imagined. I hope and pray to wear this ring for the rest of my life! My most meaningful piece (besides my wedding ring of course :)) is a necklace with each of my kids initials, a heart for a sweet baby we lost, and the initial of our newest son whom we are waiting to bring home from South Africa! Every time I look at it, I am reminded of God’s faithfulness to me and His precious care. My wedding/engagement ring. They aren’t fancy but they mean so very much to me. Can’t imagine what I would do if I lost them – so I never take them off! my husband designed my engagement ring…so it is extra special to me! i also treasure a necklace with 5 gold hearts that my parents gave me as I went off to college (one heart for each family member)…and a bracelet that was the last gift my grandmother gave me before passing away. My favorite piece is my engagement ring which has been passed down to each oldest girl in our family. It’s a tiny diamond set in a larger setting to make it look bigger, in that wonderful antique-y kinda way. It was originally my great-grandmother’s engagement ring. She gave it to my grandfather to give to my grandma when he asked her to marry him. My grandma then repeated the tradition…when my father asked for my mom’s hand, my grandma offered ‘her’ engagement ring to him to give to my mom. When my husband (then high school sweetheart) started talking about marriage, my mom offered him the engagement ring to give to me. And now it is my oldest daughter’s turn…I know that any moment her boyfriend is going to ‘pop’ the question. I have already told him about the ring and he loves the tradition!! I’ve already had it cleaned and re-sized for my daughter. I’ll miss that little ‘old’ ring, but oh so look forward to the future that it brings 🙂 My most meaningful piece of jewelry? Definitely my wedding ring and next up is my mother’s ring. They both don’t come off… I even talked one of my doctor’s into letting me keep my wedding ring on during one of my csections… by taping it to my finger. Definitely my engagement ring and wedding band! I love Lisa Leonard and her jewelry. I have put a certain necklace of hers in my shopping cart on her website several times but never go thru the check out process., I feel guilty buying something for myself 🙁 My favorite piece of jewelery is my Grandma’s monogram pin. I received it after she passed away. It reminds me of her…..she was such a beautiful person. My wedding ring would be #1, but my 2nd favorite would be a necklace my husband gave me with a picture of my two kiddo’s! The most precious piece of jewelry I own is a delicate gold ring with two tiny diamonds that my boyfriend of 5 years gave me with his very first salary. I think he spent almost all of that first paycheck to get me that ring. He is now my busband of five years 🙂 My mother’s day necklace I received three years ago with a picture of my two kids together when they were both toddlers!!! My necklace with my kids initials on it means a lot to me. My wedding ring of course! In a close second- a pin of my great-grandmother’s that I had placed in my bouquet of flowers when we were married. In an even closer third- my grandmother’s bracelet. 🙂 Thanks for the amazing giveaway!!! My engagement ring comes first . . . then a pair of opal earrings from my sister’s wedding . . . After my father passed away I got to keep his wedding band. I wore it on a chain for many years. Then one day my mom noticed her wedding ring was getting a little snug, so she gave it to me. I had the two put together with my dad’s on the top and my mom’s on the bottom. I wear it everyday. It makes me happy! When I was growing up my Mom always wore a gold chain with our four baby rings on it. When I had my first son I purchased an antique baby ring and a silver charm of a little boy with overalls and spikey hair just like my son. When my second son was born I added his baby ring to the necklace. This is the piece of jewelry closest to my heart and it’s the one I get the most compliments on. The most meaningful item I own is a handstamped necklace with my daughter’s names on it. It was purchased before I heard about Lisa Leonard. But my daughters were adopted at 4 and 6 and they are 11 and 8 now. When I wear the necklace, they love it and they tell me that I am wearing their names next to my heart. I would love all three of us to have name necklaces so we could match. I think that would make them very happy. My favorite piece of jewelry is a bracelet I bought my self on a trip to see my mom’s family. It says embrace the journey. I love to look at it when I wear it to remind me that it is the “journey” that is the amazing part. The end result is never a “given” so you gotta embrace the journey or you miss out on the good things in life. My mom gave me her engagement ring which means even more because my dad passed away 13 years ago. She also gave me and my sister her wedding band which we had melted into two rings and had our anniversary date and my parents’ anniversary date inscribed inside. Love! It’s a tie between my wedding ring which my husband designed(with the shape diamond I like and my birthstone), and my Grandmother’s wedding ring which was given to me in 8th grade. I put it away for safe keeping and wore it when I grew older. It has the smallest, precious diamond and the gold setting is made to make the diamond seem larger(not sure what that’s called). There is a tiny heart cutout on each side of the base of the setting. Truly unique and sentimental for me. 🙂 Thank you for offering this giveaway! I would love to use it to treat my Mom. wedding ring. ten year anniversary in two weeks … woohoo! my most meaningful piece of jewelry is a pendant with my daugters’ pictures on it. they were 4 and 8 at the time (11 and 15 now)……and i LOVE it!! I love all the jewelry my boyfriend has given me but I would have to say I love the diamond earrings he gave me for my birthday one year. I wear them in my second holes every day, Also the pearl earrings my sister gave me when I was in her wedding. I wear those almost everyday in the first holes if Im not wearing some other fun dangly earrings. Besides my wedding rings – it is the Tiny Initials Necklace from Lisa’s shop. I call it my I Love You necklace. Both kid’s love to touch it while I hold them. Love the Lisa Leonard collection. My mom had my grandma’s diamond earrings made into two necklaces for me and my sister. Something I’ll treasure forever 🙂 Easy one…my wedding ring. 🙂 Love Lisa’s jewelry!! 🙂 Other than my wedding band, a nacklace that my husband bought me for our first wedding anniversary. We were poor lol seriously and I was newly pregnant totally freaking out it made me cry maybe it was the hormones. lol I have two. My wedding band of course. Then I have a soldered spoon ring that my mom bought for me 9 years ago at a craft fair. I have tried to wear other rings but I always end up with this one on and just can’t seem to wear others. I love that it was an antique spoon that someone used. I love that my mom bought it for me. I love it! Thanks for the giveaway!! Probably my grandmother’s gold bangle. It’s timeless and I always think of her when I wear it. My favorite piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. My husband’s father owned a pawn shop in the 70’s. When he closed it in the mid 70’s, he gave all of the leftover rings to my mother-in-law who (over the years) had the gold melted down, and the stones reset into new jewelry designs. There was one ring however, a European cut diamond set in platinum, that no jeweler would touch/change. She put it in the family safe, and it sat there until 1998. The year it was put up was 1978, the year I was born. I never told my husband the kind of ring I wanted. He was a public school music teacher in a very, very small town, and had no money for ring shopping. I had no idea what to expect, but it didn’t matter, because I wasn’t in love with him for his money 🙂 When he gave me the most beautiful ring I had ever seen, in the fall of 1998, I really couldn’t believe that it was mine… Throughout the past 13 1/2 years of marriage, this ring has been a constant reminder to me of the goodness of God. There have been many times when I needed that reminder… He is my/our Provider. He is a loving Father. He is a giver of good gifts. He does, “Exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or even imagine.” my Mother’s bracelet. When my husband and I got married, we bought cheap titanium rings. We knew we wanted to spend money on photography, and the event itself. So for our fifth anniversary (last year) Hubbins bought me a beautiful sapphire ring, which I wear now instead of the titanium band. Sapphire is his favorite stone, which he says is worn by royalty (not quite as big as Kate Middleton’s, but just as meaningful!). Besides my wedding ring, I have a necklace with two copper rings – on one is stamped “Uganda”, where part of my heart lives, and on the other is “Christopher” – the boy in Uganda who stole my heart. 🙂 Thanks for this AWESOME giveaway!! The pearl necklace my parent’s bought me for my wedding. While my wedding ring is my favorite piece of jewelry, the necklace is something I don’t wear often, and just reminds me even more what a special day it was! My grandmother gave me a set of pearls for christmas a few years ago. They are very nice and are quite short which is really like, so they look modern and fun when i wear them. It would be a tie between my wedding ring, and a bracelet with my boys’ names on it that my husband picked out ALL BY HIMSELF! I couldn’t believe it! 🙂 Makes it all the more special. Love my grandmother’s old engagement ring. She gave it to me this year. besides my wedding rings, I would have to say its the beautiful necklace my husband picked out for me and had given to me on our wedding day. He had his dad bring it to me while I was getting ready and I will always cherish the special moments I got to spend with his parents right before we were married. Of course my first thought is to say my wedding ring but I also have so many other pieces with sentimental value. Too many favorites to choose just one! That would be my wedding ring. And my mom’s wedding ring. Thanks so much!! (Love Lisa’s jewelry!) Aside from my wedding and engagement rings, I would have to say a pearl ring that I received when my great aunt passed away. It’s the only time I have ever inherited any jewelry and it was completely unexpected so it’s pretty special. My husband gave me a string of pearls for my 30th birthday. I LOVE them! All of it!! My favorites are pearls though 🙂 I have to say that I ordered Lisa’s wedding cake forks for my sister’s wedding and surprised her and her husband and they LOVED them. Clearly my wedding ring is the most precious, but I also was given the lavalier My grandfather gave to my grandmother while in college. Most meaningful would have to be my wedding ring!! After that it’s my necklace from my girls!(lisa leonard) Love Lisa Leonard!! Besides my wedding ring, I cherish the special ring my husband gave to me on our 10th anniversary. Every time I wear it, I think of the trials and struggles we have made it through, along with the joy:) My favorite is my husband’s grandma’s wedding ring which she gave to me before she died. That would be my emerald engagement ring…I look at it and I see love. Believe it or not mine is a single clip on sparkley earring that was my great grandmother’s. I have it displayed in a printers cabinet tray on my wall. 🙂 My favorite piece of jewelry is a charm bracelet my dearest friends game me when I turned 40. The group has been friends since elementary school and we did this for each one of us that year. Each person picked a charm to put on it that had meaning to the two of us. It makes me smile whenever I put it on. My wedding ring. It’s so simple, and it’s not even a real diamond, but I love it because it reminds me of how young (and poor) we were when we got married. I would never trade it in for a larger one. I don’t really own a lot of jewelry (all the more reason I need the gift certificate! But I guess so far it is the beautiful pearl necklace I received as a bridesmaid gift from a close friend. My wedding rings and a sweet butterfly pendant that belonged to my grandmother. She passed away several years ago but I think of her every time I wear it. It’s a tie…my wedding ring and what I call my “Allie band”. A band that my husband gave me when I was pregnant with our daughter. Its a toss up between my wedding bands and a cuff bracelet tgat has both of my girls names on it. Of course my wedding ring is the most meaningful piece of jewelry I have, but I would love a necklace with my children’s names, too! Thanks for a great giveaway opportunity! Love Lisa Leonard’s jewelry. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my charm bracelet…with charm from many different occasions, given by loved ones. Besides my wedding ring (a given), my favorite piece is a necklace from Lisa Leonard with my husbands name and my kids’ names. I love it and will have it FOREVER! It was given to me after my youngest son was born – from my BFF – my sister. I adore it and can’t wear it enough! My wedding and engagement rings are probably my most precious, especially with the stories behind them. Other than that, I really treasure a circle pendant my now husband gave me for our first Christmas together. I was SO surprised and now I get to remember the feeling of us first dating whenever I wear it. I LOVE all of Lisa’s jewelry! I especially obsessed with her gold line! I love her stuff…my favorite is a necklace my husband got me for my first mothers day with our sons name on it. Love it. Then for our ten year anniversary he bought me a family tree necklace with “mrs Claassen” and the date of our wedding. He is pretty great. My wedding ring is by far my favorite piece of jewelry…represents so much more than just a ring. I also have a ring that my husband had made for me out of his grandmother’s favorite ring. It’s chipped up and it would have been cheaper to buy a new ring with a new stone…but having something of his grandmother’s is precious to me. I adore Lisa Leonard… and honestly one on my most treasured pieces is incidentally called “my treasure necklace” by Lisa herself… When she first came out with it, I knew I had to have it… For one I LOVE mason jars and two, it has four hearts (I have four boys) it was made for me and my personalized tag has my hubbies name on it… The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my grandmother’s cameo ring. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is actually a Lisa Leonard piece. It is the “Grateful” piece that was given to me by my Mom during a very difficult time in our family’s lives. my most prized piece of jewelry is a locket that i have. in may 2008 i had a baby 4 weeks early and she lived at arkansas childrens hospital for 21 days. my locket is marked with a ‘c’ for her name rayna charlize, we call her baby charlie. it has one of her beautiful long eyelashes inside. we had her creamated and she sits at the end of the hall. but when i feel extra sad about loosing her, i wear that necklace. The necklace my husband gave me while skiing. It’s so beautiful with a tree bowing in the wind and a mountain in the background. My most meaningful piece of jewelery i own is a necklace my mother gave to me for Christmas one year. I treasure it so much I have a tennis bracelet that my Mom and Dad gave to me for Christmas a few years ago. I love it ♥ How awesome! I love all of Lisa’s jewelry! My favorite piece of jewelry is a personalized necklace with my kid’s and husband’s names on it around a heart. I got it for Mother’s Day. My wedding ring – three intertwined rings – one white gold, one gold, and one rose gold. Not my original ring but very special to me. The three rings mean many things to me: the Trinity; faith, hope and charity; yesterday, today,and tomorrow; and those three words – I love you! My grandmother’s gold cross. She wore it everyday till she went into the nursing home. while i was dating my now husband he gave me a very thin small gold band for our 3 month anniversary. it was his commitment to our relationship and his intention to marry me. i have been wearing it for 23 years! My wedding ring is most precious to me, but the piece that came to mind is a necklace that my daughter worked SO HARD to me make for me several years ago for Christmas. It is not anything that I would (ahem) choose to wear, but she was so very proud of it. I still get teary whenever I look at it. So hard to choose. Besides my wedding ring–it would be either the necklace my husband gave me on my birthday the first year we were dating or the two aquamarine rings (my birthstone) that I got from my parents. first one my dad gave to my mom for high school graduation. second they gave me for my 21st birthday. My favorite piece of jewelry is my grandmother’s birthstone ring. We shared the same birthday month so I was the lucky one to inherit the ring – it’s an absolutely gorgeous simple setting with a couple of small diamonds. It is very antique looking and I cherish it. my wedding ring…like my marriage, it still shines after 15 years! For our 20th anniversary my husband had a necklace designed for me. It is two gold circles that are overlapped. They look like a venn diagram. I taught 1st grade for many years and my husband remembered that I told him that a venn diagram taught the children about what differences two things have and the part where the cycles overlap show what the two things have in common. My husband had “three” diamonds set into the overlapping part to show our mutual love for one another representing our past, present, and future together (“three”), our love for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (“three”), and our love for our “three” children. It is my most meaningful piece of jewelry along with my wedding band of course. We eloped to Marysville Kansas (from Lincoln Nebraska) when we were in college. We were both students and didn’t even have money for wedding rings. Our witnesses at our wedding let us borrow their rings for the ceremony and when we saved up enough money we bought simple wedding bands for each of us. My husband thought of THE most romantic way to surprise me with my wedding band but that is another story. I wish I had a picture of my Venn diagram necklace! People comment on it all the time. Even after 30 years of marriage I am still thanking God every day for bringing my husband to me. I recently purchased a necklace from Amy Cornwell. The charms have the initials of each of my children. It is my fave right now. I have two pieces. First, my Grandmother’s wedding ring. It is beautiful, but I love it because when I look at it I can still see it on her hand. I also have a charm with my Grandma’s fingerprint. She left fingerprints all over my life, so it is fitting that I wear her fingerprint around my neck. I was very close to both of my Grandmothers. My wedding ring for sure. We have been through a lot in our marriage, but that ring is still on my finger 🙂 My favorite piece of jewelry is a necklace my husband brought me back from Africa. Besides my wedding ring, my favorite piece would be a bracelet my 2 teenagers picked out and gave me for Christmas last year. My mother’s engagement ring. She gave it to me when my father died. I didn’t initially like the setting and considered resetting it, but my mother said “and you can’t change the setting because dad designed it.” I had no idea! Now this simple solitaire set on a wide gold band is my favorite. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my mother’s bracelets that she wore everyday and now I do. I carry her with me in my heart and on my arm everyday. It’s just a piece of costume jewelry but it was my great grandma’s and I love it! I’ll say my engagement and wedding ring for obvious reasons. However, when I read the question my mind immediately went to my Lisa Leonard necklace for a few reasons. 1) my boys’s names are on it, 2) I chose to put the word “remember” on the back of it, closest to my heart, to remember the baby that I lost between my boys, 3) I bought it with money from my in-laws when I finally got my master’s degree in 2009. After my brother passed away in 2007 I never thought I’d finish. But my family, along with my very supportive professors, encouraged me to keep going and right up to the 10 year mark, I finally did it!! Thanks for the chance to win Meg! i wear the same necklace everyday. simple single diamond in white gold. it’s the necklace my husband had made for me when our 1st daughter was born. he gave it to me in the hospital the day she was born. it’s my “thanks for having my baby” necklace! and i get super excited to give it to her one day, when she has her first baby. =) a pair of diamond earrings my parents gave me for my high school graduation that my dad picked out for me just a year after he almost died from a brain aneurysm. I wear them when I need a little extra bit of strength some days. And yes also my wedding ring 🙂 Definitely my wedding ring. We had no money so we got a simple band for $35 at a craft show. My husband wanted to get me a new one for our 15 years anniversary but no way! A bracelet my mom gave to me. I wear it daily and it always puts a smile on my face. I admired it as a child and to have it on my wrist now means the world to me. My wedding band! It doesn’t match my engagement ring at all-but my husband knew how much I loved it and bought it for me. 🙂 I would say the most meaningful would be my wedding band 🙂 I only have one, but it’s a good one. My wedding ring! 🙂 I love, love, LOVE Lisa’s shop. But I love her story and her family more! I started following her blog before I knew she created such gorgeous jewelry (and before apparently the rest of the world got wise and realized it too – loved being one of the early ones 🙂 My husband surpised me with a beautiful ring when he found out how much I like tanzanite. Sometime later, my hand got caught in a door and the ring bent to where it had to be cut off. The person in the jewelry department wasn’t able to snip the ring, so my husband (who was very upset that I was in pain), grabbed the dykes, grimaced, and snipped the ring right off. I wear the repaired ring frequently and both memories – the gifting and the rescue – are so special to me. Of course my wedding ring would be one of my favorites, but I would have to say the ring I got from my mom on my 16th birthday. She redid one of her old rings she had gotten from my grandma and the center stone is a diamond from my moms original wedding ring.. My grandma passed away on Tuesday after a 2 year fight with cancer.. so the holidays will be a little tough this year… My wedding ring. It’s custom mokume gane made by Newman’s Design Mine as a set with my husband’s band. It makes me smile every time I look at it. My wedding band/engagement ring is by far my most precious. It rarely comes off my finger! My wedding ring, not only because it symbolizesmy husband and I’s marriage but because my husband had it made from my great grandmothers ring! Fun!! My husband gave me a black pearl ring on thin gold wire back when we dated in high school (uh, 15 years ago now), but the cute wire it was on finally gave in and broke…for our first married V-day he had it made into a necklace that I love. He rarely surprises me with anything (and isn’t into Valentine’s day) so this one was a total surprise! My wedding ring and my mother’s birthstone ring. She and I were born in the same month so after she died, it came to me by default. Hands down, my wedding band. Thank you sharing the Lisa Leonard Luv. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own would be the wrap around diamond cluster that surrounds my solitaire…my hubby and I had a summer before we married where we called off our engagement-ok, I called it off-cold feet…when we got back together {thank You, Jesus!}he wanted to return my solitaire and get a whole new ring-but there was so much sentimentality-we had a rich history together and I didn’t want to throw that away- so we decided to enhance {old and new rings} as we moved on into the future…very sentimental to me..life and love is tinged with both beauty and pain…WOW, thanks for the amazing giveaway!! Merry Christmas everyone!! I’d have to say it’s my wedding ring! But, I also made a mother’s pin at a mothers of multiples (I have twins) meeting. There are beads to represent the gemstones of all my children’s birth month. My wedding ring (10 years and counting till forever!) and the many many pieces of macaroni jewelry made by my kids! My mother ring. My husband gave it to me the first Mother’s Day after our last baby was born. It has the kids’ names and birthstones around the ring and I love it. That would be my great grandmother’s ring. It belonged to my mother then it was passed down to me. I’ve had it for over 20 years and still enjoy wearing it. When my daughter gets married I want the ring to be her something old and blue. I have a necklace that has a christmas picture of the kids on one side and a flower on the other. I love it! My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. It was my grandmother’s ring. My husband new that I wanted it, and even when my mother passed it along and told him he could change it up a bit, he knew that it was perfect just as is…didn’t even need to be sized! My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a gold band that my husband got me after I had a miscarriage. I wear it under my wedding band. My wedding ring, of course. My wedding ring!!! Definetly my wedding ring. Yes, of course, for those that are married…it should be your wedding ring! But…as others have stated, second to that I am anticipating that my most favorite piece of jewelry is going to be the Lisa Leonard mom necklace that I JUST ordered for myself for Christmas last night!!! I’ve been wanting one forever, and it was on sale, plus I used the 20% off code from – you! My in-laws (MIL, SIL’s) all have a Hope/Faith/Love ring. So when my husband & I became engaged, they gifted me with the same ring. 🙂 And of course, my wedding ring! Would love to own a piece of Lisa Leonard jewelry! Merry Christmas! I love Lisa Leonard too and have a few of her pieces, which are meaningful to me. But my most treasured piece has to be my grandmother’s gold nugget pendant. It’s a family heirloom! Thanks for doing the giveaway! Besides my wedding ring, my most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is a diamond heart necklace my husband gave me the day he told me he loved me for the first time:) My wedding ring is MY personal most meaningful piece of jewelry. However, the piece of jewelry that probably means the most to me is a simple silver band. It was my grandmother’s wedding ring. It shows it’s age, the design is barely visible around the edges. It is not fancy or frilly, there are no diamonds. This ring symbolizes her 10 children, becoming a widow too early, her struggles, her perseverance, most of all, her love for us. I am proud beyond measure to have this ring. She was 88 when she passed, and her 88th grand/great grandchild was born shortly after. We are now at about 120+. All because of this simple band. My own wedding ring obviously but also my mom gave me her diamond when I turned 18 . My second favorite is a pearl necklace . My parents gave me an inch every year until I was 18. That would have to be my wedding ring and the cross I wear everyday. Both from my husband! The only 2 pieces of jewelry I wear are my favorite. My wedding rings and my mother’s rings. Obviously my engagement and wedding rings are pretty important, but second to those, I have a necklace that was given to me by my aunt and uncle as a high school graduation gift. It’s a very simple oval sapphire pendant. It’s very pretty on its own, but after I opened it and oohed and ahhed, my uncle told me that the stone itself was originally set in a tie tack that my mother had given him from the jewelry store where she worked up until I was born. My mom really loved working at this small, downtown jewelry store and I have fond memories of going there as a kid. I wear it all the time! My engagement ring! My wedding and engagement rings are kind of a given….but even more special to me are the earrings that my husband gave me after the birth of our first daughter. every time I put them on, I remember exactly how I felt the day she was born! I hope I never, ever, never, ever forget that feeling. I have the pearls my grandmother, my mother, and I wore at our weddings. We all have long marriages. My grandma was married 62 years when grandpa passed. My mom and my dad just celebrated 57 years and my husband and myself just celebrated 30. I think these pearls are blessed. 🙂 a bracelet that has my kids names and my wedding ring, of course:) btw i ordered that darling little pewter bowl from lisas shop to give as a gift. It came and is so darling…i want one for myself! I’m sure everyone has said this, but my engagement ring is my favorite… its just all of the memories that go with it from our engagement, wedding and most importantly our marriage! A braided friendship bracelet my daughter made me. I wear it everyday. My charm bracelet. It was started when I was in 2nd grade and hasn’t had anything added to it in years. But looking at it makes me smile. Plus I love the sound of all my charms clinking together 🙂 My favorite piece of jewelry is a dragonfly necklace my son bought me for mothers day. He was only about 6 years old and he knows how much I love dragonflies. My first child was stillborn and there is a connection with dragonflies and him. Melts my heart. I will cherish it forever. My wedding ring. It is a combination of my engagment ring and a diamond band that was my grandmother’s. I asked for it when I was a very small child and many years later was passed on to me. She always wanted me to have it made into something else. a necklace, earrings,etc but I saved it and had it reworked to go with my engagment ring. We were in Memphis looking for an engagement ring. None of the jewelry stores were open on Sunday. We found a pawn shop/jewelry store run by an older couple with strong New York accents. I love that my engagement ring comes with this colorful story of the pawn shop, the older couple, their accents, her beehive hairdo. When I tried on the sapphire and diamond ring, it fit perfectly and the lady said, “Darling, it’s stunning!”. Love that ring. I don’t wear it every day like most people so that when I do wear it, it feels extra special. ; ) My wedding ring set and my grandma’s wedding ring. my grandmother’s SMU class ring from about 1930. It’s too small for me but it is very symbolic as she was a female and got a scholarship way back then! She ended up not finish her college career because she got married but just getting there was the point. I love LL! My wedding ring. my engagement and wedding rings. They are so perfect and simple and reflect so much on our journeys in our marriage. Definitely my wedding and engagement rings <3 I would say my wedding ring! my mother’s simple rosebud band that my dad gave her…he passed away when I was 18 and she has passed it along to me and then to my daughter. A ring my grandmother gave me for high school graduation that I have a piece that is so special to me and I get comments on it all the time. It’s called a Thumbie. My papa was the most amazing man and so very special to me. When he passed away, the funeral planners had this brochure about Thumbies. They take a thumb print of your loved one at the funeral home and send it out and then you receive a round emblem necklace with their thumb print on it. I rarely take it off – only to put fashion jewelry on – because I hold him so dear to my heart! My wedding ring! I have 2 that I cherish the most. 1 is my wedding ring and the other is my grandma’s class ring. She graduated in 1932 from Liberal H.S. out in western KS. I have the original box that it came in also. My uncle let me have it after she passed away and although it isn’t very pretty and isn’t worth anything, to me, it’s priceless. I also have both of my grandma’s mother’s rings that they wore when they were living. They are both very similar and simple and I love them! My wedding and engagement rings gotta be my wedding ring. it’s the only thing i wear EVERY day. it’s unique and classic and i love it. Well the only two pieces of jewlery I own are my wedding ring and a watch! I have a beautiful pearl necklace given to me by my mother on my wedding day. An amethyst (both our birthstone) ring my mom gave me that she bought when she was 19. We share the same birthstone and I have always loved it! Definitely my wedding ring. I was just given my grandmother’s engagement ring. She passed away 6 years ago, and that beautiful little vintage reminder means so much to me, fits perfectly, and is just my style 🙂 Probably my wedding rings along with 2 eternity bands I wear on my right hand that represent my 2 boys. My husband gave me a ring and necklace set when our daughter was born. I love it! I have a necklace with my boys names on it that I love. See so many great pieces in lisa’s collection! My beautiful wedding ring. It’s almost 20 years old but the love I have for it has definitely grown over those many years. My engagement ring, for obvious reasons! We’ve been married almost 9 years and I still get chills when I think about him proposing and putting that ring on my finger. my most precious piece is my moms engagement ring, its small and delicate and i just love it!, what makes it so special, is she gave it to me before she passed. She said she wanted to see me enjoy it while she was alive . It’s a constant reminder of her love for her family. Of course, it’s my wedding ring, but I also have a opal and pearl ring my husband gave me when our first daughter was born. It’s my birthstone and our daughter’s together. Definitely my wedding ring. My dear friend gave me my favorite necklace. When my second son left for the military, she gave me a chain with a tiny beautiful compass with my sons’ initials on circles hanging next to it. She said that way, wherever my boys are across the globe, they’ll always be close to their mother’s heart. I haven’t taken it off since she gave it to me. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding band. My husband and I just married but it is a constant reminder of the promises made that day to eachother. He is such a blessing to me. I love all my pieces of jewelry that were my grandma’s. Some of it is just costume jewelry but when I wear it I feel so connected to her. I want to collect pieces that I can pass down to my family and Lisa Leonard makes high quality pieces that can be passed down. A birthstone necklace of my 4 kids….and my engagement ring. When I graduated from high school my great aunt gave me an amethyst ring. My aunt had originally given it to my great-grandmother for her birthday many years ago. After she died my great aunt wore the ring. I love having this special family heirloom! My favorite piece of jewelry is an antique cameo bracelet that was my mom’s when she was a teenager! its beautiful and reminds me of her when i look at it! Most meaningful piece of jewelry is the vintage flower pin given to me by my mother, it belonged to my great grandmother. Special. I have two favorite pieces actually — a small pearl ring my dad gave me on my 16th birthday and my wedding band. While my wedding band is a simple band of silver, it was handcrafted with a hammered textured by one of my husband’s artist friends and given to me by the love of my life. Lots of love in that ring. So love all of her jewelry–thanks for the chance to win! My most meaningful piece is definitely my wedding ring…because it symbolizes one of my greatest gifts and the best person I know. My wedding ring is really the most important and special piece of jewelry, the problem is about 18 years ago the diamond came out when I was shopping and I did not realize it until I got home at the end of the day, i have not been able to wear it since, money hasn’t been available to replace it. It would be fun to order something special from the Lisa Leonard jewelry line. Hope i win! My wedding ring is so special to me. It signifies a time when we truly had “nothing” monitarily. BUT I felt like I had everything. My husband asks me often if I want something new or different or bigger, and I insist that the original one is perfect and always will be. A necklace my husband had made that spells my name in symbols. I love Lisa’s designs and have an initial necklace that is becoming a favorite. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my engagement/wedding ring set. Not only because it’s my wedding set, but because it belonged to my grandmother. My grandparents were married for 49 years until my grandpa passed away. Grandma is still alive and kicking at 94 years old 🙂 The bright yellow pipe cleaner bracelet my son made ten years ago in preschool means absolutely everything to me. I have two, my mom’s wedding rings. When she passed away we almost forgot to get them but luckily a caretaker did. I wear them to keep her close. The last Sunday my now fiancé was the minister at a church in Pennsylvania, many of the members of his congregtion shook his hand, shared gifts of blessing, and wished him off well. But one member in particular, an elderly woman who was dedicated to her attendance in the Bible Study that he had led there, wanted to show her appreciation of his time and ministry to their church in a most beautiful way. As he stood in a receiving line, shaking hands, exchanging hugs & laughs, she shook his hand and slipped an object into his hand very discreetly. He didn’t look at the item right away, but instead stuck it in his pocket until he retrieved it when he arrived home. Much to his surprise it was a diamond ring! She had given him her diamond engagement ring – even though she was still married to her husband! My fiancé called her to make sure that she had truly meant to give this meaningful item to him and she said “yes, because it is the only thing of value that I own & it is all I have to give to you.” He held on to this ring and shortly after he and I began dating, he shared this story with me. I was astonished by the beauty of the vintage piece and jokingly let him know if he ever wanted to marry me, that this would be a perfect ring to propose with! And little did I know, he remembered this request! And after we became engaged, we called the woman who gave him the ring to tell her what he had done with her ring – she was so thrilled! We are getting married in March and will be sharing this beautiful story of ministry, gifts, and love during our ceremony 🙂 My wedding ring as it symbols the covenant we made 22 years ago I own 2 pieces of jewlery that are near and dear to my heart (besides my wedding ring). First, is a pin that my mom used to wear when I was litte. I can still remember the day she gave it to me–such a sweet memory…the other piece is a pearl drop necklace that belonged to my sister-in-law. She died about 3 years ago, but I loved all of her pearl pieces, and I cried when my brother brought me some of her pearls to keep. I’d have to say my wedding ring, hubby and I designed it together! my wedding ring 🙂 My most meaningful is my Grandma’s engagement and wedding ring set. Her original set, my aunt has the set that Granma got on her 25 th anniversary. I love it and only wear it for special things cuz I cherish it so. As far as Lisa Leonard…..well her stuff is so cool and I have wanted to treat myself to that bar bracelet and have her write let it be on there. I need to be able to see those words….often. I’m kind of a Lisa Leonard nut, too 🙂 my dad suffered from a really bad stroke and can no longer speak or write. When I was growing up dad would always be the one to write out my birthday card or christmas card, nevr just with “love from Mum and Dad” but always covered with funny stories or words of wisdom or praise or love. I now have a necklace with some of his handwriting copied from an old card on it. Even though we can’t quite communicate as easily now, when I get upset about it I can touch the necklace and feel his words and know that all the important things in our relationship have been said already and are stored in our hearts always I have two besides my wedding set. A necklace made out of my mother in law’s engagement ring. She had it made for me a few years after my father in law passed away. I also cherish my grandmother’s wedding band that I wear on my right hand. She and my grandfather were married for 66 years before he passed away! My wedding ring! We were young and in college with little money so it is small and simple and I still love it after all these years! My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. For obvious reasons, of course. But also because it was lost for nine years . . . and we FOUND IT! Shortly after we moved into our 100+ year old home, I dropped it down a heater vent that was in the second story. We searched and searched the vent, my husband got creative with flashlights and video cameras suspended on ropes, we even hired people to search the ductwork. We finally gave up and I resigned myself to the fact that I would never see it again. Nine years later, when we were having some work done on the house, one of the workers found it in the ceiling of our basement! I have two favorites. A heart necklace which was the first piece of jewelry my husband bought me when we were dating. And the second is a necklace and earring set from my Grandma. We shared a birthday and she picked out the necklace and earring set and set it aside for me to have before she passed away. A pearl necklace my Dad gave me when I got married I have my Grandmother’s engagement and wedding ring set. I barely knew her, but my Dad wanted me to have them after I had my first daughter. Hopefully I can pass them on to one of my girls someday. My wedding ring.:) My wedding ring, of course. Although this year, my dad made a ring for my sister and I out of our mom’s jewelry. She passed away a year and a half ago. I have two! My wedding band of course and a sapphire ring that my parents gave me when I graduated from high school. Both are very special. My beaded pipe cleaner bracelet my son made for me 🙂 My engagement ring, not because of the diamond in it but because my husband had the band custom made with his sign and my sign supporting the diamond. It symbolizes the start of our beautiful family, us two supporting our growing family.I look at it every day and I cherish it! Wow, what an amazing giveaway. Her stuff is all so wonderful but I’ll admit that jewelry is something I have a hard time spending money on for myself. My husband designed my wedding ring and even more than it’s looks, what it symbolizes makes it a treasure especially for a girl who waited what seemed a very long time of singleness and “what is your plan, God?” to get one. Also, my mom gave my sil and I a charm bracelet a few years ago. It has all Christmas charms. We all (me, mom, sil) wear ours in Dec. each year! My mom gave us the charms throughout the year at different times and then at the end of the year we had a full bracelet to wear. The last piece of jewelry that is really on my mind is a piece I lost yesterday. 🙁 I am really hoping it turns up. It is just a plastic “crystal” bracelet but it looked great with everything and I mostly care about it because a dear high school girl who was my student helper when I was teaching gave it to me and it just reminds me of that precious girl. Have called all the places I was yesterday and left my name and number. We’ll see. Kelly My cross necklace a friend made me I have a ring for each of my kids that has their name, birthday and birthstone on it. They stack and are on my left hand next to my wedding ring. They never come off! oh the love!!!! My fave piece of jewlery has to be this funky beaded hippy-ish necklace my mom used to wear in 7th grade 🙂 My wedding ring takes first prize, but I have a little necklace with my kid’s initials that I love too. I have my great-grandmother’s diamond ring. Priceless to me. My husband has given me a piece of jewelry to mark the birth of each of our three children; those pieces are so special to me along with my antique engagement ring and wedding band. That would definitely have to be my wedding/engagement ring! I don’t really have any jewelry that’s been given to me that is reeeeeally special. So when I was thinking of an answer, the only thing I could think of is my wedding ring. It’s my favorite piece of jewelry! 🙂 My mother passed away in February and I kept one of her rings that is so very special to me. It was a ring that was designed by my dad and made from one of his rings. I remember my mother opening up a HUGE box on Christmas Day, only to find another box and another and so on until she finally opened a small box with a bunch of heavy rocks. Right in the middle of the rocks was this ring. A diamond in the rough! 🙂 So while I no longer have my mother with me on Earth and circumstances have long separated me from my father, I feel I have both of them with me every day when I wear this ring. My grandmother’s opal that my husband made inot a necklace for me. It was the first gift my dad bought for his mom with his own money. She wore it everyday thereafter! My wedding and engagement rings go without saying! My wedding ring and my grandma’s wedding ring. Wedding rings. : ) I also have a birthstone ring with a stone for each of my children, myself and my husband that I love and wear all the time as well. : ) I have 2 pieces of jewelry that I treasure! One is my grandmothers high school graduation ring and the other is a pearl bracelet my husband gave me while we were dating! I love your blog! My most beloved piece of jewelry is a heart necklace that my mother gave to me when I graduated High School. My mother received it from my father on their wedding day. The necklace was given to my father by his mother. I wore this necklace on my wedding day. My grandmother and I were extremely close and I miss her everyday. A gold cross that we bought in Hawaii. It was way more than we could afford, but we bought it anyway. When I wear it, people ALWAYS stop me, and comment on how beautiful it is. The entire cross is designed with the state flower of Hawaii, with a flame of the Holy Spirit through the center. A wonderful witnessing tool! I’d have to go corny and say wedding ring of course. A pair of pearl earrings with a small diamond that my kids and husband gave me on my 40th birthday. My engagement ring because it was the ring my husbands father gave his mother when he asked her to marry him, he was the love of her life. They were married only a few short years and when she was only 4 months pregnant with my husband they were in a horrible car accident that left her as in incomplete quad and his father did not survive the crash. They told my mother in law that she would die giving birth so she shouldn’t try to carry the baby to full herm. Needless to say 41 years later I am married to that baby boy and she has and probably always will be the strongest woman I know to fight the fight she has all these years. (they said she would never walk again and she taught herself how to) I know it’s a long story but it’s the history of why I am wearing this ring and she’s not and why it is my most cherished piece of jewelry. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a necklace that I received after my grandmother passed away. She wore it everyday whether she was fishing, gardening, shopping or going out. Her husband, my poppy, had the necklace made for her. He used the diamonds from her engagement ring and her mothers wedding ring. I love that I am wearing two generations of love around my neck daily, and some day I will pass it down to my daughter! Favourite piece… I think two bracelets that I have, from each of my 2 grandmas. One is silver and the other one is some kind of faux gold, they happen to look very much alike. I’m not wearing them for fear of losing them, but they remind me of my grannies (that both passed away) all the time ! Wedding ring of course for all that it symbolizes in my life and Jared’s ( my husband). I also love a bracelet they my sil gave me that has a widows mite in it. Such an awesome reminder to give all that we have to God. Thanks for this giveaway. Love Lisa Leonard and don’t have any of her jewelry…YET! 🙂 I have to say my wedding/engagement rings. My favorite piece is my wedding ring which I’ve had for 31 years 🙂 and I have a charm bracelet too that has a bunch of charms that all have a special meaning. Thank you! I have a couple pieces that mean a lot. My wedding ring first for obvious reasons then a cross necklace my husband gave me for our 10th wedding anniversary 10 years ago. Then most recently my family gave me Lisa Leonard’s faith, hope, love necklace. I love it. Thanks for making this give away available. Merry Christmas. I’d say mine is the opal (my birthstone) ring that my mother gave to me for my 16th birthday. my engagement ring. my hubby spent a month researching rings and diamonds and he picked it out all on his own. he did an awesome job! My engagement ring, it orginally belonged to my husband’s grandmother. She gave it to him to give to me! Hi Meg, Awe – I love her work. My favorite piece is my wedding ring of course 🙂 Thanks so much for the opportunity to win 🙂 xo One that means a lot to me right now is the Africa necklace my mil got me last year for Christmas…she gave it to me with a sweet note about how she was looking forward to meeting her Ethiopian grandchildren…we’re still waiting but I think of them every time I wear it. Engagement ring! Reminds me of A very special day!! Definitely my engagement ring that has the diamond from my mother-in-law’s engagement ring. When my husband’s Dad died, she wanted to pass along the diamond and I couldn’t be more honored to have it. It’s beautiful! – Amanda O. Definately the matching rings I share with my sister My wedding ring would be the obvious pick for me. My husband did such a great job with picking it! I would LOVE to win a Lisa Leonard gift card as we are having our first baby in February and I have been looking at her website to get gifts for my Mom and Mother-in-law with our baby girls name on them but my hubby just got laid off. Thank you so much for the chance to win! Mine would be my engagement ring/wedding band from my husband. My engagement ring is a single solitaire symbolizing our love and the wedding band has five diamonds in it. one for each of my husband’s kids from his first marriage. Now I need a third band with two diamonds for the two children we have been blessed with together! I don’t wear (or own) much jewelry, so it’s not hard for me to pick the most meaningful! It would have to be my engagement ring. I simple gold ring with a single pearl. It was my grandmother’s ring, and my now husband chose to give it to me when we got engaged. I love it’s simplicity! Well, the wedding ring is the obvious answer. But there’s another cool piece I have and truly love. It is a sapphire and diamond pinky ring (her mother’s from the 1920s) my grandmother gave me when I turned 18. She felt I was a woman and needed some real jewelry. Of course, at 18, I was thinking, “when am I ever going to wear this?” but I did think it was beautiful. She sadly died shortly after this very birthday. I ended up wearing the ring as my “something blue’ on my wedding day. I missed her terribly, but I felt her presence because of the ring! To this day, I have it locked up somewhere safe and only plan on pulling it out again on a VERY special occasion. A ring that belonged to my mother before she died. I wear an antique diamond ring that belonged to my great-great aunt who took care of my grandmother after her parents died, that she then wore, that my aunt wore, and after me, my daughter will wear. A couple of years ago, I had all my rings checked to make sure that the prongs were secure and this ring was the only one that did not need any work. They don’t make them like they used to! A necklace that my Grandad got in the Philippines when he was there in WW2. It is made out of wood with little ivory birds. My parents wedding rings. My engagement ring. I really wanted a sapphire instead of a diamond, and though my husband and I looked a dozens of stores, I couldn’t find exactly what I had in my head. He surprised me shortly after Valentine’s with the most beautiful ring after tricking me into believing he hadn’t been able to find the perfect ring. It’s exactly what I wanted and couldn’t put into words. Totally the best job he’s ever done picking out jewelry for me! Would have to say it’s my wedding ring. A tie between my wedding ring and a simple silver bracelet that my daughters picked out for me all on their own for my birthday last year. When I wear them both together, I feel like I have my whole family represented on one arm! My most important piece of jewelry that I wear is my Mom’s wedding ring I wear around my neck in remembrance of her.Someday I will wear it as my own wedding ring but until then around my neck it shall stay:) my wedding rings. my husband chose them all by himself and they are perfect. It would have tobe the diamond heart necklace my husband gave me when we were dating! my wedding band and engagement rings. Also, my husband brought me a beautiful emerald ring back from Greece and i love it First is definitely my wedding ring…when we put our rings on at our wedding over 10 years ago we said, “Hereto I pledge thee my faithfulness.” Still get goosebumps thinking about that! But second, would be my family tree necklace from Lisa Leonard! I wear it just about every day. Only bad thing is that I’ve had another baby since I got it and her name isn’t on it. But still, that is my VERY favorite besides my wedding ring. =) my necklace with a honeybee charm on it. my grandpa was a beekeper, and he recently passed away, so i bought that necklace to remember him by. My wedding ring and a necklace I made out of my son’s hospital bracelet that I never took off while he was in the NICU. Other than my wedding ring? A necklace with a silver pendant cut to look like Kansas. My husband gave it to me when we were living in the desert and I was feeling particularly homesick. Now we’re back and I still wear it nearly everyday– as a celebration 🙂 Without a doubt it’s my wedding ring. It represents 28 years of marriage to the most amazing man, 4 children and many, many, many blessed wonderful memories! My 10th anniversary band with 5 small diamonds…because for our 10th anniversary we did not go on a fancy trip, but rather a trip to the hospital to deliver twin girls…after having two sons. My sweet man gave me the ring with 5 diamonds representing the 5 people who love me the most…my husband and our four children. I think of it every time I look at it:) so special! LOVE Lisa Leonard’s jewelry and would love to win! My engagement ring. Getting married 12/29 of this year. I’m 48 and he’s 47 and he’s waiting his whole life. Never been married. And he picked me. And he picked the ring. My engagement ring. Getting married 12/29 of this year. I’m 48 and he’s 47 and he’s waiting his whole life. Never been married. And he picked me. And he picked the ring. My beautiful wedding ring! It’s a tie between my wedding ring and an old ring my mom passed down with my parents’ and sibling’s birthstones. Its a tie between my wedding ring and the bracelet my son made for me in preschool. I do love that bracelet… I do love my wedding ring too! My most precious piece of jewelry is the necklace my ex-husband gave to me the first Christmas after our son (now 22) was born. It was a golden heart locket, and held two tiny photos of our son. But what give that piece of jewelry character of it’s own is the tiny teeth marks our son left when he bit the locket. PRECIOUS! My favorite piece of jewelry is my mom’s wedding ring. It is a simple gold band, but it means the world to me! Thanks Meg! What a wonderful gesture and gift, wow! So I would have said my wedding ring of nearly 20 years but I lost it this year! It wasn’t fancy but it was mine and I loved it. So now I would say my James Avery charm bracelet. I have collected many charms over the years my favorite of which are the baby shoes with my kids birthdates engraved! My favorite piece of jewelry is my engagement ring because I never have worn alot of jewelry ever before and I feel like it is always the perfect touch to make me feel fancy on a normal day. However before I got my engagement ring I got a ring from my mother on my 21st birthday that had previously belonged to my grandmother. I had made it very clear that I wanted it but I NEVER, NEVER thought in a million years it would be something to get before my mom passed and then left to me. I was shocked to get it and have never taken it off since! A ring my dad gave to my mom when she gave birth to me,… which i have now inherited. My wedding ring and a ring I got while studying abroad in Russia, that says in old Russian, “Savior keep and protect me.” My grandmother’s wedding ring, I wear it every day on my right ring finger! My favorite piece of Jewelry is my mother’s bracelet! Along with my children’s first name on the bracelet I added there birthstones and I wear it everyday! I would love to purchase one of Lisa’ s necklaces for my mom with the grandchildren’s names! The Tiffany necklace my grandma gave me for my college graduation. Definitely my wedding ring–it’s the most beautiful thing to me! My wedding rings and then my mom’s engagement ring. My dad gave it to me when she passed away. A necklace my husband gave me with the birthstones of our 3 kids – I love it. well….of course it’s my wedding ring, but other than that it would be my sterling captured heart necklace from lisa. it has my husband’s name and my two kids. i wear it all the time. they are always with me. I have three and i never take them off. on my right hand, my grandmother’s wedding ring. on my left hand thumb, my mom had a wedding band made to match my dad’s wedding band for when she worked in the garden (so she could keep her diamonds sparkling!) and then ,of course, my own wedding ring. three generations of wedding rings worn daily by me 🙂 I got one of Lisa’s necklaces with my four kids names on it – just a few days shy of my fourth son’s birth. Love it. And, I have already had a gift waiting in my cart on Lisa’s site…..this would definitely come in handy! My braided white gold wedding band. My husband and I have matching ones. I love looking at it and thinking all that it’s been through since it was first put on my finger 11 years ago. Aside from my engagement and wedding rings, my husband gave me a necklace with two hearts on it – one silver with an aquamarine stone and one carved turquoise one to represent each of our two boys. I think it’s special because of that and because my husband took the time to design it for me. looks like it’s already been said but my wedding ring is my most precious piece of jewelry also. i don’t have much other jewelry, besides costume jewelry. it’s precious to me because it’s from my husband and obviously reminds me of our life together! Hmmm. That one is tough. I would have to pick a tiny pearl necklace my grandmother got for me. You add a pearl each year. Necklace with mother and daughter birthstones that my husband gave me on the day our daughter was born. My wedding ring. It symbolizes the covenant I made to to my husband before our Lord. My wedding ring and band are so very meaningful to me, but another special piece is an inexpensive charm necklace with charms of California and New York to represent where I live and where my sister lives. She has a matching necklace and we use them to keep each other close over the long distance. my “cora” bracelet…a sweet reminder of my sweet girl. 🙂 A necklace my husband gave me when I had our son. My Grandmothers wedding ring. Love it. Top of the list would be my wedding ring. After that, I have necklaces from my mom, sister, best friend and my late grandmother. I love them all! My wedding ring, I never take it off. My wedding rings!! Extra special is the fact that my rings were made from gold from my mother’s, grandmother’s and great grandmother’s wedding bands. I don’t own the ring anymore that came to mind when I read this. My parents gave me a sapphire and diamond ring a long tiime ago – sometime during my high school years. Sapphire is my birthstone and my daughters as well. For some reason she loved that ring when she was little and always wanted to try it on. One time, before she even started Kindergarten, I told her I would give it to her WHEN she went to college. She was so happy – I’m not sure she even knew what college was 🙂 Then somewhere along the way she started saying Mommy is giving me this ring IF I go to college. I would correct her and say “WHEN” you go to college. She went off to college a couple years ago and had completely forgotten about the ring. I pulled it out of the safety deposit box a few months ago and gave it to her on her 21st birthday. She had forgotten and was surprised and thrilled to get it because she was in college and 21. So, while that ring is not fancy and was not super expensive initially she says that now it is a tradition in our family to hand that ring down. So while I treasure rings from my husband and have a beautiful diamond and have inherited special jewelry the fact that she and I have started a tradition with this ring make it my favorite. Well, I know everyone probably said their wedding ring, but I just love my engagement ring because it’s unusual-the main stone is an emerald-cut sapphire. It is very special to me because it represents a time when we didn’t have a lot of material possessions (we couldn’t afford diamonds) but we didn’t let that stop us from moving forward! my wedding ring. my husband is not naturally a romantic, but he designed it himself. love! Wedding ring!! I would have to say my parents wedding bands. Although they were divorced, my father always loved my mother, even though he could not be the man she needed. And before he passed away he sent me their wedding set. He was a WONDERFUL father, and so it was precious to me that he had saved them and sent them to me. I had received beautiful diamond earrings and a diamond pendant necklace from my father on my graduation from college. 16 years later I still wear the earrings everyday and planned to give them to my daughter on her college graduation. Unfortunately, two weeks ago my house was robbed and all they took was cash and ALL my jewelry. All I have left is what I was wearing and on that day I was not wearing my father’s gift 🙁 At least I was wearing my wedding rings!! But I lost all my sentimental pieces from my husband and mom. I’m sure there is a silver lining somewhere. They can take my jewlery, but they cant take my memories or my faith. My wedding ring and a ring from my parents. A pearl ring that belonged to my grandma who passed away when I was in middle school. It is the only piece of jewelry I got of hers. I wore it on my wedding day, and then I had it turned into a pair of earrings to pass down to my daughter. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is most definitely my wedding ring. I love having a visible symbol of the love between my husband and I. It holds such memories…the day he gave it to me, the day we said “I do.” It’s one of very few material possessions that I don’t think I could do without! I hope to get the gift card so I can have a piece of jewelry with my son’s name on it! The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is definitely my wedding band. I’ve never taken it off since the day we wed. My wedding rings = Love My wedding ring because the main stone was my mother-in-laws and she gave it to my husband on her death bed and told him to give it to me. So special! my most meaningful piece of jewelry is the diamond heart ring my dad gave me when he promised he would always guard it for me 🙂 My grandma sent me all of her jewelry, and even though it’s just costume jewelry and nothing valuable it’s priceless to me because it’s the same jewelry I played dress up with as a child. 🙂 Would have to be my wedding ring. a leather bracelet with the word faith stamped into metal (Lisa Leonard style before I even knew about her) that a friend gave me in the months leading up to brain surgery. gave it to my mom to wear during surgery which she happily returned to my wrist afterwards. My beautiful wedding ring 🙂 My engagement ring! It’s actually my second one because my first one was stolen a couple years ago, but I love that my husband bought me another 🙂 My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a blue and white stone ring that my daughter gave me for Christmas when she was in Kindergarten. Each year at Christmas time, the school provided a store for the kids to shop. My daughter was so excited for me to open my present. She said, ” mommy, I picked it because it was only $5.00 and the blue stones match your eyes!” She is now 12 and when I dress up, I still wear my ring……. She thinks it’s cheesy now but I will never forget when she gave it to me. I have a pair of gold earrings that my father-in-law gave me for Christmas 2001. He passed away February 2002. I love wearing them and thinking of him! My favorite piece of jewelry is a toss up between my engagement ring or the ring my fiance gave me on our first Christmas together 7 years ago. My engagement ring is a symbol of completing our family (we have a 4 year old) and our future. The ring he gave me at Christmas reminds me that 7 years ago he knew his love was deep enough after just 5 months of dating that I deserved something as special as that. I’m reminded of his love for me every day. My wedding ring means so much to me. My wedding ring of course, but I have another ring that my father had engraved with my name on it when he was in Ecuador. The silversmith misspelled my name and happened to spell it in a way that my father always would lovingly mispronounce my name as a nickname. When he asked them to fix it to have my real name on the ring, they merely engraved over the nickname so both are on the ring. It is a charming “defect” on the only piece of jewelry my father has ever given me and I truly adore it! Totally cliche yet absolutely true. My wedding ring is the most meaningful. An amazing symbol of love and commitment from my main squeeze! Other than my wedding rings I would have to say my mothers ring is the most meaningful piece of jewelry I own. Imy husband surprised me with two interlocking silver bands with my girls names on them for Mothers Day one year. I am not a fan of traditional birthstone mother’s rings so I was thrilled that he had went out of the way to find me one I would love. After my mom died of cancer, I got her mother’s ring and my sister got her wedding ring. My brother was going to clean the mother’s ring for me, and lost it. My husband felt so sad about it, he bought me my very own mother’s ring with our three children’s birth stones. I love wearing it! Small diamond earrings that my husband gave me for my college graduation when we were dating. When I showed them to my mom, she said, “Diamonds are forever”. Indeed they are! my most treasured piece of jewelry is a beautiful diamond ring my great aunt gave me. she had no children of her own, but she had several nieces and nephews to choose from and she chose 12 year old me. it was such an honor. i rarely wear it, but when i do, i feel like a million bucks. Oh my, I love Lisa’s work. My most meaningful piece is my grandmother’s costume jewelry. She could wear big and gaudy pieces that made her look like a Queen! While the others wanted the “real” stuff, I wanted her “fake” pieces. They warm my heart! Of course my wedding ring, but there is also a necklace my husband gave me on my wedding day. It is small flowers with a crystal in each flower. As I looked back at my grandmother’s wedding photo (after my wedding) I noticed she was wearing a similar necklace in her photo. It was a complete coincidence because my husband didn’t know, but it makes it all the more special to me. My wedding ring… It’s beautiful & means so much to me my pearl necklace that my boyfriend (now husband) bought me for my high school graduation. I wore it for my prom and my wedding. My favorite piece of jewelry is actually my wedding band. It is just a plain white gold band but the meaning that it holds is what makes it so special to me. Definitely my gorgeous wedding ring. And a necklace with three stones my husband bought me when I had my daughter–since there were now three of us! Just one? How bout three? i would say my wedding ring…a symbol of a lifelong commitment to my best friend! Oh goodness! Obviously I have to say my wedding ring! And then my necklace with my kiddos names on it. I have the Lisa Leonard “let love grow” necklace and I LOVE it. Not only because it is so beautiful, but because of the message it means to my heart because marriage isn’t always easy… A necklace my husband gave me when we were first married. I feel in love with it one day at the mall and was completely surprised when he gave it to me for Christmas 🙂 unfortunately, the chain broke and the pendant is sitting in my jewelrybox. I’ll get a new chain.. someday 🙂 My husband took the diamonds from my grandma’s 25th anniversary ring and made a custom weddning band for me that he gave to me on our furst wedding anniversary at the place where he proposed. It’s super special 🙂 I love my ‘mom’ necklace – a different piece for each of my children. Oh, best giveaway EVER! I’m in love with Lisa’s work. I wear the necklace she gave in the swag at CW all the time. I also ordered some personalized jewelry for my sister-in-law for Christmas that I can’t wait to give her! Besides my wedding ring, my most loved piece is a simple heart necklace my husband gave me when I finished my masters program. It was special since it is the only other piece of jewelry he has given me, and when he signed the card he signed it from my kids too. One of which wasn’t born yet, so it was special seeing his name signed on the card too. I was not blessed with a great marriage so I have no wedding jewelry to treasure. I do however have three wonderful children who gave me a lisa leonard bracelet for mother’s day that bears their names. they are my treasures. My favorite piece of jewelry is a gold locket my boyfriend bought me when we were 16 and 17. He had it engraved to say “Always my sunshine…Love,Eric” on it. I married that boy 5 years later and we now have two beautiful girls, 7 & 9(tomorrow). I plan to pass it down to my oldest some day. I have the beaded baby bracelet my husband wore in the hospital when he was born. White beads with black letters,spelling Maserang, and blue beads on either side of the name. Funny to me that they put beads on a baby’s bracelet back then (1965). Now they are just paper. Wedding Ring!! a necklace with all of my kiddos names on it 🙂 my grandma’s wedding ring. it was given to me after she died. i wear it every day. 🙂 I love our wedding bands because they are both “found” and unique. I found mine the day I was supposed to get my wedding portraits made almost 16 years ago. Instead it rained and my mom and I killed time, hoping it would pass, in an old flea market. I found my ring in one of the small booths for $60, of course buying a vintage ring meant that me and my husband and I were not able to have matching ones. Later on, when things were tough, we had to pawn Nathan’s plain ring to help pay an electric bill, so for years he has worn a $5 silver ring in it’s place. Almost 15 years to the day I found my wedding band, I found one, identical to mine, for my Sweet Man by way of my brother (someone had given it to him.) Last year on our anniversary I was finally able to give my sweet man a matching ring. my late grandmother’s wedding ring 🙂 I have many pieces of jewelry I Iove… and, of course, my wedding ring is my absolutely most treasured piece. The other one is strange, but it is a tandem bicycle with diamonds set in the wheels. My husband and I loved to long-distance bicycle and we have ridden a tandem for years. On our large group trips (500 or more), many of the husbands take off and leave their wives behind in a show of testosterone, but my husband is committed to me riding on the bike with him… and he thinks it’s great to have me close to talk to. So… if he wants me to share his bike with him I will wear a tandem necklace proudly! Next to my wedding ring, I would say that I hope a piece of Lisa Leonards jewelry will be my new favorite! I would love to own her stuff but just can’t afford to right now! Thanks for hosting this giveaway! xoxo My grandmothers 1/4 carat diamond ring that my grandfather gave to her after his four year deployment to France during WWII. Almost as treasured as the shoe box of love letters he sent he during that four years. That ring lovingly sits on my 15 year old daughters right ring finger. Her name is Nettie, named after my beloved grandmother who wore it on her right ring finger until she passed a month before my Net was in my belly. My husband gave me a pair of earrings that have been worn for 6 generations in his family! They’re not gaudy or spectacular. They are simple and special. Love them. My most treasured piece of jewelery is a St. Christopher medallion that my Nana wore every time she came over from England for a visit. I was not blessed to live in the same country or even continent as my grandparents. But the distance did not hinder the close bond I had with my Nana. Her and my Grandad were able to attend every graduation and wedding of me and my 5 siblings with visits when we were younger. On every visit she wore her St. Christopher medallion as he is the Saint of travelers. When I was little sitting on her lap I use to rub the medallion between my fingers asking her to tell me about it. Well, 2 years ago at the age of 93 my Nana joined my Grandaddy in heaven and she left me her medallion. It definitely is my most prized possession. I wear it every day and know my Nana is always with me. :0) Definitely the sweet, simple wedding ring we picked out as two poor college kids. No matter how far we have come, I will always cherish the innocence and passion that are behind that ring. Mine would have to be the pearl earrings from my grandmother I have had them since I was 9 years old and they mean so much to me! My wedding rings. My engagement ring is a sapphire..both of our birthstones and he proposed on my birthday! I swoon every time I look at it! Definitely my wedding set. I had only a small “promise ring” that my husband gave me while we were dating, and wore that for the first 12 years of marriage. Then Christmas 4 years ago hubby surprised me with the set I have now: vintage looking, and so me. It makes me happy that he picked it out for me after 12 years. He still thought I was worth it! 🙂 My wedding ring. 🙂 Would LOVE to have the camera necklace! my watch. the one piece of jewelry I have that I didn’t expect to get. my husband bought it for me on my 25th birthday. Wow!! Almost 15 years ago. My wedding ring and diamond earrings that my husband gave me. I wear them everyday. In second place is my necklace from craft weekend that Lisa helped us make. It is so special! My husband gave me a cross after our 1st daughter was born. Other than my engagement ring it is my favorite! I would have to say my most meaningful piece of jewelry would have to be my wedding ring, but a close second would be my necklace with all three of my kids’ names and their birth stones. I just love that necklace! I have a charm necklace with all of my kids, their birthstone, and a cross on it. LOVE it. I love that people ask me about it, and I get to tell them about my 4 kids. 🙂 I love, love my wedding ring! 22 years married to my best friend. I have a few Lisa Leonard necklaces and I love them too! my wedding ring…love My wedding ring is especially meaningful because it’s simple and elegant, and because my fiancee took me ring shopping a couple days after we got engaged and let me choose my ring. And now, 33 years later, it would still be the ring I would choose. My wedding ring! Ooh so many awesome Christmas gift ideas!! My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a promise ring that my boyfriend gave me when he moved 2 states to live in the same town as me. I wear it every day. My wedding/engagement ring and 5 year anniversary band. Just celebrated 10 years! I have my grandmother’s wedding band. It is a significant reminder of love & commitment, the good old-fashioned gritty kind. I have a piece of Lisa Leonard jewelry that’s my favorite – a necklace with a charm of my initial, and a charm reading beautiful. It was a gift from a sweet girlfriend of mine, and it reminds me every day that I AM beautiful, even on bad hair days! Would love to be able to gift something as meaningful to another friend! I treasure my wedding ring. My husband definitely picked out something even more perfect than I could have imagined. A few years ago, I lost the diamond and was beside myself. My mom offered the diamond from her original wedding set to replace it and even though we did eventually find my diamond (ahmazingly!), I haven’t had it switched back. I would say the bracelet made from the silver clasps of my great grandmother’s Bible. It even has her initials engraved on the inside. I wore it on my wedding day! My favourite piece is one my Hubby organised from the Vintage Pearl. hands down, my wedding ring. treasured! Well I would have to say I think a lot of my jewelry is special, love it all. The cross necklace my Dad lovingly picked out for me all on his own. He was so proud. Well, it is most definitely my wedding ring. Not because it is the one with which my husband proposed to me. No. That one is gone. Funny story: When my husband and I knew we were going to be googly-eyed for each other for the rest of eternity, we just set a date. We didn’t go “ring shopping”. I told him I just wanted a simple solitaire, but I felt so awkward about finding a ring and telling him, “I want this one, please.” (Even though the years have made me much less demure, and I can tell him what I want quite directly now.) So, one morning at sunrise on the roof of my parents home (we were home from college break) he read the scripture in 1 Corinthians 11: “Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.” and opened a little box with the most perfect ring. Perfect because he picked it. And perfect because it was a perfect moment. Not-so-perfect because over the next 12 years it would prove to be a little nerve-wracking: It was a suspension setting which means it basically floated on the ring and I was constantly making sure it was still there. After a few adjustments/tightenings through the years, a jeweler finally told me, “You know you could look down one day and that diamond could be gone.” So we made the decision to have the very modest diamond reset in another setting. Fast forward: Jeweler split that diamond right. In. Half. IN HALF. So–I have a new ring, but no matter. It still represents to me that we are one, and though alone we are whole, we are not complete without each other. So, that is my most meaningful piece of jewelry…. wow-what an awesome give-a-way! the most meaningful piece of jewelry i have is a tiffany’s love knot bracelet that my parents gave to me and my 2 sisters. we each got them at different times in our life, but now each have one. i work full time at the hole in the wall gang camp and my little sister was on summer staff this past year. we blindfolded all the staff for a trust walk and she was very nervous and hated it. i went over to help guide her, she felt around on my wrist for it. you could see her relax when she found my love knot. none of us ever take it off. A necklace engraved with the initials of my 3 kiddos and a pearl charm for the fourth baby we lost. Hands down, it is the charm necklace with my grandparents wedding photo (on a farm in Kansas, circa 1936). And have I told you Lisa Leonard necklaces make and excellent year end class gift for a teacher? My wedding ring and 10 year anniversary band. I love my engagement ring! I picked it out, but I love the memories of finding just the right one with my husband, and how he actually cared so much to shop with me and buy it for me when we got engaged! My wedding band was my grandmother’s. It goes perfectly with the diamond that my love gave me. They are both equally dear to me. I adore my wedding ring, and would pick out this exact ring again 13 years later. A pearl necklace from my grandmother is one of my favorite pieces of jewelry. Every birthday I celebrated, she would buy a pearl to add to it. so sweet. My wedding rings. So important to me. Aside from my wedding ring it would be a slightly tacky, but very well loved Christmas tree pin that was my grandma’s. I wear it each year with pride 🙂 The most meaningful piece I own isn’t something I wear everyday. It’s my grandmother’s opal and diamond ring that was given to me after she passed away. Just knowing that I have something of hers that meant so much to her means the world to me! Thanks for the chance to win a gift card to Lisa’s store. All her products are amazing. Love my Tiffany heart. Wear it daily. It means so much to me because I bought it for myself during a very trying time. It is significant of so many things. My wedding ring would be my top. I also have a Lis Leonard charm necklace with all four of my boys names and I wear it everyday. I love having it on. There was a time when I wasn’t sure if we would have any kids and I love the sweet names on my neck a constant reminder of God’s blessing! I have two pieces that belonged to my late mom. What a great give away! I have to say my wedding rings! Love LL! I have to say my wedding rings! Love LL! My Tiffany heart. I have worn it for 8 years. after we adopted our daughter, my husband bought me a ring with her birthstone in it. the day she gets married, i’m going to give it to her. Meg! You have some pretty amazing sponsors! This would make a perfect Christmas gift for my mom AND sister, then I’d buy myself a pretty little necklace too 😉 my charm bracelet is definitely my most precious piece of jewelry, my mom has been buying charms for me and my sisters ever since we moved out of the house! One of my favorite pieces is a Lisa Leonard bracelet from my husband that just says “loved.” My husband passed away this year from cancer so it is even more special now. What a wonderful Christmas surprise this would be! My favorite piece of jewelry is a ring my aunt wore when she was a teenager. She’s been gone for over 25 years so it’s special to me. My wedding ring!!! Awesome! I was tickled pink when we got some swag from Lisa at craft weekend, us lucky girls! I am totally digging that new charm bracelet. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is actually nothing quite fancy at all. It’s simple and has three charms on it. Two of which are my children’s initials, and the third is a birth stone for our baby we never got to hold. I wear it when I need to carry them with me, like when i’m in labor or having a challenging day. It’s significance fills me and it makes me smile to carry my babies close to my heart. So glad I didn’t loose it at the craft house after all 😉 Other than my wedding rings, a necklace my husband gave me the first Christmas we were dating and a “special occasion only” necklace from my grandparents for my college graduation. I have a lisa leanord neckalce with the mason jar full of hearts…it has charms with both of my daughter’s on them. Love it and wear it all the time! My wedding ring is right up there too 🙂 My great grandmother (who is now with Jesus) gave me a heart locket necklace that was given to her by my great grandfather. I love wearing it close to my heart. Sure do miss that sweet lady! my most meaningful piece is the diamond that my grandmother left me. I had it reset into a simple setting on a nice chain and I love it! My wedding ring tops it, but also a necklace I got from my husband with my three children’s names on it. Thanks! My wedding ring, of course! 🙂 I so love Lisa’s jewelry!! So pretty. 🙂 A pin that was my great grandmothers photo in it . It belonged to her,and she was a teen in the photo….. This is awesome! I love all of her designs. And my most meaningful piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. I recently lost it overnight and it made me realize all the more how important it is to me. Such a symbol of the role my husband, marriage, and family play in my life. When I was sixteen my grandfather sat me down at the kitchen table and gave me “the I love you ring”. It was given to him by my grandma, to her by her dad & to him by an aunt. You just have to promise to give it away to someone you love. It is an old white gold diamond ring & when I wear it I am comforted always. I plan to give it to my daughter. My wedding ring of course. when my husband and I were dating, our first yr anniversary he gave me a ring that was specially made for me. It said FAITH, LOVE AND TRUTH. And 11 years later I am still wearing it (c; A silver bangle my husband surprised me with. I always wear it and I love the clinking sound it makes when it hits my watch throughout the day. I always think of him when I hear it! I have a set of my grandmothers pearls that were given to me after she passed away. The set has so much meaning to me and they are my favorite pieces to wear. My wedding ring is my most meaningful piece of jewelry. I do love the Lisa Leonard necklace from our Craft Weekend swag earlier in November–she’s so talented! Definitely my wedding ring! My grandmother’s locket. My grandmother’s engagement ring… she loves telling the story of how hard my Grandpa worked for it 🙂 A necklace that my son bought me in 1st grade at his “holiday shop” at school. it’s so cheap, but i love that thing… My favorite piece of jewelry other than my wedding ring is a necklace that my husband got me last year from Lisa Leonard. I was so surprised and excited when I got it…I love it! It has my name and my husband’s name….love. I am always looking at her site to see what piece I can wish for next :). My family ring. After many struggles with infertility we are blessed with a boy and a girl! My husband gave me a ring with their birthstones for our tenth anniversary. my grandmas wedding band that i wear next to my own! My most meaningful jewelry item is a necklace charm which has my daughter’s face on it, she passed away from cancer so I love wearing it close to my heart. besides my wedding ring, it would definitely be my necklace that has all 6 kids names on it! my wedding ring. both my husband and i endured so not so good marriages before we met, the ring he chose for me symbolizes our never ending love and friendship. we began as friends and that is never ending A remarkably easy question–the most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my grandmother’s diamond ring. Not only is it beautiful and the only thing of hers that I have (she died when I was 9), but my mother chose to give it to me because she thought her Mom would have wanted it that way. Not to mention that she lost it on the beach on Martha’s Vineyard once, decades ago when my Mom was little, and my grandfather (rather miraculously) found it by scooping out a huge, double-handful of sand and letting it filter through his fingers. (Talk about family legend.) I love everything about that ring. But, Lisa’s stuff? That sure is pretty, too! The necklace my husband gave me for Valentine’s Day the year I was pregnant My wedding rings because I’ve worn them for nearly twenty years and through all 4 of my children’s births. My favorite piece of jewelry is my white gold diamond earrings my parents gave me for my 18th birthday 6 years ago. And I love LL! I want to buy my mom something of hers for Christmas! the necklace I wore when I got married (garnets, seed pearls, gold and silver beads) that is now in a sandwich bag since my daughter broke it. And my replacement wedding ring (the first one slipped off and got lost in a restaurant when I lost weight when I was pregnant) from my hubby. It is absolutely my wedding/engagement ring. I love it still…25 years later 🙂 my wedding ring and band cuz that’s where it all began 😉 My most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. my most meaningful piece of jewelry is my wedding ring for sure! I would love to win a gift cert, those necklaces are beautiful! 🙂 Besides my wedding ring… my most meaningful piece would be the rings my husband bought me with each of our three kids birthstones. I have to say my wedding ring but not because of the reason you think. My grandma gave my husband her wedding band from my grandpa and my husband had a diamond put on it. So that is why it makes it extra special because I know it was given with love to my grandma and to me. My wedding ring and a mother’s necklace my mom gave me for my birthday a few years ago. My wedding ring…. but half the time it won’t fit over my knuckle! 🙂 I love my grandmother”s earrings…she got them as a gift from my grandfather… My wedding ring:) Aside from my wedding ring, it would be the locket my grandparents had engraved for me. This is not going to sound very original, but I have to say my wedding band. Letting my husband put this ring on finger was the best decision I ever made. 🙂 a necklace my husband gave me on our one year anniversary. with a teeny tiny diamond inside of a heart… 🙂 LOVE Lisa Leonard’s charm bracelet!!! I love her stuff!! I have my mom’s wedding band that my dad gave her, with his inscription to her on the inside. I wear it when I wear gold jewelry since my wedding band is silver. I love that she gave it to me. I <3 Lisa as well...and can't afford it!My favorite piece is one my kids gave me for Christmas-so sweet! My great grandmother, grandma and mother all had the diamond in my wedding ring …. so I guess that would qualify! 🙂 I love the ring my Aunt gave me as a older child (aquamarine in the middle of it), and I love the cross my parents got me as a teenager. I love Lisa’s gold line that just came out. My new favorite necklace is her gold chevron. My favorite older piece of jewelry is a pearl necklace my husband gave me for Christmas. It’s just the perfect hint of vintage. Just thinking about them makes me giddy. For my 18th birthday I received a diamond ring from my grandfather. He passed away just 5 days later. I still wear the ring every single day. most meaningful? all the antique rings i inherited from my grandmother . While my husband has gotten me several pieces of special jewelry, my wedding band is my most precious piece! the two Tiffany bands my husband bought me for the birth of each of our children. they were the cheapest thing in the store. and all he wanted to do was give me a “little blue box”. we had no money. but he saved… and bought them one at a time. i cherish those rings for the kids they symbolize and the husband that is behind them. -tracy My most treasured? The painted clay hearts that each of my kids made for me when they were younger for Valentine’s Day. Of course it’s my wedding ring – for obvious reasons – but the second most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my grandmother’s wedding ring. My grandfather gave it to me along with his mother’s wedding ring a few months before I got married. The center stone in my grandmother’s ring came from my great-grandmother’s ring (she died when my grandpa was a child). A necklace that my brother made me. He died 22 yrs ago as a young man and I treasure that gift made with love. My redone wedding ring and an antique sterling silver charm bracelet from my mom. It’s a toss up between the two necklaces my husband gave me for our 25th and 30th anniversary – love them both. My favorite piece of jewelry is a bracelet my mom had made for me. She took all her gold pieces and had them melted down and hammered into a cuff bracelet. I just love that it signifies my mom’s life. A tie between my wedding ring and my grandmother’s wedding ring. I wear hers on my right hand. I actually love my Lisa Leonard necklace that my husband gave me after the birth of our first child. It has her nickname on it that we were calling her before she was born. He surprised me with it!:) wedding ring! but i also have a necklace with the initials of everyone in our family…that is a close second. my wedding ring Definitely my lisa Leonard necklace my hubby gave me as a push present. The necklace has an owl and we decorated my son’s room with some owls 🙂 oops, that was supposed to be wedding RING My grandmother’s wedding ring…I used to hold her hand as a little girl and just stare at her ring….and dream of wearing it someday. It’s really beautiful. She gave it to me two Christmas’ ago…she’s 88 and lives in a nursing home now–she said she’d rather I wear it now and enjoy it. Every time I wear it, I think of her and my granddad…he worked so hard to buy her this ring. It’s a tender reminder of the love they shared. My wedding is doubly special…it is made from the gold from my husband’s grandfather’s service medal. I love Lisa’s jewelry also! I have a bracelet from her with my kids’ names on it that I was ALL the time! But, I think the most meaningful piece I have is a heart charm necklace that says “I LOVE YOU” that belonged to my grandma…the grandma that always made sure we had a cookie in our hand. My wedding ring certainly! It is so symbolic of our vows, and my husband picked it out. There is nothing fancy about it, but I love the man who chose it for me! It’s probably pretty cliche, but my grandmother’s pearls. My dad got them for her in Japan when he was in Vietnam and I wore them on my wedding day my wedding ring, it belonged to my great aunt. i told my husband before he proposed that i didn’t want an expensive ring, so he suggested we use my great aunt’s wedding ring that i inherited. 🙂 I have a cross necklace that was my great-grandmother’s. When I was younger, I was allowed to wear it on special occasions. When I got into high school I had the chain shortened and have pretty much worn it every day in the 30+ years since. What a treat to read the comments here and such wonderful stories and memories. We sure are a sentimental bunch 🙂 wedding ring my husband had made especially for me 🙂 I have a 3-string pearl necklace my grandma gave me when I got married…..she wore it at her wedding 60 years earlier. Something I will always cherish! My mother’s college ring from the 1950’s. I feel her with me when I put it on. I have a ring with my children’s names stamped on it. It was a Mother’s Day gift just after my son was born. I love it! The most meaningful piece I own (aside from my wedding band) is actually a Lisa Leonard necklace with 2 of my children’s names on it – but I had another baby 2 months ago so I need a new one!!! Wedding ring 🙂 My wedding ring and engagement ring of course, but after that comes an orange antique bracelet that my Grandmother who is from the Netherlands gave me that her Grandmother had given her. One day I will give it to my granddaughter. Definitely my wedding ring! It is an antique and my husband picked it out completely on his own. 🙂 I am a sentimental girl. I LOVE my engagement ring. It is the one my husband picked for me. To think of him going to the jewelry store and choosing what he thought I would love (and I did!) just makes my heart sing. I love her stuff, but it’s never in the budget. My most meaningful jewelry are two necklaces I have, one with each of my children’s first initials on a small round disc. I love Lisa Leonard’s jewelry. It’s so beautiful. My favorite piece of jewelry is probably my silver heart bracelet my husband bought me many years ago. It’s simple and unique. Just what I like. My wedding ring. My wedding ring is my greatest treasure. My wedding rings. Took me forever to find the right guy. So blessed. I adore Lisa Leonard and her jewelry! My favorite piece of LL jewelry would have to be a silver bracelet I purchased shortly after my daughter was born. She arrived almost sixteen weeks early, weighing only one pound and twelve ounces. We weren’t able to bring her home right away and I wanted something that helped me feel close to her. I ordered one of LL’s silver bracelets with all of my daughters birth information. I wear it every.single.day. My daughter is four now and doing wonderfully and I get comments on my bracelet all of the time. This is difficult for me to choose I lost me mom & gramma within 3.5 months of each other I wear the pearl necklace my gramma gave me for highschool graduation and on the same chain a pendant my mom had made for my 2 sisters and myself. I have a LL necklace with my kids on it that my hubby gave me for Mother’s Day and I adore it! I just found out that she has faith jewelry and I am drooling. So hard to pick. I have a charm bracelet that was started by my grandma; She put those lovely old silhouette charms on for each of her grandchildren. Then my mother inherited it and added charms for each of her grandchildred (who all happen to be my children). I inherited it when she passed away last spring, and it is cherished for sure. My daughter already talks about adding charms when she gets it someday. 🙂 Mine would def be my wedding ring and then a silver charm bracelet my husband got me several years ago. So hard to decide…of course my wedding and engagement rings; then there is my Lisa Leonard necklace with my kids initials; a bracelet of my mothers; a pearl necklace my husband won on a radio contest; diamond earrings made from my grandmothers’ rings…too hard to pick! Without a doubt a charm bracelet that my husband had made for me after our first child was born. It would have been my wedding ring which came from my husband’s great aunt (over a 100 years old). Unfortunately, I lost it when we moved a few years ago. Therefore, my most meaningful is my mother’s ring that my husband gave me for my birthday one year. Beautiful, beautiful jewelry. Thanks so much for the chance to win. Any jewelry from my grandmother. I wore her pearls at my wedding, and she left them to me. Love Lisa Leonard! I have a white gold ring with an onyx in it from my mom. I hope to pass it to one of my daughters eventually. I love all of Lisa’s jewelrY.Thanks for the giveaway chance!! a thin, simple silver band that belonged to my great-grandma. it is nothing fancy at all but has been worn by several amazing women in my family and i can’t wait to give it to my girl one day. I have a bunch of pieces and they are what I wear almost all the time. My engagement and wedding band of course. of course! 100% of the time! 🙂 My husband gave me a diamond heart necklace for our 9th anniversary…the thought he put into it makes me smile whenever I’m looking at it. It is my go-to necklace that I wear every day. Sometimes I change it up though….with a necklace from my son. That he picked out for me for Christmas about 5 years ago. He was 4 years old. He literally picked out the “biggest jewelled” piece he could find at a little boutique. My husband tried to convince him to choose a different one that was less “spectacular” but he would have none of it! I laughed when I opened the present that Christmas morning because I immediately knew what had gone on just by looking at it. I still wear it proudly…and my son always notices right away when I’ve chosen to wear it somewhere special! 🙂 My most meaningful piece of jewellry is the Lisa Leonard necklace with my boys names on it. I love her stuff and would LOVE to buy more!! My two silver rings… that I gave myself! Two years after I started selling my artwork on Etsy, I decided to quit my “day job” to become a full-time artist. When I made the leap, I bought two handmade rings that say “to go into the world” and “to be brave” (words from my first painting) to remind myself that dedication and bravery pays off. My wedding ring of course and my grammers wedding band next to it. Mine would have to be the necklace my husband gave me after he graduated from pilot training: a set of my own wings! He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shortly after and can’t fly anymore so it means so much more to me now. Love Lisa Leonard and her beautiful jewelry! My most memorable piece of jewellery is my brother’s cross that was given to me after he passed away… Since I was the only one of my grandmother’s grandchildren that didn’t have a sister, she chose me to inherit the gold locket she wore as a child. Inside are teeny pictures of her and my grandpa. The outside of it has a dent where she bit it when she wore it as a little girl. Totally special. My favorite piece of jewelry isn’t actually mine. Kind of random…it’s sitting here on my craft desk (it needed a repair). It’s my mom’s locket from my grandmother. My grandfather sent it to her during WWll and it has a photo of himself on one side and my grandmother on the other. I’ve always loved that necklace and what it meant to my grandmother. well, don’t you just have some FUN giveaways lately!!! my favorite piece of jewelry is probably my tiffany’s horseshoe necklace from my honey for my 30th bday this last august. that little blue box was a material-dream come true! 🙂 my wedding band with the inscription “as you wish” thanks for the great opportunity…love lisa too. my most favorite piece would have to be my diamond earrings. the first and only gift my husband was able to surprise me with. my husband is not a shopper, not really a gift-giving kinda guy so this was major. and he used his first commission check to buy them…took the entire check. 15 yrs. later and I can count the times I have taken them out for more than just a cleaning, they never come out. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I have is a ring that my grandfather gave my grandmother on their 40th wedding anniversary. It is small and gold with tiny diamonds, but I know he saved and wanted to give her the best. My grandpa passed away in 1999, but his gift of love lived on when I wore it as I walked down the aisle on my wedding day in 2005. Whoa…you’ve been doing some pretty amazing giveaways over here. Apart from my wedding rings…I’d have to say the necklace my parents gave me for high school graduation. It’s a VERY old coin from Masada, Israel set to hang on a silver chain. I love that it is so unique, and I love that my dad picked it out for me during a business trip to Israel. I’ve got my eye on a couple of gold pieces from Lisa’s shop…so, pick me…please! Besides my wedding band, I have a ring that my Grandfather gave my Grandmother for an engagement ring. They had an arranged marriage that was a lasting love. Hey meg! Long time reader, first comment 🙂 so my dearest piece of jewelry is my bracelet. My mama Cece just went into the nearer presence of Jesus this summer. She was a bsf leader for over thrirty years and along that time the members of her class gave her a charm for each book of the bible they completed. She was able to do Isaiah the same year I began bsf . It was so special to finally share that with her. So when she passed away this summer my grandpa gave me her charm bracelet. I’m honored to have it, but blessed beyond measure that a lady like her shared almost e very day with me for 18 years of my life. I treasure this because when i wear it I feel her near me. I have a charm bracelet that has a charm on it with a picture of my daughter when she was six months old. My grandmother gave me a sterling silver guardian angel necklace and I feel her presence every time I grasp or glance it. After my wedding ring…my necklace with all of my boys’ names on it…I wouldn’t go without it!! Other than my wedding set, I have a sweet white gold and diamond ring that is identical to the rings my mom and sister wear everyday. I think of them everytime I look at it 🙂 Like many other readers, its my engagement ring and band. Can’t leave home with out ’em…actually never take them off 🙂 My mothers wedding band! Other than my wedding ring, I love my earrings from my grandpa and the necklace from my grandma. I will always keep them. my wedding ring. it is the only jewelry i own! A necklace with a charm representing each of my three sons. The charms were originally part of a grandmother’s bracelet belonging to my mother-in-law. It’s very special with lots of history and meaning. My wedding rings! A necklace with my birthstone that my husband got for me just after our first child was born. My birthday, our anniversary and then our son’s birthday are all that month. My favorite piece of jewelry is my wedding ring followed by my grandmother’s wedding ring. My sister gave me a beautiful heart necklace that I love! I cherish my jewelry that was given to me or belonged to my grandma. I have her wedding set and some topaz jewelry and I love it so much. I also love the pieces I’ve bought for myself to represent my kids. Would live to have another Lisa Leonard piece to add our new baby girl’s name to. She’s due tomorrow! Thanks for the chance to win. My most meaningful piece of jewelry is a bracelet with my son’s name and birthdate on it. My sister got it for me….I have since had a daughter…and need to get something with her name and birthdate on it. My father gave me a beautiful pearl bracelet the day of my wedding. It means the world to me. Yay for Lisa Leonard is right! I am a big fan of her necklaces, bracelets, and her blog. All so beautiful! My most treasured piece of jewelry is my wedding ring. I am so lucky to have an awesome husband. Hands down my wedding rings! Well, in all honestly, they are the only jewelry I really wear since having kids:) My son is just getting old enough to start wearing it again now that he won’t rip my earrings out of my ears anymore! HA! OH, but if you count the elastic hairband that is always around my wrist, I’d have to rate that right up there with my wedding rings – I’m such a Mom!!! My engagement & wedding rings are the most important rings I own. And, well, they’re the only rings I own. I can’t pick between them! I guess I should drop a hint to the husband that one of these days I want another one 🙂 besides my wedding ring from my late husband, it would be my grandfather’s wedding band. I wear every day. He was such a special man, a POW in World War II. He taught me so much, and I miss him every day. Besides my wedding ring, it’s a necklace in the shape of Africa that my husband gave me while we waited (and waited and waited) for our sweet son to come home from Ethiopia. A diamond necklace my husband bought me the Christmas after our youngest was born (she is now 6). It has 3 diamonds and was the first and only true SURPRISE jewelry purchase he made for me. And he did such a great job. Since getting pregnant I can’t wear my rings much anymore or I have reactions and rashes. But this necklace? It never comes off. 🙂 I would have to say my wedding rings. They’ve been passed down through my hubby’s family. I have a 4 Leaf Clover charm that my uncle gave my grandma when he was in the service. She wore it every single day since and we’re talking like nearly fifty years. She told me before she died it was mine, and now I have it, although I wish she was still wearing it. the most meaningful piece that i own is my antique turquoise promise ring from my boyfriend. i never take it off. 🙂 Besides my wedding ring, a lady gave me a charm that said MOM. I was feeling kind of down and she didn’t know it but felt like the Lord told her to take her own MOM necklace off and give it to me. She had no idea how I was feeling. I was overjoyed to say the least!! I have never thought about which ONE piece is most meaningful to me, and now that I am thinking about it, I realize I am very lucky!! I have my grandma’s diamond stud earrings, of course my engagement & wedding ring, and also a diamond pendant that my (divorced) parents had made for me using the diamond from the engagement ring my dad gave my mom. They gave it to me for my 18th birthday & I was completely surprised. Of course my engagement and wedding rings. But also on that finger I have added a silver band that my daughter created in a jewelry class. The three rings symbolize the love and eternal bonds I have with both my husband and my children. My most treasured piece of jewelry is a faux diamond butterfly pendant given to me by my 6 year old. My most meaningful piece of jewelery is a charm bracelet that I’ve had forever. It has charms that so many important people on my life have given me. I wear it all the time and I love it! Love love love her stuff!!!! So perfect! My favorite piece of jewelry is my wedding band. It served as an engagement ring and wedding band for a while while my husband was deployed and then a traditional engagement ring was added later…I take my engagement ring off at night, while cooking, etc, but the only time that band has left my finger is when I’m in the hospital having babies. And then he’s the person that puts it back on my finger. I love it. undoubtedly a circle shaped pin that a parent of a student of mine gave me after my grandma went to be with Jesus. It was her mom’s pin (who had also passed away) and she wanted me to have it to give me comfort. Sweetness! My favourite piece of jewelry is the one that is on Lisa Leonard’s site that I drool over…no really, i wear two rings and that is it…my engagement ring and my wedding band. Besides that the only other fun jewelry that I wear is whatever my daughters create with their beads and paper and craft supplies. I even have to wear those to church…the fashion statements I make are amazing! My grandmother gave me a ring my grandfather gave her on their 30th wedding anniversary. I wear it on my right hand as the perfect compainion to my wedding ring. Together they are a daily reminder to not take for granted the gift of marriage. My wedding ring of course! The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is an amethyst ring given to me by my late grandmother, or Baba as I called her. My Gido (grandfather) was an amazing artist and during the war he was captured and put in a work camp. One of the supervisors at the camp admired his art and really wanted to own a piece, however did not have the money to pay for it. Instead, he traded my Gido a large piece of amethyst for one of his paintings. My Gido brought that stone with him all the way from Europe and once he and our family were settled here had it set into a ring. I wear that ring proudly and will forever treasure the story behind it. Thank you SO much for this opportunity… I have always wanted one of Lisa’s necklaces and would love to win! A very happy Wednesday to you! I wear my engagement and wedding rings every day and love them. Simple and classic. One of my most sentimental pieces is a gold necklace with an abacus on it that my grandmother picked up on one of their Navy travels to Hong Kong. She had many granddaughters she could have passed it down to, and I felt special that she chose that piece to give to me. Wedding ring. I was 31 years old when i got it… I had waited a looooooong time and knew exactly what i wanted. I described it to my husband and he got it perfect. It is an emerald cut set sideways with a baguette on either side. To this day i have never seen anything like it. We’ve been married just 15 years and it still is my FAVORITE EVER! I would have to say my wedding ring. But after that is a bracelet I got from my grandma. It is silver with blue flowers and so special since it was given to me by my grandma from her collection. I treated myself to a charm necklace that I had been wanting. It was right around the time my husband and I were told that we the liklihood of having another baby was slim to none. I bought a necklace with charms thinking that it would make the thought of our complete family become more real. Little did I know at the time this was all happening that I was pregnant! Not only pregnant, but pregnant with twins! God is so good! Being able to add two more charms to my necklace was wonderful! I wear my five charms proudly! I have a bracelet that is for an inititative called “Bullets to Bracelets”, where Ethiopian women are taking bullets found on the streets and turning them into bracelets and a way to make a living. How could you not love that… <3 my key chain that has lots of charms and pennies from the year i met my husband, married my husband and the years our kids were born. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own (besides my wedding rings) are my grandmother’s wedding rings. She died about 17 years ago but I still feel close to her when I slip those rings on my finger. I wear them often. It would have to be my mother’s diamond that she had made into a necklace for me! My watch … A gift from my husband… I never take it off. A cross with my grandmother’s maiden initials on it, a gift she received upon high school graduation. Out of 8 granddaughters I was blessed with it. I don’t own much jewelry, but the piece I wouldn’t go a day without is my wedding band-I love it and love my husband more all the time! My grandmothers ring 🙂 I have a small ring my mom adn dad gave to me when I was alittle girl . Look forward to giving to my oldest daughter now . (still waiting til shes a littl ebit older yet ) I love our Lisa Leonard Jewels too ! My wedding ring. The main diamond is from a ring of my mother in laws. There is also a super sappy proposal story that goes along with it, but that is for me! I took the ring about a year ago to a local jewlery store in a grocery store(not a good move) to have it resized. It came back in horrible condition and I couldn’t let them touch it again to fix it. Fast forward to today……I am a nanny for a jewler and he out of the blue asked me if he could take it to work and clean it for me. His wife brought it back to me this evening fixed and beautiful! wedding ring…but really, the band that we got years later…one diamond for each of our children… Shortly after building our home we were robbed on Christmas Eve..while we were at the local children’s hospital donating the items my students donated. All of my jewelry was stolen except my wedding set. The next day on Christmas my godmother gave me her 10 perfect diamond wedding ring from a man she divorced. She didn’t put her name but I knew she was trying to replace some of my stolen items. Fast forward 4 years later..same aunt shocks the family with news of her breast cancer…she died in 5 weeks. A year after her passing I had the ring made into a new ring to symbolize changes I made in my life…she would be so proud of who I am today. Every time I touch the ring I think of her watching me from above. It has been 6 years since Auntie Bonnie left this world and I miss her so much! Definitely my wedding ring. It was my husbands grandmothers wedding band, so it will always have significance! My favorite piece of jewelry is & will always be my engagement ring/wedding rings. Still SO precious to me 16 years later… I have a beautiful butterfly pin that was my Great Grandmother’s. Since she had already passed when I got married, I wore it on my petticoat-thing (is that what it’s called?), and then I wore it in my hair at my brother’s wedding – keeping her in the celebrations. I have a mother and child necklace that my husband gave me when our kids were small, back before we could really afford it. It still means a lot to me and is very beautiful. My favorite piece of jewelry are a pair of earrings my husband got me when we were in high school. They were only a dollar. I only have one now, but I love it just the same. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is the ring I wear on my right hand, always. It is a reminder that the Lord is always with me, even if one of the stones is missing. My wedding ring & the band that I got when my daughter was born. I was 28 when I had her, I intend on giving it to her when she is 28 or when she becomes a mother herself. When my husband came home from his first deployment, he bought me an eternity band to match my wedding ring set. We had only been married for 6 months when he left, and he was gone a year. We renewed our vows with that band, and every day when I put on my rings, I put that one on last of all: the best for last. 🙂 My engagement ring…my husband bought it on a college tour of Europe in Amsterdam and had no plans to buy it before he went. He had all the girls on the trip hold out their hands and then he picked the hands that looked the most like mine to size the ring. I never had to have it sized…it fit perfectly!! 🙂 My favorite piece is a heart shaped necklace with a picture of my mother and father inside it. Used to be my mom’s 🙂 I own a ring that is compromised of my parents wedding ring and a pearl my mother gave me when I was 16. That’s easy. I have a a heart thumby necklace of my husband’s thumb print. I wear my cross with it because I know that he is in heaven. That is my favorite. Hands down a necklace from my son. We moved across country a year and a half ago and it was very hard on my, at the time, 3 year old. Our first day in our new house he found a rock in the back yard and started carrying it in his pocket daily. He carefully took it out every night and put it back in his pocket in the morning. Last Christmas my husband asked him what he wanted to give me for Christmas and he said he wanted to give me his “treasure rock” so I would always feel safe with his love. My husband had this treasure from our backyard made into a necklace and it is by far my favorite and most meaningful piece of jewelry After a long road of infertility I finally got pregnant with our little boy. I found out just before our anniversary so as an anniversary gift my husband gave me a necklace with a bean on it. The bean represented new life. I cherish it so much, I wear it all the time and it is such a sweet reminder of how precious that little life is to our family. 😉 My little nephew picked out some little red earrings for me one time because of my love of the CA Angels baseball team and he makes sure that I wear them to all the games we go to – which is no small feat since I live in Nevada and they play in Anaheim California :)They mean the world to me. The most meaningful piece of jewelry I own is my father’s ring. It was his father’s Navy ring, and my father wore it most of his adult life. I remember it on his hand, like a part of him. I never saw him without it. He passed away 2 years ago. As I sat with him at his bedside before he passed, he asked me if there was anything of his I would like. Without hesitation I asked for the ring. It just IS my Dad. It is too big for me, so I either wear it on my pointer finger or keep it by my bed. I treasure it, I like knowing it is there, sometimes i just twirl it between my fingers. The Navy seal is pretty much all the way worn off, it just looks like worn gold with a strange bit of etching, but to me, it is beautiful. I have my grandmother’s pearl and gold flower pin. It is one of my most favorite treasures! I have a braclet that some special friends got me for my daughters memorial, I love it more than anything.
i am LOVING my new canvas from MPIX.COM. LOVE. i gave my gumball machine a little photo session a few weeks back and was smiling the whole time. it's just so happy! all the colors…. the sweet little acorn on the front… the perfect chippiness on the red paint. my grandpa gave it to me when i was a kid. it was just something old of his, probably happy to get rid of it. and thanks to my mom saving it in storage during my young married years… i still have it. it is one of my favorite treasures. SO….i sent my picture off to mpix.com to be made into a great big gallery wrapped canvas. i am always so nervous to open it when i order a canvas.
But THIS?
i was absolutely beaming.
the print is crystal clear…the colors are amazing…. it looks REAL! i love it. MPIX.COM has high quality products from their prints to their cards and especially their canvases.
i printed my watercolor photo earlier this year and it is my other favorite picture i have every printed.
MPIX is my favorite photo company…it is the best.
i get all my prints for my shop and for our home made there. and i have loved EVERY canvas they have ever done for me. they have so many fun products! i love their christmas cards, the standout prints and now they have an App that you can have your instagrams printed 4×4 directly from your phone?! that is pure genius. would you like to win a gallery wrapped canvas??
of course you would!!! today i am giving away a gallery wrapped canvas any size all the way up to 24" x 36" like mine is!!!
leave a comment today telling me YOUR FAVORITE TREASURE AT YOUR HOUSE.
i will draw the winner on saturday. 🙂 contest closed.
Wow they look like art museum pieces. I would love to do a doggy closeup. When I got married, my sister bought me a canvas of “The Art of Marriage.” It has things like never being too old to hold hands, never going to bed angry, giving each other a safe place to grow, etc. I look at it every day and strive to make my marriage my number 1 priority. A singer sewing machine that was my great grandmothers. My grams last letter to me and afghan she sent with the letter.. I pull it out when I miss her.. I can still smell her perfume :).. Makes me smile.. My favorite treasure at my house is an old trunk that belonged to my great grandmother. My mom had it stored in her basement for years and now it decorates my living room. I love it! My most treasured piece is our wedding album 🙂 My favorite treasure is my engagement ring. After trying on rings together my husband surprised me with the most elegant custom ring he commissioned from a local jeweler. It’s beautiful. I love that I get to wear it everyday. I can’t pick just one favorite treasure. I treasure all the pictures in my home equally. I always get compliments and comments on all the pictures in every nook and cranny. Love them all. I would love to win a canvas from mpix!! I’ve been wanting one forever, but it is just not in our budget right now. My favorite treasure in my house other than my kids and husband is a blanket my grandma crocheted for me before she passed away. No question, it would be my grandmothers hummingbird door stop. Random, I know, but it solid iron and survives all of my moves! Always makes me feel like I too, can survive being in new places. My favorite treasure is my “If Grace is an Ocean, We are All Sinking” chalkboard in my kitchen. Daily reminder. Right now it is a picture of my 3 boys on the 4th of July…from 2 years ago when my youngest still had rolls of baby fat under his navy blue shortalls…all waving flags, smiling and hugging. It has been front and center on my entry way table for the last few years and always makes me smile and remember how fast they grow! Hope I’m not too late! My treasure is my well loved 30 year old brown blanket that my infant son now loves to cuddle in. oh, I treasure my son’s artwork! I would love to win this canvas!Thanks for the chance. And yours are gorgeous! mine is some paintings of sone cows my dad painted on wood…and a pink and white quilt my grandmother made me as a a little girl! It’s hard to pick one treasured item in my house. I really love my antique wood bowl collection, my two Windsor chairs from the 1800’s and my antique blanket chest. I have a box that I call my “Keep It Forever Box” It has all my little things I have collected over the years and don’t want anything to happen to. My Best Friends bracelet I had with my BFF at age 7, who is still my BFF. The foot prints from my half baby brother who I’ve never met. I’ve never seen pictures or anything. I’m not even sure how I ended up with them, but I highly treasure them. It would take forever for me to list everything in that shoe box and it’s meaning, but that box is definitely my favorite thing. My grandmothers china. It’s all chippy from her many yrs of use and love. My grandma quilted a wedding band quilt for all of her grandchildren. I remember my Grandma fondly when I look at mine. She has passed on now, but I am lucky enough to have 2 additional quilts she made for me, which I will pass on to my twin daughters one day. It is a wonderful way to share a memory of her with my daughters who were never able to meet her. my favorite treasure in my home is a buffet that was my grandmother’s. i rescued it from my dad who was going to use it as a workbench! so, so, so many…my MIL’s anniversary ring, my MIL’s birthstone ring…my great grandmother, Mamma’s farm table and chairs…my dad’s panda bear from his child hood. I would say the scrapbooks I have poured my heart and soul into creating for my kids. My favorite treasure is my antique bedroom set that my mom refinished for me when I was 12. I finally captured a good picture of the grandchildren all together. They would look great on a canvas! My favorite treasure is an old pair of binoculars that belonged to my father-in-law for many years. When he passed away 5 years ago, we inherited them along with a photo of a much younger Dad holding his two sons (my hubby and his brother) and these binoculars hang around his neck. The history of this display is priceless and timeless! I love mpix too. I would love to win a canvas, I know exactly which photo I would choose. I would have to think long and hard about that question. I’m trying to think of something I love and that makes me smile every time I see it. I have some things that belonged to my Grandma that I am so happy that I have, and I have some beautiful pottery that has Scripture on it, that I love. 🙂 What a fabulous way to display your little treasures! Would love to win this one!;) I would LOVE to win this!!!! My favorite treasure in my home are a set of two photos I have framed on my dresser, each one showing the moment I first held each of my babies on the day they were born. My favorite treasure is my violin. My favorite treasures are my photo albums and all the pictures around my house. For me it’s the memories that we’ve made in this home and the family I made them with. Everything else is just “stuff”. 🙂 Love your canvas. My favorite treasure is old dining room table and buffet that used to belong to my mom. I love mpix………they have amazing quality!!! My favorite treasure in my house is my cedar chest. Its full of so many memories. The greatest treasure in my house is the artwork the kids make! I love Mpix, and your canvas is all sorts of awesome! My favorite treasure is my great-great-grandmother’s hope chest. I often wonder of the stories it could tell! My favorite treasures are the art creations my children make. Would love to have one printed into canvas! 🙂 My favorite treasure is an old armoire that was passed from my grandmother to me. I’ve taken it to every apartment and finally our house! We have a huge, long home-made harvest table with quirky spindled legs that our very talented neighbors made and had on an yard sale. We hadn’t even moved into our house, but we snatched that table up right away. It’s the perfect piece in our dining room and is lined with antique, chippy painted benches. My favorite treasure right now are the doodles/drawings/sweet art created by my children. They are priceless! My first ‘hutch’ i bought by myself at an auction (for $20) when I was in high school and completely redid…stripped, painted, sanded, antiqued. It still is an inspiration for decor (and future decor) at my house!:) My favOrite thing is a wooden bookcase, my great grandfather made for my grandfather! It even has his old pencil sharpener attached to the top shelf. My greatest treasure is a a vintage Kodak camera. My grandfather bought it for a whole &10.00, it was the first camera my grandparents ever had!! I have it now and it still works. I even have the original flash for it. I don’t keep it out because with 7 kids I am so very afraid of it being touched or dropped. I would take a picture of it and hang that. Then I could see it all the time and remember why I became a photographer!! My favorite treasure is an antique mantle clock my dad bought on the day I was born. He even took it to the hospital. It’s my birthday clock. my favorite treasure at my house is a set of three nesting tables i found at a yard sale, they work anywhere and have held many fun little collections My favorite treasures are my chandeliers around my house…some old that I painted & rewired, and one new French looking wire one that just looks old. I have everyone one of them on a dimmer switch so I can keep the lighting soft in a room if I want 🙂 I treasure anything handed down to me from my mom that came from her mom. My grandma was a depression era woman, so nothing was wasted. I have a box full of her hankies that she embroidered and washed by hand for years. And her jar full of buttons. The list could go on and on. Mine would be the mason jar collection I have. 🙂 My favorite treasure is my collection of treasures from various “treasure walks” with my daughters through-out the years. It is a small collection of the most interesting acorns we’ve ever found and they sit on a small, antique shelf that my Mom gave me. It had been her father’s and no it’s mine…with treasure from my girls. My favorite treasure is an antique hutch that I painted turquoise. I saw it in the back of a gaming cafe and asked the owner about it. He said his ancestors had brought it across the ocean when they immigrated. He said he didn’t really care about it and I could have it. I was beyond ecstatic. I get a lot of compliments on it, and it’s my favorite piece of furniture. The inside of it has that old musty smell, which I actually really love. It smells like history! my favorite treasure is an old printer’s drawer turned shelf– I like to put all the cool little shells and rocks the kids come in with on it. Oh it is hard to pick just one treasure…I think right now my favorite and most recent treasure is my 90 year old grandfather’s Kodak Hawkeye Brownie camera…with film still in it! 🙂 I think my favorite treasures in my house are my belly castings of when I was pregnant with each of my 2 children. They capture one of the very most magical moments in my life! My wedding ring, for all the normal reasons & because it is the only piece of real jewelry that remained after a fire destroyed our home & belongings. holy happy giveaway batman! i would probably say just the plain old porcelain white dishes from my grandma. i miss her so much and despite the chips and wear, love having that little piece of her in my family now – connected to my kids who never had a chance to meet her. sappy! Family is my favorite treasure, but I’m pretty fond of my vintage turquoise couch! My favorite treasure is an old quilt I got from my husband’s grandma. No one else in the family wanted it and it had all my happy colors and florals patched all over it. LOVE! My favorite treasure or treasures are all my paintings made by my hubby! My favorite treasure is my family and all of the photos that I capture of them! My favorite house treasure is the pictures I have up of my grandma of when she was a little girl. Family photos, letters written between my husband and I when he was deployed, mementos from my babies’ newborn days. My favorite treasure is my collection of old cameras. I started with cameras from my grandparents and parents and have added to it over time. My favorite treasure is a vintage buffet I inherited from my grandparents. It’s a mid-century piece that I love to death. I treasure my children’s artwork. I’ve framed their best from when they were little until now and hung it all in our laundry room which is the first room we enter from our garage. It makes me happy even when there’s loads of laundry to be done! My kids stuffed animals. Sounds funny but a couple of them were mine when I was younger and are in ok condition still. Every time I see one lying around it makes me smile and think of when I was growing up!!!! I treasure them the most next to my kiddos n hubs!! My favorite treasure is my grandfather’s railroad watch. My grandmother had given the watch to my brother in secret to avoid fighting within the family. When my brother passed away the watch became mine. I will always treasure it because it belong to two great men. My favorite treasure is my collection of milkglass that used to belong to my grandmother. 🙂 I’m a huge mpix fan! My favorite treasure are the Shisa Dogs, small figurines that traveled home with me from Okinawa, they sit facing our door “protecting” our house. 🙂 Happy Holidays! My favorite treasure is the desk that my dad made for me when I was a little girl. It makes me smile to see my daughter now sitting at the same desk! I think my favorite treasure around our house would have too be a wooden rocking chair that use to be on my grandmothers porch. When I was a child, each spring she repainted it a dark hunter green, weather it needed it or not. She would rock each evening in it, and say Hi to the neighbors passing by. Not only is it special because I remember her on her front porch, but because she did this short, little rock in it, and she used it so much, (no one else was allowed to sit in Memere’s chair), that she wore it out, and it now rocks the very same way. She has been gone for, 25 years, and I still feel her rocking in it each time I use it. My family! My children are my best treasure. Other than that it’s hard to say, maybe all my old photos and my little treasures from when I was a baby. All the little things in my house are so special to me– one of my favorites is a little chunky wooden bird that belonged to my grandmother. my favorite treasure is: my books!! i have a whole library i have been collecting since i was a little girl 🙂 One of my favorite treasures is a black and while panda lamp that I found at the flea market. I paired it with a beaded shade and it looks like he is wearing a asian inspired straw hat! I love it!! That’s an easy one———–my family! My three kids!! My favorite treasures at my house would be my kiddos, so I have three treasures 😉 One of my favorite treasures is an baby doll cradle that a friend of the family made for me when I was 5. He put so much time and effort into it. I thought one day my little girls would put their baby dolls in it, but since I have 2 boys, I’m going to have to wait for granddaughters to use it. My favorite treasure is my dresser that belonged to my Great-Grandmother. My favorite treasure(s) are my children…so the item(s) that I “treasure” the most are their pictures at candid moments. While no picture pro like you, I do take lots of pictures of my four children and have them displayed (on canvas or large black and white prints throughout my house…to help me remember all of the moments that I cherish the most and to be a reminder of how blessed I am to be their mother. If I lost everything in my house, I would be the most sad about losing our pictures or the memory cards where they are all stored! All my photo’s. I have lost my father so I know photos is a way to remember loved ones who are no longer with us. My favorite treasure in my house is my grandfather clock. My favorite treasure is a pooh bear snow globe my sister gave me a super long time ago. My favorite treasure at my house is my dog! A photo of him would be so cute on canvas! My fave treasure is A vintage kodak brownie and I put it in my luving room. sounds silly, but my favorite treasure is my couch… because it is where i get to snuggle my husband and children!! My favorite treasure (s) are my husband and daughter. My favorite treasure is my antique brooch that belonged to my grandmother. my favorite treasure is our Coke glasses. Something about the memorabilia from Coke just never dies in my book. I have a quilt that my great-grandma made…it is threadbare in places, but I just love it! My favorite treasure is the fire escape pull my hubby got from a building he demolished….it sits in my kitchen ready for my fires! 🙂 My favorite treasures are the little love notes that my husband has written over the years. Would love to have a canvas made of him and my children. This is really cheesy, but my favorite treasure in my house are my children and my husband! My favorite treasure at home is a picture I took in China when I went to adopt my daughter. Gosh that’s a tough one, deciding my favorite treasure…probably one of the pieces of antique furniture I inherited from my grandma:) I thought your canvas was an actual gum ball machine until I looked closer. The canvases from mpix look amazing. The colors are to die for! My greatest treasure is my horse. Or my dogs. I can’t play favorites between them. 😉 And I’ve been itching to get a beautiful canvas done of my horse since I bought him…this would be perfect. I love gallery wrapped canvases! I know the quality can vary greatly so I’ve been looking for a reliable company to use. Thanks for alerting me to mpix. We have moved across states so much in the last 4 years that I haven’t really collected much but there is this figurine that looks like me that I like to photograph on all the adventures we have. I also treasure my fabrics that I have collected from France. This may sound cheesy . . . I have a lot of antiques from my parents that I do treasure because of the memories behind them – but ultimately my treasure is my family. Four very loud kids and one great husband. I can’t pick one!…All the wonderful things crafted by my family! My favorite treasure in my house is my grandfathers old camera that he gave me. He was a professional photographer, and since I am the oldest grandchild and LOVE photography, he gave a couple of his cameras to me. They are amazing and have such wonderful memories attached to them. My very favorite treasure at our 100+ year old home is a newspaper that was found in our wall when we were renovating. It had my maiden name written in cursive at the top of the page. We found out after searching the title of our home, etc. that my great uncle had lived there for a short time span well before I was ever born. THAT blew my mind (my grandparents had passed away and my father was too young to remember it) ~ it’s just the coolest thing to know that someone from my family lived there prior to my husband & I. Any letter/note/card that my children has made for me! We recently had our family portrait done by Blue Lily (based on your recommendation :-)) Not only did they rock, but they captured my family beautifully! I would love to create a new treasure to my mantle to include their awesome work of my already treasured family. My collection of snowglobes are my favorite treassure. Each one is so magical in its own special way. My favorite treasure is my grandfather’s organ. I inherited the organ when he passed away. When I got married 20 years ago I hauled it with me to California. Since then I’ve been hauling it with me through all our moves(military). I don’t know how to play it and I’ve lost the speaker somewhere along the way. It still sits in my living room and I love it. I love the memories it brings me. Maybe I will fix it and learn to play it so I can leave the same memories behind. I LOVE the quilts my grandmother and great grandmother have made and given me and my daughters. My photos of my husband and kids are my favorite treasures! I love mpix! My favorite thing at my house would be my family. My canvas would probably be a picture of us on vacation. We love vacations. My grandma’s vanity is my favorite treasure. I remember sitting at it when I was a little grl and putting her powder on my face. Newborn’s feet, wrapped in his sister’s hands 🙂 The baby quilts made by my mom and two grandmas for my sweet baby boy. My favorite treasure is an antique cross stitched sampler I bought from a sweet little woman at a flea market. It’s very old and beautifully made. My very favorite treasure is a child size ice cream parlor chair that belonged to my grandma. She got it when she was a little girl and kept it until she passed away. It was a different color almost everytime I went to visit her and I think every grandchild sat in that chair at some point. Every time I walk by it I think of her. I love mpix too!! Pick me! Oh, I love those canvases! My favorite treasures are my children and their artwork on my walls! My grandfather’s original oil paintings and the four portraits of our children. LOVE the canvases!!!! And the ap! Thanks Meg! My favorite treasure is an old swivel rocker chair my grandma and I would sit on and read books. Now it’s in my daighter’s nursery and I get to rock her on it and read books together. Pastor Shane gave me a red and white quilt when we first got married and I LOVE it:) lots of sweet memories::) Love our collection of children’s books! Having taught for over 15 years…..there are many treasures in the children’s lit dept. around here! We rotate each month with the arrival of the basement bin of our “holiday books”. We ALL l-o-v-e this part of our home. Besides my family…I’m currently enjoying all the Christmas decorations that I’ve enjoyed my whole life and now sit in my home to share with my own daughter, especially a Christmas quilt my grandmother made for me when I was a toddler. Gosh, I think my favorite treasure at my house is the scrapbooks I have made, because they capture all of the life that we have lived in this house (and even from before). My favorite treasure is a small ceramic turtle I painted (glazed) – my younger brother and I both love turtles, so it’s sort of our “thing,” and we live across the country from each other, so it’s my tangible connection to him. I bought my condo as a single girl at age 27. I filled it with mostly hand-me-downs from my parents, sister & my favorite Aunt when I first moved in. My favorite treasure is a 9-foot painting that came from my Aunt. The picture is hard to decipher, but mostly just includes a lot of metallic paints. It makes for a great backdrop for photos and is always a conversation starter. Wherever I go, it will always make the move with me! My favorite treasure is a porceline figurine of hands given to me by husband. I hated it when he gave it to me and thought it was a last minute-couldn’t find anything else-valentine’s day gift. Then we got in an argument a few years later and I picked it up and threw it. It cracked. He then told me that he looked everywhere for it because I always tell him I love his hands (worn, hard working carpenter hands). It proudly sits on our dresser, crack and all. (The crack is important because w/o it, I wouldn’t know the meaning of the gift.) I LOVE mpix! My most treasured things are family photos and mementos of all of the sweet times we have had together as a family. My boyfriend and my bunny. I’d probably print a canvas of them! My kids drew “self portraits” in preschool & they totally fit their personalities – our son drew himself with lots of zig zag hair & zig zag teeth-definatley our high energy child! Our daughter drew a HUGE circle head with a BIG smile-she is full of joy & always smiling! They are now in Kind & 1st grade and I have wanted to make a collage of those drawings & their preschool pictures. I would love to put them on MPIX canvas’! I’ve always said that if I had to take one thing from my house and leave the rest I would take our photos. I have photos of my childhood, my husband’s childhood, our daughter’s birthmother’s & their families, and of course, tons of photos of our daughters. Photos are so precious! Definitely pictures of my 4 sweet girls & husband. Photographs mean a lot to me & represent such special memories. My favorite treasure(s) at my house are the people who live here with me…my 3 boys and my husband! My first bed that my husband and I bought together. It is now in my son’s room. This means something completely different to me at this season of my life. I do love stuff, as others have stated, but my family and I sold 90% of everything we owned to move to the mission field 2 years ago. Talk about changing your perspective. In my house that I live in now, on the field, there is not a whole lot of “stuff” that holds much meaning. It’s hard not to say my husband and kids are my greatest treasure, but to that I would have to add my Bible, my journals that I’ve filled up here, and our family photos that we painstakingly packed to display here to make it feel more like “home”. Those are the things I wouldn’t leave here without. My favorite treasure is the shell mirror that I made from my collection of seashells from Galveston. Wonderful hours of beachcombing are conjured up in my memory every time I look at it! OMG! SO in LOVE with MPIX!!!!! I did my daughter’s senior pics myself and the quality and price are amazing! My treasure (after my kids) are two rusty peeling 1970’s metal lawn chairs my grandma gave me. Everyone hates them, but I cherish them 🙂 My favorite treasure is always changing. Today it is the birthday crown my son was wearing in the kindergarten line at school. He is already taller than his peers and his crown made my sweet, shy boy stand out even more. I have six kids and have never had a canvas made– thanks for the chance! photos of my four kids when they were little, that’s my biggest treaaure. my baby girl is almost 18 and i love to look at the old photos. My one favorite treasure would have to be the cookbook my Mother assembled for my sister and I many years ago. She adds to it each Christmas. It is huge and has all the family favorites and beautiful pictures of her handmade quilts. Such a treasure and I know the time she put in to making it for her “girls” 🙂 My great-great-grandmother’s blue enamel cookstove. We don’t have it hooked up, but I store art supplies and books for my girl in the oven and warmers and on the cooktop. I’ll be decorating the very top for Christmas soon…snow, glitter, little trees and deer. My favorite treasure(s) in my home are my four kids. We’ve moved so many times since 2003, roughly every two years give or take a few months, and they are the only thing that has remained consistent, even tho we did add a kiddo with every out-of-state move except the last one. LOL I’d have to say favorite treasures are my photobooks and scrapbooks. I need to put them in a fireproof safe or something. I don’t know what I would do if I ever lost them! Family photos…for sure 🙂 My favorite treasure at my house is my vintage salt-n-pepper shaker collection. favorite treasure?…an old bench that i got in a free pile at a yard sale. i just keep moving it around…inside and out. I love my desk from graduate school. It has lots of character and lots of memories. Love your new print! So many yummy things here … but one is an old ceiling light in my hall that I was told came out of an old movie theater. Old stuff makes me smile 🙂 I have a scrap metal peacock in the yard that I just love. That and my collection of Nicaraguan pottery would be my favorite things. I love my red dresser. Grandpa bought it for $5 at an estate sale and I repainted it. I heart it so much. My most favorite treasure in my home is my family and our family photos. I would love to have a canvas of one of our family photos. Love your blog! It makes me smile everyday! My favorite treasures are watercolor paintings by my MIL. She now has dementia and is unable to paint, so all the paintings she has given us over the years, mainly in the form of cards, are irreplaceable. My favorite treasure is an afghan my best friend crocheted for me years ago. I love the purple and off-white colors, it is SUPER soft, extra long, and nice and heavy so it doesn’t slide off. It’s hard to pick a favorite. One of my favorites would be one of the original keys to my home. It’s so intricate and special. My treasure is my family… all the rest is just stuff! But it is great stuff, and helpful stuff, but I’d hands down choose my family over the ‘stuff’! 🙂 The old family Bible of my grandmother’s with all the records hand written in that beautiful handwriting that noone can do anymore….thanks for such a great giveaway! i love the journal that my husband and i write back and forth to each other in. 😉 Family photos. & your canvas’ are so totally awesome! My favorite treasure would be all my family photos. My fav treasure is hanging on my wall in the form of a canvas as well..a picture of teeny tiny china doll shoes that was taken as I walked down an alley way in China, the day I adopted my daughter there! My favorite treasure is small ceramic statue of a mother reading to a child. It’s very simple and plain. What makes it special is that my father-in-law bought it for me about 10 years ago, the Christmas before he died. He wasn’t a very emotionally expressive man, but I knew that he had bought that little statue just for me as a way of telling me he approved of how I was raising his grandchildren. It is a gift I love dearly. The family cookbook we put together for my mom’s 70th birthday. A work of labor and love, but so worth it. Full of YEARS of treasures. When we had to evacuate due to a hurricane a few years ago, I packed one suitcase and then all my photos and scrapbooks. I guess they are my biggest treasure. Fav treasure? i love all of the pictures of my sweet family! 🙂 My favorite treasures are all the personal family photos I have taken. Hi Meg, Pictures! They represent so many memories! That is what I would grab first in a fire (besides my husband and kids of course) so that makes them my most favorite treasure. probably my 3ft barnwood angel that hangs over our fireplace- fav treasure!! OH! I really would LOVE LOVE LOVE this! I was just telling my husband that all my pictures are going to waste because I don’t display them. This would make me so happy! My favorite treasure…the letters my husband and I wrote back and forth to each other when we were courting. I also love my vintage typewriter 🙂 My prized piece in my home is the big dresser that belonged to my grandparents, then my parents, and now me. Thanks for the opportunity to win! Love your canvas – thought it was the actual gum-ball machine at first! Favorite treasure in my house…my 2 (soon to be 3) kiddos!!! besides my husband and my girls, there are several pieces of furniture my dad has made for me that i treasure so much. the time and love that went into making them are priceless! i love mpix!!! Oh my goodness! It is so vivid I had to scroll back up to see what print you were talking about. I totally thought it was the real thing on first glance! I have this piece of scrap metal that my friend welded my name onto. It was an odd gift at the time but over the years it’s really grown on me. I have it above my bedroom door. Hmmmm…My favorite things…Most definitely my many many albums of photos, both old and new. Friends, family, adventures, my little ones. Priceless! Oh how I would love to win this giveaway!! Favorite treasure would have to be my 3 kids (although they are all out of the house now – maybe that’s what makes them a treasure!!). Favorite treasure — that is so hard; right now I’d say some of my kids drawings that I have framed. I’m amazed with their talent and the pictures really show their love for life. I have so many treasures! One of my very favorites is a drawing of our family that my little boy did right after I had my daughter when he was 3 years old. It shows the four of us as sweet little stick-figures–all smiling and happy! My favorite treasure is the smooth stones I’ve collected over the years. I would love to win a printed pic! WOW! A hutch that my grandfather painted with flowers on it. It was the only thing I wanted from my grandparents’ house when they passed away, and it makes me happy every time I walk into my kitchen! I treasure my personal artwork too. I took a picture of the temple my husband and I were married in and I proudly display it in my front room. My mom passed away last year so my treasured items relate to her. A necklace with a little makeup still on it. Recipe cards in her writing. The valentine hearts that she’s sewn for me once a year. It’d be so great to put a collection onto canvas. I LOVE Mpix. I will never go back! My favorite treasure is a big jar of my grandma’s button collection. Based on your ad over on the side of your blog, I ordered some Christmas presents and prints from mpix. I can’t wait for them to arrive! My most prized possession I wear every day- my lovely wedding band set. My boyfriend (aka- hubby of almost 10 years) made only $50/week when we got engaged. How he worked it out to buy me that precious diamond, I do not know, but I absolutely love it and what it represents! My favorite treasure at my house is a picture of my daughter holding her baby brother. My favorite treasures are family quilts made by my great-grandmother, mother, and myself. My favorite treasures at my house are the stuffed frog my friend gave me before he left for Iraq the first time, and a blanket my grandma made me. My favorite treasure is my Granny’s and my Papa’s Bibles. They are well worn, but they are priceless to me! I have a mosaic of a gorgeous tree that my husband got me on a trip to Jordan. It is stunning and I love that he met the local people who made it. Gosh! Hard to choose. At first i thought of my Mason and Ball jars given to me by my Mom and Mother-in-law. Then my old wooden sewing spindles; old boxes; baskets. Too hard. But, my most treasured are my family pictures. Ones from me growing-up and my kids. Those are the most precious. So, i would probably have to use a favorite photo and that just starts another mess trying to decide which one. 🙂 Other than my family (and all the bazillion pics I take of them), my favorite treasure is a cross-stitched and then quilted alphabet quilt that my mother made. She was on bedrest in the hospital with me for months and on medicine that made her hands shake constantly and yet she made that for me! And several handsmocked dresses. It’s amazing. If you want, you can see a pic of it in this post about my school room. http://www.justlaine.com/2012/11/the-school-room-before-and-after.html My favorite treasure at my house is the antique secretary desk that I purchased from my grandparents estate sale. My grandma always treasured it, and made sure we were very careful around it. I am the same way, now that it is in my home (especially with my busy kiddos). I immediately think of her, every time I see it. Of course my greatest treasure is Jesus..then the sweet hearts in our home…materially, I treasure a simple old journal that I gave to my precious Grammy and Pap back when I was in college {20+ years ago}..they wrote out their daily devotions for one year in there as well as their daily prayers for the whole family..name by name…the end is in my Pap’s writing “If we go home to Jesus first, give this to our dear Becky-girl”..they went home and I treasure each page of that book…soooo precious…thanks for the beautiful giveaway..I am thinking of a canvas of one of those journal pages next to a photo of Gram and Pap! 🙂 I have been looking for a company like this for ages and just stumbled across THE ONE on your blog. Thanks! My most treasured item at home, aside from my family, of course, would be my dad’s old torquoise jewelry from the sixties, which he acquired after returning from the Vietnam War. The rich history is just the begining of the sentiment… My favorite treasure has to be my son, August’s, quilt, My daughter, mother, grandmother, and mother-in-law all helped to make it.I take a pic of my son with it evry month. I’m totally drooling over your canvas!! Incredible…I would love to have one for this cottage! You asked about a fav treasure…oooh that’s a hard one but I’d have to say a round top wooden trunk brought from Europe by my namesake great grandmother and passed down to me…it now holds treasured momentos and collections from my kiddos. My greatest treasure would have to be my son! In light of the fact that today is my brother’s birthday who passed away 11 years ago, I see that this little life I have been blessed with is my greatest treasure! Soaking in every moment with him. Ok. Here’s what a dork I am: I saw your twitter post and thought that gum ball machine was real! Favorite treasure..that’s a hard one. I have 2 recipe cards handwritten by my grandma that I love. Maybe a picture of one of those printed on a Mpix canvas is in order! an antique radio that i inherited from my dad. i turned it into a dollhouse for my daughter last year. it makes me happy that she has something from her grandfather that she can pass down, too. A Wand-Uhr (wall-clock} from my Grandmother I got from my Dad after he past away. We found an old ceramic chicken feeder in the rafters of my Grandfather’s garage/shop. We didn’t know that there were ceramic ones. Of course, all of the new ones are plastic. My father who is 76 only remembers metal ones so this one is pretty old but in excellent condition with a sweet little etching of a chicken on it. It now lives in my house, moving around to different spots but always a conversation piece. Mr treasure is my family and the history we have together, captured in thousands of photos and displayed in many crafty ways around our house. Really adore your watercolor canvas, striking image! Love the colors. My favorite treasure is a quilt passed down from my great grandmother. It is huge and has tiny squares…lots of love went into making it!! 🙂 My favorite treasure at my house is an old vintage cobalt blue glass pitcher from my Grandma. It is shaped in a rectangle and has a little indent for holding on the side. It’s so hard to pick a favorite treasure, my house is decorated in a vintage style, but one of my favorites is an old candy scale we found in Kentucky. It reminds me of getting a special treat at Monkey Wards, they would measure out the candy using great big aluminum scoops, dropping the candies piece by piece to get the weight just right and then pouring the candy from the big scoop into a tiny white paper sack. I keep seasonal candies in the scoop, candy canes for Christmas, jelly beans for Easter and the yucky black and orange peanut butter chews at Halloween. Nobody ever eats them, the rest I always have to refill. Love your gumball canvas! My favorite treasure at my house, is a old Vase/Bowl from my great grandmother, its gold and cream with hints of pink and red. Just Beautiful. I’d have to say I treasure all our family photo’s the most! Besides my family, one of my favorite treasures is my collection of 11 wooden hand-craved Santas that I display on the mantle every December. My favorite thing is my bed…we all love to snuggle up in there and watch tv or read. I just love it so much. I love my cowboy boot collection. MHHHMMMM I wear a pair almost every day. 🙂 Oh Meg you are so FUN and thought provoking hmmmm… An old child size wooden rocking chair that my 2 sisters and I sat in when we were little. Now my girls sit and rock in it 🙂 Besides the obvious “my family” answer…I think my favorite treasure is the print in my dining room that used to be above my parents’ bed. An old green and gold mirror from an antique store. Pictures are definitely a treasure. Love all my scrapbooks and memories they hold! Photographs and my children’s artwork. Especially the drawing of our family my six year old recently drew. Love it! My favorite picture is of my wedding after going through a hard divorce. My youndgest son was the ring bearer and the oldest son was the best man. It was such a beautiful day with everyone so happy. We haven’t been able to print the photos from 3+ years ago because we both got laid off. Thanks for the chance to win something! The handmade cradle my grandfather made for my mom when I was born. A toss up between my uncle’s old maps and my grandma’s star of david bowl! 🙂 My 3 boys, all who blessed our lives through the gift of adoption! My greatest treasure in this home, is not actually inside, but outside. We are moving this spring and I would love a big canvas of the yard/view we will be leaving behind as everything we own will be coming with this, that view will not. One of many favorite treasures is a print of a St. Bernard walking next to a young girl, carrying her bag around his neck with the mother looking on beyond the white wooden gate. The wording reads, To school well fed on Grape-Nuts. Advertisement of long ago. I grew up with this print and St. Bernards, so when I moved out I was thrilled to be given such a family gift. Besides my three kids and hubby… the thing I most treasure in my house would have to a baby lion stuffed animal that my dad had given to me when I was born. I slept with it every night when I was little and now my oldest daughter sleeps with it. I love that she has a little piece of her grandpa, who is no longer here. it’s great to inherit these kind of treasures from family. in my house my current fave is an old wash stand with red chippy paint – and an old mirror that matches with the same paint. love a pop of red! My favorite treasure is my three little girls and my wonderful husband 🙂 And next, my marked up, full of notes Bible that has changed my life forever. Praise God! And thank you for the giveaway. I really enjoy your blog! My harp is my favorite treasure in my home. Although I don’t get to play it as often as I’d like, it still looks beautiful just sitting there. 🙂 OH such a hard question. there are several things I love, but among them is an old wire basket from my grandfather that we used when we gathered the walnut from his orchard. It brings back so many childhood memories of my family. It’s tough to choose just one thing…I’m a bit of a collector of sentiment. 🙂 Right now, I’m loving a little Christmas trees with vintage glass ornaments from my mom. I love the aesthetic of it and the memory of collecting the ornaments with my mom. I love these canvases…what an awesome giveaway! We have my grandmother’s mirror hanging in our living room. It’s over a hundred years old and I love it! My father’s firemen’s helmet (the metal is dented after 31 years of service) sits proudly on our bookcase. My favorite is an old picture of my grandma and grandpa when they were young and a picture my husband and I recreated of theirs. My very favorite pic of the two of us. I would have it printed on canvas. Hard drives with pics of my kiddos, wedding, childhood, etc! first and foremost would be hubby and the littles…. but after that…i think my stash of old gold frames. My favorite treasure is hard to pick–not because there are so many but because life of late has been hard and has shown me that stuff is just stuff. That may not be life-shattering to most but I am a person who loves her stuff. That being said, I love my mom’s green glass collection because it reminds me of her. My favorite treasures are probably my signed cookbooks – by Martha Stewart and Daniel Bouloud. I would LOVE to win a canvas – I just finished repainting and freshening up most of my house, and want to have a canvas made of a photo from our family photo shoot in the spring. I love the first quilt I ever made. It’s draped on my favorite chair My favorite treasure is the globe my parents bought me when I graduated from college. Still love it!! A black and white photo of my Grandparents walking into a wedding all dressed up and smiling. It’s a timeless photo. PICTURES! Hands down, my most treasured item. Doll bunk beds my grandpa made me for Christmas when I was a little girl – now played with by my two daughters. Or maybe the old vinyl and felt jewelry box from my grandma that still smells like her. Couldn’t pick one over the other. 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win! Awesome!! I do adore both of your canvases. I have been wanting to try out mpix. My favorite treasure in my house is probably the quilt that my great grandmother made. Hmmm….that is a tougher question than I would think. My people are my favorite treasure. Maybe the little blue vase that Rainman and I got in Venice? Favorite treasure in my house? Probably the ceramic cat I rescued from my grandmother’s house when she was moving. She painted it when she lived in Germany, and my mom has the matching kitten. It makes me feel like my family is close every time I look at it, even if they are far away! My current fave right now is all the ornaments hanging on our tree. Some of the ornaments my husband & I bought together as newlyweds. Some we have collected as vacation souvenirs over the years. Some have been received as gifts from dear friends and family. Some are special finds, or old toys I just couldn’t part with. Now we are adding new ones that the kids make and pick out each year. I love pulling them out every year and telling the kids stories about different ones! Besides all of my photos it has to be a box I’ve made for my daughter. It contains a book that was my dad’s when he was young (she’s too young to get it yet), the hospital bands from her birth, her first hair cut, etc. I relive all my favorite memories with her when I open it up. Way too tough to name a favorite treasure! Maybe a little statue that my dad gave me as a child. Besides my family…one of my greatest treasures would be the letters my dad wrote to me when I was in college. That’s a tough one. My most important item (besides my family and dog) is my computer because it basically contains every picture of my kids since the day they were born. My favorite treasure though is probably a handmade tree made of wire and beads that I picked up in Africa. It even has a tire swing made of duct tape. That trip changed my life and I think of it every time I see this amazing tree on my counter. My family photographs, my son’s room and my bed! My favorite thing in my house is a picture frame my old neighbors made us out of old barn wood. It is so worn and textured. Love it. My Uncle’s chair. He was a tall man and made the chair to fit himself using floorboards from his father-in-law’s house. He had promised to make me my own, but died before he had the chance. My Aunt gave me his chair and said it was extra special because I would have a little of my family and a little of her family with me always. It is definitely the most used chair in our home and men are drawn to it whenever we entertain. The chair serves as a daily reminder of my Uncle and makes me feel closer to my family, all of whom I do not live near. My favorite treasure is a big wall clock in our living room. My family photographs. They are the only things I hope to never live without. My Dad left me his collection of books. I love them. And I have shelves and shelves of books, they make me happy. my childhood bible with all the pictures… right now it’s my collection of afghans that I have recieved over the years from my Grandmother. I miss her. When it gets cold wrapping up in them is in some small way how I recieve hugs from her! My antique bow-front china cabinet full of depression glass dishes – it was my grandmother’s and she passed it all along to me before she died. My greatest treasure is my mom’s time worn and much-scribbled bible! I don’t think there is any one object…but I do have three boys (my husband, 3 yr old and 1 month old) that I consider my treasures!! The quilt I made for my girl! I think my home is my treasure. I feel blessed every day that I have a home that’s mine and I love being in it. I want to be super sappy and say my hubby is my greatest treasure. 🙂 (I’m still a newlywed. haha) I have some mason jars that I collected from my grandmother’s home after she died. i store pastas, nuts, dried fruit, candy etc., whatever I have on hand in them. the contents are always shifting! I love how they look on the counter– they are perfectly mismatched. My favorite treasure is a black vintage candlestick phone that my grandmother gave me from her house. We used to play with it as kids, and now it has found the perfect spot on the built-in telephone table in my hallway. Love it! I have been given a few pieces of jewelry at very special moments in my life. They are irreplaceable and are probably my most treasured items. On a side note, tomorrow I will be having my son. I have been looking into companies where I can get a large newborn picture printed on canvas. Great timing on this post, Meg! Hi Meg, Oh my goodness – love how your canvases turned out – those are so vivid! Right now my favorite treasure is a picture of my Grandmother play the sax- she was a vaudeville performer. She was incredibly talented and lots of fun. Thanks for the chance. My favorite treasure in my house is a poem written by my grandma about me. The one thing that I would absolutely grab if the house was on fire is a oil painting Bud Snidow painted for me when I was 15. I’ll always treasure it! One of my favourite treasures….my wedding album. It reminds me of the freshness and commitment and all that’s come into my life since that fateful day. We have a huge semi-abstract (if there is such a thing) buffalo in front of our front door and entry. He lays so still, and the snow settles on him. He looks like a bunch of rocks that look like a buffalo and I love him! cliche…but, my favorite thing at my house is my family. my two kidlets :), my man, my dogs and my chickens. they are what i cant wait to come home to every day. My favorite treasure is my family. I can’t really identify a treasure other than my hard drive filled with photos of said family. 🙂 My favorite treasure is probably my kids’ first years photo albums. my 3 girls… ages 10, 7, and 2… I can’t stop taking pictures of them!!! My computer…it stores all of my photos that I love to take, but never print out. This would be a great solution for a picture of my 5 year old daughter! Thank you! My favorite treasure is my grandmothers vintage christmas ornaments. I remember helping decorate her tree with some of them when I was about 4 years old & 27 years ago they were already vintage… love everything about them One of my favorite treasures is an old, chippy, worn out little hutch that belonged to my Grandpa. Looooove it! My favorite treasure is my husband first 🙂 and my sewing table second! I love all the fun things I can create on its surface. I would have to say my favorite treasure is my 20 x 30 canvas of my 6 children. It is the only professional image of them together, other than snapshots here and there. If my house caught fire tonight and I could only grab my family and one thing to take with me….that would be it. Thanks Meg for being awesome. 🙂 Our dining room table that my grandmother raised her family around is definitely my most prized possession. wow, hmm, favorite treasure . . . maybe milk glass pieces from my mil because it shows she truly wants to know who I am. Kelly Currently my favorite treasure in my home is the jewelry that has been passed down from my grandmother. I love that when I put together an outfit and add a necklace or some earrings, I look the way she did. I get to carry her with me. My greatest treasure if the china cabinet my grandpa made me when I was little. He put a little note on the back saying he made it for me and signed his name. It fell off awhile back (just a label), so I framed it and it now sits on a shelf in the cabinet. Love!!! It’s a tie between my Grandmother’s record player (which still plays) and my nativity set that has been added to by multiple family members. my favorite treasure is a quilt my late grandmother made for me… One of my favorite things in my house is my gallery wall that features every member of both my husbands family and my family both past and present. Having a canvas print would just add to the beauty of this wall. Everyone that comes to my house is just in awe of that wall because of all the pictures, especially the really old ones of our great great grandparents. Plus tree is a story with every picture My favorite treasure is my bedroom dresser. It came from my Grandma, and it belonged to her mom. It’s in great condition with the original mirror. I just love the history of my ancestors using it. Hopefully I can pass it on to my daughter someday. I have the negative and original photo of my grandparents wedding day…one of my favorite treasures 🙂 They were married for 60 years! My favorite thing in my house is my large photo collage I made of 4×4 pictures, glued them to a large canvas. They are photos of my 16 nieces and nephews and scenery shots of my favorite place to be-MT!! I love and treasure those photos. my favorite treasure is my family. we just had our first professional photos done as a family, and my boys are 10 and 7. i would love to have a canvas made of one of our photos. My parents grew up in Europe during WWII. When the war was over, they owned virtually nothing. Somehow, though, they managed to keep a cup and saucer of my great grandmother’s. THAT cup and saucer go with us in case of fire. Favorite treasure…a painted photograph of my 5 kids playing with & blowing bubbles…done by master photographer Pam at Hopkins Fine Portraits. It’s what we’ll grab if there’s ever a fire! My favorite treasure is my mommy bracelet that has both of my son’s and my husband’s birthstones…I love it. When I wear it I always feel close to my boys! Oh goodness – – I’ve got so many things that are treasures to me. Photographs are at the top of the list, for sure. But, if I had to pick a single thing, I’d pick the Dresden Plate quilt that my grandmother made for me. She went to Heaven five years ago and as I get older I realize how much she has shaped the woman that I am. Having that precious gift from her is such a treasure and I will love it always. I would LOVE to win a canvas! I think my favorite home treasure is… an embroidered canvas circa 1973 that i bought at a thrift store with the words to “America the Beautiful” under a mountain, flowers, and a smiling sunshine. 🙂 I saved my Dad’s scotch bottle from his last visit to my house. He would visit us once a year and stay for a while (never long enough). I remember him healthy and strong, relaxing and having a wonderful visit with us while sipping his scotch in the evenings. So hard to choose just one favorite treasure so I will narrow it down to two. One is an old-fashioned milkshake mixer from my husband’s Gram’s old restaurant, and it is still in working order. (I don’t treasure the extra calories gained from drinking all of the yummy milkshakes it produces though.) 😉 The other is the nativity set that my grandma painted and that my family always put out on our mantle above the fireplace growing up. Just last Christmas, I finally got a mantle shelf and was able to display the nativity for the first time since being given it! love these! love this giveaway! My favorite treasures are family pictures and the 100 year old fiddle that has been passed down in my family. My favorite treasure at my house is probably the very awesome, very worn work bench I snagged from the garage of a home where things were being divided up after the owners passed. I removed the scary nails sticking every which way, the old vice, the 3(?!) layers of contact paper covering the sheet of paneling covering the slats that make the top, and cut the legs down to make it normal counter heingt. I hope to one day get a nice slab of marble for the top to make it a nice pastry bench but for now it works! I would LOVE one of these. What a great idea to print a favorite object instead of just people. It’s gorgeous seriously. My fav is probably my Nanny’s old sewing box. Thanks for the chance to win something soo fancy. : ) I have a gumball machine too (well it’s in my parents house since my young married self has no place for it yet!) Love all your colors! My favorite treasure is my pictures. I scare myself and ask myself what I’d take with me in a hurry. It’s pictures. My memory is bad so I don’t remember so much so pictures help. My girl’s baby quilts and my wedding quilt my grandmother made….priceless love the gumball machine my grandpa gave us too! so fun! My favorite treasure is a penny gumball machine I got from my grandpa when when he died. In fact, I bet it was the picture of the your gumball machine that made my friend tell me about your site and how I should enter this drawing. My home is filled to the brim with treasures, I couldn’t pick a favorite. I do love my Bible full of notes and cards from my kids and my camera of course for capturing all life’s little moments. I love the pic I took of my in laws (77 and 83 yrs old) walking out to the outdoor sauna for the last time before my mil’s ALS got so bad she couldn’t walk anymore. She passed away a few short weeks later. That was last Aug. She was my favorite person in the whole world – besides my husb and children of course. Most lovely person ever! I’ve been dreaming of getting a canvas of the fam pic of my husb and kids and I the week after her funeral. It’s the only fam pic I have of all of us. It’s in bright colors outside in a park. Thanks so much for the chance to win. I LOVE love love your colorful blog and DREAM of coming to craft weekend some day;) My kids are my treasures. My family and my family pictures” Hi Meg! The treasures in my house are the pictures of my four kids (ages 11,8,6 & 3)–they are growing up so fast. I love going back and looking at my babies when they were really babies. I don’t do it very often, but when I do, it’s amazing to see how much they’ve grown. this mommas favorite treasure is my bible with all the notes in it The three sleeping children are definitely my favorite treasure(s)! 🙂 My son…. and the hand painted mug I gave to my husband announcing my his upcoming arrival Oh man! I was just thinking about how I wanted a photo canvas of my toddler for my birthday because she is such a gift to me! Maybe this will be the present I’m not able to get myself. Your pictures are beautiful, btw. A necklace that was my paternal grandmother’s. That is a really hard question! I don’t of things in my house that way, but I guess I would go with the crocheted blankets my daughters were given when they were born and the one my husband and I were given for our wedding–all from great aunts on my side of the family. The quilt that my granma made in 1930. 🙂 Favorite treasure at my house….I’ve never really thought of it! Right now I’d have to say my matching blue gumball machine I bought when at craft weekend and flew all the way back to Canada in my suitcase! A three foot tall fish-shaped green glass bottle that my uncle bought for me in Spain. I have no idea where to put it, but I love it. I love those giant prints!! favorite treasure… a little silver cross from my late gram. Beyond my three kiddos and our family photographs … my blanket from preschool. My mom made it from peanuts (like Charlie Brown) fabric and I have slept with it ever since. It’s gone everywhere with me and will continue to even though it’s almost nothing but a little scrap of fabic at this point 🙂 Love your canvas print – I treasure my father’s old well used mechanical ruler! Thanks! our family photographs I have a little blue glass pedestal bowl that I use all over the house. I got it at a garage sale and it comes in so handy for decorating. Right now it is filled with shiny silver Christmas ornaments. <3 My favorite treasure is a painting from my grandfather! A treasure is my grandma’s dining room furniture—— she was born in 1898 and lived to be 92 years old. This was a great reminder of things—–mostly people—– to be thankful for. Scrapbooks and the piano my grandmother left me when she died. Love the canvas! I treasure our family scrapbooks but really love my childhood books like The Secret Garden and Little House on the Prairie books. It’s hard to pick a favorite!!! I have a beautiful old, chippy cabinet in my kitchen that we use as an island. That might be one of my current favorites? My sons collection of Dr. Seuss books! Most of them were mine and my husbands when were were kids. We have a little bit of an obssesion with books at this house. My favorite treasure is my old teddy bear that I took with me everywhere when I was little. My Mom recovered it twice. I have it framed in a shadow box along with a photo of me holding it. My best treasure is a wedding picture of my grandparents from 1930-something. It’s old and yellowed and shows a picture of two people very much in love and full of hope! My favorite treasure at my house is a my blue book case that stores all my other favorite treasures!! My favorite treasures…pictures of my daughter, my grandparents’ Christmas ornaments, a handmade baby blanket Love the print! One of my favorite treasures at our house is a collection of old cameras from my grandpa. One of my favorite treasures at my house (besides my hubby and kids) is my heart rock collection. Most of them were collected by my son. I would LOVE to take a photo of the collection and get a big print made at Mpix. Thank you Meg for all the inspiration and fun. You are the best! Love your print! It turned out great. I am especially loving a huge world map that I got at IKEA that looks gallery wrapped, but really Hubby and I wrestled that thing into a frame on the living room floor after “reading” IKEA’s lovely descriptive directions. It is huge and hangs beautifully over my living room couch. It is a big conversation piece and everyone is drawn to it. I love it! Oh this is so hard!! There are so many things…but right now would be our new little chicks. They are so adorable! My favorite treasure is my collection of photo albums….I love my pictures! Pictures of my two miracle children…hands down! My favorite treasures are the three guys that live in it…my hubby and my two crazy little boys. I think my fave treasure right now is an old, wooden artist carry-all. It reminds me of an old toolbox. It it all wood, has a handle at the top, and 5 openings on each side. I found it last month at a consignment sale and even though it was a little more than I would typically pay I just fell in love with it and HAD to have it. Right now I have each little opening filled with a mason jar that I use as little vases. I just love it! My old black typewriter that is from the 1930’s! It still works, too!! My favorite thing in my house is a pink vase from ikea. i visited it in the ikea several times until i decided it was worth the whole $8! I still smile a year later every time I look at it. Best $8 ever. My favorite finds are my two (count them ONE,TWO!) carved masks of Dracula purchased in Romania! They are fab and huge! NO sparkly vampires at our house. My treasure is definately the pearl ring my father gave to my mother when they were 17. My father was kiiled in an accident when my mom was 25 and my sisters and I were all under the age of 6. The ring means the world to me and I wore it on my wedding day. favorite treasure – lots of special Christmas ornaments! My FAVORITE is the little PINK Dress, ruffled panites, shoes, and blankie that my Mom ( deceased ) brought me home from the hospital in, then I brought my daughter home from the hospital, then she brought my Grand-daughter home from the hospital…I have a photo of my mom at the very tender age of 17 holding me in this little outfit at ‘my’ baby shower…She is so beautiful and is holding me with such love and obvious affection that does not even begin to hint of the absolute fear of the daunting task of having a baby when she is still a child in so many ways herself…I have a photo of each of ‘us’ in the dress…. my quilt that hangs above the couch in the den…aunt patsy made it! My favorite is the people who live inside! I was just given my grandmother’s recipe box. Treasure for sure. my books:) My favorite treasure at my house is a snowglobe my husband gave me on our wedding day. It is so beautiful and so symbolic of the journey we have been on! my favorite treasure is a beautiful antique frame that now holds a picture of our family that was passed from my grandma to my mom to me! The baby quilt made for my mother by my grandmother. I can’t wait to use it for my baby!! small little cast iron rooster! found it while cleaning out my granddads stuff!! I have lots of treasures that belonged to my grandparents & great-grandparents. One of my favorites is a travel journal my great-grandmother kept while on a trip out west (from Tennessee) with my great-grandfather in 1963. I even have the map they used to route their adventure! My great aunt’s organ…LOVE! I have my grandmother’s 1930 Singer sewing machine with a knee lever. It’s the machine I learned to sew on. I miss using it now that I have a much higher-tech Janome. I need to pull it out and give it some luv… My special treasure is a salt and pepper shaker collection that belonged to my “Granny”!! She wasn’t my blood related granny but a special neighbor that was my granny since I moved next door to her when I was two years old. I have a single green vase – very simply, I’m sure very cheap when it was purchased. But it was purchased by my great Grandmother Stordeboom – a woman I never met but imagine as a spunky surly woman from the stories I hear. I’ve never actually used it, now that I think about it – I’m going to have to remedy that! I love kitchen stuff and have alot of things passed down from my mom and grandmas. I think my most favorite thing is their recipe boxes with the handwritten recipes. 🙂 Hmmmm…I would say it’s a tie between my photo albums and my oldest’s (5) Beads of Courage. He earned over 200 Beads during his cancer treatment and we treasure them. Each one tells a story. I was just telling my mom the other day that, after people and pictures, the first things I would grab if my house were on fire would be our quilts. We have quilts from both sides of the family, old and new, and they make me smile. 🙂 My grandpa’s marble jar full of his marbles from when he was a kid and a little white rocking chair that I sat in as a child. Love your gumball picture! We have a hand me down piano from my husband’s family that I just love. Totally not my decor style, but I love it anyway! My treasure is an old piano that my mother restored. I learned to play on that piano. So many great memories. I am blessed to have it sitting in my house where hopefully my children will learn to play as well. By the way…I absolutely adore that gumball machine canvas. It makes me so happy! my favorite treasure are the vintage ornaments hanging on my tree. My mom just gave me these. She has saved them for many years. THis year she felt they needed to be enjoyed and not wrapped in a box for “someday.” I’m glad I was her “someday!” One of my favorite treasures is a long canvas photo of the sweet feet of my four little blessings. It makes me smile every day! Definitely one to leave up forever! My favorite treasure at my house is my worn copy of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I love the story within the pages of the book… so real. There are so many life lessons that can be taught/learned from reading TKaM. 🙂 I have this funky little tree with wooden birds sitting in it. I just makes me happy. …my favorite treasure at my house is….besides the babies, definitely a pic of the three of them together- when our family was complete. my favorite treasure? my kids… When I was a young teen, my pastor’s wife gave me a praying/kneeling ceramic angel she had made. I think of her as my angel every time I pass it in the cabinet. (It always seems to turn though. It’s facing me every time I look at it no matter where I’m standing in the room.) I have a rocking chair that my grandfather had made for my mother. It was used by her, me and my two brothers, and my four kids. I hope to have it recovered soon so it is ready for any future grand babies. My favourite treasure in my house is my great Aunt’s set of silverware that my dad left me when he passed away. Thanks for the chance xo Right now I’d say my favourite treasure is a coffee table my partner built out of an old work bench we found in my mother in laws shed. We sit around it as a family every single day. Homework, afternoon tea, sometimes dinners. We love it. Besides my family, it’s a scuplpture called ,”blessings way.” It was my Grandma’s she bought it with money she found stashed all over the house when my Grandpa passed. It is of a mother and 2 children. My Grandpa was super tight with his money so I always think about how excited she was to get something for herself. She deserved it. My favorite treasure is my daughter’s Golden Books collection. I can’t wait to share them with my future grandchildren! My favorite treasure in our home is my Grandmother’s old pantry(similiar to a pie safe)…it was on it’s way to the dump when I rescued it. my favorite treasure is my engagement/wedding ring that i wear everyday. my husband had it made for me while he was on deployment to dubai. it is so antique and vintage looking, i love it! but if that’s not a home enough treasure then it would have to be the wooden rocking chair my grandfather made for me when i was little that our daughter now uses! my most favorite treasure at my house is my daughter! last year my 16 year old was on a bike ride with 100 others when a drunk driver plowed thru the group, hitting my child before hitting 10 others, almost taking her life. after 35 days at UCLA picu, she is looked upon as a miracle by her doctors, detectives & medical staff alike. her body was completely broken, she sustained brain damage on top of many broken bones, internal injuries…she was in the FIGHT FOR HER LIFE!!! because of legal issues, it’s been almost a year and a half since i’ve gotten to post pics of her publically…she was a working actress, now she is still rehabilitating from the accident. 7 surgeries later, she is exceeding her doctors expectations! Her inner beauty, as well as her outer beauty is amazing! I would LOVE a HUGE CANVASS WRAPPED photo of her!!! She is MY MIRACLE!!! My treasured item would be my Chick Cookie Jar I got while in KS for Craft Weekend- I love it so much and I am happy i decided to get it!! Must I choose just one?! My grandpa’s secretary desk with a jewlery box and doll my Dad brought back for my Mom when he was in the Navy hold special places in my heart. OHHHHH! Canvases have been on my wish list for ever!!! My favorite treasures are all of my photo albums and scrapbooks. My husband’s grandfather puts together albums for everyone at Christmas, and it’s always my most favorite present!! My favorite family treasure is probably photos of the dads in my husbands family holding their baby boys. It goes all the way back to great-great-grandpa holding great-grandpa. my favorite treasure at my home is an old green stool that my grandma used when teaching school…it is the perfect color…and lots of sentimental value! Love your new canvas! I really treasure all the pictures I have of my 3 three girls. I also treasure my pictures from Colombia and would love to print one on a huge canvas. =) My favorite treasure(s) are my husband’s paintings. He’s an artist and I love the two paintings we have in our home. I love love love the very old Rudyard Kipling books that belonged to my grandparents. They have weathered leather covers, they are amazing! My family is by far my favorite “treasure!!” My favorite treasure in my house is all my old family photos that go back generations! Other than my family (of course!), I would have to say my vintage globe collection. My daughter thinks I’m insane for having so many, but I love, love, LOVE seeing them throughout the house. They make me so happy. 🙂 My favorite treasure in my home is a rotating photo display that I made out of an old greeting card rack. I got the rack for free and love having my family pictures on (rotating) display 🙂 My favorite treasure in my house is the scrapbooks that I have so lovingly created for my family…and spent a fortune on as well! That is what I would run back into a burning house to save! A TINY vintage Singer sewing machine that was my grandmothers! A porcelain nativity my grandmother gave me. My favourite treasure is my Grandpas piano that was handed down to me when he passed away.It is the first thing you see when you enter our house, and is a constant reminder of him when played! This is a great giveaway, thank you! My favorite treasure – and what I would get a print of if I win – is my family and my dog! Along the theme of heirloomy, material items: When my stepdad was little and learning to write, he got a good grade on a practice sheet of m’s. He was so proud that his mom framed it. My name starts with M and he gave it to me when he married my mom and it made me feel so accepted and special. Now it hangs in my baby girl’s room and it has become a sort of symbol for family. It’s just a faded piece of paper in an old wood frame, but it’s priceless! My husband, two kids and our dog…without them, it wouldn’t be a home! I have an old church bench in my foyer that I love! My mother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas last year. It used to be hers and I sat on it the first time I ever came to my husband’s parents house before we were even officially dating. It was so sweet and generous of her! My favorite treasure is one particular picture from my wedding day. It’s pretty much the only picture we were relaxed in and I just love it. If I won, I’d probably get a huge canvas of that picture! Favorite treasure at my house? It isn’t a thing….its my 7 little treasures from 2 months to 10 yrs! Its rough sometimes and there are many tears but they are certainly jewels to be treasured! Love those canvases and love mpix too! I treasure my family – and my grandma’s vintage heirloom wedding ring handmade quilt. Besides family, I love my crocheted afghan collection…thinking about someone putting such time and effort into it… I love them all! My vintage cameras 🙂 493? Hmm… well, I’ll put my comment into the mix! ooh love the bright colors. I have a ton of treasures but my favorite is an old mantel that was in my fathers house when he grew up and in his grandparents house before that. It has seen better days but I love the chippy paint and ten thousand thumb tack holes from years and years of stocking hangings. We just moved and I am trying to incorporate it into our new house. Wow that is awesome! I would love one! My favorite treasure is a huge trunk given to my husband and I by his stepmom. It still has stickers from different train trips in the 30’s! It holds so many storied! My favorite treasures are my children 🙂 A rocking chair that belonged to my grandparents. My treasures are my husband and four kids – I would love a big canvas of our family to hang! There are so many!!! I love my Chinese jewelry box and my nativity from Israel. I love my vintage hutch in the dining room! It makes me smile every time I look at it! My favorite treasure is a bookshelf my dad built for me when I was in high school. He’s an amazing furniture builder and it’s beautiful. I absolutely adore it! I keep only my favorite books on it for display 🙂 My treasures are many; they are messy, loud, time consuming, delightful, loving, colorful and in constant motion! i do not attempt to decorate with them…they are moving targets…but how i love and treasure them! i could, however, attempt a group shot and have them gallery wrapped! My favorite treasure(s) are my children! I have a couple of favorite treasures: the rocker my grandma gave me and the old cigar box full of pens/pencils that my grandpa collected. Our guinea pig 🙂 I would LOVE a canvas print! My favorite treasure is my puppy dog Kona! My grandpa used to make colorful wooden flower bouquets and my dad gave one to me and both of my sisters when my grandpa passed away ten years ago.. it sits in my kitchen window and I LOVE having flowers around all the time 🙂 My favorite treasure is a picture of my 2 girls that I framed. I walk by it numerous times a day and it makes me smile every time. My favorite treasures in my home are first my children, then their artwork. They make me happy! Our piano if a treasure to my family! I love the gumball machine! My favorite item in my house is a pegboard on the wall in my kitchen covered in vintage utensils. Most came from my Mom and the Thrift Stores. i love globes, so i think i would take a picture of my favorite one and have it blown up! I love this old green colored glass jar with a lid that my grandmother had that now sits on a table in the kitchen. My favorite treasure at my house is my daughters room. Bright cheery and perfect for her to grow up in! My favorite treasure is an antique cast iron horse statue that was my great grandma’s. My beautiful antique piano and piano stool! My wedding photographer also recommends Mpix! I have an old wooden stool on my fireplace hearth that my Dad made in shop class in junior high. It is old and beaten, but it is GORGEOUS to me! 🙂 Love your canvases……your photography is stunning, as always! probably the green desk i bought secondhand for $40 a few years ago. it’s so perfectly distressed and was clearly not painted by a professional! it’s the first thing i bought to start adding color to our home My treasure is a box of photos from early in my childhood before my mom passed away. I thought they had been lost but my step-mom found them a couple of years ago. Greatest gift ever! the picture frame that hold my kids first photos on their birth dates. they are both doing the same thing with their arms, even though they were taken 3.5 years apart. it sits next to my bed. i love it with all my heart. -tracy A bright turquoise shelf that sits in my front hall… thanks for the chance! 🙂 A jadeite mug that my grandpa used as a shaving mug. 🙂 My favorite treasure is my huge vintage map that I got from my school while teaching there…..it was all rolled up collecting dust in an old closet when I discovered it! I think my favorite treasure is my gallery wall. It took years to make it happen, but I love it every time I look at it. Love the canvas print – amazing how vibrant the colors are. My household treasure would be my family’s birthday candle rings from Germany. I remember as a child noticing we were the only family who didn’t put our candles on a cake. There are red and hand painted and I now light them for my children’s birthdays. A photo of my kids that I used as a Christmas card 2 years ago. I love it so much and would be so excited to have it done on a canvas!! My treasure my family as everyone else ….. but I love a little dresser I boughtthat my girl use in their room and hope someday someone will take it with them when I pass. My favorite treasure at home is a portrait painted of my mom. I love Mpix as well! Use them all the time! My most prized wall hanging was done by a friend for my 30th birthday as a surprise. My daughter was 3 1/2 and my son was 2 months old. She made a footprint of my baby’s foot and a handprint of my daughter! Then my daughter cut out a paper plate and made a wreath who the prints hanging from the center. Love them both and are still hanging! I’m getting ready to turn 40 in January! Wonder what I can talk my kiddos into! My favorite *possessions* would be my growing antique and made-by-me quilt collection (partially inspired by this blog!). the greatest treasure at my house is my husband’s grandpa’s Bible. precious. I have a few treasures. My little collection of aqua pyrex is a favorite! Oh, and my most favorite treasure…my mom and dad’s first Christmas Tree ornament from when they were first married. She gave them to me years ago and it has a reserved spot on the top center of my treet every year. The same place she hung it on her tree for so many years. Haha! Oh my goodness! I kept looking for your “canvas” print!! I was saying to myself, “why is she talking about how much she loves her print and she isn’t showing a picture of it?”!! So funny. Clearly, I wasn’t looking close enough, because the gumball machine isn’t even whole on the canvas, but it was a quick look 😉 My favorite treasure is my little reindeer family that sits on my fireplace mantel for the holidays…Mom, Dad, 4 little reindeer – just like our family. I have a tiny rocking chair that my mother used as a child, then my brother and I used it, and my two kids used it and it is now awaiting another small youngin’ to come into the family to use it. My favorite tresure in my house would have to be a little red stool in my closet. It was a “cast away” from my inlaws when the moved from the “big house”. I sit on it when I change clothes, and stand on it when I am digging for a sweater! So silly and simple…gb My favorite treasure…a set of pictures I had made into a booklet…of all our yearly Santa visits…we crack up over who is crying and who isn’t…and laugh at how the number of boys increases every other year. the rocking chair my in-laws gave us 🙂 My favorite treasure in my house is my Christmas village. My mom passed it down to me just last year- loved it when I was growing up and now love putting it up for my kids. My favorite treasure is a little turtle that a sweet little friend gave me! My grandmother’s itty bitty little sewing box from when she was a little girl. LOVE it! I love and use Mpix as well!! They have THE best service and quality! My favorite treasure is my antique china cabinet that holds my grandma’s wedding china and lots of mis-matched treasures that my husband and I have picked up in numerous antique shops! My Grandma’s ironstone. It’s grouped together now, but I’m forever pulling out a piece to decorate somewhere else with. The comments are so fun to read today! I would have to say that what I treasure most is the family piano my parents passed on to me. Not only do I have sweet memories of listening to my mother play it, it has sweet memories of my own kids playing…and sometimes pounding on it. I think my siblings are still mad that my parents gave it to me. Hee hee! my favorite treasure(s) are paintings done by my husbands father. they are just a tangible link to him. My favorite treasure is the miniature tea set that my grandma gave to me. When I was little, it was my favorite thing to play with at her house. I couldn’t believe she’d let me play with the “priceless” treasure. Now that I’m older, I realize that it wasn’t that big of a deal, but it’s a big deal to me because it reminds me of her. I love my Grandpa’s childhood chair. It would make a great neutral canvas with brown , rustic seat. I can already picture it! mine is a tiny little santa my mom used to put out at Christmas every year. she gave it to me years ago. i love it so much it stays out year round on my nightstand to remind me of seeing that little santa when i was a little kid 🙂 My favorite treasure at my house is a shelf that my husband built for me. He is amazing! The paintings my children and my father have painted for me. I think my biggest treasure is my mom’s wooden ice box. I don’t have her with me anymore, and it helps looking at things that were precious to her. My favorite thing is my farm table. I love the character it has! It is an antique and has been in other families homes. I love that others have gathered at the same table as ours! My favorite treasure at the moment—(because of the holidays) is my Nativity Set from my grandma. I LOVE it and I LOVE putting it out every year. It was hers and in her house as long as I could remember. I always admired it at her house too :). I also love Mpix but have never had a canvas done by them, only some photos printed :). My greatest treasure in my home besides the people and pets are my children’s hand made Christams ornaments….I have them all…they are all on the tree, but I keep them all in fabric covered boxes near to our front door (in case there is a fire….I beleive that I can grab them on the way out!!! I know…I am a dor)……they are my favorite possessions…… Aside from my family, I would say my grandparents china. My grandma died when I was young, so I don’t have too many memories of her. Using her china makes me feel close to her 🙂 my favorite treasure is an old quilt my great grandma made. It’s perfect! I treasure the quilts that my grandmothers have hand-quilted. I would have to say the treasure I was most recently in awe of is a christmas cactus plant that was my husband’s grandmother’s. She passed 6 years ago and the other day I was looking for something and while searching for it I noticed that lo and behold the christmas cactus has buds on it. It’s very random and infrequent when it blooms so it’s always a miracle when it does. I called my kids over to look and my daughter found what we were looking for under the table the plant is on. Grandma gave a us a clue to find it, I think 🙂 My mom gave me a porcelain rabbit that is laughing. When ever I look at it it make me happy. I love the pics we have of our two boys with Big Jay when we go to KU games. I would love to make that into a fun canvas! I think I have to go with my boys little rocking chair. They are just about to big for it, but it is so sweet and will definitely be hanging around in case there are some grandkids someday. My favorite treasure is a book of stories that my dad used to read to me when I was little! I just bought a blue dresser from a little boutique in our town. I love it, my husband still doesn’t understand it. It’s blue! But I love it! H hands down my Grandfather clock. IT. IS. AMAZING! A family heirloom with DEEP history and it looks GOOD TOO! Sounds like a trolley car. My pictures of my soon to be 30 year old baby! My favorite treasure at my house is my old camera collection. Some of them were cameras my relatives used back in the day, some came from antique stores, some were gifts and each one is special to me. I would say mine are a set of 12 Venice Glass champagne glasses I bought in Venice on my trip around Europe in my early 20’s. I don’t let anyone use them b/c I am afraid they will break. ALthough they are probably stronger than I think since I carried them around in a box the whole second half of the trip. most treasured item in my house are our photobooks and the afghans my great aunts made. the photobooks capture my family – past & present while the afghans just remind me of home & my childhood. What a fun photo to blow up into a canvas!!! Love that! My favorite treasure (or one of my faves) is my old phonograph that was my great grandfather’s. Apparently he was a brick layer & worked lots of hours so he bought it for my great grandmother. I have a bunch of cylinder records that play on it, too 🙂 I just had family pics taken over the summer & would looove to have a canvas of one! My most treasured item is my father’s childhood rocking chair. This little wooden chair, which at one point had a music box on the rocker, has a sweet little flocked lamb you can barely see anymore. The chair has been a special little place to sit and read for my dad, my sister and I, and all four of my children. So many memories in one little seat. We were married 10 years ago, when big formal wedding albums were still “normal.” Our wedding album is huge and the single most expensive item in our home, literally. We joke that if there is some natural disaster, one of us saves the kids and the other saves the album. Its fun to look through it with the kids. Definitely a treasure! Pictures of my little boys are some of my favorite treasures, and I would LOVE to have a new canvas! 🙂 Including my kids and hubs, my favorite treasure are all my pictures! Lots of “treasures” at my house….my favorite material treasure is my engagement ring. It was the official start to where I am today. 🙂 My most treasured item in my house is probably the bench at my dining room table. Might be weird, but we’ve spent a lot of time there-drawing, eating, playing games. It’s unpainted and stained, but it’s special to me! Other than my amazing daughter, my favorite treasure in my house is an antique Roseville vase that my Uncle Bill left to me. The colors are amazing and I love it because it reminds me of him. My treasure has to be my family,hubby and my boys,after that I found this super cute vintage statue of a boxer dog like my max who is 11 years old, I love it! Other than my family it would have to be the clothes that my husband wore home from the hospital. We found them after his mother died and it was such a treasure. A little blue crocheted outfit that is so precious. I would love a gallery wrap from mpix-I would probably use a picture of my grandchildren or maybe a picture of my house-oh my-who knows what I would actually pick, I just hope I win this. This is an awesome giveaway, I use mpix and love everything I have ordered from them too. My favorite treasure is my grandfather clock that my grandpa built. It makes me smile every time I walk by it. My Memaw’s everyday casserole dish … So many good memories, so much love poured into that dish My favorite family treasure is a rocking chair my great aunt brought back from the Boer War in Africa, where she served as a nurse. It is beautiful, worn, creaky and I have rocked all nine of my children in it. So very hard to choose one thing, but I’d have to say a set of framed prayers that my husband’s great-grandmother wrote for my twin daughters shortly before she passed at the age of 100. They are so special to us! My treasure is my sewing room. Especially now that I share it with my sweet mama. My two pups and my hubby are my favorite treasures! My amazing husband and four girls 🙂 treasured heirloom? my gram’s wedding ring. i keep that on my finger. My favorite treasure at my house is a Christmas decoration of Santa kneeling beside Baby Jesus. It means so much to me. My treasure is my family. I would love a canvas of them! the kiddos are the #1 treasure but “thing wise” I treasure my vintage globe upon a stack of vintage song books. My family is my favorite treasure! it sounds sappy but my favorite treasure is my daughter. i would get a canvas of her. 🙂 Omg. I love anything in canvas but have never heard of mix. Excited Togo look at their site. I have so many favorites it is hard to pinpoint one. I have 2 bubblegum machines that I love. Lots of Pyrex treasures but my favorite treasure I would have to say is an old cabinet with glass front that my grandma and grandpa refinised. It is full f old treasures from dishes to old 1930’s era wind up and bobble head toys. Would love to win this canvas. Great giveaway. i treasure my moms hand written peach cobbler recipe. I LOVE mpix too! My favorite treasure is a little tuppence coin my husband gave me for our first christmas together. it’s a long story, but very sweet. 🙂 My favorite treasure is my iPhoto library. I love looking at old photos and movies. – Amanda O. I have too many precious things, but in particular there is this glass bread pan that I have never baked in, and can’t seem to find anywhere to display, but it is gorgeous…old and swirly…but clear…with little designs swirled all over. My favorite treasure would be my Hoosier Cabinet. It was the first antique I ever bought and remains my favorite piece in the house! my favorite treasures are my 5 boys! Ooh! I love this. My favorite treasure at my house is my great grandmothers old table. It’s chippy too and I love that! I use MPIX and love them. Have never ordered a canvas but it looks like they have it mastered! So, my favorite thing in the house would first be my dogs, then I have a great pottery collection by a lady from Cape Cod. I love those. There are other things, how can one choose? Thanks! I had to stare at your photo a minute looking for the canvas because the gumball machine looks so real! My favorite family treasure is the ivory Jenny Lind crib my sisters and I used as babies. It is now my newborn son’s crib and I love the look of the vintage crib that held so many sleeping babies in our family. One of my favorite things is my toy box that my grandfather made for me when I was little. He passed away when I was 4, so it means even more. It’s graduated from toy box to bedding storage for out guest room, and it makes me so happy to have it in our home. hmmm…. I have a quilt that my grandma’s mom made for her as a wedding gift. My grandma had shown me where it was (deep in the back of a closet) & told me she wanted me to have it before she died, and then it turned out that no one else even knew she had it! An old carved wooden box that sits on my coffee table. I love, love, love it! It’s a tie between my favorite material treasures…the wedding ring quilt my great-grandmother quilted for me as a child that I wasn’t to receive until I married. She died 1 week after I got engaged. And a telephone table my grandfather made in high school shop class. Really cool! My favorite treasure is my post card collection from my grandmother. I LOVE mpix!! My most treasured thing.. that’s tough… aside from my children and husband my most treasured thing would be my photographs. They are the story of our life and I would be devastated if something ever happened to them… I love that I can picture exactly where that canvas is, now that I have visited the craft house is person! 🙂 Coincidentally, my favorite new treasure at home is the butter yellow and white, hand stitched quilt I picked up during our antiquing day at Craft Weekend. I absolutely adore it! I even purchased new white bedding, and pillows, so my new to me quilt can take center stage at the foot of my bed! Love it! My children are my number one treasure, but next to them is the dresser they use to put their clothes in. My dad used it as a child, I used it now my girls use it. It has been repainted a few times, but still works great! My dogs in a heartbeat!! That print is gorgeous. Beautiful prints – you take such great photos! So, other than my hubs and kiddos, my favorite treasures are the portraits I drew of my kiddos, and the quilts that my Grandmother made for each of us. Those are what I would grab first (after kids!) in an emergency! Besides my child,(whom I really can’t call a possession, but you know what I mean) the most prized possession in my house is a three tiered glass candy dish etched with fleur des lis and scrollwork. I lost both my maternal grandparents at a young age, they were both 55, I was 11. My grandmommy had the dish always filled with three things – caramel cremes, candy corn (no matter the time of year) and butterscotch hard candies, I was given it when we cleaned their house out and it means the world to me, I have it filled with caramel cremes, banana Runts and candy corn. I would save it in a fire. Thanks for the opporunity to share and the contest! I LOVE my OLD pie safe that my hubby found for dirt CHEAP!!!! It’s the perfect piece in my kitchen! It has so much personality. My favorite treasure is a 97 year old steamer truck that my granddad used when he was an Army brat, moving all over with his parents (Alaska and the Philippines were the two coolest places). I have wonderful memories of listening to all his stories and I named my second son after my granddad so seeing his trunk with their shared name stamped on it is a treat every day 🙂 have been wanting a canvas of my favorite treasure for a while now… my sweet little fam! cheesy, but true! 😉 my chippy white painted dresser that i found on the side of the road. it’s beautiful! i can’t imagine why someone didn’t want it! I love my pictures. I am not a great photographer but I love capturing everyday moments!!!! My dad’s old desk. I’ve refinished it but the sound I love the way the craft house is decorated! I want to come live there! My favorite treasures at my house are my goldendoodle and my husband! They are my world. I wish we had some really neat old stuff passed down to us but so far we don’t. I suppose that comes with time! My most treasured possession is a family history book I made in school. It includes interviews of grandparents and other family members(most now deceased) and precious old photos of generations past. Would love to have one in canvas to display. 🙂 Thank you for offering this precious giveaway. Besides my kids, I love all of my Willow Tree figures that I have been gifted over the years. Or my little Chef decorations in my kitchen. Thanks for the giveaway. My fav treasure is a big underwater painting my aunt made me in high school. I’ve had it up ever since. It’s now in my kids room. So special to me. I love, love, love that picture! Inspired by you, I’m changing my whole home decor to showcase our love of vintage, whimsical things. My favorite items have to be my colorful vintage pyrex goodies! those pictures just make everything seem so happy! i cherish a pretty pink vase that was my grandmas, i would turn it upside down because then it looked like a lady dancing. thanks for the chance to win! I have a bowl full of matchbooks from my grandparents. They picked them up wherever they went. I use to stare at them when I was a kid and always wanted to look through them. When we cleaned out their house it was the only thing I really wanted. My most favorite treasure in my home is three photos hanging over my bathtub. They are of my parents wedding, my mother and her sisters as kids, and me and my family in Key West in the 70’s:) My favorite treasure right now is my KIDS….. my favorite treasure at my house currently is . . . . . my moms wedding band. It is tarnished-gold and very organic looking (like tree branches wrapped around your finger). My parents are no longer together after 30 years of marriage (so sad), so it is very special to me. I had the BEST childhood 🙂 My Grandmother’s teapot. *kids (I have 4!!!) oh my what a lovely giveaway ! 2 things come to mind as my favorite treasures. i have a quilt that my great aunt made and then i have pictures of my grandmother when she was a teenager. my children didn’t get to meet them but every time we wrap up in the quilt i know that she is with us. My kid and husband are my treasures! LOVE the new print! I too recently found Mpix and have fallen in love! My favorite treasure in my home, is my sweet little girls first year photo book. Such sweet memories have been captured in that! One of my favorites is a MASSIVE, vintage relief map of Africa my father-in-law salvaged from a high school dumpster. My husband and I spent our first two years of marriage in East Africa so the map has sentimental meaning to me on top of the fact that it just looks cool. All of the antique Christmas decorations that were passed down when my mother passed away. I have a childs rocking chair that belonged to my father…it’s probably 70 years old. All the grandkids have rocked in that rocking chair…including me. When my grandmother moved into assisted living she passed it on to me. I treasure it…it is by far my favorite. My favorite treasure? A small copper pot (hanging in my kitchen) that we found in a little flea market in Italy. It’s not valuable, but the day that it was bought was one of those magical days that I always remember and smile about. Pretty sure those are the best kind of treasures… =0) I just ordered a gallery wrapped canvas from Mpix, but I would love another one! My favorite treasure in my house would have to be my 2 girls. Thanks! My family and the milkglass 🙂 It’s hard to narrow it down to ONE treasure, so can I pick one of many favorites!? 😉 …I would say a tiny little tea pot, given to me by my paternal Grandmother. I’ve only met them a couple of times in my life–the last time being while we were in London on our honeymoon. She gave me a tiny little tea pot from her collection, and I was terrified of travelling home with it. But we made it! It sits on a little shelf now 🙂 I had to do a double take. . i thought that was the bubble gum machine. . not a canvas of it. I want that canvas in my home 🙂 Most treasured thing in my home. . .mmm. . .nothing comes to mind. . .isn’t that weird?? I would not be that sad to lose anything in my home. . .weird? I do enjoy my colorful art on my walls. . . My vintage fiesta ware. I have three nesting bowls that I have above the kitchen cabinets and various plate sizes on my dining room buffet. I love the colors My grandma’s wedding rings and my grandpa’s fishing creel. Love this! So colorful!! My favorites would be my rainbow afghans that I collect from thrift stores whenever I travel! Our guitars. We have 5 of them…electric, acoustic and some handed down from our grandfather and great grandfather. They all play great and hold so many memories. They are proudly hung on the dining room wall! My Grandpa passed away 6 years ago and I miss him so much. He was a milkman and after he died, my Grandma gave me a cute little glass milk bottle that was used on their dairy farm many years ago. I keep pens in it that say “Thompson Dairy” on them. Every time I see it I smile. My dad’s bible, complete with all of his notes and writings. So sweet. Melts my heart. Whenever I feel the need to be with him, I read his notes. He wrote lovely thoughts about my mom and each of us next to verses he was studying. Even though he is gone, he continues to teach me his faith. A picture of my hubby when he was 4 years old. Our daughter looks just like him. It’s crazy and adorable and I just can’t stand it. I want to squeeze his 4 year old self. My grandparents gave my baby girl an antique school desk to use as a craft table. It’s still got the school district’s property number on it! Love it because I was a teacher before I turned mommy. They bought it secretly for our babies the year we got married — she wasn’t born until 5 years later! My favorite treasure is an old doorstop that was my grandmother’s and I always admired it in their home while growing up. It is a brick covered in a crewel fabric(greens, coral and orange!) and is so happy. I keep it on a shelf as a reminder that we will oneday have our own home again! My most favorite treasure would definitely be all of my scrapbooks I have created for my 3 daughters…i have over 100 completed albums. We love sitting down & looking at them from time to time…reliving the days of their days past. Can I say my kids? If not . . than . . probably my stuffed teddy bear I’ve had forever and still, to this day, sleep with at night. My hubby just realized that he’d have to make room for him in our bed too when he married me. 🙂 I have a beautiful lamp that belonged to my great-grandmother. I’ve had to get a new lampshade, but the lamp its self is still amazingly beautiful. 🙂 Anything with a history I especially treasure…but I’d probably have to say my great-grandmother’s lawyer cabinet with the glass doors that flip up and slide back. It holds many of my family’s treasured little trinkets now. 🙂 my favorite treasure is the fishing permit from my grandpa. In france you need a fishing permit and that’s something I used to do with him. He passed away 6 years ago and since then I never went back fishing. The card hang in my bedroom and it makes me happy. My fav is a family photo super sized taken by my fav photographer…you! Like many others…my favorite treasure in my home are those that live there, and those that come to visit!:) However, i do love my chalkboards also:) A photo album from my childhood days in Africa or my kid’s baby photo albums. 🙂 Great giveaway! My favorite treasures are handmade gifts from friends. Hard to pick just one…… Besides the most obvious treasures being my family….. My favorite treasure is my Great Grandmother’s push pedal Singer sewing machine from 1914. When I was lucky enough to bring it into my home, I discovered drawers full of beautiful vintage buttons, thread spools in beautiful hues and most importantly, handwritten notes and sewing tips my Great Grammy, who never learned to “read and write” and so they are very valuable to me! Currently I would say all my Christmas decorations. It is so fun to unpack them each year and remember what I have, where I bought it, and the memories associated with my favorite time of the year! Gorgeous canvas. My favorite treasure is a crystal chandelier we bought at an estate sale for a steal. Love, love it. I have my Grandma’s rainbow Pyrex mixing bowls. I LOVE them….they make me smile when I use them! My Favorite treasure at my house are my three bridge photos hanging in the bathroom. They were taken while in my college photography class. The first bridge is from my home town in Williamsburg, VA the second is of a bridge you had to cross to get back to the college I attended and the third was one I had to cross to visit my now husband while he was in Culinary School in upstate NY. They are full of memories! My Family is my most treasured in my home. As far as items I have very little, if anything at all from my young childhood. I do have some t-shirts from high school 20 years ago that I still wear (to bed). I smile when I read the dates or names on the shirts and think back to the fun memories! I love my family pictures! I love to see how the kids are growing:) My antique sewing machine….it just makes me smile! Works great too. 😉 My favorite treasure at my house is a photobook I created last year from my family’s trip out west. What an adventure and it’s all there at our fingertips to review at any time. LOVE IT! my favorite treasure at my house is my nana’s vintage “lance” brand glass canister. much like your gumball machine it is something that my mom had to store for me for a while as it didn’t really make sense with the rest of my house until recently. it is the perfect centerpiece for my kitchen now. it holds snacks or cookies or whatever. and it to has the perfect chippy red metal lid. My KitchenAid Professional mixer. I felt like a grown up when I got it. No one else uses it. It’s just mine. My most treasured item is my grandmother’s writing desk. It sits in our entryway, and it makes me smile and think of my grandmother, who died of cancer a few years ago, every time I walk by it. my photos!! (of course!!) of my family :)) Love this! And love mpix. After ordering from one of those deal of the day canvas sales and receiving subpar product 🙁 I only order from mpix now. My favorite thing is my canvases and prints of my 3 year old. They always make me smile. my treasure is the few photos i do have of my baby boy who passed away at just under 3 days old. they are so precious to me. i also love using mpix for photo prints! My dining room table…it was in the movie Dying Young with Julia Roberts. It’s old, chippy and marvelous! I love MPix! Order all my prints from there. My favorite thing in my house would have to be the quilts i’ve been collecting the past few years! eeeek!!! awesome giveaway!! My family treasures are my family pictures. My biggest treasure I think is my star collection. I have dozens hanging on the wall of various sizes and colors. It is there to remind my family to always reach for the stars!! Awesome giveaway!! One of my favorite treasures is an old photo of me as a toddler with my sister and my great-grandparents. Come to think of it, I need to enlarge that baby! 🙂 Hmm… currently a globe that was my grandfather’s. He died before I was born, but it’s cool to now own something that sat in his office for years and years. i think my favorite non-living treasure are the quilts my grandmother and great-grandmother made by hand. thanks for the great giveaway! My favorite treasure at my house is a painting of my great-great grandmother kneeling in prayer by her bed. Priceless. Oh – I think I just posted this wrong…but my favorite thing is a quilt my grandmother made for me in high school. WOOHOO> My grandma’s buffet. Someday I will refinish it. My favorite treasure is my four year old’s ceramic handprint. I love it. Can’t wait for my 7 month old to have the same preschool teachers as my oldest so I can get his ceramic handprint as well! 🙂 I can’t pick just one…my favs are the coffee grinder lamp on my bedside table. It was my great-grandparents on my mother’s side and sometime in the 70’s my great-aunt made it into a lamp. It’s still got the funky 70’s lamp shade. I often think of replacing it with a white one (this one is a red burlap of all things), but just can’t bring myself to do it. My other fav are the few ceramic holiday pieces I have that my mom painted – Christmas tree, jack-o-lantern, Easter egg, pilgrims. She painted them back when I was a little girl and when she passed in ’08 they came to me. They bring me so much joy during the holidays when I really miss her. Aside from my family…probably my deceased grandmother’s old time video camera….she was obsessed with taking pictures still and motion…i think that is where i got my passion for photography:) love your new canvas! My favorite treasures are all my scrapbooks and photo books. Your canvases are beautiful! My favorite treasure in my house is currently cozy, soft white blanket that just feels like love everytime I wrap up in it! But if I won, I think I’d print a picture of some baby robins in a nest from last spring. I printed the photo of the beautiful blue eggs…now I need to print the photo of the birds that hatched from the eggs : ) Oh my goodness! What a great giveaway! I love your gumball picture. I have this old twin brass bed that I slept in as a little girl and am still using! Aside from my children and husband, my favorite treasure is my dads camera. He has severe Alzheimer’s Disease, and can no longer remember how to take photos…he loved taking photos. my favorite treasure is….well, really, how can I pick just one? Favorite recent find is garland of bright green, white and red felt Christmas balls….they are hanging in my living room among some frames of family…..love them!! I only wish there were more than two because I would have loved to buy more for Christmas gift stocking stuffers…. Amazing print. So crisp. I would love win! Thanks so much for this great giveaway! My favorite treasure is this awesome, red/orange ceramic carafe that I found at a thrift store years ago. It was love at first sight. It speaks to me! I know, your watercolors photo has always been a favorite of mine! A quilt my mother made me. I love the canvas! I love your watercolor shot and i love it more and more every time i see it. that would be what I would love to have hanging in my house! My Bible that my Dad gave me 25 years ago….it’s getting pretty worn I read “THING” instead of “TREASURE”! Sorry!! I love love love your new canvas. I thing I treasure most in my home is a framed picture of my Grandpa. He passed 2 years ago and I miss him very much. Today is a special day, its his Birthday and my sons Birthday. Its going to be a great day. My favorite treasures are my babies and husband and colors that fill our home! 🙂 love your prints by the way-so, so happy! Wowza an awesome give away for sure!!!!! besides my family, my most favorite treasure is probably my christening gown, My mom made it for me when I was a baby out of her wedding gown…then when I had babies, both of my daughters wore it for their dedication services…it’s a family treasure for sure. holy moly i’d love to win. i love that you love color and aren’t scared…i’m such a neutral wimp! my favorite treasure is a dresser we rescued from craigslist and redid. every time i look at it i think “LOVE!!!” – and it’s cream, go figure. PICK ME! My kiddos of course… but techincally they aren’t THINGS… but I do have a big huge canvas of a favorite pic of them that my fiance sweetly and thoughtfully surprised me with for Christmas last year… but I digress!! My favorite THING is a big HUGE old rectangle ceiling tin that is creamy white and chippy and framed in the most amazing ornate old frame that I found at a garage sale for $5 that was the EXACT right size. It was absolutley meant to be!! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! AND… the last quilt my grandmother ever made (a postage stamp quilt made by hand). My mom gave it to me on my 25th birthday (I’m 48 now) with a card in which she’d written about how her mother stitched with PRIDE every little square of the quilt and it reminded her of the PRIDE she had in me as a young woman. Doesn’t get much better than that!!! Sorry… I have two faves!!! 🙂 My favorite treasures: my great-grandmother’s old red Cosco stool and my grandpa’s coffee cup. I can still see him sitting on the porch, drinking coffee from it. 🙂 Love your canvases so much. Thanks for the tip about the Instagram App!!! Oh, what a question! I’m not sure I could pick a favorite, but the 100 year old complete set of Dickens books (in red!) are high up there on the list. I have so many pictures all over the house of our family which I love! My 3 and a half month old daughter is my favourite treasure currently in our apartment. Possession-wise? I’d have to go with any of the furniture or goodies that my Papa has made for me. He’s currently in the hospital after having a massive stroke, so anything he has made over the years holds even more meaning now. I’d love to get a print of my Nana and Papa’s wedding picture made to give to my Nana. I love them so, so much. I have a old owl cookie jar and a bubble gum machine love them both!!! Our family photos. My favorite is our latest that is a canvas with a old frame on our fireplace. Everytime I walk in the room I smile Hands down, my favorite treasure is my grandmother’s set of measuring spoons. They instantly bring back sweet memories of baking right by her side in her kitchen. And the spoons take up such little space, but are so useful and filled with great memories. I can smell the Red Velvet Cakes now. Besides my family..it will have to be my pictures of them!! Plus my awesome Indonesian Armoire. It was the 1st thing I bought for my apartment over 20 years ago. It’s so rustic and HUGE that I almost had to leave it in my apt. When my husband & I bought our house. Thank goodness for the movers who noticed the top part came off. It now holds all of my CRAFTY stuff!! LOVE our blog!! I’d have to say my photos. This is a hard question! (I’m no good at picking one favorite:/) My newest favorite would have to be my baby’s scrap bunting & my new vintage folger’s tin. And…I also love mpix:)!! Thanks for the chance! My favorite treasure is a sewing box that my 80 year old grandmother gave me several years ago. Her father made it for her when she was a young girl 🙂 I love it!!! My favorite treasure is a watercolor painted by my grandmother. Thanks for the giveaway! Besides who I share my home with my most treasured possession is our photos. So seeing one so big on our wall would be awesome! My treasure is my babies–LOVE them SO much! After them, my favorite treasure is this awesome vanity that we build. We refinished a really old dresser with a huge mirror on it that my aunt gave me and then installed a sink kit to make it the vanity in our master bath. My aunt has since passed away and I couldn’t be more thankful that I have one of her antiques 🙂 YAY What a giveaway! My favorite treasure currently, of course, is my christmas tree! Yay! Thanks, Meg! After my family and my bible…it would have to be the photos we have of our first daughter. She was born too early and only lived 7 minutes. The photos and a few little items are all we have of her. Love all your bright colors Meg! And love Mpix! I would love to have a canvas print to go on my treasured mantel my dad made for me. I have so much fun changing it out for the seasons and I love that it makes me think of him:). Thanks for turning me on to Mpix! LOVE mpix!! My favorite treasure is a dried flower from my grandpa’s funeral 🙁 Pick me, pick me! A favorite treasure of mine would have to be my bed that my husband made for me. Everytime the tornado sirens blow, the first thing I grab for the run to the basement is my Grandma Grace’s bible. The binding is ragged and falling off and some of the pages flutter out everytime I pick it up, but it’s my favorite thing. Grandma scribbled short notes in the margins –like “Show to J.” or “Praise Jesus”– and I love to thumb through and try to figure out what some of her cryptic messages might mean. SHe had a pretty hard, poor life and I know she took comfort in the Word… so her Bible is a family treasure. I have it sitting in a stack of other old Bibles with her crocheted cross bookmark and if I win the canvas I’ll send off a photo of that to be enlarged. (Fingers CROSSED!) My favorite treasure is the quilt my mother in law made for my bed. LOVE! My grandma’s recipe box 🙂 It’s too hard to narrow it down to just one, but one of my favorite treasures is a photo of my dad when he was in high school, proudly holding a football trophy with his teammates. He passed away over twenty years ago, and it’s so special to be able to look at this snippet from his life where he looks so young and triumphant. My favorite treasure is my jelly jar cabinet. it was in my grandma’s basement. I used it as a changing table for 2 kids. now it is our tv stand. I love the latch and the hinges. I would love a canvas!! Pictures of my family, my orange mixer, and my grandma’s old recipes written in her handwriting. Precious. My family aside (they are my favorite treasures) I love my wedding album. I was marries pre-digital photo era and all my proofs are in that one book! A teapot that was my mothers… It is Rebekah at the well and is hand painted. Rebekah was my mothers name, and it is now my daughters name too. My favorite thing in my home is my wall of family photos. Priceless! My little windmill blades that I have on my living room wall. 🙂 Besides my family of course, my biggest treasure is my Great Grandma’s quilt, that she had made out of all her dresses. I can wrap up in it, and look down, and remember her in each one. my favorite treasure in my house is my famiy…but after that my tea cup collection. My photos of our family. . .I love them and am so glad I took them. I love my bookshelf! Has tons of books and other decorative stuff on it. My 90 year old grandma has been gifting us with her own treasures and belongings for the last few years for holidays and birthdays. For our wedding, she gave us her silverware from her wedding. We love using them for pancake breakfasts or a fancy dinner. This is an AWESOME giveaway! Wow your canvas came out looking great!! One of my most treasured items is a perfectly rusty white metal teapot that was my dad’s before he passed away last year. Thanks for sharing info about mpix, I had never heard of them before! A painting of a banana split that hangs in my kitchen. My favorite treasure is my 6 month old daughter. She brightens everyday and I don’t know what I would do without her! This is hard, my family, of course is my biggest treasure. Materially things don’t mean so much to me anymore, however, I do love my fiesta ware collection. Definitely my two large printed printed pictures of my first two girls, now I need one for Chloe;) My cookie carousel cookie jar. I have had since I was two and that was a long time ago! My favorite treasure is my vintage buffet that lives between my dining and living rooms. I intend to paint it some happy color some day 🙂 And one of these canvases would look sooo great above it! What a great question! I treasure my quilts. They are so pretty and warm. I am a long time lover of quilts and have them on every bed in my house. Lovely! Besides my family, it would be my dining room table. It is an old farm table and my youngest carved “I love you” into the side of it when he was doing his homework one day. I will take that kind of procrastination any day! Right now my favorite treasure is my teal dresser. It’s curvy and I put “crystal” knobs on it. Thanks for the chance at this great give-a-way!! So brilliant to print your treasures on canvas! My favorite treasure is our old barnwood table that i snagged for cheap at an antique store! My favorite treasure is my nativity scene that was my mom’s and the five angel candles that stand in front which belonged to my grandmother. My mom was recently over and told me those angel candles are 68 years old!! I have a special place in my house every Christmas for this most Holy Family. My favorite treasure…. hmmm… i have so many… but i think that currently my favorite treasure is the vintage wooden ironing board that i use as a bar in our vintage kitchen…. i just love looking at that old thing. My most favorite treasure would be the yo-yo quilt my mom made me… It’s full of bright happy colors and she spent hours hand making yo-yo’s for me, it’s a true labor of love!! My hubby and 4 boys are my treasures! But for a non-living item it would have to be my red rusty kitchen scale that I have sitting on the island in my kitchen. It has a big scoop on it that I decorate different with the changing seasons. I know this may sound weird but my favorite treasures in my house are my kids! We have recently moved and I dislike my house very much. It is not a home. So right now I focus on those three treasures instead of the negative energy from this house. Oooooh. Good giveaway. I may want a canvas of your gumball machine! My grandma’s mixing bowls. Love ’em. 🙂 My wedding scrapbook. Made by a friend of my mom’s – it captured our day perfectly and it’s something I would have never gotten around to making! My absolute treasure is my bright yellow, eames-ish era, vinyl bucketlike chair in my craft room. I bought it in Florida on vacation this summer and my super sweet hubs wrapped it in plastic and we hauled it home to Texas in the back of the truck. It is GORGEOUS! I don’t know if it is any kind of authentic anything, but who cares!? It is lovelyliscious! 🙂 my 4 girls are my favorite treasure 🙂 My grandma’s mixing bowls. Love ’em. 🙂 Mine would have to be the custom frame my hubby made to house pics of all of our family members. It’s the first thing anyone sees when they walk in. my christmas ornaments – so many memories! My most treasured item is a wine bottle I saved from my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary celebration. My aunt removed the wine bottle labels and replaced them with a picture of my grandparents on their wedding day. Gorgeous! It now sits on my kitchen counter as a daily reminder to strive for a marriage equally as amazing as my grandparents. 🙂 my favorite treasure is my sea glass I’ve collected over the years. My daughter’s 3 year old photograph — precious 🙂 A Hummel music box my dad bought for me on a business trip in Europe when I was a girl. My favorite treasure is a small ceramic fox that belonged to my great grandmother. I smile every time I look at it. My parents handed down to me a the top half of an old dentist’s cabinet. it is a beautiful thing that must have stood in a tall room because my half (just the top half)stands as tall as my shoulders. it is shabby worn white with scuffs and patches to show it’s age. There are two doors that open out that are plated with beveled glass. it has three shelves inside and I keep sentimental nick-nacks inside. i absolutly adore it! Quilt I have made laying around the house The gorgeous, colorful cathedral window quilt that my husband’s grandmother made for us with so much love. It’s on my daughter’s bed and I feel happy every time I step in her room. I also treasure the aluminum Emmco chairs that are around our dining room table. We found them at a surplus sale for almost nothing at a time when we REALLY needed chairs for our table but didn’t have much money to buy any. They are a visual reminder to me of how God not only provides for our needs, but also how He delights us with things that we love. Our home library . . . love*love*love our books . . . and time reading them together! My favorite treasure is picture of my son in my arms when he was born. My husband captured the most beautiful natural light. My favorite treasure in my house is my Christmas ornaments. I just got them out after not having a tree last year and it.was.so.fun. They are from all over the world and from a lot of my favorite people 🙂 love the color and your blog of course! my fam is my prized treasure but i do adore the handwritten letters from my husband from when we met in high school and over the past 19 years. My favorite treasures are my framed black and white wedding photos of both sets of my grandparents, in vintage frames from thrift stores. They make me so happy. And hopeful for that kind of love! My favorite treasure is my childhood jewelry box that my daughter now uses! One of my most treasured items at my house is a pink, plastic pony…like a My Little Pony, but off-brand. One of my best friends and I used to steal it from each other every other week or so when we worked as camp counselors together. Towards the end of the summer, we stopped stealing it and started “gifting it” to each other so we’d find it at random times. Somehow I ended up with the pony at the end of the summer. My dear friend passed away a couple years ago. When he died, I found the pony in a box of stuff I’d forgotten about. I’m so glad he managed to sneak it back to me one last time. It’s a treasure to me. 🙂 My favorite treasure is my vintage camera! Probably my photos and journals. My favorite treasure at my house is my grandmother’s family bible. It’s an extra large table top bible that she stuck birth and funeral notices in for years. It also has drawings that her grandchildren (me and 6 others) gave her. It not only holds the great word, but a ton of family memories. I’ve told my husband countless times that if there was ever a house fire that bible would be the second thing I would grab (after my children of course. All the cute little vintage treasures. Matryoshka Dolls, Afghans, Egg Crate, I could go on, but I’ll spare you. All the old things have history and character. They all have a story before I knew them. Love treasures! My favorite is my vintage Kit Kat clock that hangs in the kitchen. I love his smile, swishing tale, and side to side eyes. You need one for the craft house! My favourite treasure is a diamond ring that belonged to my Grandma. She left it for me after she died and I wear it every day. An old dresser that was my great grandma’s…I used it as a kid. Then it was old & worn & moved to the garage & my dad used it for tools. A lover of antiques spotted it & took it off his hand’s & refurbished it, beautiful, but it was theirs. I grew up, got a house of my own & one day my husband redeemed my old dresser & it now resides in our bedroom & once again holds my clothes! My Children are my treasure…. my favorite treasure in my house besides the people and dog of course would have to hands down be a bright blue lantern I found at a yard sale! it’s my favorite color plus it looks old and used, I mean loved on 🙂 My favorite treasure(s) at my house are the plates my girls painted and glazed for Christmas when they were little. Such sweet art work that I love. I use them also on occasion. I switch around to different labs. But Mpix has not disspointed yet. Things my kids have made and pictures that my kids are in. LOVE this picture! The photos I have of Cora scattered around my house are my favorite treasures. 🙂 Your canvas looks awesome!! my favorite treasure is an old typewriter than belonged to my grandma. 🙂 what a neat idea! My favorite treasure is quilt made by my great grandmother. So beautiful and special. Every time we go on a road trip (once or twice a year – I have wanderlust) I pick my favorite photos from the trip and have them made into a gallery display – it is so much better than just having all the photos stuffed into albums (which I also do) because I see them every time I walk through my command center! I don’t have many treasures but there is one item that I love so much. It’s a Longaberger market basket that my husband’s grandmother let me have before she passed away. Loved that beautiful lady so much and she had a whole bunch of baskets for me to choose from. I’ll never that let go. EVER. i was just sharing this last night with my hubby – my fav treasure is my french farm table. it is an authentic replica french antique that i snagged from craigslist. the going rate was over 4k when it was created (in France). i got it with chairs for 300. it is worth every penny and will grow with my family since it has two leaves that allow it to extend to fit a total of 16-18 people. Call me crazy – but its my old Fisher Price house that lives in my kitchen. LOVE your canvas and can’t wait to someday be picked for craft weekend! Merry Christmas! My favorite thing is the quilt I made for my daughter – I smile everytime I see it:) It was definitely a labor of love. I love LOVE your canvas. That picture is amazing! Can we win that?!? lol. I love my chevron crochet quilt from my great-grandma. It’s the only thing I have from here. my chippy paint desk, passed along from a friend. My favorite treasure at my home would have to be my kids artwork. I have a gallery wall of it in our den. Bright happy pictures that get changed and added to regularly. All signed by my favorite artists! but…Oh to have a huge canvas of something I love! I have no idea what it would be! But I would love it!Thanks for the giveaway! Oh I so need a canvas of my family for our home 🙂 I love a quilt I some how managed to snag form my parents. It was ahnd pieces and quilted bu my great-grandmother and grandmother. Love it!!! I even had my newest litte ones pics taken on it…such a treasure! My granddad died the day before my first child was born last year….when my parents were cleaning out his house, they gave me an old washboard turned cabinet that was his….so special! I have many treasures. But I would have to say my favorites are the two little pinch pots my kids made for me in kindergarten. So perfectly imperfect! It is so silly, but it is a rock that a little girl in Greece had painted and was selling on the street. I gave her a dollar for it and she was so excited she started jumping up and down. It was he best dollar I have ever spent and it makes me happy every time I look at it! Oh goodness, our pictures and our Christmas ornaments (we get one on every vacation we take so they all have a special meaning). Thank you for sharing! The gumball machine and watercolors are so fun! hhhmmmm… let me think. Favorite treasure is my collection of miniature chairs. Not doll furniture, but unique, one of kind super small chairs. I get compliments on them all the time. They’d make a great canvas pic! My bookshelves and desk that my Grandaddy made for me when he was 83 years old … precious gift! My favorite treasure…I had to think about this! Besides the obvious kids, hubby, dog, I’d say it’s the 4 framed pictures in our hallway. All of our grandparents on their 50th wedding anniversaries. Now THAT’S something to treasure. I love the big yellow fork and spoon set hanging in our kitchen! My husband picked it up for me during one of our antigue runs! He totally gets me! I don’t have many things from my parents who are no longer with us. But I have an old ruler I found when cleaning out their house that I love- it may not even be old- but it looks it. Favorite treasure: the roll top desk that my grandma used when she was a little girl, and then I used in my room when I was little. I plan to pass it down to my own daughter or son someday. My favorite treasure in our home would have to be the furniture that my husband has built. It reminds me how much he loves me and is willing to try for me! And I’m proud of him because it all turned out so well! I have a precious photo of my adult kids that I would love to see on an enlarged canvas. Especially since we decided as a family that after 21 years of professional holiday family pics we’re stopping cause they’re “too old”… My mom’s jewelry box- my dad got it in Vietnam. Everyone thought it was so ugly so my mom took it. When she passed I got it. It’s tacky and beat up, but it’s literally my favorite possession Oh my GOODNESS! I really thought that WAS your gumball machine sitting there until i started reading! I have wanted a gallery wrapped canvas from mpix for awhile now. Aside from my awesome family, the things I treasure most in my home are pictures. They are memories of baby feet and epic road trips are the best thing to me. Oh, Meg, I sooo love your blog! It’s so fun, bright, cheerful and real – I appreciate real! My favorite treasures are obviously my husband and five children, but beyond that it would be an old quilt that my grandma made. She has been gone for several years, and I think of her often. My favorite treasure is a Bible given to us on our wedding day by the pastor who married us. He wrote the sweetest message to us inside and it never fails to make me smile when I see it 🙂 My favorite is my jar that holds the dried flowers from my wedding bouquet. love having photos of my family all around me so that would definitely be my favorite treasure in my house. My most treasured items are my mom’s birthstone ring, I remember her wearing it when I was a kid and always loving it. Also my mother in love’s antique doll carriage and antique doll with wigs. Of course my husband and two daughters are my favorite treasures. Is there any chance of the watercolor print appearing in your shop? I know you don’t usually stock items, but I would love to have one. Just a thought. My favorite treasure is actually a small canvas that I had made of my boys…unfortunately I did not use a nice company like mpix and it turned out awful. Even though any picture of them makes me happy…I hope to redo it one day bigger and better! Thanks for always sharing such beautiful pics that make me smile! My new favorite thing is a red chippy cabinet that I bought recently at a junk store. I smile every time I see it 🙂 My wooden pig cutting board. During the depression my family members made each other gifts for holidays. My Great Uncle Gray made my Great Grandmother a wooden cutting board shaped like a pig. Growing up it hung on my Grandmother’s kitchen wall and now it hangs on mine. 🙂 my favorite treasures are the pictures of my kids and my nikon that i take them with 🙂 My favorite treasures are the yearly photo albums I’ve created for our family. Starting with our first year of marriage and now documenting our lives with children. Certain Christmas ornaments, a big clock that we have in our dining room, the antique furniture I’ve gotten from my parents… too many things to pick from! My favorite treasure, other than my husband and my girls is my hope chest my Grandad made for me. My treasure is a painting of my grandmothers. My grandparents are in heaven now, but every time I see that painting, I think of their home. Husband and daughter aside, my favourite treasure in my house would be our family photos! I am really proud of the globe I Found for three dollars at a local thrift shop. When I saw it, it was like the angel choirs were singing and the light was shining down on it! my favrite teasure is a windsor chair that my dad made by hand My favorite treasure is the barnwood table my husband made for me out of an old barn we tore down…it is beautiful, and even more special because it’s from him! My favorite piece in our home is our kitchen table. 3 days after my husband and I got married we went to the salvation army on a whim to waste time and found an old farmhouse table and 4 chairs for 30 bucks! Our first purchase together! 🙂 My favorite treasure is my grandma’s buffet. It is even more special because when I retired from teaching I filled it with special books and call it my book buffet. I look forward to sharing the special books in it with my future grandchildren! One of my most favorite treasures is a little red velvet dress with white lace sleeves in a size 2. It was my dress when I was little. Another treasure is the memory I have of standing in front of a little country church wearing that very dress. My favorite treasures are the works of art by my father. I’ve hung them up where I can see them every day to remember and honor him. My greatest treasure is of course, my family. BUT… something that I love a lot is my sugar bowl from my Grandma and a wooden nativity scene that was made by a dear friend of mine who is in heaven now. My favorite (non person) treasure is the book my husband hid my engagement ring in for four years before he asked. Looooong story. It makes me smile every time I see it. My antique jewelry box, passed down from my Great Aunt whom I’ve never met but am told I am exactly like! She got it on her travels to China; it has one of those old wind up metal music wheels with the little spikes, that a metal comb runs over as it spins t make the music! my favorite treasure is a ceramic mary and Joseph that my grandmother gave me. love! Our book collection is a treasure for our family. We have lots of books we kept from when we were kids and even some that were our grandparents. My absolute favorite treasure is my Ted Williams autographed baseball that was my dad’s, who passed away 8 years ago. He was an avid baseball fan. He passed the love of the game down to me and now I am passing that love down to my boys! I see so much of him in them when they play and I think a big picture of them holding his ball would be the picture of him with them that I don’t have! i have a hummel figurine from my grandpa. i always remember looking at his curio of them when i was little. now i have the curio and one treasured figurine.. it’s one of my favorite things ever! 🙂 My grandfather’s Leica cameras. Some of them date back to the early 1940’s and they are in mint condition. He passed down his love of photography to me and I am so grateful to have a mantle decorated with his cameras and equipment — such a great reminder of his legacy. I have so many treasures, it’s hard to choose! But I have a little white hutch that was my Granny’s. The paint is all chipped and perfect. Apparently she set it on fire at one point on accident, hence my Grandpa painted it white 🙂 My favorite treasures are my santa mug collection!! I love it and the hunt to find more. besides my family with a new one on the way, i would have to say a dollhouse that was mine when i was little and my parents just surprised me driving out from michigan to arizona to bring that to my daughter for the holidays. she got an amazing christmas gift early (and i love playing with her too!) Oh my goodness! How fun would that be to get such a big canvas! I would say an antique pair of wooden skiis, given to me by an old family friend when she moved becuase she knew I had always loved them 🙂 Favorite treasure is my wall of photos of my kids. Hard to choose but I’d say my collection of rocks from Lake Michigan. They are beautiful and every time I look at them I’m reminded of my favorite summer vacation spot. I have them collected in a variety of baskets around the house but my favorite is a handmade basket made of curly willow full of those gorgeous rocks. It could be the shadowbox of little curls of children’s hair, each one neatly tied in ribbon, some of them going back to the 1800s. My baby blanket..cheezy yes! But its true.. I have a miniature gas lamp with a green globe base. It is from my grandmother. The dollhouse I got for my 5th Christmas, made by my grandpa. It’s going to be my little girl’s present this year! I have so many, lots of things handed down to me from my grandparents and beyond…but my favorite is an antique bookcase with glass doors that flip up. I remember it in my granparent’s house, although it seemed so much bigger in my memories. 🙂 I have this crazy funny monk cookie jar that says “though shalt not steal”. It was my grandmothers and she kept her hersey kisses in that jar and I could only get one if I was really really good, which for me wasn’t very often. He’s on my kitchen counter and while everyone else talks about the fat monk cookie jar, I adore it. It’s my grandmother and my childhood all wrapped up in a cookie jar that never held cookies. 🙂 My favorite treasure is photo albums and Superhero capes from my boys. 🙂 Those are amazing! My favorite treasure? I’m sure I couldn’t pick one. Since we moved into this house we have surrounded ourselves with things we really love that are unique and now every day I wake up happy and in love with where I live! My grandmother’s wedding dishes. I love your canvas of the gumball machine – not sure why but it looks 3d!! My favorite treasure would have to be all my photos and blog books I put together. I am a photographer and take thousands of pics of my 4 kids (soon to be 5!) My favorite treasure would be this giant teddy bear given to me when my grandma was still alive. I was probably 1 or 2 years old when I received it. All the antique (old) furniture our parents have given us. WE love it all and helped furnish a house for newlyweds w/o lots of $$. 19 years later we still love it all! A little antique box from my Great Grandma McBrierty. The front of it has a sweet picture of a little girl picking flowers, and her name ‘Nora’ printed. I named my daughter Nora because of her. Love the little box that reminds me of my Grandma. A note from my grandpa when I got my license. Miss him. I think my favorite treasure is the little sink and stove that my papa made for me that is now in my hallway for my kids. Thankful for parents who saved it for me! My favorite treasure is my three daughters. I would love to see them on a canvas on the wall! My boyfriend, our puppy, and my collection of vintage quilts! My favorite treasures are all the handwritten recipes I have from all the lovely ladies in my family. i LOVE the way you decorate!! i have a very old doll that used to be my great grandmothers that i absolutely adore!! My favorite treasure is a very old school map set. My in-laws gave it to us. The maps hang in a wood box and roll up when you don’t need them. The maps are gorgeous in color…turqoise, pink, orange, yellow. They are so old that many of the countries have different names in today’s geography. So many things…my antique, kids roll-top desk I got from my mom for a bday present many years ago! I love mpix.com too!! My favorite thing would be the crib that my dad built for me and that all three of my kids have slept in. It is priceless! I think I would have to say that one of my favorite items is the antique desk that was mine when I was in grade school. I went to a small two-room church school and we had these old iron and wooden desks. When the school closed a few years back we asked and were allowed to take our old desks. Now, each of my friends has one in their home and our kids use them. It is so fun to see them in the desks, just as we used to. I’m still close to all of my schoolmates, and that makes it even better! i feel so blessed in that i have alot of things in my home that make me super happy….i think one of my favorites is a big “H” highway sign i found at a junk store in arkansas several years back… Right now I’ll have to go with my thrift store mug collection that hangs on an old battery display rack from a tire store. Boom. All the gorgeous pictures I have of my kids!! And the Chandelier that I found at a garage sale for $3 and repurposed. It’s striking! I love the mpix canvas (both of them)…Beautiful. I would have to say my favorite thing in my house is my handmade christmas ornaments and tree skirt that my grandmother made me years ago…LOVE this time of year!!! I have a mid century modern dresser I found on Craigslist. I love it! Love your canvases! I would have to say my favorite treasure is our collection of Christmas ornaments. I have all of the ones my parents and other relatives gave me as a kid. We try to get ornaments when we go on vacation or to remember special times. It is so fun to reflect on the memories and the people as we unwrap them every year. my little girl and my husband would make the top of the list but i also treasure all the things pasted down to me from my grandparents. they all tell a part of my family history and i love looking back and remembering all the stories of past family who used them. Wow! What a fun picture! Hmmm, my favorite treasure, well, one of them is my grandmother’s old typewriter she had in high school. 🙂 My favorite treasure at my house is an old racing photo of my grandmother from her 20’s! Miss her, love the picture! Ohh, sooo many things: my kids, our family pictures, little dresses from when I was a baby, clothes from when my kids were babies…. My piano (my Grandpa surprised me with it when I was 7 and taking lessons!). Now my kids play it all of the time! (Sometimes, this is pure awesomeness! and you’re right, it does look real..i thought it was in the first photo after a quick glance! 🙂 My favorite treasure is a large wooden bowl that was my great grandma’s—I set it on my table with seasonal decor in it…gourds, christmas ornaments, etc. I would love to win that canvas!! thanks! our engagement picture blown up on a canvas in our bedroom! Not really sure I have a favorite, my scrapbooks, and my turtles would have to be it. my favorite treasure is a hope chest that my husband and his father built for me. it has secret compartment, which is where my husband hid his proposal letter for MONTHS — and the chest was sitting in my house the whole time! My favorite treasure, outside of my kids, are our photographs. Hands down. Everything else is insignificant, but those captures of memories would be hard to replace. Some of the things my grandma made me before she died and my photos, of course! Love mpix, too! hands down, my son’s portrait. My picture of my son when he was 4 in his short alls and peter pan collar….priceless! Since I don’t have a family yet, my favorite treasure would be all of the possessions passed down to me from my grandparents, especially my grandmothers ring, and knitting needles. My old church pew in the hallway! gotta be my blue ball jar collection. i always try to put them up when i change out decor, but i always end up getting them back out. they go with every season! My music playing mantle clock, for sure. It is always the first thing that goes up in a new house. It always makes me smile. 🙂 My pictures of my sons, hanging on the mantle. They were 6 and 7 years old, and have the biggest smiles on their faces. Hmm…favorite treasure–that’s hard! I’d have to say all the antiques I have collected with my dad. Oh! And my photo albums, of course! My photos of my family. Scrapbooks, shoe boxes full and framed photos. My kids! Besides photographs, it would have to be my mixing bowls from Grandma. When she gave them to me, I told her I would use them, but they might get broken. And she said, “Well I would hope you would use them. And if they break, buy new ones.” These bowls are over 80 years old, but I use them weekly and pray daily that I don’t break them! My husband got all of his grandpa’s OLD horseshoe throwing trophies and I love to see them mixed in with my son’s sports stuff. I have an old pie safe that belonged to my husband’s grandmother. I have it in our living room and it displays my collection of old jars and bottles. Love your canvas! Of course my family, but I treasure my Tiffany’s charm bracelet my husband got me on our honeymoon in NYC. A year later, he added a “It’s a Boy” charm to it. I think at first glance I thought it was real. I had to look twice to see the canvas you were talking about! I love your gumball machine too…so fun! It is hard to pick a favorite, but one of my favorite treasures is a tiny, glass bluebird that I got from my Great Grandmother when I was very young. I remember finding it in her candy dish, and she gave it to me. I will never part with it. my kids 🙂 these are beautiful canvases! the few pieces of furniture my father made for me. he loved wood and had a workspace in the basement and made some really wonderful things. My kids artwork and stories. I started to frame and hang them on my wall for a daily happy reminder : ) My daddy’s vietnam/korean war hat. He wore this hat ALL. THE. TIME. I am so glad I have it to keep him close in my heart. Of course my family and photos are dear, but if I had to pick a treasure I would say my idea book of clippings including dream rooms, travels, crafts, etc. …the ceramic, light-up Christmas tree my mom painted when i was little and recently passed down to me… …an old antique school bench that we discovered thrown in the woods behind our home. It sits in our kitchen and is the best conversation piece! Your canvases look beautiful! My favorite treasures are my yearly photo books of our family! My family first and probably all of my scrapbooks! My family, my pictures, and my mom’s Simpich Dolls. My family! Family pictures we have around the house! Love mpix!! I have several photos from them (all my big ones that I’ve framed). Love that it’s a local company, too…well, local for my home town 🙂 Love this! The canvas looks great. My favorite piece would have to be my great great grandmothers china cabinet. My Great Aunt gave it to me this year. I felt so honored that she wanted me to keep the special piece. My favorite treasure in my house is a blanket I have had since I was a baby. I still swear it has magical healing powers. Sweet! One of my favorite treasures is this old map that my husband’s great grandfather mounted on wood. It has great character. I’m thinking of re-decorating our living room around it. Books and toys from when I was little. my family and doggies! And photos of my kids. A carnival glass bowl that my mom gave me. She received it as a wedding present over 30 years ago from one of her favorite aunts. She passed it along to me to enjoy when we moved into our new house. I also have several photos that I love and have displayed in our house. I have an old cabinet that was in my grandparent’s house. It used to hold their dishes (and a drawer for candy.) Now it holds the art supplies. Other than my family… and my photos of them… I would have to say a favorite treasure of mine is my Grandma’s treadle sewing machine – I LOVE that I have something that she used regularly many years ago! my favourite treasure in my home is a set of dishes that were my grandmother’s. Hard to say, I have more than one treasure……..but I LOVE my Great Uncle’s red highchair he had when he was a baby! It sits in our kitchen and I adore it! My rocking chair from when I was a little girl that my boys now use….thanks for te give a way meg!!! Loving the idea of a huge canvas with a pic of our new family on it Love mpix, have 3 standout prints, one for each of the kids and love them, excellent quality. My family of course if my favorite treasure! Oh I really like your gumball canvas. I am seriously stumped. Stumped about what I would canvas. My family is an obvious choice, I’ve been wanting a new family pic since Summer. But something fun and colorful would be cool too. I’ll keep thinking. My parents wedding photograph. My favorite thing in the house if a framed piece of art from my mom. It hung in our family home. One Christmas she gave it to me. It is a picture of a young girl in a big black coat on a winter day. My favorite treasure is definitely my grandpas antique green truck that we got! I want to get out family pics with it so badly sometime!! My great-grandmother’s baking table. It has two biiig rounded drawers that were for flour and lots of little drawers that may have held spices, not sure (one of the little drawers was gnawed – maybe a mouse back in the day). It is very old, but sturdy and I am so happy to have it. Your canvasses are amazing – the gumball machine looks 3D! The wrought iron birdcage my Mamaw passed down to me a few year ago – it is a beautiful treasure in my home. I’ll have to try them next time. It turned out fabulous. I have so many treasures in my house. Probably my favorite is the antique vanity a friend gave me. I painted it robin egg blue and added butterfly knobs from Anthro. It’s where I sit to do my hair and make-up. Treasure for sure. Thanks for the opportunity to win. I would love to try them out! My favorite treasure is some of my great grandmas dishes. My favorite treasure is my computer – sounds silly, but it has all of my family photos on it!! Ahhh… my favorite treasure. A few things come to mind, but one of them would have to be the wrought iron birdcage my Mamaw gave me a few years ago. It is heavy – old. It doesn’t look like anything you could buy at the store these days. It is a reminder to me that sometimes, old things are far better than new things 🙂 i’m not super sentimental, so this is tough. i have a bible that my great gramma gave me when i was 7 or so. took me another 18 years to put it to good use, so i’m glad it made the cut through all of the moves and purges. but, my most prized possessions are probably quilts i’ve made for my kids. oh. any my kids. 🙂 Oh I would LOVE to win this. My favorite treasure is a Map of the Languages of Europe post-WW II. I love the colors and the uniqueness of it. My favorite treasure in my home are my vintage Christmas ornaments from my grandma and my husband’s grandmother. My seashells… My kid’s baby pictures! i have this really old lunchbox from my grandpa, he and i would put banana stickers on it everyday he took one in his lunch. my family! other than our family, my greatest treasure is a antique blue pie-safe (with old, wavy glass in the doors) that i found with my husband in an old antique warehouse which he surprised me with on our first anniversary. it holds a very special tea service given to me by my mom and every time i see it, i smile. a locket my grandfather gave my grandmother when they were dating! Besides family… My fiesta dishes. We use them everyday and they’re a ray of colorful sunshine every time. I have an old door from my husband’s grandmother’s farm. It still has the original glass in it. A few years ago I dug it out of an abandoned barn and put a blue glaze on it … be still my heart! My favorite treasure would be the recent photos that a burgeoning photographer friend took of my boyfriend, myself, and our dog. We’ve been together for 2.5 years and our family calls these our “pre-engagement engagement photos.” She made our little family look so great and I’d love to win a canvas with one of our favorite pictures printed on it! Hmmmmm….I’m not generally someone who is attached to things so this is a rather hard question. I have to go with our family pics. We get a photo session done once a year with a local photographer whom I just adore. My favourite thing is ordering prints for our walls. I love going back and looking at the photos from year to year and seeing the changes….love! 🙂 Most definitely the first painting my mom ever painted. It’s this amazingly bright red and yellow flower and it’s true love. an old ceramic poodle that is so ugly but I love it! I have lots of treasures around my house from my grandma but one of my favorite I was able to unpack this weekend. It is an old Christmas ball that says “Merry Christmas” it never gets put on my tree it is always put in a special place no one will touch it. It reminds me of Christmas with her. Besides my family, it would have to be photographs. They freeze time. My favorite treasure (other than my 8 month old son and precious dog) is an antique Singer sewing machine that belonged to my great grandmother. Letters that my dad wrote to my mom while they were dating… My favorite treasure is a pair of candlesticks that my grandpa made. They’re like this intertwining, DNA-esque looking thing, and I have no idea how he made them. Oh I LOVE MPIX too! They are THE BEST! My favorite treasure is an old grandpa sign that I had given to my grandpa when I was in high school that says “grandpa’s are just antique little boys.” I know I’m not a grandpa, and a grandpa doesn’t live here but it’s something I gave MY grandpa and when he passed away my mom made sure I got it…..:) My favorite treasure is my early christmas present, my new laptop! If I have to pick just one, it would be my hard cover vintage Girl Scout handbook that I got for Christmas last year. I love that gumball machine canvas! my favorite treasure (other than the obligatory family) is my collection of old bibles…especially the ones with lots of notes written in the margins! Other than the people inside (of course), I would have to say our pets. They were our babies before we had babies. Watching our children grow with and love our animals makes my heart happy! My husband and my dogs. We have been apart for a majority of our marriage because of the military. I cherish every moment with him, and our puppies! Those are such fabulous canvases! My favorite treasure (other than my family) is going to sound a bit odd. It’s our house itself. It’s nothing grand and has been in a state of continual remodeling ever since we first moved in nearly a decade ago now. But it’s ours and we’ve gradually made it far more functional. The beautiful part is taking longer as it always does, but it’s grown on me over the years. It’s where we’re rooting our family of 7. My Keurig…. My favorite treasure is a Dollhouse I made for my nieces! I use MPIX too and I love them! I’ve never had a canvas made by them though. One treasure is a picture of my dad when he was a teenager with a cute smirk on his face. I have a little red rocking chair that my grandpa gave me 37 years ago. It’s a happy little red chair. besides people and photo albums. I think I have to say my Christmas ornaments collected over the years. They hold many memories! love my pillow, thats sounds odd, but what am i to do without a good nights sleep? Too many treasures to just pick one, but right now my favorite is a small blue chippy stool. I would love a gallery wrapped canvas…I hope I win!! what a beautiful picture!!! how bright, sunny and happy. my favorite treasure are my photo’s. i have framed family photo’s all over the walls at our house – we actually only have one piece of art on the walls..something my husband made. my walls are covered in family photo’s as i see them as our best art – mostly picture of our kids. they are our best work! so actually maybe they are my favorite treasure….. My family is of course, my favorite treasure, but the pictures of my family are my favorite possession by FAR! Love the mpix canvas! My favorite treasure, other than my family, are our family photos! Some have not been printed yet so this would be a wonderful gift to win! my french press! My family! |
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Jenny - So sorry! She is in my prayers.
maureen - Praying for sweet Beth and her family!
Valerie @ Chateau a la mode - Praying for Pam’s sweet Beth.
Vanessa - Praying in the name of sweet Jesus!
colleen from alabama - just saw this. I am praying.
Diane - Praying for sweet Beth and her family. May the Lord cover her with His grace and mercy, bringing healing to her body. Thank you for allowing us to join in prayer with you and your family.
Anna - praying
Amy - Lifting up Pam, Beth, the rest of their precious family, and those caring for Beth. God took their family to Liberia and He has His arms around them now (((hugs)))
Lori Austin - Praying for your sweet friend and her precious girl.
tonya - praying right now!
pve - Meg,
It has been some time that I was here, but for some reason, I was nudged by the spirit to pop in and wow, I see a very bright angel watching over your friend Pam and her daughter. I shall radiate light and love and good energy to you and all those around you. Especially to those who make great cheesecake. That always makes me feel better.
Oh, dear, humor helps me too.
prayers, love, humor, comfort to you.
pve
valerie - praying!!
Kristine - Prayers for healing and comfort…f
Terrie - Thank you Meg for sharing this with us. It’s what it means to be in community with fellow believers. Praying for those we don’t even know is a privilege. Praying for healing and Peace that only God can give! Please keep us posted! Hugs to her friends too…
colleen - ok… so I am a nurse practitioner…. I can pray… but I also want her back in the states….. Boston Children’s is where I would go if it were my child…. thinking so much for her….
Tiffany - Oh no. How scary. I’ll keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
Juli - I will be praying in agreement with you that Beth will be healed. She will pull through and that she will recover completely. I pray for peace that passes understanding for Pam, her husband and all of the other kiddos. I pray for quality healthcare for her. In Jesus’ name. AMEN
Kerri (@KerriMann) - Prayed with hands on the screen!
mandy friend - prayers<3 please keep us updated as you can!
Tracy Fisher - prayers for all. -tracy
Jeana - Praying now
Rachel Spin - Prayers for Beth and her family
Andrea - Done…..
Karen Gerstenberger - Praying.
Jen - Praying for healing for Beth and for peace and strength for her family (and for you!). Do they have a blog? Please keep us posted!
jackie @ marin mama cooks - Oh Meg! I’m sending her some white light, prayers and love!
tiffani - Praying now!
Rachel Reeves - PRAYING!
Meredith - PRAYING! 🙂
Martha - Praying!
CathyC - Praying!!
Barbara - Praying through tears. Please keep us updated.
April R - I’m so sorry. Will pray and hope.
taryn - Praying!
Kelly - Prayed and will be praying!
tiffany gardner - My kids and I will pray right now… and continue!
Alisa - My 13 year old daughter and I just prayed and will continue to pray for her. Keep us posted.
becky - Yep…on it. Prayer changes things.
Lori H - Praying!
Tina Jacobsen - Lifting Beth and her family up in prayer!!
Kate - Praying on my knees. We will lift her up at our prayer service tonight.
Stephanie - Praying here. 🙁
Gerri - All the time. God is good. Praying
Nichole {The Unconventional Doctor's Wife} - Absolutely, Meg! Lifting her up to the Great Physician!
Jennifer - Praying for Beth and Pam and their whole family and ministry.
Sara Torbett - Praying!
Siobhan - Praying for Pam and her beautiful daughter.
Waffle-Wednesday - scary, sad, and YES, praying.
Karen F - Praying for complete healing for Beth and for peace and comfort from the Holy Spirit while they wait . . . keep us posted!