Birthdays, busy, test results and other mumbo jumbo.....plus a awesome giveaway!

I sit down to write this as a newly licensed driver in the state of Oregon.

Can I get an "amen"?

I actually scored a 100%!!!  My Minnesota license expires

tomorrow so I am all legal and everything....Nothing like waiting

till the.last.minute....Obviously the talk in our house this weekend went something

along the lines of "Children, do as I say, not as I do".....

'Cause tomorrow I celebrate the big 4-5, yes indeed.  I don't know

quite how I feel about this particular birthday as it gets me closer to the big, 

you know....that next big birthday that begins with a 5 will get me closer 

to that AARP card.

Life has been unusually busy, thank goodness I quit that silly 'real job' and

am back to livin' the dream of unpaid volunteer hours, stacks of laundry,

carpool driver, sleepover hostess, cook, cleaner, gardener etc......

So in lieu of any successful DIY goings on over here, I thought 

we'd celebrate my birthday with a special giveaway - ok with you?

I have a friend who knew me WAY back before my birthday number started 

with a FOUR......she is a beautiful soul, a fantastic mother and like me,

has moved with her family a fair amount.  She was my first friend

to have babies and a mortgage and important adult stuff like that.

Well now her babies are teens and college students and my friend

has launched a new online business called

Classic Prep Monograms!

The website sells lots of adorable monogrammed products.  I love this wooden

monogram which will be added to the preserved boxwood

wreath on our front door, just as soon as I get it spray painted {see above

comments regarding my busy life and lack of DIY}.

Whenever I wear my monogrammed acrylic necklace I get all sorts of compliments!  I have the tortoise shell version of this one but would love a bright color for spring!  This blue is on trend right now.

The website also has the most adorable, customizable monogrammed
iPhone cases, rain boots, stationary and more!

And guess what?

My friend has graciously offered to giveaway TWO $50 credits
to spend at Classic Prep Monograms to two lucky readers of Forever*Cottage.

To enter the giveaway please do the following:

1.  Visit Classic Prep Monograms and check out the site.  Come back here and leave a comment telling    me what you would use your $50 credit to purchase.

2.  'Like' Classic Prep Monograms on Facebook, then come back here and let me know - for a chance to be entered a second time!

3.  You can also be entered a THIRD time if you blog about the giveaway and then come back here and let me know about it!

Please enter by Wednesday evening at midnight PST.  I will announce the winners on Thursday!