Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Time To Link Up! Tuesdays with a Twist #198

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #198!
Checkout the many great giveaways going on right now!

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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts

Mary @ Back to the Basics and Mary's Kitchen
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Joyce @ Heavenly Bodies

Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured!

My Features this Week are:

1. "Tissue Paper Heart Wreath Tutorial" by Aspen Jay

2. "Chocolate Mint Cookies" by Kapp's Kitchen

3. "25 Ways to Reuse Empty Feed Bags" by Murano Chicken Farm

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

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The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm. Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites. Please visit other blogs if you have a moment.

Share older posts as well as new ones. No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own*

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

(with proper link backs) in our features. And now for the party!

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Heirloom Seeds GIVEAWAY

Heirloom Seeds GIVEAWAY!
Enter for your chances to win!

but first - read this great post:
5 Ways to SAVE by Growing & Preserving Your Own Food

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(the following post was written by Mary from Mary's Heirloom Seeds )
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We LOVE Giveaways!!!!

Mary's Heirloom Seeds is sponsoring their first GIVEAWAY for 2017!

Are you ready???

This is a super simple giveaway with loads of seeds! This Giveaway will run from Tuesday, January 31st thru Sunday, February 5th and is open to residents of the US and Canada
We will pick One Lucky Winner on Monday, February 6th.

GIVEAWAY INCLUDES

MARY'S GARDEN PACK
Over the years I've tried new varieties in my garden. This seed combo pack includes many of my favorites!

Includes One packet of each:
-Amana's Orange Tomato -German Giant Radish
-Anaheim Pepper -Detroit Dark Red Beet
-Jalapeno Pepper -Tom Thumb Lettuce
-Blue Lake Bush Bean -Purple-Top Whiteglobe Turnip
-5-Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard -National Pickling Cucumber

"In the Kitchen" Garden Herb Pack

This is a great starter kit for your Kitchen Herb Garden. Includes a full-pack of the following varieties:
-Genovese Basil
-Cilantro
-Dill Vierling
-Oregano
-Sage
-Tarragon
-Thyme

24 Coconut Coir Pellets, Plant Markers,
Coconut coir growing medium comes from the coconut's fibrous husk (known as coir) that is bound together by lignin (known as pith). With the addition of water, coir expands to an easy to work with growing medium. The addition of water increases the volume 3 to 9 times, depending on the packaging of products. This process results in a 100% organic, biodegradable growing medium, making it a natural and safe growth medium of choice for growers

Organic Alfalfa Meal (1 lb) plant food
Derived from leguminous perennial alfalfa plant used for pasture and cover crop. Primary benefit of this pleasant smelling meal is increasing organic matter, although it is also a valuable plant-derived fertilizer.

GARDEN TOOL SET

Cultivator is 9" long. Spade is 10" long.

Wood handles and leather loop on each to hang on pegboard hook

Mary's Heirloom Seeds is a "mom and pop" small business created out of a desire to help people become more sustainable and self-sufficient. Our customers know that we are a simple phone call or email away

We currently offer over 430 varieties of open-pollinated, non-gmo & non-hybrid, non-patented, untreated Heirloom Seeds. Mary has signed the Safe Seed Pledge AND the Declaration of Seed Freedom.

Are you ready to enter the giveaway?

Giveaway is open to all Residents of the US and Canada.
Giveaway opens 1/31/2017 and ends Sunday, February 5th at Midnight.

All giveaway entrants will be added to Mary's Heirloom Seeds mailing list.

Your information is never sold and we never send spam emails.

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Monday, January 30, 2017

You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (February 2017)

I can't believe that we will be starting the month of February 2017 already! Where did January go? (hahaha)

Thank you again for joining us!
There are many ways to follow me:

Angie @ God's Growing Garden

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WELCOME to the February "You're the Star" Blog Hop!
Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:
This was my Toledo Zoo series and I included a section called "Name that Plant". I am still unable to name this plant - does anyone have the answer to my confusion?

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Photo by Angie Ouellette-Tower

Click HERE to view the entire post

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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the
"You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your GARDEN week Hosts

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This week is GARDEN feature week
Swing by the GARDEN Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories. Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month.
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living, repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)

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(All features were chosen from the January 2016 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Visit To An Organic Vegetable Garden by Comfort Spring
large planting area

8 Wild Herbs I foraged for Last Year by Feathers in the Woods

How To Ensure A Healthy Flock by One Grace Filled Life

Decorative Garden Art - Using a Vase & a Globe by Eclectic Red Barn

Eclectic Red Barn: Decorative Garden Art

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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We are in need of more Cohosts (click HERE to view a list of our current hosts/cohosts).
If you are interested in joining us as a Cohost then please click HERE & fill out the form.

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog. We might also share your fantastic posts on social media. Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though} Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Click the button below to enter the Great Giveaways going on now!!:

The Apollo Box GIVEAWAY

The Apollo Box GIVEAWAY!
Enter for your chances to win!

Part of the Perfect Pairings Valentine's Day Gift Guide
but first - read this great post:
Blueberry Lemon Shortcake

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(the following post was written by Laura from Michigan Saving and More )
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I would also like to say Thank You to all the promoting bloggers!

THE GIVEAWAY

This giveaway is in no way endorsed, affiliated, or associated with Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Media Networking Site.You are not eligible if you have won a prize from the sponsor in the last 12 month. This Giveaway is valid in the United States Only and Entrants must be 18+ years of age to enter. This giveaway event will end at 11:59 PM (EST) 2/14/17. The winners will have 48 hours to email their information back to mycraftyzoo at gmail dot com or a new winner will be drawn, you may want to put this email address as safe as it could go to spam. The sponsors are each responsible for shipping of the above prizes. No blog associated with this contests are responsible for prize fulfillment. If you would like to be a sponsor in a giveaway like this please email Kaycee Mason at admin (at) mycraftyzoo (dot) com. If you take an entry you must stay following for the entire contest or you will be disqualified.

Also we all “love it if you like us” on Facebook! If you like our blogs on social media it helps us bring you only the best giveaways and more of them!

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Living A Childless Life - #UnbornLivesMatter

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"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart." Jeremiah 1:5

I have lived a "Childless" life not because that is what I desired, rather because it just happened that way. I was married in my mid 20's and then every time we thought we were getting settled - a crisis would arise: health issues including cancer and cardiac disorders, parents-in-law getting ill at the same time (one with cancer and the other with Alzheimer's), etc....and now I'm in my 40's. I did NOT plan for all of this to happen - it just did.

You see, God has been in control of my life all along! God knew that I would not have been able to handle taking care of children when my husband was going through chemo therapy. And - God also knew that we would not have been able to move into my in-law's house to take care of them if we had had children. God is in control and has a purpose for everything - even a "Childless Life."

This is the seventh post in a Series on "Living a Childless Life" and today we focus on the life of the unborn "#UnbornLivesMatter."

This past week was the "March for Life" in Washington D.C. Even as a "Childless" woman I am appalled at the mindset of those who believe that life does not begin at conception.

Just looking at science alone should be proof enough (the following information was taken from online research):

- A new zygote (fertilized egg) has it's own HUMAN DNA as soon as the male gamete (germ cell) joins (fertilizes) with the female gamete. This DNA is totally different from the mother or father - a unique human.

- On day 20 the heart is in advanced stages of being formed

- The heartbeat starts on day 24 (that's less than 1 month of pregnancy!)

- By day 28 the first neocortical cell is formed (these are the brain cells responsible for complex thinking and reasoning)

- On day 43 brain waves can be recorded

- By day 56 the fingerprints are detailed and the preborn baby's palms are sensitive to touch

- Facial expressions begin on the 77th day and also taste buds are developed

This is all developed before the second trimester of pregnancy even begins!

The fact that a new zygote has it's own human DNA should prove that human life begins at conception. If 50 year old "cold cases" (old crime cases) can be solved by using forensic evidence using human DNA testing, then why doesn't this same DNA prove that a fetus is human life??????

Please watch the video below:

A special thanks to "Eddie Talavera" for sharing this with us on YouTube

Studies show that an unborn baby starts to feel pain at week#20 - that means many aborted babies are feeling everything that is happening to them during that abortion. In my opinion this is like a pre-infantile holocaust occurring here in the U.S.A. Especially since there are over 600,000 abortions performed each year in America.

Please watch the entire video below - Gianna Jessen's birth mother tried to abort her when her mother was 7 months pregnant - Gianna survived!!

A special thanks to "Jennifer Johnson" for sharing this with us on YouTube

In this modern society it seems as if animal life is valued more than human life. It is also just as senseless to claim that a fetus is not human life but then turn around and use these unborn baby parts in medical research!

Please watch the following video:

A special thanks to "SenatorLankford" for sharing this with us on YouTube

May God give you the courage to research every aspect of the fetus and truly face any consequences that might come from honestly taking this topic seriously. Don't be fooled by deceivers.

This is an article detailing a new bill: "Bill banning abortion from baby's first heartbeat introduced in U.S. Congress" by Claire Chretien - click HERE to view

Other "Living a Childless Life" Posts:
Dealing with Jealousy
Dealing with Insults
Dealing with Loneliness
Dealing with Regret
Dealing with Imagination
Dealing with Guilt

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Kinderfeets Valentine's Day GIVEAWAY

Kinderfeets Valentine's Day GIVEAWAY!
Enter for your chances to win!

Part of the Perfect Pairings Valentine's Day Gift Guide
but first - read this great post:
VERSE by VERSE - 1 Corinthians 13:6

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(the following post was written by Laura from Michigan Saving and More )
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The Kinderfeets Valentine's Day Giveaway! Ends 2/14