Personalized Gift Ideas from CafePress

Many of you know that I'm planning a trip to England this fall to visit Jane Austen's old hangouts and study costume design at some beautiful museums.  Wouldn't this Lady of Shallot tote bag be awesome to take along for my souvenirs?

I've been checking out the CafePress website where I found this and many other neat things.

CafePress offers super cute baby clothes...

As well as pajamas for kids and adults...

Check out these fun t-shirts!  They even have maternity shirts!

At CafePress, you can find personalized items like mugs, water bottles, business cards and gym bags. How awesome to have your blog name and logo printed on something for advertising with a personal touch!

CafePress Inc. is a worldwide company featuring all kinds of design options---including the ability to design your own products, and give them as gifts, enjoy them yourself, or sell them in your own shop.  About 135,000 new designs are added each week!  It's very likely that many of the things you see and use every day are CafePress products.

In the next couple of weeks, I'll be sharing a couple of my own CafePress products with you, as well as offering a sweet giveaway so you can win your own!

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*This article was written as an introduction review of CafePress.com.  No compensation was given prior to the publishing of this article.  All opinions are honest and are my own.

Fresh Strawberry Cream Torte and Homemaking Linkup

Welcome to this week's Homemaking Linkup! Today I'm sharing a super delicious recipe that I adapted from one I used to make at Pampered Chef parties.  

Good Frazzled Friday

Last Friday morning, I was chatting on Facebook for a minute while the kids finished up their morning chores.  I saw all these posts about Good Friday---"Oh yeah," I remembered.  

I wanted to stop a minute and pray and thank God.  I put my hands over my face for a little quiet time and immediately someone said, "what's wrong mom?"  

I looked up to find five faces staring at me.  

Frustrated, I shot off some comment about not having even a quiet minute to pray.  Everyone scattered back to their busyness and I sat there feeling horrible.

Isn't this what Jesus came for, after all?  To show compassion.  To teach us how to stop in the middle of whatever we're doing and make sure our brother or sister, who appears to be hurting, is taken care of and lifted up.  To forgive jerk moms like me who should have spent time in prayer before her kids got up. Moms who should not have had to have been reminded about the significance of the day by Facebook.

There were really only two choices for me.  I could have let the guilt eat at me and let me feel like a failure the rest of the day, or I could have done what I chose to do instead.  I took a deep breath, shot up a little "mind prayer" of thankfulness, and apologized to my kids.

So thankful God gives grace to the humble...and the humiliated!  

This article was featured in The Christian Home magazine, Issue #107.


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