Spring Celebration Winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaways, and a special thanks to the people and companies who donated prizes! Here are the winners, as chosen by random.org:

Rainbow Collection from Cubit’s Organics 

          Comment #74: Catherine

Reusable Bag

          Comment #12: April Smith

Nail Polish and Remover from Honeybee Gardens

          Comment #11: Tia

Spring Bunny Gift Set

          Comment #10: Jena

Customized gDiaper from SRH Custom Design

          Comment #21: Laura

Congratulations to the winners! Please contact me with your address. AbbieR31081 AT aol DOT com

And for those of you who didn’t win but still would like to purchase seeds from Cubit’s Organics, Laura has generously offered a discount to readers of Farmer’s Daughter. Just use coupon code FARMERSDAUGHTER10 to get 10% off of your order! Discount expires December 31, 2011, but shipping to the US and Canada is always free!

Thank you again to all the participants and sponsors. I have had such a wonderful time reading through the thoughtful comments! I truly love this online community that I’ve been a part of for the last three years! Thanks so much for helping me say Happy Blogiversary to Farmer’s Daughter!

Love, Abbie

Giveaway #4 Spring Bunny Gift Set

Brooke donated her handmade Spring Bunny Gift Set for my Spring Celebration! It includes baby booties, a bunny and a carrot, perfect for a little one’s first Easter basket! Doesn’t that photo just radiate spring?

To enter, answer in the comments: On whose little feet would you like to see these booties?

For an extra entry, follow Brooke on twitter @SchoolmarmDE, then leave another comment here with your twitter handle. 

Entries close at midnight on March 30, and winners will be announced on March 31. Good luck!

Giveaway #2: Reusable Bag

Here’s the second giveaway for my Spring Celebration!

My mom donated this chic reusable bag! She also gave me one for myself, and I’ve been using it to tote my scrapbooking supplies back and forth to my monthly scrapbooking night with a few friends.

To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment about how you’ll use this bag!

Entries close at midnight on March 30, and winners will be announced on March 31. Good luck!

Don’t forget to check out all the other giveaways this week!!!

Giveaway: The Rainbow Collection from Cubit’s Organics

Giveaway week of my Spring Celebration is finally here! Up first, Laura from Cubit’s Organics is offering her favorite seed collection, The Rainbow Collection!

Some details on the collection:

Sing along with me:

“Have you experienced the Rainbow Collection, the Gardeners, the Dreamers, and me?”

A collection of our 4 most popular seed packs.
Rainbow of Radishes
Colourful Carrots
Mixed Beets
Rainbow Swiss Chard

All Organic. All Open Pollinated. All so Rainbowy!
A hit with gardeners and children, and children gardeners.

4 separate packages of our seeds, handpacked in Toronto in 100% recycled paper packaging with full planting instructions.

To enter, leave a comment answering the following question: What’s your favorite veggie to grow from seed?

For extra entries (you must leave a separate comment here for each; 1 extra entry each):

• Visit Cubit’s Organic Living blog, then come leave another comment here about it
• Visit Cubit’s etsy shop, pick out your favorite product and come back here to share it in a comment
• “Like” Cubit’s Organic Living on Facebook and leave a comment here to tell me you did
• Follow @Cubits on twitter, then come back here and leave a comment with your twitter handle

This giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada only. Entries close at midnight on March 30, and winners will be announced on March 31. Good luck!

Guess the Blogger!

I’m so excited about this Guess the Blogger game! Check out these cute babies!

I’m not one for giving word banks, but I think it’s only fair here!

• Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama
• Lisa at Retro Housewife Goes Green
• Melissa at The New Mommy Files
• Sandy at Who’s Got Your Goat?
• Rob at Rob’s World
• And me, Abbie at Farmer’s Daughter

If you wanted to submit a picture but never got around to it, please send it to me and we can play another round! Don’t forget to stop back next week for the giveaway portion of my Spring Celebration!

Please leave a comment with your guesses!

Joshua’s First Birthday

Happy Birthing Day!

I believe that all births should be celebrated.  The following birth stories include big babies, little babies, long and short labors, late babies and preemies, natural hospital births, hospital births with interventions, emergency c-sections, planned c-sections, inductions, home births and unassisted births, births with doctors, midwives and doulas, and everything in between. 

While I understand that a birth cannot be summed up into a few words (hence the “story” part), I’ve written a few little notes to help differentiate between the stories.  If you submitted a story and don’t like my summary, please feel free to write a sentence or two and send it to me, I’d be happy to replace what I’ve written.  If you forgot to submit your story (or I forgot to post it), leave a comment with a link and summary and I’ll add it.  (But remember, I’ll be at work so I won’t update for a while!)

Thank you to all the wonderful mommas who shared their stories! I have loved reading them all!

The Promise of a Rainbow natural hospital birth following induction

Lucy’s Birth natural birth at a birth center

Molly’s Birth Story hospital birth following induction

My “Natural Births” 2 hospital births with doulas, following induction

My C-Section emergency c-section following hospital labor with doulas

The Birth I Didn’t Want: L hospital birth

Islove’s Unhindered, Unassisted Birth

H’s Birth Story hospital birth following labor at home

DS1, 2 and 3’s Birth Stories 3 different births of 3 boys

Luca’s Birth Story a doula’s homebirth

The birth of Ella Raine unassisted homebirth

C’s Birth Story a 24-week preemie

Two Years Gone By in the Blink of an Eye C-section due to footling breech baby

Waterbirth at a birth center

Liam’s Birthday homebirth with a midwife

Joshua’s Birth Story My very long story of 41 hours of labor and Joshua’s birth

Don’t forget to email me with your baby picture to join in our “Guess the Blogger” game on Wednesday! AbbieR31081 AT aol DOT com.