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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Leisl & Po

LeiI just watched one of the best book trailers ever!

It's for Lauren Oliver's (Author of Delirium) new book, Leisl & Po. It looks incredible!


And even cooler is that she's giving away some Advanced Reader Copies on her blog!

You can go and enter the contest here! I know I did!
Friday, September 23, 2011

A few book reviews

Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien




The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson




Buy The Adoration of Jenna Fox Here:



I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore



Buy I Am Number Four Here:
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Five More Days!

Hey hey hey!

There's only five more days left in my giveaway!


It's free!

It's international!

It's awesome!

If you don't believe how crazy cool this program is, check out the latest page I made in this program!


I'm totally in love with program!

So go and enter the contest to win My Memories Suite! You have until midnight on Saturday, September 24 at midnight PST! 

Also! If you haven't taken advantage of this offer yet, all of the readers of Simply Kate can use this code:

STMMMS44607

And get $10 off of My Memories Suite and also $10 off of anything in the My Memories Store

That's AWESOME!

It's free for everyone to use!

And don't forget to go enter the giveaway! Only five days left to enter!
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Loving Literature!

I have a few very exciting things to mention!

One:

Earlier this week, I celebrated my channel 2 year anniversary on YouTube! 

It was quite a party!



Two:

I finished my Summer 2011 Reading List!

My deadline was September 30th, and I finished early. There was a total of 21 books on the list and 7,969 pages read. I'm pretty impressed with myself.

(That's not counting the extra five books (1,842 pages) that I also read this summer.

You can check out the completed list here!

Three:

I have officially started my Autumn 2011 Reading List!

You can check that out here!

Four:

I've finally received my complimentary flyers from that giveaway I had last month.

I'm so excited about them!




I'm so excited to start using these adorable flyers in the books I read! They are blank on one side and are only 4x6 so I can easily slip them into library books with thoughts about the books I've read!

I think it would even be fun to stop into book stores (especially when I travel) to drop off a few! Who knows! Maybe one of you will find one in a book that you read! Keep an eye out!

I thought it was a great way to use my reward and get the word out about my blog.

So fun!

What's on YOUR fall reading list?
Thursday, September 15, 2011

More Messing Around

If you missed it, I'm hosting this amazing giveaway right now! You can go check out details about how to enter HERE!

My Memories offered me a chance to review their software My Memories Suite and goodness, I am so loving it!

That's also what I'm giving away to one lucky reader!

Trust me, you better go enter because this is a program you definitely want to own!

And it's free if you win!

I spent an hour two tinkering around to make this page.

The goal for the day was to use as many embellishments as I could without making the page look cluttered.


So cute right?


So cute right?

It was so easy to place embellishments and I was so happy to find out that all of my existing digital scrapbook embellishments are usable in this program!

I'm loving this program more and more!

Be sure to go and enter the contest!

And as a special bonus, every reader of this blog gets an extra special promo code to use!

STMMMS44607

It will get you $10 off of My Memories Suite and $10 off ANYTHING in the My Memories Store!

Cool huh?

What is your favorite part of scrapbooking?
Monday, September 12, 2011

The Bright Side

I'm going to be honest.

Working with kids isn't always a stroll through the daisies.

They may look cute and harmless.

But unlike daisies, kids are loud, chaotic and definitely don't smell like a field of flowers.

I come home from work every day absolutely exhausted and drained.

It's not all bad though.

When I get home, I get to tell everyone about the funny things my little kiddos do.

And something that's even better than silly stories.

Kids have birthdays.

And when they have birthdays, they bring yummy Sesame Street characters for me to munch on.

Elmo came to see you!


There's only one thing better than looking at this adorable cupcake.

And that was eating it.

I really like my job!
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Giveaway by My Memories!

Guys! I've been given a fantastic opportunity!

I was given a free version of My Memories Suite!


Wait, you don't know what that is?

It's a program dedicated COMPLETELY to Digital Scrapbooking!

Needless to say, I am thrilled!


This program is incredible! And that's saying a lot when you know how much I adore Photoshop!
I spent the afternoon tinkering around in this program.
Cute right?

It's officially one of my favorite scrapbook pages ever!

And it's even made with stuff I bought in the My Memories Store!
(The "Pretty In Pink" pack to be precise!)

And there are a couple great features to this program that I discovered! 

1. There is an Auto-Mat Tool! If you want a simple mat on your photo, you can easily choose the size and color. And better yet! You can set it up so that every photo on a page has the exact same mat settings! AWESOME!

2. The Align/Space Tool! This was especially helpful when making the above page. You can line things up straight. And then you can space them EVENLY! I love this program!

There's bound to be other amazing things and I'm excited to find them out when I make more pages!
Now here's the exciting news!

One of you gets to win a free copy of My Memories Suite!


That's right!

Lucky ducks!

Here's what you have to do!

1. Go to the My Memories Website and tell me which item in their shop is your favorite in the comments!

And here's where you can get some extra entries!

1. Be a follower of Simply Kate!

2. Tweet about this giveaway!

3. Follow My Memories on their Blog, Twitter and Facebook!
(Each counts as a separate entry.)

4. Follow me on Twitter!

5. Like Simply Kate on Facebook!

Just be sure to use a separate comment for each!

This Giveaway will be open until September 24th at Midnight EST!

Be sure to enter to win this amazing program!

Also, as an added bonus to all of my readers! If you use this code:

 STMMMS44607

You can get $10.00 off of My Memories Suite! And also $10.00 off anything in the My Memories Store!

That's $20.00 free dollars to spend on Digital Scrapbook stuff! Awesome, right?

It's only good once, so choose wisely!

Good luck everyone! This program is fantastic!