Hello from Roanoke! I have an awesome giveaway for you guys today. Ooh Baby Designs is a sweet little shop that sells bags, scarves, and other adorable handmade items. (I have two scarves and a tote bag and I love them all!) Stephanie of Ooh Baby is giving away one spring scarf to a lucky Freckled Italian reader! Enter below and good luck--I'll pick a winner as soon as I get back from my honeymoon!
If you're looking to do some good with your mother's day gift shopping this year, I have an idea for you. As though gorgeous stationary, notebooks, invitations, and wedding items weren't enough, Minted recently launched a line of beautiful art prints. This year for Mother's Day, they're donating 20% of all art proceeds to Every Mother Counts, an organization that works to end preventable deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth around the world.
Want to get involved? Order a print for your mom (or any woman you celebrate on Mother's Day), and use the code FRECKLEDEMC at checkout so Minted can track the 20% donation to Every Mother Counts. When you use the code, you'll also receive a downloadable card explaining that a donation to EMC was made in their name--and Minted will be able to follow up and let us know how much Freckled Italian readers raised to increase education and support for reducing maternal mortality around the world.
Click through the gallery below to check out some of the beautiful art that's available! Which one are you going to get?
Order your prints by April 28th to receive them in time for Mother's Day!
This post is sponsored by Minted. You can learn more about their partnership with Every Mother Counts here.
When it comes to games, I'm pretty picky--for the most part, I don't usually know how they work and don't want to take the time to learn. I got temporarily obsessed with Candy Crush a few months ago but rarely open the app anymore. For me to like a game, it has to be free to download, be easy to use, have fun sound effects that don't annoy me (and can be easily turned off), and look well-designed.
Lately, I've been playing a lot of Letroca (here in iTunes and here for Android), a word game where you try to create the biggest number of words possible with the group of letters given to you in each round. It meets all of my Will I Like This Game Criteria? and is just really, really fun to play.
It's like a quick little puzzle, and you can play as many or as few rounds as you want. It's a nice little brain workout, and I think it'd be really awesome for kids, as well. It's actually used in many schools as a fun vocabulary exercise for children ages 6 and up--but obviously it's enjoyed by adults as well, since I sat on my couch last night and played it for an hour.
This post is sponsored by Letroca. As usual, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you so much for your support as I continue to work with advertisers.
