Happy Summer with a Giveaway!

Since I've been gone for so long I thought I'd reward you all with a fun giveaway!

The nice people at Firmoo not only helped KB overcome his terrible eyesight, but they are also offering up a nice little giveaway.  Who couldn't use some new sunglasses for the summer (or prescription sunglasses if you are into that kind of thing)?

Behind door number 1, here's a little bit about Firmoo....

They're the World's Most Popular Online Eyeglasses Store with 580K+ fans on Facebook. The mission is to offer varieties of unbelievable cheap yet fashionable prescription & Plano eyewear to the consuming public. All of their eyewear is directly from affiliate factory, so their price is 85%~90% lower than that in the traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

Behind door number 2, here's what you could win.....

6 winners will win a $20 sunglasses E-voucher each

These are my personal faves.

Behind door number 3, here's how you enter...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy summer!

Thoughts on a Thursday

I'm thinking about these things on this Thursday....

-We're looking at a few more houses this afternoon and have one really promising showing lined up.  If we like it we might make an offer..eeeekkkk.  I'm a little worried we won't like it, but if we do I will be so happy that we're done looking.  I'm ready to have a life back!

-I made this for dinner last night and it was amazing.  KB wasn't too big of a fan, but I thought it was really good.  If you like asparagus than you'll love it.

Source: smittenkitchen.com via Rachel on Pinterest

- One of KB's frat brothers is coming into town this weekend and I'm excited to make something fun.  I may make this, but with deer.

Source: slimmingeats.com via Rachel on Pinterest

- I stocked up on some really cheap gingerbread cookie dough that I had a coupon for (extreme couponer moment).  Any ideas?  I'd like to use at least one roll to do something fun with and not just make cookies.

- I've finally gotten caught on my Teen Mom.  These people are crazy.  I'm starting to not even like it anymore because Janelle needs to get over herself, Kailyn just needs to get back with Jo already, Chelsea needs to leave Adam in the dust and Leah needs to stop cheating on people.

- I won a really cool giveaway from Kim and The Shabby Apple.  Show these ladies some love.

Link up with Carolyn to play along!

Happy Birthday To Me...

These lovelies arrived at my door today....FO FREE.  Thanks Bon Bon Rose Girls!  I won a $250 Zappos gift card a few months back and decided to buy myself some goodies for my birthday.  It's mostly boring work stuff, but it was needed.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

So I'm not a winner....yet, but everyone should enter this awesome giveaway.

You can win fun awesome prints and prizes from an amazing artist that knows yours truly personally.

Giveaway Winner!!!

I'm pleased to announce that the winner of the Element Tree Essentials candle is..........

My good work buddy Chelsea.  Go Chelsea!  I'll be bringing it to work for you on Monday.

Thanks for all the entries!

Pinteresting Wednesday

I'm linking up with The Vintage Apple today for Pinteresting Wednesday.

Here are a few of my favorite Pins this week...

Source: bakersroyale.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: s3.amazonaws.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: countryliving.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: simplelovelyblog.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net via Rachel on Pinterest

Also, don't forget to enter my giveaway!

Fall Time Giveaway

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kasey of Element Tree Essentials and to try out some of her products.  Element Tree candles are definitely something that I've never seen or tried before.  They're candles (that smell great) that you can also use as lotion.  I was a little weirded out by dipping my hand in wax at first, but once I tried it I was hooked.  My hands were so soft, smelled so good and weren't waxy or greasy at all.

It sounds weird, but it's really so neat and smells great.  I tried out "A Day at the Spa" and my hands and arms smelled like I had just gotten out of a really great facial all day.  Normally when I put on lotion the scent and the moisture is gone within a few hours - not with this stuff!  They are also made with all natural shea butter and almond oil.

Kasey (the amazing wonderful person she is) was kind enough to give one of my lucky readers a candle of their very own!  I have a "Brown Sugar and Fig" candle - a perfect fall scent - just waiting for one of you lucky people to try it out.

All you have to do is the following:

Mandatory: Visit Element Tree Essentials and tell me what scent you'd like the most

Optional: Be a follower of How Now Brown Cow?  +2 entries

Optional:  Post about it on your blog/twitter/Facebook  +5 entries

I'll pick a winner on Friday November 18th at 5:00 PM Eastern.  If you post anonymously be sure to leave me some contact info so I can mail you if you win.

Good luck everyone!

Sweet Surprise

I recently won Erica's Gluten Free Giveaway and was suprised to find these lovelies waiting on me when I got home...

KB and I aren't gluten free, but I don't turn down free baking mixes, so I'm going to give them a shot.  It will be interesting to see if they taste the same.  Here are some possible options for these:

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or...

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or maybe....

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I'm thinking about also using plain greek yogurt as the base of the mix instead of eggs and butter.  Supposedly you can't tell a difference and it might make me feel less gross after eating all these baked goods.

Have any good recipe ideas?

Ding Ding Ding

I'm the winner (well was)!  I happened to win a lovely little giveaway from the fabulous Erica over at Fashion Meets Food. 

I do love some yogurt....and what's better than a Yogurt themed goodie bag!  Inside was some coupons, a pedometer, a wrist wallet and this neat little bag.  I used to have tons of these little freebie bags, but somehow they've all disappeared.  You can never have too many bags.

I also got this pedometer.  I've never used one before, but I'm really interested to see how many steps I take per day, even though it's probably not enough!  Any suggestions for how to use this thing would be greatly appreciated.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

I finally won my first giveaway in the Blog world!

Pop on over to the world of the lovely Ms. Kerr.

Sadly I'll probably be spending the $35 CSN giftcard on some random person on our christmas list, but if it was all about me I would spend it on some awesome outdoor furniture...like these lovelies.

THANKS KERR :)