*This giveaway is now closed!*

This is Gussy:

This is some of the loveliness Gussy creates:

This is what Gussy wants to give Like a Warm Cup of Coffee readers:

$30 towards anything in her shop!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s how you can enter (leave a separate comment for each thing you do):

• Visit Gussy’s shop and then come back here and leave a comment with your favorite item (you must do this to be entered).
• Tweet, Facebook, Blog this giveaway (each is a separate entry).
• Put Gussy’s button on your blog.

You can get a real taste for the lovely, FUN, Gussy by reading her blog and by following her sweetness on Twitter.

This giveaway ends on Thursday night at 9pm EST and is open to U.S. Residents only.

Good “luck!”  :)

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 117 Coffee Talks »

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations–these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit–immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously–no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners–no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis

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Tickets for Relevant go on sale tonight at 12am EST!!!!!!!

The first 50 tickets are on sale at an early bird rate!  Click here to register!

What is Relevant?

Relevant is a place to connect kindred hearts; to enjoy sweet and fruitful fellowship; to engage one another in sharing, inspiring, and learning, and to figure out how to integrate our lives fully with our faith and family…all the while glorifying Him amidst this blogging tidal wave. Read more here.

Relevant Speakers:

Angie Smith (Bring the Rain)

Ann Voskamp (A Holy Experience)

Sally Clarkson (I Take Joy)

Crystal Paine (Money Saving Mom)

Kristen Welch (We Are THAT Family)

Melissa Michaels (The Inspired Room)

Jen Schmidt (Balancing Beauty and Bedlam)

Serena Woods (Grace is for Sinners)

Kimba (A Soft Place to Land)

Sarah Pinnox (Real Life Sarah)

Alyssa Francis (Kingdom First Mom)

Bonita Lillie (Encouraging Words for Writers)

There are only 200 spots to this conference, so get your ticket early!  Hope to see you there! :)

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 2 Coffee Talks »

*Update* – YOU did it – you earned the half off discount for everyone!!!!!!!!  Thank you!!!!!!! (Now go get that apron you’ve been wanting while there is still time…for half price!)

Is it just me, or do you also feel some sort of cosmic cleaning/cooking/homemakerish power when you don an apron?

I really like aprons (’cause I like the power baby!),

but I love my Flirty apron (it is so soft, I can wear it all day and not even know I have it on-except for the fact that whenever I walk by a mirror I am reminded of just how cute it is!).

So when OpenSky approached me with doing a special promotion where my readers could get HALF OFF the Scalloped Sassy Red Flirty apron (the one I have and LOVE and the one YOU voted for), I definitely said, “Let’s do it!”

Here’s the deal, if 10 or more of you buy the Scalloped Sassy Red Flirty apron, you will get the discount – HALF OFF!!!!!! You know what else is great? You won’t be charged unless we meet our goal!

I think we can do it.

Are you in?  :)

Click here to get your very own sassy Flirty apron!

(The promotion is on until 3pm Friday.)

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 13 Coffee Talks »

I am having a fun little thing Thursday, but I need to know which apron you would buy if you were going to buy an apron…

Sassy Red (my fav)

Blue & Brown Polka Dot

Cupcakes

I pretty much have an hour to decide, so HELP!

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 95 Coffee Talks »

Oh, Mothers of young children, I bow before you in reverence.  Your work is most holy.  You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls.  The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever.  You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence.  Be faithful.  Take up your sacred burden reverently.  Be sure that your life is sweet and clean.

-JR Miller

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 15 Coffee Talks »

The good stuff

“I have seen so many families over the years fall by the wayside, eventually, as one ideal after the other is compromised, and now few remain faithful and idealistic in the long run because life can be wearisome.

You have such precious children and husband and they are the story of your integrity that you will someday be able to offer you a platform as an encouragement to other women. How our culture needs women who know the reality of giving, sacrificing, teaching, loving and doing all because of our wonderful Lord’s love for children and His entrusting them into our hands.” (Excerpt taken from an email I received last week.)

Friends, I know that being a mom is tiring, often monotonous, and just plain hard (heck, you don’t have to be a mom to experience the battle fatigue of life!).  I also know we only have one shot at this life gig, and I don’t know about you, but man I want to get it right (and when I say right, I mean do the hard stuff).  I want to enjoy this online camaraderie that I am so blessed to have, without neglecting my family…my good husband (who is but a sinner, just like me) and my sweet blessings (who may seem like burdens sometimes, but that’s just because of my selfishness…and their little sin natures!).

I want to live a life that glorifies my God and fulfills my God-given feminine role.

And so I am faced with two poignant questions:

Am I willing to battle in this war being waged for my life and the lives of my family?

Am I willing to forgo the distractions that are set to besiege me into complacency?

Yes.

Yes.

Are you willing to fight alongside me?

P.S. The winners of the DownEast Basics giveaway are Jesica and Angela!  Congrats – please email me with WINNER in the subject – sarahmae (at) likeawarmcupofcoffee (dot) com.  :)

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Living For Him | 31 Coffee Talks »

Here is a portion of an email I received from a dear friend…

“I am stepping out of blogging…it’s {topic she greatly believes in}so important to me that I want to spend time actually DOING it rather than only WRITING about it.”

Can I tell you that I have tears in my eyes.  I have been struck to the core with her email.

I am totally addicted to social media.

I want to be addicted to my Lord…

and my family.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.”  1 Corinthians 6:12

Photo Credit: Internet

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 42 Coffee Talks »

I heard an analogy once that goes something like this…

There was a woman who gossiped. She went to her pastor, after realizing that she had slanderd someone, and asked how she could fix the situation. The pastor told her to get a pillow case and fill it with feathers…

Read the rest over at (in)courage today.

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 7 Coffee Talks »

*THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!*

Woo hoo! A DownEast Basics GIVEAWAY!

Don’t you just adore that Soiree Courduroy Skirt and Trendsetter Tote?!  It’s okay if you don’t – the giveaway is for an item of your choice!

Alrighty, on to the official details…

The “Must Do” Entry: head on over to DownEast Basics, meander around a bit, then come back here and tell me what you want if you win – because it’s your choice baby!

Extra Entries: Well, the sky is the limit on this one!  If you can promote this giveaway and/or Like a Warm Cup of Coffee, I’ll give you extra entries.  Some examples:

• Subscribe to Like a Warm Cup of Coffee
• Follow me on Twitter
• Follow DownEast Basics on Twitter
• Email your friends and tell them about this giveaway
• Facebook this giveaway
• Twitter
• Write a post
• Be creative!

Giveaway ends on Sunday the 21st at 9pm EST.  I’ll announce the winners on Monday – make sure you come back to see if you won!

Have fun shopping!

Offered Up by Sarah Mae | Journaled Under: Bits and Pieces | 254 Coffee Talks »