About Tricia

I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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cuppow mason jar drinking lid giveaway!!

By on August 9, 2013 in giveaways

I am so very excited to tell you about this weeks giveaway!  A few months ago, I was looking around the web for something that I could use to make our mason jars into sippy cups.  It is inevitable that at every meal, one of my little ones must spill their drink while we are at the table.  It is always a little frustrating and they end up feeling bad because of course they never mean to spill their water.  Sometimes it even spills into someone else’s food and well then we have to make a new plate.

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I ordered a few of these amazing  Cuppow canning jar drinking lids.  They did the job marvelously but then I realized that I could use it for my own water bottle and we could use them for our tea (we don’t drink coffee).  So when I was given the opportunity to tell you all about them and give one away, I was over the moon.  They really are that cool.  No matter where I am with these, a mom or someone will see us drinking out of them and come up to ask what they are and where we got them.

So,  the awesome guys over at Cuppow are giving a away a Cuppow or your choice to one lucky blog reader. <EDIT!!  THEY HAVE NOW DECIDED TO LET ME PICK TWO WINNERS!!!  AND EACH ONE WILL RECEIVE A REGULAR AND WIDE MOUTH CUPPOW!!>  The best part of these are that they are not expensive at all at just $7.99 each and free shipping when you buy 4 or more.  I have already purchased 7 and they come in both wide mouth and regular and they have a whole which can fit every kind of straw.

I haven’t tried one yet but they also sell a cup which fits in the top of your jar to keep your salad dressing separate from your salad or your peanut butter away from the kids celery snack making it perfect for bento lunches.  Hmmm maybe that will be my next purchase 😉  There is a Pinterest page where people are posting how they use theirs.  Here is Olivia drinking her morning milk in hers.  You know the saying don’t cry over spilled milk?  Well, I think it’s OK to cry when precious raw milk is spilled but we can now avoid that situation.  Even Poppa uses them for his smoothies on the way to work.

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To enter just leave a comment.  For more chances to win share this on Facebook, Tweet it, share it on your own blog and then come back and tell me how you shared it, you get an entry for each one that you do.  Good luck and the giveaway ends next Friday.

The lucky winner will be announced right here in this post next Friday morning. Oh and I will be posting the winner of the Peepods over at last Fridays blog post in a few minutes.

UPDATE:  Thank you to all who entered.  The two winners for this giveaway are:

Jennifer Dvorak: LOve these 🙂

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Seely: I have wanted the mint green lid for so long!!! It\’s my favorite color! My Instagram page is full of heathy smoothie recipes that I put in mason jars, and I follow Cuppow on Instagram. I would love to use the Cuppow lids for my smoothies in my posts! 🙂

Please contact me at farmishmomma@gmail.com.

To everyone who did not win.  Go buy one!  Seriously, these guys are so generous with their product and they have been so cool to work with.  Lets all show these great small companies some love and support them.  You will love using Cuppow!

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first clap at the fabric store

By on August 8, 2013 in Kids

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IMG_6396 IMG_6397After noticing how plain my couch looks during Alex’s baby shower, I decided on finally making those couch cushions I bought those down filled pillows for almost a year ago.  Those pillows have become an almost permanent part of my to do pile in the sewing room.  To the readers of this blog, it may seem that I get a lot done, in fact it is the most asked question that I get.  My answer… you should see the pile of stuff I don’t get done.  Please remember that this blog is a place for me to share and remember parts of my life and I guess I don’t want to remember that huge pile of laundry waiting for me in the loft 🙂

To make the couch pillows, I needed the perfect fabric.  The perfect fabric is seldom found in the enormous selection one already owns so I was off to the fabric store.  Shopping carts are not my thing, I prefer to have Matthew in his Ergo but this day, he was very wiggly and it was getting kind of hard to look at fabric so I used those disinfecting towels (that I always tell everyone not to use because I think antibacterials are the debol <insert the voice from the mom in the movie the water boy>  <if you haven’t seen the water boy, that is how she says the word devil> to thoroughly clean the shopping cart since I don’t have one of those shopping cart covers.  He was so excited to sit there like a great big boy that while at the cutting counter I clapped at him.  When I told an elderly couple behind me in line that he was excited to sit in the cart like a big boy, they started clapping too and then Matthew followed along and he has been clapping ever since and of course we are all clapping back.

Don’t forget that today is the last day to enter the mama cloth giveaway.  I will announce the winner tomorrow morning.  Oh and I have an amazingly cool new giveaway to post tomorrow…you don’t wanna miss it!! <there is a hint, in one of the pics from yesterdays post>

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