Summer 2013 Letter to my Readers

Please have a comfy seat and a cup of tea or iced tea from my kitchen!  I have started making my own teas!  They can be used for hot tea or iced tea!  And speaking of tea, I have a giveaway coming up here this week for some spectacular COFFEE (I did not make this but one of the companies I order from has made it).  The winner will receive a bag of this coffee.  Check back around Thursday or Friday for this giveaway!

I have been so busy with blogging these days ever since I took on the Ultimate Blog Challenge for July Challenge of blogging every day and this group's owner also sends you blogging topics if you need help!  I love it!  So far I haven't and it's close to being over.  I have so many topics running through my head that I write them down and hope to cover them soon!

I am looking for an inexpensive blogger who may be a graphic artist (maybe a stay at home mom or dad?) and would be interested in using my color palette and transform my blog into something that is easy to read.  I need topic headers for topics  that I write about quite often.  And I'd like to have 3 columns.  I also need a banner and button.  I do have a website, http://www.conversationswithcarolyn.com and I'd like to use this blog there but not using WordPress.  I think I want to stay with blogger.com and start writing more in my other blogs...  and tie them into this one blog. 

There's a local company that I'm thinking of using but before I do that, I'd like to get some pricing options from bloggers who create graphics and web pages, etc...   So please write to me at carolyncavies @ yahoo. com    Please use the topic "Graphics" with your proposal and a sample of something that you've created.  You can put your watermark on anything that you've done!  Thanks!

This time of year has me always looking at the beautiful houses right here in my neighborhood.  I don't want to move but we are slowly outgrowing our condo and I need to have a garage sale! I think I will wait til October to do one.   I like to serve this lemonade recipe to serve there and a spiced tea that I make in my "tea business." 

I hope this Old-Fashioned Lemonade recipe is helpful to someone or more!  I love lemonade all year round and especially 1/2 and 1/2 (no booze! unless of course, that you add it to the mix).   I love the lemonade and tea mix and I make my own with the teabags that I make.  If you would be interested in writing a Product Review and have a Giveaway with my tea bags, please write to me at carolynjm @ live.com  and use the topic line to be "PR and Giveaway Tea Bags"  and I will select 10 bloggers using Random.org to accomplish this.

If you are a FAN on my group, https://www.facebook.com/Chattingwithcarolyn maybe you have been keeping up with the Christmas Letter Game for CHRISTMAS IN JULY.  So far I have had the same gal winning and she's hungry for competition!  So please come by the game today and play the letter "R" and then tonight, the letter "S" with her!  Here's where the game (with a prize for the winner) is on my blog.  The times to play are announced in my fan group with the big letters "R" and "S" and it's a lot of fun! http://conversationswithcarolyn.blogspot.com/2013/07/christmas-in-july-letter-game.html  

Have you bought any Scentsy from me lately?  We have the BRING BACK MY BAR sale going on this month.  There's still time to order here.  https://carolynscandlesforsale.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Buy  Thanks!

Yum!

 

Would you be interested in joining my fan group and playing games with us and having great chats?  The address is given in the post and we'd love to have you with us!