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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Winner!!
First Winner of the Thermal Lunch Tote is Comment #17
Friday, December 2, 2011
First Giveaway!! And Fund Raiser!
I am so excited to be having my first give away!
So what am I giving away and how do you enter?
Let me tell you why I picked this company and person to host my first give away.
I was first looking for ways to raise money for JDRF, without just going door-to-door and asking for donations. (Which we do and are very successful.) A good friend of mine suggested that I let her host a party for all my friends and family and she would donate all the commission to JDRF and Team Brianna. Wow! That was an awesome idea.
Erin Diehl is a fellow D-mama so the cause of JDRF is as close to her heart as it is to mine. She is a great supporter of our team and has had several parties for me and others to raise money for JDRF and other causes. In total she has donated well over $500 to just our team! That is truly amazing! She works for Thirty-One Gifts .
This is a brief look at what Thirty-One Gifts are about taken from their website
"Our stylish, affordable products are exclusive to Thirty-One. From our signature purses and totes to storage solutions that help organize your life, you'll find something to fit every personality and situation. Each season, we develop new products built on the idea that our products must be functional AND fashionable (and, of course, make great gifts!)"
Sounds like great products right? Who would want affordable nice quality purses, lunch totes, storage, and stationary among other items.
One of the Items we are Giving Away is a Thermal Lunch Tote:
You get to pick the fabric!! You can even have it personalized if you want- though that is extra.
We are also giving away a $10 Gift Certificate to shop at Erin's Thirty-One Site.
We currently use the Thermal Lunch Tote as Brianna's diabetes bag when we go out. No one even suspects what is inside of it. She gets so many compliments on how nice her "purse" looks. Because it is thermal the insulin will stay cool inside of it. There is more then enough room for all the supplies that we carry around with us. She does also have two that she uses as lunch boxes. She loves that they are personalized with her first name on it.
I am having a party locally, but if you would like to order and help support JDRF you can! Thirty-One can ship right to your house. Here is how to order and help support JDRF. To place or order or look at the catalog click here then click on events, click on Kelly's JDRF event and then you can shop online and it will benefit our fund raising event. I have several of the products that I use all the time from the Cindy Tote that I use as my diaper bag to the cinch sacs that Brianna uses to keep all her sports and cheer items organized. These products are great! If you are reading and think this you know someone who would love these items but you can't decide what to give, they do offer gift certificates!
So how do you enter the giveaway??? You do as many as you want.
1. Follow my blog- 1 entry
2. Go To Erin's Thirty-One Site- a facebbook page and leave a comment that I sent you! It is a closed group so you will have to ask to join. -1 entry
3. Sharing this giveaway on facebook- 1 entry- up to 3 different times
4. Having Erin host a party for you -5 entries!! You don't have to live locally, she can send catalogs and set up the party on-line so you can have one.
For each post you did so.
Rules:
This contest will close and the winners will be picked on Wednesday, December 7, by 5pm. You will be have until 5 pm on Thursday, the 8th, to claim your prize or a new winner(s) will be selected. This way it gives the winner of the gift card enough time to place their order before the party closes. All orders have to be placed by then for you to get the extra entries. I will use Random.org to select the winners.
I hope I explained and did everything right! Remember I am still new to blogging and the is the first giveaway!!
Good luck!!
So what am I giving away and how do you enter?
Let me tell you why I picked this company and person to host my first give away.
I was first looking for ways to raise money for JDRF, without just going door-to-door and asking for donations. (Which we do and are very successful.) A good friend of mine suggested that I let her host a party for all my friends and family and she would donate all the commission to JDRF and Team Brianna. Wow! That was an awesome idea.
Erin Diehl is a fellow D-mama so the cause of JDRF is as close to her heart as it is to mine. She is a great supporter of our team and has had several parties for me and others to raise money for JDRF and other causes. In total she has donated well over $500 to just our team! That is truly amazing! She works for Thirty-One Gifts .
This is a brief look at what Thirty-One Gifts are about taken from their website
"Our stylish, affordable products are exclusive to Thirty-One. From our signature purses and totes to storage solutions that help organize your life, you'll find something to fit every personality and situation. Each season, we develop new products built on the idea that our products must be functional AND fashionable (and, of course, make great gifts!)"
Sounds like great products right? Who would want affordable nice quality purses, lunch totes, storage, and stationary among other items.
One of the Items we are Giving Away is a Thermal Lunch Tote:
We are also giving away a $10 Gift Certificate to shop at Erin's Thirty-One Site.
We currently use the Thermal Lunch Tote as Brianna's diabetes bag when we go out. No one even suspects what is inside of it. She gets so many compliments on how nice her "purse" looks. Because it is thermal the insulin will stay cool inside of it. There is more then enough room for all the supplies that we carry around with us. She does also have two that she uses as lunch boxes. She loves that they are personalized with her first name on it.
I am having a party locally, but if you would like to order and help support JDRF you can! Thirty-One can ship right to your house. Here is how to order and help support JDRF. To place or order or look at the catalog click here then click on events, click on Kelly's JDRF event and then you can shop online and it will benefit our fund raising event. I have several of the products that I use all the time from the Cindy Tote that I use as my diaper bag to the cinch sacs that Brianna uses to keep all her sports and cheer items organized. These products are great! If you are reading and think this you know someone who would love these items but you can't decide what to give, they do offer gift certificates!
So how do you enter the giveaway??? You do as many as you want.
1. Follow my blog- 1 entry
2. Go To Erin's Thirty-One Site- a facebbook page and leave a comment that I sent you! It is a closed group so you will have to ask to join. -1 entry
3. Sharing this giveaway on facebook- 1 entry- up to 3 different times
4. Having Erin host a party for you -5 entries!! You don't have to live locally, she can send catalogs and set up the party on-line so you can have one.
For each post you did so.
Rules:
This contest will close and the winners will be picked on Wednesday, December 7, by 5pm. You will be have until 5 pm on Thursday, the 8th, to claim your prize or a new winner(s) will be selected. This way it gives the winner of the gift card enough time to place their order before the party closes. All orders have to be placed by then for you to get the extra entries. I will use Random.org to select the winners.
I hope I explained and did everything right! Remember I am still new to blogging and the is the first giveaway!!
Good luck!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thank You!
We just finished up with our Tastefully Simple fund raiser! It is was success. We were able to raise a little over $200 for JDRF. I could not do this by myself. I had a great consultant that was so generous to come out and donate her time and give us food suggestions for all the yummy items. She then donated ALL her commission to JDRF. Truly an amazing person, she has no connection to Type 1 either!!
I also want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all my friends and family who keep coming and ordering at all my parties. You are all AWESOME!! I am truly bless to have you all in my life.
Look for my next blog post, there will be another chance to order Christmas gifts and have the money go towards JDRF and possibly my FIRST give away! I am so excited.
I also want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all my friends and family who keep coming and ordering at all my parties. You are all AWESOME!! I am truly bless to have you all in my life.
Look for my next blog post, there will be another chance to order Christmas gifts and have the money go towards JDRF and possibly my FIRST give away! I am so excited.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tastefully Simple..
Last night I had a Tastefully Simple party. Though this was not your typical party it was a fund raiser. Prior to diagnosis, I never had any type of party. I went to them all the time but really had no interest in doing them. All that has changed now. I will have parties or whatever to raise money for diabetes. I have been blessed to find people that are willing to host a party for me and then donate ALL their commission to JDRF, really amazing people!
Tastefully Simple has AWESOME easy to make products. Think about Christmas coming up and how they would make wonderful gifts. These make great gifts for teacher or really anyone- after all we all have to eat right? :) Your order will be delivered before Christmas. There is also still time to place an order for my party and have the money donated to JDRF. Ordering is really easy and secure. To order please go to Tastefullysimple.com place whatever items you want into your cart. Then at the check out please search for my name Kelly Harp so we get credit for the party and the money will go to JDRF.
I really do all appreciate all that came out last night and all that placed an order online. I can't say thank you enough! Brianna always feels so special that everyone comes for her and to support her! After all it is all for her, to raise money so hopefully one day she and everyone else with Type 1 will not have diabetes!
I will be having a 31 Gifts Party early next month. If you know any other good fund raising ideas please let me know. I am dedicated to raising money until a cure is found!!
And again THANK YOU!!!
Tastefully Simple has AWESOME easy to make products. Think about Christmas coming up and how they would make wonderful gifts. These make great gifts for teacher or really anyone- after all we all have to eat right? :) Your order will be delivered before Christmas. There is also still time to place an order for my party and have the money donated to JDRF. Ordering is really easy and secure. To order please go to Tastefullysimple.com place whatever items you want into your cart. Then at the check out please search for my name Kelly Harp so we get credit for the party and the money will go to JDRF.
I really do all appreciate all that came out last night and all that placed an order online. I can't say thank you enough! Brianna always feels so special that everyone comes for her and to support her! After all it is all for her, to raise money so hopefully one day she and everyone else with Type 1 will not have diabetes!
I will be having a 31 Gifts Party early next month. If you know any other good fund raising ideas please let me know. I am dedicated to raising money until a cure is found!!
And again THANK YOU!!!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Endocrinologist
Tomorrow,Brianna goes to the endocrinologist, or endo's office. These appointment are every 3 months. They are a check up to see how everything is going with Brianna's Diabetes.
So what happens at the visit?? First when she gets there they always have her pee in a cup. They check to see if she has ketones. Brianna NEVER goes for them, at this point not sure why we even go through the effort in trying, but we do. They are fine with her not going. We do monitor her really close if her blood glucose is high or if we suspect she has ketones. Then they do the typical things like height and weight. Kinda nice to see how much she is growing every 3 months. Then comes the part we all love/hate the A1C check. For Brianna they check it by a finger stick. For parents it is kinda like our report card. I try not to think about it like that, but it is hard. Good or bad it is not really our fault, but unfortunately we look at it that way. Brianna has blood work done every six months to a year to monitor her thyroid, they also watch her cholesterol, and then the normal blood work.
Then they take us back to a room. A nurse then comes in and checks her blood pressure. Then we go over all the settings that are currently in her pump. All the medication she is on and if she needs any refills. They has about lows/highs- sometimes that seems like an odd question after all she does have diabetes.
Then nurse leaves and we wait for the doctor or in our case Nurse Practitioner to come in. We have an awesome relationship with her. We have had almost all our appointments with her since being discharged from the hospital. What is great about her is she takes my phone calls or answers my e-mails about changes I want to make. She also really remember Brianna. She will look at all her current numbers and offer suggestions on what she thinks I should change. She has said on my occasions this is what I would do, but you know her best. It is nice to have an input in her care vs do this. She lets me brain storm changes on what would work. They also check Brianna's skin to make sure that no site is getting used too much and offer advice on where new site could be.
What is also nice about our Children's Hospital is they offer you to see a dietitian/nutritionist, nurse educator or social worker at each visit. We usually just decline but it is nice to know they are there if I needed them.
So hopefully tomorrow's visit will go okay, but if it doesn't guess what there will be another one in 3 months and 3 months after that, and so on, until a cure is found.
So what happens at the visit?? First when she gets there they always have her pee in a cup. They check to see if she has ketones. Brianna NEVER goes for them, at this point not sure why we even go through the effort in trying, but we do. They are fine with her not going. We do monitor her really close if her blood glucose is high or if we suspect she has ketones. Then they do the typical things like height and weight. Kinda nice to see how much she is growing every 3 months. Then comes the part we all love/hate the A1C check. For Brianna they check it by a finger stick. For parents it is kinda like our report card. I try not to think about it like that, but it is hard. Good or bad it is not really our fault, but unfortunately we look at it that way. Brianna has blood work done every six months to a year to monitor her thyroid, they also watch her cholesterol, and then the normal blood work.
Then they take us back to a room. A nurse then comes in and checks her blood pressure. Then we go over all the settings that are currently in her pump. All the medication she is on and if she needs any refills. They has about lows/highs- sometimes that seems like an odd question after all she does have diabetes.
Then nurse leaves and we wait for the doctor or in our case Nurse Practitioner to come in. We have an awesome relationship with her. We have had almost all our appointments with her since being discharged from the hospital. What is great about her is she takes my phone calls or answers my e-mails about changes I want to make. She also really remember Brianna. She will look at all her current numbers and offer suggestions on what she thinks I should change. She has said on my occasions this is what I would do, but you know her best. It is nice to have an input in her care vs do this. She lets me brain storm changes on what would work. They also check Brianna's skin to make sure that no site is getting used too much and offer advice on where new site could be.
What is also nice about our Children's Hospital is they offer you to see a dietitian/nutritionist, nurse educator or social worker at each visit. We usually just decline but it is nice to know they are there if I needed them.
So hopefully tomorrow's visit will go okay, but if it doesn't guess what there will be another one in 3 months and 3 months after that, and so on, until a cure is found.
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