Which is why I would like to share with y’all a lovely giveaway over at one of my dear friend’s blogs!

Miss Miriam at “Maidens of Virtue” is celebrating her one year anniversary of her blog and giving away two adorable prizes to two special winners!

This ring is what I am hoping to win as it is so sweet!

SO hop on over and enter HERE for your chance at winning these lovely prizes!

Blessings,

Miss Cassaundra

Has won our last and final giveaway!!!  Congratulations my dear!

Her, her mother, and older sister, have this wonderful blog, that you can visit by clicking on her name above!  We hope you enjoy your visit and will add them to your favorites once you read some of their wonderful and encouraging articles, projects, and sweet randomness they have to share!

Well, sadly it is over, our celebration was a great one and we are so glad you came to join us in celebrating our 2nd year of business with us and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did putting it all together for y’all!

Thanks again dear readers for a great Anniversary Blog Party!

Much love and blessings,

Miss Laure Elizabeth

We hope this magazine will draw you closer to the Savior, and encourage you in your biblical roll as a godly young woman in the home!

Now for our last and final giveaway of this wonderful blog party!

Well, actually we will not be posting our final giveaway till next week due to some changes in the Konvalin household that are giving us less time on the computer (and time period) to put this last one together….but it is coming and we hope you will enjoy it!!!!

It has been such a blessing to receive e-mails from our dear readers with words of sweet encouragement at this time, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts so very much!

I (Miss Antoinette) will be posting part 2 of our road trip photos soon as well!

Leaning on our Savior,

We apologize for the delay in posting the next giveaway, and hope all are excited as we are to share with you what it is!!!

As we have told y’all before, we LOVE to read, so this next giveaway is one magazine both of us enjoy reading and I (Miss Antoinette) am greatly encouraged by in keeping my focus on my Savior and my duties in the home and being content till the day (Lord willing) I have a family of my own!

The Kings Blooming Rose Magazine is WONDERFUL!!!!  We recently subscribed to it and has quickly become our favorite!  Miss Sarah B. (the very sweet young lady behind KBR) has graciously donated a free year subscription to give away and we were so excited to add it to our Anniversary Blog Party!!!

Miss Sarah B. has also graciously invested some of her time in answering a few questions,  so you can get to know her and her ministry better and know what kind of a lovely magazine this is! A BIG thank you to Miss Sarah for doing this for our blog! *hugs*

Interview With Miss Sarah Bryant of Kings Blooming Rose Ministry

1.   Konvalin Ladies~ How did KBR get started?

Sarah~ Hello! My name is Sarah Bryant. The King’s Blooming Rose Magazine began in 2005, when I was inspired by another publication to begin a magazine for girls. KBR has grown much in the past 6 years and I am so grateful for all that the Lord has done through its publication. I continue to learn so much as my family and I compile, edit, and mail each quarterly issue. One of my favorite aspects of publishing it is hearing from young ladies with a similar vision for girlhood from across the country.

2. Konvalin Ladies~ Does your ministry have a key verse that you share?

Sarah~ We want to encourage young ladies to prepare to be the “Proverbs 31″ woman and to be ready to fulfill the role given in Titus 2:4-5:

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

Since this womanly calling will not be obtained overnight, it is our desire to encourage girls to prepare to be godly keepers at home and help-meets.

3. Konvalin Ladies~ What other products do you sell?

Sarah~ Along with publishing The King’s Blooming Rose, we have a color 2011 Calendar which has a Scripture Memory theme, Scripture Verse Stationery Sets, “The Young Maid Compilation” (question and answer column featuring homemaking-related topics), and a book that I wrote this year, “The Family Daughter.” Right now we have a sale on the calendars – buy two and receive a free back issue of KBR Magazine.

4. Konvalin Ladies~ What inspired you to write “The Family Daughter”?

Sarah~ In 2008, the Lord prompted me to write a book to encourage Christian girls to love their families, and to serve them as a daughter a home, in preparation for someday becoming a keeper at home, Lord willing. As I embarked on this project, it turned into a bigger task than I had imagined. After a two-year journey of rewriting, researching, and editing, The Family Daughter: Becoming Pillars of Strength In Our Father’s House rolled off the press this summer. To God be the glory for bringing this book to completion! My prayer for it is that young girls will be encouraged to treasure their family and to use their maiden days wisely.

5. Konvalin Ladies~ Any encouraging words you wish to share to other stay-at-home daughters or to others

thinking about it?

Sarah~ Our God-given calling as daughters is such a high and noble calling, though when we choose to make this decision to stay at home with our family, we will face a certain amount of persecution from the world. My encouragement to you would be to not grow weary in well doing! We daughters may be overlooked or scorned by the world, and it can be easy to fall for the mindset that we need to do something bigger to be “important.” Do not be deceived by this worldly idea! Your service for the Lord at home is not in vain; He sees your heart and the sacrifices you make in serving your family. I want to encourage you to delight in the ministry of blessing those around you—treasure the opportunity and pour your heart into it, for it is Christ’s calling for you. May the Lord be glorified through our lives of complete and humble obedience to His will. God bless you each.

So, from today till Saturday January 22 is when you can enter, and be sure to read the entry info. HERE and PLEASE come back to this post to leave your entry comments!

(sorry, no international entries please!)

Question #3 ~ Do you have a favorite magazine you would highly recommend?

May all our dear readers have a blessed week resting in our Savior!

So, the winner of the “Health For Godly Generations” book is……….

MISS LIZZY!!!

Congrats dear, and be sure to contact us through our web-site to give us your address to send you your prize!

Stop by her blog, and enjoy her lovely photos and life on her family’s farm!  I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Now on to our next lovely giveaway!…………

“It’s tea time!”

Ahhh…. how we both enjoy having our cup of tea in the morning and evening!  I am sure many of you are the same and enjoy those special times of enjoying friends company as you host a tea party, or just a mini one with immediate family old fashioned like!

In this giveaway, we are giving every lovely thing in this photo (minus the basket in the background!)!!!

A tea cup and saucer, 4 of our favorite herbal teas, a lovely handkerchief, and “If Tea Cups Could Talk” by Emilie Barnes!

Just look at the lovely work on this tea cup! Sweet and simple to be sure!

Such a beautiful hand embroidered hankie made with love by Miss Antoinette adds a touch of simple elegance to this giveaway!

Now for a great book to read while sipping on your tea!  “If Tea Cups Could Talk” by Emilie Barnes gives great ideas for anything tea related and has a few recipes throughout the book as well!

This giveaway is open now (the 10th) till January 15th!

(Sorry, no International entries please!)

please refer to the rules of entering into the giveaway HERE and PLEASE come back to this post to leave your entries!

*Question#2: What is your favorite tea time memory, or something you enjoy having with your tea?

Have a blessed week everyone!

Love in Christ,

We also enjoy learning about health and nutrition, and how to best keep our bodies well to further the Lord’s Kingdom!  Miss Antoinette will soon be contributing to a wonderful blog “Ye Are Not Your Own” and share some of the things we have learned about health and nutrition!  In this new year we also hope to post more recipes and such here on our blog!

In this first giveaway we are giving away one of our new favorite books.  See the review below so you know how good of a book you will be entering to win! And if you don’t win, it is well worth the investment!

“Health For Godly Generations” by Renee DeGroot

Mother has graciously written this review of the book to share with you:

“Health For Godly Generations:  A Reformational Perspective is refreshing and convicting as the author uses pure scripture to point out biblical principles for health and nutrition.  This is not another unsound ‘diet’ book listing what you should or should not eat, but rather an encouragement to seek what God in His word says about health and nutrition.

Whether you are just beginning to think about what it means to eat better or you have been studying nutrition for years, you will be uplifted by a topic that otherwise could be daunting and discouraging.  After all, which of the thousands of ‘experts’ out there do you believe?  Renee DeGroot expresses her thoughts lovingly and gently but also boldly as she exhorts believers to look to scripture for the answers to their health needs.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31“

We thought this post would not be complete without a scrumptious, and healthy recipe!  Here is a simply wonderful guilt-free treat that our family enjoys that is dairy -free, gluten-free, and soy-free!

Nut Butter Balls

1 cup of your favorite nut butter (peanut, almond, sunflower seed…etc.)

1/2 cup raw honey

1 1/2 – 2 cups finely shredded unsweetened coconut

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 cup mini chocolate chips ~ *optional

Mix all ingredients together in medium size bowl.  Take teaspoon size amounts of the mixture and roll into bite size balls.  Place on a baking sheet or glass baking pan (9″x13″ inch).  When all the mixture is rolled and in the pan, place the pan into the freezer for an hour or two.  You can eat as is but they taste best when frozen.  *The chocolate chips we use are made by Enjoy Life Foods and are soy-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free but they do contain a small amount of cane sugar.  Just wanted to let you know in case you need to completely avoid sugar for specific needs.  These are tasty even without the chocolate chips.

Now does that not sound delightful or what!?

Now for entering this great giveaway!!!

Please follow this link HERE for the 3 ways of entering this giveaway!

(sorry no international attendants please)

*Question #1: What is your favorite recipe book or health/nutrition book you enjoy?  Feel free to share a yummy recipe you enjoy!(receive 1 entry)

This giveaway ends on January 8th (at 9:00PM) and will be announced on the 10th!

*disclaimer* We are not affiliated with Miss DeGroot or her site, just some passionate readers wanting to share with you this great book!

Blessings in Christ,

PS. Don’t forget about our BIG sale that ends on the 10th of January!  Click HERE to take a peek at the great savings!

We started just by word of mouth and handing fliers to friends and family, then someone introduced us to Etsy.com and from then on lots more ideas started flooding in our minds and much learning as well in the coming year!

And what a blessing our business venture has been and still is today with starting up my newsletter and advertising on this blog, Facebook, Twitter, AND on CHI’s Web-site! We are also finding new more natural resources for our ingredients as well which has been exciting, such as the Seppi Family’s business with their bee keeping and almond farm!

Because it has been two years and we are so very blessed, humbled, and very excited, we thought it would be fun to host a month long anniversary party this coming January!  What a great time to celebrate at the beginning of the new year and have a giveaway every week in the month of January!

We would also LOVE to answer any questions you might have about our business or anything you would like to know about my mother and/or myself!  Please send an e-mail from now till December 30th at this address: mail(at)practicalsimplicity(dot)com and we just might include some of those questions in our anniversary party!

We have some really exciting giveaways cooked up with an interview along with one of those giveaways as well!

It is going to be so much fun and hope you can join us!  Here is a fun button you can add to your blog or web-site and spread the word! The more the merrier right!?

(I will be adding the button code to the side of our blog very soon!)

So feel free to spread the word about this wonderful party we will be hosting and we hope you will join in on the fun this coming January 2011!

Have a blessed weekend resting in our Lord!

Please forgive my lack of posting, but life has been in full force the last couple months and Lord willing will slow down a little bit soon so i can write a catch up post and send out some much needed e-mails to some of you!

In the mean time, I have come across some more wonderful giveaways I have to share with y’all!

The first one is over at Miss Jenna’s blog Feminine Farmgirl.

She is giving away a copy of Jasmine Bacham’s new book “Joyfully At Home”!!!!!

Enter HERE by the 9th of November (2010)!

The next giveaway is over at Miss Jen’s blog “Blessed Femina” .

She is celebrating her two year blog anniversary by giving away a beautiful apron made by herself:

AND……theres more!  She is also giving away a lovely set of hand embroidered dish cloths that are so adorable!

Head on over HERE to enter by November 17th (2010)

Over at Pure Little Ladies Ministry blog Miss Toria is having an anniversary party with giveaways every week during the party!

This week she is giving away a Marie Madeline Studio chic sister apron pattern!

So hurry and enter HERE by the 13th of this weekend to enter!

I pray everyone is having a wonderful week resting in our Lord!

Much love and blessings,

PS. Lord willing I will be starting up “Tune in Tuesday” again!  YAY!

I am happy to share three very neat giveaways and a pillow swap with y’all this week!

The first giveaway is over at Marie Madeline Studio!  They are giving away one of their lovely Happy Scrappy quilts!!!!

You can head on over to their blog HERE to enter and don’t forget to mention that I “Miss Antoinette” sent you over!

Entries close on the 15th and the winner chosen on the 16th of this month (2010)!!!

Next, a very dear friend of mine is celebrating her 2nd hear of blogging by giving away some note cards hand made by her!  Stop by her blog HERE to enter and read her other very encouraging and uplifting articles she has written!

The next one is over at another dear friend’s blog “Pioneer Beauty” is giving away a copy if  “Nourishing Traditions”!!!

I know I already have my very own copy for my hope chest, but would love to give one to a friend!

Enter this giveaway HERE by the 11th of this month (2010) !!!

Next is a wonderful pillow swap over at Dutch Sisters  that you can join HERE!

It must fit a 16×16″ inch pillow and you can decorate it as much as you like! I thought these where some neat ideas below:

I also joined an apron swap over at “Practically Pink”

Unfortunately, entries closed last night, but if you contact her by leaving a quick comment, she just might let you in!

I will post a photo of both the apron and pillow swap so y’all can see what I made!

I pray everyone is having a most blessed week resting in our Lord!

Much love and blessings,

1828 Webster’s Dictionary!!!

I (Miss Antoinette) have wanted one for my hope chest and it would be such a blessing if I won!

Course, if not, that is ok too, I know whoever wins will be tremendously blessed I am sure!

Please see her blog HERE (or above) to see the rules!

For those of you here from her blog, WELCOME!!!

Here are the following instructions:

~If you have and Older Brother leave this comment at Pioneer Beauty..” Chivalrous“

~If you have and Older Sister leave this Comment at Pioneer Beauty..” Lovely Maiden“

~If you have a younger brother leave this comment at Pioneer Beauty..” Boy Knight“

~ If you have a younger Sister leave this comment at Pioneer Beauty..”Fair Maiden“

~If you are an only Child leave this comment at Pioneer Beauty..”Crown and Glory“

( IF MORE THAN ONE APPLIES…PLEASE PICK ONLY ONE..TO LEAVE AT PIONEER BEAUTY)

Thanks for stopping by “Practical Simplicity~ For His Glory” and happy hunting!!!

Blessings,