2012 Holiday Rafflecopter Giveaway Participant ~ Joan Barlow from ScentralStation

This blog highlights Joan Barlow from ScentralStation. Joan has been kind enough to add a $20.00 gift certificate for online use or in person for her retail store ScentralStation!

Scentral Station is woman-owned and founded in 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has evolved into an emporium of scentual pleasures for handmade scented candles, homemade bath and body products, fragrance oils, perfumes, incense, and so much more. This company believes that it has superior products without the high prices.

Even if you cannot afford to get away from it all on a tropical paradise vacation, you can still enjoy the homemade products such as the bath products, fragrance oils and homemade scented candles. Your soul will not care if it is on a sandy beach, it will feel tranquil with the wonderful products listed above. You will feel refreshed and ready to take on the world after using these high quality products.

ScentralStation products make the perfect Christmas gift. Not only are they priced low but one can actually use these gifts! How many times have you received a gift that you never used? Maybe you even re-gifted one or two gifts. With these soothing scented products your gift recipients will definitively not be re-gifting your items! While you are Christmas shopping online or at the in person store, make sure you pick up a few items to treat yourself. Just be careful, her products are ADDICTING!  They are just that good! 

Joan also sells Avon. You can find many Christmas gifts on her Avon website. From kitchen items to make-up, spa items, baby items, clothes, hair care products, men’s products, teen products and so much more! If you have not looked at an Avon catalog in a while, you will be pleasantly surprised at all of the new sensational products Avon has to offer. One thing that has not ever changed about Avon is that you will still find fantastic prices on all of the products!

This holiday season make sure you shop online or in person at ScentralStation products or Joan’s online Avonsite.   

ScentralStation Website: http://www.scentralstn.com/ ScentralStation Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/scentralstation 
Joan's Avon Site: http://www.youravon.com/joanbarlow 

About Corky Kouture and the 2012 Grand Holiday Raflecopter Giveaway

With the holiday season fast upon us, we wanted to do something big – something fun- and something that could make one individuals holiday one they would not forget!  We wanted to create a memory and with those wants, we decided a giveaway was in order!  However, we didn’t want it to be just any giveaway – we wanted it to be one that the winner would get a little bit of everything – a Holiday in itself so we sought out others to who would be willing to participate with us on our mission and we found a lot of very wonderful and giving individuals.  So first, we would like to take this time to thank all the participants in our 2012 Grand Holiday Rafflecopter Giveaway – THANK YOU!!!!  You are all awesome, wonderful, and very giving people.  Thank you and I am sure the winner will be thanking each of you huge as well!  One very lucky winner will receive all of the prizes from each one of these generous donors.  You can find out more about each person, the company and what will be given away by reading each blog.

As the host of this Grand Holiday Rafflecopter Giveaway we wanted to set the stage of a holiday in a package and gift something that can create many memories so one lucky winner will win all the wonderful gifts donated by our generous participants as well as a premier Corky Kouture™ Glamour Galore Collection bottled gift bag with a $50 gift certificate!  These stunning bottled gift bags come in white, red, pink or black with an . There is a fancy gift card holder connected to the bag to make your gift giving simple!

The beautiful Corky Kouture bags make giving a bottle of wine, champagne, liquor, sparkling wine/juice, bubble bath, dipping oils or any other bottle of similar size and shape-- easy! Simply place the bottle into the gorgeous bag and your “wrapping” is complete! You didn’t even have to use scissors, tape or any type of bows.

It is traditional that most gifts come with a card. You can easily put a small card or note inside of the bejeweled pouch that is attached to the bag. Feel free to place some money gift cards, jewelry, etc. inside the pouch as well!

You have just created a glamorous gift that is sure to be appreciated by the gift recipient and create a memory.

These bags are perfect for birthdays, Mother’s Day, Sweetest’s Day, Christmas, Bosses Day, Bridal Showers, Just Because I Love You, Valentine’s Day, wedding, new mom, hostess gifts, anniversaries or any other day your heart desires. The gift recipient will have a cherished gift from you especially with the keepsake Corky Kouture bag.

If you would like to create a memory for a special someone in your life this holiday season, visit our website at CorkyKouture.com. ~  http://www.corkykouture.com/.

Make sure to follow us on our Facebook Fanpage and Twitter too!

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The Holiday Dinner Party ~ Ho! Ho! Ho!!

(KV Design Team)

No matter how much we want to pretend that the holidays are NOT just around the corner, they are.  Are you one of those shoppers that have your gifts wrapped up months before Christmas?  I’m not.  Unfortunately I am still shopping; often times even on the night before Santa makes his grand appearance.  I wish I could be one of those that have everything done weeks in advance but there always seems to be unexpected events or people that show up on my list that keeps me going till the very last moments.

Dinner Parties to Die For!

(Picture compliments of Peter Brum Gold Sparkler )

So you have to give a dinner party for business guests. What do you do? If you are like many people, you fret and worry over the best way to entertain them. After all, it is often extremely important to make a good impression. Whether you are entertaining business associates from out of town or a group of employees, you want to come off in the best possible light.