Giveaway: 2012 Holiday Planner & 2013 Calendar Set {5 Winners!} Ends 11.20

I am giving away my latest PDF set - 2012 Holiday Planner & 2013 Monthly Calendars Set - to FIVE lucky readers.

Here's a preview:

Prizes: 2012 Holiday Planner & 2013 Calendar Set

Number of Winners: five

To Enter: You must use the Rafflecopter widget below. It's really easy to use and makes giveaways a lot easier for me to manage. The widget will tell you what your commenting topic is! (mandatory)

Giveaway Ends: Tuesday, November 20 @ 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time). One winner will be chosen using the Rafflecopter widget. The winners will be announced on this post and will be emailed to claim their prize. The winners have 48 hours to respond to my email to claim their prize.

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Giveaway Rules & Disclosure:

• You must be a follower (through Twitter, FB, GFC, or RSS/email) of The Nest Effect to win.
• The winners will be chosen by rafflecopter.com.
• This giveaway is open to readers everywhere.
• Please make sure your email is either linked in your profile or on your blog OR that you include it in your comment. If I can't find your email address, I can't contact you as the winner.
• You must comment as your first, mandatory entry. All entries will be verified when the winner is chosen.
• One entry per method per person (4 total).
• This giveaway is not sponsored by a company. These are my files that I sell on Etsy.

 

The Holidays Are Coming... & a Free Printable!

I just can't believe it. It was 70 degrees in Salt Lake City today. 70 degrees in November. Wha-? But don't be too jealous -- tomorrow's high is 47 degrees, with a chance of snow. Boo.

I was at Target two weeks ago and was blown away to see Christmas decor everywhere in the store - and holiday items available for purchase. I just can't get into the holiday spirit until it feels like it's here. The weather hasn't helped...and I think that's the issue. Perhaps tomorrow it will feel more like Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming.

I realized that I should probably update and relist my Holiday Planner set. So I just did. =] Check it out!

Purchase this set for $10 in my Etsy store!

And how about a freebie from the set? Download below!

Technology Tutorial: Making Your Own Binder Covers & Spines

Interested in learning how to make your own binder covers & spine inserts? I just posted a tutorial on my education blog, The Learning Effect, on how to quickly and simply create your own using PowerPoint.

Fonts by Kimberly Geswein - KG Be Still & Know, KG Eyes Wide Open.

Giveaway: Urban Office

If you love organization, I'm sure you love office supplies. I, myself, own way too many because they're colorful, pretty, and help me organize my life. Plus, it doesn't help that I'm a teacher. {I feel this also fuels my office supply addiction...especially when they're on a great sale.}

Urban Office offers a great variety of visually appealing and organizationally wonderful office supplies. When you sign up for their email newsletter, you'll receive a coupon for 10% off your next order!

A bit about Urban Office:

Urban Office formed in 2012 to offer unique, stylish, yet functional office supplies online. We all know how tedious and mundane work can get but that should never stop you from bringing your own personal style to your office or cubicle.

Unique office accessories from Urban Office help you stay organized, prioritized and 100% efficient through the work day. Whether you have a ultra modern, traditional or vintage style, Urban Office always has something to fit your needs.

The string folios by Thomas Paul are great for school projects, reports and even your resume.  Dress up your work with these stylish yet functional folios.

Prize: one 2-pack of Thomas Paul Botanical String Folios {$12 value}

Number of Winners: one

To Enter: You must use the Rafflecopter widget below. It's really easy to use and makes giveaways a lot easier for me to manage. The widget will tell you what your commenting topic is! (mandatory) Two other optional entries are also available through the widget (after the first one is complete).

Giveaway Ends: Monday, October 8 @ 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time). One winner will be chosen using the Rafflecopter widget. The winner will be announced on this post and will be emailed to claim their prize. The winner has 48 hours to respond to my email to claim their prize.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Giveaway Rules & Disclosure:

• You must be a follower (through Twitter, FB, GFC, or RSS/email) of The Nest Effect to win.
• The winner will be chosen by rafflecopter.com.
• This giveaway is open to readers living in the U.S.
• Please make sure your email is left through the widget.
• You must comment as your first, mandatory entry. All entries will be verified when the winner is chosen.
• One entry per method per person (3 total).
• This giveaway is sponsored by Urban Office. I was not compensated for holding this giveaway. Any opinions about products stated in this post are completely honest and purely my own. The prize will be provided by Urban Office.

Technology Tip: Let Me Respond to Your Comments!

This post was originally posted in January 2012. I have received so many request to repost it because it opened so many eyes and helped other bloggers as well.

Love, love, love when I receive comments. They make my day. Honest.

Many comments that are left are questions or statements that deserve some followup. But, if your email address isn't linked to your Google Profile or you don't leave your email address in the post, I can't respond!

Unless it's a giveaway post and I'm receiving comments for entries, I really try to respond to every single comment that I'm left. Even if it's just one that says that you love my blog. Hello! I love your positive feedback. I want to email you back and THANK YOU!

A few months ago Shelley, from The House of Smiths, wrote a blog post on this topic. Now I know why.

I'm going to show you how to change this setting.

This is what I get when I try to reply to a comment without a linked email address: noreply-comment@blogger.com. Boo!

If you comment with your Google account, then it will make you "sign up for Blogger" before leaving your first comment. This doesn't mean you have to create a blog or anything, it just means you have to create a profile with Blogger so you can comment with your Google account. You can change all of the profile details to make it as anonymous as you'd like once you create the profile.

Once you sign up for Blogger, you'll need to go to www.blogger.com to edit your profile.

Then you'll need to click "show my email address" and "save profile". You can change the email address that is associated with this feature on this page as well - under "identity" and "email address". You can always use your "junk mail" account or set up an email with Gmail for this.

Your email address will not literally show up in your Blogger profile. It will show like this:

When you leave a comment for me, I receive an email with your comment, and your email address will automatically be the "reply to" email (if you go through these steps and enable this feature). Pretty simple.

All in all, I'd really like to be able to respond to each one of you. You can always leave your email address in the comment for me like this: tiffany (at) thenesteffect.com. That way it can't be picked up by spam bots because it's not technically a real email typed like that.

Thank you! =]

* You may repost this, as long as you link back to my blog. Thanks! *