50 degrees, wind blowing through your hair, the distant smell of fried food and elephant ears.......I Wish!!! Since it isn't quite fair time the next best thing would be a Country Fair blog party right?! Like weeks past we want YOU!! If you blog and have your favorite recipe, or DIY project, or even just your favorite article about why you love Ag submit your post for others to enjoy as much as yourself! You may just be crowned the Champion!
I also mentioned a giveaway!!!! So this talented blogger Sierra Shea wrote a poem So God Made A Farmer's Wife. It is amazing and highlights the work, worries, joys, and life of a farm wife. She has offered to allow us to give one away!! All you have to do is sign up below to get entered to win this poem!!!
So enter you blog posts and enter the giveaway and you are well on your way to ending this week a success!!
It is currently snowing and we are expecting 2 inches of snow....is this real life? I love snow and all and secretly enjoy it when everyone else is complaining about it, but........even I've had enough!!!!
Coincidentally enough it is snowing and I'm watching the movie The Holiday.....perhaps I'm confused as to what month it is!!
As I sit here mourning the lack of sun and warmth (however the weather just must be drunk because tomorrow it's supposed to be 54 degrees!!! woo hoo) there is nothing that brightens my mood better than a little MAKEUP!!!! I was honored to get to co host this springs beauty swap over on the Crystal Cattle Blog
I finally got to meet the fabulous Crystal at this years National Western Stock Show in Denver after years of being "social media" friends. She is just as fab in person as she is online!
So back to the beauty swap. It is super fun and incredibly easy to participate in. Here's the jist. You go over to Crystal Cattle's Blog......(click here) and sign up at the bottom of the post. She will set you up with a partner and you guys will email each other and get to know one another. The best part? You get to connect with someone new!!! Then you get to go shopping!!!! Who doesn't love a little shopping of beauty products to put you in a great mood? Ship out your package and voila you receive a package too of fun products you may already love or new ones you will begin to love!
So what are you waiting for? Head over by April 4th and get yourself signed up!!!!
Friends! It's time again to link up for our blog party! It is getting warmer outside which means the county fair is just around the corner! Who doesn't love a great county fair? Well this is just like the fair only you get to experience it from the warmth and comfort of your own home. If you blog be sure to link up your post to one of either DIY, Food, or Ag. If you don't blog no worries, check out the entries and be sure to vote for your favorite! Just like at the fair we will have a Champion in each division! Voting starts Wednesday so be sure to cast your vote!!!
Here are the grand champions from last weeks link up:
So go ahead and join in the fun and you may just find your new favorite recipe or a great DIY project and you may even learn a lil about Ag along the way!!
Do you love to blog about recipes, what's happening on your farm, or an awesome do it yourself project? Then have I got an awesome opportunity for you! Or if you just like to read about these then you are in luck as well! My wonderful blogging friend Nicole Small over at Tales of a Kansas Farm Mom invited me to co host a blog party that is kind of like how your county fair works!
Here are the details:
Country Fair Blog Party
Welcome to our weekly addition of the Country Fair Blog
Party!It’s a place for bloggers to
share their finest each week whether they live in the city, country, or
somewhere in between.It’s a place to
brag a little about what you have been doing in the kitchen, the farm, or craft
room.
Just like a local county fair we name Grand Champions each
week in 3 divisions:
Food
DIY Projects
Agriculture
The posts with the most clicks each week are featured the
following week as our Grand Champions!
Feel free to join in the fun and link up with up to 3
posts!Click through the links and find
some new friends and leave us a comment to tell us what your favorite post is.
So if you are a blogger be sure to add your post by linking it in or if you don't blog and just want to vote and check out all the amazing posts you can do that too!
Here are the top 3 posts from last week for the 3 categories
"Scientific responses will not work on ethical issues"- Dr Temple Grandin
Last night I had the opportunity to listen to Dr Temple Grandin speak at my Alma mater Michigan State. I find her to be inspiring and a strait shooter mostly because she says the things everyone is thinking but doesn't want to hear. She will give you her opinion and they are normally spot on. I laughed a lil because as we were leaving a woman came up and said I bet she ruffled some feathers in there. And she was right......many people get comfortable and don't like to hear things that go against their beliefs or actions. She said many things that night that really hit home with what I see happening in the Ag industry.......such as:
"Ag gag laws killed us, when you get trashed you open your doors"
"What's going to drive change around the world is pressure from buyers"
"Students today are getting further and further removed from Agriculture. 31% of students have never been on a farm" "If
you want to be an activist, and make REAL change, you better get out and
see things. The good and the bad. You have to travel. Get out of your
office." "You find your passion by getting exposed to things"
At the end of her speech she opened the floor for questions. One woman asked her what her thoughts were on the videos that Chipotle was releasing? She simply said this "I thought the images in the videos were pretty funny and instead of everyone putting out some response article about how they were so wrong we need to be making our own videos and opening the doors to our farms for visits." She hit the nail on the head!
Are we bringing more attention to issues that may not even be an issue and cutting our own throats?
She made many great points but most all of them came back to showing what is happening instead of just writing about your thoughts on what is happening. So here bares my question...... Do we as an industry need more videos and pictures than articles? Are we spending too much time writing about our thoughts on issues instead of opening doors and giving first hand views of what is happening? I would love to hear your thoughts!
On a side note I thought spring was around the corner until I woke up to blowing snow.....it has to be here soon........right?
Winter has lasted long enough mostly due to the extremely cold temps not so much the snow...love me some snow. The only thing that is getting me through this never ending winter and keeping me from slowly falling into a severe depression is the wonderful sights and colors of spring.....and makeup!! I'm so excited about spring and in its honor I recently picked up an adorable new pink lipstick from MAC in hopes it will entice spring to arrive.
Crystal Cattle and Cowgirl Crush teamed up to hold another beauty swap and I cannot express how excited I was to be partnered up with Courtney Nolz owner of Cowgirl Crush. If you haven't been to her online boutique I suggest you stop what you are doing and go there now and browse the amazing clothing and jewelry. This is one of the top boutiques that I shop from!!
I was definitely spoiled with what I received and I can't wait for you all to check out what I got and link you up so you can go out and get some yourself! So without further ado.......
First off I received an amazing peach colored fringe scarf and a peach colored wrap bracelet that were way cute! You can check them out at Cowgirl Crush
Fresh SUGAR tinted lip treatment- I received this in the color Berry and it is amazing. It is like a chapstick that is tinted but leaves your lips feeling smooth.
Benefit They're Real Mascara- this mascara is legit. It is jet black and does all that stuff like volumize, lifts, lengthens, separates.....etc
Benefit 15 hour primer- like stated before.....always use a good primer. I didn't see much of a difference between the 2 and neither felt greasy so either one is a great choice if looking for one!
The day is upon us......when we get together in large groups and eat an insane amount of wings and other delicious finger foods that we all seem to regret later.....ah yes its the super bowl. They say its the second biggest day after the new year that people again try to start to diet the day after (ain't that the truth!)
I don't watch professional football. For some reason I just can't get into it. College football on the other hand I am obsessed with (Go Spartans!) I honestly wouldn't even know who was playing in the super bowl if it wasn't for the fact that I was out in Denver the other week when the broncos were playing for the spot in the big game. I was sitting in the airport waiting for a flight home when the whole airport erupted into cheers. My sense of elimination told me they must have won.
While i don't watch pro football I do find myself watching the game for the commercials. You all remember last year right? If not here is a recap of the famous Dodge Ram Commercial. I'm hoping that this year is just as profound. I love seeing farmers and ranchers promoted on the big screen!!!! I have seen early releases of commercials and I have to tell you that you need to be on the look out for the Chevy commercial. It is amazing!!
Another commercial that will be airing around the country is one from Americas Farmers featuring someone that I have actually had the opportunity to meet and hear speak through some of my social media events and that is Debbie Blythe from Life on a Kansas Cattle Ranch. She was also chosen as Farm Mom of the Year!!
The commercial is pretty amazing in the fact that it shows a split screen of how even if you are from the farm or live in the suburbs everyday begins with a farmer. Check out the commercial here....
There are a total of 12 farm families that have been recognized so feel free to check out all the commercials and head over to Americas Farmers to meet the other families and learn a little something about them!
I hope you all have a great Super Bowl Sunday and remember......your new years resolution can always begin again tomorrow :)
Enjoy!
This post was created in partnership with Americas Farmers. All opinions are my own
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