Cyber Monday Sale!

For today only (as in Monday November 28, 2011) you can get 30% off every downloadable product on our site!  No code necessary - just shop and save!

go see The Muppets

If you're like a lot of families in the US, you like to gather everyone for a big Thanksgiving dinner, and then once everyone has been sufficiently stuffed, the whole family heads to the movies! 

But it's really hard to figure out which movie to see, right?  Because it needs to be something the kids can watch, but the adults want to be entertained too.  But this year, the choice is EASY, you should watch The Muppets.

Last week I got to take my kids to see a special screening of The Muppets movie and IT WAS AWESOME. 

Through the whole movie the kids were laughing, and I was laughing, and we only had to leave the theater for ONE potty break.  Overall, I would consider it an excellent experience.  But my very favorite part about the whole movie was that it was filled with good clean humor. 

Basically, the movie is about a couple of brothers who have to convince Kermit to convince the rest of the gang to get back together to put on a big show to save their studio.  Except that they keep getting told that people don't want to watch outdated shows like The Muppets anymore because society only likes violence and vulgarity.  But in the end the Muppets prove that they weren't so out of date after all, and that people still appreciate singing chickens and Animal's drumming, and a banjo playing frog that sings about rainbows. 

Which I think is an excellent message.

The Muppets movie proves that a show doesn't have to be filled with violence and vulgarity to be entertaining - clean humor isn't antiquated and unwanted, it's just rare.

So, if you're taking your family to see a movie after you're done with the turkey and pie, go see The Muppets - you're going to love it!

Zions Mercantile and Robert Boyd

A few weeks ago I spent an amazing day at Shops at the Riverwoods in Provo with some of my blogging friends.  And one of my favorite stores that we visited was Zions Mercantile which is an amazing LDS bookstore and church history gift shop.


The owner of Zions Mercantile told us stories about her experiences running the same shop in Nauvoo Illinois.  She also told us stories behind some of the merchandise and displays in her store (I almost felt like I was in a museum - except that I could look and touch and BUY STUFF!) 

The whole store was amazing.  Really.  (Especially if you like church history and/or heritage decor and gifts.)

But my favorite part about spending time at Zions Mercantile was meeting Robert Boyd.  Robert is the amazing artist behind all of those wonderful temple photograph/paintings.  You know the ones I'm talking about?  The ones that look like the temples are literally glowing?  (My favorite is his popular Salt Lake Temple detail with red leaves - do you know what photograph/paintings I'm talking about now?  Yeah, HIM.)

Robert told us the story behind his amazing artwork, about how he wanted to capture the feeling of the temple; and portray not only the image of a building but the spirit of peace and comfort that surrounds every temple.  It was very inspiring.  And Robert is just a really nice and extremely humble guy.

He's the one on the right (obviously) with the shop owner in the middle.

Basically, the whole thing was a touching, awesome, inspiring and spiritual moment.  Which obviously wears off quickly with me, because I really just couldn't help photo bombing other people's pictures:

Do you see me back there?!  Photo bombing is not touching, inspiring or spiritual.  But it is REEEEEEEALLY HILARIOUS.  

Oh man, I'm funny!  And also, yes, I am a mood ruiner.  But you should check out Zions Mercantile and Robert Boyd anyway.  Because they're pretty awesome and they'll probably never photo bomb any of your pictures (no promises from me though).

Zions Mercantile and Robert Boyd compensated me for writing this with the best swag bag I have EVER received.  E V E R.  All the amazing photos were provided by Bryce Olsen Photography.

P.S.  Dear fellow bloggers, I'm sorry I photo bombed your picture.  Ok, not really.  But let's pretend I'm sorry anyway.  SORRY.

how to get more FREE STUFF than our regular Freebie Friday

Who doesn't want FREE STUFF?!

From now until next friday you can "earn" up to $15 of free printable products OF YOUR CHOICE!  And not only that, but you'll get it just in time to use in our big Cyber Monday sale!

Here's what to do:

1- Pin your favorite Green Jello with Carrots product(s) on your Pinterest boards.  For each product that you pin leave a comment on this post saying, "I pinned the _______" with a link to the pin.

2- Browse our shop and Facebook "like" your favorite Green Jello with Carrots product(s).  (This is a new feature we just added last week,)  For each product that you "like" leave a comment on this post saying, "I facebook liked the _________".

3- Write a blog post with your Green Jello with Carrots Christmas wishlist.  You can include pictures from the site if you want.  Just make sure your post has 3 or 4 links back to the Green Jello with Carrots shop.  Then leave a comment on this post saying, "I blogged my wishlist" with a link to your blog.  (If you write more than one post, they must be completely original, no copy and pasting.)

How you get the free stuff:

1- For each comment that you leave you'll receive $.25 towards any and all downloadable products in our shop.  Which means you can pin, "like", and blog about us a total of 60 TIMES to get the full $15! 

2- You have until the end of Friday, November 25th to pin, "like", and blog.

3- We will email you a custom coupon code on Saturday, November 26th for the total amount that you earned by pinning, "liking", and blogging.

4- You can use that code right away, or save it for our big Cyber Monday sale on November 28th.

There's just one CRUCIAL DETAIL: you will need to include your email address on ALL comments, because we'll need to know where to send your code!

Freebie Friday

Can you believe it's NOVEMBER?  And not only that, but practically HALF WAY through the month?  Christmas will be here before you know it.  So you know what that means, right?

It's time to make your Christmas Advent Calendar!

This weekend, you can get one of our advent calendars for free, when you purchase $4 worth of downloadable products in our shop!  Just do this:

1- Put $4 worth of downloadable products in your shopping cart.

2- Pick one of our Christmas Advent Calendars, and put that in your shopping cart.

3- Make sure you're signed all the way in.

4- Enter the code: ADVENT

5- Check out, print, cut, laminate and count down to Christmas!

AND

To make things even better, this weekend you can get 20% off everything in our Thanksgiving and Christmas sections!  So stock up now on everything you'll be using during this holiday season!

Freebie Friday

Our scrapbooking and craft section has grown!  And for the freebie this friday, you can get 50% off anything in that whole section (yes, technically, it's not a "freebie" but it can be like a "buy one get one free", if you want to buy two.  So let's forget all this technical stuff).

Just do this:

1- Put as many products from the Scrapbooking and Craft section of our shop in your cart.

2- Sign all the way in.

3- Enter the code: SCRAPPY

4- Check out.

5- Have a scrappy-rific time!


That's it!