Get Inspired... at Inspirations in Roosevelt {Giveaway}

I think nearly everyone in the area, or at least in the Roosevelt area, is familiar with Inspirations. I remember when they first opened up in the old JCPenney building on Main Street, before they ended up at their current location on the east side of town near Big O and Sharp Image Salon. Besides the move many years ago, they have had several other changes, including ownership. But with all the changes, you could always depend on a store full of beautiful and inspirational products.
I visited Inspirations recently, and was in love with the new store layout and how Katherina has set-up some of the displays!
First of all, they have a new checkstand area that is amazing! Lined with vintage looking jars full of pretty candies, including Mary Janes, gumballs, candy sticks and so much more! One of my favorite pieces was an antique cabinet filled with ready to go holiday gifts of candies wrapped in boxes, cellophane, ribbons and bows... if you need any last minute neighbor, friend and teacher gifts, these will certainly stand out and be remembered more than the factory assembled food and candy gifts from the big stores...YuMmY!

There was a beautiful Christmas tree, that had a vintage winter wonderland feel to it, and just looking at it made me feel like I was in a magical place!

They carry a wonderful variety of home decor, scrapbook supplies, including the latest Tim Holtz vintagy items! And I really loved the shabby chic way these are all displayed using antique doors and racks with a shabby chic finish!

They had those absolutely adorable ties for little boys that are made in the latest new fabrics...and speaking of those new fabrics... they carry a fabric line now! I should totally get out my vintage Singer and start sewing again...
The Willow Tree display is sure to have pieces for every collector that will commemorate special times in their lives, and they have a comfy sitting area setup to help you browse through their book and music selection and make the right choices! Of course I could've gotten too relaxed if I had sat down on the couch, while listening to the beautiful Christmas music that was playing, and I would have fallen asleep hehe...

So whether you stop in for gifts for anyone on your list, stocking stuffers, or go pick up wonderful gifts for yourself with your Christmas money, you will not be disappointed!

They also offer classes, have author visits for book signings, and will special order books for you to save you time, if they don't have what you are looking for. I have only mentioned just a little of what they have to offer, so make sure you go see for yourself...I think you will like it!
Katherina is offering one of you a $20 Gift Certificate to use in the store, including classes (excludes distribution items).

We want everyone to have plenty of chances to win, so we give you several things you can do to earn additional entries! For EACH of these things, post a new comment, that says which item you have completed (and make sure you have your name included)...for example; I "followed" the Basin Living blog, or I "liked" Inspirations on Facebook. If you want to just make one comment make sure you list each thing please! Entries are now being taken until 6pm Thursday, December 29th.

~ Get 1 entry for adding or already being a friend of Inspirations on Facebook.

~ Get 1 entry for adding or already being a friend of Basin Living on Facebook.

~ Get 1 entry for Following this blog (see Follow on the right sidebar).

~ Get 1 entry for sharing this contest/blog on your Facebook wall.

~ Get bonus entries for each of your new friends that "follow" our blog and comment here that you sent them! (1 bonus entry for each friend that FOLLOWS us!)

I hope to see everyone with 5 or more entries...good luck!

*Contest open to Basin area residents only*

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It's Beginning to Smell A Lot Like Christmas... {Giveaway}

It may not be looking much like Christmas at our home yet, but it's definately beginning to smell like Christmas, with the help of my friend Gina Marie and her Scentsy business! I have some Sentimental Cider Scentsy bar cubes in the warmer and I'm running around singing Jingle Bells to anyone who will listen...okay, so noone wants to listen, but it hasn't stopped me yet.

Many of you may know Gina Marie and her team of Scentsy consultants without knowing it, because they really know how to promote their business' and you will find them at nearly every event in the Basin, and hosting many many shows throughout the area as well. Gina Marie has a Holiday Open House coming up next Thursday, December 15th from 11am to 1pm to stop by and purchase gifts for nearly anyone on your list (especially those people that you have no idea what to buy for). I'm not kidding when I say nearly everyone on your list, either... in addition to all of the fabulous decorative warmers and scented products that we have loved for some time now, they also have the Scentsy Buddies for the little (and not-so-little) ones on your list, and their new solid perfumes! There will also be Door Prizes and lots of FuN, and I'm thinking yummy refreshments, too!

Every month, Scentsy offers a brand new scent of the month and a new decorative warmer, and during that month you get 10% off of these items! The December warmer of the month is named "Blizzard". With it's glowing base of snowflakes it will be the perfect addition to your winter wonderland of decor no matter what your theme may be!

The new scent of the month is Comfort and Joy..they have this fun little video that I have to share with you that represents it...




If you aren't able to attend Gina Marie's open house, you can order directly from her website like I have done a few times. It's fast and easy and the products come right to my door! Be sure to order by December 19 to get your gifts in time for Christmas. The Scentsy bars fit perfect in stockings..so I better hang up a stocking for myself this year and hope Santa fills it up with my favorites!

Gina Marie is offering up our very first giveaway HoORaY! We want to give everyone ample chances to win of course, so you can get an entry by doing each of the following things, and then post a comment below this post to let us know exactly which you did and where! Easy Peasy! Next Wednesday at 6pm I will make slips for each and all of your entries, and we will have a drawing to see who wins! Sound good? You can win a Scentsy Buddy as a gift for yourself or as a gift for someone on your list!



~ Get 1 entry for joining Gina Marie's mailing list on her website.

~ Get 1 entry for "Following" my Basin Living Blog.

~ Get 1 entry for Liking Ginamarie's Smelly Adventure's Facebook page.

~ Get 1 entry for adding Basin Living as a Friend on Facebook.

~ Get 1 entry for Sharing this contest/post with your friends on Facebook.

*Contest open to Uintah Basin Residents only*

I hope to see all of you with 5 entries each, so make sure that you comment below this post for each entry you get! ~Don't forget to leave your name~

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Let's Start Over, Okay?

I have struggled for such a long time about exactly how to do my Basin Living blog... at first I wanted to just focus strictly on places, businesses, events and things here in the Basin, and try to keep myself and my personal interests out of it so it would be more "professional", and that would have been great, right? But for some reason I just couldn't get completely into that, and so I have let it sit. Now I have still tried to get the Facebook side of the blog going here and there, as far as adding more friends and a little bit of posting here and there, but not what I originally intended with it, either.

Recently it all hit me like a wet snowball in the face... The reason that I wasn't feeling it and getting into it, was because there was no "ME" in it! So I made the decision to still write about places to visit in the Basin, and local business', events and people, but to make it more personal and also write about and share things that I, a single mom and grandmother, living here in the Basin, am interested in. Things that make me smile, and things I know other Basin moms and grandmas are interested in as well. Things like where to take the family (that is affordable enough to go), craft projects to do together, parties, foods and recipes, decorating, local business reviews, scrapbooking, camping, giveaways and discounts, and much much more!

I know I will need your help for my blog to succeed... I need readers, so please share my blog with all of your friends and ask them to subscribe to it (Pretty Please :)) I also need your comments and your own ideas and things you would like to see...or even guest bloggers! With all that being said I better go for now because I'm pretty sure that my kids would like to have a Christmas tree up sometime before Christmas, so maybe I better get started on that :)