Heidi's Blog

Fall Y'all Giveaway Winners

2007-11-03T19:52:00Z

WINNERS & Bigger Discount!!
This was LOTS of FUN!! CONGRATS to the winners:
Main Giveaway ($25 in Free Mary Kay + Scrapbook Goodies) - Hillary (10/29 @ 1:03PM)
Bonus Giveaways ($10 in Free Mary Kay) - Richelle F (11/2 @ 2:20PM), Krista (10/30 @ 11:14PM)
I will email all the winners today.

Thanks again for all the wonderful comments!! And in case you didn't win, feel free to shop online and get a 20% discount with FREE Shipping (ending 11/15) - put 'FALL YALL' in the comments. Shop for yourself or Holiday gift giving!!

Visit my blog again for future giveaways and MK Specials or click here to register on my MK website to get up-to-date info and specials via email or mail. You can also email me (heidi [ at] marykay [dot ] com) to get added to my email specials.

Fall Y'all Giveaway!!!

2007-10-29T14:34:00Z

Updated Saturday, 11/3 @3PM: WINNERS & Bigger Discount!!
This was LOTS of FUN!! CONGRATS to the winners:
Main Giveaway ($25 in Free Mary Kay + Scrapbook Goodies) - Hillary (10/29 @ 1:03PM)
Bonus Giveaways ($10 in Free Mary Kay) - Richelle F (11/2 @ 2:20PM), Krista (10/30 @ 11:14PM)
I will email all the winners today.

Thanks again for all the wonderful comments!! And in case you didn't win, feel free to shop online and get a 20% discount with FREE Shipping (ending 11/15) - put 'FALL YALL' in the comments. Shop for yourself or Holiday gift giving!!

Visit my blog again for future giveaways and MK Specials or click here to register on my MK website to get up-to-date info and specials via email or mail. You can also email me (heidi [ at] marykay [dot ] com) to get added to my email specials.

Updated Saturday, 11/3 @9AM EST: The Fall Y'all Contest has ended... Wow! What a great response to my 2 favorite things - Scrapbooking & Mary Kay I will choose the main winner and several extra bonus winners due to the wonderful responses & comments!! I will post my winners by 3pm EST today (Saturday).

Feel free to shop online on my MK website. And please bookmark my blog - I Love to do Giveaways and MK Specials often!! And FREE Shipping for all orders.

For this Fall Y'all Giveaway, I am giving away $25 in Mary Kay goodies (of YOUR choosing via my MK website) PLUS some scrapbook goodies!! So you can scrap & look good, too!! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name on Friday, November 2nd.

Open to US residents only, you do not need to have a blog to enter, only one entry per person (sorry, no repeats), please leave me your email or blog so I can reach you if you're the winner, I will choose a winner on Friday and announce in a separate post... and shipping is FREE, too!!

Thanks for visiting my blog! Come back often, especially Friday to see if you won!!

And as a Thank You for visiting my blog, for your Holiday Shopping or fragrance, skin care/cosmetics for yourself, click here to place an order and put 'FALL YALL' in the comments section and get 10% off your order! (Ends Wednesday, Nov 7th).

New York and Anniversary!!!

2007-09-25T02:08:00Z

We celebrated our Anniversary a few weeks ago and this blog helps me celebrate a little more by writing about his proposal to me...

"Me and my husband (boyfriend back then) took our first trip to New York together to celebrate New Year's Eve at Times Square. It was even better than you can ever imagine from watching it on TV year after year. Then if that wasn't exciting enough, the next day, Dennis took me to the Statue of Liberty. It was extremely cold crossing on the ferry, so I wasn't too cooperative. He insisted we go outside to the front of the Statue of Liberty at one of the points. I was very hesitant, but somehow he convinced me to go outside. He sat me down and proposed to me!!! You can say I wasn't so cold anymore that day!!"

If you have a favorite New York memory, go here to enter the contest to win a book "Summer at Tiffany's". Look at the 7th entry from the bottom and you will see mine! And my comment being the 7th entry for the contest is so ironic!! What I didn't mention is that 7 is a very important number. We married on the 7th, hubby's birthday is on 7th of the 7th month, there are 7 points on the Lady Liberty's crown and 7 points where she stands, and 7 diamonds on my ring. (which hubby chose on his own!!) Can you tell his favorite number is 7??? In an earlier post, you can see what we did on 07/07/07...

Happy Anniversary (again) honey!! I just love thinking about our New York memory!!

'Fresh' and New...

2007-08-31T01:38:00Z

Sorry - Long time since I blogged... I'll play catch up this weekend.
For now, if you like scrapbooking/crafting - check out this blog for the launch of a new Kit Club called "Fresh Pages" coming Sept 1st!

Have a Great Labor Day Weekend...

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Another year...

2007-08-01T03:46:00Z

older... oh well... creeping on to the next milestone, so kind of not looking forward to it. Today I celebrate my 'thirty-something' birthday (still a couple years til that milestone). You know what's funny, until recently, my kids did not know how old I was - which was the way I wanted it. Whenever someone asked them how old I was, they would say 'she's thirty-something' just like it's another number. Then after their daddy's birthday (earlier this month), somehow my age came out... darn it!! But with friends who already hit the big-4-0, they haven't made it sound so terrible. Actually we had a lot of fun at my girfriend's 40th celebration!! Tonight we celebrated my birthday at our favorite buffet up the road. It was a very nice dinner with family and friends!! Ok, no more age talk...

Yesterday, I received a package in the mail! I love packages/boxes with my name on it... Even my MK orders that come in are so fun to open... Woo-hoo, this one was from Christy Tomlinson, who is a contributing editor and designer for Scrapbooks Etc and does work for Making Memories. I just love her style - see her blog. A few weeks ago, Christy was giving away a RAK on her blog - we had to guess what her surprise news was. No one guessed it correctly - including me, but she was nice enough to still give away some scrapbooking goodies!!! To see her surprise go here! And here are my goodies she sent me - I love the paper and the rub-ons Thank you Christy!

Recollections is having an extra discount on their Clearance items and I found some goodies there this past weekend. Thanks Honey for taking me there this past weekend for my birthday!! And for all the gift cards to my favorite places (like Starbucks)! And cross your fingers for me, I received many lotto tix I still need to scratch off...

Giveaway Winners!

2007-07-28T05:54:00Z

Congrats to: Suzy (www.suzyole.blogspot.com) who wins the Main Prize of $25 of MK products (via my MK website) + scrapbook goodies!! And for the Bonus Giveaways ($15 in Free MK and some scrapbook goodies, too) goes to Lani (www.thewoodenporch.blogspot.com) and Kyleen !!

I will email all winners this weekend... Sorry, too much was going on tonight. More about that later this weekend...

If you didn't win this time, maybe next time!! Yup, this was sooo fun there will be a next time, so

check back often to see when my next giveaway will be!!!

I've got a GREAT End-of-Summer sale coming up!! If you want more Specials on cosmetics and skin care and don't already have a Mary Kay consultant, register on my MK website (www.marykay.com/heidi) or leave me a comment here (with your email or blog) and I will include you in the sale...

Have a Great Weekend!!

Giveaway

2007-07-24T03:52:00Z

Updated: ****** My giveaway contest is over... I will pick winners and post them today!! *******

Thank you for coming by - please check my blog often (link to www.heidiylagan.com), and sometime in August I'll have another FUN giveaway or two!!! If you want more Specials on cosmetics and skin care and don't already have a Mary Kay consultant, register on my MK website or email me (heidi[at]marykay[dot]com)... I've got a GREAT End-of-Summer Sale coming up!!

So glad you came by... Now who doesn't like FREE stuff???? I'm doing a giveaway along with tons of others hosted by Shannon's 'doggy days of summer' massive giveaway which is going on all week.

I am giving away $25 in Mary Kay goodies (of YOUR choosing via my MK website) PLUS some scrapbook-goodies, too!! So you can scrap & look good, too!! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name on Friday, July 27th..

Open to US residents only, you do not need to have a blog to enter, only one entry per person (sorry, no repeats), please leave me your email or blog so I can reach you if you're the winner, I will choose a winner on Friday and announce in a separate post... and shipping is FREE, too!!

Thanks for visiting my blog! Come back often, especially Friday to see if you won!!

Added 7/25/07: BONUS Giveaway!!

Wow!! This Doggy Summer Giveaway event has been great. Thanks for all the great comments! With all the interest in Mary Kay products and scrapbooking combination, I've decided to add several more giveaways - a Bonus!! All winners will be picked from this original Giveaway post, and if you left a comment before, thanks - and you will be part of the BONUS giveaways, too! So keep a look out on Friday Good Luck!

If you like what you see here on my MK website and want to be included for more MK Specials - email me: heidi(at)marykay(dot)com. Shipping in the US is always FREE with me! (I respect other Consulants, so if you already have a consultant, please visit their site for future orders...And you are still welcome to try for the chance to win the giveaways!!) I would love to help you if you don't have a consultant yet! Don't forget to leave a Comment below!

Scrapbook & Poker???

2007-07-24T02:21:00Z

Yes... I said it - "scrapbook and poker" in the same breath... I happen to like them both. So before we left for our trip to Vegas - I made this...

It's a circle book I made to look like a poker chip for autographs. The week we were going so happened to be during the World Series of Poker (like the Superbowl of poker). I thought (really hoping) we just might see some famous poker people... So I made this 'autograph book' just in case I saw some poker folks! But as you see here (in a previous post), we saw even more people than I could imagine (we even saw celebs).
We got pictures and autographs from: Daniel Negraneau, Howard Lederer, Phil (Unabomber) Laak, Jamie Gold, Men the Master, Mike 'Mouth' Matasaw, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Harman, Jennifer Tilly... We also watched a poker charity event and got more pictures and autographs: Don Cheedle, Shannon Elizabeth...

Some players even commented on how they liked my book, and some spectators liked it, too (saying they wanted to make one for next time). It was so fun and I even filled up the whole book!

Lucky 777 (Happy Birthday Dennis!)

2007-07-15T00:56:00Z

Day 4: It's Saturday, July 7, 2007 (07-07-07) - Dennis' Birthday!!! Many people are trying their luck on this special day. Today was to be the most weddings ever on a given day (including Eva Longoria's wedding to Tony Parker), and Vegas had its share of brides & grooms. We saw them everywhere we went. Then there were the gamblers to try their luck, including us, at the casinos!! At midnite Dennis found a slot machine with 7's on it, put some money in, pulled the handle, and...

WON 50!!! Wow, he did that on his first pull!! He cashed out on that and came back to play more Pai Gow. We played til almost 10am. By then another surprise, Cecilia and Caroline (friends from college) drove up from Tustin and met us at the Casino. Dennis did not know they were also coming...  We found some breakfast/brunch on the way back to the condo and everyone was starting to get tired. Hmmm, will they uphold to their pact? They headed back to Mom & Dad's house - and they were down for the count, sleeping a few hours before dinner. Cecilia, Caroline and I headed back to the condo and napped there.

We ate dinner for Dennis' Birthday at Maggiano's. Yumm!! I missed their calamari!! Everything was soo good. Later, we went to the condo to make some calls to get in Studio 54. Since we were owners at MGM, we could jump in the front of the line (cool perk!).  We walked over to Hooters casino to play before going to the club later.

We were having so much fun playing, we just kept playing and looking for other places to play. Later, close to midnite, Dennis found another slot machine and played a little and then...

won 250.25!!! What a way to end his special day (777) - no wonder he likes #7!!!

Day 5: Well, we stayed up til 7:30am!! Dennis and I played in the poker room with Julie at MGM. I think we got her hooked with playing cash games at the poker tables. My best hand for the night was a 4-of-a-kind!! 4 10's!! Wow!! That was sooo nice...

We slept a few hours before meeting up with everyone at Dad & Mom's house to have lunch. After lunch, we went to a local casino - South Crossing. Really big casino off the strip. We found a Pai Gow table we can all play at. We had a fun dealer who had to leave our table to deal black jack. Julie decided to find him after our table wasn't doing too well. She made out with making 150! We should have followed her... We ate Dennis' other favorite - Hooters wings for dinner and quickly packed up to make our flight. After quick goodbyes, we rushed off so that we didn't miss our red-eye flight, but at the airport, found out we were an hour early (or they changed our flight an hour later). Either way, we were already there. But at the airport, they have MORE slot machines!!! I told Dennis maybe it was a sign we got there earlier... so he found a slot machine and played and... won again!!! over 150!!! yes, it was a sign... Wow! We had so much fun, and we hope our friends and family did, too! Being there with them made it so much more enjoyable. Hope to meet up with you guys there again!

Dennis, Dad & Mom

T: Heidi, Ronald, B: Julie, Dennis, Marissa

Caroline, Cecie, Dennis

more poker... and our new condo...

2007-07-10T01:56:00Z

Day 3: Dennis' brother, Ronald, our SIL Marissa, and cousin Julie all drove up from San Diego and Dennis had no clue they were coming to join us! He was very surprised to see a truck in his parents' driveway. I tried to pass it off that it was probably the gardener, but he noticed the truck had UVA alumni license plate holder over Texas plates (they used to live in San Antonio). But he was still surprised! We had only been hiding it for awhile now...
And we thought we saw them all... We went to the Rio to watch some of the WSOP being played. It was the 1st day of the Main Event and it was very crowded. We 'thought' we couldn't see more poker players, but they were there! We saw Chris Moneymaker, Jennifer Tilly, and... (Dennis' favorite)...

Johnny Chan!!! Dennis got half his poker dream - maybe next time he'll get the other part - to play Johnny!!
Happy pre-Birthday Den!!! More pix of poker celebs coming...

We also checked into our condo at the Signature (at MGM Grand - Residences) for the rest of our stay...

It is connected to the MGM Hotel & Casino by moving walkways (pretty cool). We invested in the condo with a few friends. The condo is very nice, really nice. My favorite parts of the condo are the balcony, sleeper sofa for guests, cabinets close 'automatically', its own Starbucks - part of the Residences - just down the hall (omygosh!!), and there is also valet parking - it took awhile to get used to that!!

Julie taught us how to play Pai Gow poker and boy are we hooked! Usually Texas Hold'em is our game, but since this was a version of poker, we tried it and got hooked. We played all night. The guys made a pact not to sleep through 777, so we all stayed up... Let's see how long that lasts!!

Pix from Celebrity Charity Event

2007-07-09T16:26:00Z

Some of the celebs we saw during the 'Ante up for Africa' Charity Event:

me & Don Cheedle (Oceans series) - I get his autograph later...

Ben Affleck and Charles Barkley

Charles

Side view of Matt Damon

Back of Matt Damon... Just couldn't get a good shot of him...

Martin Sheen (hmmm, where's Charlie??)

Cheryl Hines

Brad Garrett and Ray Romano

More celebs pix coming (including Shannon Elizabeth & Jason Alexander)...

Pix with Poker Stars...

2007-07-09T16:17:00Z

Here are a few of the poker stars we met...

me & Phil 'Unabomber' Laak

Antonio Esfandiari (the Magician) & Dennis

These were from my camera phone... My camera battery died...
Note to self: Pack an extra battery when going on trips!

Dennis & Jennifer Harman

Dennis & Chris Ferguson

Jamie Gold (last year's winner!)

Joe Hashem

More Pix coming!! (Including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu...)
Sorry, I'm so slow in getting these pictures up.

WSOP & playing poker...

2007-07-05T21:21:00Z

Day 1: We arrived in Las Vegas for July 4th. Dennis' birthday is on Saturday, the 7th, so we decided to come to Vegas to try our luck with 777 (7-7-2007). Many brides & grooms and other gamblers were sure to be there to try their luck, too. After we arrived, met up with Dennis' parents (who retired here), we rested up from our flight.

They took us to the Rio to see some of the WSOP (world series of poker) tournaments going on.

We didn't expect to see many players in one session or be able to take pictures - but we did!! We met many players we usually see playing on tv or have read about!! Guess which top poker players we spoke with????? I'll post pix real soon!! Oh well, who needed fireworks anyways?

Day 2: In the morning we decided to play in a poker tournament at South Point, a casino south of the strip, with a decent buy-in. I was a little nervous being in Vegas at an 'official' game playing against strangers. But I was having fun once the game got started and I took a few good pots. Dennis & I usually sit at different tables to see if we can end up at the same table later. I ended up in the last 2 tables (with a south point hat as my prize from one of the pots!). Not bad, I did beat out Dennis... (hee!!)

Later that day we went back to Rio to catch more of the tournaments along with a charity event with celebrities. It was an event held by Don Cheedle and Annie Duke and they had MANY stars joining them!!! It was exciting to see all these celebs playing at one time: Matt Damon, Adam Sandler, Ray Ramano... These were just a few of them. I'll post pix so you can see who else we saw!!!

Scrapbook Heaven

2007-07-01T04:00:00Z

This is Scrapbook Heaven...

I really need to take a trip to Texas! This store opened recently in Houston. This room is full of Heidi Swapp goodies (love her stuff!). And I love the look of this store. The colors and details put into the store are so fabulous!!! The walls are so pink, the beautiful chandeliers, and that picture frame is just beautiful! I love that idea!! Visit Tracy's blog here for many more chic rooms of her store. Don't you just want to buy something???

Dad Retires!

2007-06-29T19:31:00Z

Congratulations to Dad! He retires from his job of 19 years. I give it to him for staying at one job for that long! We are so excited for him... Yeah dad!

Happy Birthday Edward!

2007-06-20T01:44:00Z

Happy Birthday to my brother, Edward! He's not local right now, so we'll wish him Happy Birthday from afar - this time... We miss him alot. The kids miss their Tito Edward. We can't wait to see you again, real soon...

Happy Father's Day!

2007-06-18T03:21:00Z

Happy Father's Day to our Dads: Eddie and Yogi, and to Dennis... We celebrated Father's Day at Green Olive Buffet - yumm!! All-you-can-eat crab legs along with tons of other food. We were stuffed when we left! The kids gave Dennis Trump's new real estate book he's been eyeing and the Welcome Back Kotter DVD Set. I hope he likes it... Here's a pix I included in his 'Super Dad' card:

it was signed - His Super Girls...

My Chance for a Garage Makeover...

2007-06-12T00:35:00Z

I enjoy music and talk radio during my commute. I don't know what it is, but sometimes I prefer listening to talk... On my way in to work, I switched over to the Junkies, 4 sports 'junkies' talking about lots of things including sports, and guy-talk with their own lingo... They announced to call in for a chance to win a Garage Makeover. I heard their promotion before - they were giving away 2 keys a day for a chance to win the makeover. So I thought, why not give it a try, an organized garage would be so worth it - we could use that!! I try to win give-aways, why not, it's free anyway, so nothing to lose, but most of the time I don't get through... Except for today!!! The person on the other end told me to hold on... I heard the radio while I was on hold - of course delayed from what I was hearing on the radio. Then I they put me on the radio. They told me I won a key to the Ultimate Garage Giveaway. I thanked them and told them my hubby will be sooo surprised. And they said I will be, too. Well, I didn't know what the Garage Giveaway included until I checked online. The rest of the prize included his&hers treadmills, a gas grill, tools, gas for a year, a jet ski, AND a 2007 Sahara Jeep Wrangler!!! And I thought it was just a made over garage... Wow... So cross your fingers for me at the end of July!

Birthday Wishes to Arlene

2007-05-29T01:20:00Z

I want to wish a Happy-Happy Birthday to Arlene - one of my long time best friends since we were babies. It's so neat how Arlene and I met up again back in elementary school. I'm so glad our dads were in the Navy and were both stationed in the DC area that we met up again as classmates. This was just the beginning of our long time friendship from our parents' friendship when we were babies, both born in Hawaii. And now we have children of our own who are all growing up knowing each other. We stay in touch so much it's when we don't get to talk in a week's time that we hope we are each doing ok... and if we were caught up in our favorite soap - All My Children : ) I'm so glad to have her as a great friend!!
Happy Birthday Arlene!

Happy Mother's Day!

2007-05-14T02:22:00Z

What a nice Mother's Day it was : ) I woke up hugging and playing with my kids, and falling back asleep in my daughter's 'toddler' size bed, while they played. It was Mother's Day, so I think it was okay to sleep again if I wanted, right? And it wasn't a deep sleep since the bed was a little small, but I fit just enough to get a little snooze in : ) It was relaxing hearing them playing nicely, too. Then Dennis and the kids gave my gift: a Nikon CoolPix S200! A very cool digital camera, super thin and 7.1 MPs... More MPs than we have on our older Canon SD100. Below is one pix using the new camera.

Later my mom and Godmother had lunch with us at one of our favorite buffets in the area and even though it was packed and took awhile to get seated, it was so worth the wait! Especially with crab legs on the menu!! We were stuffed. I don't think we'll be eating til dinner tomorrow...

I also have to add a Special Happy Birthday to another best friend from college, Jen, who will say she is 25 (again, for the past ? years). Hoping she had a great day... I'll have to call her to meet up at one of our favorite places to eat - Slade's. We used to LOVE this place - when we do get to meet up, it is usually here. So either it's still tops on her list or she does it for her friends... Either way, that's why we're really good friends, cuz that's what friends do : ) Happy Birthday, Jen! And a Hug from your Goddaughter, too!

Pix using the new camera, and the kids' with their new hairdo - which will have to be another story later...