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simplepleasure:

In honor of the Brooke’s Nooks grand reveal, I’ve decided to do a week of giveaways!!!

Day Two: a $25 credit to Erin Condren!*

last fall, i made a very smart, executive decision to order a 2012 Erin Condren planner.

within minutes of receiving it in the mail, i was in love.

so, you better believe that Erin Condren had to be a part of my week of giveaways.

luckily for you all, they have graciously donated a $25 credit to spend on their site.

that’s $25 towards stationery or one of their lucite trays or their planners or their personalized stickers or their notepads or their canvas photos, etc etc etc!

How to Enter:  (you only need to enter once!)

• Tweet about it: use the Hashtag #BrookesNooksDay2 -Please spread the giveaway love with all of your followers!
• Re-blog this post
• Like Erin Condren’s Facebook page & then comment via my Disqus platform
• Comment via the Disqus platform
• ***please note: one entry (tweet, reblog, comment) per person. You have until Midnight on Wednesday (May 9th) to enter. Winner will be chosen at random. Winner will be announced Thursday (May 10th).Good Luck!!!

*no purchase necessary!

itsmonicabetch:

Meet Irena Sendler (1910-2008)

She was a 98 year-old Polish woman at her time of death. During World War II, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She dedicated herself to smuggling Jewish children out. Infants were carried in the bottom of the tool box she used and older children in a burlap sack she had in the back of her truck.

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children during this time

She eventually was caught and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families but most had been killed. She then helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.

That’s our society for you.

Breaks my heart

I need to look into yoga.