Welcome back to Military Monday! This week’s featured shop is Stash, from Omaha, Nebraska by way of Finland and Great Britain. I have to tell you, I had a hard time narrowing the selection, once again.

I have a love of bags - all sizes, colors, and styles!

What I really love about this shop is that she makes items for men! Do you know how hard it is to find quality handmade for a manly man?

In addition to the messenger bags, the shop also had wallets, clutch bags, pencil cases and even this darn cute backpack.

If you like what you see, be sure to follow Stash on Facebook

Military Monday

Is it Monday already? It snuck up on me this week. The Military Monday shop featured this week actually made my job harder - she had too many great things and I had a hard time choosing which were my favorites! This fellow Homefront member is Kristin of Kristyns Kreations, Kristyns Kards and Jrzy Girl Photography.

In the Kristyns Kreations shop, Kristin has fantastic eye masks - perfect for a long trip or anyone who needs to sleep during the day. She even has kid-sized masks!

Need gift tags or Valentine’s Day cards? Kristin has the cutest tags and card in her Kristyns Kards shop. I might have to order some if I can’t find the set I bought last year! For you shop owners she has favor holders - a great way to give out a little gift at a craft show!

My favorite though, is the photography shop. I had a really hard time picking out just a few items to feature! Kristin’s photographs are so beautiful. I love the way she has captured the best parts of America from our flag to our monuments honoring our fallen servicemen and women. There are also some wonderful fun photos but as a military spouse, the flag photo really hits my heart!

I hope y’all enjoy browsing these shops as much as I did!

A New Shop

I have opened a new shop on Etsy! Yep! When I looked over the Memories To You shop I realized that my magnets were getting lost in the shuffle. The new shop, Hold It!, will feature just the magnets and a new line of products that I am working on. It is still a work in progress so keep checking back as I will be adding to the shop every day.

Military Monday

Welcome to the latest Military Monday! The featured shop this week is the Hungry Hippie. Check out all the cool stuff in her shop!

The kiddie travel play mats are so cute and quite handy. I may need one for our next airplane trip!

Have an aspiring chef in your family? Check out the cute little apron for kids!

Of course I had to feature an item that goes along with my favorite thing in life - coffee! Coffee cozies are all the rage these days and Hungry Hippie has them in fun fabrics.

Military Monday

Welcome to Military Monday! Each Monday I am going to blog about fantastic shops owned by members of the Homefront Team. Homefront members are military spouses and even a few active duty military! I’m not going to do interviews or anything like that. I am just going to present you with a small sampling of their shop and tell you my favorites. In fact, the shop won’t even know they are featured until this post comes out (‘cuz I’m sneaky like that!).

Today’s shop is A Stone’s Throw. Stone’s has a hubby in the Marine Corps. I know this because she has a USMC bag in her shop! Her shop has all these cute bags, headbands, wristlets and even wine bags! The shop has had really cute bags for a while, but my favorites are from her newest fabrics. Ok, I’m a sucker for Amy Butler and she has a bunch of Amy Butler goodies in the shop. Anyway, if you want a headband to match your bag - she has that! I have been eyeing her headbands for a while and hoping my head would change shape so I could wear them. Since that isn’t going to happen, I will just have to tell all of you and let you buy them.

And The Winner Is...

Can you hear the drum roll?

Starfish By The Sea Designs! You have 48 hours to contact me regarding which 9”x12” memory board you would like! You can contact me either through the Etsy shop, Twitter or my email Memoriestoyou AT me DOT com. Starfish has a new shop over on Etsy so everyone click over there and take a look.

And now something special for all you First Runners Up (runner up? Runners up? Runner uppers? Crap I should have paid attention in English class!). I am offering y’all 20% off anything in the shop (excluding shipping)! Either convo me ahead with the name you used when signing up for the blog, and I will make an adjusted listing for you. Or, you can put your username in the message to seller box and I will give you a refund via PayPal.

A huge thanks to everyone who spread the word about my giveaway. I really appreciate your time and effort!

A Giveaway!

Win a 9” x 12” memory board - of your choice! Yep, you get to choose which item you want!

To enter just:

1. Follow this blog. There is a little “Follow Me” button over there on the left. See it? Make sure you leave a valid email address because that is how you will be contacted if you win.
   

To get an additional entry:

1. Leave a comment here about your favorite item from the shop. Etsy or 1000 Markets
2. Tweet about this contest - “Win a free memory board from @memoriestoyou”. (only 1 RT per day please!)
3. Follow me on Twitter
4. Become a fan on Facebook

The contest closes on January 11. After that the fine bot over at Random.org will choose our winner.

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