((Yarn Along)) and Giveaway Winner!

It's Wednesday, Yarn Along Day and we are SNOWED IN big time. Another school cancellation and more snow to come this weekend!! A great day to try to finish up some projects around the house if I can keep the girls busy enough.  

The never-ending baby sweater is coming along and really all I have to do now is block it and add the buttons. It took me so much longer than I expected (most of my projects do) as I just have very little time to sit and crochet so I sneak it in when I can.

As far as reading goes, I'm still not doing much heavy reading. I am, however, skimming through a lot of my favorite gardening books and looking ahead to Spring. Speaking of which, we just LOVE my friend Sharon Lovejoy's book Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots. Have you read it? I was lucky enough to do a wonderful interview with Sharon if you'd like to read it in 2010. She is such an inspiration to me. The girls and I took out our seeds to see what we have remaining from last year as we try to plan our garden. We will start many of our seeds inside this week too.

We have a bunch of fun things going on at Little Acorn Learning this week.  First off, let me announce our Waldorf Homeschool Handbook Giveaway Winner.......

And the winner is.....

**Emily Keniston**  

Emily said:

"The toughest part for me is learning all the specific approaches and methods Waldorf advocates, especially since I have four kids at four different levels. I need a resource that can break it down simply!"

Congratulations to you, Emily! I hope you enjoy your free copy of The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook. Please contact us at info (at) littleacornlearning.com with your mailing address.

In addition to all that FUN, we also have a beautiful photo contest going on over at the Little Acorn Learning Facebook Page! Our theme this month is Friendship and my goodness it really sparked a wonderful response. The entries are just breathtaking.

It's not too late to enter to win a free e-book of your choice from Little Acorn Learning. Just send no more than three photos to us at info (at) littleacornlearning.com with your name and written permission for Little Acorn Learning to use your photos in any current or future publications both online and in print.

We will put your photos into our February Photo Contest Album on our Facebook page and then ask your family and friends to vote for you by LIKING your photos. The winners will be announced on February 8th!!

Best of luck to all of you!
xoxo

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February Photo Contest - Sponsored by Oak Meadow

February Photo Contest by Little Acorn Learning

~Sponsored by Oak Meadow

We are so excited to once again host our well-loved monthly photo contest over on the Little Acorn Learning Facebook Group.  We are pleased to welcome our sweet friends over at Oak Meadow as our first Photo Contest Sponsor.

This month, the top five contestants who have photos with the most votes in our contest will receive a FREE guide from Little Acorn Learning of their choice (a value of $24.99).  In addition, the #1 winner with the most votes of all will win a gift basket inspired by Oak Meadow's latest Arts In Education journal. The gift basket includes these Oak Meadow Bookstore bestsellers: The Heart of Learning, Book of Nature Crafts, Main Lesson Book Kit, Beeswax Crayons, Modeling Beeswax (Total Value: $90).

WOW!  This will definitely be our best contest YET.

Oak Meadow is our very favorite homeschool curriculum provider and we have used their materials with our own girls at various points during their own education.  They offer a complete, creative, and well-rounded curriculum designed for homeschooling families.  In addition, Oak Meadow also offers a fully accredited online school which provides all of the benefits of learning at home with the support of an experienced teacher and official school records.  Please go check out their offerings and support another wonderful holistic business.

With Candlemas approaching in only five days, we thought it very fitting to host the February Contest with Flames and Shadows as our theme.

Each month, members from across the world participate in our photo contest.  After receiving the theme for the month, they search through their best digital photos to find pictures that best match the topic provided.  Photos of  nature, holistic parenting, family, home care, crafting and children are all wonderful and welcome subjects.

Three photos per family can be submitted.  We then ask our community to vote on the photos they LIKE best by clicking thumbs up underneath the entries they feel should win.  Contestants are welcome to pass the link of their photos to family and friends online to try to receive more votes and they are encouraged to vote for their own photos as well.  At the end of the contest, the LIKES are tallied up and this month, the top five contestants who have photos with the most votes will receive a FREE guide from Little Acorn Learning of their choice (a value of $24.99).  In addition, the #1 winner with the most votes of all will win a gift basket inspired by Oak Meadow's latest Arts In Education journal. The gift basket includes these Oak Meadow Bookstore bestsellers: The Heart of Learning, Book of Nature Crafts, Main Lesson Book Kit, Beeswax Crayons, Modeling Beeswax (Total Value: $90).

How to enter:

Send no more than 3 photos per family that you feel fit the theme  Flames and Shadows to info@littleacornlearning.com by 1/31 8 p.m. EST   - Please do not post photos directly to our page as they are hard to manage and get lost easily.  Include your full name, email and permission for Little Acorn Learning to use your photographs in any marketing in our guides, on our Facebook Page, website and in our guides.

Tell your family and friends to vote for your photos by clicking LIKE underneath each one.  Remember to vote for yourself and copy and paste the link to your photos to spread the word.

We will tally up the votes and winners will be announced on February 2nd.

Good luck!!!