I'm Giving Away A Portable Gym For My Birthday

Yesterday I got an early birthday present..... YAY!!! You all know I ALWAYS do. This gift I begged for after filling in for a girl at work who stashes hand weights under her desk. Who wants to lug around hand weights??? The challenge for me has ALWAYS been, "What to do when I'm not at home?" And, at the new house, my beloved Curves is nowhere to be found. Coincidentally, that is where I first read about resistance band training... the Curves book.

The workout in the book utilizes resistance bands to get the 1/2 hour Curves workout at home (BTW I'm totally needing right now), which I never did because I had my Curves close by. But then we moved and my husband had surgery and has been using resistance bands three times a week at his physical therapy appointments and swears by the workout he gets with them. SOLD! I HAD to have these for my birthday!

WOW.... no kidding these babies are INCREDIBLE and cost me (well, my husband) $30!!! Click HERE for the set I got pictured at the top. And check out THIS video!

This is the workout I did last night when the bands arrived. Warning: These bands are SO GREAT, I couldn't do the whole thing and was sweating my butt off!!! It was FUN trying to keep up with her. Whoever the genius was who thought of using rubber bands for a workout deserves EVERY penny they earned from this invention. To be able to have an entire gym for around $30 AND be able to take it with you everywhere you go AND a bag full of bands weighing less than 4 pounds.....WHY did I not have these sooner? Maybe it is because I just didn't believe they could give me a hard workout??? Maybe because I envisioned them not being sturdy and breaking??? I was so wrong!!! Did I mention there is a lifetime warranty on these babies???

So in honor of my birthday I'm giving away one of my newest favorite things! Tell one other person about this give away and leave a comment on this post between now and April 5th and I will choose a random winner to receive the set you see pictured at the top containing 5 progressive resistance bands, two handles, a door anchor, an ankle strap and a carrying case. Now I'm holding you to your honor to tell a friend! I'm a firm believer in "Sharing The Health"! The winner will be announced April 6th here on my blog and will have one week to claim their own portable gym.... good luck everyone!!!

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MY VERY FIRST CRICUT CARTRIDGE GIVE AWAY!

Ok ... so the time has come. I've got some BRAND NEW, NEVER BEEN USED, STILL IN THE PLASTIC Cricut Cartridges to give away over the next couple of months and it starts with one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITES...... Hannah Montana! YAY! I LOVE this cartridge! It's got the most beautiful guitar images along with musical notes and FIVE fonts! I used the regular font and the rock star font to create my Father's Day card this year (see above). I also used the Hannah Montana cart (see below) to create a beautiful butterfly (FREE Gypsy cut file HERE ), and am currently working on a project using the gorgeous solitaire diamond. There's a rose and lips and decorative hearts, even a Pegasus ! There's just so much on this cartridge.... I use it a lot! To call this a "font" cartridge is terribly misleading. It's been a long time favorite and now I'm THRILLED to be able to give it away to one of my awesome readers! So here's how to win: Become one of my follower

Make It Crafty Blog Hop

Woo Hoo!!! Isn't this hop AMAZING!?! All the projects on this hop are incredible!!! If you are mid hop, you should be arriving here from Carisa's awesome blog, WELCOME! If you haven't started this hop from the beginning, you're definitely going to want to.... so many prizes in store!!! Click HERE to start at the beginning. Prizes Up For Grabs 1st prize - Rubber Collection (Peaches of Plenty, Petals and Palings, Daffodil Dell, Ivy Swing) 2nd prize - Whole Digital Collection (10 digital stamps) 3rd Prize - Four digital Stamps from the collection The hop will end Friday 24th and the main winners will be announced Christmas Day! Random winners will be announced at a later date. How To Play Along Along the way, look for puzzle pieces. They won’t be on every post so you need to keep an eye out for them. The puzzle pieces make up one of the NEW images. At the end of the hop there will be an email form where you can submit your answer. This is so that your answer is private.

The Old Clunker

A few years back I received a Creative Zen Micro Photo for Christmas. It was wonderful! The fact that I could finally carry around all my music in a super small (or I thought at the time)2.25" x 3.5" music player was sheer freedom from carrying around that old, large, portable cd player and I won't even go into the tons of music cds that also had to go along for the ride. Ok... so I'll mention them briefly, hahahahaha! And I was also surprised by how much lighter this music player was. At 5.5 oz., wearing it fashionably on an armstrap to the gym put me in the leagues with the top fitness buffs. Then something shifted... I was no longer hip, or in, or cool anymore. Suddenly everything shrunk and my music player was now a gigantic dinosaur! What the heck?!? Now everyone was sporting music players that were as big as the face of a watch and were a million times lighter than mine. All of a sudden I was back in the 7th grade trying to convince my mom to buy me the latest

Lori Barnett said…

Ok...I wanted to go to Curves....but to far to drive. I love this idea instead! I wlll share with a friend!

March 22, 2014 at 8:14 AM

Sara said…

Oooo I will for sure tell a friend for a chance to win... what a great gift/prize!

March 22, 2014 at 8:27 AM

Julie Tucker-Wolek said…

I have heard awesome things about the bands!! Fabulous that you got them!!!

March 22, 2014 at 8:48 AM

the queen said…

Those bands sound amazing and are exactly what I need for my home work outs.

March 24, 2014 at 2:01 PM

Those bands sound perfect for my at-home workouts. Thanks for sharing Danielle! You always find the best stuff :-)

March 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM

Tina M said…

I loved CURVES! and they moved from my area :((( my daughter and I loved them:) thanks for a chance to do some workouts at home :)

March 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM

abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said…

Hello! I have been popping over looking at all your fitness posts, sounds like you are all in! I have been running for almost 2 years now and it has changed my life! Hope you are having great success with it! If you want you can pop over and visit my running blog:
Carri~A Running bee

March 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM

devel fitness said…

Really decent post. I've truly appreciated skimming your blog entries.

February 21, 2015 at 10:50 PM

keeping fit while travelling said…

Each time I read it, I simply get more amped up for whats next.

March 1, 2015 at 5:59 AM