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I've thought of all the ways to start of this post, like "It's hard to believe it's been almost two years...", "Where has the time gone?""  I'm sorry..." and I've thought of all the explanations I can give and then I decided to just share what I have for now!

Fall is my favorite time of year! I love all  the sights, smells and sounds and tastes of fall! I'm one who starts thinking about fall in the beginning of August! I've been studying Pinterest and looking for new ways to decorate this year and I've  found a few things that I am excited to try. Chalkboards are still "in" I hope? I  Making a chalkboard printable  on the computer is much easier than I thought and fun to make! I'm working on a few and thought I would share my first one!

So have you been wondering when we’d get the party going again??? :-) Well, I’m back in the land of the living…for now. I’m on antibiotics and pain meds and waiting til next Friday to have the dental work done. It seems that you you don’t “get numb” if there is swelling, which I had plenty of  and believe me I want to be very numb when I have dental work done!! The swelling is almost gone and I’m mostly off the pain meds. So let’s get the party back on track! Oh, and thank you for all the prayers and well wishes! They are much appreciated!!

On to the giveaway…

My friend and fellow homeschooling Mom, Kim Madren is an Independent Director and Consultant with Pampered Chef and she is going to help us celebrate my one year blogiversary with a giveaway! Kim would like a reader of Keen Inspirations to have one of Pampered Chef’s most popular kitchen tools….

The  Food Chopper

We’ve had one of these for years and  have used it to prepare the toppings for our Friday night homemade pizza. My kids would fuss over who got to chop the olives…they let me chop the onions! :-) It is just the right size to chop what we need and we don’t have to drag out the big food processor!

We don’t make homemade pizza every Friday anymore….but we do make pizza…either fresh from the store or frozen if there’s a great deal with a coupon! We still cut it with the same Pampered Chef Pizza Cutter! We’ve probably had this about 8 years and it’s still going strong!  

I will be inserting my personal pic  here….I have to get my daughter’s camera card back! :-)

I do realize that the pizza is not on a Pampered Chef Stone…:( I’ve never trusted my family with one living in a basement with concrete floors. Since they are all a little older now, that is something I may have to reconsider! Hmmmm…

The new spring products just came out this week!

If you’d like to enter the giveaway for the Food Chopper, you will need to go here and check out the new Pampered Chef  products! Then, come back and tell me which one is your favorite! I posted a picture of mine above! That is all that is required! Of course I always give opportunities for extra entries! :) Here ya go:

1. Required entry: Visit Kim’s site and check out the new products. Come back and tell me in a comment which is your favorite.

2. Extra entries: Blog, FB  and or Tweet about the giveaway and come back here and tell me in a separate comment for each way you shared.

3. As always if you are a follower or become one, give yourself an extra entry by telling me so!

Besides wanting a pizza stone, I’ve also fallen in love with this:

The Crinkle Cutter! I have to admit that there was a time when I thought that this is something I would never use….then I was at my friend Lisa’s for dinner and she made homemade french fries with this! They were awesome! She also used it for cutting up fresh veggies for a veggie tray and they looked so dressed up! And it was super easy to use!! I was SOLD!

Sooo, if you are like me and have a few things on your Pampered Chef “wish list”, Kim is offering {INSERT YOUR OFFER HERE} as a blogiversary bonus to all of my readers! Thank you Kim! To take advantage of this  special offer, you will need to click here to go directly to Kim’s website. Once you are on her site, click on “shop online”. When prompted, type in Keen Inspirations as “Host” and you will then receive {whatever the special offer or discount is goes here}

There are also a few specials right now:

Special info goes here!

The specials can be combined with Kim’s bonus! (yes?)

Because of my delays in getting this up and running I will be leaving this giveaway open until next Saturday, March 12th at 11:59pm est. Kim’s blogiversary bonus for ordering will also be open until then!

New Items Can be Seen Here!

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The blogiversary bonus link is here!

I’m finishing up my printables to share tomorrow…so let’s keep the party rollin’!

Click on the image below to open the full size printable.

The border is just on the blog, the printable does not have a border.