Time to Share Your Posts about May for Me

What are you doing?

Are you finding time to to do the things you want to do? YES

What are you sewing, quilting, and creating? YES

Are you relaxing with family and friends? YES

Make sure you include the backlink in your post of http://marciascraftysewing.blogspot.com/  so others can find the linky party and share too.

The party will be open for a full week, through the end of May.  You can share more than one post about what you are doing during the May for Me Celebration.

If you do not have to have a blog to share, you can share a link to your Flicker or Picasa Photo Posting Sites -- as long as you share the backlink to my blog.  Thanks for sharing!

Time to share your posts.

May for Me -- 1st Day of May and a Giveaway!

Some people don't understand what May for Me is?

Again, it all started with a conversation between two friends about feeling like there is never time for me.  That's when I realized, I could find 5 minutes for me everyday in my crazee/busy life!  Two years ago, I decided to find 5 minutes for me each day during the whole month of May.  To smell the roses, to create, to read, to sew, to relax.  

On the first day of May, I decided to start my day off by shutting off my alarm. 

I can do that, because I am my own boss.  I won't yell at myself, if I am late for work.  I woke up at 7:30. The windows were wide open. The birds were singing and the sun was streaming into my bedroom.  What a good way to start May! 

At lunchtime, I decided that every day, I will add an extra glass of water.  I drink alot of water anyway, but I want to start doing more things that are good for me.  Maybe only a half a cup of coffee at lunch, would be a good idea too.

I love adding fruit slices to my water.

While I ate lunch, I took some extra time to play a game of words with a friend, who was on her lunch break too.

Note that one of us used the word quilt!

That was three really good things today --- for me.

Sleeping later was a half hour, but that was OK,
Drinking more water was a very healthy choice,
and
Relaxing a lunch was very enjoyable.

So why should you join in the May for Me Celebration?

to get more sleep? 
to drink more water? 
or to relax during your lunch hour?

You will be a happier person, if you take a few minutes for you!  Celebrate you! It's May for Me!

Here's the first Giveaway! (Update this Giveaway ended)

You can enter to win a Rainbow of Fat Quarters!

Leave one comment to enter.
What only takes five minutes that makes you happy?

Giveaway is open to everyone.
Giveaway ends at Midnight on Sunday, May 5th and winner will be announced on Monday.
All prizes will be mailed out the first week in June.
If I don't reply to you -- you may be a no reply blogger -- check your settings, so I can reply.

Please feel free to share my Giveaway with others.  Blog about it. Share it on facebook. Tweet it to everyone!

Thanks so much!

May for Me!

Marcia

May for Me Celebration Starts Today!

It's all about taking time for yourself - May for Me! It's about finding 5 minutes a day - every day for the whole month of May to do something that you want to do - creating, playing, or just taking time to relax.

Are you ready for the 2013 May for Me Celebration?  YES!

Add your Blog Link to the linky list, if you are going to be participating in the 2013 May for Me Celebration!

Add the Name of your Blog.

What does it mean participating in the May for Me Celebration?

It's simple --- It means you are adding the May for Me Button to your sidebar and sharing at least one post about taking time to play - Minutes for you - in May.

 Add your Blog Link  

AND  please... Grab the May for Me Button 
in the sidebar of my blog.

http://marciascraftysewing.blogspot.com/

After you grab the button and add it, If you do a post about the May for Me Celebration --- Please share the link to your post on the weekly Minutes for Me Linky Parties.  So everyone can hop over and see and read what you have to share!

Take time to play -- Minutes for Me!

You can Follow me on Twitter 

at CraftySewing for more updates!

You can also follow me on my facebook page at Marcia's Crafty Sewing and Quilting Facebook Page. 

There will be one Giveaway a week!  
1st Giveaway starts on May 2nd! 

May for Me!

      Marcia

Click Here to Add your blog link and join in on the fun!

What is the May for Me Celebration?

It all started two years ago, Tonya from Hillbilly Handiworks and I were reading each others blogs and commenting back and forth.  We were chatting about how life gets soooo busy, it is hard to find time for ourselves. I run my own quilting business and sometimes I can be a pretty tough boss! No free time until the work gets done! 
Together, we decided to declare the whole month of May ..... for Me! 

Last year, we teamed up with Vrooman's Quilts and Lily Pad Quilting and with 4 blogs we hosted a huge May for Me Bingo Game!  It was a lot of work and a lot of fun, but no one found much time to play.

I have been very busy this year with my family and my quilting business, so I decided the May for Me Celebration needed to go back to what it started out as...

finding a 5 minutes to play...
and sharing a post or two about it... 
and hosting some giveaways!

That makes this the 3rd May for Me Celebration!

And what is it?  
It is very simple:   Take 5 minutes to play each day.

If you do this the whole month of May, you will find time to play everyday the rest of your life.  Most times, when you find 5 minutes here and there to have fun, you will find another 5 minutes later in the day and some days lots of time for you! It feels good to take time to play, to create, and to relax. That's it! It's simple!

During the May for Me Celebration, I will host a Giveaway every week!

I will share and post a few things that I am doing to take time for me! 


How can you "participate" in the May for Me Celebration?

It's simple --- You can add the May for Me Button to your sidebar and share at least one post about taking time to play - Minutes for you - in May.

Join in on the fun of the May for Me Celebration 
and 
 Add your Blog Link (name of your blog), 
BUT first please... 
Grab the May for Me Button 

in the sidebar of my blog.

You must include my bloglink on your blog 
in order to link up at the linky party 
for the May for Me Celebration.

http://marciascraftysewing.blogspot.com/

I will have another Linky Party for sharing what you are doing for the Minutes for you!  I will explain more about that later. You will be able to share a link or two every week.  Make sure you have the May for Me Button in your post with the link to my blog, so others can find out about May for Me and share too! 

The fun has just begun! It's almost May!

May for Me!

Marcia

Click Here to Link Up your Blog.

May for Me Celebration 

Minutes for Me Break and Information

Thanks to all of you who have shared your Minutes for Me here!

I am taking a Minutes for Me Break.  I will still have the subscription to Linky Tools and will still be using it for other things, but not a weekly party - at least not for awhile.

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The Linky Party Tools will be used for the NEW Quilt Blogs Linky Party.

If you know of someone who has started a Quilt Blog and has less then 50 followers, ask them to link up.  It is a great way to find new Quilt Blogs.

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I will be using the Linky Party Tools for the 2013 May for Me Celebration. Information coming soon about this year's May for Me Celebration.

Enjoy your day!
Marcia