I made it! I am really liking this blogging thing! I wanted this to serve as motivation to do more projects with my kids as well as some documentation, But I am so blown away by the connections I have made and the comments from all the readers. It is so fun and just the sort of paycheck I think I needed to boost my own creativity. I am completely obsessed with taking pictures and photography in general! More on that later but now on to the celebration……………..I wanted to give out a party favor to a lucky reader! So if you want a chance to win this: (And you know you do)
Jan Brett’s The Umbrella and 3 pots of finger-paint, leave a comment on this post before midnight (Eastern Standard time) on Thursday June 12 and you will be entered. Winner (randomly picked out of a bowl by one of my kids) will be announced on Lucky Friday the 13th!!!
Thanks for all your visits and comments!! Keepem’ comin’!!
Love (and not so much like to the confused and wrong and mean, Nasty Neighbor commenter),
Kristen
AWESOME giveaway!! Thanks!
Nifty giveaway — I love Jan Brett (and Acorn needs some fingerpaints!). Keep up the good work here on your blog.
oooo my bee would love that!
Congrats on your centennial. I for one, am very glad you’re blogging. Here’s to a hundred more great posts.
Wow, 100 posts? Too cool, way to go you! Loving your blog…so stimulating!
yay on the camera – go team nikon! (i’m putting my pennies away for an 85mm lens.)
loving your blog.
yay!!! pick me pick me!
Congrats on 100 posts!
I just stumbled across your blog today, and it’s pretty cool! Congrats on hitting 100 posts! I look forward to reading more.
Congrats on making 100 posts! I’ve enjoyed getting to know you and check out all of your creative endevors.
Add me into that give-away pool! Paige and I enjoy reading and painting! 
Woo Hoo!. Congrats on 100 posts.
Thanks for the chance to win awesome stuff.
Friday the 13th is coming? Ugh.
Enter me!
Congrats to you! Please keep blogging, I enjoy reading pepper paints daily. You give me ideas of things to do with my three children (soon to be four!).
Yay! Congrats. I’m so close myself and have been dreaming up a giveaway as well. Similar to you I started blogging as a motivator (which it certainly does) and have been blown away by the community.
Congrats on reaching 100!
Congrats on 100 posts! I love your blog, and your creative ideas inspire me!
I have 20 fingers right here that would love to give those finger paints a nice schmear. Woohoo on 100 posts! –Nancy in NC
hard to believe it is 100 already. Congrats!!!
Got here via Dawn–my daughter would be very happy with those! We love Jan Brett AND fingerpaint at our house!
Hi…I’ve only just discovered your blog! A friend posted up a link to your Newspaper Hut post after she was recommended your site on the ‘Stumble Upon’ website! I know avidly read your blog and get the Unplug Your Kids email updates! We don’t get a paper everyday but we’re collecting the weekly free paper for the next few weeks so we can build a hut in the holidays!
) Thanks for a great and inspiring blog! 
Love your blog! Love Jan Brett!! Such a great giveaway with the long summer ahead. Please count me in!!!
I love reading your blog… You are so creative… 100 blogs is quite a feat… Congratulations!!! Thank you for the time spent creating it.
i look forward to reading your blog everyday and always find inspiration here. congrats on making it to 100!
Pepper,
We are just not worthy to be in the presence of such a creative goddess. I am just getting started reading your archives and getting to know you and I already love your site…I am so glad I discovered this in time for summer. Well, off to make cornstarch and water trays for my people…keep up the great inspiration !
Susan
I love borrowing ideas from you (see last post on my blog). Thanks for the giveaway!
Just found you. Probably too late to enter as we are on Hawaii time. Looking forward to exploring more of your blog. Aloha.