It’s time for Holiday entertaining and I’ve got a great giveaway today from Sierra Mist to help with your party planning!

I love that Sierra Mist Natural is made with real sugar and 100% natural flavoring. It’s the perfect drink to serve at Holiday celebrations.

I also love Champagne. While experimenting with some cocktail recipes using Sierra Mist Natural and Champagne, my friend from Brazil told me that they put peaches in their Mimosas. That sounded fabulous to me, so of course I had to try it out!

For something different, I added some strawberries and boy did it turn out yummy! This is so easy and a fun cocktail to serve on New Year’s Eve for those who don’t like Champagne all on it’s own.

Brazilian Mimosa Cocktail/Mocktail

Ingredients

• 3 oz. of Sierra Mist Natural
• 3 oz. of Champagne (for a non-alcoholic mocktail – replace with Sierra Mist)
• 1-2 large Fresh Strawberries
• 2 large slices of a peach (canned peaches work best)
• Ice

Directions

1. Mash strawberries and peaches in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice and Sierra Mist.
3. Shake gently.
4. Pour half of mixture into a sugar rimmed glass and fill to the top with champagne.

My daughter gave the mocktail version a thumbs up! Now I have to make this drink for her a lot! ha. She’s a little spoiled this holiday I think:-)

Fun Giveaway!

This week, one lucky winner will receive a Sierra Mist Natural holiday gift pack and a $50 Amex gift card to help with your own holiday entertaining!

Holiday Gift Pack Includes:

• Sierra Mist Natural
• A cocktail shaker set
• Three packages of drink garnish/sugars
• Party glasses
• $50 Amex Gift Card

This giveaway is closed. Congrats to Kala!!

To enter:

Let me know your favorite drink (cocktail or mocktail) in the comments below. I’d love to know the recipes too!

For extra entries:

• Like Sierra Mist on Facebook and submit your most creative cocktail/mocktail recipe in the Sierra Mixology section. Your recipe might get featured on their page!

• Follow SierraMist and LivingLocurto on Twitter and Tweet this:Tweet
  

• Like Living Locurto on Facebook.

4 entries per person. Please let me know you did each item in a separate comment below. Giveaway ends Monday, December 26th.

 This giveaway post is sponsored by Sierra Mist.

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Make and Take for Kids published by Wiley is my friend Marie’s new book! I’m so excited to see my friends on bookshelves these day!

This creative book is full of 50 simple and fun craft ideas for kids. Siena is loving looking through the photos for inspiration for her new craft show for kids!

If you have small children or grandchildren, this is the perfect book for them! I love how Marie gives you ideas for all year round. The photos by Nicole Hill  and her team are absolutely adorable!

Make and Takes for Kids is filled with fun and simple crafts that you can do with you kids, all year LONG!

This giveaway is closed. Congrats to Anna Marie, you have been contacted via email.

Enter to Win a Copy for Yourself!

Look for the book at Amazon.com, Walmart and Barnes & Noble.

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As a Holiday gift, today you get a FREE MONTH subscription to Animoto!

To help celebrate the season and enable the creation of festive holiday video greetings, Animoto has launched two new holiday video templates.

Choose from these two new styles along with many other holiday video templates, from simple to fun, to traditional and modern.

I love the “Wonderland of Snow” video template.

This video was so simple! It took me longer to decide what photos to use than the time it took to create it.

You can choose your own music by selecting from more than 45 holiday songs available on Animoto, or upload one of your favorite songs.

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I had a blast designing my birthday party printables. I you missed my post with all of the photos, check them out here.

I thought it would be fun to share the designs with one of you who might be celebrating your 40th birthday as well. So I’ll be giving away ALL of my 40th birthday paper party supplies to one of you!

I’m not giving away the digital files, but the actual paper pieces!

Here is a little bit of what the winner will receive in the mail from me…

All decorations are cut, embellished, assembled and ready for a party!

Your kit will include: 12 Happy Birthday flags, 12 “40 and Still Hot” favors with candy attached, along with photo booth lips, framed sayings, tags and more.

This giveaway is closed. Congrats to Stacy!

To enter to win:

Leave a comment below telling me all about your party or the one you will be planning for someone’s 40th.

To get an extra entry:

• Like Living Locurto on Facebook and share this with your friends.

Please leave a comment for each item you do above to get those extra entries!

Giveaway ends Monday, October 10th at Midnight CST.

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I have a fabulous giveaway to announce some fun news! Remember me telling you how I was going to be featured in a magazine? I’m so excited that Holiday with Matthew Mead will be on newsstands very soon, but for now the expanded Holiday 2011 keepsake issue is ready for purchase online.

The benefits of buying the keepsake starts with the fact that it is BIG: It is an expanded issue, with additional pages of beautiful holiday ideas, recipes, and projects and it arrives directly to your mailbox before the newsstand edition is available. You can purchase the keepsake edition here.

Here is a sneak peek into this beautiful issue. You’ll see me and a few photos my designs towards the end!

Giveaway

Because of all the excitement, Matthew Mead is giving one lucky Living Locurto reader a Matthew Mead Collection Three Tiered Stand! I’m so jealous, I would love to have this!

**This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Sheri O. for being the lucky winner! I have emailed Sheri.

To enter to win:

Share the Holiday sneak peek video on your blog, Facebook or Twitter. Then leave a comment below letting me know what you did.

To get extra entries:

• Follow me on Twitter and Tweet this:  Tweet

• Like Living Locurto on Facebook

• Like Holiday with Matthew Mead on Facebook (tell him I sent you:-)

Please leave a comment for each item you do above to get those extra entries!

Giveaway ends Friday, October 7th at Midnight CST.

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Also, be sure to check out Printables by Amy! Find easy and affordable digital files to download and print at home or at your local quick print shop. Each product is custom designed by Amy, a professional graphic designer. Amy makes do-it-yourself projects a breeze!