Who's Ready for the Weekend?

After what has proved to be an emotionally-trying week comes to a close, I think we could all use a little R&R and are welcoming the weekend with open arms.

Just wanted to tie up some lose ends around here before I send you all on your way to enjoying some QT with the ones you love best.  

Weekly updates:

1.  My giveaway for an adorable hot pink wrap bracelet from local Brockport, NY boutique BeBe Mills ends at midnight tonight.  Be sure to enter here.

2.  I'm hosting an online Stella and Dot party - with a free shipping flash sale going on today and tomorrow - I want to buy the entire collection and am sure you will too.  You can party with me here.  

3.  This Sunday, I'll be attending the 4th annual Smile for Hope as a vendor promoting this little bloggity blog o'mine and my personal shopping business.  Exclusive coupons and giveaways will be happening - you don't want to miss this.  Plus all the proceeds go to benefit Safe Journey, a non-residential resource and support center for women and children rebuilding their lives after domestic abuse and violence.  

4.  Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey has made Amazon's Best Selling Gothic and Romantic Literary Criticism List.  (You KNOW you're a dork when this is exciting ha!)

5.  I need to decide what I am wearing to my friend's wedding on Block Island in June.  I think I have it narrowed down to these three gowns from Rent the Runway.  Which one?  Help.  Me.  Choose.

That's all for now - only a few more hours til the weekend kiddos!  Hang in there!

xoxo

Jenny

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Big Day

Yesterday was a big day for me.  It marked the release of Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey and my debut as a published essayist.  I am so honored to be a part of this project and to be included with such a fantastic group of writers.  

It is a pretty proud moment to see your name on the cover of a book for the first time.

Did you find me?  Did you find me?

I'm doing a signing at Fairport Library on Dec 1st and will have copies available for sale.  Here's more on that:

Festive Book Fair 11 Local Authors  Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

Meet the authors, see the books Unique gifts for family and friends For the youngest children: Ellen Stoll Walsh: Balancing Act, and a score of other engaging picture books. She is the author whose mice are seen near the gazebo outside the library. For intermediates and middle schoolers: Sean Kolczynski: The Night Before Middle School, a story he wrote to fulfill an elementary school assignment. Reassuring for the elementary set.  For young adults: Charles Benoit: Fall from Grace. Decisions "as harshly real as hell or high school," according to Robert Lipsyte. Benoit is the husband of Rose Benoit at Minerva DeLand School. Sherry Gammon: Souls in Peril. High school Senior Max Sanchez has it all. He's the star pitcher; he's dating the head cheerleader; he has a great group of friends. And then an accident thrusts him into the skin of another boy, his opposite, a lonely and much-bullied misfit... Adult Fiction: Duane H Cook:   By Guess and By God, a Novel. Historical fiction loosely based on the author's grandfather's experiences rabbit-ranching in Idaho. Kathy Johncox: The Last Generation of Women who Cook. Short stories around the theme of food. Johncox's fiction has been published in Lake Affect Magazine,Buffalo Spree Magazine, and online in "Inkburns" and "Potpourri." Adult Nonfiction: Dennis Bielewicz: Heroes in the Attic: the Untold Story of two Civil War Soldiers. Nonfiction, about two upstate youths who abandoned their college classes to fight in the Civil War. Bielewicz was librarian at Fairport High School for 30 years. Margaret Cleary-Osborne: Rush Hour Recipes of America. Authentic home cooking, these recipes feature minimal measuring/peeling, one bowl /pan, and usually only one step. Jennifer Sanzo: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey. The author of the blog "Flower City Fashionista" teamed up with Heather Graham, Sylvia Day and others to continue the conversation in so many book clubs about E. L. James' Fifty Shades series. Bill Self: Customer 3D: a New Dimension for Customers. The author provides a system to help business people improve customer service. At the same time, he makes consumers aware of the service they should demand. Elaine Webster: Dawn Dancing. Poems of intense pain and great joy, many based on the author's travels to Racquette Lake and more distant destinations in the US and abroad.    Cash sales-Checks may be accepted by some authors.

 

It's all a little surreal.  Above all I feel so proud and so blessed, and I'll be happy to autograph your copy.  ;) 

Happy Thanksgiving!

And think of gifting Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey this holiday season.  It's the gift that keeps on giving ;)

xoxo

Jenny

PS- You can read my editor's introduction here and more about why our publisher decided to publish it here.

Housekeeping

Just wanted to do a little housekeeping here at The Flower City Fashionista...

I've got a lot of stuff going on.

First things first.

• You have until Friday to join my Bloggers with Balls link up party and blog hop.  If you own this necklace link up your outfit post to show the world how you wear yours.

• I'm thrilled to be a contributor for Lucky Magazine's online community.  They have already published five of my posts.  Be sure to "vote" for them so I can get some cred. ;)  You can access my profile here:  Jenny Sanzo for Lucky Magazine.

• My giveaway for a light It Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Concealer ends this Friday at midnight
• I was asked to join Top Mommy Blogs - a site that features the most popular mommy blogs on the web!  

• Last and certainly not least, in case you haven't heard:  I'm being published.  My publisher is giving away nine copies of the book TODAY!  So head on over here right now and comment to be entered to win on of these:

Okay I think that's it!  I need to feed a baby, squeeze in a quick park trip and get Colt to soccer practice.  Just another day living the glamourous life! **wink, wink**

Love ya, mean it!

xoxo

Jenny

Mundane Monday

Hey all!

It's Monday!  Time for stream of consciousness and poor grammar!  Wooo hooo!

I'm home!  Getting back into the groove.  Cleaning my house, doing laundry, unpacking etc.

Time to get off the five ppounds I gained in roughly two weeks.  I mean I only ingested 17,500 EXTRA calories - that's only moderately disgusting right?  No?  You're right, it's flat out repulsive.  Time to get back on the wagon!

Big week.  My mom is here helping me organize and box up stuff for my HUGE garage sale Sept 13-15.  In-laws and extended family come Thursday.  Cooper's baptism is Sunday - I should probably get him an outfit...

I should also go food shopping...

Can't worry about that right now though.  I have book club at 7:00.  We read Fifty Shades.  You KNOW I'm not missing this one.  Even if there is nothing to eat in this house that isn't either frozen or wrapped in plastic.  Sorry kids, mommy will shop tomorrow.  Time for me and my inner goddess to pick up some wine and head to Annette's...

Just remember:

Ok that's all for now.

Laters baby,

(couldn't resist)

xoxo

Jenny

Odds and Ends

Otherwise known as "My Life in Links..."

Just a few bits and pieces to leave you with this morning...

1.  Be sure to head on over to Jake's Journey today to read out Part II of Colten's apraxia journey and what we learned at our three weeks at the KCC.

2.  Don't forget to enter my giveaway for the vintage 1960s purse from Treasure Trove Vintage.  You only have until midnight tonight!

3. More exciting news-  I'm a bullet point!  - made.my.day.

4.  Check out yesterday's post at my sister blog (it's like a sister wife but different) Flower City Fashion - about how to incorporate Fifty Shades of Grey into your wardrobe.  You don't want to miss this.

That's all for now.  I have a fabulous day planned with one of my best girlfriends from high school.  Haircut and mani at Faces Plus followed by dinner and drinks at the W in Hoboken.  I should be able to squeeze in four hours of sleep before tacking the Bronx Zoo tomorrow with the family!  Wish me luck!

I'll be back on Saturday with an outfit post! And possibly some hungover zoo photos... good.times.

See you then kiddos!

Enjoy the rest of your week!

xoxo

Jenny

Big Announcement!

No, I'm not pregnant.

Remember when I disappeared from the blogging world in the beginning of the summer?  No?  Well, I was MIA for a few weeks because I was up to my eyeballs in Christian Grey.  Hey, there are worse things right?   I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the writers contributing to Lori Perikin's book Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey being published in November.  Go ahead, jump up and down and clap - I did!  

I am beyond excited to be included with this group of writers. It is going to be an amazing book!  I'll be sure to keep you updated with any happenings related to my debut as a published essayist!  Can't wait to read what I had to say about Fifty?  Feel free to pre-order your copy here:

For those of you out there scratching your heads as to how this all happened, that's a story for another day.  What I will tell you is that (despite the quality of writing on this blog) I do in fact have an English degree, am a published poet (crazy right?) and was an adjunct professor prior to popping out the kiddos.  Sure, I love to shop, and I'm not afraid to work for shoes (or a statement necklace for that matter), but my real passion is writing and literature.  This book project couldn't have come at a better time.  I had no idea how much I truly missed it; it was like reuniting with an old friend.

Now I just need to worry about how to explain the mature subject matter to my grandpa, my dad, my in-laws and my 93-year old Pop-Pop...

Any advice?

Would love to hear your thoughts on that!

xoxo

Jenny