Viola Shipman's Blog - Posts Tagged "recipe"
Book & Baking Basket
To celebrate the release of The Recipe Box, I’m excited to announce that I’m doing a grand giveaway of a “Books & Baking Basket�
One lucky newsletter subscriber will win a beautiful basket filled with my books and a bonanza of baking goodies! The basket will be filled with all three of my novels � The Charm Bracelet, The Hope Chest and The Recipe Box � as well as some baking supplies to help you make some wonderful recipes from The Recipe Box, including: A vintage-inspired apron; an assortment of holiday cookie cutters; an Easter Bunny cake mold/pan (SO CUTE!); five of my treasured family recipes NOT included in The Recipe Box; full set of measuring cups and spoons (with adorable pink handles); a cookie spatula; a pink silicone spatula (for batters, etc.); a wooden spoon; and an assortment of colored sugar sprinkles for decorating your cookies and baked goods.
To enter:
-Share this post on your Facebook Wall & "Like" the Viola Shipman Face Book Fan Page!
-Visit and sign up for my newsletter.
-After posting on your Facebook wall, comment below with your favorite dessert. and e-mail [email protected] to confirm you have signed up for news letter.
-You have to send an e-mail in order to be eligible.
A random drawing will determine the winner. (continental US only) I will announce winners the week of March 27 on my web site under the What’s New section () and also on the Viola Shipman Facebook fan page ()
It is because of readers like you that I am able to write the books I love. This is just a small token of my appreciation for your love, faith, support and belief in me and my work.
Coming in 2018 from International Bestseller Viola Shipman & St. Martin's Press!
THE RECIPE BOX (New Novel!)
3-20-18 in Hardcover
Buy Now:
THE HOPE CHEST
2-13-18 in Paperback
Buy Now:
THE CHARM BRACELET
1-30-18 in Mass Market Paperback
(A 2017 Michigan Notable Book!)
Buy Now:
One lucky newsletter subscriber will win a beautiful basket filled with my books and a bonanza of baking goodies! The basket will be filled with all three of my novels � The Charm Bracelet, The Hope Chest and The Recipe Box � as well as some baking supplies to help you make some wonderful recipes from The Recipe Box, including: A vintage-inspired apron; an assortment of holiday cookie cutters; an Easter Bunny cake mold/pan (SO CUTE!); five of my treasured family recipes NOT included in The Recipe Box; full set of measuring cups and spoons (with adorable pink handles); a cookie spatula; a pink silicone spatula (for batters, etc.); a wooden spoon; and an assortment of colored sugar sprinkles for decorating your cookies and baked goods.
To enter:
-Share this post on your Facebook Wall & "Like" the Viola Shipman Face Book Fan Page!
-Visit and sign up for my newsletter.
-After posting on your Facebook wall, comment below with your favorite dessert. and e-mail [email protected] to confirm you have signed up for news letter.
-You have to send an e-mail in order to be eligible.
A random drawing will determine the winner. (continental US only) I will announce winners the week of March 27 on my web site under the What’s New section () and also on the Viola Shipman Facebook fan page ()
It is because of readers like you that I am able to write the books I love. This is just a small token of my appreciation for your love, faith, support and belief in me and my work.
Coming in 2018 from International Bestseller Viola Shipman & St. Martin's Press!
THE RECIPE BOX (New Novel!)
3-20-18 in Hardcover
Buy Now:
THE HOPE CHEST
2-13-18 in Paperback
Buy Now:
THE CHARM BRACELET
1-30-18 in Mass Market Paperback
(A 2017 Michigan Notable Book!)
Buy Now:
Mother's Day
If you are like me and have lost your mother � I lost my mom in 2009 � Mother’s Day is a bittersweet holiday. I was very close to my mom, a nurse and hospice nurse, whose life was spent nurturing others. She was smart and headstrong but also incredibly funny and sweet. My brother died at the age of 17, when I was just 13, and somehow my mom � despite her overwhelming sorrow � never wavered in her love or support for me. In the worst tragedy we would ever face as a family, my mom was a pillar of strength, faith, resilience and hope. That’s one of many reasons I used to spoil her. I used to call her on my birthday and yell, “Happy Birthday!� because I felt it was really more her day than mine (I mean, our birthdays are really our mother’s birthdays, right?). And on Mother’s Day, I used to shower her with gifts: Hummingbird feeders, flowers and plants for her gardens, jewelry and clothes. I presented her with trips to Ireland and beloved St. Louis Cardinals games, but mostly, I gifted her books. My mom was a voracious reader, and she � and my grandmas � made me one as well. My mom read everything: Fiction, memoir, thrillers, dense studies of ancient religions and political figures. But all of us loved Erma Bombeck. My novels are inspired by my grandmothers� and family’s heirlooms as well as their lives, love and lessons. Along with charm bracelets, recipe boxes, quilts, dishes and flowers, books are a part of our family’s heirlooms. After my grandmas passed, my mom inherited all of their books. After my mom passed, I became the keeper of those precious treasures. Many of those books are underlined or highlighted. My Grandma Rouse wrote comments and thoughts in the margins. There are coffee circles left on pages left by my mom where she would hold a book open with her cup. When I am feeling down or alone, I pick up one of their beloved books � Erma Bombeck, James Michener, the family Bible, even an old Betty Crocker cookbook � and read. And I feel as if they are still with me. Erma Bombeck wrote famously on Mother’s Day, “I can think of no mothers who deserve [a wonderful Mother’s Day] more than those who had to give a child back.� My mom and brother are now reunited. And on Mother’s Day, although she is no longer with me, I’ll pick up Erma, and laugh, and cry, and celebrate all of the mothers whose fierce devotion to and undying love for their children never dies. Happy Mother’s Day!
