Link Party Palooza — and $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

It’s Friday!!

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We’ve combined the popular parties at I Heart Nap Time, Lil’ Luna, Somewhat Simple, Tatertots & Jello and Today’s Creative Blog to make a giant link party. You’ll only have to link up once to to be listed on all five sites, and each of us will choose our own projects to feature posts — just like we always have!

So be sure to check with each site to see which of the amazing ideas were featured! I’ll have two “great ideas” posts this weekend!

Due to unforseen circumstances, the original giveaway is no longer available.

This week, check out this amazing essential oils sale — and you can win a $25 Amazon gift card!

A local company, Young Living Essential Oils, is a pioneer in bringing the use of therapeutic oils to the United States.

To kick off my new adventure with Young Living Essential Oils, you can get an amazing special for Black Friday!

If you get a premium Young Living starter kit {which is, on its own, a really great deal at $150}…

you’ll save a ton and — if you order before Sunday midnight, you’ll get another $150 value in freebies!

Check out this NOVEMBER Black Friday Deal*:

• The super helpful Essentials Oils Reference Guide (you can look up almost anything in it and see which oils have been used to help with that problem)
• a set of essential oil labels to keep your oils organized
• easy reference first aid & baby sheets
• access to the helpful Oily Families FB page
• a $20.00 Amazon Gift Card
• AND a copy of the amazing book 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!

*This offer is for US {and Canada – although gift cards will be reduced by the amount of shipping} only, but don’t worry if you are in another country! Many other countries can take advantage of a similar offer. Because not all countries allow the entire starter set to be shipped, you can go through the sign-up process to find out exactly what you are able to order. If you order over 100 PV, then you will receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card. Offer ends November 30, 2014.

Learn how to get the special Black Friday Deal and link up your projects after the break:

I am using all of the commission that I would make off your purchase to give you these freebies because I truly believe that you will absolutely fall in love with these essential oils as much as I have!

Here’s how to get your special deal!

If you are ready to buy a starter kit, then be sure to sign up as a wholesale member (with one of the premium starter kits) through the instructions below by the end of November 2014 to take advantage of these freebies!

1. Head over to the Young Living page here and fill out your information.

2. Be sure the “Wholesale Member” option is checked so that you don’t end up paying retail prices.

3. Be sure the “sponsor ID” and “enroller id” say 2291623 (so that I can send you your freebies!)

4. If you do not feel comfortable putting in your social security number (this is only for tax purposes if you decide to turn this into a business) then you can get an EIN from the IRS in just a few seconds here and use that number instead (the IRS just needs to be able to connect some number with you for tax purposes). They need a Social Security Number or an EIN because if you make $600 or more per year selling Young Living products, you will receive a 1099 form in the mail (which is required by law). Young Living will never share this info with anyone.

5. Select which starter kit you want to get. My recommendation would be the Premium Starter Kit (and that’s the one where you get all of the freebies!) Those are the oils that I use almost every single day! You can get the kit that’s $150, or you can get a kit for $160 with an even nicer essential oil diffuser!

6. I’d recommend skipping the Step 3 (Optional) part of the sign-up process. I’ll send over an email with more details on that part of things after you sign up (if you’re going to be purchasing products monthly then it’s a great program that will give you credit back with each order and save you on shipping costs).

7. Go through the checkout process.

8. After you sign up, send an email to  [email protected] and include that you signed up through this promotion. In the subject line put “TATERTOTS&JELLO Black Friday Deal;” and then say that you signed up with TATERTOTS&JELLO and you can’t wait to get these amazing freebies! Don’t forget or I won’t know to send you the freebies.

BONUS Step 9 (COMPLETELY Optional!) If you would like to earn 2 bonus oils this month, then get your order total up to 190 PV (different products have different point values). You could get the Start Living With Everyday Oils kit and automatically have 100 point value… then you’ll just need 90 more points to get the bonus oils. For example, you could grab an extra bottle of Thieves Oil at 33.75 points, 15 ml bottle of Lavender at 23.5 points, 15 ml bottle of Lime at 11 points, and the 14.4 ounces of Thieves Household Cleaner at 22 points (just pour one capful of the concentrated Thieves cleaning solution into a spray bottle and it lasts for a really long time!) All of those items will bring your total points up to $190.25 which will qualify you to get the two BONUS oils! (This step is completely optional!)

IMPORTANT: This promotion is only available when you sign up with the sponsor ID and enroller ID as #2291623! Also, if you recommend this promotion to a friend (or group of friends) and they sign up too through this promotion then please let me know so that you can get credit for referring them.

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*Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please confirm any information obtained from or through this web site with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment because of something you have read on this website.

Frequently Asked Questions About Young Living Essential Oils

Does signing up make me a “distributor”?

Nope! You are not required to sell anything at all to anyone. When you become a wholesale member, you get a special link that you can share with friends and get credit from their purchases, but there are no minimum sales amounts at all. In fact, 90% of the wholesale members in Young Living don’t do the business side at all. They are buying from Young Living because of the quality alone.

Am I required to make a minimum purchase each month?

There are absolutely NO minimum monthly purchase requirements. To remain a wholesale member, you have to make $50 worth of purchases per year to keep your membership. But if there’s a year that you don’t make a $50 purchase, you can reinstate your wholesale membership discount by just placing a $50 order.

If you do find yourself making regular purchases each month, then Young Living has a rewards program (called Essential Rewards) where you can make a nice percentage back in product credit each month on all of your purchases. So that’s a neat program to join if you find that you *want* to purchase regularly (but it’s not a requirement for being a wholesale member).

Why should I buy from Young Living instead of other essential oils companies?

It does seem like a new essential oils company pops up every day, doesn’t it?

I can’t speak to the quality of other companies, but I can say that Young Living was the only company in my research of essential oil companies that could answer all of my questions about purity in a way that was satisfactory to me.

Young Living was the only company that has their own farms (in the regions where the plants should be grown), could absolutely guarantee that no pesticides or herbicides were used in the growing of any of their oils (they use essential oils for pest control and they do all of the weeding by hand), has their own testing equipment (they do both in-house and 3rd party testing, and use many different testing methods not just GC/MS which only tests for certain chemicals, not whether those chemicals are synthetic or not), and only uses the first distillation of oils instead of adding chemicals to get more out of the plant.

Young Living also was the only company that was directly in charge of essential oil farming operations. Every other company I researched goes through some kind of an “oil broker” to buy their oils. They have to trust that the oil broker is telling the truth, who has to trust that the essential oil distilleries are telling the truth, who have to trust that the farmers are telling the truth about what they say they are doing.

With Young Living, you just have to trust one company instead of several.

I feel like it’s a trust step either way (anyone could be lying) but I felt the most comfortable trusting Young Living since they are a full-disclosure company. ANYONE can visit the farms, participate in the harvesting and distillation, view the Young Living labs, and see the entire process. That’s not an option with any other company.

How will I know which oils to use for what?

One of the benefits of getting a starter kit through this promotion is that you also get to join our private Facebook group that’s specifically for questions about essential oils!

The reference guide that I’m giving away as part of this promotion is also a HUGE resource. You can look up almost anything in it and see which essential oils and supplements can be helpful.

Does Young Living only sell essential oils?

The answer to this one was suprising to me when I first got my starter kit! Young Living actually has an entire line of personal care products, supplements, meal replacements, energy drinks, and more! Almost every product incorporates essential oils (for example, frankincense is absolutely wonderful in facial products), but there’s a wide variety of products available.

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To celebrate this amazing Young Living essential oils sale, you can win a $25 Amazon gift card!

This coming week is “Cyber Monday” week, so watch for some great Amazon sales (already in progress), like these:

Here’s how to enter to win:

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Now it’s time to link up your projects! I can’t wait to see YOUR ideas and feature YOU!

Remember, you only need to link up once here to be listed in all of the sites’ parties — but be sure to check out each site through the weekend!
We’ll each be featuring our own picks from all of the fabulous ideas!
(When you add a link, please mention on your site that you linked up at Tatertots and Jello (here’s a link: Tatertots & Jello).

Please visit and comment on TWO links above you and TWO links below you — in addition to any others that you want to visit.
{We all love comments!}
xoxo
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P.S. Don’t forget about all the projects featured at TT&J this week:  
I introduced the 2015 #1905Cottage projects!

(Click here if you can’t see the video below)

        (just click above to play the slideshow and check out the whole post for more about the cottage expansion!)

and I shared these DIY Winter Wonderland Evergreens!    I shared some Printable Thanksgiving Postcards and Hostess Gifts!        

And my contributors have shared some amazing projects as part of the HAPPY Holidays series — we’re in full force holiday mode now!  

On the top left are Candy Cane Marquee Letters from Polka Dot Chair Blog (such a fun take on marquee letters!),  

On the top right are Paging Supermom’s super cute and Easy Nail Polish Friend Gifts,  

In the middle on the right are vibrant Crafty Christmas Gift Tags from The Crafting Chicks,  

On the bottom right is eighteen25’s glamorous and rustic Glittered Woodland Decor,  

And on the bottom left are DIY Confetti Glasses from Burlap + Blue!

So many amazing ideas and projects this week!  

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