The Fringe Hours: Now in Target + Giveaway
HOORAY! After patiently waiting for close to a month, The Fringe Hours is now available at Target stores nationwide.
This is a huge, huge deal, especially for a first-time author like me, who has not sold a million books. 🙂 I have an incredibly personal connection with the store and am so incredibly grateful.
I cried when I saw it for the first time on Friday.
Then Elias and I went to a different store yesterday and found it there too – right next to Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection.
It’s surreal.
I wrote The Fringe Hours to equip women to make time for themselves and their passions. As a full-time working mom of three, I understand the challenges women face. I have experienced the guilt and the struggle for balance. I’ve played the comparison game.
But I also know that when I take care of myself and steward my passions, I am happier. I am a better wife, mom, co-worker and friend. Self-care isn’t a buzz word. It is something that really and truly matters.
If you haven’t had a chance to read The Fringe Hours, maybe this week you need to make a trip to Target? Or if you have, maybe you a friend who could use a copy? The Fringe Hours is a practical, easy-to-read book. More than 2,000 women were surveyed and their stories are woven throughout it. It truly is a book for every woman.
Will you join me in celebrating The Fringe Hours in Target this week by helping spread the word?
Simply go to your local Target and snap a picture of the book on the shelf, in your hands or in your cart and then share the photo on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #FringeHoursinTarget. All week long we will be drawing winners at random for $10 Target gift cards. YEOW! Also, be sure to follow me on Instagram & Twitter for special content all week.
Here are a few photos that friends shared yesterday – from New York to Minnesota to Texas, it was so fun to see!:
If you are on Twitter, you can also tweet this:
Tweet: The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You is now available at @Target. Every woman needs this book. http://ctt.ec/J32Eb+ #FringeHoursInTarget
And let’s be honest, we all like to spend fringe hours in Target, right?
The book is on sale for $12.99 and if you have a Red Card you can save an additional 5%. July is also one of the best months of the year to shop at Target because of SO MANY clearance deals. (Read my tips for shopping Target clearance here.)
I’m also hosting a fun giveaway here on the blog in honor of the release! Simply use the Rafflecopter below to enter to win one of three prizes including: $50 gift card to Target + a candle to enjoy in your fringe hours (from Target), an autographed copy of The Fringe Hours and some custom Fringe Hours and Target cookies (US residents only).
Thank you so much for your love and support!
I loved The Fringe Hours!! I have already given away two as gifts because it is such a great book. My favorite thing to do during my fringe hours is draw. Congratulations again!!
READ!!!
I love to go to target in my fringe hours! And work on photobooks for my kids. 🙂
I can’t wait to look for it in Target!
So excited to see your book in Target!!
I loved the book!! So thankful for the Fringe Hours in my days now!
I haven’t read Fringe hours yet but plan to get it at Target soon. Thank you so much I can’t wait to read it!
Reading is my fav thing to do during my fringe hours : )
Thanks for sharing!
My favorite thing to do during my fringe hours is to watch tv shows that I’ve missed, or read a book.
My favorite thing to do in the fringe hours is knit or crochet! And I just went to Target yesterday and forgot to go to the books! Guess we’ll have to make another trip! 🙂
In my Fringe Hours, I like to read and craft. Congrats on the book hitting the Target shelves. How exciting!
Exciting that your book is in Target!!
I like to relax during my “Fringe Hours” – have a little “me” time. Reading, scrapping, relaxing = Fringe!
Yay!!! Love Target! I will keep a look out for it in my many trips there! 🙂
Choose just one?!!
what I like to do in my fringe hours is photography and photoshop.
Perfect timing! I love to read and I’m dressing the kids now to run to Target! 🙂
In the Fringe Hours I love to read or, if I can, work on my Project Life albums 😀
Play instruments with the hubs or read
I love to read but I always put it off to do other things for everyone else. Its time to do something for myself that I enjoy.
I loved your book! So excited for you that it’s at target!
Would love to read your book. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite fringe hours thing to do is read. I have been reading the same books as my teenage daughters and we have so much fun discussing them and seeing the movies when one is made!!
Haven’t gotten my weekly (sometimes daily) Target fix yet. Looking forward to finding the Fringe Hours there!
I like to read, or to spend time outside just walking around and noticing “life” on the farm.
In my fringe hrs I am usually trying to fit in a workout. I also enjoy working on my photo albums.
I like to read, take a long hot bath, or scrapbook during my fringe hours.
I workout, read, or watch netflix in my fringe hours!
Read. 100%!
Sarah M
Wow! Congratulations!
I love to find new ways to save money & relax.
I like to scrapbook and read in my fringe hours! (or just collapse on the sofa because I’m exhausted!)
Ironically, my favorite thing to do in my Fringe Hours is go to TARGET! I grab a chai tea at Starbucks and just ENJOY. 🙂
Scour Pinterest. My guilty pleasure.
My fringe hours are currently consumed by morning sickness… But with my 2nd on the way it’s time to make a plan for my sanity!
Read or catch up on my favorite show.
My favorite thing to do in my fringe hours? Oh it really depends upon the season, right now it is taking a hike at sunrise or sunset!
I love reading!
I can’t wait for my next Target trip to buy this!!
I love a good read!
So far no luck at the Target down the street from me, but I’m going to keep looking at different locations until I find it!
My favorite thing to do in my fringe hours is scrapbook! Love to just sit down with some newly printed out photographs and some super cute Project Life goodies and go to town while listening to some of my favorite music. 🙂 Thanks for the chance! SO happy for you, friend! Yay! Congrats!!
Target is my favorite place to spend my fringe hours too!!! 🙂 Congratulations!
Read and scrabpook
I love to read or look for houses…
I just started reading the book. But reading is my favorite.
I like to nap!
Yay! Thanks for sharing and hosting!!
Thanks so much for the fun giveaway! I LOVED the Fringe Hours! I like to spend my time taking photos and scrapbooking.
I like to go on nature walks.
It’s either read or scrapbook, just depends if I’m feeling more active or sedentary.
I love teaching myself to do new types of crafts, in my fringe hours.
Taking a long bath and reading a great book (yes, The Fringe Hours) are what I do in my Fringe Hours.
Reading in my Fringe Hours is what I love to do! I want to read your amazing book called the Fringe Hours and must stop by Target to get it!
I like to read a good cozy murder mystery
Yay for your book being in target!! I love to read and drink coffee during my fridge hours. 🙂
I like to split up my fringe hours between: writing, reading. and taking photos!
During my fringe hours, I enjoy photography, gardening, writing, and yoga.
Yay for your book! I like to listen to shows I enjoy on satellite radio in an earbud while I run errands and cook meals.
I Like To Write Or Read During My Fringe Hours.
I like to read and go for long walks!
“the Fringe Hours” revolutionized my obsessive busy life. God is working through you in a powerful way to help women be still and be who they are in Him. So excited that it will reach fellow Target-a-holics now!!
In my fringe hours like to read mystery books!
I love to go shopping, or Netflix binge during my fringe hours!
I like to go to Target, Lifeway or Barnes & Noble in my fringe hours!
Read or scrapbook!
Congratulations on having your book in Target! I will look for it this week. 🙂
I enjoyed the book! This summer, I am taking more evening walks in my fringe hours.
My favorite thing to do in my fringe hours used to be to read or organize. Now with a new baby around, I can definitively say, nap!
During my fringe hours…..I love to read books or go shop! 🙂 Love shopping on my own and just looking! 🙂
Read!
I really like to read.
My favorite thing to do with my Fringe Hours is read!
I am reading it now, and totally loving’ it! I would love to win a copy to share with a friend.:)
My favorite thing to do n my fringe hours is relax on the couch and catch up on my Netflix.
Congrats Jessica! What a beautiful accomplishment 🙂
I just started getting into Project Life so my fringe hours are consumed with it now, haha! And congrats for making it to the bookshelves of TARGET!!
Reading and memory keeping are my favorite fringe hours activities.
I like reading
This is so exciting! Looking forward to reading the book.
Congratulations, Jessica! How very exciting for you! I am a big Target fan! I love to work on various memory keeping projects in my fringe hours. Thanks for the chance to win! Wow – lots of exclamation points, but the enthusiasm is genuine 🙂
Congratulations!
read or sew
Since I have a busy 2year old and are in the middle of potty training…. my fringe hours right now are spent with a relaxing bath, reading, or getting in a quick workout! Thanks for the chance at the givaway! Love target and just scored an AMAZING deal on patio cushions for my soon to be fringe hour project…. building a patio sectional out of reclaimed deck boards!
How exciting, can’t wait to read!
Shop or read…..that’s what I like to do!
Well I really do love to go to Target and get some Starbucks or go have coffee with a friend!
Read or sleep!!
I love to read in my Fringe Hours.
Congratulations! I’m so happy to have discovered your site and your book. In my fringe hours, I’m writing my first novel.
I love an excuse to go to Target! 🙂
Congrats!
Can’t wait to search this weekend at my 3 local Targets! My favorite thing to do during my fringe hours is read.
Breathe and lay down!
I like to look at magazines
I like to read or organize something during my fringe hours.
In my fringe hours, I love to read. Thanks for this opportunity.
I like to read while listening to nice music during my fringe hours. Thanks!
My fringe hours favorite thing to do is workout (morning hours!) and read (in the evening) Great giveaway and congrats!
I’ve always been a big reader. Thanks in part to your book, I’m starting to make time to scrapbook again.
Congratulations!! So exciting…
I love to read or practice yoga.
hang out with my dog
I love to take baths and read during my fringe hours.
I love to read or watch Netflix (or my new favorite, SlingTV, where I can watch HGTV without having cable!)
I love to get a good work out in and then go to Target in my fringe hours.
Love Target, too! That’s awesome your book is there!
Reading, photography, and crafts are my favorite things to do in my fringe hours.
READ like crazy! 🙂
I my fringe hours I like to read or workout
I love to sit on my back deck and read a nice book and listen to mother nature.
I like to go running.
Read
I really like to do crafty things and write music.
Listen to music.
I enjoy listening to music or entering blog contests in my fringe time.
It doesn’t happen as often as I like but I love to read!
Relax with my hubby.
I like to read in my fringe hours.
My favorite fringe hour activity is reading!!
I love to walk around Target to just get inspired in my Fringe hours!
I like to just relax and watch a movie.
Get a mani/pedi
I like to draw.
Reading is DEFINITELY my favorite thing to do in my fringe hours….followed by wandering around Target without my kid for a little bit. 🙂 It always feels like such a luxury.
I started reading your book with a friend and I really need to finish it. I’m in a season of mothering littles where I struggle to find my fringe hours and then to use them well. I miss writing and painting and scrapbooking and all the creative things I do just for ME.
Sit!
I like to window shop online!
I love to take a nap
I like to read or use my embroidery machine,
Would love to read the book! Thanks for the chance!
And I like to run in the fringe hours!
Read and surf social media. 🙂
Favorite fringe hours activity? Reading
Take a 15 min power nap, read a book in the bathtub, scrapbook…simple things to do in my fringe time
I love to read and work crossword puzzles.
READ!!!
Looks like a great book to read….definitely going to pick one up! What a great giveaway, Thanks!!! 🙂
In my fringe hours, I like to read good books and bake and decorate goodies.
I love reading books or exercising in my spare time (often at the same time)! I will always make time for a good book!
I enjoy reading, crafting, gardening, getting outdoors
I love to read, mostly non fiction things. I love learning new things.
I love to read and sometimes just spend an hour wandering away in Pinterest-land, looking at all the pretty crafts and recipes.
I love to read! I try to find at least one fringe hour a day to enjoy reading a book.
I love to read books!
i love to work in my garden early in the morning.
I don’t get many fringe hours as a widowed, homemaking, homeschooling mom but when I can I read our craft.
After seeing our exchange student off at the airport this morning, I stopped in at a Target store on the way home. Woot! Found your book and posted on instragram https://instagram.com/p/5AKbD4F2NJ/?taken-by=byquietwaters
I love to listen to music!
I’m new to your blog but I look forward to reading your book! I enjoy playing a board game with my 10 year old, reading, drawing, or instagram.
I love to spend my fringe hours is spend time with my kids. Congratulations on your book!
Watching Big Bother After Dark.
Reading, watching a fav movie/tv show and playing with my dogs are some of my favorite things.
My favorite Fringe Hours involve Netflix 🙂 I’m currently hooked on Scandal!!!
My favorite things to do with my fringe hours are reading and scrapbooking.
My favorite thing is to read.
Target is one of my favorite stores! I made a point to look for your book and found only two copies on the shelf. I shared my pic of it on Twitter.
I like to read or play games.
I usually read or work on crafts, like scrapbooking.
My favorite thing to do during my fringe hours is read and do paperwork.
Read
My fringe time is spent reading;)
Saw the bool at the Sun Prairie, WI Target this weekend and instagrammed about it. 🙂 IT was so exciting! My fringe hours this week will be spent reading it! 🙂
When I have free time, I love to read! So many books, so little time!
So happy for you that your book is at Target. I’m about half way through & getting so much out of it. As a mom of high school & college kids, I appreciate that it is applicable to all women, no matter what stage of life they are in.
i love to read when i have fringe hours
I like to crochet or paint.
I love to drink tea and read a book or look through some magazines.
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I have not read Fringe Hours as I am unable to hold a book to read due to an injury but would love to read it if it ever comes out electronically as I could read it only laptop. I would love to have a hot tub someday to just relax in the outdoors at night among the stars. I also like to peruse recipes online as my way to relax.
I love to get into a bubble bath with a good book.
I love to read during my Fringe Jours!!
I enjoy your website and last interview at the art of simple podcast. I can relate to your blog and can’t wait to read your book. I just wish for more fringe hours to knit and continue learning about photography.
Brenda
Sit and listen to nature and drink coffee 🙂
Reading a good book with a warm mug of coffee! 🙂
Have coffee with friends. 🙂
My favorite thing to do in my fringe hours is read a great book!
I just discovered your blog from Tsh’s post about the podcast. Seems like a great space here!
I struggle with allowing myself the time and have realized that I don’t entirely know what is most refreshing for me in those fringe hours. Still learning and trying to make the mental shifts to connect with that.
My favorite fringe hour activity is to read if the house is quiet, so sew when I can sneak away from the “organized chaos”. Thanks for a great book Jessica!
I’ve been seeing this book a lot and would love the opportunity to pick one up and dig into it!
READING!!! 🙂 indeed that is my fav thing to do -with a real book!!!!
In my fringe hours I LOVE to take a refreshing nap or just get out of the house for an hour, get coffee and relax to music.
My favorite fringe hours things to do are Project Life and crocheting. Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite things to do in my fringe hours are reading, going to the library, crafting or taking off to the beach!
I spend my fringe hours reading and with photography.
Read!
Read!! Or craft!!!
I like to run!
Reading or taking a walk (with my camera sometimes!)
I have never read the book but it looks awesome
I like to watch movies.
Getting a pedicure while reading a good book is my guilty pleasure.
I truly appreciate a book written for mothers and women ability taking care of ourselves and making time for us to enjoy life.
I would say reading!
Making up a big bowl of popcorn and binge-watching series on Netflix dominates my fringe hours. If I were a better person, it would be reading or working on sewing projects.
Definitely catch up on reading
Read!
I love to go shopping in my fringe hours
Read, shop, talk with friends, snuggle with my husband!
Right now I spend time taking care of my Monarch caterpillars in my fringe time. I can’t wait to have butterflies soon!
I haven’t picked it up yet…but so excited to read, and then pass it on to my married daughters!