Babylegs giveaway! Go enter now!

Holy Cow! Babysnazz is giving away 20 pairs of Babylegs! I love Babylegs, they are so great for little babies, and with my boys and their long legs, these have been a lifesaver for us! Also great over a cast in the winter when long sleeves are hard to get on ;) Go enter now!

And The Winner Is....

Lisa_Iowa!!!! Lisa, drop me a line with your email address so you can receive your prize! Congratulations!!!

Another Giveaway Already!? Yes!!

This one is much more of a fun one. Provided by Crayola through MyBlogSpark, this prize pack is for the very creative and artsy types. You know who you are.

These little items are a new product by Crayola, and are pretty neat little kits. Here are the kits you will receive if you win the prize pack:

Glass Pendant, Stationary Box, Water Bottle, Color Glow Lamp, Wind Chimes, Shadow Box, Glass Plates. Seven kits in all!

Visit Pop Art Pixies for more information on each kit.


Meet Skye! She’s sweet, thoughtful, and always thinking of others and how she can help save the environment. She loves the outdoors, playing soccer, friends, wildlife and hiking.
Skye’s Pop Art Pixies craft kits include: Create a Water Bottle, Wooden Charm Bracelets, Skye’s Herb Garden and Wind Chime kit.

Meet Maya! A free-spirited young lady, Maya lets her inner creativity show and encourages everyone to express themselves without judgment.
Maya’s Pop Art Pixies craft kits include: Create a Glass Pendant, Shadow Box Kit, Create a Water Color Frame and Create a Sun Catcher kit.

Meet Naomi! She is big into technology and music, and can mix music with the best of the best. Music is her life and her DJ spirit inspires her desire to communicate more through actions and sounds than words.
Naomi’s Pop Art Pixies craft kits include: Create a Stationery Box and Create a Color Glow Lamp.

Meet Tatum! The bubbly, social butterfly of the Pixies and famous for her cupcakes, Tatum is fun-loving, outgoing and likes to host parties for her friends because everyday is worth celebrating.
Tatum’s Pop Art Pixies craft kits include: Create a Decoupage Glass Plate, Party Lights kit, and Create a Mosaic Picture Frame.


You can also follow this link for a $2.00 off coupon for any Pop Art Pixies kit.

The contest will go through December 31st, and winners will be announced on January 1st, 2011. To enter, just tell me which kit you think your daughter would have the most fun with. If you don't have a daughter, then you can just pretend and pick a kit you like. Or something your boys would like. Or your niece, or your best friend's cousin's aunt's daughter. I'm flexible like that.

Good luck!

And The Winner Is....

Debbie! Congratulations, you have won a $75 gift code for use in any of the 200 CSN Stores! Have a very merry Christmas!!! Please contact me with your email and I will send you the code.

Who's Ready For A Chrismas Giveaway?

What are you looking for this Christmas? Flat screen tv stands? A new toaster oven (that's us)? Or maybe some monkey slippers?? Whatever you are looking for, you can enter to win a $75 gift code to use at any of CSN's 200 stores. Who wouldn't want something so awesome?

So here's the deal. Take a look around their sites, and come back and tell me what you would buy for $75. What's on your wishlist this Christmas? What do you need to buy for that person who already has everything? What would you splurge on if you could?

The deadline to enter is Friday, December 10, at noon. Winners will be drawn at random using the Random.org generator (that thing is so cool!). So hurry up and enter. Tell your friends too! This contest is only open to US and Canadian residents.

I'm back!

And what better way to make a comeback than with a giveaway!

Once again, CSN Stores is allowing me to do a great giveaway for you all, so go check out their sites! They have so many great things, and really, they have some great prices too. I'm an admitted cheapskate, and even I can find deals with them. On one site, if you're ever in need of a twin bed set, you can find all sorts of really cute goodies! If my daughter is ever in need of a new bed, I'd love to drool over these options. My boys on the other hand, will need something forged out of steel to last them a while ;)

So, for this giveaway, you can enter to win a $100 gift card, to be used at any of the CSN Stores websites. You can look for baby gear, cookware, shoes and accessories, toys for your children, and all sorts of other goodies.

This contest is open to all U.S. and Canadian residents. Please take a look through the various websites, and in your comments, let me know what your favorite items are.

You may post on Facebook for an extra entry, but please do not tag CSN directly, it violates their company's Facebook policy. But feel free to link to my blog and then leave a comment for that entry :)

Good luck everyone! Winners will be chosen on Friday, September 24th and announced sometime that day.

And The Winner Is....

Debbie! Thanks to Random.org, you are the lucky winner! Please contact me so that I can get your information to the sponsor and you can receive your prize pack.

Shrek-Tastic!

General Mills is celebrating the May 21st release of Shrek Forever After, the final chapter of the Shrek films. Look for Shrek-tacular savings in the grocery store on your favorite General Mills brands like Go-GURT, Pillsbury, Fruit Roll-Ups, Bisquick, Green Giant and more. Also, be sure to keep an eye out for specially-marked packages of Big G cereals, in which you can find collectible water squirters and markers, which are shaped like your favorite Shrek characters.

To save even more green, visit www.everydaysaver.com/events/shrek to download coupons today. While you’re there you and your little prince or princess can get in the mood to see Shrek Forever After by taking a peek at the movie trailer.

Through MyBlogSpark, General Mills is being kind enough to provide a great prize pack to one lucky winner. If your name is chosen by the random generator here is what you will receive:

Shrek-tacular tote bag filled with participating products including Big G cereals, Fruit Roll-Ups Minis snacks and Betty Crocker Brownie Mix or Muffin Mix. The prize pack will also include a $10 Shrek-tacular Savings coupon book with fun Shrek trivia, a Shrek water squirter, a Shrek highlighter and a $25 gift card that you can use to purchase tickets to see the new Shrek Forever After film.

Please leave a comment for an entry. I will be using the Random.org random number generator to pick a winner. All submissions must be in by Monday, May 17th by 12 noon to qualify.

And just for fun, please answer this question in the comments section (will qualify as your entry):

• Who is your favorite Shrek character?

Winners will be announced sometime Monday afternoon.

Review: The Hows and Whys of Science Kit

Well, we finally opened our box, almost a week after we got it. And a busy week it has been, but I won't go into that right now.

I ended up working on the kit with my 3 year old and 5 year old, as the others were outside enjoying the unseasonably warm weather we were having. They loved it! There is a neat little telescope, a hand-crank flashlight (they loved that one), and some magnets, among other things. There are a lot of activities in the book as well that really look like a lot of fun, and once the weather warms back up a bit, we are going to go do some of them.

I really wish I had been able to take some pictures, but my camera decided it didn't feel like cooperating this week, so I will have to wait for a bit to get some pictures. I am very much looking forward to trying many of the experiments out though, and will be adding some activities to my kids' work boxes for school. I'm sure they'll love that idea.

My overall opinion of the kit is that it's fairly straightforward and very simply covers a wide range of topics. There were bits about magnets, soil, bugs, rocks, and a few other things. We haven't gone through everything in the book, but most of it seems very easy to do without a lot of extra work.

And the winner is.....

Marcie! Marcie you have won the Hows and Whys of Science kit! Please contact me by email and we can work out the details :)

Worth Checking Out

I was recently contacted by someone from the Promotions Team of a rather interesting site for kids furniture, among other things. I was allowed the option of choosing something for myself to review and tell all of you about, or to host a giveaway. After spending two days looking through their site, and finding not only a ton of great furniture, I also found lots of games and activities that I know my children would absolutely love.

I found all sorts of really neat science kits, which was fun for me because I love science. I love getting into the whys and hows of how things work. Take this Genetics Kit for example.
Seriously? How cool is that? And it's only $24.99 on the website.

There are tons of other kits like it too. Physics, Chemistry, Solar Systems, not to mention some really nice furniture. But for the giveaway, I think we will be going with this little number.
Again, because I love science, and it's the one area we haven't gotten into as much with the kids schooling. I would love to be able to share this with one of you lucky readers :) So here are the rules. Because of course, there are always rules.

1. Go to the website and poke around. Take a few hours, or days, or however long it takes to look through all the really cool stuff.

2. Come back here when you're good and ready, and tell me what you liked most.

3. Do it by March 10th, which is my oldest child's 10th birthday. He's quite excited since it's his golden birthday this year. Deadline for signing up will be March 10th, 2010 at 10:10 AM central time.

So I guess it's not when you're good and ready, but I'm giving you plenty of time to look through the site at least. For extra entries, share the link back to this contest with your friends, and post again telling me you did so in the comments section.

So again, you are entering for the Hows and Whys of Science, you're entering by March 10, 2010, 10:10 AM, and you're telling your friends :)

Go Enter This Awesome Giveaway!

This looks like a really great giveaway, so go check it out :D

Another Contest Is Coming, But While You're Waiting....

Check out this coupon for $4 off any Elefun & Friends game. The coupon is available for download through October 31st, and good for use until December 31st. So while you're waiting for this giveaway, you can get a really great coupon to use for some fun games for your kids. The giveaway will involve two new games from Elefun, and I will let you know as soon as I can start it :)

Yep, Another Giveaway!

Since I didn't hear back from me, Amanda is the next winner. If you could please contact me within 24 hours that would be great. Congratulations! However your profile is not available and you didn't leave an email, so I will need to hear from you for you to win.

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And the winners are......

me **I don't have an email address for you, so if you could contact me with that, I would appreciate it. If I don't hear from you within 24 hours, I will pass the prize on to the next entrant.**
and
throuthehaze

I used random.org to choose the winners, and I will be contacting you shortly. Congratulations!

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I've been given one more opportunity to host a giveaway, this time for a nifty little prize pack from Pillsbury Simply Cookies. I have a package of those yummy looking cookies sitting in my fridge at this very moment, waiting to be cooked up.

And while my cookies are waiting to be cooked up, you can enter the contest for this nice little prize pack:

A coupon for a free package of simply... cookie dough

A tote bag

A small ceramic cookie jar



I've used the bag at the grocery store a few times already (it holds quite a bit!), and once I get the cookies baked up I"ll be putting them in the cute little cookie jar :)

Enter in the comments section, and make sure that I have a way of contacting you either through your profile or by leaving an email address. Once the contest is over, I will contact you for your address which I will forward to the host of the contest, and they will mail you your prize pack.

While you're commenting, here is a question for you:

What do you do to make your meals more simple?

Contest ends on August 2nd at 5pm.

Mmm... Tasty!

***Congratulations to Kelly and April, you have both won the Chex Mix Turtle Bars prize!!***

I have been given another opportunity for a giveaway here, and would like to share with you Chex Mix Turtle Bars. I don't normally care for the cereal bars like this, but these were very good, and my kids ate them up pretty quickly too.


So, if you want to sign up, just enter in the comments section with a way for me to contact you, and I will forward your information so that you can receive your free Chex Mix Bars too!

Deadline to enter is July 26th, 2009 at 5 pm.

Good luck!

Pillsbury You Be The Judge - And Win Prizes!

You have been invited to participate in the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest. For the first time, everyone gets a chance to vote on the final winning recipes. Every two weeks there will be a new pair of recipes to vote on. To help you decide who is worthy of your votes, please watch this short video.

On top of all the fun of drooling over new recipes, I have been given the opportunity of giving away not one, but TWO great little prize packs! In each prize pack you will find:

• A magazine featuring past Bake-Off recipes
• A Pillsbury Doughboy Giggle Doll (my kids would love that!)

So please, go watch the video, vote for the finalists, and enter the giveaway by answering one or both of these questions:

• What do you think makes a winning recipe
• If you've seen the Pillsbury Bake-Off before, what are some of your favorite past recipes?

Voting will close at midnight on Sunday, July 19th, central time. Winners will be chosen at random on Monday, July 20th, and announced later that day.

Please be sure to leave a way for me to contact you, or I will pick another winner. Good luck!

Mother's Day Giveaway!

Go check out 5 Minutes For Mom for their annual Mother's Day Giveaway!

In my previous post, I said what could be better than Guns and Diamonds. Well, here's one for you, Guns and Roses.

While I think these gun turn in programs are a joke, as any person who wants a gun can get a gun on the black market, it's still an interesting contrast to the Guns and Diamonds program nearby.

This Is An Interesting Idea

Guns and Diamonds. What could be better?

You Wanna Win Something, Right?

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In the spirit of my upcoming birthday, I have decided to give away one of my purses. I have been making purses like they're going out of style, and I have amassed several. I currently have several already made up and for sale in my Etsy Shop BeStitched, and I have a few more I'm finishing right now. They will be up on the site within the next week or so.

So, here's how this contest will work.

1. Go check out the purses section of BeStitched.
2. Put a link on your site to this contest AND BeStitched.
3. Leave your link on Mr. Linky, and you will be entered.

The contest will close at midnight on Saturday December 1st. I will announce the winner on my birthday, Sunday December 2nd, sometime before the end of the day.