Kitty Thursday and a Giveaway

Play time!

And on a completely different subject: Milan Maternity (the company I blog for twice a week) is having 2 $100 gift card giveaways!!

GIVEAWAY #1: We're hosting our Mother's Day Makeover again and want your nominations. One lucky mom will be surprised this Sunday with a $100 Milan Maternity gift card! If you know someone who deserves a little pick-me-up, needs a maternity/nursing wardrobe update, or works hard and never takes time for herself, let us know! Tell us why you think this special woman deserves our Mother's Day Makeover giveaway. E-mail your nominations to service@milanmaternity.com.

A few rules/details:

-Nominations must be received no later than this Saturday, 5:00pm PST.

-You cannot nominate yourself (but read on, you're eligible for giveaway #2!)

-You can remain annonymous if desired (we can e-mail the gift card to your nominee if you have an e-mail address for them)

-The winning nomination will be notified by Saturday, 7:00pm PST.

-You may nominate more than one super mom

Giveaway #2: You can enter to win $100 gift card for yourself! Click here to enter.

Their clothes are awesome. And even if you are no longer pregnant, but are nursing, they have great maternity clothes that double as nursing clothes. Make sure you enter!!

Giveaway

There is nothing I love more than a great giveaway, and this is definitely a great giveaway!!

Milan Maternity is having a giveaway where you could win:

A $100 E-Gift Card to Milan Maternity for Mommy
A $100 E-Gift Card to Babies 'R' Us for Baby
A $50 Gift Card to Applebee's and 2 movie tickets to Regal Entertainment theaters for Daddy

How great is that??

Now go make some entries...so that if you win, you can give it to me :)

and the winner is....

LoW!! who should feel lucky that i didn't rig this, since you expressed your disdain in being "told what to do" even though it's MY blog, and it's my right to tell people what to do if they want to win something i make. and if i want you to tell me i'm great, or to list things you are grateful for, well by golly, you should do it with all jolly heart!! it is the thanksgiving season after all!!

maybe my next thanks giving giveaway will be a new attitude. and hopefully jud will enter that one.

thanks giving winner, AND.....

first of all, i would like to thank all of you for looking deep within your hearts and finding the good in me. i know it must have been hard for some of you, i know that some of you had to make things up, and i know there are some people out there who didn't even enter because they just couldn't think of anything.

second, although i appreciate that some people thought of more than 5 things that are great about me (darla), you were still only supposed to enter up to 5 times. and some of you (mom) felt the need to post a comment about your chances decreasing, which was also a no-no. so after creating a very complex spreadsheet and ridding it of the illegal comments, i used random.org to pick a random number.

and wouldn't you know, number 17 is the one and only kathy! who wrote a very nice poem, but only made one comment instead of 5. her chances were slim but she succeded.

kathy, you can expect your scarf within the next 5-10 years. email me what color/s you'd like and the address you will be at in 5 years.

and i have to admit, of all people to win, she was one of the ones i was scared of winning because she'll know it's not right.

NOW...to all of you none winners (and winners). worry not. i'm still showing thanks by doing another giveaway.

this week, you will have a chance to win some aniC original magnets. everyones dream.

to enter:

once again every can enter up to 5 times. 5 IS THE MAX. leave 5 seperate comments telling me the things you are thankful for.

a winner will be picked....sometime next week. good luck!

thanks giving

it's november. which means that thanksgiving is coming up. i like to call thanksgiving the forgotten holiday. halloween ends, and people automatically jump to Christmas. not that Christmas is a bad thing, but thanksgiving is pretty dang important too!

in honor of this month of thanksgiving, i'm going to have a giveaway. i give thanks to my friend megan for teaching me how to crochet, so i'm giving away a crochet masterpiece (and all of the imperfections that come with it).

it's easy(ish) to enter.

here's how:

leave 5 seperate comments. (everyone can enter 5 times, and you can figure out your strategy. bunch 5 together, or space them out)

here's the catch:

in every comment you leave, you have to say something that's great about me.

hey...just because i'm thankful and giving doesn't mean i can't be selfish and make you work for it a little bit.

also, make sure that in the first comment you leave, you also tell me what you'd like me to make. baby blanket, throw, scarf, pot holder, etc.(keep in mind my skills are simple)

examples of all 3 things i've ever made.

my throw that i'm still working on:

baby blankets:

a winner will be chosen using random.org next friday.

good luck.

from the mouth of me

this week i'll be guest blogging on my sister LoW's blog. while she's away at girls camp she challenged me. she said "i'll save pictures on my blog, and i challenge you to blog about them." i was scared, but i accepted her challenge. so head on over to see how i explained this and other pictures of my niece and sister:

while you are there, head over to this post to enter to win a free CANsoilidater for your food storage needs!

i want that

the giveaways on popular sites are a tricky thing. you can enter multiple times, but one way you can enter again is by broadcasting it to the world that there is a giveaway they should enter. which is fine, except, i REALLY want to win the giveaway. so i take my chances by informing other people about the awesome giveaway when i really want to keep it a secret so that my odds of winning are higher. but my odds of winning are also higher if i tell people about it and i get to enter again. it's so tricky.

which is my really long way of saying....

shelf reliance is having an awesome giveaway...the harvest 72'. this bad boy would be AWESOME to have and especially nice to get for free! check it out people.

to give or not to give

i love to give. really, i do. i love when someone i know has a birthday because it gives me an excuse to give them something. not because i expect something from them in return later on, but because it truly makes me feel good. i love Christmas not because of getting gifts but because i enjoy getting things for people and hoping that it makes them happy to receive it. i even like to celebrate half birthdays because it gives me an extra excuse for giving. and a joy of blogging is having giveaways to allow me to give people something just for fun.

so last night, as i sat on the couch, enjoying my new hobby of crocheting (see below picture of my first/current throw/blanket project) i thought "i should have a giveaway and let someone win a crocheted something from me."

i thought about how fun it would be to let the person pick their own colors and what they wanted. a baby blanket. a throw. a somewhat small yet very useful blanket. a scarf.

and then i thought what if no one enters? what if everyone thinks my crocheting is lame? and then i thought maybe it was a completely crazy idea.

and then i thought maybe i should just ask the people what they think.

so....what do you think?

we have a weeeeeeeeennnner

congratulations jess! i know you'll give these magnets a happy home! to those who weren't so fortunate...keep coming back! i promise time will bring another giveaway. and who knows, maybe the magnet fairy will visit some of you anyways.

AGAIN! AGAIN!

in an effort to be just as small portion of cool like my sister LoW, i'm doing my own little giveaway. (remember, how she's doing a giveaway?)
i'm going to giveaway....drum roll please.....

homemade magnets!!!

hey! i only said i'm trying to be a SMALL portion of cool. what did you expect?!?!

leave a comment to enter. if you put my button on your blog, you can enter again. if you feel the desire to post about this giveaway on your blog (haha! i'm cracking myself up here) i'll even let you enter a third time.

in a few days when i decide to pick a winner. a winner will be picked on random.org (so no trying to convince me to pick you)

p.s. there is a 100% possibility that this is what i made for my peeps for the pay it forward homemade gift from me. so if you decide you want even more, i can't stop you from entering. but if you really don't like them, then you'd probably be better off just sticking to the ones i made you.

(the magnets pictured are the exact ones you'll get, and maybe one or two more.)

giveaway! giveaway! giveaway!

yeah...no, i'm not giving anything away. i'm not cool enough.

but apparently my sister LoW is.

because she is the queen of "i'm the best food storer ever", she's having a giveaway from shelf reliance.

just go HERE and she'll tell you how you can enter up to SIX times to win this food storage!

(i'm largely decreasing my chances of winning by largely increasing your chances of winning. something just ain't right about that. but whatev's.)