You aren't going to believe this! Another ERGO giveaway!

Apple Cheeks Diapers is giving away an ERGO carrier! More information and ways to win can be found HERE!

I'm starting to think I need an ERGO tag!

Sweet crayon giveaway

Rachel's Reviews and Giveaways has teamed up with Gaddy Nipper to offer a giveaway. Gaddy Nipper upcycles crayons into adorable shapes in this gift set. We've done this as a family, and my kids always love the shaped crayons!

Enter the giveaway here!

Is it possible? Another ERGO giveaway!!!!

Rachel's Reviews and Giveaways is offering more opportunities to win and ERGObaby carrier! Hop over HERE and enter away!!!!

Another chance to win an ERGO carrier!

BabyBix is running a giveaway for an ERGO performance carrier AND infant insert! You can enter to win here!

Chance to win an ERGObaby carrier!

Loves Jurn3 is giving away an ERGObaby carrier. You have many chances to win by going to this post and doing as many or as few of the entry options you choose on their form.

Win an Ergo Performance baby carrier

As if Ergo wasn't great enough, they have a new design that is lighter and cooler! Heavenly Hold is giving one away! Enter here for a chance to win.

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

As you may have noticed, my blog has received a facelift. When Courtney ran a giveaway about a week ago to win a chance at a premade blog template, I figured "what the heck - it has looked the same for a couple years!"

AND I WON!

I'm so thankful to Courtney of Storing Up Treasures in Heaven and Lena of Premades For A Purpose. It looks great ladies! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Bamboo Bums GIveaway

Exploits of a Military Mama is giving away a Bamboo Bums cloth diaper.

Follow this link to learn more!

Crayola Glow Dome Giveaway

Mel over at Our Blessed Arrows is doing a giveaway for a Crayola Color Explosion Glow Dome. She also has reviews of a couple other of the brand new products that Crayola has out this Christmas (including the Color Me A Song - which I think is an awesome concept!)

Head on over HERE for your chance to win. And while you're at it - just sign up for her RSS feed. Not only will that earn you an extra entry into the drawing, but she and her family are just a joy to read about!

Opportunity to win a $200 Best Buy gift card

MckMama reviewed an awesome Samsung fridge over here on her blog. Go read the review and find out how you can enter for a chance to win a $200 Best Buy gift card.

Holy Cow!

A couple weeks ago, Money Saving Mom had a link to someone's Avon store that had a bunch of lip glosses and deodorants on sale for $.99 or under plus free shipping. I LOVE Avon - I was an Avon addict in high school, as one of my really good friend's mom had an Avon business. I haven't ordered from them since then so, what, 14 years? So I spent $2.97 that I probably shouldn't have and got two chapsticks and a deodorant. It came really quickly, came with a catalog that I drooled over one night on the couch while sitting next to Geof. I kept showing him the cute little girl's outifits and stuff... he kept rolling his eyes. Typical encounter for us ;)

We kept checking for the mail to come today because, normally, it's here much earlier on Saturday. Geof had just checked, nothing, sat back down. The doorbell rang (usually means the postman/lady is bringing a package). I asked him if he was expecting something - no. He got it and looked at me and said, "Are you?" No. He hands it to me and says, "Avon calling!"

I panicked.

I said, "I swear, I spent $3 on that one order - I even threw out the catalog before I finished going through it - I didn't order anything else!" I looked at the return address... sure enough, the same lady through whom I placed my last order. So I figured it was just a mix-up - she sent someone else's order to me. It was a BIG box - like 6x8x12". I saw my name on the paper and looked under it to see a big bottle of bubble bath - and I got REALLY scared because that was one of the things I had looked at. So now I'm really freaking out that I accidentally placed an order I shouldn't have. I read the paper inside:

Genevieve,
Congratulations! You were randomly chosen as the winner of my monthly giveaway! Everyone who purchased an item from my online Avon store was entered in a drawing to win this grab bag of different Avon goodies--- and you're the winner!
M blog is www.learningbeautydaily.blogspot.com and my online Avon store is www.cpavoncalling.com
I've also enclosed some catalogs and samples for you! Feel free to tell your family and friends to visit my online store, I will be having more samples and giveaways in the future.
Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy the products you purchased.

Lisa
cpavoncalling@yahoo.com

I was shocked! I didn't even know there was a giveaway going on - I just wanted some cheap, shipping-less Avon goodies (and I *do* enjoy them - I opened the vanilla lip balm last night - is SO good! And Avon deodorant is wonderful - cheap and it really works well, the smell isn't over-powering, and it lasts a full 24 hours.)

In my box there was:
A HUGE bottle of French lilac bubble bath (24oz!)
Avon Naturals refreshing peach antibacterial hand gel (this is the other "flavor" of lip balm I bought - and now I'll fight swine flu and smell good in the process!)
a purse-size bottle of Skin So Soft signature silk ultra moisturizing body lotion
an 8-in-1 lip palette (I wanna go play!)
Avon Naturals (green) Apple and Honeysuckle refreshing shower gel (5 oz - and I love that Avon's shower gel bottles are "hooked" at the top to hand on the showerhead)
Avon Moisture Therapy Intensive Extra Strength Cream (5.3 oz)
Skin So Soft soft&sensual roll-on anti-perspirant deodorant (did I mention how much I love Avon deodorant!)
Avon Foot Works foot moisture cream (2.5 oz)
Planet Spa Greek Seas condition seaweed hair mask
Avon SpectraColor lipstick in the nudes(I don't know how to describe this - it's like a mix your own color in the tube thing - here's a link - but it looks fun!)
Avon Moisture Therapy Lip Moisturizer SPF 15
Avon Care Deeply Lip Balm with aloe (I *almost* ordered this one. It's very plain, but it's one that my mom loved. But I told myself I didn't need to spend $1 for the memory. I was so happy to see this one)
Avon Sweet Delicious Lip Balm (It's purple! The outside it purple with pink hearts all over the place, so I'm thinking it's meant for kids)
Avon Wash-off Waterproof mascara (black)
Anew Clinical Professional Stretch Mark Smoother (This made me giggle)

Those were all the full-size things. Then there are samples of:
Lipstick in bordeaux (have you seen Avon's lipstick samples? They're adorable tiny lipstick tubes! My Busia used to keep them in her purse)
Lipstick in bronze (it's shiny!)
liiv botanicals vital day cream with SPF 20
mark matte chance mattifying lotion in sugar cane/pumpkin seed
mark eyeshadows in cake and corset
u by ungaro (perfume)
Anew Clinical Thermafirm face lifting cream
planet spa African shea butter brown sugar body scrub
mark sassy (perfume)
Anew alternative photo radiance treatment
liiv botanicals vital night mositurizer
[ ] - Patrick Dempsey 2 (perfume, and yes, "[ ]" is the name)
Avon 60's Pop (perfume)
mark see things clearly brightening moisturizer lemon & orange/lotus flower
Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalizing Cream SPF 25

I'm just in shock! Have I mentioned how much I love Avon? My little perfume collection (admittedly, mostly for the bottles) is mostly Avon. I can't wait to start messing with this stuff!

GF Pasta give away

5 Dollar Dinners is having a give away for 3 boxes of DiPalo Selects GF Pasta.

Head on over to enter!

Kids' book giveaway

One of my favorite bloggers, Mel at Our Blessed Arrows, is giving away some children's books from Cheerios. We are a big reading family, so this is an exciting giveaway to enter for me! Go on over to this post to learn more and enter for your family!

You, too, can host a carnival with a MckLinky!

There’s a great new “linky” service available and I wanted to let you know about it. It’s called MckLinky – www.mcklinky.com. After realizing the need for a new, reliable linky capability, Brent Riggs and MckMama got together to create a free, easy to use linky service for all their blog friends.

MckLinky is a free link list feature that allows you to do include lists of other blog links like MckMama does on Not Me! Monday. You can use MckLinky any time you want your blog readers to leave a list of links on your blog. It’s simple, reliable, free...and loads of MckFun!

I just won $20!

Safeway has their Kellogg's fruit snacks on sale this week for $1. I had 3 $1/2 coupons. So the kids and I hit the store today to get treats. Only, the shelves were bare except for Yogos Sours.

Thankfully, they like these and they fit the coupon - so we picked up 6 boxes for $3. I had heard that some boxes were marked with a chance to win a gift card inside - $5, $10, $20 or $100. Odds varied by denomination, but the overall odds of winning were 1:50.

First box had nothing. Second box had nothing. Third box had a $10 gift card! Fourth had nothing. Fifth and sixth each had $5 gift cards! They're Discover gift cards, so they're usable anywhere that accepts Discover Card!

My husband and I were joking that we should go back for the last 2 on the shelf and pay the whole $1 for them... since OUR odds of winning were 1:2 =)

Giveaway for a crafty girlie

Money Saving Mom is at it again! This time, she's giving away 5 craft kits from My Handwork Studio. These kits are really neat. This is only a 24 hour giveaway, so quickly go here and enter for your chance to win.

A gift basket for the mamas

Simple Mom is doing a gift basket give away with some products for mom. The ones I'm most interested in are the soap nuts (I've heard good things before!) and the trash ties hair thingies =)

Go over for your chance to win!

Lots of sweepstakes!

Good Housekeeping has a ton going on right now. I went there to register for the juicer giveaway that I read about in the January issue (yes, I'm 32 and read Good Housekeeping - I have for at least 5 years now). Then I saw they have a billion other ones there. So I've entered every one but the Lowes holiday lights display (we don't decorate the outside of our home) and the Binaca breath stuff (don't use it). Well, I also didn't enter the Walmart holiday bills giveaway - but only because it's not taking entries any longer (that ended 12/15).

While on one of the forms, I saw a side link to Philips Sonicare giving away free dental care for life (a $25,000 prize that can be used toward dental care). Since we're losing our insurance after this month, that really piqued my interest. And this is one that can be entered daily through 12/31 (the GH contests are all one entry only).

Go enter some contests... and good luck!

So, I've got this friend Melanie, you see...

... she's a professional photographer in North Carolina. And she's awesome. I think everyone should look at her work.

And this is the perfect time to go do it!

She's doing this thing called Cans For Comments. For every comment that is left on that post, she'll donate a can of food to her local food bank.

So head on over, admire her work, and leave a comment on that post by December 15th, okay?

Talk about an heirloom

Simplemomblog is at it again! She is giving away 4 beautiful family necklaces. These pieces are so beautiful... I really urge you to enter for your chance to win one of these lovely necklaces!

Go HERE to enter.