Giveaway/Contests

Photo Contest – Summer Time!

The 2008 Summer-Time Photo Contest is officially over!!

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CONGRATULATIONS GO TO … Kim of The Misplaced Midwesterner
(Kim, if you read this before I’ve had a chance to email you, contact me and let me know which retailer you would like your gift certificate to!!)

Kim wins a $25 gift certificate!!

Here are the final poll results:

Kim of The Misplaced Midwesterner 45 votes

Kim at Kim’s Photo Blog 34 votes

Karen at For the Love of Pete … 18 votes

Karen of Sillymonkeez 17 votes

Mrs. 4444 at Half-Past Kissin’ Time 16 votes

Alisha at Izzy ‘N Emmy 14 votes

Penelope of Sassy Mama’s Cafe at the End of the Universe 10 votes

Kristen at Kristen McLane 9 votes

Angela at Mommy Bytes 4 votes

Amanda M. at The Crazy Life of the Mills Family 4 votes

Terri of Mrs. Squidley’s Place 4 votes

Em Dy of Captured Beat 3 votes

Thea at I’m a Drama Mama 3 votes

Monkey of Where You At?! 3 votes

The winner will be announced will get to choose one $25 gift certificate to any of the following (winner’s choice!)

Old Navy
JcPenney
Kohl’s
iTunes – (I’m not sure they offer e-certificates, so will probably need winner’s address)
Target
Land’s End
Amazon.com
Busy Bodies
Life is Good

If you have questions, please contact Karen.

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Contest Participants

Karen of Sillymonkeez Terri of Mrs. Squidley’s Place
Em Dy of Captured Beat Kim at Kim’s Photo Blog
Mrs. 4444 at Half-Past Kissin’ Time Thea at I’m a Drama Mama
Penelope of Sassy Mama’s Cafe at the End of the Universe Monkey of Where You At?!
Karen at For the Love of Pete … Alisha at Izzy ‘N Emmy
Angela at Mommy Bytes Amanda M. at The Crazy Life of the Mills Family
Kristen at Kristen McLane Kim of The Misplaced Midwesterner

If the poll does not appear in this post (due to technical difficulties), please click on this link.

Blog-a-thon 2008, Giveaway/Contests

Get Ready …

The 2008 Blog-a-thon is coming up! (July 26th). Even though the official site is taking a break this year, I’ve decided to go ahead and blog for something that I feel very strongly about. I’m currently working on details and have a lot of awesome things lined up to talk about so I hope you’ll mark your calendars and plan on spending 24 solid hours with me on July 26th (beginning at 6:00 a.m July 26th and ending at 6:00 a.m. July 27th) as I post something fun (and I hope touching) every 30 minutes. I’m approaching the blog-a-thon a bit differently this year; I figure since the “official” ‘thon is not happening, I would take creative license and put a small twist on things.

Go on, mark you calendars now. Oh, and make sure you have extra tissues close at hand – it’s most likely going to be an emotional 24 hours. 🙂

More information will be coming soon!

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The next photo contest is coming up fast!

Win a FREE book at writefromkaren.com
(Dimensions: 400 x 200)

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Is it a quiet Sunday? Take this time to look through your photos and pick out your best Summer Time picture!

Read this page for more details.

Giveaway/Contests

Father’s Day Journal Winner and More Fun Announcements

Are you ready?

The winner of the Father’s Day Journal is …

Jo!

Father's Day Journal Winner

Jo was the third person to express an interest in the journal and that so happens to be the number the random.org generator spit out. Congratulations Jo! (Check your email!)

Also …

Win a FREE book at writefromkaren.com

I NEARLY forgot that the next Buy a Friend a Book Week (BAFAB) is coming up the first week of July! Whew! Good thing I remembered. 😀 So … you know the drill. Beginning June 27th, leave your name in the comment section of the BAFAB post and if I draw your name July 3rd, you’ll receive a FREE BOOK of YOUR CHOICE from Amazon.com ($15 max). If you would like to know more about the program and grab the promotional button above to post on your blog, please read this page.

Also …

Because of the craziness that came with my blog move, the June photo contest was postponed … until July 27th! The photo contests have been pretty popular in the past and I have so much fun hosting them so don’t miss out! You can find out the rules, guidelines, prize list and pick up this promotional button

Photo Contest at writefromkaren.com

on this page.

There is a lot of fun stuff coming up so don’t forget to mark your calendars, or put me in your RSS feeds or keep track of what’s going on in Twitter!

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(By the way, if anyone would like a Twitter button like the one I made above, just email me [email addy in sidebar] and I’ll be happy to make one for you, FREE!)

Giveaway/Contests

Giveaway: Father’s Day Journal

**Just leave a comment and tell me one (or more) great things about your man/dad.

A few days ago, I mentioned a giveaway.

I know, I know. I told you I was going to ease up on the giveaways, and I WILL, right after this one. 😀

Father’s Day is coming up. Duh, right? Well, I’m a big fan of filling out the memory journals, you know the ones, the pretty hardback books that you fill in the answers to all sorts of life questions? Yeah, those. They’re awesome. Can you imagine coming across a journal your grandparent, or even your parent left behind? Talk about a touching reminder of that person.

So … I thought it would be fun to give away a memory journal about dad.

Now wait, I know what you’re thinking. “Dad?? I’m lucky if I get the man to talk at all, let alone reminiscing about his past.”

Right. Well, what if you bribed him with …? I don’t know, you fill in the blank. You know your man/dad better than I do.

Or, if the bribe doesn’t work, play the guilt card. “But honey,” as you bat your pretty lashes at him, “think of the kids. Think how much FUN they will have reading over your entries later in life. You’ll be a hero!”

The hero thing seems to work sometimes, too. 😉

Seriously, it might be hard to get your man/dad to particpate in this book, but he might if you sit down with him and coax him to remember things (or write it down for him). I’m betting the time he spends with you is a motivation for him to fill this book out, too, and think of the memories you’re creating by doing this with him.

I know whenever my husband talks about his early years or shares funny stories from his past, our boys are just RIVETED and love hearing about what he was like before he became their dad. When I asked my own husband if he would fill something like this out? I received a “no.” But when I said, “I’ll write it down for you,” I got a “okay.”

See? The men in our lives just want to spend time with us. What a great way to spend a few hours documenting his past!

Have I convinced you? Excellent. Then if you would like a chance to win A Father’s Legacy

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for your man/dad, then leave a comment and list one thing that is awesome about your man/dad. Just one (or more, if you want to). I’m sure you can come up with one thing. *smile*

I’ll announce the winner (and notify him/her through email, please supply a valid email address) using the random generator on June 16th.

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