$100 Dicks Sporting Goods giveaway

Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous is hosting a giveaway for Dick's Sporting Goods. It's very easy, follow Dicks on Twitter (link in giveaway post) and in your comment share what you would buy. Oh how easy that was for me!

I could blow $100 wide open there in hunting supplies alone! I might get Jay a new hunting blind; or maybe some archery targets (for me and Jackson), or perhaps a lot of smaller miscellaneous things that will be needed during the season.

Or some girlie looking outdoors stuff. Or the kid's some new soccer supplies. Oh the possibilities are endless at that store. It's Jay's "happy place".

A Vengeful Spirit: The Winner Is

The winner of the Lizzy Armentrout / A Vengeful Spirit giveaway, chosen from random.org is:

Heather has until Tuesday night at 11:59 to claim her prize, otherwise I will draw another winner and announce them Wednesday morning. :o)

Stay tuned for my next giveaway: Glenn Beck's Common Sense! Coming soon! It will be posted on my Twitter account and on my Facebook page, stay in the know on the happenings @CalvaryGirl!

New ways to enter giveaway!

I've added three new ways to enter the Christian murder mystery giveaway. You haven't entered yet? It ends Friday! Enter now.

Book Giveaway: Christian Murder Mystery

"Christian murder mystery? Wendy did you say that right?"

Yep! I sure did! It was just released recently, and it is the FIRST in the series. Lizzy Armentrout is the author, visit her website and read her testimony (you won't regret it!).

It's a great book, as I've had the priviledge to read it already! Don't believe me? Read the first three chapters for yourself!

(.... Welcome back!)

So you want your own copy, huh? I can help you with that. I've talked Lizzy into giving away one free copy to a lucky CalvaryGirl reader!

How to enter? Very easy ...

New Ways to enter (as of 7/27):

* Leave a comment telling us what part of Lizzy's site you enjoyed the most.

* Post about this giveaway on your blog, comment leaving the link to the post.

* Grab one of my buttons and add it to your sidebar- comment leaving the link to your blog.

Other ways to enter:

* Join Lizzy's fan page on Facebook. Come back and comment in this post that you have joined.

* Follow Lizzy on Twitter. Come back and comment that are are including your twitter name. (Note: you must be a follower for the duration of the contest. If you unfollow before the contest is over, your entry will be deleted.)

* Tweet the contest using this message:

RT @CalvaryGirl is having a #giveaway for @lizzyarmentrout, free copy of her Christian murder mystery- go see! http://bit.ly/3t5Wdf #cgbook

---> come back each time you tweet this and comment including your status link (to the tweet) and get an extra entry! One entry every three hours, how great is that? If I didn't have a copy already I'd be tweeting away, and you got your link back to the blog in the tweet to come back to comment, perfect! (the status link is the link for the time the tweet was posted, hover over the time ("5 seconds ago"), click "copy shortcut" or "copy link address", then paste it into your comment.

Oh? You want more chances to win? I'm happy to oblige.

* Join my fan page on Facebook. It's brand new! Come back and comment in this post that you have joined.

* Follow me on Twitter. Come back and comment that are are including your twitter name. Same follow-rule applies as Lizzy.

* Follow me on Google Connect (upper left hand corner of the blog.)

* Add my button (linked) to your sidebar on your blog. Comment including your blog link.

* Register on Lizzy's website. Come back and comment that you have and what your username is on her site.

There you go! TEN chances to win, not counting all the tweeting you can get done, up to 8 tweets per day!

(Just be sure you come back and comment with your status message, and use the tweet provided!)

The contest will end July 31, 2009, at 11:55pm.

The winner will be chosen at random through random.org.

I will announce the winner on the blog, and Lizzy and I both will via Twitter and our Facebook pages Saturday, August 1st.

The winner will have until Tuesday night at 11:59 to claim their prize, otherwise I will draw another winner and announce them Wednesday morning. I will continue doing this until the book is claimed by the announced winner. So keep reading! :o)

I'm so excited about this giveaway! This truly is a great book, and if you don't want to wait on the giveaway, you can purchase the book ($14.99) through the publisher here.

Ready, Set, Go!!

We're home, we're home!

Thank you to all who prayed for safe travel for the kids and I in the past week. Our vacation was wonderful. I've told Jay we need to start saving now so we can go back for a full week ourselves next year. I could not believe how beautiful the weather was. You would think the second week of July would be blistering heat midday, but we literally stayed outside almost the full day! The only reason we come in between 2-3 was for our late lunch! The ocean was the perfect temperature, perfect waves- not too rough, just enough to give us a nice workout we didn't realize we were getting. I knew it when I got home and was not moving, though!

I want to share some more pictures with you this week from the trip. My new camera- remmeber the one I got fo Mother's day? It's so awesome! I got some terriffic water shots, and with the 15x zoom, some really great expressions, too! Right now we're getting ready to take Hannah to the doctor. She's been complaining about her left breast hurting on and off for about three weeks, minus last week. Im not sure if it was not hurting, or if she was too busy to notice. She woke up this morning with it hurting though and there's 'something' there that wasn't there before, so I got her an appointment so have things checked out. Seven is too early for puberty so I'm concerned considering our family history of cancer. We'd appreciate your prayers!

Have a great day, and from our Pastor's devotional this morning:

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." -- Galations 6:9-10

I have a giveaway coming up in the next couple of days, too! I'm working out the details right now, it's going to be GREAT!

Giveaway Winner: Love as a Way of Life

Out of 51 entries, it was:

and who was that? It was:



Congrats Emilie!!

Giveaway: through April 30th: Love as a Way of Life

This will be my first giveaway, I'm very excited! I thought it would be appropriate for my first giveaway, to put up what I won in another giveaway :o) (the only time, btw, lol)

{Extra clarification: this giveaway is through APRIL 30th, not May 30th. I cannot fix my error for the title and URL of this post :o/ }

What's up for grabs is the book "Love as a Way of Life" by the popular Christian author, writer of The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman.

from a review:
"This book is literally about the seven habits of people who are loving in their daily lives on a consistent basis. As Gary discusses each habit (kindness, patience, forgiveness, courtesy, humility, generosity and honesty) he provides heart-warming and inspirational stories of people who put love in action. There is so much sage advice in this book as well as a great deal of life-changing advice. " (read more reviews)

How to enter? There are a number of ways:

1) Leave a comment here telling me if you've read any of the Five Love Languages books and what you thought of them / it. (one entry)

2) Follow me on google (left sidebar)- comment back here letting me know (one entry)

3) Follow me on Twitter @CalvaryGirl (right sidebar)- comment back here letting me know (one entry)

4) Post about this on your blog- comment back here letting me know (and link me!) (one entry)

5) Add one of my buttons to your sidebar- comment back here letting me know (one entry)

6) Tweet and Retweet about the giveaway using this line-

Just entered the Love as a Way of Life #giveaway. You can win by following @CalvaryGirl & commenting on her blog here http://bit.ly/hZbwj

comment back here letting me know you've tweeted (one entry per tweet per day. this means you can earn a new entry each day by retweeting and commenting here that you did so!)

7) Finally, if you use RSS feeds in a reader, subscribe to my blog through your reader- comment back here letting me know which reader you use! (one entry)

So from April 22nd through April 30th, you could have 14+ entries! The winner will be picked by random.org. Please remember to leave a blog address or active email address so I can contact you when you win. If you do not contact me within 3 business days I will draw another number.

Good Luck!!

Why I love blog giveaways

9/5/11: Welcome to my blog! I welcome you to join me on the homepage, and lets start to get to know each other from there! :) Lets connect on Twitter, and on Facebook, too!

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You've probably noticed I'm into Giveaways by now. I just found the "Giveaway concept" on December 4th, when Sew Mama Sew done the HUGE Giveaway Day. It was SO huge, people extended their deadlines for days because the list was SO big it was impossible to get halfway through it in a day! But through that giveaway, I found some of my first bloggy friends and blogs I enjoy following.
These would be the people in the "crafty" blogs category in my sidebar. There might be more that was moved into the Homemaking category, too. (I don't remember 100%),

Nicole from Mom Saves Money shared why she loved blog giveaways, and I have to say, I'm in 100% agreement. I can't say at this point about giveaways bringing people back to my own blog, because I'm not sure that's happened. I haven't been approached by companies yet, but that sure would be nice! I haven't hosted a giveaway yet, but I have a couple in the works ;o)

Nicole says:

Here are the reasons I love to enter blog giveaways:
1. Free stuff This is
obvious. Who doesn't love to win free stuff?
2. Great chance to win Most
giveaways have 100 to 300 entries and therefore your chances to win are pretty
good.
3. Finding new blogs I have found some of my favorite blogs when they
host a giveaway.
4. New products I am introduced to exciting new products or
companies through blog giveaways. 5. Attracts new readers Others see my post on
the giveaway and may click through to check out my blog.
6. Attracts
companies to run promotions Since the blog giveaway carnival, several companies
have seen my entries on other blogs and approached me to run promotions for
them.

It might be cool to note Nicole's inspiration for said post, see what all she's won in the past month!

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I have been playing catchup on blog reading today and wandered over to Bridgette's to see what she's reviewed in the past week since I've been sick and not reading much elsewhere. She has a few things going on this week.

Ironically, one of the giveaways is for two bottles of Zarbee's cough syrup. We really need this these days! With Hannah taking multiple OTC's and her Amoxicillian, orange cream flavored ... she's been voicing her displeasure for cherry musinex (sp?). I can't see where it's worked for her, either. According to Bridgette's pediatrician, the honey in Zarbee's could make it more effective than regular cough syrups anyway. So it would be really nice to try these out. Find more information about this at her blog, and be sure to enter her giveaway!

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Another giveaway is for Toothtunes Toothbrushes. It's a singing toothbrush, what will they come up with next??!! I like the idea because it's set with a one minute timer, has a beginning prompt, a 30 second "encouraging phrase" and an ending promot. Music plays while they're brushing their teeth. Lately with Hannah, this might be what we need to get her back on track with her tooth brushing. She's just not interested in it lately, how odd the phases they go through!

So go over and read bridgette's review, and get entered to win one of these for yourself!

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At Five Minutes for Mom, there's a giveaway for a DVD copy of the new American Girl movie: "Chrissa Stands Strong". I've seen this movie. Knowing it wasn't a historical figure I wanted to watch it first to see if the topics would click with Hannah, which, it does. The movie is about bullying, and overcoming being bullied. It is very well done, and is a wonderful story. Very realistic and practical for today's kids. It was on HBO earlier this month, I still have it recorded but Hannah wants the DVD. Maybe I'll win this time? You go over and enter for yourself as well, okay?

We're quickly becoming American Girl fans- Hannah's favorite so far is Samantha, but I really like Felicity. Aside from the fact Felicity is a gorgeous red haired girl ;) there was one part of the movie when she was praying so fervently she was in tears (in Jesus' name no less!), it had me bawling like a baby, too. We went to see Kit Kitteredge in the movies- but the topic required some explanations in the movies for Hannah to grasp what the "big deal" was (the great depression)- now she'd understand it better now that she's older (7 yrs).

Since we cannot afford the dolls (and Hannah come to terms with that very quickly without me having to explain, lol) I really want to start the book collections for Hannah. She has enjoyed the books she's seen already. Be sure to go enter the contest!

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5 Minutes for Mom is also doing a giveaway for a box of alternative cold remedies from One Step Ahead; including Vapor-Eze Waterless Vaporizer, Baby Bed Blocks, and (what *I* really want!!) an EarCheck® Middle Ear Monitor!! That's well over $100 worth of items! If you'd like to join this giveaway too, get over there before January 31st to enter.

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Kidoozy, a site I had never been to before just now, is having a giveaway for a $25 Michaels gift card. After seeing Nicole's Valentine project- I could use that to do one of those too! ;)

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This is a neat one-
Soothie Ranch is doing a giveway for Halo Innovations. They're giving away a "Sleepsack"- I know I have friends with little ones in their lives that read here, you have GOT to go check this out!
Jay was the master swaddler like none other when our kids were babies- and he did make sure the blankets did not touch their face at all for safety reasons. That was the only way Jackson could settle down, was to have that restriction there. As he grew out of the swaddle stage, he required heavier blankets for security, (I later learned about the idea of sewing fishing weights around the edges of kid blankets for that added weight to it, very neat idea I think!) If we have another infant in the house we'll definitely be getting one of these!
Go on over and enter to win the sleepsack! :)

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Jamie's Precious Peas is doing a giveaway for kidscoats.com, and there are some CUTE coats there!! She gives a number of ways to get extra entries as well, the giveaway is for one of the coats from the site. Go to the site to enter!! Tonight is the first time I've visited this site, but I really like her blog design- considering I'm fighting a headache right now I found it easy on the eyes for sure.

Awesome Kiss My Face Giveaway

Have you ever tried Kiss My Face products before? I've tried their bar soap before and really liked it. It's an organic line of skin care, I bought it from Whole Foods. Ladybug Soup is doing s giveaway sponsored by Kiss My Face, and there will be two winners:

-One winner will win the entire Kids Line:

Shampoo/Conditioner, Self Foaming Shampoo & Body Wash, Self Foaming Hand Wash, Bubble Wash, 2 Bars of Soap, Toothpaste with Fluoride, Toothpaste without Fluoride, Detangler Creme, and Set of 2 Kids Lip Balms (over $70.00 value!)

-One Winner will win the Shine & Shimmer Lip Line:

6 Organic Sheer Shimmers in colors Ruby, Opal, Topaz, Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet. Also 6 Sheer Organic Shine Lip Glosses in Ruby, Opal, Topaz, Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet. 12 amazing lip products! (also over $70.00 value!)

So, if you want to get in on this, run over right now to Ladybug Soup and enter! :D

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Nicole at Mom Saves Money is having another coupon giveaway- $160 worth! She's giving three chance to win, hope on over and enter :)

Bridgette is bashin' away at her birthday bash for Lily and Charlotte. She's even participating in Wordless Wednesday with a precious picture of Miss Lily, how sweet!! Today's giveaway is threefold: a design from Photogreetings, a birthday flag from Blackbird Letterpress, and a PINATA from Birchangel !! I just come out of our birthday zone, but that Pinata is precious :o) Go check things out for yourself, and enter!

Happy Birthday Lily and Charlotte!

Bridgette from the Not So Blog is celebrating her daughter Lily's fourth birthday, as well as her friend Charlotte's fourth bday as well. In honor of their birthday they're having a big birthday bash, each day posting new giveaways on their blogs. You get double chances when you post over at MomDot (Charlotte's mama) as well. Cool, huh? At any time you can visit Bridgette's blog using her icon in my sidebar. When the kids get home, we're going to make a video of them singing Happy Birthday for the girls, too *g*

Be sure to go by and join in on the fun!!

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I found the Routan Baby Maker and couldn't help myself, curiosity got the best of me! I searched allll of my pictures to find a headshot of me and Jay that did not contain hair in face, hats, glasses, and closed mouths. Yeh, that was a challenge in and of itself! But I did, and look at this sweet baby! ;o)

I found this through a post at 5 Minutes for Mom- Volkswagon is sponsoring a giveaway there. They're giving away a $50.00 gas card and fun Volkswagen Routan prize package including the book, Welcome to Your World, Baby, authored by Brooke Shields, Volkswagen T-shirts, a Volkswagen branded tin and a couple of "mom essentials", why not go over and check it out?

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Oh YAY!! I just finished checking out a website reviewed by the Not-So-Blog, by the Precious Moments company called the Precious Girls Club. Hannah has started playing online more, and I think I've just found the ticket!! She loves the girlie sites like Barbie, and the dress up dolls, etc .. this is just way beyond that.

From the website:
"PGC games reinforce such virtues as helpfulness, kindness, responsibility, loving and caring. In addition to points, many activities award "virtual" virtue charms. "

"PGC makes it easy for mothers to participate in their daughters' online activities. From your own page on our website, you can email from the "real" world to your daughter's "virtual laptop" in her Precious Girls Club room. So, when your child demonstrates "caring" in the real world, you can send her a congratulatory message and points toward an online "caring" charm. The parent's section even suggests ideas for helping your daughter earn her virtue charms at home or in her community. "

That looks so neat!! The NSB is having a giveaway for a Precious Girls Club prize pack including a copy of the book, "A Little Bit of Faith", a pink tote bag, a stuffed animal, friendship bracelets, charm bracelet and Kind Charm! Hannah would LOVE that!! She also has the code for a one month- free membership, too- I'm definiately taking advantage of *that*!

Do you think you're little one would, too? Hope on over and enter the giveaway too- and don't delay, it ends January 3rd!

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I've found the Not-So-Blog through The Graves' blog just now, what a NEAT blog!! She's doing a giveaway for Lemonhead Kidz , they've offered the prizes, which is one Bandeez in EACH of the three size categories AND three Clipeez of your choice- so there will be SIX winners! How cool is that? So hop right on over and join the giveaway for yourself :o) Hurry though, it ends January 4th.

Win $160 in coupons

I found a new blog today called "Mom Saves Money". It looks really neat and she's running a giveaway for $160 in coupons, no duplicates. If you live in my area and don't know yet, Harris Teeter will double twenty coupons per day up to a dollar (if over 20 they'll accept them at face value).

"My plan" includes taking advantage of that in the new year so this would be a neat start, don't you think?

Hopefully Something Rhetorical: Giveaway

This is just too cute. If I don't win it, I think I might try to make it myself. But I really want to win it! There's still time to enter, she's extended her deadline til Sunday at 7pm CST.
Go check her out.

Confessions of a Craft Addict: Giveaway

Dawn, I'm thinking about you in this giveaway!
COCA is having a giveaway associating it with Give Away Day, called "Have a Craft Addict Christmas", and she's giving away a TON of craft supplies! Going through all of these craft blogs, I'm inspired now. I am going to ask my mom if we can dig her sewing machine out of the spare bedroom and bring it over here so she can teach me how to sew. (Lord help us all! lol) This year might not be a handmade Christmas, but next year has a good chance!!

As with previous entries, you get extra trys at the giveaway when you post about iton your blog, so guess what I'm doing ;) Go check it out!!

Edward and Lilly Blog Giveaway

Yes, I bet you are laughing at me by now, but I am still trying to get through that list at Sew Mama Sew, and you can too!! Since the list was so humongous, a lot of the blogs have graciously extended their deadline. I shouldn't be telling you this, cause it lessens me chance of winning, but ... I'm nice like that ;)

The blog Edward and Lilly have an adorable set of little handmade birdie ornaments they are giving away, and if you post on your blog about it, you get an extra entry. So guess what I'm doing ;) Go ahead and enter too!

Christmas Cookies

Will you be making cookies this year during the Christmas season? I usually make my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies the day of our fall festival, at the kid's now-former school. It's the provate school that is associated with our church, so we were still planning on going (my working in it ..), like usual. It's tradition for us, been doing it for five years now!

But the week of the festival, Jay's grandmother passed away. The funeral was the day of the festival, and it was raining, so we did not get to make it to the destival. Due to the funeral events (cooking, planning, etc ..) I didnt get to bake the cookies like I usually do. So guess what? It's technically not fall yet ;) Oh you didn't know that? It's not fall until my cookies are totally eaten, LOL

I'm going to reformat the recipe this year to make it more healthful, too.
I'd also like to do some cut out cookies and decorate them with the royal icing with the kids, I think they'd like that a lot. Have you ever done that?

We usually have a cookies swap for my Sunday school class, but I don't believe one is planned for this year. Maybe I'll host one. That would be so much fun! Have you ever been to a cookie swap?

Will you be making cookies this year during the Christmas season?
Have you ever baked cutout cookies and decorated them?
Have you ever been to a cookie swap?
What is your favorite Christmas cookie?

Speaking of sweets. I found a new blog "Bakerella", and I am in AWE of this woman's talent! The photography on this blog is mesmorizing, not to mention the sheer yumminess of it all. She also has a giveaway going on through December 6th, too. Check it out!

Mommy and Beyond, I wanna win!

Okay from the post below you know I'm having a good ol time with this give away day event. Well, I've run into a blog I really I want to win on!! Check out Mommy and Beyond, and look at the things she is offering!! :-O How generous!!

Seriously, y'all gotta get in on this *g*

I'm so very excited - Give Away Day!

I found this post from Sew Mama Sew, as a result of Gisele and Birdie's post (thanks Gisele!). The crafting-blogging community have come together for Give Away Day, and there's a HUGE list of participating blogs. Each blog is giving something handmade away to a lucky commenter. All you gotta do is comment!! How great is that? How awesome. I'm having a good time looking through these blogs as a craft-inept person from way back ;) I'm in awe at these ladies' talents!

Be sure to start here, and have fun!!