My Clothes Want To Smell Like An Herbal Morning Kiss

I just created a new fabric softener scent and entered to win a $100 Spa Finder gift card! My scent is called Herbal Morning Kiss and smells of herbs with undertones of dewy petals and a moonlight kiss. (Not sure what that would smell like, but it sounded good!) I really wanted something with a lemongrass scent, but that wasn't an option. Lemongrass is my new favorite scent!

The contest runs until 12/27/09, so you still have time to enter. (Unless you just don't like going to the spa!) Just visit Downey.com to get started designing your own fragrance. And, if you like the scent I designed, be sure to click on the link below and vote for it!

Win Ecostore Natural Cream Cleanser & Lemongrass Soap

I'm holding a contest on my other blog, Happy, Healthy, Vibrant You!, for an Ecostore Cream Cleanser and a bar of their Lemongrass Soap. I was very happy with both, and they don't contain all those nasty chemicals that most household cleaners and beauty products that are one the market today are filled with. Instead, the Ecostore has designed eco friendly, plant-based, household cleaning products that are as effective as the leading supermarket brands.

The Ecostore line is now available at Meijer's. --But enter for your chance to win them free! Now you can feel confident when you clean your home, yourself, and your babies, without the worry of toxins.



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The Winner Of The Cherish Bound Publishing Is...

Drum roll, please!

Selected by the Random.org widget in my sidebar... #18!


Commenter 18 was Julia with Our Simple Life and The Apron Goddess!

Julia said: "I have been looking at a couple publishing sites and would really like to see how this would come out! Sign me up please. Thx a billion."

Well, there you go... now you'll get to try it out!

Congrats to Julia! Tara with Cherish Bound will be contacting you to get you started. And thanks to everyone who entered!

And even if you didn't win, you can still create books to find, capture and share the stories of your life. Let Tara help you publish them, and save them forever, in the physical form, for your friends and family to look through when they visit by visiting www.FindCaptureAndShare.com.

Cherish Bound Review and Story Starter & $29 In Publishing Giveaway!

I was very excited when asked to write about Cherish Bound products and host a contest for them! I have a friend that has published a couple of her stories through them, and they are just gorgeous! (Click Here to jump down to the giveaway rules.)

If you are like me and used to scrapbook but were so slow that it took months to get just a few pages done, or perhaps you just don't have the time anymore and so all your supplies are tucked away in a closet and it seems too much trouble to pull them all out, or maybe you just download all your photos to your computer and then there they sit... where no one, but yourself, will ever see them, you will love the products Cherish Bound has to offer!

Cherish Bound is so much more than a photo book! You can create books to find, capture and share the stories of your life... As a blogger, I have endless stories and I've found a place to publish them, and save them forever, in the physical form, that my friends and family can actually look through when they visit.

You can do so much with Cherish Bound...create books, enjoy amazing products to help you organize your stories and even an opportunity so you can make money from home.

I met Tara Brown from Cherish Bound and she tells me that they are vamping up for some big things this summer and are looking for fun people to join the Cherish Bound family. You can be a part of the movement they're creating with some great specials and deals going on right now. You won't want to miss out! And who couldn't use a little extra money these days - especially doing something we already all love!

With Cherish Bound you can...

• Capture your Story. Using their online publishing tool, you will upload your story text, photos, and scanned images into a book template of your choice. With their ever-growing selection of colors, borders, and fonts, finding the right format for your story is easy. The tool is web-based so you don’t have any software to download or update – all of that is done for you!
• Submit your Story. With your book completed you are ready to submit your project to Cherish Bound online. All you do is press the submit button and they take it from there. Your book will be printed and bound using cutting-edge, archival processes and materials. You can order as many copies as you like, whenever you want. Your finished book is digitally stored in their archives indefinitely.
• Share your Story. Your completed book will arrive by carrier in approximately 15 business days from date of submission so that you can begin the tradition of sharing story in your family.
• Teach others about Story. Cherish Bound is growing. Kind of an "odd" thing to hear given the circumstances of our economy and how this little world of ours is turning. Tara said, "It doesn't surprise me. Many people are finding comfort and joy in our products, the stories that are being shared between family members and friendships that are being created between consultants and customers. It's a beautiful thing..."
  

Many people you and I know are struggling, or maybe it's you and your own family. Many families just need an extra few hundred dollars a month in order to survive and others need a bit more. Cherish Bound is here to help those families survive this wave and find some comfort.

Tara continued by saying, "There are millions of reasons why we're bracing ourselves for this amazing opportunity and we want to extend the invite to all who would like to join in on this dream! If you or someone you know could use a little extra cash, friendships and an opportunity of lifetime...you have found it."

Enter To Win!

Would you like to see for yourself what you can do with Cherish Bound? Well, Tara has agreed to host a contest on my blog!

To help you get started with sharing your stories, she is giving away a Cherish Bound Story Starter, A Publishing Account, and $29 in Publishing for one lucky person! That's enough to make your own soft-bound story book! All you have to do is leave a comment, here on my blog, explaining what story of yours that you would love capture and share.(Commenting with your story is for your first entry and must be done to receive additional entries.)

For additional entries, you can:

• Go to www.findcaptureandshare.com and fill out a request for more information. (top left in red - says "register") This will enroll you in Tara's monthly newsletter. Then come back here and comment to let me know that you've signed up.
  
• Tweet about the giveaway. (comment with the tweet URL)
• Stumble this post. (comment with your Stumble ID)

Giveaway will run for two weeks, closing on February 24. The winner will be drawn by Random.org and will be emailed and posted on this blog on Wednesday, February 25.

Please leave your email if you don't have a blog or profile. Contest is open to US residence only.

You can also learn more about Family, Traditions, and Story by visiting Tara's Blog www.publishourstories.com. If you'd like information about Cherish Bound's products & publishing, hostess programs and opportunity visit Tara here at www.findcaptureandshare.com.

The Winner Of The Mia Bella Candle Contest Is...

Thanks to everyone who visited, commented, tweeted, stumbled, and subscribed to my blog during the past few weeks while the contest was open. I truly appreciate all the new readers I've acquired. My goal is to hold a new contest every 4 - 6 weeks. So keep coming back... you never know when I'll have something new to giveaway. (And, if you would like to donate a product for me to review and giveaway, you can contact me at ahurst @ gmail dot com.)

Drum-roll please...

The number chosen by Random.org, out of 234 entries, was #90, which was Sue S of Just Neat Stuff. Congratulations to Sue! I will be contacting you by email and Twitter! You will be receiving the Mia Bella jar candle, 4 votives and a gourmet soap!

Amazon.com Is Giving Away A $10,000 Shopping Spree! Yippee!

One of my blogs I've had for a couple of years but, honestly, I was very casual in posting to it. So really, this is the first Holiday Season I've been a 'diligent' blogger, and I've learned something. There are a million contests that are going on right now! If you want it, you can probably enter to win it somewhere.

That said, this morning I found the one contest that I really, really want to win. Yeah, I know my chances are slim, and telling you about the contest will make them even smaller, but I'm so excited that I have to share! You can enter, with no strings attached, to Win A $10,000 Amazon.com Shopping Spree!

$10,000 in Amazon.com goodies! What would you get?

First and foremost, for me, would be laptops! Yes in the plural, two, maybe 3, of them. Either a Canon or a Sony SLR. A GPS for hubby. Oh, my son's TV is on the blink, so a new one of those. He would love a good stereo for his car, which is a piece of crap by the way, so a few auto parts might also be in order. My digital photo frame crashed a couple months back, so one of those. OK, I can see that I'll have that $10K spent by the end of the day! If you can spend free money as fast as me, go enter!

Julie's Journal Is Holding A Pillsbury Givaway!

In honor of the Pillsbury Home is Calling™ Campaign, Julie's Journal is giving away three Pillsbury Home is Calling™ gift baskets, which consist of:

1. Coupon for Pillsbury refrigerated crescent rolls
2. Magnetic coupon holder
3. House-shaped mouse pad
4. Pot holder
5. Cookie sheet
6. Bread basket
7. Lovable Pillsbury Doughboy figurine.

It's a noble cause too because Pillsbury is giving groceries to a food bank, a pound for every person that is sent their web commercial.

Visit http://www.juliesjournal.com/2008/11/24/pillsbury-gift-basket-giveaway/ for your chance to win and to also to find out who you can help those less fortunate.

Win Mia Bella Products In My First Ever Contest!

Love scented candles? I've got a contest for you! I posted a few weeks ago about the Bella Bars from Scent-Sations, Inc. (better known as Mia Bella) and told you I would be holding a contest for some of my extra goodies. Well, the time has come!

Mia Bella Gourmet Candles are made from a proprietary blend of ALL NATURAL waxes – no harmful paraffin wax, just a safe blend of vegetables and other renewable materials. Because they are made with natural wax ingredients -- you get virtually no black residue on your jars, walls, ceilings or in your lungs! In addition to the healthier qualities of a cleaner burning candle, you also get maximum value and performance -- the unique double wick in our 16 oz. jars will give you an even burn, all the way to bottom of the jar; and because they are made with biodegradable products, they clean up with soap and water! If you are looking for the best smelling, best performing, lowest soot producing candle on the planet… this is it!

Here's what you'll get if you win the contest:

• 16oz. Hollyberry Balsam scented Mia Bella Gourmet Candle (Fruit & Spice combine with the fresh forest scent of balsam to bring you this intriguing aroma.)
• Mystic Melon scented Bella Bar Gourmet Cleansing Bar
• 4 candle votives in misc. scents

(value of $32.90!)

So if you've ever wanted to try one of these great burning candles, or love them already... now's the time to enter!

How To Enter

Mia Bella has over 100 scents to choose from. Go to my Mia Bella website to see our list of scents and then come back here and tell me in a comment what your favorite candle scent is from the list on that page.

The contest will end on December 12. On Saturday, December 13 I will post the winner and I will contact the winner by email, so make sure I can find your email address. If you do not have it on your blogger profile, or the link you leave, put it in your comment. The winner will have 48 hours to respond, at which time I'll get their mailing address.

Can you get extra entries? YES!

• Earn 2 extra entries by also blogging about my contest, and linking back to this post, on your blog. (leave the URL of your post in your comment)
• Tweat about my contest for 1 extra entry.
  
• Stumble or Digg this post for 1 extra entry.
  
• Subscribe to my RSS feed for 1 extra entry.
• Technorati Favorite my blog for 1 extra entry.
  
• Follow me on Twitter for 1 extra entry. (http://twitter.com/amh615) (New followers only -sorry!)

Be sure to let me know in your comment if you did anything to get extra entries. And be sure to leave your user/profile name in your comment if you are Stumbling, Digging, Technorati Favoriting, Tweating, or following me on Twitter - I will be checking! :)

Thanks for entering and I hope you win!

*Sorry, but due to the price of shipping, prize will only be mailed to addresses within the U.S.

What I Miss Most... From My Burned Jeep

The thing I most regret losing when my Jeep burned is my CDs. Every CD me & my hubby owned was in that Jeep, probably somewhere between 50 - 100 of them! I love to sing. When I'm in the car, I'm in concert. And listening to the radio just isn't the same.

I went ahead and replaced two of my favorites. Tim McGraw and The Dixie Chicks, but there were so many more. Faith Hill, Sarah McLaclan, Martina McBride, Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, the list goes on and on. I'm trying to make a list of my favorites so I can purchase them again. I guess the good news is that nowadays, instead of just getting a CD, you can download the album and not only have it on CD, but also on your computer, your MP3 player, your phone, etc.

I've been visiting the musicSHOP trying to figure out what I want to download. At the musicSHOP I even have the ability to listen to entire music tracks (not just a snippet) through their free musicSHOP player. And they are usually holding some sort of contest where I can win cool prizes. Like right now I can sign up to win a Tom Tom (my hubby would love that!) or a George Straight signed guitar, and there's a new prize every week until 12/24! (Next week's prize is a Wii Fit Bundle!) You can enter too! Just visit the musicSHOP and click on Contests.

Win A Free Handbag!

As I was Entrecard dropping today I ran across a post pointing to a contest that Handbag Planet is having. This was right up my alley because not only do I LOVE freebies, I am a purse fanatic! I'd rather have a new purse than a new pair of shoes any day of the week. So, I had to enter!

Handbagplanet.com hasn't officially launched yet, but will in just over 19 days. On their opening day they will be giving away 24 handbags, one every hour of the day.

Entering was easy enough, you just supply your first name and email address. But wait... you can get more entries just by doing a few things. If you enter the email addresses for 3 friends that you think would like to enter, you get 3 more entries. And, if you blog about the contest you get 25 more!

So, I now have 29 entries. Now, I don't mind telling you about the contest, but if you want to be nice you'll only enter once so I have a better chance of winning! Thanks!