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Gigglesnort Greetings {A Giveaway!}

Sep 022010

Are you smiling?

Because the name of this card company makes me smile.

I used to have a friend that would laugh and laugh, and then snort.

And that’s when you knew the party had started.

Gigglesnort Greetings is located in Fort Worth, Texas. The company was launched by Carrie Dils in 2008 with little more than a box of old photos, some sticky notes, and a wild hair.

Gigglesnort Greeting cards are born within a pile of old photographs. Matched together with clever sayings, the perfect card is made.

Carrie is an entrepreneur at heart and the greeting card business has given her an opportunity to combine her creativity, humor, and love of business.

I “met” Carrie from through a mutual friend on Twitter.

She’s a great person to follow: She’s funny, kind, and always willing to offer advice.

I have to share my favorite card with you:

“For the life of her, she could not remember where she’d parked the car.”

That card = my Mother.

Movingrightalong…

Carrie generously donated a Set of 12 Witty Note Cards (valued at $25) to one of you guys!

This set features four of the most popular folded card designs (three of each). Stylishly packaged in a red organza bag, these funny cards are perfect to send one at a time (email me for my mailing address. ahem) or give as a gift!

All Gigglesnort Greeting cards are printed on a premium 14pt. glossy cover stock.
Inside: Blank
Card Size: 4.25″ x 6″
Envelope Color: Kraft

There are two ways to enter:

1. Go to the Gigglesnort Greetings website and look around. Then come back here and leave a comment about what card you would love to send out! (Please keep in mind that if you got here from Facebook, you may have to click the X button on the top right of the screen to close out the Facebook page and enter a comment. It’s a Facebook thing, not me :)

2. Carrie would also love for you to “like” her page on Facebook. If you do that, come back here and leave another comment letting me know that you did, and it’ll count as an extra entry. (If you don’t have a Facebook page, just write a sweet comment to Carrie and I bet she would consider that a 2nd entry :)

The fine print: I love to help small business, and I love to promote products that I like. I was not compensated for this blog post or giveaway. The opinions in this post are mine all mine. Giveaway ends 9/9/2010 at 8pm Arizona time or whenever I finish playing Cinderella and can sit down at the computer.

Spotlight on Small Businesses {A month of giveaways!}

Sep 012010

I am so excited for September!

I have been working with a few (10!) small business that I’m going to spotlight throughout the month.

And all of them are offering giveaways!

You probably know that I’m not one to do a lot of giveaways or advertise on my blog, but I thought it would be fun to do something different and let everyone know about these great business owners. I want you to know that I was not compensated for these giveaways or paid for advertising.

There will be cute kid’s items, beautiful handmade items just for Mom, items for scrapbookers and people who love to sew, and discounts (about $500 worth!) for those of you who are looking to make beautiful memories.

So, in addition to regular blog posts, keep your eyes open for these giveaways. Each one will last for a week. If you miss one, that’s ok, because you will easily be able to find the businesses on my sidebar for a month after their giveaway begins!

Good luck, and have fun!

Quote The Walls {A Giveaway}

Aug 222010

Update: The winners (chosen by the amazing random number generator) at comment #5 (Grandma Teetsie!) and comment #10 (Tricia!) I’ve emailed you both! Congratulations!

I received the best package in the mail yesterday.

Something fun.

Something inexpensive.

Something that was going to make all the neighbors jealous.

It was from Quote The Walls.

Don’t you love it?

I do.

I’m not much of a hanging picture/painting kind of girl.

I actually don’t have anything hanging on my walls, except for in the kitchen.

I faux-painted almost every other room in the house so I could get away with not hanging anything up.

That’s why vinyl wall quotes are my new best friend.

They’re simple.

They look awesome.

And they’re customizable!

(Though I can’t take credit for this adorable saying… it came right from Rebecca’s site.)

Care for step by step instructions?

1. Tell your handsome husband to center and level the quote… backwards. Oops.

2. Ask your husband very nicely to help you center and level the quote the correct way :) Then sweet talk him into helping you pull the backing off.

3. Use the pink scrapey that comes with your quote to rub the letters onto the wall. Your husband may or may not be silly and take pictures of your butt that you will find on the camera later.

4. Slowly pull the paper off of the wall. Slowly is key with big designs. Sometimes the letters want to stick to the paper.

5. Find the cutest 6 year-old in your house, and ask him nicely to help you rub the letters onto the wall, making sure they’re stuck.

Simple.

Seriously simple.

And guess what?

Rebecca generously offered to give away two $25 store credits this week!

Just go visit Quote The Walls and tell me what you would order with your store credit.

I think my next wall quote purchase will be this:

In the biggest size available.

You know, just not with an F in the middle… :)

So, what do you love?

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Small print: Quote The Walls kindly provided a vinyl wall quote for review purposes. The opinions in this post are my own. Please limit your entries to one per person. Two winners will be chosen on Friday, August 27th at or around 8 p.m. or whenever my little ones go to bed.

Start your week with a giveaway!

May 162010

*Update: The winner is comment #14: Julie!!*

Since the boys have been addicted to marbles lately, I thought it was perfect timing when I received an offer in my inbox to review light-up marble race cars.

Cars, marbles, and anything that lights up… 3 things that my boys go crazy over.

We had a couple of friends (girls!) over when we got the box in the mail and the kids went to town…

They had 6 different cars.

A volcano theme, a police car, and confetti theme, just to name a few…

The best thing about the cars? (I asked.)

By far, the decorating. (They all answered.)

Each car came with a set of decals that made it look like a race car.

The 4 year old had the hardest time decorating, but still loved it. She needed just a little help.

The 5 year olds did great by themselves.

And the 9 year old?

He loved the cars, too… but asked me to not post the picture I took of him :)

His favorite thing about the cars was that the large marble inside of each car stopped the car from tipping over when he raced it and made it spin around.

These cars can be purchased at CVS for $7.99 each.

Currently, there is a buy one get one free special for cars bought before May 21:

This offer is limited to CVS purchases in ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA & NEVADA only.

Mail or email a copy of your CVS receipt with your Light Up Marble Racer purchase to the following address:

Skullduggery

5433 E La Palma Ave

Anaheim, CA 92807

skorders@skullduggery.com

Include the following information:

Your name and address (No PO Boxes).

The name of the Light Up Marble Racer you would like sent to you for free (Fire, Police, Confetti, Cat’s Eye, Volcano or Cyclone).

Mom’s Honest opinion?

Super fun toy – The boys are still playing with them after 2 weeks (especially at night).

I don’t know that I would pay $7.99 a piece, so I would be more inclined to take advantage of the BOGO offer.

I love that the stickers kept them busy for 10-15 minutes, then the car itself kept them playing for longer.

Great toy, great idea.

And a giveaway!

Mom Select has provided a set of 6 cars to give to one of you!

To enter, leave me a comment and let me know how you heard about the giveaway.

Are you a subscriber?

A twitter follower?

A facebook fan?

I’ll pick a winner Tuesday evening using random.org and e-mail the winner.

Good luck!

Twist & Pout {a giveaway}

May 042010

*Update: The 10 lucky winners for the giveaway are:

Comment 30 – Laurie

Comment 5 – Chelsea

Comment 31 – Cecilia

Comment 11 – Katie

Comment 46 – Amanda

Comment 33 – Paula

Comment 50 -Jessica

Comment 45 -Aunt Sara

Comment 43 -Becca (not ME!)

Comment 7 -Ali

Please send me your address before Tuesday afternoon 5/11!

I don’t usually advertise on my blog.

And I’m proud of that.

If there’s something amazing that I want to promote on my blog, I write about it.

And though I would love to give away everything that I promote, I can’t.

Well, usually I can’t.

I contacted Twist & Pout about their lip balm because I picked some up in Hawaii and fell in love with it.

They offered me 50 lip balms to give away this past weekend at Bloggy Boot Camp.

{The bloggers loved them!}

And they offered me 10 gift bags {with 3 lip balms each) to give away for Mother’s Day!

Look at their newest collection:

Twist & Pout is trying to get to 1,000 Facebook followers before Memorial Day – Can you help them?

My personal favorites? The red and the teal ones. They’re adorable.

Twist & Pout lip balm has SPF, is natural, and lasts forever.

Well, maybe not forever, but you know what I mean.

I love that it clips to the zipper on my purse so that I don’t have to dig for it every time I need it.

Because I may or may not have dumped the contents of my purse a time or two looking for my lip balm.

So… to enter to win one of the ten gift packs for Mother’s Day, leave a me a comment and tell me which one of those lip balms up there is your favorite. (They’ll be sent out randomly though, so the one you get may not be your favorite)

I also want you to tell me one thing that you love about your Mom (it’s Mother’s Day, you know!)

I’ll start:

Hi. I’m Becca. My favorite is the red one. And the teal one. And I love that my Mom and I talk every single day.

The contest will end on Mother’s Day so hurry up and enter!

Ready, Set, Go!

Are you a Junkie? Because I am. {a giveaway}

Apr 242010

*Update: The winner of this contest is comment #20: Michelle!

Congrats Michelle, I can’t wait to give you your gift card in person!!*

Bloggy Boot Camp is on seven days.

*Eeeeeeek!*

I get to start my weekend by driving to Phoenix with 2 bloggers that I have never “met” before.

And my weekend will end with a trip to a super-fun store that I have never even been to before.

Bath Junkie.

Ahhh… Bath Junkie.

I sense that it’s like DisneyWorld…

They sell bath and shower stuff. Bath balls, lotions, scrubs, etc., etc., etc…

You can choose one of their {many, many scents} or customize your own.

Then you can pick what color you would like your product.

Is your bathroom pink? But you like the scent that normally comes in green? That’s ok. They’ll change it for you.

Do you love the scent that comes in pink? But are sensitive to the coloring in shower gels? They can make it with no color.

I received a gift from there a few years ago and have been ordering through the store ever since because {sigh} we have no stores close to us.

But there is a store less than 5 minutes from the hotel where the conference is being held.

! ! ! (Am I conveying my excitement? Because I am so excited!)

I decided that I shouldn’t have all the fun when it comes to BathJunkie.

So, I decided to spoil a fellow conference attendee with a $25 gift certificate to Bath Junkie.

You’re welcome to come with me Sunday morning. I’ll be there at 10 when the doors open.

Of course, you don’t have to be going to the conference to enter.

But it would make it easier for me to hand you the gift card and give you a big hug next weekend.

There’s one way to enter: leave me a comment. The giveaway will end next Thursday at 8 p.m. Arizona time.

Tell me what part of next weekend you’re most excited about… cocktail parties, slumber parties, classes…

(if you’re not going to the conference, you can still tell me what part of next weekend you’re most exited about!)

And though I’m following new suggested guidelines for blog giveaways and only allowing one entry per person, I am going to ask that if you like what you see here, you subscribe by RSS feed or become a fan of Our Crazy Boys on Facebook. You know, to be nice :)

I was not compensated in any way for this post. I love Bath Junkie, and am super excited about the conference next weekend. This is my way to celebrate both of these things!

I've been thinking... {a giveaway}

Apr 052010

*Update: The winners for this giveaway are Kellyn (Little Tree) and Susan (Spring Break). Thanks for entering!)

About {finally} making a blogroll.

About folding that pile of laundry that’s on my couch.

About going to see the ladybugs that just hatched in the neighbor’s kitchen.

About teaching Jack to write his last name.

About organizing my closet.

About printing some pictures from our vacation.

About organizing a Mommy Margarita date with Darcie, Stephanie, and Nicole.

About sending a care package to a wonderful friend who moved across the country.

About making some phone calls.

About changing my blog template (but definitely not my header).

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How about you?

What are you thinking about doing?

If you’re thinking about changing your blog template…

And you have a WordPress blog…

I can help!

My friend Kadi recently bought 2 WordPress blog templates that she ended up not using and she wants to give them to you!

Here’s the first, Little Tree:

click on the picture to be taken to the designer’s website

And here’s the second, Spring Break:

click on the picture to be taken to the designer’s website

Stinkin’ adorable, if I do say so myself.

Now, here’s the “fine print:”

To enter to win one of these, leave me a “real” comment {about the topic, not just “Little Tree,” “Spring Break,” or “Pick me!”) and include which template would best fit your blog. I’ll separate the comments by template choice and choose 2 winners… I don’t see why you couldn’t enter twice if you like both templates…

For an extra entry to either template giveaway, subscribe to my blog and leave me a comment letting me know how you subscribed (Email, Google reader, Bloglines, etc.) If you already subscribe, let me know that, too!

Kadi says she’ll help you with the header design and install… because she’s awesome.

Oh, and don’t forget… the templates are for WordPress blogs, not Blogger or Typepad.

I’ll close comments and pick a winner on Friday, April 16th.

And I won’t even require that my name show up in your header somewhere ;)

Good luck!!

And the winner is...

Feb 032010

I’m going to tell you first so that you don’t scroll down to the bottom and forget to come back up and read…

Becca from One Run Away!

Seriously, what are that odds that someone named Becca would win my first contest?? Fate, I tell ya…

Congratulations Becca! I’ve e-mailed you already, you just need to tell me what type of gift card you want! If I don’t hear from you within 48 hours, I’ll pick another winner.

I have to share some of the funniest answers that I received:

1. Who in the world is Marilyn?

Chelsea said: Oh, Marilyn! She’s that skank state that’s been stealing your husband (Also known as Maryland). Although I know you’re pretty stoked about the whole “affair” now, with your free plane tickets to HI. ;-)

2. Tell me one hamster rule.

Stephanie said: Don’t throw the hamster into a cactus. Hmmm…it seems that would be obvious, but apparently not. Teachers don’t get paid enough.

3. Michael is quite the swimmer. Tell me what stroke broke my heart last year during his swim meet.

Ok, not so many funny answers for this one.

4. Tell me the one creature that you could handle finding in your house (yes, this is an opinion question. A freebie, if you will).

Creature? Would “a dead one” count? – I got a lot of this. You guys are wimps.

Allison said: The creature I could handle finding in my house would be a snake, because we already have 4 and there is no way there would be one bigger than what we already have! (12′ & 100+ lbs.)

Allison gets the award for bravest contestant :)

5. What did Steve and I drink a little too much of in Cancun last year?

Michelle said: Those chocolate cake shots sound yummy! I’ll have to go check it out and see if hubby can make me one… or two… or… oh you get the idea! :)

So, if everyone were to come party at my house, there would be lots of chocolate cake shots and no creatures. Got it.

Thanks for entering, all 57 of you!

My First Giveaway!

Jan 262010

Happy blogday bloggiversary (what are they called?) blog birthday to me!

One year of sharing funny stories, posting pictures, and meeting lots of new friends.

One year ago when my friend Suzanne mentioned how much she loves blogging, I thought “hmmm… I bet that would be fun to try.”

I had no idea.

I didn’t realize that I would “meet” new friends and strengthen family bonds.

I didn’t know about the amazing and supportive community that bloggers have.

Now I know.

Since it’s my day and all, I decided that we should do something fun. After talking to Darcie I decided to steal her idea and host a scavenger hunt giveaway!

The rules

1. Send me an e-mail with the answers to the following questions. The answers are in the linked posts. I’m sure you’ll become so interested in the posts that you’ll almost forget all about the contest you’re entering, so don’t forget to e-mail me!

becca AT Our Crazy Boys (dot) com

2. Leave me a comment. Any comment. Tell me about your favorite post, tell me if you’ve been here one or one hundred times, or just say hello.

3. Once you do these two things (assuming your answers are correct), you’re entered into the contest.

The prize

One reader will randomly be chosen to win a $50 gift card to… wherever you choose!

Me? I would probably choose Borders. Or Target. But that’s the fun part. YOU get to choose!

The fine print

I can only ship to U.S. addresses

I have to be able to purchase the gift card online. As much as I love each and every one of you, it’s probably not in my best interest to fly across the country to buy you a gift card for the teeny tiny coffee house that you frequent.

Ready… Set… Go!