Book Giveaway

I just had to tell you all about a new book giveaway.

Renae, over at Life Nurturing Education, is giving away a beautiful, hardcover book, "O Holy Night", full of stunning photographs of the land Jesus traveled, poetry and hymns.

Comment by 11:00PM Friday, December 5 to enter.

More Giveaways!

Good morning all. :)
I found some more giveaways!

$500 Kmart Gift Card
Chris Brogan at Dad-O-Matic is giving away a $500 gift card from Kmart, with 2 ways to enter!

1. Comment on his blog and include a description and SKU or item numbers of items on your holiday wish list that total $500 or less.

-or-

2. Use Twitter to tweet the message found on his blog post. (a lot easier than #1)

Deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. EST on December 16.


Dirt Devil Kwik
During the Dirt Devil 12 Days of Cleaning Sweepstakes enter each day for a chance to win a Dirt Devil Kwik, the desktop vac for electronics that charges from your computer!

To enter, go to dirtdevil.com/12daysofcleaning/ each day through December 12 and complete the form.

Thanks go out to Wendy at Shopping Gems.


Free Domain
Wendy also has another site, Twitter!Tweet!Win!, with a great contest from NameCheap, The Great NameCheap "Twitter Trivia Contest" 12/1/08 - 12/25/08.

NameCheap will be posting a trivia question every hour on the hour starting on December 1, 2008 until December 25, 2008 on Twitter.

The First three people to reply to the Tweet with the correct answer will get a $9.69 credit to their NameCheap account (a free domain). To make it fair, each contestant can win only one domain per day.

At the end of the contest, the three tweeters who have posted the most correct answers will win an iPod Nano.

Thanks again, Wendy. :)


Avon
Beth at Tea and Thee is giving away a set of Avon's Liiv Botanicals skincare products.

To enter, leave a comment telling what your favorite Avon product is. You can also Twitter and blog about the contest for extra entries.

This contest is open until 11:59 pm December 7, 2008.

Thanks Beth. :)


Well, that's all for now. I'll post more as I find them. :)

Giveaways Galore

Giveaways, giveaways, giveaways!

First, Crystal at MoneySavingMom.com is having a 24-Hour Giveaway Extravaganza with 5 different giveaways of e-books, gift cards and more.
Enter before 11:45AM tomorrow!

Next, head over to My storyART and comment with a favorite holiday memory for a chance to win a "Holiday Surprise" goodie package.
Deadline for comments is Saturday, December 6.
HT to my mom at Artistic Inkspirations.

Now let's go north to Alaska and see Michelle at Scribbit.
She's giving away a Tupperware gift package today and something else every day this week! Giveaways end Sunday, December 7.
HT to Jyl at Mommy Gossip via Twitter.

And finally, Sheri is giving away 2 copies of "Our Christmas Journal" e-book at To Teach What is Good.
Deadline to enter is Monday December 8.

HP Giveaway $6000 In Electronics

Good morning!

How would you like to win a new computer? How about 4 new computers? A new printer?
You can win all this and more in the HP Magic Giveaway from HP and GearLive.

Included in the giveaway are:
HP TouchSmart IQ816
HP HDX18 Premium Notebook PC
HP Pavilion dv4 Entertainment Notebook PC
HP Mini 1000 (Windows XP)
HP MediaSmart Connect
HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless All-in-One printer
HP 564 Photo Value Pack
Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 with 3 licenses
Microsoft WIndows Live
Corel VideoStudio X
Kung-Fu Panda on Blu-ray disc, and two DVDs

WOW! Enough to giveaway to someone else if you win! (who needs 4 computers?)

To enter, go to Gearlive, sign up and follow the instructions.

Someone's going to win, maybe it will be you!

I Won A Book

Good morning to everyone!

Do you enter contests or giveaways?
I didn't used to, figured they were just a waste of time. With so many people entering, who really has a chance?

I've changed my mind. :)

Knowledge Quest Maps has announced the winners of their 2nd book giveaway I told you about last week.

I'm one of them! Wow! My children can't wait to get it!
This is really exciting because we don't get many brand-new books!

They will be posting more book giveaways on their blog, Knowledge Quest News, so check back often.

Thank you Terri. :)

Free Learning Resource- Biography/Book Contest/Audios/Lapbook

Here are some new homeschooling freebies for this week.

Download a biography about Good King Wenceslas from Knowledge Quest Maps. This sample biography is from their book, "What Really Happened During the Middle Ages", a collection of historical biographies for 8-14 year olds.
You might also like to visit their blog and enter the contest to win a free hard copy of "What Really Happened During the Middle Ages".

Homeschool Radio Shows has two audio programs for us this week, a Thanksgiving episode of "The Answer Man", and "Baby Snooks Thanksgiving". These are both episodes of two great old-time radio shows and will be available all week.

Attention Lapbookers!
CurrClick's new free product for this week is "The Girl in the Rag Coat Lapbook" by Hands of a Child, for grades K-3. Available all week, pdf format.

Win A Stand Mixer, Immersion Blender, Or Food Processor

Hey all you homemakers and cooks out there!
I just found out about a great contest over at My Wooden Spoon.

From now until November 23, enter to win your choice of a Kitchenaid Immersion Blender, a Cuisinart Food Processor, or a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer! Four ways to enter, two ways to enter everyday.

Wow!
Which one would you like to have? I like the mixer. :)

Don't forget, contest ends November 23.

Gettysburg Address Freebie and Contest from Homeschool Freebie Of the Day

In honor of the 145th anniversary of The Gettysburg Address on November 19th, Homeschool Freebie of the Day has a couple of wonderful audio freebies for us plus a great contest to enter.

The freebies are two audios of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The first is a rendition of the speech done by Darren Cacy for our “266 Words: The Forgotten Story of the Gettysburg Address” audio CD and the second is a recitation of the Gettysburg Address by Lillia Marble of Montana, at age 6. These free resources will be available until November 17th.

The contest is called, “The Gettysburg Address” Memorization Challenge.
Have your children memorize The Gettysburg Address, record it as an mp3 file and e-mail it to Homeschool Freebie of the Day by November 17th. On November 19th, they will post the names of the participants at their website… and maybe even post THEIR version of the speech! All children who enter the challenge will receive a special prize in the US Mail.

Wow, this sounds really neat! We're getting started today!

Do you need the text of The Gettysburg Address?
Transcription of the version of the Gettysburg Address inscribed on the walls at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Last Day Of Comments For Penny Raine Giveaway

Today is the last day of to comment on Penny Raine's bloggy giveaway. You can enter 14 different giveaways with a couple more to be added today. Giveaways range from girl's sewing books to vitamins to a granny cap, lots of good things for homemakers, just too many to mention.
Enter now! Winners will be chosen tomorrow.

Win A Homemaking E-book

Lisa over at Homestead Originals has a new contest for October! Visit her blog here, leave a comment, and you'll be entered to win her brand new e-book "Homestead Simplicity: Natural Clean". Post this contest on your own blog and get another chance to win!

I Won!!!

Lisa over at Homestead Originals was giving away the e-book ,"Haircuts for Little Men", on her blog and I WON! This is great, it's haircut time for my son, Daniel. I cut his hair anyways but I can always use a few pointers. :)

Thank you, Lisa. :)

Free Hanging Dishtowel Tutorial and Giveaways

Want to make your own hanging dishtowels? You can find a free tutorial here. This is from Kathy at Teaching Good Things. She also has a giveaway every day this week on her blog, which you can find here.
Thanks so much, Kathy!

Homemaking Freebies/Giveaways/Contests

Lisa's Blog at Homestead Originals
Lisa currently has a couple of contests on her blog. She's giving away a bar of Homestead Kitchen handmade soap and a copy of "Haircuts for Little Men" e-book. Just leave a comment on her blog and you're entered. Comment here for the soap giveaway and here for the e-book. Note: You do have to create a free account to make a comment.
While you're there check out the rest of her blog, she has some good recipes, homemaking articles and more.

Old Fashioned Homemaking
Coffemom has two free recipe book downloads, "Jam Recipes" and "Vegetable Dishes". You can download them here.
This is a great Christian homemaking site, you'll find recipes, cleaning and organizing articles, decorating ideas, articles on old fashioned values, homeschooling, family, and so much more!

Stamping Give-away

Connie over at Artistic InkSpirations is giving away some fall-themed BlogCandy. Included in the give-away are a hand-stamped pocket book and cards, some Clear stamps, some pumpkin colored brads, buttons, and tabs, and a set of little photo frames. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on her blog, here, answering the question "What is your favorite theme to stamp during this time of year, and why? ". Winner will be anounced this weekend.