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the vintage pearl giveaway

If you can't make all your own gifts consider buying special and unique gifts handmade by others. the vintage pearl is full of lovely handcrafted items.

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Erin Edwards, owner and designer, started The Vintage Pearl in 2007 as a creative outlet while staying home with her 4 children. It quickly bloomed into a business and she feels blessed to have a job that she wholeheartedly loves and enjoys. Erin loves creating and designing new pieces and finds inspirations from her everyday life as a mom. You can also visit Erin at her blog.

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Erin is giving away The Family Nest (or another piece of equal or lesser value) to one lucky reader. Please leave a comment on this post for a chance to win. She would love to hear what your favorite piece is in her shop!
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Giveaway ends Sunday at 12:00 p.m. CST. Good Luck!
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Make a teacher’s day better with $100 Office Max Gift Card

I am honored  to be part of this wonderful program from OfficeMax and Adopt-A-Classroom.  I hope you all will join in and honor a deserving teacher in your life! Teachers can use our help and support! Please nominate a special teacher for the chance to win a $100 Office Max Gift Card.

Mark Indelicato-OfficeMax-A Day Made Better-Education-School SuppliesDid you know teachers spend an average of $1200 of their own money on classroom supplies each year? That is $4 billion annually! That's why OfficeMax joined with Adopt-A-Classroom to create "A Day Made Better" a national cause event founded to erase teacher-funded classrooms. This year, "A Day Made Better" will take place on October 6 where 1,000 teachers will be surprised in their classrooms each with $1,000 worth of essential supplies from OfficeMax. That is more than one million dollars donated to help teachers! Principals at needy schools nominated the teachers for demonstrating dedication, innovation, and passion.

To pay-it-forward, OfficeMax and Mom It Forward have teamed up to create awareness about the issue of teacher-funded classrooms and to give you the opportunity to get involved and help a teacher in your community on behalf of the “A Day Made Better.” Here’s how…

Simply nominate a teacher of your choice to win this giveaway by following the entry requirements. Be sure to check out the prize and criteria!

Prize

One exceptional teacher will receive a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR gift card to OfficeMax. This can go a long way when it comes to classroom supplies!

Criteria

Teacher-Education-OfficeMax-A Day Made BetterThis is a giveaway that is meant to be given away. What does that mean? You get to nominate a teacher by sharing why this person is exceptional and deserving of this giveaway. The best part, every story told helps raise awareness in an effort to erase teacher-funded classrooms. The winning teacher will be chosen based on the following criteria, so be sure to tell us why your teacher is most deserving:

  • Dedication: does everything in his/her power to deliver the best possible education for his/her students.
  • Innovation: thinks outside the box and engages his/her students through creative learning activities & programs.
  • Passion: expresses a genuine passion for education and shares this enthusiasm in the classroom.
  • Need: demonstrates a need for essential classroom supplies.

Entry Requirements

To enter your teacher, you are required to do two things.

(Note: post a separate comment for each entry.)

1. Nominate your teacher with a comment on this post. (If you want you can nominate your teacher with a blog post on your personal blog or on Whrrl - just let me know in the comments so I can read about your wonderful teacher.)

2. Post these messages on Facebook and/or Twitter.

(Note: Be sure to leave comments here with links to your messages.)
  • Teachers spend avg $1200 of own $$ on school supplies annually! Help erase teacher-funded classrooms. http://bit.ly/3VUNvC PLS RT #omx
  • Nominate a teacher 2 win $100 in OfficeMax classroom supplies. Enter here: http://tiny.cc/4Lk5k PLS RT #omx
  • Join the “A Day Made Better” movement to end teacher-funded classrooms at http://bit.ly/UJ3LF #omx

More than 30 sites are participating in this campaign between now and Sunday, October 4. Visit http://momitforward.com for a list of all the giveaways! You may enter a different teacher on every site, but you may only win once!

Thanks so much for helping pay-it-forward to teachers in your community! Please join us on Tuesdays, September 22 and 29 from 9 to 11 pm ET for Girls Night Out (#gno) on Twitter if you’d like to meet the team behind the cause: @officemax, @adaymadebetter and @Adopt_Classroom. Hope to see you there!

Fine Print

Entries are due Sunday, October 4 by midnight PDT. No purchase necessary to enter. Winners will be selected by me based on the entry that in my opinion meets the above criteria. OfficeMax, Adopt-A-Classroom and Mom It Forward play no part in choosing the winner of this giveaway. OfficeMax, Adopt-A-Classroom, and Mom It Forward employees are ineligible to enter. In a spirit of fairness, my personal friends and family members are also ineligible. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered. The winner will be notified and have 24 hours to confirm receipt of the email. If no response is received within 24 hours, another winner will be selected. Open to participants in the U.S. 18 years and older.

Let your walls talk with Red Letter Words

Today we have a generous guest giveaway from Dee of Red Letter Words

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Hi I am Dee.  I make Art out of Words.  I started to design things for my own house because I want the things in my house to have special meaning for me and my family. You will find some of our favorite cities and places listed in the travel section. For the scripture prints, since I am madly in love with anything that God has ever said or done I couldn't possibly pick my favorite scriptures - I just love them all :)  I am thrilled to be able to offer this giveaway to Skip to my Lou readers!  I really hope you find something you LoVe!!!

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Winner gets to pick their favorite 12 X 12 gallery wrapped print!

Rules are simple:

1. Visit www.redletterwords.com and choose which 12×12 print you would get if you won.
2. Come back here and leave a comment with your favorite print by September 6th at 12:00 p.m. CST
3. To double your chances-- tweet, blog or post on your facebook about this giveaway and come back and leave another comment.

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Does mama need a new pair of shoes?

Famous Footwear_Gift Card_ShoesDo you need a new pair of shoes, love ice cream and want some fun? Famous Footwear is blending ice cream and shoes together to give us a fun way to discover our style and the chance to win $100 Famous Footwear Gift Card.   Visit  Make Today Unexpected and take the fun flavor quiz to find  your personal style and flavor. I am  "Double Bubble Sorbet."  What is yours?

I can't wait to hear what your flavor is so please read through the contest details and be sure to enter for the chance to win a $100 Famous Footwear Gift Card.  The best part of this contest is that everyone is a winner. Each one of you can receive a $10.00 coupon off of $50.00.

Giveaway

Famous Footwear_Downloadable CouponGrand Prize

This week, Famous Footwear is awarding one lucky winner with a $100 gift card. Shoes anyone? (See Entry Requirements below.)

Coupon

Everyone's a winner in this giveaway! Make your back-to-school shoe shopping spree a little more affordable by visiting MakeTodayUnexpected.com and entering to receive $10.00 off your next purchase of $50.00 or more.

Entry Requirements

To enter for a chance to win the $100 Famous Footwear gift card, please do these four things (make sure you leave a separate comment for each of your entries) by Sunday, August 30th 12:00 p.m. CST

Note: Entries that do not follow all of these requirements will not be considered.

  1. Take the 'Find Your Flavor' quiz by clicking here. Leave a comment on this post with your flavor and e-mail address.
  2. Become a fan of the Famous Footwear's Make Today Unexpected Facebook Page. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Make-Today-Famous/112646406371?ref=ts)
  3. Follow @maketodayfamous on Twitter.
  4. Post these messages on Facebook and/or on Twitter and leave comments here, linking to your messages:

Join #gno 8/25 from 9-11 ET 2 chat shoes & ice cream w/ @famous_footwear & @maketodayfamous. RSVP: http://bit.ly/wsRrC PLS RT

Download Famous Footwear coupon 4 back-to-school/fall savings: http://bit.ly/fogQH PLS RT #gno

Extra Entries

You can earn up to two extra entries for this week's giveaway. Leave an additional comment for each.

The Fine Print

No purchase necessary to enter. Famous Footwear and Mom It Forward employees, and giveaway hostesses are ineligible to participate. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered.

Peanutbeary’s Giveaway

Today's giveaway is from Peanutbeary's.  Tracie writes............

The perfect little pouch by Peanutbeary’s!

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There are so many uses for this little pouch it is impossible to mention them all! Here are just a few; teacher gift, hostess thank you gift, a little pool pouch to hold money & sunscreen, a pouch inside the large diaper bag to hold your mommy essentials, a lovely bridesmaid pouch to match your wedding colors, a little non-disposable snack pouch (think green!), travel pouch for containing those Ziploc bottles through security etc… It is made of the highest quality fabric and materials. The size is 6 X 9.  The pouch is lined with a coordinating fabric. The top has a zipper closure so you don’t have to worry about things falling out. Sold in gift sets also that would include a matching tissue holder and bookmark! Way cool and way cute!

Also included in this giveaway is a set (2) holiday washcloth cupcakes! How cute are these…and might I say a perfect little hostess gift! At Peanutbearys we say—Be unique, Give unique

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Giveaway will include a pouch, tissue and bookmark gift set. It will also include a set of adorable washcloth cupcakes packaged and ready to give! (Think hostess gift, bunco gift, new home gift…the list goes on!!)

Please “tweet” about the giveaway and link to this page. To enter leave a comment on this post. Enter by July 17th at midnight (US entries only please). Thanks!
www.peanutbearys.etsy.com

Max Moms

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