Books, Blogs & Vlogs

You must meet my new blog friend Mandy of From the Trenches of Motherhood.  She is fun, and sweet, and is very well read.  And she makes vlogs, too.  Oh... you know she's a woman after my own heart if she's making vlogs.  I heart vlogs, you know.

And I'm not saying all that nice stuff just because I won her book giveaway the other day, either.  Did you hear what I said?!?  I WON A BOOK GIVEAWAY!  How cool is that?

I think Mandy is giving some other books away, so if you like books, you might want to pay her a visit at both of her blogs.

From the Trenches of Motherhood

To Read, or Not To Read...

See you on Thursday.  Lord willing, I will be sharing my thoughts on the first chapter of Voices of the True Woman Movement.

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Cool Giveaway!

Want to win a $50 Target gift card?  You better go visit my blogging friend, Ronnica.  She's got a new blog site and a contest running through Friday, Jan. 9th.  There are various ways you can be entered to win.

Visit her blog, the Ignorant Historian.

Wasn't Meant To Be

Something weird happened to me, and I don't think there's anything I can do about it.  Do you recall a few months ago when I mentioned I won a giveaway for a custom blog design from another blogger?  Well, I never heard from the blogger.  I left a comment on her post with my email address, as well as sending her an email that same day.  Then a few weeks later after not hearing from her, I sent yet another email.  A friendly sort of - Hey, maybe you forgot about me because you're really busy and that's fine - email.  But I've never heard from her.

I just wonder what happened.  It doesn't make sense.  I'm in no way out to get the blogger.  I won't tell you who she is, and I've already deleted the post where I announced I won the design because it isn't my intention to cast her in a bad light.  People are fallible, and somehow this giveaway got goofed up for reasons I don't understand.

So I don't get a custom blog design after all, and needless to say, I'm disappointed.  I was soooo looking forward to a new design that has LIZ written all over it... you know?  It just wasn't meant to be, I guess.

Starbucks Gift Card Winner!

Drum roll, please....

The winner of the Starbucks $10 gift card is commenter #20... Leigh! I've sent you an email to inform you of your winning. Please be sure to contact me with your mailing address, and that gift card will be on its way to you.

Thank you, everyone who participated. This has been the most fun I've had since entering the blog world. Many of your comments made me laugh because you really do heart Starbucks as much as I do.

Hope you'll stick around for more bloggy fun.

Starbucks - The Common Bond

Alright you Starbucks fanatics, I really had no idea that you would even find my humble, little blog tucked in among those hundreds of bloggy giveaways. But at last check there are 296 of you out there, and I am reeling, wide-eyed and dumbfounded, from all the attention. I realize you really only love me for my Starbucks, but it's attention just the same. I'm okay with that.

I have enjoyed reading your comments. It appears that I am not alone in my love for the mocha, and I feel the bond we all share no matter what your beverage passion...whether it be tazo tea, coffee, frappuccino, latte, steamer, or my beloved peppermint mocha.

Starbucks... it is the common bond.

My First Giveaway!

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know I LOVE ME SOME STARBUCKS! Oh yeah! So just for fun I thought I would give away a $10 gift card to Starbucks. Yes. Give it away. No charge. Absolutely FREE! Just to share the mocha love.

All you have to do in order to be entered in the drawing is leave a comment under this post. Any comment will do. I'd love to hear about your Starbucks beverage addiction...uh...passion, that is.

I will draw a random winner on Saturday, February 2. It's important to note that you need to have a U.S. mailing address in order to win. It's not necessary to be a blogger. Just be sure to leave me a valid email address.


Hey, as long as you're here, I'd love for you to read some of my recent posts. You can check out this one, which happens to be one of my favorites because it's all about the PEPPERMINT MOCHA.


So leave me a comment, and then head over to Bloggy Giveaways now and find tons of other giveaways going on at blogs around the web this week. It's pretty cool!

**I'm shutting comments off on Saturday at 8:00 AM. I will announce the winner here after that and send them an email.**

Candle Giveaway - Hurry!

If you're reading this prior to midnight (that's tonight Sunday), you still have time to enter to win a wonderful candle set from A Frog in My Soup blog. Visit her site and leave a comment, and you will be entered. That's it! They sound wonderfully fragrant. The gift set includes one 16 oz jar candle (your choice of Spice Shoppe or Pumpkin Cheesecake), 2 Votives and 2 votive holders - a $35 value!!!