Chocolate Spa Getaway Contest Prize:

• Chocolate Spa Weekend Getaway at the Hotel Hershey from May 15-17, 2009.
• Air fare
• Limo service to and from the hotel
• A poolside room for three (3) days/two (2) nights at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• Over $400 (four hundred) worth of Spa Treatments, including a Swedish Massage, a Facial, a Chocolate Wrap and Lunch in the Oasis- a lite lunch of salads, soups and wraps at the spa in your robe and sandals.
• Admission to the Hershey Gardens.
• Gourmet Dining in the restaurant of your chose.

Chocolate Spa Getaway Contest Rules:

• Tell us in 300 words or less why YOUR FRIEND deserves a Chocolate Spa Getaway Weekend. (For example has she had some extenuating circumstances, struggles, challenges, or just plain needs a break?)
• The contest is for all women- married, single or single again.
• Then COPY and PASTE your essay into an email (sorry, no attachments accepted) and send it off to us at chocolatespacontest@gmail.com by midnight April 17th.
• Winners will be announced April 24.
• Over a $3000 value.

Additional sponsor prizes include:

• Transition Resources Inc.
• author Katherine Woodward Thomas, MA, MFT
• NiteSweatz
• Cabot Cheese

So get to writing your story and good luck! This weekend getaway sounds just like something I need!

A Chocolate Spa Getaway Contest

For more information, see the official giveaway blog entry: Win a Peek!

I Want To Win A Peek!

I had a great time reading all the things that people would buy if they won the $100 Sears gift card, and now comes to time to grant someones wish! Ted Murphy from IZEA made the winner announcement on TedTube just a few minutes ago, and you can watch the show here.

Were you the winner? You’ll have to watch TedTube to find out!

JUST KIDDING!!! (But you should watch it, he’s a funny guy)

The winner of my Sears $100 gift card is…Jeanette Malan and she said she would buy the Kodak 9.2MP Digital Camera, EasyShare C913 – Pink Sears item# 00353288000!

CONGRTULATIONS! I will be contacting you through the email you entered on your comment.

[tags]Grant a Wish, Sears, gift cards, shopping[/tags]

Sears $100 Gift Card Winner!

I asked for one for my birthday coming up in 6 days (most girls want sexy lingerie, but geek girls like me, want geek things like this), but today I saw that Owen was having a contest on his blog giving away a Twitter mug, so I decided to try my luck at winning one. This is a picture of the Twitter mug that he ordered. Isn’t it cool??

If you want to win a Twitter mug, just post about Owen’s Twitter mug contest on your blog, then leave a comment on his blog with the link to your post. You can also tweet about his contest on Twitter for an extra entry. Good luck!

[tags]Twitter mug, Twitter[/tags]

I Want A Twitter Mug

It has been many many years since I have shopped at Sears. Not because I don’t like the store, it’s just that I always picture Sears as the big ticket items, and lately there are no big ticket items on my wish list. Speaking of a “wish list,” what’s on yours this year? What’s on your families? What’s on your favorite charities?

With the layoffs in my family, and the struggles we’ve had to endure these past few months, wishes are what get me through most days. Just the other day I was talking with my boys about what they wished for Christmas this year. They know we are struggling, but I wasn’t prepared to hear their answer. I thought they would still rattle off all the high dollar electronics that they normally want, but they didn’t. They said they wanted socks.

Now like any mother of a teenage boy will tell you, there are never enough socks. With all the sports they do, and the the general roughness of boys, you can’t keep enough socks in the house. They’ve even resorted to raiding their step-father’s sock drawer, leaving him with no socks to wear.

So when I got a $100 gift card to go shopping at Sears, what do you think I bought? Yes, socks! $100 worth of socks! My boys wish for socks was granted! I was pleasantly surprised at all the things Sears has in their store. It’s not just appliances and Craftsman tools.

So there you have it. My boys will receive their wish of socks for Christmas, and I had an absolute blast going to Sears with my gift card. The Sears gift card is a great gift idea because you can use it to purchase any item of your choice, yes…even socks!

Now for the fun part! I want to give one of you a $100 Sears gift card for you to go shopping and grant a wish for yourself, a family member, or your favorite charity. You can enter up to three times using the different entry methods listed below.

Have fun and good luck to everyone! I feel like freaking Santa Claus all of a sudden! This is great!

Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish Giveaway Rules

3 Ways To Enter:

1. Receive one entry by going to Sears.com and pick out the items you would buy with a Sears gift card (up to $100). Then come back to my blog and in my comments tell me the item #s of the things you would buy.
2. Receive one entry by Twittering the following
   “RT @JustJulie please grant my wish to win a $100 #Sears gift card – tweet to make your own wish http://urlbrief.com/73028a”
   Leave a comment telling me the URL of your Twitter (example: http://twitter.com/JustJulie/status/1050355129).
3. Receive one entry by writing a blog post about the Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish campaign with a link to my contest Julie’s Journal – Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish. Leave a comment with your blog post URL so I can check it out.

Contest Details:

1. December 23, 2008 – Contest ends at midnight EST
2. December 29, 2008 – Winners chosen by IZEA at random based on all the entries
3. December 29-31, 2008 – Winners will be shipped Sears gift card

Official Rules

Now get to entering and good luck again!

[tags]Grant a Wish, Sears, gift cards, shopping[/tags]

Sears – Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish (Closed)

Diane Scott blogs at Online Internet Marketing Strategies, and is local here in Las Vegas. Congrats Diane, and I hope to meet you at the conference!

View my page on Affiliate Summit

As many of you already know I will be attending Affiliate Summit West this year in Las Vegas as the Blogging Lounge Blog Mistress. The conference is held at the Rio Hotel from from January 11-13th, 2009. It’s going to be great fun meeting everyone and networking with all the blogging press.

And as always, the cool team from Izea are going to be there with a lot of swag to give away.

Another cool thing is that I have a FREE Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass to giveaway to one of my lucky blog readers. That’s a $349 when ordered online, or $449 onsite for FREE!

All you need to do is Twitter the following “RT @JustJulie is giving away a FREE Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass #ASW09 thanks to @IzeaInc http://spedr.com/2acg” and leave me a comment here with the URL of your tweet.

The contest ends at 3:00PM PST on Friday December 16, 2008.

Other IZEA Insiders giving away a FREE Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass:

Heather
Corrin
Steven Sanders
Lisa
Brett
Drew

Good luck, and I hope to see you there at Affiliate Summit West 2009!

[tags]Affiliate Summit West 2009, IZEA, free passes to Affiliate Summit, blog mistress, blogging lounge[/tags]

Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass Twitter Contest (CLOSED)

Sadie posted the contest on her Twitter account and she also wrote a very moving story about her Aunt Martha’s Battle.

Congrats Sadie!

I’m sure you’ve all heard the phrase “Because I’m Worth It” from the L’Oreal Paris company. They’ve been using it in their campaign ads for more than 30 years. In 1997, L’Oreal Paris began raising money and awareness in the fight against ovarian cancer. In those eleven years they have helped raise over $18 million dollars for advance research, increasing awareness, and ultimately finding a cure.

Ovarian cancer affects more than 22,000 women each year, and the five-year survival rate for women diagnosed with the disease is less than 50 percent. More than 15,000 of these women lose their battle with ovarian cancer every year.

Starting last September (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month) L’Oreal Paris ran it’s returning campaign called L’Oreal Color of Hope. One of the main features of the campaign is the L’Oreal Paris Hope Necklace. The necklace was designed by 2008 Swarovski Award for Accessory Design recipient Philip Crangi and features a double eternity ring design of cubic zirconia set in sterling silver. One ring is worn for remembrance and one ring is worn as a symbol of hope for the future.

The Hope Necklace is available for $29.95 at L’Oreal Color of Hope or by calling 888.270.7743. With every purchase of the L’Oreal Paris Hope Necklace, $5.00 will be donated to OCRF (Ovarian Cancer Research Fund) to support life saving research to fight this deadly disease.

The kind people at L’Oreal Paris sent me a Hope Necklace and it is absolutely beautiful.

They’ve also reserved a Hope Necklace for me to giveaway to one of my readers. All we ask is that you help bring awareness to this devastating disease by writing a post on your blog. All the blog post, and extra entries, will then be eligible to win the Hope Necklace in a random drawing held on December 19, 2008 at 3:00PM PST.

L’Oreal Paris Hope Necklace Giveaway Rules

Required for contest eligibility:

1. Write about ovarian cancer and the L’Oreal Color of Hope campaign including how/where to purchase the Hope Necklace on your blog. Also include in your blog post details about this contest with a link to Julie’s Journal – L’Oreal Color of Hope Necklace Giveaway
2. Make a new comment below with a link to your blog post.

Extra entries for contest eligibility:

1. Receive one extra entry by Twittering the following “RT: @JustJulie-win a L’Oreal Color of Hope Necklace for ovarian cancer awareness at http://spedr.com/5vsam”
2. Make a new comment below with a link to your Twitter RT.
3. Receive one extra entry by Stumbling this blog post.
4. Make a new comment below with a link to your StumbleUpon profile page.

You must write a post on your blog first to be eligible for the extra entries. A random drawing will be held on December 19, 2008 at 3:00PM PST from all the entries received. I will contact you at the email you provide in the comment field if you are selected as the winner, and you will then have three days to email me back with your mailing address.

Good luck to all of you, and remember L’Oreal Paris’ commitment to the ovarian cancer cause is unwavering because they believe women everywhere are “Worth It.”

[tags] L’Oreal Paris, Color of Hope, Hope Necklace, ovarian cancer, women[/tags]

L’Oreal Paris Hope Necklace Giveaway (CLOSED)

He did tip me off this morning telling me about some of the items in the Big Box of Awesome though. It’s a swarm of Web 2.0 stickers that you can stick all over your office furniture. HA!

If you want to see more of what’s in the Big Box of Awesome and enter the contest just cruise over to The BenSpark and leave him a comment to be entered to win it!

[tags]Big Box of Awesome, blog contest[/tags]

The BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome

Social Spark and Kmart gave Jeremy Schoemaker $500 bucks to go shopping at Kmart. He picked out all sorts of things for himself, his daughter, and the rest of his family, and it’s all documented in pictures on his blog.

The cool thing about this contest is that he’s giving away a $500 Kmart gift card to one of his readers, and that could be YOU!

All you have to do is click here and go to Jeremy’s site. In his comments he wants you to write what items you would buy at Kmart (with SKU numbers), and for extra points you can retweet about his contest on Twitter.

How easy is that? I know that $500 would sure help my family out this Christmas, and I bet it would help yours too! So hurry! Click on the banner below and enter to win. The contest ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 16, 2008.

[tags]Kmart, Shoemoney.com,contest,gift cards,blog giveaways[/tags]

Easy $500 Kmart Gift Card Giveaway

I had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the online book tour for Queen of the Road. One of the great things about the tour is I’ve got a great prize package worth over $130 to give away to one of you! But first things first, I want to tell you about the book.

The book starts when Doreen (self-proclaimed Princess of Long Island) is approached by her husband Tim (Doreen-proclaimed Project Nerd) who wants to buy a bus and travel the world for a year. Doreen reluctantly agrees, and in her book she writes about all their trial and tribulations of living on a bus and traveling to 47 states, for 22,000 miles, with 200 shoes (I’m still not sure if that is pairs-100 pairs=200 shoes), 2 cats (Shula and Morty), 1 poodle (Miles), and a husband (Tim).

This book is AMAZING, and I read it in one sitting. I laughed, I cried, and I really got a feel for what living on an RV is really like. My husband and I have tossed around the idea, and Doreen’s story wasn’t enough to change my mind. Yes, she does tell the story of almost getting sucked out of the bus door while going down the highway, and the damn thing breaking down every 100 miles or so, but hey!? That’s the making of a great book, or an excuse to make a cocktail right?! (Listen to her podcast Mobile Martinis)

The part that touched me the most is that Doreen and Tim didn’t kill each other. In fact their relationship grew stronger, with both of them understanding each other a little (or a lot) better. Give it a read, I know you will enjoy it just as much as I did.

The Queen of the Road Giveaway

Everyone who comments on a tour post (including this one) will be entered to win a grand prize of:

1. Mom Logic Tote bag, eye brightener and mouse pad.
2. Wrist water bottle from Swiggies – $13 value
3. Gift certificate for free flashcards from GoosieCards – $29 value
4. Rose Pin – $10 value
5. Natural, dye-free dog tug from Purrfect Play – $18 value
6. Book, “Uncovered” by Mark Goldwich – $13 value
7. “Attitude of Gratitude” Tank Top Med from EmpoweringThings – $19.39 value
8. “Be Natural” tee shirt from JB-JustBe – $15 value
9. Cats on Cards Pet Rescue Stickers from PurrfectPlay – $7.95 value
10. 2009 Park-It Guide for NYC from ParkItGuide – $13 value

The Queen of the Road Blog Tour Stops

For more chances to win:

• Nov 28 Dorothy – Robyn – Louise
• Nov 29 Christine – Beckie
• Nov 30 Michelle
• Dec 1 Tara (blog 1 blog 2) – Stacie (blog 1 blog 2 blog 3) – Ginny – Kat
• Dec 2 Julie – Angela – Wendy (blog 1 blog 2) – Elizabeth
• Dec 3 Renee – Christine – Dennise
• Dec 4 Kimberly
• Dec 5 Alisa – Aimee – Toni
• Dec 6 Connie – Jackie
• Dec 7 Cathi – Sheena – Laura
• Dec 8 Maria
• Dec 9 Jane – Lisa – Yvonne (blog 1 blog 2)
• Dec 10 Kailani – Tara

Good luck to all who enter and you can click here to purchase Queen of the Road, and if you’d like a free signed bookplate from Doreen visit her site Queen of the Road for more details.

[tags]Queen of the Road, Doreen Orion, RV, traveling[/tags]

Queen of the Road – Review & Giveaway