July 30, 2011

Win What I Won! (Robby Wash Review/Giveaways)

Awhile back I won a Robby Wash Laundry Ball.  It was something I would have been hesitant to try because of the cost, not being sure if it would work.  But having gotten it for free I was more than willing to try it, and I am absolutely sold on it!  It works great!

Out of the box the smell was very strong...and I was a bit worried about that.   But my clothes come out smelling fresh and clean and not at all over-"soaped".   And I've been using it for months now and it continues to work.

The thing I like best about it is how little space it takes up!  I do keep a small bottle of regular detergent for hand-washing, but don't have to mess with lugging those huge bottles around anymore.

Would you like to win one too?  There several current Robby Wash Giveaways going on.  Find one at....






July 28, 2011

Easy Wins: Low Entry Giveaways

Since giveaways on blogs are usually entered by commenting, the lower the comments, the better your chance to win! Here's some I found with low entries ending soon. Organized by End Date.

July 28
Energizer Batteries (52 comments)

July 29
Saved by Grace Headband (43 comments) - Also supports a good cause!
ABCs for Dad's and Daughters (12 comments)
Coupon Binder (54 comments)
Matching Necklace and Earrings (33 comments)

July 30
 Chocholate (41 entries)
240 Uprinting Stickers (38 comments)
100 UPrinting Postcards (24 comments)
Mommy Whispers (27 comments)

Mommy Whispers



July 31
Mixbook Photobook (48 comments)
Christmas in July Various Prizes (38 comments)
Plumrose Lane $10 GC (48 comments)
60 Minute Shakespear (12 comments)

August 1 
WonderDads (21 comments)
Stylish Solutions Virtual Room Review (5 comments)
Book:  Boost your Revenue by Turning People Away (13 comments)
Barkley, Secret Service Dog (66 comments)

The Case of the Purple Diamonds (Barkley, Secret Service Dog 1)

Baby Headband From PreciousPrincessBowtique  (49 comments)



Jesus Storybook Bible (69 comments)
NOTE:  I REALLY recommend this book.  We have it, and our kids LOVE it!

The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name







August 3
Cabo Game (48 comments)
Item of Choice From 15 Dollar Store (17 entries)




(Current entries may be off a little since I posted this earlier).

If you have a giveaway supporting a good cause, or a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.

Squidoo Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.





My Lens Updates
  • I found a great YouTube video to ad to my Nazareth Lens, and realized I had only added one of the links about making natural dyes I had found (and meant to add several of them)...so those are added too now.   
  • I found a new POD to ad to POD Reviews...a place that only sells buttons with artist contributed designs.  You can find it in this section.

A Few Questions For My Fellow "Squids":
Do you post often post your lenses on the critique forum in Squidu?  I've found people there can be very helpful.

Which leads to another question.  How do you feel about suggestions/critiques of your lenses?  I love them, so long as it's polite.  I don't always act on the suggestions, but I always appreciate them.

July 21, 2011

Easy Wins: Low Entry Giveaways

Since giveaways on blogs are usually entered by commenting, the lower the comments, the better your chance to win! Here's some I found with low entries ending soon. Organized by End Date.

July 21
Flexi Clip (48 comments)
Comfort Cross (3 comments)
Glass Straw Gift Set (28 comments) 
Pear Tree Greetings (49 comments)- I Won This!
The Quest for Good Manners (5 comments) - I Won This!

A Quest for Good Manners

How to get a Job, by Me, THE BOSS (26 comments)

How to Get a Job...by Me, the Boss (How To Series)


Ditch the Joneses - Discover Your Family (50 comments)

Ditch The Joneses, Discover Your Family: How to Thrive on Less Than Two Incomes!



July 22
Pen Pal Kids Club 3 Month Membership (3 comments)
Probiotic Mints (30 comments)
Foldin' Money Kit (34 comments)

If you have a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.    

Novica Giveaways

Novica is a site run by National Geographic which offers fair trade goods by artisans around the world.  They have multiple giveaways going on right now.   Find some of them below (organized by end date).



If you have a Novica giveaway on your blog, or another giveaway supporting a good cause please click here to submit it.    

Squidoo Blog-hop: Interactive Content

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

Last week I started a new interactive lens, The Daily Disaster Log for Parents....which I shared with you all on the hop.    It's already gotten a bunch of log entries, and even more people taking the polls!  AND, there's been hits from Facebook and Stumbleupon, even though I haven't  shared it on either of those places yet...which means other people are sharing it!  Feels good!

Past lenses I've tried to make more interactive haven't worked out so well...

On previous lenses it was like pulling teeth trying to get people to participate, and a lot of the participation I did get was spam.  I used to put plexos on nearly every lens...but I've gone back and removed a lot of those because of the spam and how hard they were to moderate.   You actually have to go into the lens and open up and edit that plexo module to moderate submissions.  I REALLY wish they let you moderate submissions from your dashboard like they do with guestbook comments!   (It's why I made the log on the disaster list out of a comment module, not a text plexo). 

One lens made of mainly interactive content I'm wondering what to do with now.  It's a lens for Work at Home Mom (WAHM) sales and coupons.  I was getting a lot of spam unrelated to the topic and it got to hard babysitting the plexos.  I don't even really list my own sales there anymore.

After previous conversations on the hop, I've decided not to just delete it.  I  found out that you can transfer your lenses to other people., and I'm really thinking of doing that with this. If anyone here is interested in taking this lens off my hand, please let me know.

(Oh, and I started a thread for Interactive Lenses on the Squidu Forums ...so if you have an interactive lens, stop by and join in!)

July 20, 2011

Low Entry Giveaways and Giveaways for Good Ending Today!

Low Entry Giveaways
These blog giveaways have under 
60 comments and end TODAY!

Sand Be Gone (27 comments)
Pen Pal Club (54 entries)
Dano Ducki (36 comments)
Flexi Clip (48 comments)



Giveaways for Good
These giveaways support or raise awareness 
for good causes.

Spreads the word about Boxtops for Education.

Raises awareness about Recyclebank, 
Novica offers fair trade gifts
from around the world.



*I got extra entries for blogging about the starred giveaways.



If you have a giveaway supporting a good cause, or a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.    

July 14, 2011

Squidoo Blog Hop - Blog Events

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

NEW LENS!
This one is fun and interactive:  The Daily Disaster Log - For Parents, where moms and dads can share their daily disasters and take some fun related polls. Oh, and my discovery tool needs some links for this, so if you have a lens with related content, please let me know. Might not be able to include everyone's, but I'd like to add some of your lenses there if I can.

UPDATES
This week made a well-needed update to my Blog Events Linky...tracked down and added some great summer linky parties, book linkies, and teaching linkies!  I only list Seasonal and One-Time linky parties and hops there (not the weekly ones unless they are just weekly for a season)...but if you have any or know of any or have any, please let me know and I'll add them.

QUESTION FOR LENSMASTERS
What's your most interactive lens (the one that relies the most on visitor participation)?

July 13, 2011

Easy Wins: Low Entry Giveaways

Since giveaways on blogs are usually entered by commenting, the lower the comments, the better your chance to win! Here's some I found with low entries ending soon. Organized by End Date.

July 15
$200 Makeover and 3 Hair Stylings in Dickson, TN (46 entries)
Kodak Printer and Harry Potter Software (15 comments)
Be Happy Bouquet (36 entries)



July 16
Multicolored Chainmaille Bracelet (34 comments)
Ole and Play (9 comments/5 prizes = under 2 comments per prize!)

Olé & Play! The Songs of Isabella & Ferdinand Spanish Language Adventures
 

July 17 
Scrabble Tile Necklace (40 comments)
Endangerables Plush Toy and CD (18 comments)
Tom and Drew Shark T-Shirt (21 comments)
Flip Out (47 comments)

Flip Out



Waddles Children's Book (57 comments)

Waddles



July 20
Cinnamon Stick Trivit (46 entries)





If you have a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.    

July 8, 2011

File Under Fun!

Ok, by the time I got to posting this giveaway which was submitted, it wasn't a low comment giveaway anymore (at least my my standards...it's still under 100 comments).  But this is just too fun not to share.  I LOVE these funny magnets being given away over at Hentry Happened!




Aren't those cool?  You have until July 11th to try to win!

July 7, 2011

Aloha Friday + 2 Q Thurs - Aps

Every week or so I participate in Aloha Friday, where I ask a simple question for you to answer (nothing that requires a lengthy response) and Two Question Thursday (same idea...only TWO questions).  If you'ld like to, comment with an answer to the questions below:

Well, about a year ago my husband's work provided him with an iPhone, and we were introduced to the world of aps.  Aps are little programs and games that can go on your phone, which you can buy or sometimes get free.   My questions today are about aps!

1.  For those of you with a phone that has aps (or who have a friend/relative who lets you play on theirs), tell me about an ap you really love.

2.  OK, now everyone think back to...oh, high school.  Could you have imagined then that there would be phones that do what they do now?

Please leave your answers in a comment.  Thanks a bunch!

Squidoo Blog Hop

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

NEWS & UPDATES

First bit of news I'm really excited about:  Earlier this month Squidoo asked anyone had gotten a Big Hearted Squid award for their donations through Squidoo to nominate a charity to receive $100 next month.  I nominated Save the Children, and it was one of the 10 Squid nominees chosen!  Wish I had paid more attention to my grammar because they quoted what I said verbatim, errors and all.  (Oops!  But thats ok...I'm just happy Save the Children got another hundred!) 

In other news this week I had TWO of my lenses reach 100% on Squidoo's little progress meterTop Blog Giveaway Linkies and Print on Demand Shops Reviews.  Yahoo!  I've only had one other lens reach 100% and that's my POD News lens, which is funny because, though it was a good lens at one time, now it's very outdated.  I was going to try to share anytime something new happened (like new products, coupons, etc) on CafePress, Zazzle and a few other PODS...and kept it up for a while, but it just took too much time.  All the "news" there is over a year old, except the coupons, which I update via blog...so it's sort of ironic that it was the first one to be considered "complete."

ZAZZLE/CAFEPRESS COUPON FEEDS
Speaking of that, if anyone would like to share Cafepress and Zazzle coupons their squidoo pages, you are welcomed to add the RSS to my sale blogs, which I created primarily as an easier way to share sales on my Squidoo pages.   You can add the URLS below to an RSS feed module on your main page or sidebar module...but make sure to set it to show "Excerpt (100 characters)" because otherwise all it will show is asterisks.

For All Types of Product Sales
This is meant for lenses offering various products, and includes sales on specific products as well as general percent off and shipping sales.

CafePress:  http//cafepresssales.blogspot.com/
Zazzle:  http://zazzlesales.blogspot.com/


For General Sales (not product specific)
This only includes includes coupons that apply to all shops, such as free shipping or percent off total order coupons, which makes it a good one to use on a lens related to a specific type of product, as the coupons will always apply.  Note that CafePress often excludes Sigg and Thermos products, and Zazzle sometimes excludes Avery products from their sales, but I still choose to include those sales as I wouldn't have much to post otherwise.

CafePress:  http://cpsales.blogspot.com/
Zazzle:  http://zazsales.blogspot.com/


For T-Shirt Coupons Only
This only has coupons related to t-shirts and general sales (percent off total order and shipping discounts). 

CafePress:  http://cafepresstshirtsales.blogspot.com/
Zazzle:  http://zazzletshirtsales.blogspot.com/

NOTE ON CAFEPRESS FEEDS:
These only show marketplace sales, as the CafePress module on Squidoo only links to products in the marketplace (regrettably).


If you do add this to any of your lenses, please let me know, and I will try to be more diligent on keeping the coupons updated.  Also, if anyone would like to help me update these, it would be nice to have some help with this project (even if only occasionally...to cover me during vacations and such...though regular help would be wonderful).  It's easy to do--you can do it by e-mail and update several at once, and I could offer you some free advertising in return.

July 6, 2011

Easy Wins: Low Entry Giveaways

Since giveaways on blogs are usually entered by commenting, the lower the comments, the better your chance to win! Here's some I found with low entries ending soon. Organized by End Date.

July 6
Best Bib Ever (35 comments)
The Puglian Cookbook (30 comments)

The Puglian Cookbook: Bringing the Flavors of Puglia Home


July 7
Mary Bragg--Tattoos and Bruises CD (9 comments)

Tattoos and Bruises

July 8
$100 Target Gift Card (12 comments)
Heidi Ap (3 entries)

July 10
You've Been Sentenced (24 comments)

You've Been Sentenced

Super Diaper Baby 2 (2 comments)

Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers



If you have a giveaway with less than 60 entries per prize ending in the next 5 days, please click here to submit it.