Cook'n Recipe Organizer Giveaway 6/1 through 6/11

This looks like awesome software!  I know I could use this in my house, as I am terribly disorganized about cooking and meals.  This giveaway is hosted by: This Girl's No Expert, This Mom's No Expert, Swanky Moms Club, and Bubba Mack.  Enter from June 1 until June 11.

Great News! 

This Girl's No Expert and the ALL NEW This Mom's No Expert along with Co-Hosts Swanky Moms Club & Bubba Mack are partnering with 

Cook'n to bring you a GIVEAWAY of This AMAZING 

Cook'n Recipe Organizer Software worth $99.95!!!

Giveaway will be live from 6/1/12 at 12:01am until 6/11/12 at 12:01am Open Worldwide

This Girl's No Expert had the avid cooker's dream of reviewing the Cook'n Recipe Organizer! As soon as I downloaded the software I got to prowling! The program is so unbelievably amazing! You can add your favorite recipes, look through their INCLUDED recipes, make recipe books, make menus, shopping lists and so much more!  I am SOLD on this product and anyone that likes to cook NEEDS to purchase this software!  Or, maybe you could WIN IT IN THIS GIVEAWAY!!!

AND if you aren't the one that wins this giveaway, come back here and grab this 

Code:  MB-NOEXPERT

for 50% off the purchase price  of this software!   List price is $99.95  but they are offering it right now for $79.95.   50% off of that makes it $39.98!! You can't beat that price!!

Disclaimer:  *Eclectic Willow is not responsible for prizing. Sponsor is expected to uphold their promise by providing valid codes and/or prizes. Please be honest with all entries as we will be verifying. Verifying entries may take as many as 3 days. If you are announced a winner you have 48hrs to respond. After those 48hrs you forfeit all rights to the prize, and another winner will be chosen. **ECLECTIC WILLOW CANNOT REIMBURSE YOU FOR THE PRIZE PROMISED** Please Contact heather@thisgirlsnoexpert.com and she will do all in her power to help you receive the prize you won.

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Blogger Sign-Ups for New iPad Giveaway

The New iPad Giveaway Event is a free blogger event. You will receive one link at no cost as a thank you for participating in this event.

Free Link options are: Email, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

Prize: The New iPad ~ iPad3 16GB (value $499)

Open to: Worldwide (note – non-US residents will receive the cash equivalent).

The event dates: July 1 at 12:01 am to July 15 11:59am

What is required to join? 

• Post about the event with the button above linking back to this post. Feel free to copy paste this (below) along with the button.

Mom to Bed by 8, the Iowa-Mom is proud to present the The New iPad Giveaway Event, sponsored by BeeSavy. Event dates: July 1 to July 15.

Details: This is a free blogger event, open worldwide and blog accepting sign ups now. Join The New iPad Giveaway event with special co-host voiceBoks today!

• If you do not wish to post the announcement, send the $5 via paypal to goodnightmommyboutique@gmail.com with your email address and BeeSavy Event in subject line or notes portion of the form.
• Once you have posted your announcement or sent the paypal payment, fill out this form.
• You will receive an email from me with 7 days, confirming your participation. If you do not, please email me at teri@momtobedby8.com and I will check into it for you.
• Then around June 28^th you will receive another email from me with the html code for publishing the giveaway.  Note it is required that you publish the giveaway html in full to be included in this event. I will verify links on July 1^st around 8am central and if you have not done so, your link on the rafflecopter will be removed. This keeps this event fair for all who joins.

Referral prize: The top referrer will receive $50 paypal or Amazon credit for your effort. Then the top 2 runners-up will receive $10 paypal or Amazon credit Just make sure to add-on your announcement that they should add your blog name or url in the referred by section on the sign up form. This bonus will be paid the on June 2^nd after your referral links have been verified.

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Welcome to Pirate Plunder! Over at Eight Days a Week, they're celebrating her son's first birthday by giving away some Loot for you and your little one!

Two lucky winners will have a chance to win!

First Prize: Awesome Pirate Prize Pack (Appx value of $140):

• $25 Gift Card to MyBabyClothes.com
• 2 pairs of kids shoes from Shoeszoo 
• One Diaper from Baby Babu
• $25 Gift Card to Kranky Krab Children's Art
• Wool Lamb Wreath from Bossy's Feltworks 
• "Today a Reader" 10x8 print from nJoyArt

Second Prize: One Baby Babu Diaper AND One Pair of Shoes From ShoesZoo!



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With TWO chances to win you can't go wrong! Use the Rafflecopter form below to enter, there are plenty of extra entries but only the easy one is mandatory ;) Be sure and come back to tweet and share daily for even more entries! Giveaway ends May 27th at midnight EST. The winner will be notified via email and entries will be verified! Once the email has been sent you will have 48 hours to respond. Giveaway is open to US only, must be 18 or older to enter.

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Father's Day Giveaway

Have a special father in your life who deserves an awesome Father's Day?  How about $600 to fill his "man cave" or otherwise reward him with awesomeness.  I've linked up with voiceBoks, Good Steward Savers, Terri's Little Haven, Cute-Ecakes, Giveaway Promote, and Linkie's Contest Linkies to help make a father in your life feel super awesome!

This giveaway runs from May 14 until June 8, 2012.


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Lynsay Sands' "Under a Vampire Moon"

I waited for quite some time for this book.  From his first appearance in the series, I loved Christian Notte.  I was so excited to finally read his story.  Sadly, though, I was disappointed.

(Stop here if you don't like hearing about what happens in a book before you read it.)

The basic premise is this:  a friend drags Carolyn Connor to St. Lucia for a vacation while waiting for her divorce to finalize.  She meets Marguerite, who senses that Carolyn is Christian's lifemate and volunteers his band to come play there so he can find her.  This would have been an intriguing set-up, especially since immortals don't do well with sunny locations, except for one other plot device.  Knowing that Carolyn is bothered by how young Christian seems to be, the family tells her that he's gay and gets her to be his pretend girlfriend as a cover.

I suppose even that wouldn't have bothered me too much if it hadn't lasted for about 50-60% of the book. Seriously.  Carolyn stupidly believes he is gay for over half of the story.  He in no way acts gay.  He even kisses her a couple of times, which she somehow manages to dismiss.  The plot device grew old fast.  It is hard to feel a connection between characters when one of them is so seriously misinformed about the other.  It is also hard to create chemistry, and these two seriously lacked it.  I found myself disliking Carolyn because she was just so oblivious.

Now for the real spoilers.

The end of the book was the worst.  In the last quarter of the story, Christian finally tells Carolyn he isn't gay. Her reaction?  To paraphrase, "I can't believe he lied.  Oh wait, he's hot.  Let's just have sex."  Then she finds out he's an immortal and flees back to her vacation villa.  He comes over, tells her he's not a bad vampire, and she just accepts it.  It almost reads like "I can't believe you're a vampire.  Oh wait, you're hot.  Let's just have sex."

THEN we learn that her friend Bethany, the one who brought her, was trying to get her to commit suicide so that Bethany could hook up with Carolyn's almost-ex after he inherited Carolyn's fortune.  Wait, what?  Where did this even come from?  There were vague hints of this kind of thing, but it doesn't come up until maybe the last 2-3 pages.  Carolyn puts Bethany on the phone with another friend, and then she and Christian just leave.  That's it.  The end.  I literally flipped between pages a few times wondering if part of the ending had been lost, but the preview of her next book was there, so I'm guessing not.

From the awkward interactions between characters to the abrupt, unbelievable ending, I was extremely disappointed by this book.  I typically love Lynsay Sands' work, so it makes me doubly sad to give a book of hers a poor review.  Unless you really can't stand not reading every book in a series, I recommend giving this one a pass.

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