Greedy Giveaway! Faith, Hope & Love (yessir, I’m giving that away)

UPDATE 7/26/11: Cheryl M. is the winner of this Greedy Giveaway. Go, Cheryl M.! woot woot!

I’m kinda picky about the Greedy Giveaways I do. That’s why you don’t see a gazillion giveaways ’round here liked you used to. There’s two very special reasons I chose to do this Giveaway today – this is why it’s important to me:

1) The “Faith, Hope, Love” bracelet from Just Jewelry was specially designed to support the Plumpy’nut® project. Plumpy’nut® is a ready-to-eat, vitamin enriched nutritional supplement. The organization is providing this supplement malnourished kids (I love to hear this)! Sure, I joke about my Greedy Kids and complain about them drinking up all the milk (Grrr!), but in all seriousness, when I think of ANY child being malnourished, it really breaks my heart.

2) My long-time reader, Cheryl Chamberlain, is a Just Jewelry Consultant and she’s offered the “Faith, Hope, Love” bracelet for the giveaway (thanks, Cher)! I can’t express how much I appreciate all of you, and with such a beautiful bracelet being offered for such an important cause, I couldn’t resist giving a shout out to my awesome reader Cher to support her in this charitable cause to feed malnourished kids.

**If you are interested in purchasing the bracelet, please contact Cheryl through her Just Jewelry website or through her Facebook Page. You can also visit the Just Jewelry by Cheryl Blog!

Now it’s time for YOU to win the bracelet!

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How To Enter

You will NOT have to jump through earring hopes or swing necklace chains to enter. Just leave a comment by choosing either the word “Faith”, “Hope” or “Love” and tell me what that word means to YOU. I’m so curious to know! And I’m sure all of your comments will be inspiring and give me that warm, tingly feeling inside.

Your chance to win ends Saturday,  7/23/11. One random winner will be selected/announced by 7/25/11 on the top right sidebar and also updated in this post. United States entries only. Totally null and void where prohibited. BOOM!

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Congrats to DietGirl on 10 years of blogging! (And you’ll never guess what she’s giving away)

Ok, that’s not true, you can probably guess what she’s giving away, and it’s not a two-headed squid.

My friend Shauna Reid, author of The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, has been writing on her delightful blog of the same name for 10 years now. I have to give her big props for her dedication and work ethic. Ten years is like a century on the Interwebs. Thanks for all the laughter and tears, Shauna!

And as if I couldn’t love her more, she’s giving away two advance release copies of CHOCOLATE & VICODIN to kick off her 10th Birthday Sell Out celebration. Just head over to this post on her site, leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win. Keep checking in every day, too, because Shauna’s giving away a lot of great stuff and entries are open to people outside of the US.

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