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Stuffed animal love

Posted on December 20, 2008 4:38 pm by TheAngelForever

I admit it, I am a recovering stuffed animal addict! I believe that this illness began as a child. Of course, the addiction really grew during my Care Bear and Pound Puppy years in elementary school. I believe that my parents were quite lucky that the Build-A-Bear Workshop did not exist when I was little, or more stuffed friends would have joined my world.

NHL was given his first stuffed friend, a My First Big Bird, from Uncle I. Bird was loved from day one. He would chew on his beak and he traveled all over. Bird was quite yellow in the early years. Here is NHL kissing bird and Bird watching over sleeping NHL.

Of course a boy can not have Big Bird alone. Thanks to Bubbe and Grandpa, Elmo and Cookie Monster joined the crew. Over the last five years, friends have come and gone, but the three Amigos remain on NHL’s bed. Here they are today along with his two favorite "squeaky" buddies.

As you can see Bird has been very well loved over the years.

Tara at Feels like home is having a contest to win a $25 gift card to Build-A-Bear Workshop. All you have to do is tell about a most loved stuffed friend like NHL’s Big Bird. I sure hope her hubby Joe appreciates a boy and his love for Big Bird!

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Memories of my childhood – Giveaway

Posted on December 8, 2008 9:58 am by TheAngelForever

Shhhhhh. . . . I have a secret for you. Tomorrow is my birthday. As a reminder that my birthday is in December the temperatures finally took a major nose dive. This morning it was only 6 degrees outside with a windchill of -11! Happy almost birthday to me!

When I was in Elementary school, I have fond memories of my birthday parties. Many years I had them at an indoor pool and friends would come for Carvel ice cream cake after the swim. Of course, many years my goodie bag of gifts for friends was always Avon related. Why? Well, my mother was an Avon lady for many years. So we would give away funky nail polish, fun chap stick, or whatever was big at the time. I also recall having friends over and playing with the little Avon lipstick samples. Oh my, there were so many and they were all so very different, it was so neat as a young kid.

My mother stopped selling Avon a long time ago (more years than I care to mention), but my love of Avon has continued as an adult. When teaching, the homeroom teachers and I would buy our kids (all girls) Avon Christmas presents. Now, I often purchase makeup, chapstick, moisturizer, jewelry, Breast Cancer Awareness merchandise (love my pen from them), and even hair care products. Of course, the holidays are also a fabulous time to stock up on Avon items to add to gifts. I love their bath gels that are great with my knit washcloths.

Giveaway:

I am giving away the following items to one winner.

Color Reviving Shampoo

Color Reviving Conditioner

Dry Ends Serum

Grey Root Touch-Up (brown and black)

In addition to this, everyone is welcome to use a free shipping code for holiday/birthday/everyday shopping on Avon.com. By entering the code JINGLE30 you will receive free standard shipping with a $30 order when they shop with an eRepresentative. This offer expires on January 1, 2009.

Rules for Giveaway:

MAIN RULE – Leave a comment telling me what your favorite item is from Avon. This must be done or all bonus entries will not count.
1 Bonus Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment.
1Bonus Entry – Stumble this post and leave your Stumble name in a separate comment.
1 Bonus Entry – Favorite TheAngelForever in Technorati and leave your name there in a separate comment.
1 Bonus Entry – Follow me on Twitter (@TheAngelForever) and tweet once about my giveaway. Leave a link to your comment in a separate comment.
1 Bonus Entry – Add TheAngelForever to your blog roll and leave a separate comment.
3 Bonus Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog about the giveaway. Be sure to leave 3 comments about this to get credit for all of your extra credit.

My Avon Memories of childhood giveaway will run through midnight (EST) on December 13, with winner being announced soon after. The winner will be chosen using Random.org and will be notified by e-mail for address information. The winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only, sorry shipping is rough these days.

Have fun and thanks for participating in my birthday giveaway!

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Holiday giveaway at 5 Minutes for Mom

Posted on November 9, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

Be sure to head over to 5 Minutes for Mom when you have time.

Why?

I suppose the mommy "because I said so" response simply will not cut it. The reason, they are hosting a huge Christmas Giveaway! (Pssst — these items will also be great for Chanukah gifts as well) Click on over to see what it is all about and to sign up for some fabulous prizes.

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Fall ’08 Bloggy Carnival Winner. . .

Posted on November 2, 2008 11:04 am by TheAngelForever

Thank you to everyone that entered my bloggy giveaway this past week. I was blown away with the 357 entries and hope to see many of you back here to my home in the Blogosphere.

Now to announce the winner of my giveaway. Using Random.org the winner is:

Congratulations to Moriah at Please Pass the Salt. She has already been notified and sent me her contact information. Now I am working with her on which washcloths she would prefer.

Stay tuned more giveaways will certainly be coming soon!

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Bloggy Giveaway Carnival Time – Fall 2008

Posted on October 27, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

Once again it is time for the quarterly bloggy giveaway from BloggGiveaways.com running from October 27-31. I joined the summer one and had a great time meeting a lot of new people and finding fabulous new blogs to read.

Welcome to everyone visiting, please take a moment to look around and come back again to get to know my little bloggy part of the world. I love meeting new people and especially enjoy comments!

This time around I am giving away some items that will be great for the fall/winter months ahead.

A magnetic note pad with matching note cards and bookmarks, plus a $5.00 Target gift card. In addition to this, I am going to make the winner their choice of a knitted washcloth or two. I have lots of patterns that I can use or simply make something like the ones below. The winner will be able to select the color they would like.

Some DW cloths I made Closer view of the knitty goodness

I will open up this giveaway to anyone. To enter, just answer this in the comment section –> Tell me one thing that you love about the fall (this must be included or your entry will not count). Be sure that I have an e-mail address that I can contact you for mailing address after the giveaway is over. I will use random.org to generate a winner from the comments. This giveaway closes at 10:00 pm EST on Friday, October 31st.

Additional entries if you do one of the following and tell me in an additional comment for each that you do:

– Blog about my giveaway and link back to me. Please leave a link for me to check it our so I can thank you.

– Add my blog to your blog roll.

– Stumble my post and let me know your Stumble name.

– Twitter about the giveaway and let me know your Twitter ID (TheAngelForever is mine).

Again, thanks for stopping by TheAngelForever. If you are new here, please feel free to bookmark my blog or add me to your feed reader. Best of luck and happy giveaway hunting!