Bloggy Giveaways at Desperate Blog - Enter to Win Some Great Prizes!!

by Julie on July 28th, 2008

It’s Bloggy Giveaways time and this is my first one here at Desperate Blog. (I also have a contest running over at Disney Society, so head over there and enter to win 2 fun prizes.) For the giveaways, I have two prize packages for two lucky winners that I think you are all going to love! :D First, let me tell you about the prizes and then at the end of the post, I will tell you how you can win.

Prize Package #1 - “A Desperate Housewife’s Entertaining Essentials”

Item #1

The people over at Santa Barbara Bay (who came up with that great prize package name by the way, lol) have put together an incredible package valued at more than $130. Here’s what you get:

6 of Santa Barbara Bay’s best-selling deli dips (Artichoke, Garden Dill, Caramelized Onion & Roasted Garlic, Spinach Dip, Chili Con Queso and Roasted Garlic Ranch Dip) – $3.99/each x 6 = $23.94
6 stoneware dip dishes from Crate & Barrel - $5.95 each x 6 = $35.70
1 serving platter from Crate & Barrel– $34.95
6 stainless steel spreaders from Crate & Barrel- $5.95/each x 6 = $35.70

Those dips look delicious and you can not go wrong with Crate & Barrel. Very exciting!

Image used with permission by Santa Barbara Bay

Item #2

While you are enjoying your dips from Santa Barbara Bay, why not play a game with your girlfriends? A night full of laughter, good friends, food and entertainment from GamesForDames.com.

That’s what Kerri and Patti, creators of “What’s a Dame to Do?!”, the newest board game for women thought. The game is based on life’s dame dilemmas and more embarrassing moments and getting through them laughing over a glass of wine with your best friends. It’s about using our female intuition to guess how the Dilemma Dame would react to something like having their last few tampons roll down the aisle on the bus after my purse spills after I drop it. Or how about accidentally hitting a guy in the groin while boarding an elevator?

The other players get to chose your anticipated reaction for the reaction cards their given. Some reaction cards seem to be pretty legitimate responses like “Use diplomacy” or “Think it’s no Biggie”, but you might get something like “Speak with a Foreign Accent”, “Flaunt your assets” or “Pretend you’re on a scavenger hunt”. Whatever, it’s still a laugh out loud experience.

The people at GamesForDames.com are also adding the new CD from Dirk Quinn is called “QuinnTet“. Here’s a description of the CD and Dirk Quinn: “Quinn is a 33-year-old jazz/funk guitarist with the sophistication and talent of what I suspect makes jazz legends. His writing, arranging and playing is prodigious and evocative; his music is a seductive confluence of passion and tenderness; intensity and lightheartedness. This is the kind of jazz the novice can get into. It’s got the right mix of smoothness and funk even for the beginner while keeping the jazz enthusiast mesmerized.”

Sounds like a fun game and a great CD to me!!

Image used with permission by GamesForDames.com

Item #3

The third item in this prize package is the book “Excuse Me, But I Was Next” How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas from EmilyPost.com.

Here’s what this book is all about: “Etiquette expert Peggy Post comes to the rescue with an indispensable guide to our most vexing etiquette questions. Peggy addresses these perplexing dilemmas as only she can—with expertise and a direct, personal, down-to-earth style. You’ll learn how to politely say “no” to difficult requests, how to introduce someone if you’ve forgotten her name, how to perform damage control for e-mail bloopers, and much more.”

You and your girlfriends can read through this book together and learn how to deal with the top 100 manners dilemmas. Don’t we all have them? :D

Check out some other great books from this family owned business at EmilyPost.com.

Image used with permission by EmilyPost.com

Item #4

You want to look great while entertaining and be the envy of all of your friends right? Well, Skineez Skincarewear can help you look good and get rid of cellulite. Oh yeah, that’s right!

What is Skineez all about?

It is a shapewear garment that has anti-cellulite and moisturizing ingredients embedded in the fabric. Another really cool thing about this product other than the obvious reduction in the appearance of cellulite, is that it can also help you loose inches in you waist and thighs. You can read all about it at the Skineez website.

You can have your choice of the thigh slimmer or waist slimmer. I received the thigh slimmer a couple of weeks ago and I love it! I feel like I look better in my jeans than ever before and the fact that it is helping reduce cellulite is a major bonus! The garment has a nice citrus smell and is extremely comfortable. I have used another shapewear garment before and it was very uncomfortable and did not give me the look I was going for. :D I am very happy with my Skineez and plan on recommending it to anyone who will listen!

Image used with permission by Skineez

For prize package number 2 see below!

Prize Package #2 - “I Couldn’t Come Up With a Cute Name, But You’ll Love the Prizes Anyway”

What do you think of this prize package name? Clever huh? LOL.

Item #1

A Sony Ericsson Z750 VIP package

Is this not a totally amazing prize in this package? I instantly fell in love with it!! Here’s a description of what all is in this:

“The Z750 is packed with features and has a sleek and elegant mirrored with a cool hidden outer display. The exclusive package includes a Sony Ericsson Z750 phone, Pink’s “I’m not dead” CD, bliss® lemon and sage body butter, philosophy® pink lemonade lip shine, GoSMILE Mini on-the-go smile refresher.”

I love the color pink and have a pink phone myself, but now I want THIS pink phone! I love it.

Image used with permission by Sony Ericsson

Item #2

A Free 3-month membership to BookSwim!! What IS BookSwim? It is the nation’s first and only hardcover/ paperback book rental club — similar to a “netflix for books”. They mail books “netflix-style” with no due dates, no late fees, and unlimited rentals per month.

I have personally been using this service for the last two weeks and so far I love it! I have the two-book plan and am thinking about upgrading. I have almost finished my second book and am ready to send them back in the pre-paid envelope and get my next two books. I love to read and the idea of having books delivered to my door and keep them as long as I want is something I was all over! If you love the book and want to keep it, you also have to option to buy it at their rock bottom prices.

This is a GREAT prize and service!

Image used with permission by Book Swim

Item #3

The third item in this prize package is an autographed copy of the award-winning book, Beauty’s Secret, written by Debra Gano. Here’s a description of the book:

Beauty’s Secret is the first book in a new empowering series for girls titled the “Heartlight Girls” and it recently won Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Coalition of Visionary Resources. It has also been endorsed by best-selling authors Jack Canfield (coauthor of Chicken Soup of the Soul), Marianne Williamson, and Neale Donald Walsch, as well as former Miss America Marilyn van Derbur and Smart-Girl CEO Nicky Marone. It brings awareness of inner beauty to preteens prior to the vulnerability of adolescence.

Debra Gano is the Founder and Executive Director of Heartlight Girls and best-selling author of Beauty’s Secret: Book One of the Heartlight Girls Series, a new empowering series for girls teaching self-esteem principles. A former internationally known model and actress, she now dedicates her life to the empowerment of women and girls nationwide, bringing awareness of self-worth and inner beauty through workshops, speaking events, and self-esteem coaching. She has been featured on television, radio and print media worldwide.

Find out more about this book and Debra Gano at Heartlight Girls.

As the mother of a pre-teen daughter, this book sounds like something I need to get my hands on.

Image used with permission by Heartlight Girls

Item #4

Yes! It’s another Skineez Skincarewear! I won’t repeat myself from Prize package number 1. For more info on this product and my personal review, look at prize package #1 and also head on over to their website.

Image used with permission by Skineez

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Okay, so that’s the two packages. I hope you are as excited about the possibility of winning one of these as I was putting it all together. I imagine you are now ready to know how to win right? Here are the rules:

Just leave a comment on this post. That’s right…that’s it. Just leave a simple comment and you are entered!
Please leave your email address in the “email section” of the comment box so that I may contact you for your address.
This contest is for U.S. residents only.
The drawing will close on August 2nd at midnight mountain time and I will hold the drawing on August 3rd.

Be sure and head on over to the Bloggy Giveaways to check out all of the other great prizes!

I wanted to say a very special “Thank You!” to everyone who donated prizes for my great readers! I greatly appreciate it. :D

Alright, time to comment away…Good luck to everyone!

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