5 Minutes Around The Blogosphere – Week 61

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Wee Finds is celebrating the launch of their new site by hosting a week-long giveaway event. Day one will be for a $25 Toys-R-Us gift card. Perfect for your holiday shopping!

Welcome To Married Life is re-launching her blog and she’d like you to help her celebrate with a week of giveaways ending on Dec 9th. Stop by for all the fun!

Stop by Thrifty Jinxy’s Gift Guide & Giveaways with over 25 giveaways during the next three weeks.

Mom~E~Centric and Education Uncensored are hosting a “12 Days of Christmas Give-a-way” starting on December 1st. Mark your calendars!

Goodies for Mom Green Holiday Gift Guide

CONTESTS & SWEEPSTAKES

Fresh Express is giving away a HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM!  You can find a code inside packages of Fresh Express Restaurant Style Complete Salads for your chance to win.

The holiday season is a time for giving. Sesame Street’s celebrating the season by giving away Fisher Price’s Elmo Live!™ toys. Winners can share the holiday spirit by giving the toy to someone they love! Enter the Elmo Live!™ Giveaway and nominate your favorite Sesame Street fan to win one of these entertaining toys. Elmo will sing, play, and joke his way into your friend’s heart!

To promote the December 16th DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def release of Mamma Mia! The Movie™ the most infectiously fun offering of the year, and to celebrate friends and their snack time rituals, Rudolph Foods, one of the world’s largest suppliers of branded and private-label snack products has launched a Mamma Mia! – Greek Isle Sweepstakes. Unveiling December 1, 2008 and running through January 5, 2009, the winners of the sweepstakes who enter the contest through www.RudolphFoods.com will be awarded a trip for two to Greece, free Rudolph Foods Cinnamon Churros for a year, CDs, DVDs and more.

BLOG GIVEAWAYS

For Everyone

• An Island Life – $100 to The Home Depot (Nov 30th/US)
• An Island Life – Your choice from KEEN Footwear (Nov 30th/US)
• Mama’s Money Savers – Unscripted by Patrick Dempsey (Dec 2nd)
• After a Cup of Coffee or Two – $15 itunes giftcard (Dec 5th)
• Go Graham Go! – TemporalScanner by Exergen (Dec 5th)
• Lookit! I Spy – An item from Lands End (Dec 5th)
• Chefdruck Musings – $100 of Stop and Shop Gift Cards (Dec 6th)
• A Wrestling Addicted Mommy – A Set of Pocket Buddha’s (Dec 7th/US)
• mod*mom – Your choice from KEEN Footwear (Dec 8th)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Choice of Lands’ End women’s slippers, wheeled duffel bag or kids’ slippers (Dec 8th/US)
• Goodies for Mom – Lands End for the whole family (Dec 8th/US)
• Apron Strings Aflutter – $10 to Lands End (Dec 12th)
• mod*mom – Peek Mobile Email Device (Dec 15th)
• From Dates to Diapers – $500 Walmart gift card (Dec 15th)
• Repell Em – $250.00 in EcoSmartPlastics merchandise (Feb 14th, 2009)

Just for Women

• Recognize and Remember – Share His Story Personalized Faith Ring Necklace (Nov 30th)
• Family Review Network – Bounce Back Fast! Post Natal Core Conditioning (Dec 7th/US)
• An Island Review – Decorative Wristlet Key Chain by Sweet Irie (Dec 7th/All)
• Mommy’s Ideas – Carry All from Miss Gina Designs (Dec 12th/US)

Just for Kids

• An Island Review – Curse of the Bone Pirates (Nov 30th/All)
• Mom Giveaways – $15 Gift Certificate to MobiStories (Nov 30th)
• Traveling with Baby – The Night Before Christmas, Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD & Treasury of 20 Storybook Classics (Nov 30th)
• Glimpse – A set of Babes in Black kids clothing (Dec 1st)
• NurseMommy – $25 Gift Card to Oh! Toys (Dec 1st/US, Can)
• An Island Review – Star Stash Reward System (Dec 2nd/All)
• An Island Review – Toobeez Building Toy Set (Dec 3rd/US)
• Adventures in Babywearing – $75 gift card to Ridemakerz (Dec 3rd)
• Did You See That – Cheekeyes™ Wood Toys from Oompa Toys (Dec 3rd)
• An Island Review – Fly Me To The Moon 3D Adventure DVD (Dec 4th/All)
• All Because Two People Fell in Love – Build-A-Bear Wii Game (Dec 4th)
• Muse Reviews – A Very Marley Christmas (children’s book) by John Grogan (Dec 4th/US)
• An Island Review – Cheekeyes Wooden Toys (Dec 5th/All)
• Mommy’s Ideas – Set of Madagascar Toys (Dec 5th/US)
• An Island Life – Snuggler Blanket of your choice from Shi Shu Style (Dec 6th/US)
• Chefdruck Reviews – The Flight Before Christmas DVD (Dec 6th)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Samsung red m300 kajeet cell phone for kids (Dec 6th/US)
• Tara’s View of the World – Build-A-Bear Wii game (Dec 6th/US, Can)
• An Island Life – $25 to Sassy Cakes (Dec 7th/US)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Personalized bookmark and name tag from Olive Kids (Dec 7th/US)
• An Island Review – Red Rosette Crochet Headband from Baby Cha-Cha (Dec 8th/US)
• Northwest Mom Finds – Pirates in Pink Rhumba Pants from Chew Chew’s Closet (Dec 9th/US, Can)
• Sassy Frazz – Poingo Interactive Book (Dec 9th/Cont US)
• Mommy’s Ideas – Pair of Shoes from Monkey Toes(Dec 10th/US)
• Tara’s View of the World – Poingo Interactive reading system (Dec 12th/US, Can)

Baby Essentials

• Momma In Flip Flops2 – Kushies Goodies (Dec 2nd/US, Can)
• Momma In flip flops2 – Babykicks one sized fitted diaper (Dec 3rd/All)
• Momma In Flip Flops2 – Bum Genius 3.0 Diaper (Dec 4th/US, Can)
• The Laughs Will Go On – Win either a Planet Wise Wet Bag or a Diaper Pail Liner (Dec 4th)
• Glimpse – Win a Bravado Nursing Bra (Dec 4th)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Lullaby Exercises DVD (Dec 5th/US)
• Northewest Mom Finds – Handmade Mary Jane infant shoes (size 0-3m) from Knot Sew Cute (Dec 8th/US, Can)
• Momma In Flip Flops2 – Preston’s Pants Cloth Diaper (Dec 8th/US, Can)
• Mommy’s Ideas – Klean Kanteen Sippy (Dec 8th/US)

Home & Garden

• Simple – Advent Kit (Nov 30th)
• BabasFarmLife – Metal movie poster of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Nov 30th)
• FineLine Antiques – Holiday Gift Tags – Set of 10 Vintage Inspired Tags (Dec 1st)
• Mom Giveaways – $100 Worth of Weiman, and The FilterStream Company Cleaning Products (Dec 2nd)
• All Because Two People Fell in Love – Bounty Paper Towels (Dec 2nd)
• An Island Review – DirtTamer & other cleaning products (Dec 4th/US)
• An Island Review – Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Challenge Kit (Dec 5th/US)
• All Because Two People Fell in Love – $100 Cleaning Supplies Prize Package (Dec 5th)
• All Because Two People Fell in Love – Cupcake Courier (Dec 5th)
• Just Another Mommy Blog – A bucket of goodies from CLR (Dec 5th)
• SAHM Reviews – Holiday Cleaning Pack from Weiman Products and Libman (Dec 5th/US)
• Forgetfulone – Cleaning Products from Weiman (Dec 5th/US)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Set of personalized holiday gift tags from Mabel’s Labels (Dec 9th/US)
• Just a mom’s take on things – Weiman and Filterstream prize pack (Dec 10th/US)
• Tara’s View of the World – Dirt Tamer Vacuum and Wieman Cleaning Supplies (Dec 10th/US)

Books & Music for Grown-Ups

• Just a mom’s take on things – Purry Logic by Jane Seabrook (Dec 3rd/US)
• Tara’s View of the World – Purry Logic book by Jane Seabrook (Dec 3rd/US)
• All Because Two People Fell in Love – IL Divo The Promise and The Christmas Collection CDs (Dec 3rd)
• Family Review Network – Psycho Super Mom CD Set (Dec 4th/All)
• An Island Review – Al Jarreau Christmas CD (Dec 6th/All)
• Tara’s View on Books – Your choice of 7 different books (Dec 19th/US, Can)

COOL WEBSITES

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GREAT DEALS

• Black Friday Specials start 4 am Friday and last til Midnight on Sunday! SHOP NOW! Buy one get one free manicure and pedicure travel sets, free bib set with each nursing cover up purchase (please list which bib set you would like in comment field), free stocking with soaps and toys with each bath time towel cake purchase, $10 gift certificate with each Snowman towel cake and holidays gifts!! Visit www.sweetpeacakesetc.com to start shopping.

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