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Around The Blogosphere – Week 106

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5 Minutes Around the BlogosphereWelcome to our weekly roundup here at “5 Minutes Around the Blogosphere”.

As you know, you can come back all week and add a post or giveaway to our Mister Linky. Be sure to check back often, as new links will be added daily. You don’t want to miss out on something fun.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Baby Tea Leaves is throwing a virtual baby shower for families who have babies in the NICU. A shower will be thrown at six hospitals for mommies who didn’t get one, due to the scary early arrival of their little ones. Hundreds of families are in need and we can help! Readers can donate everything from toiletries to preemie outfits and hats. For more information please see the full details here.

  • Cascia from Healthy Moms needs your prayers and support. Go here and find out how you can help.

CONTESTS & SWEEPSTAKES

  • Kaboodle.com has partnered with Old Navy to give away a $1,000 gift card! Six additional weekly winners will receive $100 gift cards. To enter Kaboodle’s How I’d Wear It Contest, create a styleboard (a super-fun online collage) to showcase how you would wear the Old Navy Item of the Week! Deadline to enter is Tuesday, October 20th.

  • Is your kid the cutest kid in the world? Prove it by entering iVillage’s Cutest Kid’s Costume Contest on Facebook. The submission period starts now and goes through November 8, 2009. Facebook users will be able to vote for their favorite photo using Facebook’s “Like” function beginning November 9-15, 2009. To enter, simply become a fan of the official iVillage Facebook Page. Then click on the contest tab and upload a photo of your child in their best Halloween costume.

    On or about November 18, 2009, a panel of qualified judges will review the six entrants with the highest number of “Like” votes received during the Voting Period and select a Grand Prize winner and two runner up winners based on the following judging criteria: Originality (50%) and Creativity (50%). The grand prize, second place and third place winners will receive a gift card valued at $500, $250 and $100, respectively.

BLOG GIVEAWAYS

For Everyone

For Women

Baby Essentials

  • Glimpse Phat Baby Wrap (10/19 US & Canada)
  • Glimpse $50 to My Bump Maternity and More (10/20 US & Canada)
  • Glimpse Baby/Child bracelet (10/22 Canada Only)

Just For Kids

Books for Grown-Ups

Would you like to share a fun giveaway or a worth our while post? Please add it to the Mr. Linky below. You can come here any time this week to add in your link. Don’t miss out on the fun. Be sure to visit throughout the week as the linky grows, and more sites are added.

If you would like to have a post on your blog featured in 5 Minutes Around The Blogosphere, please send us an email with the actual link to your post at features5minutesformom at gmail dot com and we’ll see if it can be arranged.

You can find Marissa writing away at Mama Sparkles.

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8 Comments

  4. I am always grateful for the linky’s you provide, the new an exciting giveaways, new places to visit – it’a all so good! 🙂

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  5. Thank you so much for mentioning me. I have been getting a lot of positive feedback from other moms and I appreciate it. I really need that during this tough time.

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  6. I think it would be really cool if the giveaways that you listed up on the very top were valued at $100 or over. 🙂 The ones you guys put up manually, not on the linky.

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