Chaos Chronicles

I have just started reading my free, advanced copy, of One Day Way by Chantel Hobbs, thanks to the WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program. Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

I will be posting a review and giveaway for it, so check back soon for an update!

One Day Way by Chantel Hobbs

Summary for One Day Way

The One-Day Way produces lasting results by taking you back to basics. No more complicated weight-loss strategies. No more expensive diet plans that achieve only temporary results. Instead, you will lose weight and get fit with Chantel Hobbs’s simple, high-energy meal plans and her at-home program for cardio exercise and strength training. She will teach you how to change the way you think, which leads to new actions. Before you know it you will be strong, fit, and healthy. All it takes is doing things differently for twenty-four hours—and then repeating it.

The One-Day Way gives you everything you need to lose weight and get fit in body, mind, and spirit:

• Break free from past dieting defeats
• Learn a realistic, life-changing way to measure success
• Change the way you think so you can change your life
• Translate your dreams into goals, and your goals into lasting achievements
• Get strong with thirty-one simple exercises, no fancy equipment required
• Take advantage of ten ways to eat better while you lose weight

By focusing on food, faith, and fitness, Chantel shows you not only how to lose weight, but how to build the new life you were designed to live. You don’t have to wait any longer. The One-Day Way gives you all the tools for success, starting right now.

Author Bio:
The author of Never Say Diet and The Never Say Diet Personal Fitness Trainer, Chantel Hobbs, is a motivational speaker, life coach, personal trainer, marathon runner, wife, and mother of four whose story has been featured on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, the 700 Club, and the covers of People and First magazines. She appears weekly on two fitness-themed radio programs and promotes her One-Day Way Learning System on television. Visit Chantel at ChantelHobbs.com for fitness updates and coaching tips.

The wonderful people at WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing (A Division of Random House) supplied me with this book to review, and then gift to my readers, as part of their Blogging for Books Program.  The rules for the giveaway can be found below my review.  Thanks for reading!   If you haven’t read my previous post about this book, you can check it out here.

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Thirsty by Tracey Bateman

Thirsty by Tracey Bateman
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Thirsty is a really good read, but I had a hard time believing it was vampire fiction.  It’s a great story, and I couldn’t put it down, though that was due to a combination of really good story lines and wondering when it will start reading like vampire fiction.

The main character, Nina Parker, does not have a lot going for her.  Alcohol destroyed her reputation and veterinary practice as well as her family.  Hard times follow this woman where ever she goes, as far back as her childhood.  She is a great character, and you get a good glimpse into her life.

This book is very well written as a regular work of fiction, but doesn’t really cut it as vampire fiction.  The vampire characters were more background characters and were not fleshed out enough to deem this vampire fiction. Instead, the author focused mostly on Nina Parker’s life.

The ending was a little disappointing as well.  While it was a good ending leaving the reading wanting more, it was wrapped up all too quickly and ended in a way I didn’t expect from a book that is supposed to be vampire fiction.

If you read Thirsty knowing it’s not really vampire fiction, it’s a much better read.  If you are expecting a good christian vampire novel, you will most likely be disappointed.

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How Can I Enter To Win Thirsty by Tracey Bateman?

Here is the deal! To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about a good vampire fiction novel you’ve come across recently.  You get two entries for the price of one if the novel is Christian. If you do not include this in your comment, it doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but you must let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry.

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. Subscribe to my blog (click the big orange square at the top right corner of my page). – One Entry

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me. Put the link to your blog post in your comment. (comment twice please) – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller or just an all around crafty person, you can donate an item to my 1000th Post Month-Long Giveaway Extravaganza! – Five Entries

This giveaway is open to everyone. This giveway will end January 15th, 2010 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win. You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

I have just started reading my free, advanced copy, of Thirsty by Tracey Bateman, thanks to the WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program.  Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

Click here for my review and giveaway!

Thirsty by Tracey Bateman

Summary for Thirsty

There’s no place like home, they say.
“Hello, I’m Nina Parker…and I’m an alcoholic.”
For Nina, it’s not the weighty admission but the first steps toward recovery that prove most difficult. She must face her ex-husband, Hunt, with little hope of making amends, and try to rebuild a relationship with her angry teenage daughter, Meagan. Hardest of all, she is forced to return to Abbey Hills, Missouri, the hometown she abruptly abandoned nearly two decades earlier–and her unexpected arrival in the sleepy Ozark town catches the attention of someone–or something–igniting a two-hundred-fifty-year-old desire that rages like a wildfire.

Unaware of the darkness stalking her, Nina is confronted with a series of events that threaten to unhinge her sobriety. Her daughter wants to spend time with the parents Nina left behind. A terrifying event that has haunted Nina for almost twenty years begins to surface. And an alluring neighbor initiates an unusual friendship with Nina, but is Markus truly a kindred spirit or a man guarding dangerous secrets?

As everything she loves hangs in the balance, will Nina’s feeble grasp on her demons be broken, leaving her powerless against the thirst? The battle between redemption and obsession unfold to its startling, unforgettable end.

Then check out this awesome giveaway for IzzyBelle’s over at ParentingPink.com!  I can tell you that if win, I am sooooo getting that Preschool Rocks Tee!

I have just started reading my free, advanced copy, of Kiss Me Again: Restoring Lost Intimacy in Marriage by Barbara Wilson, thanks to the WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program.  Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

I will be posting a review and giveaway for it, so check back in a few days for an update!

Kiss Me Again by Barbara Wilson

Summary for Kiss Me Again

Many married women genuinely want to feel more desire toward their husbands.  But while sex before marriage was hard to resist, now resisting seems like all they do. In her new book, Barbara Wilson shows how couples can suffer for years from the “invisible bonds” of previous relationships without even knowing it. Hidden emotions of distrust, shame, and resentment can sabotage even the most loving marriage.

In Kiss Me Again, Wilson:

· Shares her own story of healing and renewed desire

· Helps women forgive themselves and their husbands for past choices

· Shows readers how to break free from “invisible bonds”

· Explains God’s plan for helping a husband and wife to re-bond

· Includes conversation helps for both wives and their husbands

· Helps couples reignite the passion that they thought was lost

With assessment tools, write-in exercises, and gentle guidance, Kiss Me Again offers a biblical plan for rekindling the closeness and passion women long for in marriage. Because no past is beyond the reach of God’s healing touch.

Author Bio:
Barbara Wilson is the author of The Invisible Bond and former director of sexual health education for the Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center in Sacramento. She speaks nationwide to youth and adults with her message of sexual healing, and she teaches frequently in the women’s ministry at the multi-campus Bayside Church in Northern California. Barbara and her husband, Eric, have been married for twenty-eight years.

I have just started reading If God Is Good by Randy Alcorn.  I will be posting a review and giveaway for it, as part of a Blog Tour from WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program.  Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

Check back in a few weeks for my review!

If God is Good by Randy Alcorn

Summary for If God Is Good

Every one of us will experience suffering. Many of us are experiencing it now. As we have seen in recent years, evil is real in our world, present and close to each one of us.

In such difficult times, suffering and evil beg questions about God–Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? And then, how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist?

These are ancient questions, but also modern ones as well. Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God.

In this captivating new book, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, realistic, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise.

Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world–now and forever. And he equips you to share your faith more clearly and genuinely in this world of pain and fear.

As he did in his best-selling book, Heaven, Randy Alcorn delves deep into a profound subject, and through compelling stories, provocative questions and answers, and keen biblical understanding, he brings assurance and hope to all.

Author Bios:

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspectives Ministries and a bestselling author. His novels include Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy, and the Gold Medallion winner, Safely Home. He has written eighteen nonfiction books as well, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle, and The Grace and Truth Paradox. Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Oregon and have two married daughters and four grandsons.

I have just started reading You Were Born For This by Bruce Wilkinson. I will be posting a review and giveaway for it, as part of a Blog Tour from WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program.  Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

Check back in a few weeks for my review!

You Were Born For This by Bruce Wilkinson

Summary for You Were Born For This

His New York Times phenomenon The Prayer of Jabez changed how millions pray. Now Bruce Wilkinson wants to change what they do next.

Anyone can do a good deed, but some good works can only happen by a direct intervention from God. Around the world these acts are called miracles—not that even religious people expect to see one any time soon. But what would happen if millions of ordinary people walked out each morning expecting God to deliver a miracle through them to a person in need? You Were Born for This starts with the dramatic premise that everyone at all times is in need of a miracle, and that God is ready to meet those needs supernaturally through ordinary people who are willing to learn how Heaven works.

In the straightforward, story-driven, highly motivating style for which he is known, Wilkinson describes how anyone can help others experience miracles in such universally significant arenas of life as finances, practical help, relationships, purpose, and spiritual growth.

You Were Born for This will change how readers see their world, and what they expect God can do through them to meet real needs. They will master seven simple tools of service, and come to say with confidence, “I want to deliver a supernatural gift from God to someone in need today—and now I know how!”

Author Bios:

One of the world’s foremost Christian teachers, Bruce Wilkinson is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Prayer of Jabez. He is also the author of numerous other bestsellers, including A Life God Rewards, Secrets of the Vine, and The Dream Giver. Over the past three decades, Wilkinson has founded several global initiatives, including organizations that recruited and trained thousands of Americans to address hunger, AIDS, and poverty in Africa. Bruce and his wife, Darlene, have three children and six grandchildren. They live outside Atlanta.

David Kopp has collaborated with Bruce Wilkinson on over a dozen bestselling books, including The Prayer of Jabez. He is an editor and writer living in Colorado.

Joy from Joy To The Blog won this giveaway!  Please drop by her blog and congratulate her!

The wonderful people at WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing (A Division of Random House) supplied me with this book to review, and then gift to my readers, as part of their Blogging for Books Program.  The rules for the giveaway can be found below my review.  Thanks for reading!   If you haven’t read my previous posts about this book, you can check them out here and here

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Stray Affections by Charlene Ann Baumbech
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How wonderful it would be to be able to see God’s blessing unfold before you, and see how He works in all our lives.  Charlene gives the reader this kind of experience with Stray Affections.

In this book, you get to experience something unique.  A glimpse of just how awesome God is, and how His blessings for you can have a ripple affect to those around you.  When God opens the floodgates of His blessings for you, one blessing can, in turn, overflow into a blessing for another person or family.  This is very thought provoking to me, because you never stop to think how a blessing will affect anyone else but you and your family.  When God works in your life, big things can happen.

For me, the begining of the book started off a little slow, but after the first few chapters the book turned into a tear jerker story of how life can really beat you, only for God to send in blessings and healing , in ways you never knew you needed.  Definately have a box of tissues handy.

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How Can I Enter To Win Stray Affections by Charlene Ann Baumbech?

Here is the deal!  To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about a special pet you’ve had or one you wish you had. If you do not include this in your comment, it doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but you must let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry.

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade  and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. Subscribe to my blog (click the big orange square at the top right corner of my page). – One Entry

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me.  Put the link to your blog post in your comment. (comment twice please) – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller or just an all around crafty person, you can donate an item to my 1000th Post Month-Long Giveaway Extravaganza!  – Five Entries

This giveaway is open to everyone.   The Giveway will end September 18th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win.  You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

I have just started reading Stray Affections by Charlene Ann Baumbich. I will be posting a review and giveaway for it, as part of a Blog Tour from WaterBrook Multnomah Blogging for Books Program.  Here is some information about the book and it’s author.

Stray Affections

Summary for Stray Affections

In Stray Affections, the last thing that Cassandra expects out of her Sunday is to be mesmerized at a collectors’ convention by a snowglobe. She’s enjoying some shopping time, with husband Ken at home tending their brood of four young boys, when she’s utterly charmed by the one-of-a kind globe containing figures of three dogs and a little girl with hair the color of her own. She can’t resist taking the unique globe home—even if means wrestling another shopper for it!

The beautiful snowglobe sparks long-dormant memories for Cassie, of her beloved Grandpa Wonky, the stray she rescued as a child and the painful roots of her combative relationship with her mother, “Bad Betty” Kamrowski. Life in Wanonishaw, Minnesota is never dull, though, and Cassie keeps the recollections at bay, busy balancing her boys, her home daycare operation, and being a good friend to best pal Margret. But after a strange—flurrious, as Cassie deems it—moment happens with the remarkable snowglobe, Cassie and the people she loves are swirled into a tumultuous, yet grace-filled, and life-changing journey.

“As a believer, I know the power of forgiveness and new beginnings, and of a God, and family and friends, who love me the way I am,” Charlene Ann Baumbich says.  “The heartbeat of change flows through those wonderful gifts.”

With the quirky, close-knit Midwestern small-town feel that made Charlene Ann Baumbich’s acclaimed Dearest Dorothy novels so popular, Stray Affections invites readers to experience the laughter and the healing of second chances.

Author Bios:

Charlene Ann Baumbich is a popular author and speaker and an award-winning journalist. In addition to her Dearest Dorothy series of novels, she has written seven nonfiction books of humor and inspiration. A bungee-jumping, once motorcycle-owning grandma and unabashed dog lover, Charlene lives with her husband and rescued dog Kornflake in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She loves telling stories, laughing whenever possible, and considers herself a Wild Child of God.

Sorry this took me so long gals, but here are the winners for the two contests we had running here on Chaos Chronicles!

Up first we have The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias Davis
And the winner is……….. Melissa from The Scholastic Scribe

Next up we have The Hope of Refuge by Cindy Woodsmall
And the winner is………..Kimberly of Kamp KK

YAY Melissa and Kimberly!!!  Please visit their sites and congratulate them on their win!

Melissa B from Scholastic Scribe won this giveaway!  Please stop by her blog and congratulate her!

The wonderful people at WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing (A Division of Random House) supplied me with this book to review, and then gift to my readers, as part of their Blogging for Books Program.  The rules for the giveaway can be found below my review.  Thanks for reading!   If you haven’t read my previous post about this book, you can check it out here

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The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias Davis
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“Sometimes you fall so hard that you need more than one person to catch you”

That is my favorite quote of the whole book.  That one sentence sums up what I feel I’ve been missing in my friendships.   A close-knit circle of friends.

I crave what the The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants have;  That one special group of friends who are always there for you, as well as each other.  I have a few “best friends”, but either they live to far apart  to be part of a “sisterhood” or they don’t know my other friends.

In her book, Sarah talks about the possibilities of looking/choosing the type of friends that we wish we were, or long to become… I think it’s true in a way.  Becoming friends with someone who embodies aspects of our ideal self, allows us to experience new things through that friend (vicariously or otherwise), and even inspires us to move out of our comfort zones and try new things.

Sarah also discusses common friendship roles found in today’s world. I am definitely a Meg friend.  I feel this describes me perfectly:

“In relationships where one gives and one takes rather than both give and take, this nurturing friend finds there is no one to mother her.  Where does she turn when she has an inevitable crisis or wants to have a melt down?  Where can she go when she needs someone to speak real wisdom into her life?  The nurturing, mothering friend probably won’t go to the friends she mothers- and they may not handle it well if she does.  When she just needs to fall, who is both prepared and strong enough to catch her?”

I have a friend that I consider to be my best friend, but i feel there is something missing.  Through reading this book, I’ve realized two things.  It’s an issue of trust and of baring my soul.  I am not comfortable enough in our friendship to be that vulnerable with her because I fear being judged and/or misunderstood.   I hold back because I know she isn’t strong enough to be what I need, and I fear our friendship may not survive the fallout due to lack of support from her.  The other thing I realized is that I harbor some resentment from knowing that I am there for her more than she is there for me.  I give freely, yet she gives what suits her at the time.

This book was definitely an eye opening look into my friendships.  Both with other women, as well as a friendship with myself (which is something you will learn about while reading this book).

This book also made me cry, though not because it’s sad.  This book has a truth that i felt to my core.  I  identified with it.  I felt the losses of past friendships and the birth of new ones.  I understood a small aspect of friendship dynamics and where I fit into it all.

I also felt the familiar longing for a group of anamchara’s (Gaelic). Soul Sisters.  It renewed in me a motivation to try and create such a group, full knowing that those kinds of circles are not created by planning and searching, but by fate; by God.  I can only hope that my efforts to create such a bond will be blessed and, with God’s guidance, turn into the storybook friendship circles I long for.  Maybe I’m being naive, but I’m certain that I will at least come out of my search changed for the better, as I go deeper into my a friendship with God and self, while searching for my sworn sisters.

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How Can I Enter To Win The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias Davis?

Here is the deal!  To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about a special friendship of yours or one you wish you had. If you do not include this in your comment, it doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but you must let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry.

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade  and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. Subscribe to my blog (click the big orange square at the top right corner of my page). – One Entry

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me.  Put the link to your blog post in your comment. (comment twice please) – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller or just an all around crafty person, you can donate an item to my 1000th Post Month-Long Giveaway Extravaganza!  – Five Entries

This giveaway is open to everyone.   The Giveway will end August 17th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win.  You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

Kimberly  from KampKK won this giveaway!  Please stop by her blog and congratulate her!

The wonderful people at WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing (A Division of Random House) supplied me with this book to review, and then gift to my readers, as part of their Blogging for Books Program.  The rules for the giveaway can be found below my review.  Thanks for reading!   If you haven’t read my previous post about this book, you can check it out here

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The Hope of Refuge by Cindy Woodsmall
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In the past few years, I had a rebirth of my love of reading.  Throughout that time I have had the opportunity to read a few Amish themed books, as well as romance novels.  Not one of them were from the Christian genre.  I had my reservations about Christian Fiction, and wasn’t too sure how interesting a Christian romance novel would be.

I was a bit skeptical about liking The Hope of Refuge (which is why it has taken me so long to write this review), but decided to read it anyway.  What I found was a very personal look into the lives of the characters in this wonderful book.  It was a story that I didn’t want to end.

You meet two of the main characters, Cara and Lori, right away and immediately your heart hurts for their pain.  When Ephraim Mast (a  non-vampire Christian alternative to Twilight’s Edward Cullen) joins the story, you hope that he will be the one to save her.

There were tears in this book.  Over hardships the characters faced; over genuine connection with God.  You connect so deeply with these characters that you can actually feel the awe that overcomes them when they interact with God.

I could NOT put this book down, and I am now wondering why it took me so long to pick up some Christian romance!  Cindy has hooked me to her work with just one book.  She is a definate addition to anyone’s collection.  I plan to read her other books (which can be found at CBD.com) as soon as I finish my current To Read List.

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How Can I Enter To Win The Hope of Refuge by Cindy Woodsmall?

Here is the deal!  To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about your first encounter with the Amish world, be it in person, on tv, or in a book. If you do not include this in your comment, it doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but you must let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry.

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade  and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. Subscribe to my blog (click the big orange square at the top right corner of my page). – One Entry

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me.  Put the link to your blog post in your comment. (comment twice please) – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller or just an all around crafty person, you can donate an item to my 1000th Post Month-Long Giveaway Extravaganza!  – Five Entries

This giveaway is open to everyone.   The Giveway will end August 13th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win.  You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

Close your eyes (after reading this) and imagine yourself, a famous photographer.  Taking awesome pictures and looking good while doing it!

Now open your eyes..Not a famous photographer?  Not to worry!  You can still look fabulous while taking your pictures!

Just enter the Shabby Straps contest by March 14th over at Etsy It Up!

Can’t wait for the contest to be over?

Just check out the Shabby Straps ETSY store!  They have camera straps for SLR/DSLR cameras, wrist straps for point and shoot, and even pouches for cameras (or ipods..or cellphones)

Go check them out!   They are gorgeous!

AND THE WINNER IS:  LENALOO from www.lenaloo.com

Drop on over and congratulate her!

Today is the SITS Spring Fling! Once you have checked out my fabulous giveaways, drop in on the fun at SITS and check out their hourly giveaways. There will also be links to the many other sites participating in the SITS Spring Fling!

Giveaway #3

Purple Be Safe Pendant

OR

Blue Be Safe Pendant

This gorgeous giveaway is for ONE Twilight Inspired – Be Safe – Pendant with 18″ chain.  In your choice of color, either Blue or Purple.  This pendant was made by Bethtastic.  Check out her awesome ETSY store! I featured this beauty in one of my Fav Five ETSY posts.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, so I wanted to offer it to one of my readers!

This clear resin pendant, measuring about 1.25″x.75″ across, has the famous quote “be safe”, from Edward to Bella, printed on clear paper immersed inside.  The pendants are handmade and one of a kind, in that the swirling “blood” patterns vary from pendant to pendant.  It hangs on a sleek 18″ silver plated snake chain.

Here is an important notice from Bethtastic, taken from the item page:

“IMPORTANT:

notes on RESIN: Resin is a PLASTIC, not a glass, so keep in mind that if you wear your pendant every day, there is a good chance that it will get scratched up. It is also waterproof, but again, if you shower, bathe, and immerse yourself in water all of the time, it will become cloudy over time. A good way to keep your pendant or bangle looking shiny and new is to not wear it every day, and to clean it occasionally using a damp rag and windex.

though most pendants are completely clear, and bubble free, there are the occasional tiny bubbles. It’s the nature of resin, and handmade, so please keep that in mind.”

How Can I Enter To Win Giveaway #3?

Here is the deal! To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but please let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. If you are a SITS Welcomista, let me know in the comments and you get 2 extra entries! (comment twice please). – Two Entries

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me. Put the link to your blog post in your comment. – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller, donate an item to my 1000th Post Week-Long Giveaway Extravaganza! – Four Entries

This giveaway is open to US and Canada residents only. The Giveway will end March 11th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win. You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

Have fun and thanks for entering!

THE WINNER IS: Ryan from Optimistic Cynicism

Stop over to her blog and congratulate her!

Today is the SITS Spring Fling!  Once you have checked out my fabulous giveaways, drop in on the fun at SITS and check out their hourly giveaways.  There will also be links to the many other sites participating in the SITS Spring Fling!

Giveaway #2 (PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS)

Pregnancy Goodie Basket: Online Birthplan Assistance, 10 Preggie Pops (you pick flavor), Lamaze magazine, a few extra surprise goodies.

This fantabulous giveaway is for a Pregnancy Goodie Basket.  Are you expecting a bundle of joy? Perhaps you know someone who is.  This is the perfect gift!   I will flex my doula credentials and work with the mom-to-be online, to create a birthplan that will let her doctor or midwife know her desires for the birth of her baby.

I will also include 10 Preggie Pops (They are GREAT for reducing nausea, and they come in a variety of flavors), a Lamaze Magazine with diaper sample, and some extra goodies.

How Can I Enter To Win Giveaway #2?

Here is the deal! To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me the BEST parenting advice you’ve been given. If you do not include this in your comment, it doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but please let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade  and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. If you are a SITS Welcomista, let me know in the comments and you get 2 extra entries! (comment twice please). – Two Entries

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me.  Put the link to your blog post in your comment.  – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller, donate an item to my 1000th Post Week-Long Giveaway Extravaganza!  – Four Entries

This giveaway is open to US and Canada residents only.   The Giveway will end March 11th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win.  You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

Have fun and thanks for entering!

THE WINNER IS:   cherylk … who didn’t leave a blog address..so you can’t check her out

Today is the SITS Spring Fling!  Once you have checked out my fabulous giveaways, drop in on the fun at SITS and check out their hourly giveaways.  There will also be links to the many other sites participating in the SITS Spring Fling!

Giveaway #1:  PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS

Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is a hardcover book that is part of the Dark Hunter Series.  If you have never read the Dark Hunter series, you should.  Especially if you like the Twilight series.  This series does not have to be read in any particular order, but this is book 11.

Here is a blurb from the publisher:

For millennia, the ex-god turned Dark-Hunter Sin has sought to regain his powers and take revenge on Artemis. But now he has bigger fish – or in this case, demons – to fry. The lethal gallu that were buried by his pantheon are stirring, and they are hungry for human flesh. Their goal: To destroy mankind. Sin is the only one who can stop them… if a certain woman doesn’t kill him first.

Enemies have always made strange bedfellows, but never more so than when the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Now a man who only knows betrayal must trust the one person most likely to hand him to the demons. Artemis may have stolen his godhood, but this one has stolen his heart. The only question is: Will she keep it… or feed it to those who want him dead?

How Can I Enter To Win Giveaway #1?

Here is the deal! To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave me a comment recommending your favorite book.  The catch?  It can’t be a book in my 2009 Reading List (see tab at top of page). If you do not do this, your entry doesn’t count.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following, but please let me know how you entered by leaving individual comments for each entry

1. Join/Follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect Box to the right. – One Entry

2. Follow me on Twitter @nytshade  and then Tweet about this Giveaway. – One Entry.

3. If you are a SITS Welcomista, let me know in the comments and you get 2 extra entries! (comment twice please). – Two Entries

4. Blog about this Giveaway and link back to me.  Put the link to your blog post in your comment.  – Two Entries

5. If you are an Etsy Seller, donate an item to my 1000th Post Week-Long Giveaway Extravaganza!  – Four Entries

This giveaway is open to US and Canada residents only, and shipping will be done by Media Mail.  Giveway will end March 11th, 2009 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced the following day. Make sure to fill in your email address so I can contact you if you win.  You will have 72 hours to claim your prize.

Have fun and thanks for entering!

Tomorrow is Tuesday, March 10th and that means it’s time for the SITS Spring Fling!  Not only will SITS be hosting a giveaway every hour, but many members of the SITStahood will be hosting giveaways at the same time!  Chaos Chronicles is one of those blogs! I will be giving away 3, yes 3, prizes!

How Can I Win?

Anyone can enter.  The entry instructions will be different for each contest, so make sure you read each post carefully.  All contests will end Tuesday night at midnight (EST).  Winners are chosen with the random number generator and will be announced Wednesday, March 11.  I will email the winner and give them 72 hours to claim their prize.

What Will I Win?

Here are some hints:

Check back tomorrow for the reveal and enter the giveaways!

So, I’m planning a big contest for my 1000th post!  I wanted to get everyone’s oppinion on what I should offer for prizes.

If you won, what prize(s) would you most like to win?

I have a budget of about $25.00.  If you click my google ads, I’ll up the amount to match my adsense amount.

If you have an item you want to donate (and get new traffic to your store or blog), let me know!