Massdrop Keruig Giveaway

Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer is excited to join Adventures of 8 and Blog with Mom in a new Advertise with Bloggers Event!

One lucky reader will WIN a Keruig from our friends at Massdrop, the newest way to buy online and save money!

Let me tell you a bit about Massdrop and how you can use this new site to save you MONEY!!! This is unlike any site I have seen before, as it works off of 'group buys' to offer the lowest price and YOU can vote for items you would like to have brought to Massdrop!

Here is how it works - let's say you have always wanted a Keurig B60 Single-Cup Home-Brewing System, but didn't want to pay the high department store price, nor did you want to purchase a refurbished one. What you would do is VOTE to bring the Keurig B60 Single-Cup Home-Brewing System to Massdrop, then once the poll option gets at least 200 votes, they negotiate bulk pricing with the supplier and pass them on to the Massdrop community.

This is where it gets really cool; THE MORE PEOPLE THAT PURCHASE the product, the lower the price!!!

ZICAM Intense Sinus Relief Review & Giveaway

I never really suffered from allergies until last year when it seemed I was sick every little bit with sinus drainage. Every time the weather changes, my sinuses act up. Spring is here and I mowed the yard for the first time yesterday. I didn't have any allergy problems when mowing, but I did last year. Once the weather gets hot again, I'm sure I'll be having problems.

Being a blogger, I get many opportunities to work with different companies and review different products. Recently, I got a chance to review ZICAM Intense Sinus Relief nasal gel free of charge in exchange for my honest review. I've only have tried a few nasal sprays before, most them were the cheap brands and none of them helped. I've seen the ZICAM brand in the stores, but I have never tried any before.

The nasal gel contains a cooling menthol and eucalyptus. The non-drowsy spray is to help give you a quick relief of your sinus pressure and nasal congestion for up to 12 hours.

Does it work?

Find the Perfect Mother's Day Gift

Mother's day is only a few weeks away, which for me it becomes harder and harder every year to come up with new presents ideas for my mom and grandmother. Sure, I can get my grandmother a music CD and get my mom a quilt book, but they have so many I wouldn't know which ones they already own. Luckily, I received an opportunity to work with Oriental Trading Company, Inc, who nicely sent me a $25 gift card for me and another one for a giveaway (see the bottom of the post for it) in exchange for an honest review.

Picking out a few gifts for my mom and grandmother wasn't as easy as I thought it would be as Oriental Trading has many different products for Mother's Day. Some of the bestsellers are the "2013 Happy Mother's Day" Magnet Picture Frame Craft Kit, DIY Flowerpots, DIY Ceramic Tea Cup Planters, and the 24 Magic Color Scratch Butterfly Ornaments.

After browsing for about two hours, I settled on the Bird Figurine for my grandmother. It is made out of resin and is 7"H. As you can see from the picture, the figurine is beautiful. It is on sale for only $3.99. At that price I figured it would be cheaply made, but I was completely wrong. The figurine is going to look great on top of my grandmother's entertainment center.

Smile Brilliant! Review and Giveaway

I'm a heavy coffee drinker, who refuses to drink from a straw. Even though I brush my teeth daily, I can't get rid of a few stains (most likely from the coffee) on my teeth. My focus this year has been on reinventing me, so naturally I have looked at the many whitening products in the stores. There are so many kits, strips and pastes on the shelves claiming to be the best that I don't have a clue who is telling the truth.

Luckily, I learned about that Smile Brilliant! were looking for blog reviewers to review their LED Teeth Whitening system and I quickly sent in my application. I figured there were many applications, so I wasn't expecting to be accepted, but I received an email confirming the product had been sent off. Of course I was excited about this and I was even more excited when it only took two days to receive it in the mail.

The LED Teeth Whitening kit came in a neat little box (see the above picture) and contained a High intensity Ultra-Blue LED activating light (with batteries), top & bottom protective trays, 4ml Professional whitening gel pen, and a small brush. The product is simple to use. All you have to do is use the whitening gel pen to paint the stained teeth. To stop the gel from coming off, quickly slip the whitening trays into your mouth. Next, you place the light transmitter against the trays and wrap your lips around the rim, so it won't come out. Last, you turn on the light and leave it alone for 20 - 45 minutes. Depending on your sensitivity you can go a bit longer, up to two hours and you don't have to use the LED light constantly. After you are finished, you need to wash and dry the mouthpieces.

Send a Sweet Gift To A Friend Review & Giveaway

Blogging has given me the opportunity to try out many different new products. Last week, I got a chance to work with a company called LittleSomething.com. What is does this company offer? Well, they carry many gifts for under $10 with free shipping (there is an option for faster shipping at an additional charge) that you can send to a loved one. With each gift you get to write a personal message that will be printed onto a stylish note card. For a few bucks more you can have the gift wrapped.

The site carries many items for both children and adults, such as the Sonic Flyer toy plane, Rush Hour Mini Play Scene, Rubber Band Ball, Paddywax Candle, Chocolate Drizzled Popcorn, and many other nifty items. LittleSomething.com nicely offered me two free gifts in exchange for my honest review, one for me and one for a friend. I thought this was perfect as my friend, Michelle, has a birthday at the end of the month. So what did I order for her? I got her the Happy Birthday! Celebration Cake that includes a microwave safe cooking bowl, a cake mix, frosting, sprinkles, a candle, a balloon, and a party horn. For me, I got the Mint Chocolate Chip Poppie's Cookies as I do have a sweet tooth.

Mill Creek Blu-Ray/DVD Giveaway & a 25% Discount Code

I have some exciting news! Mill Creek Entertainment has been nominated in several key categories for the Home Media Magazine Award.

Best Older TV Show on Disc
That ’70s Show: Season 1 Blu-ray, Mill Creek
Masters of the Universe: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Collection, Mill Creek

Best Complete TV Series Set
Masters of the Universe: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Collection, Mill Creek

Best Boxed Set(Non-TV) 
Daimajin Triple Feature Blu-ray, Mill Creek

Best Nonfiction TV Show 
Up From Slavery, Mill Creek

Best Packaging – click to view all packaging nominees: http://www.homemediamagazine.com/lists/2013-home-media-awards-art-and-packaging-nominees
Masters of the Universe: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Collection (Castle Grayskull), Mill Creek

The Marine 3: Homefront Blu-Ray Giveaway

The Miz Takes On The Big Screen

Enter To Win The Marine: Homefront on Blu-ray March 5! 

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and WWE Studios unveil a brand new chapter in one of the most action-packed film franchises of all time with The Marine 3: Homefront. The third installment starring WWE Superstar, Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin and rising star Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism Part II), throws down on Blu-ray and DVD on March 5.

WWE superstar Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin delivers a knock-out performance in the most explosive, action-packed Marine adventure yet. After returning to his hometown on leave, Sgt. Jake Carter learns that his sister has been abducted by a band of violent extremists. To save her, Carter launches a daring one-man assault on their base of operations only to discover the group's ruthless leader is plotting a deadly terrorist strike. With time running out, Carter realizes he's the only man who can stop the impending massacre − but this American hero may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save thousands of innocent lives.

A must-have for fans of war films, action movies and the WWE, The Marine 3: Homefront is a thrilling drama of explosive proportions.

The Marine 3: Homefront special features include: 

• Shipwrecked: Breaking Down the Boat 
• The Miz Rocks the Boat 
• The Miz Declassified 
• Casting Call: Ready to Enlist 
• Miz Journal 

NuShape 30 Day Challenge & Giveaway

On my quest for a better me in 2013, I have teamed up NuShape (NuSirt Sciences) for a review and giveaway. I will be trying out a 30 days supply of their weight management dietary supplement, containing Vitamin B6 and L-leucine, starting today for the next 30 days. During this time I will be exercising daily and staying on a healthy diet.

I'm excited about starting this challenge. I'll be taking the tablets twice a day  and it is suppose to help increase the amount of fat I will burn off during exercising. Fifteen minutes of exercise is suppose to equal sixty minutes of fat burning, which can make you drop one pant size in a month. The supplement can help your lean muscles to use fat as energy without any unwanted side-effects.

Giveaway Details:

TV Store Online T-Shirt Review & Giveaway!

Anyone who knows me or follows my blog would know that I'm a fan of cartoons, movies, and television shows from the 80s and early 90s. I guess you can say that I was more than excited to work with TV Store Online, who provided a free T-shirt in exchange for my honest review.

TV Store Online carries many T-shirts from old and new television series. I was surprised to find that they had many tees, sweatshirts, and other products from my favorite series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Saved by the Bell, Married with Children, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Big Bang Theory, as well as my favorite childhood cartoons, such as TMNT, Alvin and the Chipmunks, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Thundercats, and Voltron. The store also carries many tees from movies, such as Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Iron Man, Resident Evil, Stargate, and many others, and from music, comics and games.

New Year Book Extravaganza

Welcome to the New Year Book Extravaganza!

We're featuring 15 authors, all with book giveaways AND you'll have a chance to enter at each stop for the $100 Grand prize Giveaway!

  

Meet featured authors and learn more about them and their books on the dates below. You may also enter their giveaways, and read "glimpses" of the books, at any time on the Event Page.

Frugal Follies 3rd Anniversary Giveaway

Welcome to the Frugal Follies 3rd Anniversary Giveaway

Wii U Nintendo Giveaway!

We have an exciting Giveaway for you! Just in time for the holidays. We are giving away a Wii U Nintendo gaming system. With the Wii U you can play games while experiencing up to full 1080p HD for the first-time ever on a Nintendo gaming console. And of course, you can interact and share with your friends, family, and the world! The Wii U Game Pad, which connects wirelessly, can also be used as the remote control for your TV.

The Wii U Nintendo Gaming System - New For 2012!

Hosted by Mommy Bear Media- Proud to have Stay A Stay At Home Mom, Simply Sherryl, Lots2Save, 4 Hats and Frugal, This Mama Loves Her Bargains, My Mommy's Neighborhood, and Fabulous Fun Finds as Co-Hosts.

Mommy Bear Media has teamed up with several bloggers to bring you this fabulous prize. 2012 has been a year that we grew to love and respect bloggers, new customers, and social media. Through social media we have met many of you and we do know that many of you have purchased family friendly movies through us, and we thank you!

Mommy Bear Media is branching out- we will be bringing you family friendly video games in the very, very near future! You will want to stay tuned for this. Mommy Bear Media offers family themed entertainment to everyone in your family. Mommy Bear Media continues to educate and keep parents informed in regards to good, clean, family entertainment. This is sure to be one of the hottest items this holiday season!

We want you to win.....

Review & Giveaway - The Odd Life of Timothy Green Blu-ray + DVD Combo

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Director: Peter Hedges
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams
Studio: Disney
Release Date: December 4, 2012
ASIN: B005LAIIL2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 2 
Running Time: 105 minutes
Rated: PG

Review:

The Odd Life of Timothy Green is making its way onto DVD and Blu-ray on December 4th just in time for Christmas. I recall seeing a few advertisements for it when it was released to theaters, but I never got a chance to see it until I watched it on DVD last night. Disney was nice enough to send me an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

At first I thought The Odd Life of Timothy Green was based on a book, but I was mistaken as it was based on the concept by Ahmet Zappa. It was written and directed by Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape).

Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner star as Jim and Cindy Green, a couple living in the small drought-stricken town of Stanleyville, North Carolina. Jim spends his days working at the town's historic pencil factory while Cindy works at the local museum. The couple desperately wants to have children, but they find out they cannot conceive a child.

Heartbroken, they write down their dream child's characteristics onto pieces of paper, put the pieces into a wooden box and buried it in their garden.

Blogger Opportunity – Win a Wii U for the Holidays Giveaway

Huge Holiday Giveaway: Wii u 2012 Gaming System

Gain New Blog Readers, New Followers- Connect With New People!

MommyBearMedia.com is sponsoring a great group giveaway and we want you to join us. About our Giveaway:

• Signups close at 11am EST, Thur. Nov. 29th.
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• Promotion Will Run November 30th- December 20, 2012

Open in the U.S.

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If you’d like to be a co-host, it is $30. This includes a link on the giveaway, a follow page and up to six links. Remember, host pages bring more traffic to your blog and help with page rank and Alexa scores! :D

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A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas Review & Giveaway

A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas
Label: Verse Music Group
Audio CD Release Date: October 16, 2012
ASIN: B008ZD4U32
Running Time: 43:43
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Review: 

Do you remember your parents or grandparents playing those vinyl records? Then you probably remember the Golden Records for children, containing classic stories and songs for young ones and old ones young at heart.

Golden Records have been making a comeback this year by releasing old and new records onto CDs and MP3 for a whole new generation of fans to enjoy. They were nice enough to let me listen to A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas, which is part of their Celebrity Series, free of charge in exchange for an honest review.

With Christmas just only a few weeks ago, there is nothing better to get your family in the holiday spirits than listening to wonderful Christmas music. A Very Merry Golden Records Christmas brings back twenty timeless classics, blending in new celebrity voices with the original music and sound effects. Some of the voice talents are Ed Asner, Didi Conn, Cheryl Hines, Wallace Shawn and Dermot Mulroney. 

The Tracks List Includes:

1. Merry, Merry, Merry, Christmas (Didi Conn and The Golden Orchestra) 
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (John O Hurley)  
3. Jingle Bells (Malin Akerman) 

DVD Review & Giveaway - Call the Midwife Season One

Call The Midwife: Season One
Starring: Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Miranda Hart, and featuring Vanessa Redgrave
Studio: BBC Warner
ASIN: B0093I913W
ASIN: B0093I5QG8 (Blu-ray)
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Running Time: 360 minutes 
Not Rated

Just in the time for the holidays is the release of the new hit series that aired on BBC in the UK and on PBS in the United States. I recall reading an article in the TV Guide a few months about the show, but I had forgotten it was being aired. Luckily, I got an opportunity to receive a free copy of Season One in exchange of an honest review courtesy of BBC Worldwide Americas.

The series was created and written by Heidi Thomas (also created Upstairs Downstairs) and is based on the memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. Set in the poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s, the series centers around a young Jenny Lee (played by Jessica Raine), who believes she is going to be working at a small hospital called Nonnatus House, but to her surprise, it is actually a convent. She quickly befriends the other nurses, Trixie and Cynthia, the handyman Fred, and the Sisters, Julienne, Evangelina, Bernadette and Monica Joan. Jenny is there mainly as a midwife, but she has other duties to attend to as well. Just like the other midwives, Jenny must ride a bicycle to visit her patients.

Aaarh! Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate's Party We Will Go!

Argh, matey! Are you ready for a pirate party?

I had emailed Oriental Trading asking them about being a giveaway sponsor, but months went by and I never heard back from them. Then, out of the blue, a big box was left at my front door last week from them. Inside the box were free samples of Oriental Trading’s best products.

The products are:

• 1 Red Jumbo Streamer
• 1 Sapphire Blue Jumbo Streamer
• 1 100FT Pirate Pennant
• 6 dozen Pirate Tattoos
• 1 dozen Felt Kiddie Pirate Hats
• 1 dozen Pirate Rubber Duckys
• 1 pkg. Royal Blue Plastic Forks (50 count)
• 2 (8 count each) Pirate Party Invitations
• 2 Red Plastic Tablecover (54"x108")
• 1 dozen Pirate Sword with Eye Patch

13 Days of Halloween: Horror Fan Swag Giveaway!

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Giveaway Details:

*The Undead postcard

*Tales of Horror postcard

*Halloween (1978) decal

*Laurie Strode decal

*Halloween 4 decal

*Halloween 5 decal

13 Days of Halloween: Giveaway - Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz E-book Gift Card

The Dark Knight Rises (Blu-Ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) Giveaway

Giveaway Details:

*Prize - The Dark Knight Rises (Blu-Ray + DVD + Ultraviolet)

*I'll buy the Blu-ray through an online retail store and have it shipped to the winner.
(I might order this through my DVD Club.)

*Only residents of the U.S. are eligible to win. 

*No P.O. Boxes, please.

*Giveaway Ends December 1st!