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Jillian — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:24:06 +0000

We have a winner! Congratulations to Carl Angelo Dela Cruz! I have an audiobook for you! Thanks to all those who participated and I will try to do more giveways. I always just forget that I have that option! Carl, I will send you an email shortly or MacMillan will, with your audiobook! Congrats again!

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2011-12-16 00:21:05 UTC

Tempest by Julie Cross Audiobook Giveaway!!

Jillian — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:57:39 +0000

Wow, it has been a long time since I’ve done a giveaway! It’s about time, right? After my review of the book Tempest by Julie Cross, MacMillon Audio (who does the audiobook of this book) wrote me a note and sent me a sound clip to add to my initial review as well as offering me a fun little giveaway option for my friends here! I love thoughtful little gestures like that and it’s such a great time of year for this. So many of us are traveling right now that having something to listen to while driving or on the mp3 player is a nice little space-saving gift. Right, right. Quit talking and tell you how to get this awesome giveaway.

1 lucky blog reader will receive an audiobook version of Tempest by Julie Cross thanks to MacMillion Audio.

It can be yours if you win.

Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment before December 15, 2011 at 5pm CST telling me one thing you love about this time of year. (1 entry)

2) You can tweet this giveaway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! You can do this as often as you like, but it only counts once. (1 entry each, but you must link them here SEPARATELY or they will not COUNT separately as I will be using a number randomizer to choose the winner–please do not spam your friends to win the contest as most sites frown on that)

3) You can put a blueshelled.com blog button (seen in the sidebar-along with code to add it to your blog or website) on your blog or website, or if you already have one, you qualify, for 3 extra entries. I will verify this before your entries will count. Let me know it’s there and where I can find it. It’s pretty!

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**You must have a valid way of contacting you in your entry (which means you must leave your email address on the entry so I can send you a notice saying “YOU WON!”)
**If your email address bounces back to me, I will leave a post on my blog for 5 days and you will have the option to contact me for your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, doesn’t work, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Giveaway Results: Congratulations, Arie!

Jillian — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:13:41 +0000

Random number generator says we have a winner: Lucky number 5! Congratulations, Arie, you win the cool screwdriver! Email me your address to jillian at blueshelled dot com and I will get this out within the next week. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Thanks to all who participated and to all of you for reading blueshelled.com!

Giveaway: Husky Screwdriver Set

Jillian — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:04:41 +0000

I’ll admit it, I’m such a girlie girl. Before the feminists beat me to a pulp, perhaps rightfully so, I’ll just say that I’m not mechanically inclined. I try really hard, but I’m just not there. So, when I find something that makes life easier, I tend to jump on it and grab it and hold it like gold. Therefore, giving away the freebie that Husky Tools sent me (*note to the FTC-this was a freebie*) to review makes me feel a bit like Scrooge.

Home Depot is offering a bunch of really cool tools for under $20 this holiday season. Being a really awesome company, they offered to send some bloggers some of the tools to review and giveaway (not review and keep–bah humbug) to their loyal readers. I got a super cool screwdriver set.

I’ll admit that when they said they were sending me screwdrivers to review that my initial reaction was “how on earth am I going to review screwdrivers? Don’t you just put it on the screw on turn it?” Yep. I’m crafty like that. When I got the screwdriver kit, though, I was like a kid in a candy store. It had all these cool little bit things. Every bit you could think of was in this kit (like 12 of them!). The batteries were included (YES!!!) so it makes an easy holiday gift. All I had to do was take the little paper out, which was thoughtful of them, so it didn’t drain the juice. I immediately started assembling and pushing the right and left buttons to watch the bits go back and forth.

And then…I did something that was decidedly male…I started looking for things to take apart. Oh yes. There had to be something in the house to take apart. And we’re just going to leave the story as to what was disassembled there because you really don’t need to know more about that. What I will say is that this screwdriver is AWESOME and I’m loathe to give it up (ARGH!). For $10, I’m considering putting it on my wishlist. Mom, are you reading this? Everyone needs a good screwdriver. If I hadn’t said I’d give it away, I might have actually given it to her as a gift. We love the freebies.

However, now I have to give it to one of you. One slightly used and gleefully toyed with screwdriver is up for grabs.

It can be yours if you win.

Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment before December 15, 2010 at 5pm CST telling me one thing you love about this time of year. (1 chance)

2) You can tweet this giveaway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! You can do this as often as you like, but it only counts once. (1 chance each)

3) You can add the blueshelled facebook page to your facebook pages! This is going to make me really happy. (2 chances)

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**I can only ship in the United States. I’m sorry to my International folks. I adore you, anyway.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Things to remember here: 1/the giveaways are made possible by me and my sponsors. I rely on word of mouth to bring people to my blog. Please spread the word about blueshelled.com! 2/If you or anyone you know might be interested in sponsoring a giveaway here, please let me know. 3/ This blog sucks up the love. Thanks!

Earring giveaway

Jillian — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:51:52 +0000

What the soup is this about only 2 people entering? Angie you won the earrings, but I feel bad for Amber so if you send me your address, Amber, I’ll send you a little Blueshelled.com swag, too. Angie, let me know when I can get you the earrings since you are in town. Amber, please email your info to me at jillian at blueshelled dot com.

Thanks for reading and keep watching for more giveaways!

Earring Review and giveaway

Jillian — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:11:13 +0000

Every now and then a company will send me something and say “Please give my product an honest review.” I remind them that all of my reviews are honest and they might not like what I say. So far, no one has pulled out of their offer because of it. I received an email in August from the people at Diamondearrings.org asking me to review their earrings and letting me know they’d throw in a pair for me to give to a lucky reader if I’d like as well. I have super sensitive ears so my first response to them was “Well, sure, but I have to let you know that my ears hate even the most expensive of earrings so if they aren’t good quality, the review won’t be good.” I’m serious about that. I have what must be a nickel-allergy or something because, though earrings look great on me, my ears get irritated, puffy and red after I’ve worn them all day.

It could actually be post-traumatic stress from when I got my ears pierced. I only vaguely remember this. I was young. My mom could verify the age, but I’d guess I was 6 or 7 years old and I’d wanted them pierced for a while. Luckily for both of us, my mom’s best friend at the time was a beautician and she could do it for me. All went well until she pierced the first ear. Commence extreme wailing, gnashing of teeth and a refusal for her to do the second ear.

I wasn’t playing. There was to be no holding still for a second ear. I was doomed to go through life with only one ear pierced. One ear pierced with a fake gold stud and sapphire. I was going to look like someone from the boy-band Colour Me Badd. My mother wasn’t having it. She had to get creative. There was a happy meal in my future if I’d only consent to the ear piercing afterward.

I’m assuming I was bought because I have a hole in each ear. Actually, I have 2 holes in each ear as I got bold when I was around 14 or so. Regardless, I do believe the upset caused by that first encounter has given me a condition I call “angry ears.” It doesn’t let me wear earrings easily and I feared this review was going to be a nasty one.

It almost never happened. I never heard anything from the company and never saw anything in the mail. I deleted the emails and assumed that they decided against someone who was not a sure bet. I was wrong. My post office had held a package addressed to me for over a month because they “wanted to make sure it was me.”

…

I’ve always been me. I’m glad the post office figured it out.

Onto the review of the earrings from Diamondearrings.org. If you look at the site, the premise looks simple. You mention them on your blog, twitter, facebook, somewhere online, pay a cheapie fee for shipping and they send you some earrings that look like diamonds, but aren’t. Why bother? Because eventually they won’t do this anymore and they are going to rely on word of mouth for advertising and all those posts add up to some serious advertising.

Here’s why I think it’s going to work: The earrings are good. I was really pleasantly surprised. In the box, they looked a little bigger than what I’d normally wear. I’m a small earrings kind of girl and I require a clean look at all times. They wore really nicely, gave me a little bit of bling and I can wear them all day without experiencing ear fatigue or “angry ears.” I’m used to taking my earrings out and rubbing my ears for about 10 minutes. This was incredibly pleasant for me.

So, here’s what is going to happen. You are going to go look at the site and decide you want your own pair and enter my freebie giveaway to try to win a pair and avoid paying shipping or you’ll just try the deal on your own. One way or another, the earrings were really nice and a great surprise to me. Thanks again to the company for a new pair of classy, everyday earrings. I appreciate them greatly.

If you want to try your chances on my giveaway, here’s what you can do:

1) Visit DiamondEarrings.org and tell me what you think about the idea in a comment here.

For an additional entry each:

2) Stumble them on Stumble Upon

3) Twitter about them or this contest.

4) Facebook about them or this contest.

5) Write about them or this contest in your blog.

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline (October 20, 2010 at 5pm CST) won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible if you do not receive your prize. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Giveaway #3: Coveryourhair.com goodies

Jillian — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:51:23 +0000

Congratulations to Ellie W. who has won the haircare from Coveryourhair.com!Please send me an address via email and I’ll get your information over to the fine folks over there. If you didn’t win, don’t dismay, another giveaway begins in a couple of days! Check back then for another sweet summer giveaway from Blueshelled.com!

Edit: My apologies to the winners the last 2 weeks. I haven’t mailed out the prizes due to lack of mailing boxes/envelopes. Those will go out on Monday. Please don’t hate me because I procrastinated.

Giveaway #3: Goodies from Coveryourhair.com

Jillian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:29:23 +0000

Coveryourhair.com was kind enough to send me a freebie hat to review and a free giveaway for you! Let’s be honest, I look like crud in hats. However, I think I may be able to pull this one off, just not with the shirt I chose for this picture. I think it’s my ears. My usual complaint about hats is that they are too big/small for my head or they aren’t comfortable. What I found with this hat was that it was the perfect size for me, but was too big for my 14-year-old sister. However, it was immensely comfortable. This is going to be a staple for me in the winter when I don’t feel like doing my hair and pull half of it back with a barrette.

It goes with most of the items in my wardrobe. My mother didn’t like the pattern because she thought it was busy, but when worn with a solid color shirt, I felt like it dressed up the outfit a great deal. With some dangly earrings and dress pants, I think it would be great and stylish. Probably the most attractive thing about this hat is it’s price, which is less than $15. Overall, this is a great deal for the cost and well worth it.

You can own some items from Coveryourhair.com as well! They have graciously offered to sponsor a surprise giveaway for the readers of my blog. They will mail a box containing $25 worth of surprise freebies that can be shipped worldwide to the winner of my weekly July drawing!

It can be yours if you win.

Here’s how to enter and the types of chances you can take to win. All entries WILL BE VERIFIED. If it can’t be verified, it doesn’t count. If you make it easier for me to verify by linking me to it, I will like you more as a person. Leave a comment before July 22, 2010 at 5pm CST telling me which of these you’ve done so I can verify your entries.

1) Visit http://CoverYourHair.com and write into your blog comment which items you would love to have.

For additional entries:

2) Join our Google Friend Connect:
Go to http://www.coveryourhair.com/blog/ Click “Join This Site” in the Google Friend Connect box.

2) Stumble them on Stumble Upon

3) Follow them on twitter

4) Subscribe to their Blog feed

5) Add Coveryourhair.com to your blog roll

6) Follow them on Networked Blogs,
Go to http://www.coveryourhair.com/blog/ and click “Follow This Blog” on the Networked Blog box.

7) Bookmark on on Delicious

8 ) Fan them on Facebook

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible if you do not receive your prize. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Giveaway #2 Winner: Michele Pineda

Jillian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:10:30 +0000

Congratulations to my second giveaway winner, Michele Pineda! You’ve won the flexpod tripod. Email me your address and I will mail this stuff out within the week. If you didn’t win, don’t dismay, another giveaway begins in less than a day! Check back tomorrow for another sweet summer giveaway from Blueshelled.com!

Giveaway #2: Sunpod flexpod minitripod gripper

Jillian — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:10:32 +0000

Have y’all had enough of the dog days of summer? This heat has about given me a stroke and I’ve had plenty of it. Congratulations to the winner of yesterday’s giveaway. Thank goodness I have this to look forward to every week because the air conditioner alone sure isn’t cutting it. I’m about to start bathing in ice cream just to stay cool.

I decided to break up the make-up and give the guys an opportunity to maybe participate this week if they wanted to do so as well. This time I’m giving away something I consider so cool it’s ice cold. This little flexpod minitripod gripper can hold digital cameras and camcorders and the best part is that you can wrap the legs around objects so it doesn’t require a flat surface to get your picture/video. It is one of the coolest little gadgets I’ve seen. See that amazed face in the picture. That was me saying “OoOOOoOoO.”

It can be yours if you win.

Here’s how to enter and the types of chances you can take to win. Please make one comment with a note to all of the things you’ve done to enter. All entries WILL BE VERIFIED. If it can’t be verified, it doesn’t count. If you make it easier for me to verify by linking me to it, I will like you more as a person

1) Leave a comment before July 15, 2010 at 5pm CST telling me one thing you’ve done or want to do this summer. (1 chance)

2) You can tweet this giveaway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! You can do this as often as you like, but it only counts once. (1 chance each)

3) You can add the blueshelled facebook page to your facebook pages! This is going to make me really happy. (2 chances)

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Things to remember here: 1/the giveaways are made possible by me. I rely on word of mouth to bring people to my blog. Please spread the word about blueshelled.com! 2/If you or anyone you know might be interested in sponsoring a giveaway here, please let me know. 3/ This blog sucks up the love. Thanks!

Giveaway #1 winner: DeeBean

Jillian — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:17:04 +0000

Random Generator says: #1 DeeBean come on down! Email me your address and I will mail this stuff out within the week. If you didn’t win, don’t dismay, another giveaway begins in less than a day! Check back tomorrow for another sweet summer giveaway from Blueshelled.com!

The magical month of July…Giveaways!

Jillian — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:23:46 +0000

Oh, July is sweltering. As someone who can’t seem to stay cool and has to change clothes frequently just to avoid the nasty, sticky feeling that occurs when sweat pools in those places that it’s inappropriate to dab in public, I have already had more than my share of dealing with this heat. Something good needs to happen and fast. “It is better to give than receive” and maybe, just maybe, if I give a little, then the air conditioning karma will blow some much needed ice my direction, eh?

As such, you’re in luck…I’m giving stuff away. And I’m not talking a little bit. I’m talking a little bit every week in the month of July. Every Friday new items will be posted for giveaway and you can win as many times as the randomizer hits your number, as long as you are in the U.S. (for my giveaways). I know. I’m a bummer, but customs is not my friend. HOWEVER, for the third week of giveaways, I’m working with the company Coveryourhair.com, and that lovely group will ship WORLDWIDE. So, don’t give up on me, please? I haven’t forgotten you at all.

The first giveaway is makeup and skincare! As you can see there is a Too Faced palette, some Oil of Olay skincare, some Estee Lauder skincare (for face AND body), Estee Lauder mascara and lip gloss as well as an ultra glam bag.

1) Leave a comment before July 8, 2010 at 5pm CST telling me one thing you’ve done or want to do this summer. (1 chance)

2) You can tweet this giveaway and/or link it on facebook and/or link to it on your own blog for extra chances to win! You can do this as often as you like, but it only counts once. (1 chance each)

3) You can add the blueshelled facebook page to your facebook pages! This is going to make me really happy. (2 chances)

Things to know:
**Comments posted after the deadline won’t be included in the drawing.
**If you win, you must email me your mailing address within a week of the drawing end in order to receive your prize. If you do not, I will re-draw for the prize. I am not responsible for anything that happens once this stuff leaves my hands. If it gets lost, etc., I’ll feel really bad, but I can’t replace it.
**I will be using a randomizer to choose the winner of the giveaway. As long as your entries fit the criteria, you are eligible.

Winner of the SkincareRx.com giftcard

Jillian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:05:37 +0000

And the winner of my SkincareRx.com giftcard is Colleen Cole! Please email me your address to jillian @ blueshelled.com . Congratulations and thanks again to everyone who entered and to SkincareRx.com for sponsoring this blog and the giveaway!!

Biggest Giveaway Ever-SkincareRx.com

Jillian — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:15 +0000

Since I started writing blueshelled.com, I have been very lucky to have the support of some excellent people. One of those companies is SkincareRx.com. For the last six months, they have been a proud sponsor of my site and have been quietly working behind the scenes to support me in any way possible. They are one of the companies that make it possible for me to write here and I want to say thank you.

Besides being awesome and supporting unknown bloggers, they also do fun things such as giveaways to the faithful readers of said unknown blogs. It is another way of supporting this blog and rewarding the people who spend time here and I am incredibly grateful for their support. As such, I’d like to direct you back to their amazing home page and ask you to give them a whirl.

They are offering a great line of Skinceutical Advanced Brightening products, as well as all of the amazing skincare stuff you love. The Advanced Brightening products are particularly good for damaged skin, as they decrease the effects of that damage as well as protect your skin. If you aren’t using skincare, now is a good time to get started. I can tell the difference in my skin on the days that I use skincare versus the days I don’t. Soap and water isn’t enough, especially with the pollution we encounter daily in the air around us. I’m a fan of even toned skin, as mine tends to be blotchy, and this particular set helps even out the skin tone, as well.

My favorite product in the set is the sunscreen. I hate sunscreen. I hate the way it feels. I hate applying it. I hate having it on my face and stinging my eyes. I actually tried this brand a couple of years ago and it’s the only sunscreen I’ll use on my face because I can apply it with a makeup sponge and it feels like there is nothing there. Ok, enough gushing about the skincare. You want to know about the prize, right?

You don’t have the money to invest in skincare? This is where I come in and SkincareRx.com helps you out. We’re offering a giveaway for my readers! It is the largest prize I have ever offered and I’m thankful to them for sponsoring it. A gift card to SkincareRx.com is up for grabs in the amount of $150! This is NOT just for women. Men have skin, too, that needs protection. Even if you aren’t into your skin, I’m sure you know someone who is. Mother’s Day is coming up. What better gift than a $150 gift card to a great site? It’s pretty easy to enter, too. Here’s what you do:

As the sponsoring blog I will track and validate all entries. So when you post here that you posted or retweeted. I will check to see if you did. The winner MUST provide me with their full name, email address and a mailing address. Those are the rules. If you can’t do it, you can’t win.

How can you enter?

SkinCareRx Giveaway Entries

1) One entry for becoming a fan of SkincareRx on FaceBook
2) One entry for following SkincareRx on Twitter
3) 2 entries for retweeting any one of my tweets about this giveaway
4) 7 Entries for a blog post with a link directed to Skinceuticals Advanced Brightening System. This blog post must have a minimum of 100 words and use the words “SkinCeuticals Advanced Brightening System.”

That’s up to 11 entries! Post here when you have completed all of the entries you’d like to complete and I will keep track of them. The contest will run for 2 weeks and the winner will be posted March 22, 2010. Good luck everyone!

And an interesting contest happening

Jillian — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:35:19 +0000

Ok, since my last contest only had 4 entries (hello!), here is what I decided to do. I have 2 planners and was going to do separate giveaways, but since only 3 people wanted them, I’m going to give away the 2 planners and a lipstick palette via drawing. The first two numbers drawn will get the planners and the person who doesn’t get drawn gets the palette! Everyone wins this time around!

Planner #1:
Here are your random numbers:
1 Timestamp: 2009-11-10 05:30:29 UTC

Congrats, Loopy! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Planner #2: Here are your random numbers:
3 Timestamp: 2009-11-10 05:31:21 UTC

Congrats, Ellie! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Lipstick Palette goes to my girl, Natalie! Please email me your mailing address to jillian at blueshelled.com within a week!

Thanks to all of you for spreading the word and for entering my contest and congratulations!!