Little Shepherd Giveaway at Books, Products and More!

I'm running a giveaway over at Books, Products and More! for three printed copies of my book, Little Shepherd. You can find the details at http://booktoursandmore.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-for-all-fridays-little-shepherd.html

Looking for Sponsors for Spring Cleaning Month in April

Books, Products and More! is looking for sponsors for Spring Cleaning Month in April. Every year we spend a few weeks in April cleaning up, sprucing up, organizing, and getting the house ready for the warmer weather.

This year, we're hoping to test drive some of the eco-friendly products available and find new storage solutions for the house.

Our stats as of 1/21/2011:

6,400 page views per month

Facebook Friends: 600

Twitter followers: 1091

LinkedIn: 471 Connections

We have seen a steady increase in our traffic and subscribers since the beginning of the year. I am a seasoned reviewer with over four years experience. Please contact me at ccmal(at)charter(dot)net if you would like us to review your product.

Thank you for your consideration.

Looking for Sponsors for Movie Review Month in March

Books, Products and More! is looking for sponsors for Movie Review Month, which is coming this March. We would like to review your family friendly movie during an entire month dedicated to films. We are eager to review these specific genres, but will consider all requests:

• Christian films and documentaries
• Comedy
• Drama
• Adventure
• Historical films and documentaries

Our stats as of 1/21/2011:
6,400 page views per month

Facebook Friends: 600

Twitter followers: 1091

LinkedIn: 471 Connection
 
We have seen a steady increase in our traffic and subscribers since the beginning of the year. I am a seasoned reviewer with over four years experience. Please contact me at ccmal(at)charter(dot)net if you would like us to review your product.


Thank you for your consideration.

Free for All Fridays- Little Shepherd Giveaway!

It's time for Free for All Friday! Hold your applause, just throw money. Only kidding.

I know it's not the right time of year for this, but I figure any season is a great time to win something. Today I am giving away 3 paperback copies of my children's picture book, Little Shepherd, to 3 of our lucky followers.

Obed is in the hills outside Bethlehem on the night of Christ’s birth. Can he trust the miracle of Christmas to keep his flock safe while he visits the newborn King?

Use the Rafflecopter form below to enter. Good luck!



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We Joined TopMommyBlogs.org

Please give me a boost!

Yes, I know I'm short, but I'm not asking for a hand to reach something in one of my upper cabinets. I've recently joined BlogNation, which is a blog directory. In entering blog giveaways at a variety of places, I kept seeing, give me a boost as one of the entry options. I decided to investigate.

I haven't worked my way around everything yet, and I'm not so sure I like the fact that it appears you can't search for the blog you want, but it's a smart move on their part to make you look through the blogs that are in a certain category. I signed up through BlogNation to be part of the TopMommyBlog.org Directory. I've listed this blog under the Product Reviews category and Books, Products and More! is currently on Page 15.

If you have the time, please go to the site and give us a boost. All you have to do is find our blog (which you can easily get to via the link above) and hit the (BN Boost) button. It should increase by one when you do it. The more boosts, the higher up in the category the blog is ranked. You don't have to join the site to participate. There's also a link to TopMommyBlogs.org in our sidebar.

I know several of the bloggers in this directory, so I boost them too. I'm not competitive when it comes to blogging. I think blogs are an excellent way to help consumers find out about products they might like and they allow them win prizes. I'm hoping to run more giveaways here in 2012. There will be two coming up in February.

Thanks for your support.

EDITED POST:  Finally found a direct link to my blog. You can find it at http://www.topmommyblogs.org/blog/19060/books-products-and-more (It's rough being a technology dummy in a technology filled world.)

We're on the Fence!

I added Books, Products and More! to Picket Fence Blogs. I hope you'll vote for us by clicking on the button in our sidebar.

Thanks for your support! 

Taking Time for Mom Thursdays

My how time flies when you're a busy mom. This post would have been up earlier, but I had to take the truck to the mechanic for some regular maintenance today, clean house, and do laundry. Yawn.

I was wondering what are some of things you do to relax. One of the things I used to do a lot of is cross-stitch or needlework on plastic canvas. I had forgotten how much I used to craft until I saw Ellen's post about Embroider Everything Workshop by Diana Rupp over at Confessions of an Overworked Mom.

My mémère, or mémé as we usually called her, first introduced me to printed cross-stitch when I was around ten or eleven. I still have the tin container she gave me to carry my wooden hoop, needle and floss (I'll dig it out of my craft closet one day soon and take a picture of it so you can see it). I worked on printed cross-stitch kits for years before I felt comfortable switching to counted cross-stitch. With counted cross-stitch, you have no pattern, just a blank piece of Aida cloth. You fold the cloth to find the middle and begin stitching from the middle out to the edges.

While I was a single parent, I often had to rely on homemade gifts for family and friends. Counted cross-stitch certainly came in handy back then.  I subscribed to magazines so I could find new patterns. The Lil Diva was just a toddler and the Lil Princess still crawling around when I stopped cross-stitching. Blogging, writing and reviewing books have taken its place. I miss it. I'm hoping once the girls are teenagers and I have a bit more time to myself I'll be able to pick it up again. We'll see.

Do you like to craft? What is your area of interest? Do you give handmade gifts for special occasions? How many--if any--unfinished gifts do you have in your craft closet? I have to admit to at least two.