Progresso "Souper You Debut" Giveaway Winner!

Can you believe it?!  January is almost over, and February is right around the corner :-).  I'm hoping that means spring will soon follow.  Hints of it are already here as temps reach into the 30s.  That may not sound all that warm, but compared to single digits it most definitely is!

Now for the winner of my Progresso "Souper You Debut" Giveaway!  Lucky number 4 is the winner (via random.org).  Congrats Cheryl!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered the giveaway and all of the new followers of my blog!  I'm so happy to have reached 50 followers!


*The product, prize pack, information, online coupon and giveaway were all provided by Progresso through MyBlogSpark.


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Costume Squad Giveaway Winner

Hello all!  First, I want to let you know that I'll be doing a review for CSN Stores soon.  They have so much to offer, and I can personally attest to the quality of their merchandise.  You can check out their luggage stores, cookware, and much more!

And now... the lucky winner of my Costume Squad Giveaway is #3 (via random.org) Jessie!  Congrats!  Thank you to everyone who entered!

Don't forget my Progresso "Souper You Debut" Giveaway going on right now too :-).

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and stay warm!  We had windchills of -11 degrees in Champaign-Urbana yesterday - brrrr!


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Progresso "Souper You Debut" Giveaway!

Hello everyone!  Winter break officially ended for me today and the spring semester started :-).  I'm looking forward to it, but it is a little hectic at the moment as I adjust to my new schedule.  I'm going to take a break though and share a great giveaway with you!

Since this giveaway is about Progresso, I'll share some Progresso information with you first:

"Progresso® Soup is available in 40 delicious flavors with 100 calories or less, and can help curb your hunger, making it easier for you to stick to your weight management plan all year long. With hearty ingredients like pasta, beans, corn and rice, and flavor-packed vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, and peppers, Progresso Soup varieties with 100 calories or less offer a good source of fiber and a full serving of vegetables."

I was sent some Progresso Soup to try and review on my blog.  My two favorite flavors were the Chicken Noodle and Santa Fe Style Chicken.  Soup is a great winter staple, and Progresso provides a nutritious, tasty, and low calorie option.  I like that you can easily add additional veggies or beans in order to add more protein and nutrients to the soup and make it more substantial.

Before I get to the giveaway, I want to let you know about Progresso's "Souper You™ Debut" contest. From January 3rd through March 16th, you can visit Progresso on Facebook to enter for the chance to win a full makeover in New York City.  You can also download a coupon for $1.00 off 4 cans of Progresso Soup on the Facebook page here!

Giveaway: One reader will win a Progresso "Souper You Debut" gift pack that contains a VIP coupon for a free can of Progresso soup, as well as a yoga mat, water bottle, set of aerobic bands, sport headband and two sport wristbands.  That's some nice stuff!

This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on January 28, 2011. The winner will be picked via random.org. and will have 48 hours to respond to the winning e-mail to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn. Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address in your posts!

Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment with which Progresso Soup flavor you would most like to try. Please leave your e-mail address with your comment.

Extra Entries (leave one comment for each):  Post a link to this giveaway on your blog.

Follow me on twitter and tweet about this giveaway: Check out this Progresso Souper You Debut Giveaway: http://tinyurl.com/4dhbpvr #myblogspark.

Become a new follower of my blog :-).


Best of luck!  Also, you can still enter my Costume Squad T-shirt Giveaway going on here!


*The product, prize pack, information, online coupon and giveaway were all provided by Progresso through MyBlogSpark.


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Costume Squad Review and Giveaway!

First, the lucky winner of the Nachomatees.com giveaway is lucky #6 (via random.org): Anonymous.  Luckily s/he left an e-mail address :-).  Thank you so much to everyone who entered that giveaway, and if you didn't win, why don't you try your luck on today's giveaway!

Costume Squad has a variety of costumes and t-shirts.  Their website states, "We have made it our mission to bring you the best Halloween costumes. Our sexy costumes are perfect for your Halloween party! From the ghostbuster girl costume to our wonder woman costume. The best mens costumes, womens costumes and couples halloweencostumes online."  I chose to review the Coexist t-shirt pictured below:

I chose this shirt because I love the message it provides.  Regardless of faith, nationality, race, gender, age, etc. we all share this one world and it's best if we acknowledge and respect one another's differences and get along.  I could go on, but this is probably not the best platform to do so :-).  Anyway, it is a nice quality t-shirt, and I like how soft the material is.

Now for the giveaway!

Giveaway: This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on January 21, 2011. The winner will be picked via random.org. and will have 48 hours to respond to the winning e-mail to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn. Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address in your posts! Also, the winner cannot have won a shirt from Costume Squad or have been sent a shirt for promotional purposes in the last 90 days or own a blog of their own.

The winner will get to choose between receiving one of the following: Free Mystery Tee (you will need to specify your size in Mens) or a Free $15 Gift Card.

Mandatory Entry: Go to Costumesquad.com and leave a comment below with which t-shirt you'd most like to get. Please leave your e-mail address with your comment.

Extra Entries (leave one comment for each): Become a fan of Costume Squad on Facebook.

Post a comment on the Facebook page stating what your favorite tee is or asking a question about the shirts.

"Like" or "Share" one of the products on the website. The buttons for these are on all product detail pages, above the main image.

Become a new follower of my blog :-).

Best of luck!

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Nachomamatees.com Review and Giveaway

I hope your New Year is off to a good start!  My first review and giveaway of the year is for Nachomamatees.com, which is owned by CrazyDog.  Nacho offers vintage t shirts, unique novelty t-shirts, priceless movie shirts and stylish cool t-shirt designs.  I was sent the 'I'm on a boat' t-shirt. 

The phrase references a song by T-Pain as well as an SNL skit that you can view here.  The reason I like it so much is because I had a couple of friends who would sing this song (the clean version) together and it was hilarious.  This is also a quality t-shirt, and reasonably priced too.

Now one of you will win a Nacho t-shirt of your own!

Giveaway: This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on January 13, 2011. The winner will be picked via random.org. and will have 48 hours to respond to the winning e-mail to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn. Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address in your posts! Also, the winner cannot have won a shirt from CrazyDog or have been sent a shirt for promotional purposes in the last 90 days or own a blog of their own.

The winner will get to choose between receiving one of the following: Free Mystery Tee (you will need to specify your size in Mens) or a Free $15 Gift Card.

Mandatory Entry: Go to Nachomamatees.com and leave a comment with which t-shirt you'd most like to get. Please leave your e-mail address with your comment.

Extra Entries (leave one comment for each): Become a fan of CrazyDog T-shirts (since they own Nacho) on Facebook.

Post a comment on the Facebook page stating what your favorite tee is or asking a question about the shirts.

"Like" or "Share" one of the products on the website. The buttons for these are on all product detail pages, above the main image.

Become a new follower of my blog :-).


Best of luck!!

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Happy New Year!! 1-1-11

I hope you all enjoyed ringing in the new year last night!  This is such a promising time of year.  While you can reflect on the past and make goals any time during the year, this seems to be a most appropriate time to do so.  I think it's good to occasionally look back on your past and reflect on both your achievements and failures so as to learn from them.  It's also important to take the time to express gratitude for the life you have led thus far (even if it has been far from ideal).  While the setting of New Year's Resolutions often causes people to focus on the future, it is important to break up your resolutions in such a manner that you can make little steps each day towards their fulfillment.  In this way, you'll be living in the moment - the only moment in which you can make noticeable changes :-).

As for me, my New Year's Resolutions are: to live in the moment, eat mindfully and healthfully, maintain a healthy weight and fitness level, and put forth my best effort in school and work.  Now I just need to break those up into more tangible goals and I'll be set :-).

I'd also like to share some of the lyrics to my favorite song in celebration of the New Year:

Image courtesy of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auld_Lang_Syne.jpg


And stay tuned for another t-shirt giveaway coming up in my next post!


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CrazyDog T-shirt winner

The lucky winner of my CrazyDog T-shirt giveaway is #3 AmandaSue!  Congratulations!  I'll be e-mailing you shortly in order to get your contact information to send to CrazyDog T-shirts.  Thank you to everyone who entered.

Edited to add:  Because Amanda recently won another CrazyDog T-shirt giveaway, the new winner is #4 Karen!
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Merry Christmas!

I want to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas!  It's a day late because I was at my grandparents' house yesterday, and they do not have Internet access.  It was nice to be "unplugged" for awhile, but I can't stay away from my e-mail or Facebook for too long :-).

I've been taking quite a few pictures of the beautiful winter scenery lately, and I will be adding some new pics to my photo blog: http://ashleymphotos.weebly.com/.  I'll also post a couple at the end of this post for your convenience.  I truly love a white Christmas, but at the same time I'm really looking forward to spring when I can start biking and running in comfort outside again :-).

Also, don't forget to enter my CrazyDog T-shirt Giveaway that ends tonight at midnight!  If you do miss it though, don't worry becuase I'll be hosting a couple more giveaways soon.

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Crazydogtshirts.com Review and Giveaway

I was recently given the opportunity to review a t-shirt from Crazydogtshirts.com.  They have such a fun collection that includes funny t-shirts, 80s t-shirts, as well as custom t-shirts!  It was hard picking a t-shirt from such a wide collection, but I ended up deciding on the Womens Dunder Mifflin t-shirt since I'm a big fan of The Office :-).  Here it is: 

It is a quality t-shirt and, like most of their shirts, it can be a conversation starter :-).  The shirts are also reasonably priced, especially if you take advantage of their $6.99 Daily T-shirt Special.  The only minor problem I had was that I thought the blue color was going to be lighter, as in the picture on the website here. 

Now one of you has a chance to win a CrazyDog t-shirt of your own!  Here are the specs:

Giveaway: This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on December 26, 2010 (a post Christmas gift). The winner will be picked via random.org. and will have 48 hours to respond to the winning e-mail to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn. Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address in your posts!  Also, the winner cannot have won a shirt from CrazyDog or have been sent a shirt for promotional purposes in the last 90 days or own a blog of their own.

The winner will get to choose between receiving one of the following: Free Mystery Tee (you will need to specify your size in Mens) or a Free $15 Gift Card.

Mandatory Entry: Go to Crazydogtshirts.com and leave a comment with which t-shirt you'd most like to get.  Please leave your e-mail address with your comment.

Extra Entries (leave one comment for each): Become a fan of CrazyDog T-shirts on Facebook.

Post a comment on the Facebook page stating what your favorite tee is or asking a question about the shirts.

"Like" or "Share" one of the products on the website. The buttons for these are on all product detail pages, above the main image.


Best of luck!!

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FitDeck Exercise Playing Cards Review

Have you ever seen FitDeck exercise playing cards?  If not, I'm about to introduce you to them :-).  The following information comes from the website http://fitdeck.com/.

"FitDeck is a unique deck of 56 playing cards containing illustrations and instructions describing over 50 different exercises, stretches, and movements.  These ‘no-equipment’ FitDecks contain exercises that require only your bodyweight to perform. ‘FitDeck Bodyweight’ is our flagship product in this popular series of ‘no-equipment’ FitDecks."

I think FitDeck is a great option for people without a gym membership, those who want to work out at home, people who travel a lot and want to stay fit on the road, or people who simply want to change up the regular routine.  There is literally a FitDeck for anyone whether you want to exercise with or without equipment.

I was lucky enough to be sent a complimentary FitDeck Yoga and FitDeck Bodyweight to review.  Here they are:

10 of 10 for both!  I really am impressed with these two sets.  I like how both do not require equipment, for even though I do have some free weights, I like to switch up my exercise routines.  I'll also definitely be bringing these with me on trips - they are so convenient!  The number of cards is great too, for it truly allows you to create full workout.  The exercises are explained well, and I especially like how the yoga cards, for instance, are color coded according to whether they are standing, twisting, balance, etc. poses.

All in all, I think FitDecks are a very handy product and would make a great (and fairly economical) gift :-).

And I don't know about you, but the month of December is just flying by for me.  It's going to be the new year before I know it... and then a new semester!  At least this semester is almost done :-).

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