Want a FREE night at the movies?

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General Mills is doing a promotion right now when you buy two boxes of specially marked boxes of cereal, you can print up a free movie ticket. (up to $12 value) Here’s how it works: Look for either Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Trix or Reese’s Puffs cereal. Inside, you’ll find a code. When you have two codes – go here to enter them in and get your free movie ticket! (Click to find a list of participating theaters or for more details.) You should be able to find these boxes in stores starting the beginning of this month (November)!

To help spread the word about this promotion, General Mills, through MyBlogSpark, sent me coupons for us to head to the theater ourselves as well as a coupon for a free box of General Mills cereal. Personally, the only somewhat kid friendly movie out right now is Where the Wild Things Are, and I think it’s not something my kids would enjoy. I know for a fact that there’s a few more kid movies coming out soon. In fact the new Disney movie is due out in the middle of December: The Princess and The Frog – so I’ll be holding out a bit before we head to the theaters.

BUT! I didn’t want to wait to tell you about the promotion because I have a packet of 4 free movie tickets and a coupon for 1 free box of cereal for a GIVEAWAY! (The tickets are good until September 2010, so if you’re like me and wanting to hold out for a particular movie to be released – you’ll still be able to do that)

HOW TO ENTER “MOVIE MOMENT” CONTEST:
I’m going to keep this really simple. Each item below only counts once and is worth 1 entry into the contest. You can do just the first one – or all three – up to you.

1) (Mandatory Entry – you must at least do this one) Leave a comment on this post.
Make sure you put in a real email address (that you check often!) as this is the method I will use to contact you if you win. In your comment, I’d love to know what movie you’d want to see (or if you’re going to hold out for awhile for a particular movie to come out). Or tell me what your favorite movie is.

2) Tweet about this post. If you’re feeling uninspired, you can use this text exactly:

Go to the movies FOR FREE! Details and MOVIE TICKETS GIVEAWAY here: http://bit.ly/3vJGvJ Pls RT

Then come back and leave a comment telling me you did (and tell me your Twitter ID so I can see your tweet) 😀

3) If you have a blog – mention and link to this post.

Contest ends November 12th at 10pm MST. There is no purchase necessary to enter the contest. I will be using random.org to choose the winner. I’ll contact the winner via email, and he/she will have 48 hours to respond. After 48 hours, if I don’t receive a response, another winner will be chosen.

Win a FREE Piggies and Paws Print!

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So, if you’ve never heard of Piggies and Paws, you may be asking yourself, WHAT is Piggies and Paws??? It’s a little hard to describe (and unfortunately, I’m not able to use photos of the actual artwork) but basically it’s custom made artwork using your child’s handprint or footprint. We’ve all done cute little crafty things with our kids handprints, but there is definitely a difference between what I can pull off, and what can be done with Piggies and Paws.

My friend, Cheryl, is an independent artist here in Utah and we’ve had a number of prints done by her. We have two in our house, and we loved them so much that we got four more to send to grandparents and uncles and aunts. They’re unique and personal and made perfect gifts. Everyone loved them.

So to get an idea for what you’re getting – go to the Piggies and Paws website. There’s a few pictures on the homepage there, but when you have one of these done, there are TONS of designs to choose from. Seriously. You will have a really hard time picking out what you want!

I also want to mention that you can host a “party” with Piggies and Paws and Cheryl will come to you (within a reasonable distance) to do the handprints of your children and your friend’s children. Hostesses who book in the months of September or October will get your final prints mounted for free. (This might work great at a playgroup get together!) OR – if you don’t want to host your own party, then come to Cheryl’s Open House on Saturday, September 19th from 10am – 1pm or on Friday, October 9th from 5pm – 8pm and you’ll be able to see all the designs that are available.

SO if you would like to win a FREE Piggies and Paws print – here’s what you gotta do:

• Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment on this post. **Make sure you use a valid email address when you leave your comment – this will be the method I use to contact you should you win. (Value: 1 entry)

For more entries you can do the following (For each, leave a comment here telling me what you did)

• Become a fan of the Piggies and Paws Facebook page (Value: 2 entries)
• Follow me on Twitter (Value: 1 entry)
• Book a Piggies and Paws Party with Cheryl (Value: 10 entries!!!)

Contact Cheryl for more information, RSVP for her Open House (and get directions since I won’t be posting her address here), or book a Piggies and Paws party: chodsdon@piggiesandpaws.com

Contest ends September 9th at 10pm MST. There is no purchase necessary to enter the contest. I will be using random.org to choose the winner. I’ll contact the winner via email, and he/she will have 48 hours to respond. After 48 hours, another winner will be chosen. If the winner is unable to receive the prize (ie. You live too far away) another winner will be chosen.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The free Piggies and Paws print is only valid for prints created by Cheryl. If you live outside of an hour from Sandy, UT you may need to cover travel expenses to have Cheryl come to you. Or you can make the trip to Cheryl during her Open House. There are Piggies and Paws artists all over the country – so if Cheryl is too far from you, feel free to check out the website to find another closer to you. You will not be able to use your free print prize with other artists, but you can still get some cute prints from them!

Back to School Snazl

So this Snazl thing looks pretty cool. Need to investigate it more to understand how it works. In any case – skimbacolifestyle.com is having a $500 Back to school giveaway by Nestle. (Which I discovered via a twitter from Jyl) So here is my entry.

You can enter too.