Giveaway – Homemade Doggie Treats!

February 10, 2012 in Active Giveaways, Giveaway

I have a dog, an awesomely awesome Golden Retriever, and I love her to death but right now she just won’t leave me alone!

See, Stephanie from the Happy Tails Pet Bakery over on Etsy sent me a sample of her homemade dog treats.  Specifically, she provided me with a few each of the Peanut Butter Bacon Hearts and Cheesy Cheddar dog biscuits.

These are generously-sized and thick and chewy.  Quarter not included.

Pictured: Two adorable bags of treats. Not pictured: My dog going apeshit.

My first mistake was calling my dog over as I opened the box.  She (as dogs do) instantly knew there was something yummy and delightful and FOR HER inside.  So she was all wiggly and annoying as I tried to take a couple pictures of the items I received.  Then realizing she could be dissuaded no longer, I gave her one of the peanut butter bacon hearts.  At first I think she was a little confused and she didn’t eat it right away.  Either she was a little thrown off by the consistency (she’s used to hard, crunchy treats and these are more soft and chewy) or she was perplexed that I gave her something so yummy (she did that sort of ooh-I-better-drop-this-because-I’m-not-supposed-to-have-it kind of maneuver).  After a couple reassurances that it was, indeed, OK for her to eat it, she got down to business and laid into that morsel.  Then I let her sample the cheesy cheddar biscuits – again, more soft and chewy than cripsy, which was a very pleasant surprise) and after torturing her for a moment, she decimated it.  Because she seemed to enjoy them so much I gave her another peanut butter heart, again with a touch of sadism, and she wolfed it down.

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Join me in the Spring Buzz Giveaway Hop!

February 12, 2012 in Giveaway, Link Love

Starting March 21, Crafty Raffle will be participating in the Spring Buzz Giveaway Hop, which will be hosted by Just Married with Coupons & Sweep Tight.  So far there are nearly 90 different sites signed up to participate, so that means you’ll easily be able to hop around from link to link easily entering a whole ton of different giveaways.  Each will have a prize worth at least $25.  There will also be a Kindle Fire grand prize, sponsored by BeeSavy, a really cool site looking to take the “sting” out of online shopping.  They advertise daily deals and make it easy to comparison shop and earn cash back on purchases, which you can choose to be sent to you or donated directly to a charity.

 

Because nothing sells a necklace…

February 10, 2012 in Snark

… like a goiter.

 

It does accentuate the deformity quite nicely, though....

Expecting a baby? Live in NYC?

January 31, 2012 in Link Love

The ultimate Guncle!

I guess officially I don’t have a baby anymore, because my little girl turned one last week. [sniff] However, I still follow The Baby Guy (aka Jamie) on Twitter because he’s awesome. He is a baby gear consultant, and was invited to be on The Martha Stewart Show for their baby shower show which will tape on February 14. So excited for him, and excited for anyone who might be expecting because over on his site he’s giving away three tickets to the taping! It should be a great time, and there will be plenty giveaways for the audience. Pretty jealous I can’t enter…. but if you’re expecting and can be in NYC on February 14, hop on over to his site and enter to win a ticket!

Giveaway – Send a Flying Card!

January 19, 2012 in Giveaway

You know how you sometimes you want to send someone a card, but really you want to send a little more than a card, something a little more useful or unique or just downright fun?  There’s certainly lots of options, but I’d like to call your attention to one you perhaps hadn’t considered before – a ‘frizbee’!

The folks over at SendAFlyingCard.com have set up a neat-o operation where you hop on over to their site, pick a color, fill out their easy order form, and they will send off a fun flying disk to the recipient (or recipients!) of your choice.  They impart upon the gift a message of your choosing, there is clip art to choose from, or you can even supply your own picture to include on the Frizbee.

I ordered a Frizbee for my son, as his 5th birthday is impending.

He was, in a word, thrilled.  I could come up with many more words but these pictures should probably suffice:

He was like, "Hey, it's me!"

He really loved that his picture was on the Frizbee. I also think I'll get him a haircut for his birthday.

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