This month’s contest is going extremely well! With nearly 70 entries I’m actually considering tossing in another t-shirt (to make two prizes for two separate winners!) but I’m still thinking on it so stick around!
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Julie’s contest at Play Library is going strong too – don’t forget to enter!
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The Home & Dining, Family & Relationships and Arts & Design channels here at b5 recently merged to create one giant Lifestyles channel!

Julie at Declutter It had her son pick the winning name for the Fall Scavenger Hunt:

Congrats!
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b5media will be at Blog World Expo November 7th, 8th and 9th. As a special feature, b5media is going to be hosting some special games during event, including the b5media Poker Game! And, if you happen to be a winner at poker, you’ll walk away with some pretty grand prizes such as iPhones, Wiis, iPods and Xboxes.
Attendees of BlogWorld Expo can collect b5 poker chips throughout the conference in several ways:
Be seen wearing a b5media T-shirt – $1000 chip
Answer b5media trivia – $500 chip
Tell us our secret password – $500 chip (see below)
Awesome swag trade – (depends on how …read more

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Home & Dining channel has put together some lists to help you show your support. Here are some chocolate ideas to check out:

~ Pink chocolate fondue sets: one and two
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, Trudeau has created a charming line of pink products that are both fun and functional- and all for an extremely worthy cause. Have some fun with this 7-pc. Chocolate Fondue Set, which includes:
- One stoneware calla lily shaped bowl
- One Pink Ribbon-shaped metal stand with four non-scratch, non-skip pads
- One tea light
- Four pink stainless steel fondue forks
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It’s Home and Dining Fall Harvest Scavenger Hunt!
Remember going on scavenger hunts when you were a kid? Sometimes they were the most fun part of a social gathering – wasn’t it fun to being given a list and going off with your teammates to locate feathers, safety pins and purple crayons? b5Media’s Home and Dining Channel also remembers. What better way to reward our loyal readers than with a fun Fall Harvest Scavenger Hunt?
Here’s how it works:
On October 1st, participating Home & Dining blogs will post a list of words. Each day one of those words will appear on a …read more

Just a quick post to say hello to the Home & Dining channel’s newest neighbor Brew Ha-Ha, written by J. Christopher Erb. I like the occasional beer and my husband brews his own, so I think we’ll both be bookmarking it. Welcome, J.!
And just so this post isn’t completely devoid of chocolate content, I present some chocolate beer links:
~ Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock
~ Chocolate Beer Cake
~ Imperial Chocolate Stout

The Home & Dining Channel is hosting a Fall Scavenger Hunt all throughout the month of October. It starts October 1st and more info will be posted this week all over the channel, so keep an eye out!
There are also only five days left for the September Chocolate Bytes contest!

Just a quick note to say hello and welcome to the newest member of the Home & Dining Channel, Farley over at Behind the Vines! I’ll be the first admit I don’t know much about wine except that it’s made from grapes, so I’ll be reading regularly to see what else I can learn.

Living in Vegas, we really don’t get a whole lot of autumn here. Seriously, it lasts about a week and then it’s just brown and a bit chilly. So for this month’s Home & Dining channel theme, we decided to focus on things to keep you warm during the autumn months — or weeks, in my case. So here are
50 Ways Chocolate Can Keep You Warm This Autumn:

The history of hot chocolate
Hot chocolate
Warm chocolate cookies
Hot Fudge Spoon Cake
Molten Chocolate Cake
Warm Chocolate-Nut Brownie
Spicy chocolate cookies
Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake
Old-fashioned hot fudge
S’mores without …read more

I’m interrupting the chocolate love to pimp out my fellow Home & Dining Channeler Julie’s contest over at Declutter It: The Most Improved Room Contest. “Send in before and after pictures of a room that you have recently organized.” How easy is that? You even have plenty of time to take a before picture now and work on it throughout September – the contest ends September 30.
I actually have a few ideas in mind… our master bathroom , living room and laundry room could all be in the running, it’s just a matter of digging up the before pictures …read more