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!

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Congrats!

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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 good the swag is!)
Drop business card in box – $250 chip
Use your chips to play poker and win (or lose) even more!
Beat b5media’s CEO – Jeremy Wright – DOUBLE your chances

Each day, b5 will have an auction in our booth (booth #309, at 2:30 Thursday and Friday) and attendees can use their chips to bid on the prizes. As noted, we will be doing a secret password. You can find these passwords in various b5media blogs (including this one!). Participants only need to approach someone in the b5media booth with the password and they will get a token.

So, if you’re going to the Expo – and you’d like to get a $500 chip to start with (so you can bid on the fabulous prizes) – the first secret password is: “b5alicious”.

Watch for more secret passwords scattered about b5media. And let me know if you win any of the b5 prizes, I won’t be able to attend this year! (Sad, I know, but the cost was prohibitive and the husband’s out of state for work during the whole thing so there’s no one to watch the kids in the evening. I’ll live!)

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~ 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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~ Pink chocolate fountains: one and two

Warm Belgian chocolate is carried to the top of the fountain where it cascades down the fountain tiers forming a flowing curtain of delicious chocolate into which your friends and kids can dip a variety of fruit and sweets. Be sure to keep some fresh fruits, some marshmallows and fudge handy.

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~ Pink M&M’s

The M&M’s Brand has joined the Komen Million Dollar Council, a special group of corporate partners. In addition to a financial contribution of at least $1 million, each partner has found new and innovative ways to spread two important messages: early detection saves lives and only through research can we find a cure.

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~ Pink Wish Tim Tams

Australia’s favourite chocolate biscuit, Arnott’s Tim Tam, has launched a limited edition product to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Arnott’s will donate ten cents to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) for every packet of Tim Tam ‘Pink Wish’ Luscious Strawberry sold, which is expected to raise more then $150,000 for breast cancer research.

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~ Strawberry Kit Kats

With breast cancer diagnosed amongst 1 in 8 women & the leading cause of female cancer related deaths, Nestlé with KIT KAT is proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s (NBCF) 2007 ‘Pink Ribbon’ campaign.

Nestlé with KIT KAT is supporting the worthy cause with the launch of a limited edition Kit Kat Chocolate Strawberry flavour range and a $100,000 donation to the NBCF.

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~ Pink Hershey’s Kisses

“This year, we’re significantly expanding our support for efforts to raise breast cancer awareness and help defeat this disease,” said Michele Buck, Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, US Commercial Group, The Hershey Company. “Three of our most popular products — York peppermint patties, Hershey’s Kisses and Hershey’s Kissables chocolates — will turn pink this fall, adopting this widely recognized symbol of breast cancer awareness. We also are increasing our donation to the Young Survival Coalition to $300,000, continuing our support for its important work on behalf of breast cancer survivors.”

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~ Hershey’s York pink peppermint patties

Hershey partners with the Young Survival Coalition to help raise money in an effort to encourage young women to become educated about breast cancer.

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~ Dark chocolate with pink peppercorns

A perfect mold-breaking idea, this unexpected combination revives the first uses of chocolate, when the Aztecs regarded it as a stimulating beverage. Bitter, made with hot spices, the drink was reserved for princes and gods.

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~ pink and chocolate cookies
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~ Make your own pink chocolate
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Also check out:
~ The Food Bowl: Pet Pinks for Breast Cancer Awareness
~ Declutter It: 10 Ideas for your Pink Party
~ Baking Delights: Baking for Breast Cancer Awareness
~ Keeping the Castle: The Pink Room
~ Offbeat Homes: Ten Breast Self-Exam Reminders
~ Simply Thrifty: In Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month: 10 Pink Money Saving Gadgets

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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 different blog. It could be in a title of a blog post, it could be the posts particular theme that day, or it could just be a word in a paragraph somewhere.

Contest participants will locate each word and write it down. On October 31st, the last day of your contest, send your words to Deb at the email address listed below.

Here’s the rundown:

1. Words and rules will be posted to each participating Home & Dining blog on October 1st.
2. A list of participating blogs will be posted as well.
3. Each day, participants are to check out each participating blog to find which one hosts the day’s word. Sometimes the word will pop out at you, other times it won’t be so obvious.
4. After October 31st, send your lists to Deb at deborahng@gmail.com. Each list should list the word, day it appeared, and blog on which it appeared. Those who complete the scavenger hunt, or have the most entrants, will be entered into a drawing to win a gorgeous autumn gift basket. Entry cutoff date is November 7th.

We hope you enjoy participating in the Fall Harvest Scavenger Hunt! We’re having a blast planning it – and blogging it!

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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

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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!

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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.

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1. The history of hot chocolate
2. Hot chocolate
3. Warm chocolate cookies
4. Hot Fudge Spoon Cake
5. Molten Chocolate Cake
6. Warm Chocolate-Nut Brownie
7. Spicy chocolate cookies
8. Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake
9. Old-fashioned hot fudge
10. S’mores without camping
11. Warm chocolate rice pudding
12. Hot Fudge Cheesecake
13. Parisian Warm Chocolate
14. Melting and tempering chocolate
15. Warm Chocolate Tarts
16. White Chocolate Sorbet with Warm Clementine Sauce
17. Hot Fudge Brownies
18. Dark Chocolate Roasted Almond Toffee Chunk Scone
19. Aztec Chili Hot Chocolate
20. Warm Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake
21. Chocolate therapy
22. Warm chocolate pudding
23. Chocolate fondue
24. Try a dozen different hot chocolates
25. And then try the single servings
26. White peppermint hot chocolate
27. Get a chocolate pot
28. Warm chocolate souffles
29. Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
30. Hot chocolate massage
31. Warm chocolate sauce
32. Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa
33. Warm Dark Chocolate Cake
34. White Chocolate Bread Pudding with White Chocolate Sauce
35. Chocolate Whirl Bread
36. Decadent hot chocolate
37. Warm Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake
38. Take a chocolate bubble bath
39. Warm Chocolate Cake with Brandy Soaked Apricots and Caramel
40. Hot Fudge Waffle Sundaes
41. Chocolate Pound Cake with Warm Rosemary Syrup
42. More chocolate fondue
43. Molten Chocolate Babycakes
44. Apricot and White Chocolate Scones
45. Double Chocolate Muffins
46. Warm Chocolate and Whisky Tart
47. White Hot Chocolate
48. Warm Flourless Chocolate Cake
49. Erotic hot fudge
50. Warm Chocolate Strawberry Cake Tarts

More ‘50 Things’ around the Home & Dining Channel:
~ 50 ways to Keep Your Pet(s) Warm This Autumn
~ 50 Organizing Products to Add a Touch of Fall Color to Your Home
~ Hot Desserts, 50 Ways to Heat Up Your Autumn Evenings
~ 50 Awesome Crockpot Recipes to Keep You Warm (and Full!)
~ 50 Soul Warming Ways to Inspire the Next Generation of Offbeat Architects
~ 50 Things You Can Do to Stay Warm this Autumn
~ 50 reasons why a Japanese winter is hot
~ 50 Warm-Up Cooking Gadgets
~ 50 Vegetable Recipes to Keep Warm This Season
~ 50 Drinks That Warm The Soul

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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 now!

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