If you enjoy giveaways, check out the one I’m hosting over at my Quilting and Patchwork blog, Giveaway of Mini Quilt Book.  The author is Patricia Mainardi and the book is QUILTS The Great American Art.

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Check Out the Giveaway at Quilting & Patchwork

More and more bloggers seem to offer giveaways/contests on their blogs and web sites.  Some of these encourage viewers to visit.  Other giveaways share with visitors items they produce and/or books.  Still more are for pure fun.

Do you visit blogs and web sites for giveaways and contests?  Or do check out blogs mainly for the information and resources offered there, participating in the giveaways as an incidental bonus?

Or do you stay away from blogs that offer giveaways?

I’ve put up a new poll (to the right) about giveaways.  I’d like you to vote there.  Also, leave a comment below if you’d like and let me know if I should run more giveaways here at Alzheimer’s Notes.

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New Poll – Do You Participate in Giveways?

Book Swim Giveaway

Readeez DVD Giveaway

Baby Can Read Giveaway

Wii Pop Star Guitar Giveaway

Fly Me To The Moon Giveaway

Giveaway – Celebrity Arthur Book from Speakaboos

Giveaway – Countdown to Bedtime Soundbooks

Giiveaway – ECO Baby Organic Playdough

Baby Potential Teacher Onesie Giveaway

Natural Pod Giveaway

RideMakerz Giveaway

Happy Green Bee Giveaway

Mead Writing Fundamentals Giveaway

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A Series of Giveaways – Great Gifts for Kids

Cardmaking, whether from fabric, mixed media or solely paper, gains attention as we approach the holidays.  These may be greeting cards, thank you notes, invitations, and place cards for parties.

This also is a project Alzheimer’s patients often can participate in.  Even if they can’t manipulate the cardmaking materials, they often can choose colors and pictures.  They may simply like being included in the family activity, even though they cannot verbalize why. 

 Mother often sat beside me when I wrote, sewed, did craft activities.  She chatted (yes, often asking the same question over and over), played with objects and materials I placed in front of me and enjoyed the feeling she was “helping” me.

For those who enjoy giveaways as well as making cards, stop by Linette’s She Knows Parties Close to My Heart Giveaway for Making Handmade Holiday Cards and Invitations.  (Linette’s giveaway runs through Nov. 21)

Do you have any special techniques for cardmaking that combine fabric and other media?  I enjoy making and receiving handmade cards. 

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Cardmaking and a Giveaway

Katie’s name was drawn as the winner of the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival for the book, Glass Full of Tears by June Lund Shiplett.  Congratulations, Katie!

“Sadly, I have watched a few of my grandparents struggle with dementia,” said Katie in her comment.  “It’s very scary.”

Yes, it can be scary.  However, if we look with love, we often can bring joy to those family members who suffer from dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Thank you, everyone, for visiting Alzheimer’s Notes and leaving your comments for the giveaway.  I appreciate your sharing your thoughts and stories with us.

If there is anything you’d like to see here at Alzheimer’s Notes that will encourage you in your caregiver or patient situations, do let me know.

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The Winner of the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival is……

I’m offering a copy of A Glass Full of Tears, Dementia Day-By-Day by June Lund Shiplett as a giveaway here at Alzheimer’s Notes as part of the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival.

In this book, June Lund Shiplett shares the journal she kept during her husband Charlie’s encounter with multi-infarct dementia and the challenges she faced as his caregiver.  This is a particularly good book for a spouse caregiver since so many books are written from the child caregiver point of view, as mine was.

June Lund Shiplett is the author of numerous romance novels and is known to many readers of this genre.  Sometimes we don’t realize our favorite authors often face the same or similar challenges that we do.

Guidelines for the giveaway – Leave a comment below. Share with us, if you’d like, your role in regard to Alzheimer’s or another form or dementia. The giveaway is open only to those living in the United States or who have a US mailing address.

Deadline – the giveway will run until Friday, October 31, 11:59 PM (eastern).  Make sure you leave your e-mail (it won’t be published) so I can contact you if you’re the winner.  Only one entry per person will be accepted.

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A Glass Full of Tears Offered for Bloggy Giveaways Carnival

Stay tuned for a Bloggy Giveaway here at Alzheimer’s Notes, from October 27 – 31.  Since I had so many readers indicate an interest in a previous giveaway book, I’m offering another copy of  A Glass Full of Tears by June Lund Shiplett here at Alzheimer’s Notes.

June journals her story about caring for her husband, Charlie.

Come back and enter on October 27!

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Bloggy Giveaway Starts October 27

Tuesday, October 14, is the last day for the first Quilting & Patchwork Blogtober Fest giveaway.  If you haven’t left a comment, you’ll want to do so.

You have until Friday, October 17 to leave comments at the second Quilting & Patchwork Blogtober giveaway.

The time runs out on my other Lifestyles blog, One Book Two Book, Blogtober giveaway on October 17. 

There will be a second Blogtober Fest post at One Book Two Book on October 15.

Have I made this confusing?  I hope not!  Enter the Blogtober Fest giveaways.

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Hurry Before the Blogtober Fest Giveaways Are Over!

The b5media Lifestyles Channel holds their second annual Blogtober Fest, Oct. 6-17, with all the blogs participating and offering prizes/giveaways throughout this period.  My Lifestyles blogs, Quilting and Patchwork and One Book Two Book on various days.

We’ll have normal posts on our blogs, but at the end of each will be information about Blogtober Fest.  Check out today’s post, Mary Emma’s Quilt Memories – Finding Nanny’s Quilt to view details and leave a comment.  You’ll also find links to the other participating blogs for today.

On October 10, I shall have another Blogtober Fest post at Quilting and Patchwork.

These posts will appear on OneBookTwoBook on October 10 and 15.

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Visit Lifestyles Channel Blogtober Fest for Prizes & Giveaways

BLOGTOBER FEST, a time to celebrate autumn and enjoy great prizes comes to the Lifestyles Channel, as well as Quilting and Patchwork and One Book Two Book , for two weeks, from October 6-17. 

There will be celebrating and prizes from b5media Lifestyles bloggers and outside participants.

Read all about it and see if you’d like to participate and receive recognition for your business. Information here. 

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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Celebrate Blogtober Fest for 2 Weeks in October – Coming Soon!