Blogtoberfest Prizes Up for Grabs

 Thanks to so many wonderful people and organizations, we’ve got an amazing list of prizes to award during the first ever Family and Relationships Channel Blogtoberfest!

Take a look at who’s participating and the prizes they’re contributing.

Gloves in a Bottle – Gloves in a Bottle is a shielding lotion that rapidly absorbs into, and bonds with, the outer layer of skin creating a protective layer while retaining the natural moisture from within. This makes it the perfect dry skin care product. Value: $12.95

Skin MD Natural is a Shielding Lotion is far more effective as a dry skin care treatment than mere moisturizing lotions or protective creams. If you suffer from dry skin, you know that just using a moisturizing lotion doesn’t solve the problem. Value: $25.00

5 Lara Gallagher Organizing Bags – Do you want to get more organized but you’re afraid if you put stuff away you’ll never be able to find it again? That won’t happen with my Organizing Bags because you can see exactly what’s inside and best of all they take up less space than a box! Value: varies by size.

10 Carpet Bocce Games by FunSlides – Ideal for players of all ages, Fun Slides’ Carpet Bocce combines the skill and strategy of Bocce with a rebound action of the award winning Carpet Puck. Fun Slides’ Carpet Bocce Set keeps things interesting by turning this traditional lawn sport into indoor sliding fun! (Ages 4 and up) Value: $17.99 ea.

12 assorted and beautiful gifts from BabySakes – BabySakes is baby memory book specialty store, featuring a selection of hundreds of baby memory books, baby scrapbooks, brag books, keepsake boxes and journals. Value: up to $39.95

15 Your Baby Can Read Starter Kits – Your Baby Can Read! is a 5 DVD and Word and Picture Card Set designed for children ages 3 months to 5 years. The multi-sensory languauge development system teaches children to read the written word at the same time they are naturally learning to speak and best of all it’s fun both parent and child. Value: $16.95 ea.

2 Hewlett-Packard HP Photo Books – The HP Photo Book includes all the things you need: a professional looking hardcover photo book, easy to use layout and design software, and HP Advanced Photo Paper (12 sheets). Simply add your photos and creative touch, and you’re ready to go. Value: $24.99 ea.

Make Your Own Onesies! A giant collection of original iron on patterns and decals created by a work from home mom who loves to craft! The images are provided in adobe (PDF) format and comes with instructions. Simply print out the image you selected on to iron on transfer sheets, and then apply direct heat with an iron to create your own unique onesie! You can make tons and tons of fun onesies (creepers) for your baby at a fraction of the cost! Or make a few onesies to use as gifts for new moms and for baby showers. They are fun and practical!

Eve Eschner Hogan – Author, Power Speaker and Coach – One of the greatest relationship authors of our time has graciously contributed a copy of How to Love Your Marriage and my personal favorite, Intellectual Foreplay (a book every relationship can use). Eve has just joined the blogosphere so she can share her relationship expertise even more – Ask Eve Advice – Value: $16.00 ea.

Dr. Leah Klungness – Dr. Leah has graciously donated a personally autographed copy of her popular book The Complete Single Mother. Recent statistics show single motherhood on the rise, at 12 million, up from 3.4 million in 1970. This reference will help single mothers overcome the challenges of daily life with dignity, wisdom, and courage. Value: $16.00

FeeFiFoto.com has dontated a Bucket Bag, Single Photo Mia Cameron handbag made from an extremely sturdy microfiber fabric, trimmed in microfiber or leather. They don’t use an iron-on process, which produces high quality colors, image quality and life. This prize will be handmade to order, and takes 3-5 weeks for delivery. Just in time for the holidays! Value: $100.00

MySuperSaving.com is sponsoring one 6-Month Membership – to a private collection of samples, savings, shopping, rebates and coupons to help you and your family save – And a Lemongrass Clay facial soap. Value: $18.00

Kate Baggott has donated a copy of The Practical Romantic A Confessional Guide to Internet Dating. Imperfect people are perfectly loveable. It’s a message that gets lost in the great air-brushed culture that is modern living. For those of us who seek both romance and the chance to get beyond the tyranny of image, Internet dating can provide a fixed point in the far-ranging search for companionship.

Busy Body Book is going to get two lucky winners a little more organized by chipping in 2 personal and family organizers. One Brown and one ZigZag.

Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home knows the importance of coffee to many bloggers and blog readers, eMom herself is chipping in a Starbucks Gift Card. Value: $20.00

Just Paper Roses will be contributing one dozen beautiful and personalized long stem roses from their collection. You’ll choose the color and the personalization, they’ll do the rest. Value: $64.95

Special thanks to Randa Clay for contributing the beautiful Blogtoberfest button that will make prize posts easier to locate for those Family and Relationships Channel readers.

There still may be a few sponsors added over the next couple of days, but this list will give you some idea of just how excited many are getting over this event!

How You Can Win

To make sure you don’t miss any information regarding Blogtoberfest and the prize giveaways, be sure to subscribe to the b5media.com Family and Relationships Channel and our blogs – you’ll find them all located in the right hand column of our channels main page.

You can watch for prize winning posts to be posted between October 8 – 19.

Thanks, Gayla.