How do you deal with a bossy cat or remove skunk odors from your dog?
If you need to know that and more, enter this contest to win a copy of the newly released Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Cats.
The winner will also receive a copy of Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Dogs, which was just released this April.

Both books are hardcover pocket guides for cats, dogs and their lucky owners. The pet guides are co-written by David Borgenicht, creator and co-author of all books in the Worst-Case Scenario series.
If you’re a person who likes to be prepared, you might also enjoy the …read more

Yesterday I told you about the new DVD out this Christmas, Curious George A Very Monkey Christmas, and I promised you a giveaway was coming soon. I have a great Christmas giveaway for you today! On behalf of Universal Home Entertainment I have a Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas DVD prize pack to giveaway here at Play Library. The prize pack will includes the DVD , “Curious George Christmas Countdown” book, CD soundtrack, and a “Curious George Live” ticket voucher. The prize pack would make a wonderful holiday gift! So how can you win the new Curious George A …read more

I got to try a sample of Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino Cherries, and I have to say they are delicious! Tillen farms also sent me some recipes, and I have a few of my own ideas for recipes to use these wonderful cherries. I’ll be back in a day or two to share some recipes and a review, but today I have a fun new giveaway for you. Tillan Farms wants to offer 5 She Knows Parties readers a chance to try out a jar of Merry Maraschino Cherries for themselves. The price of a 14oz jar of Merry Maraschino …read more

It’s that time — See’s Candies have rolled out their holiday candy selection just in time for gift buying, and if you’re like me that can’t be done soon enough! From now until Friday, November 27th, you’ve got a shot to win a $25 gift card from See’s Candies. Use it on yourself, or use it to buy someone else a very tasty holiday treat. It also fits quite nicely in a stocking (I should know, my awesome husband puts a card in mine every year!).

This summer, Campbell’s Kids Soup came out with a new delicious and healthy flavor — Campbell’s SpongeBob soup. If you have had problems getting your kids to eat healthy foods, you won’t with this soup. What kid can resist SpongeBob?!
This chicken noodle soup offers great taste and fun shapes. Additionally, Campbell Soup Company has reduced the sodium in all of their kids soups to meet government criteria for “healthy” foods — controlled for fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and containing a positive nutrient source such as good source of vitamin A.
Recently, I had an opportunity to try the SpongeBob soup …read more

This is the perfect time to renew your focus on fitness — before New Year’s resolutions and tempting holiday foods. Having a gym membership can be a motivating factor to get you moving too. So, here’s your chance for a free month membership at the LA Boxing of your choice!
To enter, watch the short video below and leave a comment with your thoughts on LA Boxing. Also check to see if there’s an LA Boxing near you at the LA Boxing gym locator. Several states have LA Boxing locations.
After trying out the LA Boxing experience, the lucky winner will share …read more

Female friendships. Aren’t they the most complicated, wonderful, confusing things around? Most women have a collection of friends that vary from being supportive and fabulous to vindictive and negative. So how do you get true friends who will lift you up and treat you well?

In her book Toxic Friends, Susan Shapiro Barash seeks to answer that question. She starts by identifying ten different types of female friends. In addition, she provides some detail on her website as to how she did research, why she decided to write the book, and even offers a quiz that …read more

I’m all for something that can lift us up. If a book or action can have us behave and think more positively, hey, why not? So that’s why I was particularly happy to read Think Confident, Be Confident by Leslie Sokol and Marci Fox.

For those that have read “self help” books before, you’ll find more of the same motivating speech in this book. Where the book differs, however, is in a 4-step approach to conquering doubt. They take you through a series of steps (Label It, Question It, Rethink It, and Take Action.) While we …read more

I’m really excited about this sweet little giveaway. Perhaps that’s because I baked some cookies from the book today!
Cookie Craft Christmas by Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer contains many new Christmas cookie designs and some festive New Year’s cookies too. It’s 169 pages of inspiration, instruction and full-page, close-up photographs.

The book gives you three basic cookie recipes: rolled sugar cookies, rolled chocolate cookies and rolled gingerbread cookies with tips on using cookie slats for uniform thickness. Some of the tips offered are simple, like putting food coloring in sugar cookie dough or more complex, like flooding and piping royal icing. …read more

We’re having a giveaway! I’m super excited about this giveaway for all the little girls out there (and Christmas is coming up quick, this prize would make a great gift for the little girl on your Christmas list). We’re giving away an Agile myWallaby Doll Carrier.