Book Give-a-way: Izzy the Dizzy Dragonfly-Winner Announced!

Picture from Google images

Dragonflies hold a very special place in my ♥.

Ever since I was little, I've had an obsession with faeries and often searched for them in my backyard. A few summers after my family had a built-in pool put in, God sent me my faeries in the form of dragonflies. They would buzz around our heads while we were swimming and I discovered if you held your finger out and were ever so patient, they would delight you with dainty perch on the tip of your finger and sometimes stay there for minutes on end.



I would talk to them and memorize their wing patterns (so I would recognize them if they came back). They would tilt their heads as if to listen intently, clean their "WWI Flying Ace" eyes like a cat cleans it's ears, and smile at me with a friendly, segmented, exoskeletal grin. =)

Picture from National Geographic Explorer

Imagine my delight when I heard from a lovely lady who had just written a children's book about a dragonfly and wanted to do a give-a-way? It's just perfect, saith I! So I am super excited to introduce you to Izzy the Dizzy Dragonfly and it's author, Teri Gurule.

Izzy, being the dragonfly she is, likes to zig and zag through the air, but her flights of fancy can sometimes upset her friends. Will she have to stop flying the way she loves just to please them? In this sweet tale, children learn how to show respect and kindness to others while still being themselves.

Teri Gurule is from Albuquerque, New Mexico where she lives with her husband and 2 sons. She was inspired to write this book when she spotted a dragonfly one day while on a nature walk with her boys.

The book is for sale by 3 different online book vendors:

Tate Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

However, you could win a free, signed copy with matching bookmark from Tate Publishing just by entering this give-a-way!

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Blog, tweet, update your facebook status or myspace blog about this give-a-way with a link to this post. With each way you post about this give-a-way, this will enter you into the drawing.

2. You MUST make a comment under this post with a link to wherever you have posted about it. This comment is your ticket into the drawing and you must make a comment with each different way you post about it, or include a link to each all in one comment, if you are going to enter more than once.

3. Only one entry per method per day. (i.e. don't tweet about it 50 times in one day) For example, you can blog about it and tweet about it on Wednesday, then tweet about it and post about it on FB on Thursday, etc... get it? Each time you send it out to the webverse make a comment so I know to enter your name in the hat again.

4. The last entry will be taken this Monday 9-14-09 at midnight PST and the winner will be announced Tuesday, September 15th. Good luck to all!! I wish you lots of happy dragonflies!!

*•_•*•_•*•_•*•_•*•_•*•_•*•_•*

Update! Winner was chosen today using random.org and the winner is:

evrythngzen!!

Congratulations! Please send an email to me at feyavanya@pacbell.net with your name and address so I can get you your darling book. =)

For those of you who would still like a copy of Izzy the Dizzy Dragonfly please visit one of the book seller links above. You can also become a fan of the author, Teri Gurule, and see what other projects she is up to on her facebook page.

Thanks to all who entered! Teri and I appreciate your support. ♥

CHOFFY Give-a-way Winners!

I'm so sorry this post was delayed a bit. I have way too many responsibilities for my own good sometimes so all the fun things like blog give-a-ways get pushed to the side, unfortunately.

In the future, I want to get better at this. I want to blog and be crafty like the pros in my blog list to the left <--- and be featured in the Artful Blogger magazine. Of course, I think they treat their blogs and Etsy stores more like full time jobs so they put the effort and time in and it shows. Although, I've noticed that most of them have only one child or none at all so I'm not so sure how well I will fair with 3 kids, another part-time job, a TM administration job and then the everyday busyness of life. I'd like to be blindly optomistic and tell myself, "Where there's a will, there's a way." But it might be more like "Where there's a will, one gets no sleep. Absolutely none, nada, niente. I get very little as it is. The thought of adding more to my work load makes me want to go to sleep.

Anyway, wish me luck with that! LOL! Right now, it is one of my biggest dreams. Just to create my own little world with magic items in my store that captivate and enchant, and a blog that helps create that world much like Emily does with The Black Apple blog, her fashiony blog and Etsy store or Vanessa with A Fanciful Twist.•*♥*•.

Okay...on to what you are here for! I had several entries for my CHOFFY give-a-way but now has come the time to announce the 3 winners.

Congrats to:

Angela
LaRica
and
Joanne

Each of you will be receiving a 2 oz. sample bag of CHOFFY! Email me back at feyavanya@pacbell.net with which flavor you would prefer and I will try to accomadate you.

Thanks so much for entering the give-a-way!

Next up tomorrow I will be posting a video of myself making CHOFFY in my french coffee press for those of you who have no idea how to brew a cup of coffee or CHOFFY. That way, once you order you will know exactly what to do. =)

Have a splendid weekend!

~B