Welcome! If you're visiting for the first time today from Bloggy Giveaways Central, I'm so glad you included PENSIEVE in your visits. As the list climbs to over 1,000 giveaways by week's end, I'm thankful you're clicked over to my spot. Be sure to subscribe now in a reader or via email (top left sidebar) before you forget to be reminded of each of my day's giveaway–you'll have dozens of chances to win (thanks to a few sponsors)!
Here's what you have to look forward to; instructions for each day will be posted on that day:
Monday: TWO winners
- "Securing a Sponsorship" ebook, compliments of jessicaknows.com, $14 RV
- $10 Starbucks giftcard
Tuesday: THREE winners ~ TypePad
- 1 TypePad Pro Account, RV $179.40 (new accounts only)
- 1 upgrade to Pro (existing TypePad users), RV $140-162 (depending on current account)
- 1 TypePad tee shirt (Adult XS)
Wednesday: Paula Deen-personalized magazine cover, a collector's dream!
- Uber-cool for fans of Paula Deen, a 2.5 x 3' mounted enlargement of her magazine cover, signed by The Lady herself! RV: Priceless!
Thursday: 10 winners!
- Packages of Wonderful Pistachios AND Everybody's Nuts. Don't miss this one, friends–these are premium nuts!
GENERAL GIVEAWAY GUIDELINES
- Enter as often as you like to each day's giveaway, through Saturday midnight.
- Please read and follow each giveaway's instructions…I really appreciate those who actually DO what's asked! 🙂
- Unless stated otherwise, I can only ship to U.S. addresses.
- Though not mandatory, I really appreciate your subscription to PENSIEVE in a reader or via email. Especially when you continue to read AFTER the giveaways are long over!
GUIDELINES FOR MONDAY'S GIVEAWAYS
Giveaway #1, "Securing a Sponsorship" ebook, but Jessica Smith of jessicaknows.com.
If you'd like to attend a blogging conference in the near future, this ebook/workbook will take you through the process of having your trip sponsored!
To win: Comment any (or all!) of the following (please post comments separately for each answer):
- Indicate what blogging conferences you're planning or would like to attend in 2009.
- Tweet my giveaway post and then link it here. To make it easy, simply cut & paste this text: RT: Don't miss PENSIEVE'S 100s in giveaways this week! http://bit.ly/TooY
- Share YOUR tips for securing a sponsorship
Giveaway #2, $10 Starbucks giftcard
If you like Starbucks we have something in common; read my list of 100 Things & tell me how we're alike…or different! Want another chance to win? Tweet my giveaways (you can use the language above) & comment the URL in a separate posting.
Wow, Robin! What an awesome compilation!!
I’m going to BlissDom09!! But also BlogHer and I’d love sponsors for BlogHer!!
Ummm, as to giveaway 2, I don’t have to tell you how alike we are because it’s frightening! Thanks for the offer, Robin!
Giveaway #1 Entry. I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/Bella_Casa/status/1149220698
Thanks!
Starbucks Giveaway Entry:
I also love the sound of my children’s laughter & laughing until I cry…no better feeling in the world!
Thanks 🙂
Giveaway #2 –
I love laughing, love reading but don’t get to it often enough to make me happy, and I recycle like there’s no tomorrow. I wish I had retained some more from history class. HAND OVER THE TIRAMISU, girl, or better yet — split a huge one with me. 🙂
I love music (singing and playing piano), and I’m not the cook of the house, so I don’t have to mess with that question.
We definitely share Starbucks madness! I’m a lover of the good stuff too.
Great prizes here.
I want to win, baby!
Same: 6, 7, 51, 56 & 57
I love laughing till I cry, but it’s been a while.
The “large things” inspire me too – when we visited the Grand Canyon, I stood there and wept at the awesomeness of God’d creation.
Those are desserts I love, too – my husband thinks I’m weird for liking things with such soft texture.
Different: 55, 69
I don’t have scoliosis, but I can roll my R’s.
Thank you for doing this giveaway!
We have number 25 in common!
please enter me for the starbucks card. oh we both like Claudia Mair Burney’s book! i can’t wait for book 3 in that series to come out this year!
We have the coffee love in common – and yesterday I got a cup of coffee from starbucks just for something warm to hold!!
I would love to win the #2 giveaway. I hate fingernails and toenails–PERIOD! My Mother is a 13 year breast cancer survivor and my cousin is in the fight now, but yet I have zero fear of the big C.
I’d love to attend BlogHer in Chicago. It’s awfully expensive, though, especially for a teacher who blogs on the side. I’d love to win this book and get more ideas on how to expand my sponsorships!
Starbucks is a special treat for me. There’s a Starbucks on my way to work, but since it’s in my small city’s downtown, it doesn’t have a drivethrough. The extra effort makes it even more of a treat when I pick one up on my way in to school.
Giveaway #2 – I love to laugh until I cry, I love to read, I am always fishing out plastic bottles, metal, and paper products out of the trash where my husband throws it in without thinking, I love God and all the things He has done for us – it is beyond comprehension, I was a strong swimmer growing up and throughout high school (am far from it now though), the bed always has to be made and if DH gets up after me, he doesn’t make it and it is one of my pet peeves – my side will be made but his is mussed up, whole cashews – YUM!, whipped cream in hot chocolate – even YUMMIER!. Thanks for the chance to enter!
I haven’t yet attended a blogging conference, but want to go to BLogHer or WordCamp soon 🙂
giveaway 2
i also after taking ten years of ballet, never learned how to “spot” well.
unfortunately i also have a parent going through dementia…tough stuff
glad i have jesus… don;t know how people live without him
I want to enter GIveaway #2. Things we are alike in:
I love to laugh until I cry
Dirt fingernails and dirt long toenails gross me out too
I lov efried food
Now we are different in that I can roll my r’s.
I’ve been whining for days about how badly I want to go to Blogher…. Aint gonna happen though….
I love Starbucks. I am a brand new blogger. Thank you for the generous and wonderful giveaway. cdziuba@aol.com
Please enter me for the Starbucks giveaway. I don’t think we have a whole lot in common looking at your list. But I do recycle as well.
There’s NO WAY I could be the nursery director for our church–I’d go crazy!
Thanks for the giveaways.
Come enter my Target GC giveaway!
Starbucks Giveaway Entry: We are most alike with #6 on your list! I love to laugh until I cry because something is really, REALLY funny. Sometimes it’s laugh so hard I can’t breath anymore which makes me laugh that much more! 😉
Per the second giveaway – we both LOVE tiramisu.
although my butt really hates it.
Awesome giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
diane@diane-anderson.com
Thanks for the great giveaway!! I bookmarked your site, I will be back!!
going to BlissDom this year but I would love to go to BlogHer too 🙂
I also tweeted all about it!
Giveaway #2:
Number 6! “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion”
and #60…what? cashews aren’t healthy? shut it up!
Thanks for the giveaway!
angelacisco at rocketmail.com
# 2 Starbucks
We have a lot in common:
~we love to laugh
~love to hear our husbands/kids laugh
~Love the Lord
~both lost our mom at a young age to cancer (I was 7 and my mom 35)
~both have nightmares about our teeth calling out
~I am the nursery director at our church
I could go on…. 🙂
I am a subscriber
Giveaway #2 looks wonderful! #19 and #20 on your list…oh, I could not agree more…ewwww..especially when we get to sandals weather…gross me out!
I thought I was already subscribed to your blog, but apparently not! That’s fixed now though.
Giveaway #2: I totally agree with #45 – I was the elementary director at our church for several years only because I REFUSED the nursery director spot. I thought I was doing myself a favor but jumping up a few years. I wanted to stab myself in the eye by time I quit as director. I am in AWE of people who do that for a living.
I love to laugh till I cry, too! Especially while I’m at Starbucks!
Starbucks giveaway.
10. I dont read as many books because I am reading blogs.
I would love to win the Starbuck’s giftcard. YUMMY! We are alike because I also have a chickenpock scar between my eyebrows! Looks like a jewel. Love your site. Thanks for the giveaway!
i love starbucks too! i’m tryin to cut back though because its highly caloric!
I’m having so much fun making friends and blog-hopping again this year.
Thanks for such a generous giveaway! I hope I’m chosen as the lucky winner!!!
I’d love to enter for the Starbucks card! I’ve never been and all I hear is good things about it! Thanks!
I’m a subscriber!
Starbucks is a special treat for me. I would love to win this thanks for the chance Giveaway #2
things we have in common love to hear the kids laugh
Giveaway #1 Starbucks Giftcard
“I love to laugh until I cry because something is really, REALLY funny.”
I like that too, especially when everyone in the room is joining in on laughing that hard.
Another way we’re alike my name is Robin too lol 😉
Just like you, I’m cold most of the time and love the warmth of a cup of coffee in my hands. Unlike you, I can’t dance or sing!
Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love to win the Lifeway pack—even though I don’t know what’s in it! 🙂
I am entering for your Starbucks giveaway drawing! My son is away at college and loves to grab a hot drink from the Starbucks on his campus. I think I have read your 100 list before. Here are some things we have in common: I enjoy the laughter of my husband and children, laughing until I cry( and until my stomach hurts ), doesn’t happen nearly enough. I have also noticed that because I recycle, that seeing recyclables on the ground really bothers me, dirty fingernails are a big turn off! Dirty, long toenails are definitely gross. Please enter me in your delightful giveaway drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
Starbucks card giveaway
I too love the sound of my kids and husband’s laughter!!
I sing “you are my sunshine” to my kids all the time.
I am always cold and am sitting here shivering right now!!
I hate shopping, too!!
I twittered your giveaways!! but am not sure how to link it back here… I used the url link
I love Starbucks so I would love to win the gift card!
cjnedrow@gmail.com
I”ve never attended a blog conference, however I do subscribe to a few blogs about blogging. Does that count?
Giveaway #2: I have a chicken pox scar between my eyebrows too, and I don’t see it anymore either!
Love lifeway…I bought most of my Christmas gifts there.
#1: I’m attending Blissdom – my first bloggy conference EVER! This ebook would’ve really come in handy!
#1 – I’m already a subscriber!
Giveaway 2: “After taking ten years of ballet, I never learned how to “spot” well.”
>I took 9 years of jazz and tap and I cannot remember *anything* except a shuffle-hop-step.
What a fun give away!!
Wow, we are very much NOT a like lol. Although I cant roll my R’s, will eat anything deep fried and dont like carnations at all like you. And I love to laugh too!
Tweet tweet!! (username:iloveyouhecried)
kayceewilliams at gmail dot com
Giveaway #2:
I love hearing laughter and laughing myself! In fact, my latest blog post was just about that! Click on over to join the fun!
#1 I really wish I could go to Blissdom. Not only does the conference look incredible, but all of my family is in TN (where I grew up). My hubby and I now live in Oregon.
#2 For the Starbucks giveaway
I am now the director of a small church nursery. It is a joy and a huge stretch for me.
I cannot roll my Rs, either.
I have not been reading as many books as my blogging hobby has grown.
Hope this isn’t too late for Monday’s contest!
Jenny
Wish I could attend Blissdom and BlogHer!
Deborah @ Comfort Joy Designs
comfortjoydesigns.blogspot.com
comfortjoydesigns{AT}gmail{DOT}com
Giveaway #2 Starbucks
I also wish I paid attention in history class I just took a 10 question test and scored 1
Love cashews and coffee
My kids first words were please and thank you
after mama and dada and I love my Lord.
Giveaway #2–I also have no musical ability outside of appreciating it in others…or perhaps the ability to load a CD in the CD player. Thanks for the giveaway.
Sadly, I am not attending any blogger conferences this year.
#2–I also LOVE the sound of laughter. Sometimes I just laugh out loud at nothing really, because it’s so healthy and fun to laugh at yourself.
WOW.. great giveaway..thanks
ME TOO!
Tiramisu and crème brûlée are my favorite desserts, sharing equal billing.
Starbucks, yum.
Giveaway#2- on your list #5 and #80, are the 2 that are most like me. There are at least 30 more but those were my top two.
For securing a sponsorship – always be kind! Well, not that I’ve secured a sponsorship… I just know that that is pretty good advice. Don’t be mean. 🙂
I would really like to go to BlogHer so sponsors for that would be awesome!
tweet tweet #1 http://twitter.com/blueviolet/status/1153125994
#2 I am right there with you on these:
# One of my favorite sounds is laughter, especially my husband’s and children’s laughs when it’s a deep-down belly laugh.
# I love to laugh until I cry because something is really, REALLY funny.
# That doesn’t happen enough.
Giveaway #2….we are alike because I too, cannot stand people with dirty long toenails. I dread going places in the summer and seeing all manner of disgusting toenails.
I would love to win this, thanks!
please enter me thanks
Wow! What an amazing week you have planned.
Thanks for having the giveaway!
Thank you very much for sharing!
Thank you for the opportunity. I love Starbucks!! We meet every morning.
I enjoy doing my children’s stockings. Something my mother instilled in me and I will do until they are parents themselves 🙂
#11 Reading more books is one of my New Year’s resolutions. Me too!
enter me for the starbucks so I can stay awake late at night reading 🙂
xlr8cindy @ gmail(dot) com
~Cindy
For #1 I’m really trying to go to BlogHer. I’ve applied for a volunteer position and I’m entering any contest I can find for entry fees of full rides.
Please enter for the starbucks one 🙂
1. we love to laugh
2. we love to recyle
3. we’ve both lost a loved one to cancer
4. we both love to write 🙂
I’m not going to any, but I’d love to go to BlissDom09
Tweeted http://twitter.com/momof2dancers/status/1155386900
We share a common scar, I have a scar between my eyebrows but it is from Shingles, which is similar to chicken pox. Mine is new though & I notice it every day, lol.
Starbucks is Grand, so much to pick from, awesome hot chocolate too. Thank you kindly! skyxsky27(at)gmail.com
I’ve made a few of Paula’s recipes and have never been disappointed!
Starbucks gift card:
“I love to laugh until I cry because something is really, REALLY funny.”
Me Too! 😛
amelia2007b(at)yahoo(dot)com
Hi there. I read over your list of 100 things. We both like to laugh and think about the environment. We both can recognize the smells that each person has differnt, when you said you could pick your kids and husband out by smell. And you did look pretty in your braids, I liked that picture by the beach. You think the coffee’s made you gain weight but really you look good, I would love to be your size. You would like anything deep fried and I would not. last time I had a freezer burned Jalepeno Popper that was fried and it has turned me off to fried foods.lol. Thanks
I would love to enter for the first giveaway, since I really want to go to BlogHer, but I know there’s no way I’ll get away from the house for a few days.
So, for #2: Long toenail gross me out beyond belief too. Eww! I also have a chicken pox scar on my face, and although I used to be embarrassed by it, I don’t notice it at all now.
Giveaway #2–We both are making an effort to recycle.
owatz (AT) telus (DOT) net
Still waiting for #3, that is my dream prize! I love Paula!
I COMPLETELY agree with #61 : “It’s worth it to me to pay a premium for whole cashews, halves and pieces don’t taste as good ;).”
Halves and pieces just don’t compare. Do you also pick them out of mixed nut cans? I do, and it drives my family batty. lol
Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh man, I posted on the wrong day! I would love to be entered for the paula deen prize too. I just think she’s great.
I love love love the sound of true belly laughter too. when my husband does it, it just makes me so happy. my daughter tries to copy him now, and it is so cute. my life is wonderful!
I would love to go to BlogHer – sponsored, of course!
Thank you for the giveaway!
As for Starbucks – I too took ballet, but apparently I was much worse than you were, since I lasted perhaps two years at most. And I have a pretty good sense of direction – thank goodness, I’d be literally and figuratively lost without it!
Thanks again!
I would love to win the Pistachios. Please, count me in!
cjnedrow@gmail.com
I can’t find the directions for THURSDAY’s contest for the nuts prize. I’m not sure why. I tried refreshing my bookmark from Monday but only Monday is still here. I would love to win the pistachio nuts for hubby who loves them.
Wow!!!!! Great prizes – cool place – bookmarked now!
giveaway #2 – I have also started recycling this year as well.
madamerkf at aol dot com
starbucks – i love coffee 🙂
love Nuts – alittle nutty myself 🙂
Hoping I’min time for the pistachios! 🙂
Giveaway #2
“I’ve found once you begin recycling, you think about environmental stewardship a whole lot more…I get a little twitchy when I see people throwing cans and plastic bottles in trashcans :/.”
ME TOO!
Giveaway #3
Anything Lifeay has got to be good!