Contests & Giveaways

Party Wrap-Up and GIVEAWAY: $100 Gift Card from The Amazing Avocado

April 29, 2013 By speppel 143 Comments

Avocados are the hottest new ingredient in healthy eating and amazingly they are available ALL year around! Guilt-free eating with all that GOOD fat. Yummo. This month, several of my favorite bloggy friends came over for a fun recipe swap sponsored by Avocados from Mexico. Since avocados are so incredibly versatile, we had everything avocado: [...]

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CLOSED: Giveaway: Les Miserables BluRay/DVD Combo Set +UltraViolet

April 3, 2013 By speppel 51 Comments

UPDATE: Congrats to Jay and Colleen for winning the two Blu-Ray/DVD sets! This week I am giving away the BluRay/DVD set of the one and only, phenomenal Les Misérables (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet) which arrived on the big screen in 2012 and can now be enjoyed on the small [...]

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Flash Giveaway: TICKETS to Sister Act

March 29, 2013 By speppel 4 Comments

I am giving away tickets to the opening night of the Philadelphia performance of Sister Act at the Academy of Music this coming Tuesday evening, April 2, 2013. Please comment below if you are available to attend and would like to be entered to win tickets. Contest closes: April 1, 2013: 9 AM Details about [...]

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CLOSED: GIVEAWAY: 4 Vouchers to Ringling Bros Built to Amaze

February 2, 2013 By speppel 5 Comments

UPDATE: Congrats Melissa Teears for winning the tickets! Ringling Bros is amazing the Philadelphia audience with “Built To Amaze” this February 13-17 with a total of 11 shows here in the Wells Fargo Center and I am giving away FOUR vouchers (1-family 4-pk) to a non-weekend show! ABOUT BUILT TO AMAZE: Ringling Bros. and [...]

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CLOSED: FLASH GIVEAWAY: 2 Tix to “Catch Me If You Can” Broadway Musical at the Academy of Music

January 11, 2013 By speppel 11 Comments

UPDATED: This contest is now closed. According to Random.Org, Comment #1 won the tickets! Congrats. I will email the winner for more information. Catch Me If You Can is now showing at the Academy of Music this Tuesday, January 15 – Sunday, January 20 and I am giving away TWO Tickets to the show this Tuesday night [...]

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Join me for the Kellogg’s #RiceKrispies Treats Twitter Party this Wednesday, 2-3 p.m. ET

December 17, 2012 By speppel Leave a Comment

The 2012 Rice Krispies Treats challengers are gathering again for an online Twitter reunion this Wednesday and since I am one of them, I would love to have you join us on Twitter! What: Making Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats for the holidays sparks memories with your kids that last a lifetime! Let’s get together and [...]

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CLOSED: GIVEAWAY & DISCOUNT CODE: 4 tickets to Disney on Ice Rockin Ever After

December 13, 2012 By speppel 13 Comments

UPDATE: Congratulations Denise and Christine R. for being randomly selected to win the two 4 packs for this show. Enjoy! Part talent show, part fairy tale! Disney on Ice Rockin’ Ever After is the latest performance created by the talented Disney team who previously gave us a variety of clever compilations of the Disney characters. [...]

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FLASH GIVEAWAY: 4 Tickets to Million Dollar Quartet – December 13th

December 12, 2012 By speppel 1 Comment

Comment here NOW to enter to win 4 tickets to Million Dollar Quartet on December 13th. Show is running in Philadephia from December 11-16th. Comments will be closed at 9 pm tonight. Or, buy tickets HERE or http://www.telecharge.com/Philadelphia-Area/Million-Dollar-Quartet-Philadelphia-PA/Overview Million Dollar Quartet Million Dollar Quartet is the electrifying new musical inspired by the famed recording session that [...]

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CHALLENGE: Discover The Forest and Get Your Community Outdoors

October 22, 2012 By speppel Leave a Comment

I love the outdoors. I’m not the biggest hiker, camper or random bug swatter but I do love being outdoors on a gorgeous Fall day. I also love finding simple ways to improve the world around me. Helping others enjoy the great outdoors is a great idea. But how, you ask? That’s what YOU need [...]

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Trying out NaNoWriMo this year!

October 20, 2012 By speppel 3 Comments

I’ve finally committed (not “been committed” though maybe I should afterward) to write in NaNoWriMo this year. National Novel Writing Month may just be the breakthrough in the mental block keeping me from writing down the characters having silly conversations in my head. I am not crazy, really! Just ask any fiction writers. The characters [...]