List Your Giveaways Saturday 11/7

Current giveaways:
Value Rays Warm Mouse III The Pink Mouse ends 11/9

Tropical Traditions Organic Coconut Flour ends 11/10

Pretty Please Press Set of 4 Children's Books ends 11/15

Books, Books, Too Many Books:5 books, 5 winners ends 11/20

Now go list your's below!

DIY Terrors

Sure we have a lot of DIY nightmares to fix at The Stone House but I thought you might all enjoy Better Homes and Garden shorts of Dont's for your DIY projects. You'll get a kick out of watching this!

http://www.hgtv.com/dos-donts-of-home-improvement/video/index.html?nl=HGIdeas_v363_Top10-2

Cool Giveaways!

You should know when I list a giveaway in Cool Giveaways it because I think they are Fabulous! These are giveaways you are going to want to enter. I love spreading the word about great giveaways that I think you'll love as much as I do.

Shelf Reliance Cansolidator at Mom's Focus on Cyber World.
Pearl Bracelet from Pearl Paradise at Kiddies Corner Deals.
Pearl Necklace From Pearl Paradise at Jolly Mom.
Pearl Paradise Pearl Necklace at Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous.
Trigger Point Massage Grid Roller at Jamie's Precious Peas.
Ergopouch Baby Sleep Bag at BabyLuxe.
Leapfrog Leapster 2 at Mommy Mandy.
Kolcraft Baby sit n Step at A Couch With A View and at Outnumbered 3 to 1.
$100 Walmart Gift Card at Mama's Money Savers.
Happy Green Bee Petal Dress at Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous.
Tall,Dark, and Fangsome by Michelle Rowan at Sweeps 4 Bloggers.
Bumbleride Indie Stroller at The Mud Bug.

Tike Tech Double X3 All Terrain Tech Stroller

With us soon to have 3 little ones in the house we are definitely going to need one of these for walking and shopping excursions. I just love the independent large canopies to protect the delicate skin of those precious babies and the fact that it's all terrain makes it even more right for us living in the country on some pretty rough roads where we love to take walks.

Some of the great features:
*16 inch front fixed wheel & rear IFD Shox for smooth ride & push button quick release 16 inch back wheels.*Light weight Aluminum Frame

*Rear parking brake.

*Individual Canopies

*Easy fold, to go

*5-point harness with adjustable padded safety straps

*Seat Recline

*Plenty of storage

*Safety Feature Overview: 5-point harness with chest strap / rear parking brake / tether wrist strap.

*5 year warranty on the frame & 1 year soft goods

You can read all about the Tike Tech on Barefoot Mommies where she is giving one away!

Holiday Dreams for Christmas at The Stone House

All year I have been dreaming of a Christmas gathering of family at The Stone House, but that won't be happening it looks like. There is still so much to do like repair the flooring, redo the kitchen, repair the plumbing in the bathroom. All the necessities for a successful family gathering are just not in place yet.

Who am I kidding we aren't in place yet. Hubby still needs to move the trailer over to The Stone House so we can start working on it everyday. He tells me that he plans to take an extra day off during the Thanksgiving weekend and do it then, but I am not sure that is the best time to be doing it. We'll shall see what happens. Even if we get the trailer moved over that weekend to The Stone House that still doesn't give us enough time to be ready to have Christmas there this year, so I'll start dreaming of next year's Christmas and put that on my list for Santa. Because really that's all I want, and I have been a very good girl!

Enter to Win A Kindle!

What a fabulous Christmas Gift this would be for someone on your shopping list. I know I would love to have one for myself. My daughter loves her Kindle. Enter here:http://www.noobie.com/kindle-giveaway?ref=747762686

Aloha Friday

I always love joining Kailani over at An Island Life on Fridays where in Hawaii (where I sure wish I was now) they take it easy on Fridays. Each Friday we ask one simple question that doesn't require a lengthy response. Be sure to stop in and see all the other bloggers who participate in Aloha Friday! So my question for you today is:

How many things will you be thankful for this Thanksgiving? Just a number or a list is fine.

Books, Books, Too Many Books Part IIl Giveaway

You just wouldn't believe how many books I own. I could probably fill a small library. I tend to collect a lot of antique books that I absolutely love and some that I could read over and over again. There are so many that I know I just won't have the room for all of them in The Stone House so.... Thus Book Giveaway Number 3 is here!

How to Close Every Sale The linked version is a newer one than the one in the photo. I have the 1989 edition by Joe Girard with Robert L. Shook.


The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (P.S.)


Sway: A Novel


A Friend Like Henry: The Remarkable True Story of an Autistic Boy and the Dog That Unlocked His World


Testimony: A Novel


All excellent reading! To enter just tell me what your top two picks would be! Be sure to include a valid email address in your comment or have it readily available in your profile so that I can contact you if you are a winner. 5 Books-5 Winners.

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Entries close Midnight MST November 20, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected and notified via email and posted here on Baba's Farm Life on November 21, 2009. Winners will have 48 hours to contact me with their information or another winner will be selected. Good Luck!

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The Fourth Kind In Theaters November 6th!

I Love this kind of thing!

Watch the clip: http://www.youtube.com/thefourthkind

New Winner Blackberry Diaries

I have had to draw a new winner for Blackberry Diaries by Kathy Buckworth.

Congratulations go to ::Vicki

Have You Seen The Zigo?!

The Zigo X2 Carrier Bicycle is the perfect way to keep the family in shape. Out family used to all ride bicycles, but since the two littlest ones were born the bikes have stayed in the garage. No way to take the babies riding. And now there is another baby on the way. Wouldn't the Zigo be the perfect solution!

BabyLuxe, Jolly Mom and Go Graham Go have teamed up with MyZigo to give one away! You can increase your chances of winning by entering at all three sites. It sure would be a fabulous Christmas Gift for the family and start them on the road again to exercise.

Cool Giveaways!

Oreck Halo at Two of a Kind, Working on A Full House.
Kwikset Smartcode Entry Set at Everything Up Close.
Keurig Elite B40 brewer from www.shoffee.com at Coffee With The Mrs.
Handbag of Choice from Handbag Heaven at J. Leigh Designz.
$50 Gift Certificate from Handbag Heaven at Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House.
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold at Mama's Money Savers.
Roku Digital Video Player at J. Leigh Designz.
Dremel 4000 at Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House.

Book Winners!

Congratulations go out to the following book winners!

Jinxy- Habits of Wealth

Anonymous - The Blackberry Diaries (Note- Your email failed)

Donna - Seize The Day

Hotsnotty2 - North Or Be Eaten

Bombtastic Belle - Virgins

Winners have been notified via email and have 48 hours to contact me with their information or another winner will be selected.

Wordless Wednesday - The Little Waif

Kissing Games of The World by Sandi Kahn Shelton-Review

To tell you the truth when I first received this book Kissing Games of The World by Sandi Kahn Shelton I thought "What the heck is this? This isn't the type of book I would be interested in reading! Where exactly did this book come from?" The reason I thought those thoughts is that I am not a Romance reader. It's just something I have never enjoyed. Now if you throw in History.... well maybe.

But once I started reading it I found myself thoroughly enjoying every page. I was totally surprised because it wasn't like any romance that I had come across. It is not one of those "filled with titillating sex scenes that I normally associate with romance novels. Thank God for that! But yes it does have romance in a cosmic circumstance throwing together of two single parents each with a child in a small hometown atmosphere. A city life meets small town life. A father who is just starting to get to know his son and a single mom struggling with day to day life with an asmatic son. The boys are best friends - it's the parents who need to find themselves and eachother. I found myself rooting for both. I would recommend reading Kissing Games of the World: A Novel
for some light fireside reading time.

How Would You Like This For Christmas?!

I know my daughter would love it! You see right now she has a 3 year old, a 1 year old and is expecting another baby soon so this would make the perfect Christmas gift for her. I am hoping to win one. My Organized Chaos is giving a Bumbleride Indie Twin Stroller away right now and you can enter to win too. The giveaway ends Dec 1, 2009 so don't miss out. Or you can pass it up and just wish me luck.

Or How about this one from Kolcraft at Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House! Perfect solution to families with more than one child/baby. I know my daughter would love either one! Here's hoping I win one of them for her for Christmas.

A Toy You Don't Play With

I was a bit dismayed when I saw that Mattel had come out with Bella and Edward Twilight Barbie Dolls. Not that they were produced mind you, but they way they are marketed. What do Barbie-a doll little girls have played with for generations, and Bella and Edward from Twilight a Books and Movie about Vampires have to do with one another?




Little girls of the age who usually play with Barbie should not be confronted with the concept of Vampires in any form. Twilight the book and movie appeal to teens and adults, but how many teens today do you know who still play with dolls of any sort including Barbies. None that I know. The normal age range of children who play with Barbies is 7-11 year olds. Maybe 12 year olds if you can stretch childhood that far. Today that's hard to accomplish.

It would have made much more sense to market these as a Mattel Collector Series rather than as Barbie dolls. In reality these dolls are not to be played with, they are made to sit on the shelf adding to the "I Gotta Have It" of the Twilight fanatics grab for anything related to the Twilight Series. Don't get me wrong-- I am all for the popularity of the Twilight Books and movies series. I am a Twilight fan myself, but not the kind who gobbles up everything twilight other than to read the books and see the movie.

I just don't associate Twilight with Barbie and neither should children.

Pretty Please Press Children's Books Review & Giveaway

As you all know we are a family of readers and we start them young in our family. It's so much fun reading to my little grand-daughters who just can't get enough of books! They love to be read to and turn the pages and of course they have to look at each picture and try to identify items on each page. They can't read yet... they are just beginning to learn their alphabet letters, and they love to point out the letters they can recognize so that Baba can praise them.

When I had the chance to review a few children's books from Pretty Please Press through The Product Review Place I jumped at the chance because I knew the girls would love them. We'll be reading these over and over to them for many years yet until they can read them themselves.

The Scritchy Little Twitchell Sisters is a funny tale of siblings learning how to get along with eachother. Their antics cause a bunch of trouble for their poor parents and others and will make you giggle just reading about them. As with all sibling rivalries sometimes separation can be the cure as Lavina and Emmeline Twitchell learn it's much better to have someone to play with than to fight with.

Pynx by Jeffrey Greene is a cute tale of creatures on a far away planet who learn that sometimes there may be someone who you don't like who turn out to be very helpful indeed. So it's best to work things out and try to understand one another.

Bella Basset Ballerina by Laura Aimee Garn and illustrated by Valerie Sokolova is a darling story of a basset who wants to be a ballerina and how she achieves her goals through perseverance even when some tell her she can't.

Kick Block Punch by Jacquie Hann is the story of Sam who want to have a black belt in Karate right away but leans that it takes practice and hard work to achieve his goal.

You'll love reading these delightful tales to your children and the artwork by Eric Brooks and others is a joy to look at. With the children's books from Pretty Please Press you can also download Free Vocabulary Building Cards; Free Concept Building Cards; and Free Character Building Lesson Plans. "Pretty Please Press publishes children's books that are designed to be read aloud and talked about. Each book contains a message about character and values that helps parents and children think and talk about a variety of issues. Pretty Please Press was founded in 2001 by author Laura Aimee Garn, and is now led by publisher Vera Venturi."

Right now you can get a 20% discount off the list price when you purchase these books from the Pretty Please Press website and they are having a Buy 3 get 1 Free special going right now so stop in at www.prettypleasepress.com and get a head start on your Christmas gift giving.

I have one of each of these books to give away! One winner will receive the set of 4 Children's Books from Pretty Please Press! To enter just tell me who you would love to give these books to. Be sure to leave a valid email address in your comment or have it readily available in your profile so that I may contact you if your are the winner. This giveaway is open to all!

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Entries close at Midnight MST November 15, 2009. The winner will be randomly selected and notified via email and posted here on Baba's Farm Life on November 16, 2009. The winner will have 48 hours to contact me with their information or another winner will be selected. Good Luck!

One Hundred Butterflies by Harold Feinstein

Harold Feinstein renown photographer whose works have been displayed in such places as the Museum of the City of New York and The Musee d'art Modern in Paris has brought together the most beautiful photographs of Butterflies ever imagined from around the world to the homes of everyone who has ever gazed at their beauty and wondered about the mystery of these beautiful creatures.

This lovely coffee table size book will entrance every age with photos of the delicate intricate designs of each variety from Glass Wings from South America to Lace Wings from Asia or the Sunset Moth from Africa. The vibrant colors and specifics will intrigue a child or the most educated adult. Of course our well know Monarch is included as well.


This beautiful hard bound books will make the perfect gift for anyone on your list and one to keep as a cherished treasure trove of information. I was absolutely thrilled to be able to review this fabulous book of photographic art revealing this side of Mother Nature's beauty in butterflies from The Product Review Place. If you can't visit the Museum of the City of New York or the Musee d'art Modern in Paris then you must get a copy of Harold Feinstein's One Hundred Butterflies! The superb quality of his photographs is outstanding and I dare say there may be non who could surpass him in this field. Get your copy right away because I know this one will sell out fast!


*****
I received no payment for this review and the words are my own. I received a copy of the book to review through Ann Balasi and The Product Review Place.

Cool Giveaways!

Cold Plasma Skin Care at 1stopmom Giveaways and Reviews.
Walmart Beauty For Less Gift Bag at Mom Talk with 3 Kids and Us Mom Blog.
Prize Pkg. from The Box at Video Detective.
Monty Python 3 DVD 40 Year Anniversary Set at Video Detective.
Thomas & Friends Holiday Express on DVD at Video Detective.
Enlighten Up on DVD at Video Detective.
Command Performance on DVD at Video Detective.
Pearl Paradise Pearl Necklace at The Mommy Files.
Bobux shoes for tiny feet at Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous.
Pearl Paradise Akoya Earrings at Two of a Kind, Working on A Full House.
Pearl Necklace from Pearl Paradise at J. Leigh Designs.
Plasma Car Riding Toy at Piece of Me.
Keurig Platinum Brewer at The Mom Buzz.
Skitter Riding Toy at Playground For Parents.
Rocker from Goose Creek Toys at The Dirty Shirt.
Help With Holiday Shopping Giveaway at Laurie's Cobalt World.