Prize Winners! and my 99th post...

--Since this is my 99th post that means my next post will be my 100th.  SOOOO I need all of you to ask me questions to answer so that I will have something semi interesting to talk about! :)

NOW--Without further ado the custom spa basket winner choosing by Izzy :)

Let me start by saying it is a bit more complex to get a 3 year old dog to pick a prize winner than I anticipated.  But here is how it went.  (Please pardon photo quality, these were all taken on my IPhone with very poor lighting!)

First I got together eight index cards and a pretty sharpie marker (because there were only eight entries) :)

Then I wrote each entrants name on one index card for each entry

Then I arranged them so there was equal chance of Izzy picking each one.

Then I set Izzy loose to choose a winner.  She didn't seem to interested at first...

Then she wanted to play...

So I tried to trick her by wadding the choices up in balls thinking she would play with one.

But Izzy said RARRRRR I don't want your silly paper balls!!!

SO I tried hiding her rawhide in the middle of the pile.

It worked!  She picked one of the things in the pile...

And the Winner is!!!!

The Rawhide bone.  But  I didn't think it was fair to put together a spa basket for the rawhide bone since it didn't even care to enter the drawing.

So I piled the entries up in a mound again.

Closed my eyes and picked a winner myself.

And I say the winner is

Heather @ This is the story of a girl!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!  you can send me a direct message on Twitter (or respond to the one I will be sending you as soon as this posts!) and we can work out the details.

Oh and Izzy says congratulations too

But she still says the rawhide shes currently chewing on should have won.

Thanks to everyone else for playing along Bethany and Erica

Giveaway! and life...

Have you entered my giveaway for a custom spa basket yet?  There have only been 8 entries so far so you should go enter your odds are pretty good!  Here is a link go check it out...Go on, I'll wait....

Have you entered yet??


No really, go enter~ http://shanonrenee.blogspot.com/2010/04/giveaway.html#comments


Ok, now that that sillyness is taken care of.

I am super excited for Derby this weekend!  This time tommrow I will be curled up in bed with my husband.  I can't wait!

SOOOOO I apologize in advance if I disappear, I will try to keep up with everyones blogs and try to post some updates.

Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you Sunday!

Just curious...

Do you suscribe tp blogs then never read them? Not the blogs that are for entertainment only like "this is why your fat" or "the blog of unnecessary quotation marks" but real blogs by real people expressing their real feelings, hopes and dreams? I realized yesterday that I have a couple of blogs I follow where I will open the posts but not read what is written. This made mee feel horrible! So I herby vow if I suscribe to your blog unwilling read it from now on. (notice I didn't say I will read it in a timly manner!) I just get rushed to I skim the topics but don't actually read what is written. I'll do better I promise. And if you follow my blog I promise I will check yours out as soon as I notice I have a new follower (if you comment I'll notice faster!) and if you seem like a remotly interesting person (you read my blog you must be interesting!) I will suscribe to your blog and read it as well.
I'm also going to try and do a better job of commenting now that I have Internet at home and I can actually access your blogs and not just google reader!

So I'm off my soap box hope everyone had a good weekend and is having a good day so far!

:hugs:

Ps don't forget ask me anything for my 100th post it's comming up fast!

And don't forget to enter my spa basket giveaway. There has been some confusion so to clarify you only have to answer one of the questions with your mandentory first entry but you can answer as many as you would like! The more I know the more I can customize!

New Blog Layout!

I just couldn't wait any longer.   SO, instead of being in honor of my 100th blog post I have uploaded a new blog template/design in honor of my 95th post. Slightly early but close!  Please if you follow me in Google Reader visit my blog page and let me know what you think!

Also because I am getting so close to my 100th post I'm opening the question box, so ASK ME ANYTHING, I will probably answer it (I have very few lines that I won't cross!) in my 100th post.

Don't forget to go enter my giveaway for a custom spa basket!

GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!

ARE YOU READY????

Are you sure???

Ok if you say so...

I am giving one lucky winner a customized spa basket full of super great pamper me type stuff.  I would include a picture but I haven't put the spa basket together yet, because it is going to be customized. 

How to enter:

• Mandatory: 1st entry follow my blog and comment on this post.  In your comment include: 1-favorite makeup brand, favorite bath product brand, favorite color, favorite candle type scent, favorite nail polish, and/or favorite perfume type sent.  (That's right I really am customizing this!)  I will contact the winner to find out about any allergies and for more exact details like color pallet etc.
• Follow me on twitter and comment telling me you do so. @shanonrenee
• Post a link to my giveaway in your blog, limit one per day.  Comment on this post with a link to your entry.  If you really want to win and decided to post an entry every day you can post one comment with multiple links to posts, you will still receive one entry per entry per day.  
• Tweet about the giveaway and include a link to this post!  Limit one per day, same rules as with the blog post.
• Post a link to this post on any other social networking type site (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc.) and link to your post in the comments so that I can verify.  Limit one entry per other site.

Giveaway closes at midnight (EST) on  May 2nd, 2010 winners will be announced no later than midnight (EST) on May 4th.  (I expect to be worthless on Monday from my trip to watch the Kentucky Derby so I'm not going to commit to having the winners announced on Monday but I will try.)

Please include in every comment a link to some way for me to contact you, it can be a link to your blog, an email address or even your twitter name.  If there is no contact information included in your comment you will have until midnight on Saturday May 8th to contact me otherwise I will choose another winner.  Winners will be selected at random by Izzy...I'm not sure how but she will be picking the winner.

--BONUS--
If during this giveaway I reach 75 or more followers of the blog OR 100 followers on twitter I will give a second-prize smaller spa basket.  I currently have 21 followers of the blog and 42 on twitter.  




Wow, hubby is right I am becoming a twitter whore...oh well I have met so many AMAZING people via this blog and twitter, it's only fair!

Are you ready???

I have finally figured out what my super awesome giveaway prize is going to be!  I have also scheduled a post with the prize and the rules to post this weekend so be ready for it!  You're going to want this prize!!!!

Now I'm going to try and figure out what I want my new blog design to look like and see if I am going to hire someone to do it or if I'm going to try and design the blog myself :)