BOO! A Giveaway for You! {GIVEAWAY}

Halloween is just 41 days away!  Have you started planning something spooktacular yet?  No?!  Me either.  Lucky for both of us, Peartree Greetings has got us covered.

I'm one of those moms who loves to commemorate every holiday (like I did on Valentine's Day) so when I saw Peartree's line of Halloween cards, I knew I had to have some.  I love the striped postcard.

And the Halloween stamp design that lets your little one take center stage.

The Trick or Treat card is perfect for a princess or a fairy.

And nothing says Halloween like a big ole BOO.

Now I just have to decide on costumes for the girls and get a decent picture of the two of them in those as-yet-unknown get ups.  I better get on that!

If you are planning a frightening fete, Peartree has invitations that will set just the right tone for it.  This one is eye-opening.

The tombstone will rouse even the deadliest guest.

Here's something sassy for your Witches' Night out.

And your little ghoul will love this monster mash up.

And last but not least, I know you're going to love these terrifyingly awesome stickers.  You can personalize them with a message or your address and use them in so many ways- as return address labels or on party favors, treat bags, cups, plates - anything you want to give a little spooky style.  This vampire design is fun for kids.

And I'm scared silly by the Frankenstein version.

There are also spiders:

Black cats:

And mummies:

Oh my!  You an even personalize them with a photo.

Priced at just $2.99 per sheet of 12, they're an easy and inexpensive way to give your Halloween goodies some creepy cuteness. 

Pear Tree Greetings has generously offered to give away 24 one set of personalized Halloween stickers to a lucky AFOMFT reader!  To enter, visit Pear Tree Greetings and post a comment here telling me which stickers you'll choose if you win and how you'll use them (this is mandatory).  For additional entries:

• Post a comment telling me what your little one(s) will be for Halloween.
• Subscribe to AFOMFT or let us know you are a subscriber
• "Like" AFOMFT on Facebook -- http://tinyurl.com/AFOMFTFBFAN
• "Like" Pear Tree Greetings on Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/PearTreeGreetings
• Ask your friends to "like" AFOMFT on Facebook by sending them this link - http://tinyurl.com/AFOMFTFBFAN - and post a comment here with the names of each one who does.  You'll earn one entry per new friend who "likes" our page and names will be cross-checked.  
• Follow Pear Tree Greetings & AFOMFT on Twitter (@PearTreeGrtngs & @AFOMFT or click the birdie icon on the sidebar) and tweet this post by clicking the graphic above or this giveaway:  #Win 24 spooktacular personalized Halloween stickers from @PearTreeGrtngs from @AFOMFT - http://tinyurl.com/AFOMFT
• Click here to vote for AFOMFT on Top Baby Blogs and post a comment here that you did - .  You can vote once per day per computer so if you vote every day or on different computers, be sure to post one comment for each one.
• Grab our button and put it on your blog or website and post a link here showing us.
• Blog or post on Facebook about this giveaway with a link to this post (worth 2 entries so please post two comments) and make sure your comments include a link to your status or blog post.

Please leave a separate comment for each entry (two if you've blogged about the giveaway) and make sure to include a link to your tweet, blog post, etc. All entries must be posted on AFOMFT as a direct comment to this post.  Comments on Facebook will not count as entries.  This giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada and ends September 27th at 11:59 pm EST. The winners will be selected by random.org and announced on AFOMFT on September 28th. If the winners don't contact AFOMFT within 48 hours, a new drawing will be held so be sure to check back to see if you've won!

And that's not all!  For the month of September, Pear Tree Greetings is offering readers of AFOMFT 10% off any Halloween related purchase with code PEARSEP10.  Happy shopping!

Please note that I am now a Pearista, which means I have partnered with Pear Tree Greetings to offer great giveaways and discounts to my readers.  I do not receive any monetary compensation from them but they will occasionally send me free product to try out.  Whether I choose to post about their company or not is totally up to me and my opinion of their products is solely based on my experience using them. 

Images: Pear Tree Greetings

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The 2010 Cybils Poetry Panel is Announced!

Introducing the 2010 Cybils Poetry Panel

Panel Organizer: Kelly Fineman: Writing and Ruminating

Panelists (Round I Judges):
Bruce Black: Wordswimmer
Elaine Magliaro: Wild Rose Reader
Gina Ruiz: AmoXcalli, The Graphic Landscape
Laura Purdie Salas: Writing the World for Kids
Sylvia Vardell: Poetry for Children

Judges (Round II):
Kelly Fineman: (see category organizer)
Sara Lewis Holmes: Read Write Believe
Greg Pincus: GottaBook
Jama Rattigan: Alphabet Soup
Liz Scanlon: Liz in Ink

I'm excited to be serving on the 2010 Cybils Poetry Panel this year! We have an outstanding group of panelists. I'm looking forward to our in-depth discussions about the best children's poetry books published in the past year.

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Visit the Cybils website to find out who some of the other Cybils panel organizers are.

AND THE WINNERS ARE....

It took a while but after going through all of the BLOGMANIA entries, including the early and bonus comments, and making sure they were all numbered properly and valid, we ended up with 3,697 entries.  Without further ado, the winners are....

For PACKAGE #1: MARVELOUS FOR MOM (valued at $578):

Comment #1095*:

From Tiny Tutus!

And for PACKAGE #2: THE WHOLE KID CABOODLE (valued at $519):

Comment #128:

From Christy G (CMW)!

Congratulations Tiny Tutus & Christy G (CMW)! To claim your prize, reply to the notification email I sent out.  If you do not respond within 48 hours of being notified, your prize will be forfeited and a new winner will be selected.

Thanks to everyone who entered and to all of our amazing BLOGMANIA sponsors:

Please take another moment to show them some love if you haven't already, and be sure to keep them in mind for all of your shopping needs (like those holidays coming up, hint, hint!).

*Please note: Blogger restarts the comment numbering on each page which is why the numbers chosen by Random.org may not match exactly with the numbers on the comments.  However, I personally counted each comment to make sure that the proper winner was chosen.

Giveaways Galore! {GIVEAWAYS}

BLOGMANIA is over and I have to say that I am completely and totally overwhelmed by the response.  When all of the comments from early and bonus entries were tallied, AFOMFT received more than 4,000 entries into our giveaways!  Insanity!  I'm working on consolidating everything today and will draw the two winners as soon as possible.  Keep an eye out for the big announcement - I promise it will come within the next 48 hours and will be posted here, on our Facebook page and on Twitter.  I can't wait to see who won!

And if you've still got giveaway fever, here are 22 more you're going to want to enter.  The best part?  They're for a great cause!

My friend Lani from Triplets: Who Knew?, Who Knew? Reviews and Multiples and More is holding her second annual Blog For a Cure blog party to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  Here's how it works:

Visit Who Knew? Reviews and make a donation.  Just $1 earns you an entry into all 22 giveaways (just post a comment in all of the ones you want to enter).  For every dollar you donate beyond that first one, you earn another entry into the giveaway of your choice.  So if you donate $10, you can enter all 22 giveaways once and then add 9 bonus entries toward the prizes you want the most.  And let me tell you, the prizes are fabulous!  You could score a 16 x 24 canvas wrap from iprintcanvas valued at $95.

A Dora & Diego DVD set.

A $120 gift card to CSN Stores, which can be used for toys, clothes, furniture and more.

A blog makeover from Blogaholic Designs.

And much much more, including the grand prize, sponsored by AFOMFT, filled with some of my Favorite Things for Fall.  This accessories package is valued at more than $300!

The full guidelines can be found HERE and the party ends on Monday, September 20th, so head on over to Who Knew? Reviews, make a donation and get to entering!  Don't forget to tell them AFOMFT sent you!

The Poetry Friday Roundup: September 17, 2010

POETRY ROUNDUP--MORNING EDITION

Here, at Wild Rose Reader, I have another original list poem titled Things to Do If You Are a Mole.

Over at The Drift Record, Julie Larios has a jump-rope rhyme made all of questions that she wrote for Tricia's Poetry Stretch this week.

Toby Speed has a review of Skywriting: Poems to Fly over at The Writer's Armchair.

Gregory K. has a guest post about PoetrE up over at David L. Harrison's blog today.

At A Year of Reading Mary Lee has a rainbow, a song (no surprises which one), and some great news about a certain Poetry Friday panel session at KidLitCon.

Tabath Yeatts has haiku, pie-ku, and a giveaway today at her blog today.

Andromeda Jazmon has a review of Hip Hop Dog by Raschka & Radunsky over at A Wrung Sponge.

And at Poem Farm, Amy has an original poem, Mother Poet, #17 in her series of poems about poems. She also features a picture (not poetry) book that makes its debut tomorrow.

Ruth's got a Hitomaro poem for us today at her blog.

Laura Salas has a poem from Dark Emperor, Joyce Sidman’s wonderful new collection of night poems about the woodland.

Laura also presents the weekly 15 Words or Less poems.

Over at the Paper Tigers blog, Sally has a post about Wombat Walkabout.

Jone found a poem about autumn by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Check it out at Check It Out.

Head on over to Jama’s Alphabet Soup for a taste of some clever light verse written by one of my favorite children’s poets—J. Patrick Lewis.

Diane Mayr talks about a way to have a poetry collection published at The Write Sisters.

Diane also announces Catzilla! and shares a cat tanka at Random Noodling.

Laura Shovan says she’s back after a break. You'll find an onomatopoeia mini-lesson using Carolyn Crimi's picture book The Louds Move In! at Author Amok.

This week at the Stenhouse Blog you’ll find a poem and some wisdom from Tao Te Ching.

David Elzey says: “i'm in this week with a parody of robert frost that also happens to be true. mostly true. about me and crows.”

At Writing and Ruminating, Kelly Fineman has her review of Baby Baby Baby! by Marilyn Janovitz.

Karen Edmisten joins in this week with Our Town and Lucinda Matlock.

Sara Lewis Holmes returns to Poetry Friday with a Kafka quote and a Francisco Stork poem at Read Write Believe. (Welocme back, Sara!)

Charles Ghigna is tiptoeing in today with a bird nest poem at Father Goose.

My good friend Grace Lin is joining Poetry Friday this week with Moon Poetry for the Autumn Moon Festival. Check out Grace’s Moon Poetry post at her blog Gracenotes. (Note: Grace’s beautiful new picture book Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival was recently published by Alfred A. Knopf.)

POETRY ROUNDUP--AFTERNOON EDITION

Janet Squires has a post about Pirates: Poems written by David L. Harrison and illustrated by Dan Burr in recognition of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

After a long absence, Tricia returns to Poetry Friday with the poem The Reader by Richard Wilbur.

Tricia has also posted this week’s poetry stretch results—Just Questions—at The Miss Rumphius Effect.


POETRY ROUNDUP--LATE EVENING EDITION

Anne Shirley is in with a poem she shares with her students each year. She says it's a thought-provoking piece written by Helen Buckley.

Head on over to Looking for the Write Words for another original list poem—not written by me—titled Things to Do If You Are a Frog!

Shelley invites us to read about some people who knew how to live without much money at Dust Bowl Poetry.

Announcement! Click here to find out who the 2010 Cybils Poetry Panelists are.

POETRY FRIDAY IS HERE!!!

I'm doing the Poetry Friday Roundup at Wild Rose Reader this week. Please leave the URL of your Poetry Friday post in the comments. I'll be updating the list throughout the day.