Fall Fest Cookbook Giveaway!
We all love yummy food, especially when it is cooked with time and care and excellent ingredients. And what is even better is when those recipes come from cookbooks that make you want to just cook food for your family all day long!
I have two of those type of cookbooks to offer to you my reader. Hachette has offered me three sets of these two cookbooks for a giveaway. Yes that's right! Each of three winners will get BOTH cookbooks, both. That is a good thing because after looking though mine I have no idea which I would have told you to choose over the other, although chocolate does always win out over actual meals for me- so that would probably be my choice.
These are the books:
How to Roast a Lamb: Greek Classic Cooking By Michael Psilakis, Barbara Kafka
Chocolate: A Love Story: 65 Chocolate Dessert Recipes from Max Brenner's Private Collection By Max Brenner, Yonatan Factor
Throughout the next couple of weeks I will highlight each of these books by cooking a scrumptious recipe of my choice to share with you! I know you are drooling already, so here is how to enter to the giveaway for one set of your own books.
How to enter the giveaway:
- Comment on this post telling me what your all time favourite cookbook is, and why.
- Tweet about the giveaway with a link back to this post.
(leave a separate comment here telling me you did)
Sorry, open only to US and Canadian residents, and no P.O boxes please. All entries must be in by the 29th of November the winner will be chosen 30th of November. Check back then to see if you got lucky!!
EDIT: WINNERS 
Thank you to all the entrants!!!! Stay posted, I know there will be more goodies for me to offer you.
I am a Powell’s affiliate and I do receive a percentage of the sales of any book you buy using my links. Thank you!
CSN Bookshelf Winner!
One very happy reader won this bookshelf!!
A HUGE thank you to CSN Office Furniture !
The total number of entries was 97, 60 on Dreadlock Girl. com and 37 on Dreadlock Girl Reads. Thank you so everyone who entered!!! The only bummer that out of all you excited peeps I could only choose ONE winner. I let Random.org to the dirty work, that is what they are good at.
THE WINNER!
nat @ book, line, and sinker
Nat's Winning Comment: this is the most clever book blogger giveaway i've seen so far!!! and perfect timing!! i've been bookshelf shopping and love the shorter shelf. if i win, i'll take lots of pictures of it being used and will shamelessly promote CSN and your blog!! thanks for entering me.
Nat, email me your address, and your final choice of bookshelf! Congrats!!!
Take Your Pick: CSN Furniture Giveaway!
One very lucky entrant will win one of the above bookcases, so that you can cuddle all your books into a new and beautiful home, an organized home, a place to rest from being under the bed or stacked up in piles, go on, you know you need a bookshelf and this is how you will be entered:
- Comment here telling me which bookcase you'd love to have in your home.
- Tweet about the giveaway with a link back to this post.
(leave a separate comment here telling me you did)
- Blog about the giveaway with a link back to this post.
(leave a separate comment here telling me you did)
Sorry, open only to US residents, and no P.O boxes please. All entries must be in by the 30th of August, the winner will be chosen 31st of August.
Patchwork Style Winners
Winners:
Chris from Bookarama
Jen from Sew and Sox
Send me your snail mail addies and CONGRATS!!!
Winners of Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Home
The Winners of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home are:
Who said: This sounds like such a helpful book. I always find I’m either compulsively tidying daily or tearing the house apart in a month long cleaning binge. I need to learn a good routine to keep things orderly.
*Molly
Who said: I would love to be entered in the contest. Since going back to work (nearly) full-time, my house has truly suffered.
Are you familiar with flylady.net? She has a number of quick tips and she is even on twitter to remind you to do certain tasks: @flylady
Great review and if I don’t win…I know I will definitely add this book to the TBR list
*Kailana
Who said: Enter me! I hate cleaning, so maybe this will make a difference! lol
Winners please send me your addresses? bethany(at)dreadlockgirl(dot)com
What did I think about Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home?
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home is the most amazing cleaning book I have ever had/read/used. I hate cleaning and I love this book, it is an inspiration to me.
Dreadlock Girl Book Review: Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home
Find it at Powell's Books: Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home
Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Home (+giveaway)
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home
No-Nonsense Advice That Will Inspire You to Clean Like the Dickens
by Thelma A. Meyer
239 pages
Cleaning, Home Economics
Publisher Wellness Central
March 2009
There is nothing better than a job well done, and especially if it is a job you don't like doing. That is the case (for me at least) with cleaning. I am great at tidying up but cleaning is another matter, unless I am in the middle of a great audio book that I can pop into the earbuds on my ipod. I was happy to grab this book right up when I read "No-Nonsense Advice that will inspire you to clean like the Dickens" because I really need some a ton of inspiration. I have now given the book a two month trial, and I can tell you that this little chartreuse book worked its magic on my entire family, well at least the adults in this family!
Mrs. Meyer's goes through all the stuff you need to know and just leaves out the rest. Giving hundreds of great tips and ideas for keeping it all clean. Each chapter in Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home is dedicated to one room, and the chapter goes over everything in that room and how to keep it up and keep it clean. I love the "What to Clean and When" portion especially (p. 21). Mrs. Meyers discloses how to conquer all the grime by allotting daily, weekly and once or twice a year chores. For me it made me get the bigger picture and understand how I CAN DO IT! I can get a handle day by day and a step at a time.
Another thing that really helped me understand her methods and direction was that she had nine kids, yes NINE! That right there should let you know that she is big on getting things done, and getting them done well and also- skipping the fuss of cleaning things that don't need to be cleaned. I am all for that, and I don't even have nine kids!
This book has personally impacted us big time in real life application. Since Mrs. Meyer's came into our home, the house has been visibly cleaner. The biggest change? Well, that I know how often I really should be cleaning the bathroom, kitchen, counters, sweeping, and mopping. This is thanks to her easy to follow charts, lists and quick tips, they make me feel like I have a handle on it all. The before Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home and after is not even comparable.
What will sound crazy is that I am not spending that much more time (if any at all), I am just much more focused on what needs to be done instead of cleaning the same things over and not cleaning what really should be cleaned. Another miracle is since I stared getting the inside of the house more efficiently, my hubby has organized all the outdoor areas, and cleaned them, ahem...including a complete overhaul of the garage and attic. Yes, Mrs. Meyer's does work miracles, miracles in the form of inspiration. I can't say enough about this book, if you are stuck in a rut, or just don't know where to start, or don't care about fussy cleaning....Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home is the perfect No-Nonsense book for you!
*The author would like to emphasize that the book does not push her products. (And I can personally verify that that is true)
Giveaway Details:
Win a copy of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home
Get one entry for each of the following:
*Comment on this post
*Tweet about this post/giveaway and let me know you did (through another comment, or a tweet reply to me)
This giveaway will be open through 30th of May.
Winner's address must be located within the US or Canada, no P.O boxes please.
(I apologise to those of you who this excludes, sorry )
Take my word for it, you want this book, so please enter the giveaway!!!
Winners: Linen, Wool, Cotton
I am announcing the two winners of Linen, Wool, Cotton!!
Congratulations to:
1.) Diane from Everything Flowers From Within
2.) Susan from Reading Upside Down
Click on the Contact button above and send me an email with your address!!!
Winners of my homemade lunchbags:
Here are my two winners for the homemade lunch bags, each of you will get one lunch bag:
Shelly B from Write for a Reader
Kim from Page after Page
Congrats girls!!!! I hope you love your lunch bags I am a little late in announcing, sorry.
click on the contact me button and email me your addresses ladies!!!
If you'd like a chance to win the book Linen, Wool, Cotton, enter here.
You are in luck! Linen, Wool, Cotton giveaway!!!
Hey kiddos! I am so excited. Since so many of you were interested in this book the publisher has offered to do a giveaway on my blog. So there are two extra copies (as there is no way I am giving mine up, no way)! Two copies to giveaway here on B&b. Did you read my review? Better go do that and then enter in the comments on this post, below.
Here are some very important links you'll need to check out:
Make Good Books: A place for free patterns, and to check out the craft series this book is in. A must see!!!
B&b ex libris review: Linen, Wool, Cotton
This is what I have made so far from these this book, and my husband and boys love their little lunch bags. The boys put theirs on the end of sticks and pretend to be on a long journey. I can't say enough about this book, but for sure you will want to enter.
I am also hosting a giveaway for the above bags, and if you are not crafty and don't even want to try, you should still enter that!
Giveaway details:
This giveaway is for your very own copy of Linen, Wool, Cotton. I will give away 1 book for the first 10 entries, and then once it hits 11 I will add the other book into the mix. I will select winner(s) on the 8th of May- so you have until then to enter.
To enter, each worth one entry:
*Comment on this post
*Tweet about the giveaway (and make sure you comment back on here to let me know!)
This giveaway is open internationally!!!
ps. It is very important that you check back on the 8th, as I do not notify winners via email. If the winner does not respond within 3 days of the winner being announced I will select a new winner. If you want to be very sure you don't miss out, click on the toast (upper left) and subscribe to my feed!!
Book Review: Linen, Wool, Cotton (& handmade giveaway!)
Linen, Wool, Cotton
25 simple projects to sew with natural fabrics
by Akiko Mano
112 pages
Craft, Sewing, Simple style
Trumpeter Books
14, April 2009
Akiko Mano's soft and subdued style is simple yet outstanding in quality, approach and design. Linen, Wool, Cotton is a dream for the practical person who enjoys crafts that people will actually use. The simplicity of her patterns is so pretty and speaks though its calmness. Akiko Mano's designs will allow even the insure crafter to create things that many will enjoy. The projects range from wool slippers, aprons, a muffler, lightweight fruit bags, a lingerie case, hot water bottle cover, duvet cover and beyond. Linen, Wool, Cotton is sectioned off into chapters by material choice, beginning with Linen, followed by Wool and finally Cotton. Akiko's patterns are easy to follow and minimalist in their approach, and that is a bonus, since that makes them quick to complete as well, having only an average of 4 steps per pattern.
Linen, Wool, Cotton by Akiko Mano is part of the Japanese Crafts Style books also known as Make Good: Crafts + Life, a group of books believing in the goal to simplify life. This approach makes it its goal to take pleasure in the beautiful things that are so perfect in their minimalistic appeal.
So how did I like this book? I loved it. I enjoy being crafty, but I want the things I make to be used and not just dusted. This is a book for a person like me, and I am thrilled that there are so many patterns in Linen, Wool, Cotton that are calling my name (quite loudly I might add). I have already dived in, and created the lunch bags, they were just too cool to not make. I was worried at first because usually patterns seem to have way too many impractical steps and I have a hard time wanting to follow along. I had no problem with listening to Akiko at all. The lunch bag pattern (p. 96) was just perfect and simple and had fluff, just the real stuff. I know for sure that I am going to make several other patterns, the Sweets Mat (p. 90) looks like the next one I'll try. And the Fruit Bags (p. 37) made out of cheesecloth would be perfect for veggies at the Saturday Farmer's Market as they don't way anything and are completely reusable! Yeah, so anyway I am hooked. I recommend Linen, Wool, Cotton by Akiko Mano with no reservations at all.
The Handmade Giveaway:
I spent part of the day making two Lunch Bags (p. 96) from this book for you! I really hope that my work pays off, and that you are as excited as I am about this! I can't wait!
Description:
Tired of bringing your lunch with you in a paper sack or plastic bag? Oh, well when you see these you will be! And remember really cool lunch bags are not just for kids. "The handles are an extension of the main part of this bag, which you can use to easily tie the bag closed. The bag is also reversible" (Linen, Wool, Cotton, p.96) The solid coloured material is a canvas type thick cotton, and the stripped and polka-dotted fabrics are a thin softer cotton. And yes, both bags are completely reversible!
Here are the two lunch bags I made, you can click on each photo to see the bigger picture.
Details:
This giveaway is being hosted on my craft/family/photography blog as well, to check that blog out go to: The good. The bad. The ugly. I am giving two bags away between the two blogs.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS FOR THE LUNCH BAGS!! (NOT THE BOOK) There seems to be a little confusion about that.
I will select 2 winners at midnight (PST) on 30th of April!!
I will most certainly ship internationally!!
To enter each of the following will give you an entry:
*Post a comment on this post
*Tweet about my giveaway with a link to this post
*Post about this on your blog with a link to this post
Each time you do one of the above make sure to let me know in the comments in this post so that I can add you again. If you don't let me know in the comments I won't know or be able to count your entry, so make sure and come back and let me know.
Very important! I do not notify winners, so make sure you check back on May 1st to see if you won. Each winner has 4 days to get their shipping info to me after that if I don't hear from you I will select a new winner.
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