More last-minute contests

Sign up for the MoneyCrashers' New Year Bash contest, if you haven't already! They're giving away tons of stuff, including cash, gift cards, and financial books and services. Contest ends on 1/31.

Win a Bucky the Buckle toy for your toddler! Ends on 2/1/10.

Contest to win an eReader of your choice

The Bibliophilic Book Blog is giving away an eReader of your choice! A Nook, a Kindle, a Sony Touch, or a Sony Pocket. Go here for details and instructions on how to enter.

She is also looking for romance book donations for her "Battle" collection. These books will be donated to romance readers fighting abroad. She is specifically looking for romance books, YA books, UF books, goodies, blank journals, ereaders, and cash to buy/ship books from booksellers and buy ereaders for soldiers. You can get 20 extra entries for doing this, and it's a good cause!

(...digging through my books to see if I actually have any romance books. I wonder if they'd want romance manga?)

Helping Haiti Heal Donation Drive and Contest!

IMPORTANT EDIT: the contest for the Signature Items has been EXTENDED for an extra week until February 6! So if you still want to donate/enter for those (including the J.K. Rowling signed Harry Potter series, the Neil Gaiman book, etc.), you still have a chance!

They've also raised over $66,000 so far, wow. :-)

I've been tweeting about this, but it just occurred to me that I never made a blog post about it. Whoops! Let me rectify that.

The HP Alliance (Harry Potter Alliance) is holding a fundraiser called "Helping Haiti Heal." They are taking donations/contest entries until January 30th February 6th (for signature items) at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard time.

Information here: http://thehpalliance.org/haiti/

Here's how it works: you go to this page and pick out a prize (or prizes) you'd like to win. For a chance to win that prize, you donate the amount indicated for Haiti via Paypal with the button below that prize. Each donation counts as one entry. YOU ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO WIN THAT PRIZE; the donation just gives you a CHANCE to win it.

So if you do this, do this mainly to help Haiti, and as a bonus you can win some cool stuff.

A lot of these prizes have been donated by the respective authors/publishing companies/creators/etc.

Currently up for a chance to win:

• $100 donation: A set of UK edition Harry Potter books, signed by J.K. Rowling, including a handwritten note.
• $75 donation: Guitar owned and signed by TOM FELTON (who plays movie Draco Malfoy)!
  
• $75 donation: A hardback Deathly Hallows signed by the entire cast of the Harry Potter films!
• $50 donation: Never-before-seen production art from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!
  
• $40 donation: HARLEQUIN VALENTINE by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton, signed by Gaiman
• $40 donation: Signed copy of Sir Terry Pratchett's WINTERSMITH
• $40 donation: PERSONALIZED copy of UNSEEN ACADEMICALS by Sir Terry Pratchett, signed by author (five available!)
• $40 donation: radish earrings handmade by the actress who plays Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies!
  
• $30 donation: Signed, 1st Edition LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green
• $30 donation: Signed TIGERHEART and SIR APROPOS OF NOTHING by Peter David
• $30 donation: Signed Advanced Reader's Copy of A WIZARD OF MARS, by Diane Duane
• $30 donation: 35 signed YA novels!
• $10 donation: Signed photo from Ernie Hudson of GHOSTBUSTERS fame!
  
• $10 donation: a chance to win one signed books from a list of books by authors including: Lev Grossman, Maureen Johnson, Carmen Agra, Melissa Anelli, Cassandra Clare, Cleolinda Jones, Lilith Saintcrow, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Karen Healey, Esther Friesner, Ethan Gilsdorf, Harry Turtledove, Jeff Duntemann, and Tanya Huff.
  

So, if you'd like a chance to win some one-of-a-kind items, consider donating.

I'm watching the twitter feeds (#HHH and #HelpingHaitiHeal) and it looks like things are going well so far! They made $12,000 in the first two hours, and according to TweetAHA, they broke $50K on 1/28. (I've donated $30 of that myself, and am debating whether I should donate more.)

Last Minute Contests!

Win "The Grand Chef" Complete DVD Series set at JaeBumFangirl. LAST DAY TO ENTER, entries close at midnight tonight!

Win a Fraggle Rock DVD set at An Island Life. Again, last day to enter! Enter before midnight tonight.

Win a Yoplait Frozen Smoothie Gift Pack. Last day to enter is tomorrow!

A happy video - Gemini

Because I feel like posting a happy vid after a hard day's work - Gemini.



sung by Kagamine Rin and Len (vocaloid), and drawn/animated by Glider. English lyrics by motokokusanagi2009 + lxw. Not entirely sure who wrote the song, but they're awesome, too. If you click through to the Youtube page, the poster has a downloadable version of the video in the sidebar.

This song also has a pretty darn good English version, sung by rockleetist. (No pretty animation for that one, though.)

More giveaways!

More giveaways I've been entering! I'm going to do a flurry of quick links, with some pictures of what you can win.

Contests already blogged about separately won't be in this post; check my "contest" tag for those. I may add more contests to this post in the near future, so keep checking back!

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The Funky Monkey is giving away a Valentine's Basket of goodies by Deirdre Wood. Mmm!
NetworkingWitches is giving away a surprise box of goodies from Illinois Nut & Candy.
Win a YA book from Reversing the Monotony. A bunch of good books to choose from.
A Kidorable giveaway from Sweeps4Bloggers.net OR from thatsITmommy - TWO CHANCES to win an cute kids' umbrella!
Win incredibly cute Ouchies bandages from Jaebaumfangirl.
Win a $25 GC for Build-A-Bear from The Mommy Reviews.
Win an EasyLuchbox System from Thrify Jinxy.
Win a SockGram for a special person from thatsITmommy
Moneycrashers' is having a New Year Bash! They are giving away many, many financial books and services, as well as cash and gift certificates.
I've found four contests to win a SodaStream from SodaStream: TodaysGiveaway.net Mom of 3's Giveaway Confessions of a First Time Mom's Giveaway Sweeps4Bloggers.net's Giveaway

Enter giveaway and $1 will be donated to the Red Cross!

Notes from the Homestead has an awesome contest going on right now. They're not only giving away some cute Valentine's Day stuff, but for everyone who enters, they will donate $1 to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for Haiti! So click on the picture below, and go enter! But quickly - they announce the winner tomorrow, so you don't have much time. :-)