Tropical Traditions Giveaway at Win, Lose, or Blog!

Christmas is just around the corner and this will make a great stocking stuffer!

You can enter for the chance to win a bottle of organic massage oil over at Win, Lose, or Blog through Saturday, the 19th.

It's available in 4 scents, I love this stuff. Go enter!

Bic Bands Giveaway!

There's a Bic Bands Non-slip headband giveaway going on over at Win, Lose, or Blog right now!

Ends tomorrow night! Head over HERE to enter for the chance to win your choice of 3 bic bands!

Win, Lose, or Blog- Now Accepting Season 6 applications!

We are now accepting applications (here) for Season six contestents on Win, Lose, or Blog! Last season our 8 contestants lost 90.8 pounds in 7 weeks! Win, Lose, or Blog is a Big Loser inspired weight loss challenge for the blogging world. Health & Fitness are my passions in life and I hope this competition will inspire others to lead healthier lifes too! I have been working with four fabulous ladies to create this fun and exciting new blog. 

What does Win, Lose, or Blog have to offer you?

Want to be a contestant? Apply here.

Each season of the challenge (lasting 7 weeks) we will choose eight contestants. This is your chance to win some MAJOR prizes! The "big loser" (based on percentage of body weight lost) will win one big AWESOME prize. Second and third place contestants will also win some great prizes. And everyone else will get something just for participating.

Want to Play along?
Want to lose weight right along with our contestants? Post your weekly loss each week on our Tuesday Update post and you're in the running for some fantastic prizes! Last season TWO of our mini-contestants won fabulous prizes and lost a TON of weight in the process.

Just want to follow along?
We have multiple health and fitness gurus on our team who are going to be posting information, recipes, tips, inspiration and more. So come follow and get a little help living a healthier lifestyle. Also, at the end of each season followers will win awesome prizes just for leaving comments throughout the season. And you know it will be fun to watch the competition play out and cheer on the contestants :)

Go check it out!!! And spread the word!

Remember each comment you leave all season long counts as an entry for great prizes! Want to get a head start on those comments? Head on over to Win, Lose, or Blog, grab our button, and leave three comments for displaying our button on your blog and five comments for writing an exciting post announcing us to your blog friends. We want you to invite others to join the the fun and gain some motivation to live a healthier lifestyle.

Tropical Traditions Giveaway at Win, Lose, or Blog

We have got some super low entries on a Tropical Traditions Oxygen Bleach giveaway over at Win, Lose, or Blog!!

I've heard this stuff is awesome! From their website: "Oxygen Bleach is safe to use at all temperatures, on most washable fabrics, and all colors, in hard or soft water, and is compatible with other household cleaners. Also, it produces no harmful by-products which negatively affect the environment. Unlike chlorine bleach, which can merely cover up a stain, Tropical Traditions Oxygen Bleach attacks and breaks down organic stains to totally remove them from the garment."

I would totally be entering this giveaway if I could...I have two little girls that could put boys dirty clothes to shame so I'm sure I could put this stuff to use often!

Head over to Win, Lose, or Blog to enter. Giveaway ends this Saturday!

Blogging for Books: Restless in Carolina

Restless in Carolina by Tamara Leigh

From the back cover:

She’s all about going green. Could he be her white knight—or will he make her see red?

Tree-huggin’, animal-lovin’ Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan is on a mission. Well, two. First she has to come to terms with being a widow at thirty-three. After all, it’s been four years and even her five-year-old niece and nephew think it’s time she shed her widow’s weeds. Second, she needs to find a buyer for her family’s estate—a Biltmore-inspired mansion surrounded by hundreds of acres of unspoiled forestland. With family obligations forcing the sale, Bridget is determined to find an eco-friendly developer to buy the land, someone who won’t turn it into single-family homes or a cheesy theme park.

Enter J. C. Dirk, a high-energy developer from Atlanta whose green property developments have earned him national acclaim. When he doesn’t return her calls, Bridget decides a personal visit is in order. Unfortunately, J. C. Dirk is neither amused nor interested when she interrupts his meeting—until she mentions her family name. In short order, he finds himself in North Carolina, and Bridget has her white knight—in more ways than one. But there are things Bridget doesn’t know about J. C., and it could mean the end of everything she’s worked for…and break her heart.

Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan is a widowed, opossum toting, tree hugger who is trying to save her aging uncle's property from being turned into an industrial park. Atlanta eco-friendly developer J.C. Dirk just might have the solution for her family's property, but can she trust this Atlanta city-slicker?

This book started off a little slow, but I'm glad I stuck with it and made it past the first few chapters. This book is full of quirky characters, especially those Pickwicks, that keep this book alive and interesting. I kind of figured out where the story was going part way through, but I still found the book thoroughly interesting as it played out. The book is Contemporary, Christian fiction, but I found the religious aspect to be pretty non-demoninational, making this "Christian" book enjoyable, and maybe even relatable to many.

Overall this book was well written, the characters were interesting and I really enjoyed this read.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.