A Giveaway!!

AND WE HAVE A WINNER: Linda "PA_Shutterbug" wins the $60 gift certificate.

I'll be contacting you with the details!

Here's a bit of serendipity for you.

I'm in the process of renovating our cottage bathroom, a room which (like me) is in need of a complete overhaul. I replaced everything but the tub, but honestly, the one piece that proved to be the most difficult to find was the bathroom vanity. I wanted something simple but solid, and with a bit of country charm. Like this:

Do you think I could find it? As I complained incessantly calmly explained to my husband, I drove everywhere, from one local store after another. They either didn't have it anything decent at all or, if I found something similar, they were out of stock. (We won't even go into how hard it is to pin down one of their salespeople for help. Seriously, they look right at you and bolt in the other direction. What is with that? Short of grabbing one of 'em by the apron strings and hauling him over to the shelf, it's impossible to get served.) Long story long, I eventually found something that will do, but it wasn't my first choice.

Then, as my luck would have it (the serendipity part) I received an email a few days ago and was offered a choice. Would I like to accept a $60 gift certificate from JustVanities.com and keep it for myself, or would I like to give it away to one of my readers?

I decided to take the gift and run. Buh bye.

The end.

I kid. Besides the fact that I am almost finished my bathroom reno (hey, great timing boys!) I'd much rather give away a gift to one of you.

So, with that in mind, there is a $60 gift certificate to be won. And I see, from a casual browse through their online catalog, that they deliver to Canada as well as the U.S. and in a lot of cases, the shipping is free. (Sorry to my many Aussie buds and other friends around the world. I'll have to make sure the next giveaway includes the overseas contingent.) And may I add, the name Just Vanities is totally misleading because they have tons of other stuff to choose from - lights, faucets, room dividers, shelves, cabinets, furniture for the bedroom...

So, if you win, you can put it towards something like this nifty sink, then wrap it up and re-gift it to me for Christmas. I'm just saying. (Oh, how I love this sink, I covet this sink. What does it say about me that I covet a sink more than, say, a new handbag?):


Or you can go in a completely different direction and get a toilet seat with dolphins on it. I'm not kidding. It's a toilet seat. With dolphins. Yes, they have something for everyone.

To enter, just leave a comment and answer this skill testing question:

If a tree falls in the forest at the exact moment you go into your bathroom, will your kids still knock on the door?

Or you can just say "Pick Me!"

One entry per person.

You have until Friday June 11th at High Noon to enter.

A winner will be chosen at random.

Good luck!

Giveaway Reminder

It's not too late to add your name for the Giveaway.

Btw, I'm get offers of free stuff quite frequently (to either keep or give away) and I've never accepted before now, but I thought I'd give it a go this once, and if it works out, I'll do it again.

A Contest and Giveaway

In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

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Comes out in stores everywhere July 20th. Pre-order here.

Enter to win an advanced review copies of LINGER, Sisters Red, The Dead-Tossed Waves, and The Replacement on Maggie's blog

I read Maggie's blog regularly and I love her. Go back a few posts and check out what she did to her guitar! She's a multi-talented artist, writer, musician.... So now she's holding a contest for her latest book, and I thought I'd give you the heads up, too!