Featuring . . . Follow Us Monday Morning!

I'm participating in this week's Follow Us Monday Morning blog hop, come link up too & expand your blogging network! 
My blogs have significantly grown since I started participating in blog hops.  A huge thank you to all the bloggers out there who host these events . . . I appreciate you and what you do!  As a regular feature of this blog and one of my other blogs, LaBelladiva, blog hops are prominently featured to show my appreciation.  I always try to fit in a blog hop in all of my posts, when appropriate.
What I love about Follow Us Monday Morning is that the ladies at Being Frugal and Making it Work and Frugality Is Free kick off the week with a question . . .
Question of the Week:
What is the last thing you won? Do you enter giveaways, and if so what kind?
The last thing I won . . . Estee Lauder and Donna Karan products!
The giveaways I enter are cash, gift cards, cosmetics, health and beauty items, clothing, kitchen stuff, home decor, computer toys, craft stuff . . . anything that I would go out and buy . . . my favorite stuff to win is girlie stuff.  It is such a treat to win and I get so excited about it!
You can't win unless you enter :)

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 listing of blog hops

I won! Donna Karan / Estee Lauder giveaway

Cosmetics is what I go shopping for when I get that need to shop.

It has been said that in poor economic times, lipstick is a big seller, so it looks like there are many others like me!  "Feel good about yourself" stuff is always a good thing for mood elevation!

I was so excited to find a giveaway featuring department store brands Donna Karan and Estee Lauder.  The Estee Lauder brand has been one of my favorites for many years . . . I WON . . . what a treat!!!

A huge thank you to Julie at I Am Jewelz for hosting this giveaway!

You have to enter giveaways to win them!

New wins!!

I'm so grateful for all of you bloggers offering giveaways!

If you have recently discovered giveaways  and love them as much as I do, check out the listing of my favorite giveaway sites.  They are listed on the sidebar of this blog!  The list grows daily.

One of the reasons I started this blog is to show appreciation to those host blogs and sponsors who go through all the trouble of putting these giveaways together . . . it is a lot of work!  

A huge thank you to all of you . . . 

you are awesome!

Another reason . . . to help support these bloggers by letting others know that people do win these giveaways!

Here are some recent wins:

I have been trying to win the many items that Tropical Traditions has sponsored for giveaways.  This week I was the lucky winner of a quart of Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil.  

I can't wait to try it out as a healthier alternative since I love to stir fry and pan fry in my cooking.  It is also used in baking or as a spread (like butter).

Thank you to Marilyn for hosting this giveaway . . . I am looking forward to receiving my prize!

I have a weakness for health and beauty items . . . especially cosmetics . . . and I enter just about every one of these type of giveaways.  It is stuff I usually purchase anyway or I get a treat and try new products for free.  

Free is a good thing!

I was thrilled to get the email from Carol at Retail Therapy Lounge announcing that I was one of the winners in her giveaway sponsored by Ancient Stones for mineral makeup and fixative.  Woohoo . . . I was almost out of my mineral makeup and look forward to trying a new brand!

The irony of this giveaway is that I found it just as it was ready to close and I almost didn't enter cause I thought I didn't have enough time.

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 Retail Therapy Lounge!

Check out her blog hop
while you are there

You can't win unless you enter!
Now I'm off to enter more giveaways!