Smiley360--A Great Opportunity to Review and Get Rewarded

I recently found a site called smiley360.com where I signed up for my first free sample within minutes.

What is smiley360, you ask? From their web site:

"In a nutshell, smiley360.com is a network of consumers. Our consumers participate in our social media programs and receive different products and services. They talk—the world listens."

As a smiley360 member, we are given the opportunity to review new products and services and give honest feedback. And that feedback influences the final product. 

 Free sign-up. Free samples of brand new products and services. My voice is heard.

Count me in!

And the more reviews I do,  the more opportunities I have to do even more exciting product reviews and even the possibility of becoming a smiley360 brand manager.

If you are interested in finding out more or joining to receive your own free products and to have your voice heard, go HERE.

Stay tuned...I have my first smiley360 review coming up next!

Have You Ever Seen Such an Epic Giveaway??

You aren't going to believe this one! To celebrate 2000 followers, Sparkling Reviews is giving away this:

a Flat Screen 73" TV

1 Sony Home Theater Set (includes Blu Ray Player , iPod dock, and speakers)

 

 

Yep, that's One thousand smackeroos!

And this is $1,000, too!

So RUN, don't walk, over HERE to enter. As if I need to tell you that!

Oh, and this giveaway ends Feb 1.

I Will Dream About This Tonight...

I really want to win a TV for my sweet husband. I really do. So, I'm searching "giveaway TV" on twitter, and I find this:

Sparking Reviews is giving away a Macbook Air and an Apple TV. Woah.

Now, I really want to win an Apple TV for my husband.

And a Macbook Air for me. tee hee

If you want a chance, hurry HERE to enter. And I mean hurry. My name Winner will be announced on Facebook tomorrow.

Make a Difference Monday - Week Two

Last Monday marked a new beginning for me...a resolution, if you will. I resolve to Make a Difference. No longer will I use the familiar excuses of What can just one person do that matters...or I am too busy...or a million others that stand ready in my brain. 

Someday, when I am old (my kids think I'm already there), I want to look back and say that my life mattered...that I made a difference, even in some small way.

I have decided to journal my 'small ways' each week. And I hope you will join me, because...

YOU can make a difference, too.

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I had planned to write about something totally different today, but instead I find myself drawn again to the thing that has consumed my thoughts this week. It happened on Wednesday. I got the email that changed the way I think about strangers. It has made a difference in my life.

And I hope it will make a difference in yours.

The email I received talked about the new book that River Jordan wrote called Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit. In it, she describes how in 2009 she began a New Year's Resolution to pray for one stranger every day.

This may not seem like much...but it grew to something much bigger than one person. It has changed her life and the lives of many others.

And, this week it changed mine.

Here's the link to the e-mail: Praying for Strangers: The Resolution

Read the article. Then check out her website. Read the stories of the gazillions of people that have made River Jordan's resolution their own. 

It is a.maz.ing. (insert goosebumps here)

So, this week, I became one of them. I took on the resolution. I am praying for strangers.

And that is making a difference in my life.

The people around me are no longer strangers...they are potential prayer-recipients. God is opening my heart to care even more for those around me, to see their needs (rather than rush by them) and to *dare I say it* reach out and help.*gulp*

I'm excited about this borrowed resolution. And, I admit, a little scared.  But more excited than scared.

After all, I want to make a difference.

Make a Difference Monday

I was trying to decide on a regular post for my blog, what my blog is really about, etc., etc., and what I have come up with is Make a Difference Monday. 

I want my life to make a difference. I want my kids' lives to make a difference.

So, every Monday, I will post about some small way that I have made a difference during the previous week. I would LOVE it if you would comment with a way that you made a difference this week. That would be awesome! Would you do that for me??

Now for this week's post:

I love to give presents anonymously. I just love the thought of causing someone to stop and think about WHO could have possibly done...whatever. Then they go through all of the wonderful people in their lives, how many special ones they know that could have thought to do something special for them. And, in the process, they realize just how blessed they are. And that is the real gift.

Well, I was able to share my winnings with a very special family...anonymously.

So, don't tell, okay?

There is a young couple in our church that is on deputation (trying to raise support) to go to the Mission Field. They have three young children and another on the way. They live with the husbands' parents...or they did, but the parents are moving so they are looking for a place.

Anyway, I recently won a $25 GC to Burger King.

And I gave the card to the young family in our church...anonymously. How FUN!

I remember what a challenge suppertime can be when you're pregnant and trying to keep up with three active little ones. And they are on the road so much trying to raise support.

I like to think that my little gift made a difference and brought a smile to their faces.

Now it's your turn...What are you doing to make a difference? Please comment below and share!

*making a difference*

debbi

Enter to Win a Mega Makeup Prize Pack from Valentine Kisses!

Valentine Kisses is hosting a HUGE giveaway right now. Just look at this!!

Every woman's dream-come-true!! It would be so much fun to open this package, right?? There is so much here, that you can surely find something to share to brighten someone's day!  So head on over to Valentine Kisses blog and enter this amazing giveaway, which ends January 31.

*happy entering*

debbi

Enter to Win a Pepto Prize Pack

Mommy Living the Life of Riley is giving away a huge Pepto-sponsored prize pack worth $255!

Pepto has put together an awesome prize pack to cover all of your post-holiday needs. Here is some of what is included:

And of course, this:

For full details, and to enter for your chance to win, go HERE. But hurry! Giveaway ends January 13th!

*happy entering*
debbi