Christina Serrano Ind. Avon Sales Rep: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

All About A Mom Mothers Day Giveaway

All About Mom - Mother's Day Giveaway

Living Frugal with Erika and BB Product Reviews have teamed up with many other bloggers to bring you an amazing Mother's Day Giveaway!

Cooking Explosion Giveaway

Ever Dream of the Giveaways Of All Giveaways?

Well this is it!

We want to thank all our great sponsors for these fabulous prizesAnd we would like you to take a moment to show your appreciation by visiting some of their sites and taking a look around!

The Gifts:

Autographed Paula Dean Cookbook~The Lady & Sons Just Desserts	Signed picture of Paula Dean(Picture will vary)	Signed Cook Book from The Neely's-Celebration	Cook'n Recipe Organizer	Southern Seam Apron
8 piece gourmet cooking set from Sunbeam	Professional :limited edition pans from Regal	32 piece set of Lock & Lock Storage Containers	4 sets of Rubbermaid glass storage sets with easy to locate lids	Set of 2 glasses from Bottlehood
EatSmart Precision Pro- Multifunction Digital Kitchen Scale LCD Readout	Bain Marie Jar H.F.Coors	Guy Ferie Knuckle Knife Ergo Chef	$15 in Gift Certificates from Bob Evans Restaurant	Wholly Guacamole Gift Pack
$50.00 Wendy's Gift Card	Gift Basket from Diane Redcay	Gooseberry Simple Shortcut Recipes (	Kindle Fire	Set of Oneida Silverware
Rare Disney 4 Park Collector Lithograph Art Set with COA	SodaStream Maker Start Up Kit and 3 Full Size Flavors	Gourmet Gift Basket from Bea's Gift Baskets	Set Of Trader Joe's Organic Spices

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All these wonderful gifts are Courtesy of:

Paula Dean, The Neely's, , Replacements LTD, Wholly Guacamole, Bob Evans Restaurants, Gooseberry Patch, , Ergo Chef

Southern Seams Custom Made Aprons

Rubbermaid - Helping people get organized for living.
H.F Coors - All American Made in the USA Dinnerware, lead free, chip resistant.
Open Sky -Connect with experts in food, health, style and design on this social network.
Regal Cookware - Leading U.S. manufacturer of high-quality made in the U.S.A. stainless steel cookware.
Robinson Home Products - Leader in the design, development, and marketing of high-quality kitchen and dining items for our licensed and owned brands sold throughout North America.
Wendy's Restaurant -Wendy's® is the real choice in fast food. We deliver quality fresh food with real ingredients that provide the best tasting fast food.

1SaleADay.com where every day is a Sale Day!

Cook'n organize and store all your favorite recipes! from DVO

With special thanks to Bea's Gift Baskets for adding this beautiful gift basket. Bea offers the perfect basket for any occasion from wedding and baby gifts to corporate gifts for those executives you need to impress.

And did I mention we have a

KINDLE FIRE

to giveaway?

All these fabulous gifts will be going to ONE Lucky Winner!

Now All We Want To Know Is...

To enter this giveaway you need to complete the mandatory entries. The rest are optional do one or do them all that is up to you. The more you do the better your chances of winning.

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My Grandchildren and Me Would Like To

Thank Kim Davis at Bloggity Blog and All My other Wonderful Blogger Friends who helped me make this dream a reality.

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

GEORG KAISER, The Raft of the Medus

To Bill Elliot, may you keep on dreaming for a long time to come...

Kim D. Davis of Bloggity Blog,

Ashley Pomykala of Parsimonious Pash,

Kim Quarrie of Capri's Coupons,

Jayedee Dewitt of life in the lost world...

Amanda Odair of Making Time For You

Diane Redcay of Let Me Talk Aboug Anything/Everything

Ladonna Dennis of Mom Blog Society

Mark Dennis of Route 249

Jackie Pate of Jackie's Reviews

Cindy Batchelor of My Style Spot

Michelle Dudas of Military Wives Saving

Christina Serrano of Christina Serrano Ind Avon Rep

Kim Rowley of Enter Online Sweeps

Julee Morrison of Mommy's Memorandum,
Michelle Sutter of Powered by Mom,
Diane Walline of Me, Him and the Cats

Kelley Kagele of Never a Dull Day in Poland

Colleen Fowler of Colleen's Book Nook

Pamela Maynard of Mom Does Reviews

Samantha Brown of Couponing4you

Leila Brenner of Life as Leels

Kathryn Costa of Kathryn's Kloset

Abigail Billings of Mommy Moments with Abby

Debbie Schuster of Frugal Diva Frenzy

Brandilyn Carpenter of Building Carpenters

Kim Davis of Front Page Freebies

Beverly Abrego of The Coupon Sweeper

Margie Brill of My Springfield Mommy

Jennifer Clark of SusieQpons

Heather McIngvale of Heather's Hints

Mary Hoover of 4our2cents

Nancy Christopher of Stretch That L.E.S.

Stephanie Smith of MomGoesWild

Kristin Sumner of Whole Lotta Mama
Julie Lovell Backes of Empty Nester

Sadie Lankford of Slap Dash Mom

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

KitchenAid Giveaway

WELCOME TO THE KITCHEN AID MANIA GIVEAWAY!

We are giving away a white KitchenAid KSM150PSWH Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer to one lucky reader! This is a perfect Mother's Day gift to every one who loves baking or simply just being in the kitchen! This was made possible by Bay Area Mommy, American Family and some of the most awesome bloggers!

KitchenAid KSM150PSWH Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer

- Retail Value: $349.99

- Color: White

- 325-watt mixer with 10 speeds; 5-quart stainless steel bowl

- Tilt-back head for easy access to mixture

- 1 piece pouring shield with large chute for adding ingredients

- Includes flat beater, dough hook, and wire whip

- Measures 14 by 8-2/3 inches by 14 inches; 1-year warranty

Giveaway will run from April 29 at 12AM EST to May 9 at 11:59PM EST. Open to the US only. Must be at least 18 years old to be eligible.

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Feeling Frugal's 1st Birthday Bash

Welcome to Feeling Frugal's 1st Birthday $250 Paypal Cash Giveaway !
It's been one long year, but we've made it.
We've brought you some awesome deals thus far and we plan on keeping it up for many many years to come.
So, in celebration of our Birthday we've teamed up with some fabulous bloggers to bring you $250 paypal cash. - ONE WINNER!
How awesome is that? Someone winning all that cash on OUR Birthday! That's because we love our fans! <3
Please enter using the Rafflecopter widget below. Open to residents WORLDWIDE; 18+. Winner must have a PayPal account in order to claim the cash prize.
This giveaway is going to be SUPER EASY. All you have to do is "LIKE" our Sponsors pages
(Remember we do verify all entries. So if you plan on entering, make sure you complete everything!)
This giveaway will start on May 1st, 2012 @ 12:01am (EST) & end on May 15th, 2012 12:01am (EST)
Please note that you only need to enter this giveaway ONCE since we are all using the SAME Rafflecopter widget code.

If you have any questions or issues, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
GOOD LUCK!!

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Mothers Day Giveaway

Christina Serrano Avon and Whole Lotta Mama have teamed up to bring you this awesome Mother's Day giveaway packed with "Pamper" products!! Moms are special and rarely do anything for themselves, so we are going to change that for TWO LUCKY WINNERS!!!

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Whole Lotta Mama's 10k GIVEAWAY

Whole Lotta Mama has put together an amazing 10k referral giveaway!! $700 in prizes. Top Referrer wins a Grand prize, a random winner will win a grand prize ($155 value) and there will be 20 runner ups to win other amazing prizes, values ranging from $5 to $72!
You can enter on the Rafflecopter below!! You dont want to miss out on this one!! Dont forget to put Christina Serrano sent ya! <3
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$50 Xperience Days Gift Card Giveaway

Come and enter to win a $50 Xperience Days GC and buy yourself or a loved one some unique gifts!

Giveaway will be open from 4/24 8 pm EST and close 4/28 at 12:01pm EST.
Just wait for the Rafflecopter to load and enter below!
Good Luck!!

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Shower Gel Giveaway

Giveaway will run 4/23-4/25 midnight est!
Winner will be able to choose their scent of shower gel! (*limited to scents in stock)
Enter using the Rafflecopter below! GOOD LUCK!!

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$100 Paypal CASH GIVEAWAY!!

Soda Stream Giveaway

SodaStream Review and Giveaway

By Kim Davis

Bloggity Blog

And at the bottom

I want to thank for helping me promote this giveaway

Grandma Juice

The Kids Are Grown Now What?

Christina Serrano Avon

Mom Goes Wild

Colleens Book Nook

Military Wives Saving

Coupon Girls LA

and

EliteMama

SodaStream Review and Giveaway

By Kim Davis

Bloggity Blog

I am pleased to tell you about SodaStream home soda making system. I was delighted to receive my SodaStream, I had been wanting one for a very long time and when they approved me to review one I was ecstatic. When it arrived my kit included the start up kit which is the machine,1 empty bottle and cap, a C02 cartridge a sample pack of flavors. Because I am doing a blog review they also sent additional full sized flavors: cranberry raspberry, rootbeer, green tea-pomegranate peach, cola free, diet pink grapefruit, and sparkling natural rootbeer. Plus we received a package of the MyWater flavor essence.

This machine is very easy to use and I did a video on it but I broke my video camera and have no idea how to retrieve the video so I can not show you how easy it is.

All you do is insert the C02 cartridge, fill the bottle with water , screw it into the machine and press the button on top until it makes a loud buzz noise ( you do that 3 times)

after that you slowly pour the flavor in the bottle, gently mix it by rotating the bottle and you are ready to drink it!

Okay the problems I had with this machine is: when we used our tap water, the soda tasted bad, we had to buy filtered water to try it out because the stuff they add to our water made it taste bitter. So we bought a filter pitcher and plan on getting a reverse osmosis system because it was alarming to us that the water was so bad and we never noticed it until we made our own pop. Another problem we had is, their instructions say to use the soda cap as a measuring tool, you are to fill the cap to the designated line add it to the pre-carbonated water and that's it! Only there are 3 lines and they don't give you specific measurements so we filled to the top line and it was terrible, we have had to guess at how much to add and sometimes we get it right, sometimes we don't... the lines are not clear and concise like they are with laundry product lids.

The only flavors we really did not like so far is the mywater flavor essence, it tasted terrible, no matter how much we put in it did not help, and the change of the water to filtered did not make me think any higher of this product.

There are regular, diet and sparkling natural flavors for the sodas. In my package I received a regular rootbeer and sparkling natural rootbeer, they both tasted great to me and I personally could not taste a difference in the two.The sparkling naturals cost a little more and make fewer bottles however they contain no artificial sweeteners, colors or flavors and there are no preservatives so they are a healthier option for soda addicts like us.

The cost: I am mixed on my opinion of the cost for this product. It is available in our town so that is a plus, I don't have to drive 2 hours to find what I want and I save shipping costs. Online the basic starter kit is 79.95, HyVee, my local grocery store sells it for 99.95 a 20.00 mark up, bad juju says this blogger. The flavors on line are $4.99 and up, HyVee sells them for $5.99 and up get the trend? The carbonating bottles on line are 19.99 for 2 bottles, I had to pay 25.99 for the two I bought at HyVee. I do not like to find retailers that mark up prices higher then the manufacturer and I don't understand why this manufacturer allows anyone to sell higher then they do. I am unsure why but they say you have to replace the bottles every 3 years so I want to get glass if I can. I don't think they make them for the lower end machines like mine though. The last beef I have is the cost to get the C02 cartridges... this is where they really get you, to order a refill from the on line store is 29.99 for 1 bottle, at HyVee with tax it is 20.00. I can get 3 cylinders refilled for 13.00 at a local shop however SodaStream has a notice on their bottles that it is against the law to fill their bottles anywhere but their authorized dealers, and their authorized dealer here only sells the filled bottles. In fact there is no discount for an exchange and I can go in without the empty cartridge and buy a filled one for the same price. This is confusing to me.

Okay so now that I told you about the bad stuff let me tell you what I do like about this product and why I went ahead and paid for the new C02 cartridge. After the initial cost to start up with this product the cost for a glass of soda is about 10 cents, not too shabby. My kids guzzle pop like it was free so the cost effectiveness of this product is great. It is easy to use, convenient to have in the house and fun. Plus there is a wide variety of flavors, we already purchased orange, lemon lime and regular cola (the kids are not thrilled with the cola flavor but it could be because we have not found the right measurements yet). My personal favorites are the grapefruit, cola free and the orange pop. I plan to keep it in stock and hope to find an authorized C02 refill station so I can save money that way also.

All About A Mom Mothers Day Giveaway

Mommy Juice

In our upcoming All About Mom Giveaway two lucky winners will receive $20 Gift Cards to Mommy Juice!

Mommy Juice Wine's is a company that was founded by a mom! I love to support mom's and since the upcoming giveaway is all about moms, what better company to choose?

They have a wonderful selection of wines! You can order their wines online as well! They also have onsies and toddler shirts as well!

You can connect with them on Facebook ( be sure to drop by and tell them Hello from Living Frugal with Erika), Twitter, or their website for more information!

If you want your chance to enter and win a $20 Gift Card to Mommy Juice - please enter here from 5/1/2012 - 5/8/2012!

Happy Couponing!

~Erika

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Polaroid Music and Video Player Giveaway

Christina Serrano AVON has teamed up with other bloggers to celebrate her reaching 5k fans!! This giveaway will have THREE WINNERS...the Grand Prize........ A Polariod 4GB Music and Video Player!!
Giveaway will be open 4/22-5/7. GOOD LUCK!!!