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Oh YEAH, baby! When I got the email asking if I would be interested in sponsoring this giveaway, I just about fell off the couch! One of you is going to win a year’s supply of Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Popcorn AND a 12 month subscription to Netflix! Holy cow!

Orville Redenbacher’s Naturals is a new line of microwave popcorn with no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives in four great flavors-Simply Salted, Simply Salted 50% Less Fat, Buttery Garlic, and Buttery Salt and Cracked Pepper. The winner of this giveaway will get a coupon book good for one free box a month!

If you haven’t heard of Netflix, it’s an online DVD rental service with over 90,000 DVD titles available. You create an online list of titles you want to see, then Netflix ships them to you with a prepaid envelope for return. There are no due dates, no late fees, and no shipping costs. For this giveaway, you will get a 12 month Netflix subscription that lets you have two DVDs out at a time, which normally costs $13.99 a month!

Here are the rules-

1. Because Netflix is only available in the USA, this giveaway is open to U.S entrants only. You are welcome to comment on this post if you don’t live in the U.S., but I will be checking each entrant’s blog or website to make sure they are located in the U.S.

2. In order to receive an entry into this giveaway, you must write a post linking back to my blog AND to www.orville.com. I will be visiting the site of each entrant to verify the links. If I do not see both links, I will send one reminder email, and then unfortunately will have to remove the entry from the giveaway. It’s only fair!

3. If you do not have a blog or website, you can earn an entry into the giveaway by either posting about the contest on a message board or social networking site in which you link to this post and to www.orville.com, OR by emailing two people and telling them about this giveaway. Please indicate in your comment which one you did, leaving a link to the message board or social networking post if possible. We want to spread the word about Orville!

I realize this is short notice, so spread the word! I will choose the winner of the giveaway on Friday, January 5th so that your first month’s subscription can start on that following Monday (there are five weeks in January). And good luck everybody!

Edited to add: By request, I am allowing additional entries in this giveaway if you do the following:
If you post about the contest including the links to me and to Orville.com on more than one blog, leave me one comment per blog. For non-bloggers, for each message board or social networking post that you do, you will get one entry, as long as you provide me with the link. Sound good?

This contest is closed, congratulations to the winner, Mamabug!

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I just found out today that when my husband took all three of the kids out Christmas shopping for my gifts, he took them to four different stores. FOUR, people. That’s a LOT of times getting Kaitlyn out of her car seat and putting her back in it. That’s a lot of telling Nathan “no, you can’t get something, we’re shopping for Mom”.

I asked him why they went to four stores, and you know what he said? “I just kept looking for the perfect things for you”. Awwww. He is the sweetest. And he chose really great things, too-the new Dean Koontz hardback (Barnes & Noble), a snowman ornament (Target) snowman salt and pepper shakers (Kohl’s), and snowman earrings (Cracker Barrel).

His gift from me was the new 5 disc HD-DVD Bladerunner box set, which I let him open on Christmas Eve so we could watch it while we finished wrapping presents. They took the original prints of the movie and transferred them to HD, so the movie looks like it was just made. I highly recommend it if you are a fan of Bladerunner!

So it was a great Christmas. I’ve been busy cropping and editing photos and uploading them to Flickr, and I’m setting them all to public, so if you want to see them, go to my Flickr page (or my Flickr badge near the bottom of the right sidebar). I’d love to see yours, too, so if you have some Christmas photos to share, leave me the url in your comment. Oh, and tomorrow? I’m giving away a BOB time manager AND…a year’s supply of Orville Redenbacher popcorn and a year of Netflix! OH YEAH!!

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What comes to mind when you think about country home decor? Houses decorated with stuffed geese wearing bonnets? Quilts hanging on walls, covering toasters and tea pots and feather beds? Alice Backman, who designs the beautiful and practical country home decor available at AlicesCottage.com, sees country decor as items that are useful, beautiful, classic, and timeless.

When Alice and her husband moved from the city to a small rural village, she combined her love of nature and rustic design with her newfound love of country life in to a full-time business. Her company is now internationally recognized because of her way with fabrics, and how she uses nature inspired themes to create both home fashions as well as gifts. The site carries everything from table runners and tote bags to note pads and recipe cards, and my favorite-mug mats.

Okay, so now you are wondering, what is a mug mat? It’s like a fabric coaster for your mug, only the tea mug mats are filled with spices, so the heat of the mug releases a delicious aroma throughout the room. There’s also my favorite, coffee kitchen decor. I really want one of the coffee mug mats, filled with coffee beans, so that wherever I set down my mug, the room will smell like coffee!

Take another look at country decor, I think you’ll be surprised. Any of the items for sale at AlicesCottage.com would make a great gift for someone else or for yourself! The prices are unbelievably low (those spiced mug mats are three dollars each!), and you will be supporting a true mom-and-pop operation as well. And feel free to send me anything from the coffee products page for my birthday next month, too

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To All Of My Friends:

Whether you are a Mommyblogger, a Postie, someone I met at BlogHer or at the Memphis Car event, whether you read my blog every day or only once in a while, whether you have my blog on your blogroll or in your feed reader, whether you have me faved on Technorati or as a friend on Facebook, whether you joined my neighborhood on BlogCatalog or my community on MyBlogLog, however you got here and for whatever reason you keep coming back, I just want to say…

THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you for reading, for commenting, for your emails and IMs, for your support and your encouragement and your friendship. You all mean so much to me, I really mean that. From the entire Edwards Family, otherwise known as the Table for Five, we wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!

(it would have been perfect if Chris was in the photo too )

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