Lots of Giveaways Going On

It's been a fun and busy week here friends, I'll tell you more about that later.  Right now it's time to buckle down and play catch up.  So just to tide you over, and because I love y'all, I'm gonna share a few good giveaways that my friends are having.

First I thought you might enjoy seeing what I won.

I was the lucky winner of Mary's Vitabath prize pack at Nuts 4 Stuff.  I received my choice of which Vitabath fragrance I would like.  I chose the Spa Day Cucumber and White Tea. Oh man, I wish you could smell it.  It's so clean and fresh smelling.  I was worried about choosing a fragrance without being able to smell it first, but I had nothing to worry about.  I did good!  The smell almost makes you feel cool on a warm day.  It's very soft and light.  A crisp cucumber mixed with soft water florals and soothing white tea. Click HERE to read Mary's review and learn more.

The Bundle includes: Body Wash, Lotion and Fragrance Mist.  Thanks again Mary, I'm thrilled and feeling pampered with my Vitabath collection.

More about Mary:

Mary loves hosting giveaways almost as much as she loves winning them or reviewing products. Here are a couple of her latest giveaways that you can go by and enter:

• Bioken's Pequi All Natural Body Lotion and Sulfate Free Body Wash ($40) Giveaway - Ends 3/24

• Trophy Skin's RedMD High Power LED Anti-Aging Light Therapy Device ($399) Giveaway - Ends 3/25

• Kō Denmark's Anti-Aging Face Cream Cleanser ($28) Giveaway - Ends 3/28

Stop by Marys and take a chance on winning her great prizes. I know she'd love to meet you.  Be sure to tell her I sent you.

Giveaways From Julie:

Second but certainly not least is Julie over at Mamawj's Moment Away.  She hardly needs any introduction if you're a regular visitor of my blog.  Julie and I are good friends and often work together to bring you all those great giveaways.   For those of you that are new here, besides being a product tester and giveaway queen, Julie's also a sweet blogger, who enjoys crafting and creating.  Here's a few giveaways that Julie has going on now:

• Snickers Movie Prize Pack, $15 Fandango Gift Card and 5 Snickers bars - Ends 3/17

• Scott's Liquid Gold March Spring Clean Prize Pack Giveaway - Ends 4/7

• Mini Clock Product Spring Forward Daylight Savings Time Mini Clock ($40) Giveaway - Ends 4/1

• Dial Deep Cleansing Hand Soap Giveaway, *3 Winners - Ends 3/20

• Orkin Bed Bug Home Prevention Prize Pack Giveaway - Ends 3/31

Julie's been busy putting together all kinds of giveaways for you to enter and she can't wait for you to stop by, so go show her some love!

I'm rooting for some Cotton Pickin Cute readers to win these giveaways.  Don't forget to come back and let me know if you win one. I love hearing about what others win, especially if it's one of my readers.  Plus I have some giveaways of my own coming up in very soon!!  I hope you'll take a second to answer a question for me - about how many giveaways do you enter each week?   Leave me a comment below.  I love it when I'm not the only one doing the talking.  :)  

Good Luck Y'all...

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

~Philippians 2:3

Winning Giveaways Series - Part I

I've had the best luck lately. (I've worked at it too)  I thought it was time tell you about them.  Everybody loves winning and I'm no exception.  Every time I win anything and I mean anything, you'll see me doing a happy dance at my house.  When I won the Samsung Chromebook, Neil didn't know if I was having some sort of attack or if I'd been drinking.

This is the first of a series of 3 post.  Well 3's what I've got planned for now.  The next post will show you more things I've won over the past few months.  I'm hoping this will encourage y'all.  People really do win you know!  I've been in dry spells too.  Sometimes it seems like you get one winning email behind another and then you go for what seems like forever before you get another.  I've gotten discouraged and thought enough is enough and then things turn around.

While you're here you may-as-well enter my giveaways too.  Just look for current giveaways on my right sidebar. 

So without bragging here's all the goodies I've won lately.  Don't be jealous now.

• Samsung Streaming Chromebook @ Sober Julie.  I've been wanting to win a laptop for so long and needed this so much.  Thank you Julie!!!   I'm still pinching myself!!! 

• Cricut Mini @ Mom It Forward.  I couldn't believe I won this!  Thanks Jill and thanks to the sponsor Provo Craft

Source: momitforward.com via Tracy on Pinterest

• Body Shop Giveaway @ Jewel's Fab Life.  Jewel is a social media and marketing genius, which leads her to the most exciting blog events and she lets ride along.  Thanks Jewel!!

Source: jewelsfablife.com via Tracy on Pinterest

• Scentsy bars from Musings From a Stay at Home Mom. I'd like to thank Erika's sponsor sponsor Sariah Finn, Independent Scentsy Consultant.  She was so nice.  When my scentsy bars didn't come right away she straightened it out and even sent me an extra bar.  How nice was that.  Thanks Erika and Sariah!!

• Scott's Liquid Gold Touch of Scent Dispenser with 3 Refills in Tangerine Mist, Ocean Breeze, and Very Vanilla @ Mamawj's Moment Away.  You've heard me talk about sweet Julie so often.  Love her! Thank you Julie!!!

• $20 Bed, Bath and Beyond Gift Card @ Kit Kat Plus Celiac.  Thanks Kat!!

• Pinklette Derby Bracelet @ Cavalcade.  Thanks Danielle and Pinklette!

Source: cavalcadeblog.com via Tracy on Pinterest

• Winter Ski Time outfit from The Queen’s Treasures @ Doll Diaries.  Thanks Char!!
  

• Are you like me, do you like to hear about others winning stories?  I'd love to hear what you've won lately.  Encourage me y'all!  Do you have any tips you want to share, leave me a comment.  Maybe you'd like to be a guest host on Cotton Pickin Cute and share your story with my readers.  That would be great too.  Just leave a comment or email me here:  cpcblogging (at) hotmail (dot) com

• While you're here, enter my giveaways.  You can find them on the right sidebar.

• But don't forget to come back and read Winning Giveaways - Part 2.

 Good luck Y'all!!!!

 

Glitter, Glitz and Gratitude plus Broken Ribs

Hi Ya'll!   I  have been dying to share this with you and waited until  it came to post about it.  Then my house became topsy turvy so it had to go on  hold.   Don't give up, you'll see what I won before the end of this post.  Marie, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post my fabulous win but here's why.

Long story short, my MIL got mad with us during the middle of the day went to bed without eating her lunch.  When Neil tried to talk to her she just kept saying she didn't feel good, rib hurt, back hurt, things like that.  Well what worried us the most was she looked like she had taken sleeping pills or something (which she hadn't, we handle all her meds).  Anyway she was mad so she wouldn't talk to us and was acting incoherent, really weird.  So rather than take a chance we took her to the emergency room where she smiled, laughed and forgot about being mad and had a good old time.  Unfortunately we were there for a good 6 hours before we could go home.  They did xrays, blood work, urinalysis and so on only to tell everyone that asked where she had pain (including the Drs and nurses), that she didn't have any and hadn't in a long, long time.  When the Dr.  whom she had never met came in she got so excited (he was so sweet and friendly) she just giggled and told him that she hadn't seem him in so long and it's so wonderful to see him again.  He told her she was his best patient of the day and even gave her a kiss on the cheek.  He told us everything was just fine xrays looked great and we could go.

Well here's where it started going down hill.  We tried to help her up and she said you're killing my ribs but she got up and walked to the wheel chair and seemed fine.  But by the next morning we knew she wasn't.  Apparently we broke a rib.  She's been in pain ever since.  We finally were able to get her to eat and get up today.  Poor thing, she just got over 5 broken ribs.  Earlier this year it was 1 broken rib that took forever to heal and was very painful, then 5 more were broken and seemed to heal better.  Even the Dr at the hospital said all was good.  Bless her heart she doesn't fall or anything.  The Dr. said her bones are just so brittle coughing could do it.  So basically she was being stubborn and difficult and we all ended up in the emergency room only to be comforted by knowing there was nothing wrong and leaving with a problem we didn't have when we got there.  Neil's stress level is off the charts which affects mine and so the whole house is completely on edge and out of balance.


Back to my GOOD news.........


I was the lucky little leprechaun to win Marie's giveaway at Spun By Me.  Yippee, Yippee, Yippee!  In case you didn't know Marie had a giveaway to celebrate 500 posts.  I'm just now coming up on 100 myself, and yes it is time for a giveaway. I really do hope ya'll take a moment and stop by Spun By Me to meet Marie if you don't know her already.  She is such a lovely, sweet person and has not 1 but 2 terrific blogs.  Marie's other blog is called 52 Looks.  Just click here and you can check it out too.  She's a wonderful photographer and crafter.  Don't get jealous now but here's the pictures of the goodies I won....

 A huge 24 pack of Martha's Glitter!!!!  It's so pretty, I'm afraid to waste it.  I really have been wanting this for a long time and just haven't been able to get it.  And look at the two special cards.  One the wonderful sweet vintage that I love so much and the other a vintage replica in the full glittery layered design that I am crazy about. So there sucky depressed days,  take that!  Bam!!!

Thank you so much Marie.  I'm thrilled and I love it.  Karma works, God is good, and blogland cares and fixes all the wrongs.


My goodness I feel so lucky.  I have been so blessed this past month.  First all my friends came to my rescue when I had such a difficult time and then it seems like the wins have just been coming in one after the other.  It just warms my heart and has made this such a fun month. 


Keep watching for a new post friends, I've been busy sewing and crafting before all this and in-between migraines and want to post some of them to show you.


Hugs to all of you....Tracy :)