Wonderful News for Twilight Fans! A Novella coming SOON!

My husband had me looking up something on IMDB, and while there I noticed they had posted new pictures for Eclipse. In turn, that led me to check out Stephenie Meyer's site to see if she had anything new to report to her fans. Well, she sure did! She has a Novella coming out in June about Bree Tanner. Those of you who have read the series should remember that name from the third book. If not, you have until June to read it again and catch up, lol!
Anyway, you can read all about Stephenie's journey writing this novella and how it came to get published as a separate work that is certain to make a wonderful addition and side story to the upcoming movie.

Even better, as a thank you to her fans, she is going to offer the book for online reading for FREE from noon on June 7th until July 5th on the website breetanner. For those like me that still want a physical book to hold and read, Amazon is already taking preorders for 50% off the cover price The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
(just $7.69 and elgible for free super saver shipping) AND $1 from each book will be donated to the American Red Cross.

I don't know about you, but I have noted the date on my calendar! I can't wait!

Another Great Giveaway - Safeway and Betty Crocker Spring Sweet Treats

I am going to be spending some time with family this weekend and I think my kids, my mom and I are going to try our hand at making a creative dessert for dinner one night. I am not much of a cook(dh does the cooking in our house since he is so awesome at it) but I LOVE making desserts! My oldest daughter is starting to show her creativity in art, so what better way to practice than on a fun dessert concoction. Betty Crocker has a website to get us started on some ideas for our clever cooking challenge. Head over to BakeSweetMemories and check out some of the cool cakes and treats they have made. (I personally like the bunny and chick cookies since that is one recipe my un-artistic self probably can't mess up!)

Well, to help with our cooking challenge Betty Crocker and Safeway have teamed up with MyBlogSpark to offer me the above pictured gift basket AND they are offering an identical one(without the cake mix, sorry) to one of my lucky readers.

They are offering a silicone baking dish, a Betty Crocker spoon(I got one of these from the BC kitchens and I LOVE IT!!!!!), a red oven mitt and a stainless steel mixing bowl AND a $25 gift card to Safeway stores (you can buy lots of cake mix with THAT -especially right now at Safeway as they are on sale for .69 each when you buy 4 :)

I will have this giveaway open until April 8th at midnight. Then comments will be closed and a winner will be selected via random.org. I will post the winner's name to my blog on April 9th and then that winner will have 48 hours to contact me or a new winner will be chosen.

One entry per person
Tell me your best baking memory or something funny that happened while baking/cooking.

Disclaimer: Betty Crocker, Safeway and MyBlogSpark provided me the same gift basket mentioned above as well as a VIP coupon for a free box of cake mix. They also are providing one reader the gift basket mentioned above without the VIP coupon. I was not compensated in any other way for this post and all words and opinions in this post are my own.

Houston Plants and Garden World- Free Gift card

For those of you in or around the Houston Area, there is yet another opportunity to get a free gift card to get some plants and gardening goodies.

Just go to Houston Plants and Garden World's website and sign up for their email mailing list(you will get an email that requires you to confirm your subscription) and you will earn a $20 gift card.

If you fan them on facebook, you will get another $5.

Better hurry on this one, I have a filling it might close quickly!

Thanks Erin for the headsup!

Campbell's Labels for Education expands to include Safeway card

I found out about E-labels for Education last year from an email. I knew they had partnered with Kroger and you could enter your card information but was not aware they have since added Safeway stores to their site.
This is a GREAT program that collects Labels for Education points for your school just by purchasing participating products and swiping your store loyalty card. Could it get any easier? Even better, you can still save those labels for submission into your participating school!

Just go here to sign up and if you are new to the program, they will give you a 200 label bonus just for signing up.

Chance to win $100 giftcard from Cellfire

Cellfire Twitter Sweeps
If we meet our goal, Cellfire will give away five separate $100.00 gift cards for the grocery store of the randomly chosen winners’ choice. To meet this goal, we need to reach 4,559 total followers on Twitter by end of day April 4, 2010.

(As of 3/30/10, we have about 3,626 followers with 5 days left in the promotion).

*They are up to 3,832!

But, if we don’t reach 4,559 followers then we can’t give away the gift cards. So, we need your participation!

To become eligible, participants must:
1. Follow Cellfire on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Cellfire) and
2. Re-tweet the following sentence:
Follow @Cellfire for a chance to win a $100 gift card for the grocery store of your choice.
DO SO BY END OF DAY APRIL 4, 2010!

Selection details:

1. Winners will be randomly selected from all Cellfire Twitter followers.
2. New followers following Cellfire Twitter after the cut off date (04/04/10) will not be eligible to be included in the giveaway.

While you are on twitter, follow me for up to the minute blog updates: catladyfour4_ZM

Last day to enter my $20 HEB Gift card giveaway

If you have not maxed out your entries, today is the final day for your chance to win this giveaway. Read my original post and post comments to that post for a chance to win.

AND stay tuned tommorrow when I announce the winner and I will be posting a new giveaway too!