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This giveaway is now CLOSED. Thanks so much to our wonderful sponsor Carolina Pad! We look forward to working with you again! The winner is Janice Crespo. Congrats Janice! Remember: There are great giveaways active on the upper right hand side of the page! Watch for the next bag in the ‘Spring Into Bags’ series to launch SOON!
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Independence Day weekend is notorious for taking Road Trips. Which means juggling keeping the kids entertained, keeping track of your itinerary, receipts and more. With the economy still in a state of flux, more and more people will be taking 'staycations', or driving out to Amusement Parks and State Parks.
I for one love Road Trips, especially with someone else doing the driving! I love to listen to music, sketch, doodle, and keep a travel journal. My travel journals end up looking more like a scrapbook by the time I am done because I'll add ticket stubs, pictures and more to my handwritten notes, but a travel diary has pretty much become a travel staple for me.
That's where Carolina Pad comes in, they take everyday products, add a dash of extraordinary design and make crafting, school supplies and office needs fun again!
I love Carolina Pad's site and think of them first when I'm ready to get new office products (especially for my home office!), I love having the entire suite of office care needs coordinate with each other perfectly. And I don't know about you, but I am so over plain manila file folders!
You all know I am all about shopping for a cause and working with companies that in some way give back. I was thrilled to find out about Carolina Pad's 2010 Commerce with a Conscience Collection! And OK the fact that the collection includes an array of pastel colored butterflies makes me just a wee bit biased I know.
Dreamsicle, a stylish new collection of school and office supplies, was inspired by the Girls on the Run mission and its founder, Molly Barker. These products, part of the Commerce with a Conscience™ partnership between Carolina Pad, Girls on the Run, and JACK!E, will be available in major retail outlets including Walmart, Office Max, and CVS later this year.
About
Girls on the Run® is a life-changing, experiential learning program for girls age eight to thirteen years old. The programs combine training for a 3.1 mile running event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the programs are to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development.
I was delighted to try the first collection from the Studio C brand – Road Trip. Again I will admit to being a bit biased due to the butterfly design, but it was pure genius on a road trip, I was able to use the two pocket folders to keep track of my planned itinerary, and the personal size notebooks came in handy for keeping a travel diary.
I can't find one thing not to love about Carolina Pad, I love their products, and I love that they have a conscience; that they give back and want to empower young girls by bolstering their self-esteem and encouraging positive body, mind and soul development.
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - WIN IT! - Ascending Butterfly and our friends at Carolina Pad would like to provide 1 Ascending Butterfly Follower with:
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - 2 spiral-less notebooks
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - 2 personal notebooks
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - 2 two-pocket folders
Don't you just ♥ Carolina Pad? I know I do!
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - How to Win: (1) You must be a PUBLIC follower of Ascending Butterfly to be eligible for this and all giveaways. Indicate in your entry that you follow (if your 'comment name/user id' differs from your profile id, please let me know what name you follow under) and (2) Visit Carolina Pad and pick a product you like and leave the LINK to that product in your comment entry! (3) You must also leave your email address somewhere in your comment. (You can format it this way for security, example: ascendingbutterfly AT mail host DOT com). (If your email is clearly visible in your profile, you can just say so, that's OK!) Please follow the easy 1, 2, 3 steps to winning This giveaway is open to USA residents who are 18 years of age or older.
Please follow directions or you will be disqualified! All comments are moderated, they may not appear on the site right away (comments like "I want this" or "I want to win" will not be entered). You have from Saturday, July 03, 2010 until Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 03:00 PM (EST) to comment and be entered for a chance to win. You will have 48 hours to confirm if we do not hear from you we will be forced to move on to an alternate. (We only notify winners DIRECTLY via email, so if your profile or your comment does not have an email your entry will not be processed)
Extra Credit:
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Blog about this giveaway, linking to this giveaway post. Leave the URL in a comment
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Grab our Button and put it on your Blog. Leave the URL where we can see it in a comment (if you already have our button, just let us know, you will still get extra credit!)
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Follow me @Tracy_Iglesias on Twitter (this is ascending butterfly’s editor) and give me your twitter ID in a comment
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Tweet this:
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ #ascendingbutterfly + @carolinapad #Win cool products from Carolina Pad! #Giveaways http://tinyurl.com/2w7zyu2
(Leave a comment with the tweet’s url so you can get a valid entry (click on the time your tweet was sent to get the direct URL and then copy and paste it here). You can Tweet TWICE per DAY. If you Tweet more than that, that entry will be disqualified.)
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ – Follow, now called ‘Like’ (and don't forget to write on their wall that Ascending Butterfly sent you!) Carolina Pad on Facebook HERE
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Follow @carolinapad on Twitter HERE
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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Ascending Butterfly is a nominee for the Bloggers Choice ’10 Awards in the ‘Best Blog About Stuff’ Category - http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/ You can press the button below to go straight to the page where Ascending Butterfly has been nominated!
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Please vote for my outfit 'Yay4WkEnd' @ Macy's Fashion director Giveaway. You can vote for me and also enter to win a $1000 Macys Gift Certificate too (by creating a styleboard of your own) vote HERE
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - NEW! Press the button below and join, you get an extra entry for this giveaway and a shot at more great prizes, lets win together! (one time extra credit, will be verified before entry can be accepted)
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NOTE: Readers have asked us to make entering the contests and giveaways, faster and easier. Your wish is our command! We have moved our 'Today's Butterfly - Featured Site(s) of the day, which is where we host our giveaways, to the upper right hand side of the page. It will be located here from now on to make entering the giveaways faster and easier. Keep the suggestions coming, remember we also have a community group page with real time chat, you can give us your comments and suggestions in REAL time, how cool is that?
NOTE 2: Twitter followers: please remember you must also follow Ascending Butterfly using Google friends connect on the upper right hand side of the page for your entries to be processed. And remember if your profile does not have an email and you don't leave your email in your entry, we will not accept your entry. Make sure your entry or your profile have your email address!
Just a helpful Reminder: How to Follow A Blog Publicly Using Google Friends Connect:
Please look to the upper right hand side, where the follower pictures are. (Note the number of followers before you start this process)
1) press the follow button - the google pop up wizard will open, this is not an ad and your pop up blocker will not block it
2) tick the option that reads 'follow this blog publicly' once that button is selected, hit follow again - it should now read 'you are now following'
3) if the follower count went up you know you did it succesfully, if your profile has a picture, that picture will be the first one on the left side. If your profile doesn't have one, it should still be searchable on the members list. (Remember, following a blog, does NOT subscribe you to receive emails, you have to subscribe separately to do that, you will not receive emails for following)
Are you getting the dreaded 'Your Entry Can't Be Processed' message when leaving an entry or comment? Before hitting enter, highlight your comment and COPY it. If you get that message after hitting enter and your comment is still there, just ignore the message and hit enter again, then you will get a screen with a captcha code, enter the captcha code, then submit and VOILA. If after you hit the submit button the first time, you get the dreaded message and the comment 'disappeared' no worries, that's why I asked you to copy it in the first step. Paste it back in and submit again. This has worked for me when comment boxes have glitched on me, and I hope it helps you too!
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FTC Disclosure Info for this Giveaway: This is not a paid insertion. This is a non-compensated post and all opinions regarding the products are expressly my own experiences. I was provided product to facilitate my review and for the giveaway. The sponsor is fulfilling directly to prize winner(s), this in no way influenced my opinion of the product. Once a winner is selected and their information has been forwarded to the sponsor, the responsibility of prize fulfillment rests with the sponsor.
