Any Thoughts on how to Celebrate?

I'm hoping you all can help me with what you might want to see for my 2 year blogging celebration.

I was thinking of asking a few fellow bloggers and authors I've meet over the two years, and have started to really think of some very good online friends, to do some guest posts.  Now I was thinking about change, time, and online as the basing start point.  But then thought it might be boring.  You know talk about how things have changed with doing blogging, or what happens with time, the way you spend your time now, how did you come to being on line with blogs.... blah blah blah.  But I didn't know if YOU as a reader thought this would be interesting or not.

So, I was wondering what you thought would be fun to read for a celebration.  I don't want to bring the party down, I want to celebrate hardy.  See, I have the 2 year blogging birthday end of July, then my wedding anniversary end of July (we've been together about 14 years, married 9 years), then I have a birthday at the beginning of August (yeah, I don't feel like sharing that age at the moment as I don't remember with out calculating the alignment of the sun, moon, age of my son and my mother... you know it gets complicated).

And yes, when the time comes there will be a or a few giveaways to celebrate.  But can you help me with what your thoughts are?  And if any of you authors or bloggers out there would like to participate please let me know.  You can email me and we'll get the post up for you. :)

Thank you all for your help!

Time To Celebrate... Winners Announced!

Well, I want to first thank everyone for all the Happy Wishes for all I had to celebrate.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

It has been a wonderful year:

~ The Blog Turned 1 year old July 21st

~ I was quoted in a book trailer

~ My Wedding Anniversary was July 27th

~ My Birthday is August 3rd

I am looking forward to sharing another year, and more with you all.  I feel I have found some wonderful friends around the world by book blogging.  And I am glad to have met you all.

So lets get to the Winners!

What was up for grabs again?  Well, this is what we have...

3 gifts:

1st... $15 Amazon.com gift card

2nd... $5 Amazon.com gift card

3rd... This wonderful Magnetic Bookmarker (I love these as I don't loss my spot!) I says beside the music note, Create.

So, who are the winners?  Here they are in order:

1st Prize of $15 Amazon ecard... Melissa  #39

2nd Prize of $5 Amazon ecard... amandawk #30

3rd Prize of Bookmarker... twimom101 #177

Winners have 72 hours to contact me with their information.  That will be until, Sat. August 7, 2010 10:00 pm EST.

Melissa & Amandawk Please contact me with your email address's so I can order your Amazon Cards.  And Twinmom please email me you address so I can send out your book marker.

Random.org was used to generate the numbers.  As you entered I gave you the block of numbers you entered for.  Example: First person entered for 4 points, so got numbers 1, 2, 3, 4.  And so on down the list.

Time to Celebrate...With a Giveaway!

ENTRIES ARE CLOSED.  WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Well, I came up with what to do to celebrate!

As you may have read in my previous Time to Celebrate post, I have a lot going on right now... and wanted to celebrate it all with all of you!

(If you would like to read the original post and see the trailer, CLICK HERE)

~ The Blog Turned 1 year old July 21st

~ I was quoted in a book trailer

~ My Wedding Anniversary was July 27th

~ My Birthday is August 3rd

Okay, so what is up for grabs?  Lets get into that...

I have thought to give away 3 gifts:

1st... $15 Amazon.com gift card

2nd... $5 Amazon.com gift card

3rd... This wonderful Magnetic Bookmarker (I love these as I don't loss my spot!)  I says beside the music note, Create.

Here are the rules:

~~> The Ecard for Amazon.com ~ if they mail to you, you can enter!  I am going to trust you know who will ship to you.

~~> Must be a follower by Google Friend Connect

~~> I am going to give a few extra chances to win since there is more than one prize.

+1 For Commenting on this post

I am grateful to have all the followers I have so I am going to make Old and New followers the same number:

+2 Followers 

+2 Tweet about the contest - 

3 Gifts to Give! Another year older...in more than 1 way & 200 Followers! @mellhay blog: http://melissa-melsworld.blogspot.com/

(Can tweet several times, BUT only get extra entry one time.)

+2 Sidebar

+4 Blog post

+1 Adding up your total entries

~~> Please leave links to be eligible for the extra chances, so I can verify. If I'm not able to verify the links of extra chances, they will be eliminated.

~~> Please leave an email address, so when the winner is pulled I will be able to contact you.  If you don't want to leave your email address in the comments, please email it to me with your screen name you commented under.

~~> The Contest will end:  August 3, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST.  Winner to be pulled August 4, 2010 using Random.org.

~~> Winner will have 48 hours to contact me back with an address to ship to.

Time to Celebrate!

Time to Celebrate!

There is a lot for me to celebrate at the moment.  I believe there is 5 wonderful things here:

~~ Well, it is hard to believe its been a year ago I started blogging.  Yup, July 21, 2009 was the first blog post I did.  I never would have thought of growing the way I have here.  More into Book Reviews and daily memes on books.  I have enjoyed all that I have done here and looking forward to keeping up with it.

~~ I was so happy last night, as on the eve of my blogs 1st Birthday I got an email from an author who's book I reviewed with a trail of that book.  To my pleasure and surprise I was quoted in the trailer!  I was thrilled!  This is the first time for me to be quoted by an author.  Would you like to see it?  Here it is... I listed as my link names me Mels World Book Reviews.  Do you want to read the review of Dante's Journey?  It's here.



~~ The number of wonderful people I have meet here in one year.  Just amazing in thought.  Which brings me to my next celebration... I have passed the 200 Followers mark. HURRAY!!!

~~ Then My anniversary is on July 27th.  It will be 8 years married but 13 years together.  Hard to believe.  Time really does fly by.

~~ Then, last but not least I have a Birthday coming up... August 3rd.  But I am not telling you my age.  I am starting to not like the multiples of 5.  And I am not old enough to be my age. :) Does that make sense?  No, good... I'm not old enough to make sense. ;)

So what am I going to do to Celebrate?  Good question.  I am not 100% sure yet.  I have a few thoughts but haven't worked anything out.  

Any ideas?

I have thought about purchasing one of those lovely magnetic book markers I love (if the store has any left) for a giveaway.

Also, maybe a giveaway of a gift card, for Borders or Amazon (your pick).

Is there anything else to do?  So Stay tuned for a giveaway coming up. :)

But, I would love all my friends to celebrate with me.  Thank you all!