100 (Plus) Followers Celebration and Giveaway! (Ended)

Although I've actually had over 100 followers for a while now, and they kind of snuck up on me all at once, so I didn't even notice until I was over 100, I still want to celebrate!

To make up for being so late on this, I will do this giveaway TWICE! Once now, and again a week before my blogiversary! You may enter both, but the winner of this one won't be eligible for the next one.

The Prizes:

1 set of 4 EasyLunchBoxes (value: $13.95)

1 EasyLunchBox Cooler Bag (you pick the color - Black, Dark Red, Olive Green, Aqua, or Purple.) Please specify in at least one of your comments, or get back to me ASAP once I contact you, since I'll have to order it! And I will wait to order it until after my second giveaway, so it will be a while. If the winner lives in the US, I'd be happy to ship the rest of the stuff off first, then the EasyLunchBoxes after I receive them. (value: $7.95)

4 reusable silicone muffin cups - (you choose - butterfly -or- teddy bear) one in each color (turquoise, orange, hot pink and green.) I'm flexible, so if you wanted 2 bears and 2 butterflies, I could probably go that way too. (value: ~$6.75) [I got them imported from England, so I'm not sure how much exactly I ended up paying with exchange rates and how shipping would be divided over the whole order. This value doesn't include the shipping I paid, which adds another ~$2+]

OR

1 set of 24 POP! dot picks (value $1.50-$3, depending where you buy them)*

1 set of 24 POP! flower picks (value $1.50-$3)*

1 set of 6 graduated bunny and bird plastic cookie cutters (value $1.50-$3)*

1 V-shaped blade tool for making carrot flowers and other fun stuff! If one of the winners prefers a U-shaped blade (really it's more of a wide C) I can switch it out. (value $1.50-$3)*

Total value per winner: $34.65+!!

*I am happy to substitute out Vegetable fork picks, Fruit picks, Heart Picks, Checkered picks, Music Note picks, Animal head picks, or mini cookie cutter set for any of the $1.50 items above. Really, any of the bento accessories pictured in my flickr stream, as long as I haven't already sold out on eBay! (No longer have the nori punches or bento boxes. I could probably go get more though, if anyone really wanted to buy some. The Daiso store near me sells their stuff for less than their wholesale prices to places like jlist and allthingsforsale!)

Entries will close midnight PST Tuesday, June 7 (Little Z's birthday!) 

[The next one will start June 7th and run through June 14th (my blogiversary!) It will be a new post and require new comments.]

Ways to enter:

Follow my blog via Google Friend Connect (that bit on the right side there.) [Please leave a separate comment stating that you have done so.]
"Like" my blog's Facebook page [Please leave a separate comment on this post stating that you have done so.]
Follow me on Twitter [Please leave a separate comment on this post stating that you have done so.]
(If you have already done any of these, that counts too!)
Feel free to include an email on your comment, to help me notify you better! To prevent spammers, try something like myemail (at) serviceprovider (dot) com


Please donate to Relay For Life. Any amount. Every dollar counts! I think there are gambling laws or something that may prohibit me from offering extra entries for donating, so I can only urge you to support this wonderful cause.
I personally know 4 cancer survivors (luckily, no non-survivors!) plus probably more that I don't know had cancer. My grandmother was one, but she died of a stroke (not cancer) when I was little.
A very good friend of mine has xeroderma pigmentosa, which is a rare hereditary form of skin cancer. For people with this condition, it's a matter of when, not if, they get tumors from UV exposure - from the sun, as well as fluorescent indoor lights at stores, the workplace, you name it! Even exposure through car windows, walking from the car to the store. It's crazy. And radiation therapy actually causes MORE tumors! So no chemo for them!
Another friend is a 2-time breast cancer survivor! And my friend Kristen is a thyroid cancer survivor!
And I know someone who is battling cancer as we speak. I don't want to go into details to protect his privacy, but we give him all our love and all our best wishes.
I have 259 friends of Facebook. Of those, many are people I only met once or twice, through a moms group or through my husband's work. Many are people I haven't seen or heard from in over 10 years (other than FB.) A few are online friends I've met through blogging, but I like them just as much as my "real" friends, so we'll count them. And most of my actual friends and family are friends on Facebook. So even though I have more "acquaintances" on Facebook than real friends who AREN'T on Facebook, if you use this as a sampler of my total circle of friends and family, 1.93% of people I know (including my grandma) have or had cancer. That's almost 2%! And really, if you just count people that I would call friends and family, we're probably looking at closer to 3.5%. That's CRAZY! Plus add in all the cases I just don't know about, or forgot about, if I had known at some point.


Disclaimer - All these prizes are coming out of my own pocket. I am not being reimbursed in any way for providing these items, other than (hopefully) more followers and readers! I love EasyLunchBoxes, and they are by far my favorite and most-used lunch box, so I thought it fitting to choose these to give away. Plus I have a 50% off code, to make it hurt a little less, financially! The other stuff is extras I have duplicates of.