Aluminyze 16"x20" Print Giveaway

Disclosure: Charlie's Point of View did not receive compensation for this post and is not responsible for prize fulfillment.

 

Hosted by: Queen of Savings

Get your favorite photo aluminyzed to display on your furniture piece, mount it on your wall, stick it onto a photo album - or just about create it into an amazing work of art. Aluminyzed photos stand out for its vibrancy, sophistication, professionally modern look and durability

Prize: 16x20 Print

Dates: 1/18-2/1

Open to: US Residents 18+

Enter to win using the Giveaway Tools Widget below. Good luck!

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Bear Paws Giveaway - Become The Wolverine of the Kitchen!

Welcome to the Bear Paws Giveaway!

5 Winners!

Sponsored by: Bear Paws

Hosted by: Savory Savings and Gloriously Green Gal

Co-hosted by: Her 3 Little Thinkers

Do you love to barbeque or make recipes that involve shredding pork, chicken, fish or beef?  If you do not have Bear Paws meat shredders in your kitchen – you need to head immediately to your computer and order yourself a pair!  These bear-like claws will save you time and more when you can shred pork roasts in mere seconds!  Krista from Savory Savings and Gloriously Green Gal recently had the chance to review the Bear Paws in the Mama Bear Pink color (10% to Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation!) and shared her thoughts and a super simple BBQ Pulled Pork recipe in a review.  Now because she feels they are a “must have” in her kitchen, you get a one in five chance to win a set for yourself! 

If you would like to win, enter with the Giveaway Tool below! If you have won a Bear Paws giveaway anytime from another blog in the last 12 months, you are not eligible to win this giveaway.  The giveaway will run from January 17, 2013 through January 31, 2014 at 11 PM CST.  Entries will be verified.  Winner will be notified via email (consider adding gloriouslygreengal@gmail.com to your safe list) – winner will have 48 hours to respond and claim prize or another winner will be selected.

Good Luck!

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Krista from Gloriously Green Gal and Savory Savings received products from this sponsor to facilitate her review, no other compensation was received. All participating blogs are not responsible for prize fulfillment.  This giveaway is in no way associated with social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Shoot Many Robots XBLA Review

Shoot Many Robots is rated M (for Mature). Part of the reason for the rating is the violence , which I disagree with, but I DO agree with the "mature humor" part, as there's plenty of that - particularly jokes involving "nuts". As such, THIS REVIEW AND GAME AREN'T NECESSARILY SUITABLE FOR THOSE UNDER 18.

Shoot Many Robots was the free game for the second half of December 2013 for anyone who had Xbox Gold (sorry for writing this too late to get it free!), and while I have a stack of free games from the promotion over the last few months (and a slew of games to review!), I really wanted a game to play with my fiancee together and we gave it a shot. Over the last few weeks we gave the game a good 20+ hours of play and beat it, although we still have lots of levels to five-star. While I probably wouldn't suggest the game as a single player game, I enjoyed the two of us playing it together!

Like the game itself, the title is simple but awesome.

Toys R Us $100 Gift Card Giveaway from Demagogue

Welcome to the Toys"R"Us $100 Gift Card Winter Days Giveaway sponsored by Demagogue and hosted by The Parenting Patch!

Although the winter days seem long, soon the dog days of summer will be here. To pass the winter days by, how does a $100 gift card to spend at Toys"R"Us sound? Get some indoor toys to pass the winter by, or start getting ready for outside play this summer.

One (1) lucky reader of The Parenting Patch and Demagogue will win one (1) $100 gift card to Toys"R"Us. To enter for your chance to win the Toys"R"Us $100 Gift Card Winter Days Giveaway, simply use the following Rafflecopter form. Good luck!

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The Toys"R"Us $100 Gift Card Winter Days Giveaway is open worldwide. An international winner will receive $100 via PayPal in lieu of the specified prize. The Toys"R"Us $100 Gift Card Winter Days Giveaway ends at midnight CST on January 30, 2014. One winner will be chosen at random via Rafflecopter. The winner will be sent an email and will have forty-eight hours to respond. If no response is received within forty-eight hours, another winner will be chosen. The Parenting Patch and other participating blogs are not responsible for prize fulfillment.

Fractured Heart Book Giveaway

April from Pixie Dust Savings had the chance to review Fractured Heart by Krsytle Lewallen. Read her full review here. The book is about a girl who persevered through many struggles and along the way found the true heart Healer!
 

Book Title: Fractured Heart
Book Author: Krystle Lewallen
Book Genre: Contemporary Christian Fiction
Number of Pages: 293 pgs.
Publisher: Krystle Lewallen
ISBN-10: 0615928331
 
Krystle Lewallen has agreed to give away a copy of her book to one lucky reader! Good luck!!

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Florida Vacation Giveaway!

 Organized by:
Lauren Paints | a beautiful life

 Sponsored by Alice on Vacation.com

Prize Package includes:

3 days/2 nights of accommodations for 2 in FLORIDA! 

 Location Choices: 

Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, 

Key West, Miami Beach, New Smyrna, 

Orlando, Palm Beach, St. Augustine or St. Petersburg. 

 Must be at least 21 years old. 

I don't know about you, but after being essentially snowed in for a few days a week or so ago and staring at mounds of snow for weeks, Florida is sounding pretty amazing!

 I've teamed up with Lauren Paints | a beautiful life
& AliceonVacation.com 

to giveaway an awesome Florida Vacation,

this giveaway will provide one lucky winner with
3 days and 2 nights worth of accommodations in Florida.

{Picture taken in St Petersburg, FL}

Florida is paradise, each location has it's own local charm
and all kinds of entertaining activities to partake in!
Theme Parks, Beaches, World Famous Restaurants and Clubs,
 a little something for everyone!
Where would you like to visit?
What kind of fun do you enjoy having on the beach?

Imagine parasailing or maybe visiting Disney...
Picture your feet in the sand and days full of tanning...
Maybe you'll play a game of volleyball
or enjoy a Daquiri while lounging in a hammock....
One lucky winner will have the luxury of knowing your hotel stay is taken care of by
Lauren Paints | a beautiful life and Alice on Vacation.com!




Enter to win this amazing giveaway with the form below:
{entries will be verified ---  Giveaway runs:1/15/2014-2/15/2014}

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Paradise is waiting...

Disclosure: Charlie's Point of View is not responsible for sponsor prize shipment. Please contact Alice Kingsleigh with questions! This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. You must be 21+ to win.

My Dad's the Grinch - Ludum Dare 28 Game Review

A Christmas game! How were there not more of those? Ludum Dare did run pretty darn close to Christmas, and Christmas was in the ratings period! Much like new Christmas songs, good Christmas games are hard to come by, so it's a double bonus that My Dad's the Grinch (by @MatthewVroman) is so much fun!

Be careful or you'll only get ONE present!

The game gives you 8 different gifts, randomly chosen from a bit more than the 8 (replays will have new items mixed in so that it's not just the same game over and over). Your goal is to figure out which present is which using the sizes of the gifts (some are small boxes, some are wider and some are taller) as well as your four tools: shaking them, weighing them, getting a hint about it or x-raying it.

You have a limited quantity of each of these, so use them carefully and remember what's what later on!

Of course, the more you get right, the less gifts there are, so it becomes easier and easier! The game is a blast to play, super simple so anyone can play it, and definitely something a grinch would do to their kid. You should definitely play the game here, and you can check out the game's Ludum Dare page here as well.

Trinity 3-in-1 Suitcase Tool Box Giveaway

Disclaimer: One or more products below were provided for free. However the review is my honest opinion. This post may include affiliate links.

Mom Are We There Yet with an awesome sponsor, Trinity, have come together to offer this fantastic giveaway. There will be one winner of this awesome toolbox. Mom Are We There Yet loves her tool box! You can see the review for more details. This toolbox can be used for so much. Handyman, hair stylists, scrapbooking, etc. The possibilities are endless. Aside from actual tools, I could totally use this to hold files, notebooks, pens, etc... I always have lots of those!

TRINITY 3-in-1 Suitcase Tool Box.

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Winner must be of the age of 18-years-old, or older and live in the Continental U.S. Mom Are We There Yet and all participating blogs are not responsible for items not sent by sponsor or items lost in the mail. No purchase is necessary to enter. Void where prohibited by law. Odds of winning are based on number of entries received. Giveaways on this blog are in no way affiliated with Facebook or any other social media networks.

$100 Paypal Cash Giveaway from Giveaway Monkey

Welcome to $100 Paypal Cash 2014 Resolutions Giveaway - Sponsored by The Leaker News and Hosted by Giveaway Monkey together with BloggieAway and Parenting Patch.

It’s that time of year again. Time for us to make a list of Resolutions that we will probably forget about by February. But it is a tradition so let's do it, anyhow.

One (1) lucky reader will win $100 Paypal Cash. This giveaway is open worldwide and ends on February 03, 2014 EST. To enter, simply use the following Rafflecopter form. Good luck!

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One winner will be chosen at random via Rafflecopter. The winner will be sent an email and will have forty-eight hours to respond. If no response is received within forty-eight hours, another winner will be chosen. Giveaway Monkey and other participating blogs are not responsible for prize fulfillment.

Voyage to Farland Review AND GIVEAWAY

I'm going to be entirely upfront - roguelikes are one of the types of games that, while I like them, I'm not very good at them. I've heard such good things about some of them, text-based ones particularly, but the controls are so crazy and equipment is a hassle and I die on the first or second floor every time. While Voyage to Farland has a lot in common with those, it's far better, has more going on, but manages to do it all while keeping the required buttons to a minimum, using intuitive menus and making equipment a breeze. Oh, and it's a graphical roguelike, so you don't control an @ symbol fighting letters, shooting *s, etc.

Avadon 2: The Corruption Review AND GIVEAWAY

Avadon 2 reminds me of a solid D&D adventure in a tactical RPG. You have lots of bonus missions to do, several different characters to choose from for each adventure, a good story with lots of choices and you'll die A LOT! I'm far from the best at tactical RPGs, but I had to ramp the difficulty down from normal to easy to casual so that I could get past different parts of the game.

I'm writing this review 24.5 hours into it and I'm only about 30% through the game! $9.99 (or less if it goes on sale) is an absolutely worthy value for the time you'll get and the quality of game play you'll get out of it! Of course, as I haven't fully completed it, I don't have insights into the entire game, but I did get to play a very wide variety of adventures and story.

Hide the Baby - Ludum Dare 28 Game Review

Political satire! Hide the Baby (by @nickweihs) is all about, well, hiding your baby from an inspector. You see, you're a woman in China, where you're only allowed to have one child. Somehow you had a child without anyone knowing, but the neighbors have heard the crying, so now you've got to fool the inspector so that the baby isn't found out and you aren't hugely fined.

Step One: Find Items!

The game is broken down into three parts: find items, disguise baby and cross fingers hoping it worked. Finding the items is simple enough - simply move around your home pressing the space key to collect different items. You can check the whole house quite easily within the two minutes, so that's not a big deal at all, and luckily you can "Retry with items" so you can just skip to step 2 each time after.

Step two involves picking which item(s) to disguise your baby with. This is where things start to get really hysterical, as the baby can look really silly (the marker is my favorite item, even though I haven't found a winning combination with it yet).

SPOILER: Try this!

Step three is where the inspector comes in, which happens whenever you say you're ready or when the timer runs out. What makes this great (and rather amazing in such a short amount of time) is just the number of ways he responds to things. Just try the felt pen, for example... Even when you aren't successful, the inspector can be really hilarious, even if he is a jackass for making you lose so much!

Play the game here, or check out the game's Ludum Dare page here.

Guylian Belgian Chocolate Giveaway - LOTS OF CHOOOOCOLATE!

Welcome to the Guylian Belgian Chocolate Giveaway!

Sponsored by: Guylian

Hosted by: Gloriously Green Gal & Savory Savings

Co-hosted by: Monica’s Rants, Raves & Reviews, Dividing by Zero, and Got Giveaways?

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner – have you found your sweetie the perfect sweet?  Or maybe you want to treat yourself for the day full of hearts and naked cherubs.  Krista from Gloriously Green Gal and Savory Savings had the chance to review Belgian Chocolates from Guylian and thinks you should share them with your Valentine every day of the year! 
And now you will have your chance with this giveaway!  One lucky, US resident, aged 18 and older winner will receive the following (or very similar) package from Guylian Belgian Chocolates:

• One – 22 piece marbled chocolate seashell truffles
• One – 22 piece extra dark chocolate seashell truffles  
• Two - 6 piece chocolate seashells truffles
• Four - 2 piece marbled chocolate seahorse truffles
• One - No Sugar Added Milk Chocolate Bar
• One - No Sugar Added 54% Dark Chocolate Bar

If you cannot wait to win, feel free to pop over to the Guylian Belgian Chocolates online store and pick yourself up some amazing Belgian chocolates by using coupon code Chocolate10 to save 10%!
The giveaway will run from January 8, 2013 through January 22, 2014 at 11 PM CST.  Entries will be verified.  Winner will be notified via email (consider adding gloriouslygreengal@gmail.com to your safe list) – winner will have 48 hours to respond and claim prize or another winner will be selected.
Good luck!

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Krista from Gloriously Green Gal and Savory Savings received products from this sponsor to facilitate her review, no other compensation was received. All participating blogs are not responsible for prize fulfillment.  This giveaway is in no way associated with social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
 

Old MacDonald Vs Zombies - Ludum Dare 28 Game Review

Old MacDonald Vs Zombies by @RogueNoodle is the last game I'm able to play before ratings end, and it's another keeper! This one focuses on a kindly old farmer and his cow... And an endless horde of zombies, of course. Like most zombies, they aren't there to party or go cow tipping - they want your brains! To stop them, all you've gotta do is clean up poop and make your cow go on a zombie-slaughtering rampage. Simple enough, right?

Them thar graphics sure are purdy, too! Okay, that's more mountain than farmer... I never said I was an expert at imitation!

So, how do you get your cow to go on a fatal zombie-tipping spree? Just like you'd expect - clean up the cow's poop, making it super happy (you'll see the happiness heart to let you know!) and then call it to you, trampling everything between it and you on the way. There's also a combo meter for each time you clean up cow feces, and of course the zombies don't stay still either... They move back and forth, roaming for delicious brainage!

Pffft, that number of zombies is NOTHING!

My record is 29,930, can you beat it? Play the game here, or check out the game's Ludum Dare page here!

Crossbore - Ludum Dare 28 Game Review

Two indies were speaking with me on Twitter about each others' games (because that's what awesome indies too - praise each others' games!), one of the games mentioned was Crossbore by @i_palmentieri. Man am I glad they told me about it!

Just because you play as a girl doesn't mean the baddies are any easier or less bad; just the way it should be!

Crossbore puts you in the shoes of Paige, tasking you with destroying the attacking Pupling onslaught before taking on the Queen Pupling. To do so, you only get one arrow. Each time you shoot it, you have to go pick it back up... Unless you hold the Space key too long and it goes off the screen, or you miss... In which case you'll be forced to find it glittering somewhere on the screen. On the bright side, you can use the Space key to kick when you don't have your arrow, but you'll need it when the Queen Pupling comes for you!

The game is, as the developer says, rather difficult. To make it more accessible to everyone, there's also an easy version of the game that makes each Pupling kill lower the bar and bring about the Queen Pupling easier. Speaking of the Queen Pupling, that's one fun, creative boss fight there!

The Queen means business!

I ended up trying the regular version several times before moving on to the easy one, and I had genuine fun with each play. The fact that there's even 360 controller support would have made the game even more fun if I had it hooked up. You definitely need to give the game (and/or the easy version of it) a play! You can also find the game's Ludum Dare page here.