Labor Day Weekend Giveaway Winner

The winner of the CookieBaker’s Corner 16 oz., thermal mug is Tangos Treasures. Congratulations Tango! As much as I would love to deliver this mug to you in person, I’ll have to let your letter carrier do so instead. I’ll get this in the mail ASAP.

Thanks to all of you for entering the giveaway….I wish I had a mug for each of you.

Labor Day Weekend Giveaway!

Because after all those lovely fall like mornings summer has returned with a vengeance, because I’m so over the hot, humid, record breaking temperatures of summer and long for the crisp cool mornings of fall and because I’ll do almost anything to avoid editing photos for my next two blog posts, I’ve decided to have a giveaway. What better time to give something away than the last official holiday of summer!

You can be the proud owner of a CookieBaker’s Corner tumbler! Hey, it’s very special; there are only two in the whole wide world. It’s made by Tervis, who have no idea who I am and has nothing to do with this giveaway.  It’s  manufactured in the USA, another thing that makes it special. It keeps hot drinks hot, cold drinks cold, comes with a lid, is dishwasher safe and has a lifetime guarantee. If anything happens to your tumbler, just contact Tervis and they’ll replace it. I do need to warn you that suntan lotion/oil will ruin the looks of the tumbler so be careful when using it while on the beach….if you’re lucky enough to be there.

Since today is such a hot day, and I’m too lethargic and lazy to work hard or make you work hard, I’ll make this easy….just post a comment, any comment, just make sure it’s G rated and you’ll be entered for a chance to win this beautiful, almost one of a kind tumbler. Since this is a Labor Day Weekend giveaway, the time to enter will be short….you have until 12:00 AM (Eastern, daylight savings time) Tuesday, September 4, 2011.

 Keeps hot drinks hot. I know you can't tell by looking, but this is hot coffee.

Cold drinks cold 

In case your are worried, you will be getting a new, never been used tumbler....the one in the pictures is mine.

Michael just asked me how I was going to get the tumbler to the winner…I told him I was going to mail it. Did he think I was going to hand deliver it? Well, if you live someplace really nice……

The Winner of the Gift Certificate is........

Drum roll please..................and the winner of the $60 gift certificate is Jennai (Jennifer). Congratulations Jennifer! I will send your name and email address to CSN Stores and they will send you a gift code to be used at any one of their 200 stores.

Thank you all for participating in this giveaway. I would also like to thank CSN Stores for sponsoring and allowing me to host this giveaway.

Headboards and a Giveaway

Are you looking for some new bedroom furniture….maybe new headboards for your beds? I know my bedroom could use some updating but I really don't have a lot of extra space and a new headboard would be a huge improvement.....especially since I'm just using a bed frame...... CSN Stores has a huge selection of headboards and I'm sure you'll find something you like. They carry metal headboards and wood headboards, traditional, modern, even sports themed….and many come with free shipping….I always like free shipping!

Here is an example of a few of the headboards that I saw:

I remember the bookcase headboards that were popular back when I was young....this is nothing like those.

This is just one of several for the sports enthusiast in your family.

One of their top sellers

Now for the really fun part.....I'm having a giveaway for a $60 gift certificate to be used at  any CSN Store.

The giveaway starts on July 12, 2010 at 12:00 AM (Eastern time) and ends July 18, 2010 at 11:59 PM (Eastern time). You can have your name entered multiple times depending on how many places you promote the giveaway.

1. Visit headboards, then come back and and post a comment stating which one you like best...your name will be entered into the drawing.

2. Become a follower of Cookiebaker's corner or if you are already a follower, post here to let me know.

3. If you are on FaceBook, post a link to this giveaway on your page. Come back here and leave a comment letting me know that you did so.

4. Tweet about this giveaway, including a link, and let me know by leaving a comment here.

5. Become a fan of CookieBaker's Corner on Facebook by clicking the "Like" button at the top of the page.

There you have it, up to five chances to win!

The contest is open to United States and Canada residents only. I'll be announcing the winner on July 19, 2010.

Good luck!

April's Pie Dish Winner & New Giveaway

In April I hosted a giveaway sponsored by CSNStores. The prize was an Emile Henry Pie Dish that is sold at the Cookware.com store. On April 12, I picked the winner and informed neonsafari (Ron) that he was the lucky person….he and his wife were both excited by that news! Recently he posted this picture of his yummy looking apple pie on FaceBook and I asked if I could share it, along with the recipe, with my readers and he was kind enough to allow me to do so. I love pie and especially apple pie and this almost made my mouth water.....his wife Sue posted later and said that the pie was delicious!

Apple Pie by Grandma Opie
Courtesy of Allrecipes and submitted by moshasmama
Serves 8

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, coredand sliced

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.

2. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.

3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.
 
Ron couldn't have timed this any better, as I've recently been in contact with CSNStores and have been offered the opportunity to host another giveaway. This time the winner will win a $60 gift certificate that can be used toward a purchase at any one of their 200 stores.
 
Stay tuned for more details......

And the Winner Is.............

This has been such a long week...I didn't think the day of the drawing would ever get here. I've been so anxious to give away this lovely pie dish!

Before I name the winner, I thought I would explain how I did the picking. When I decided to do this giveaway, I was just thinking that I would do something like pick a name out of a hat...so to speak. I was talking to Michael and telling him about this giveaway when he suggested that I make a list of the entries in Excel with their names, along with a number for each entry then let Excel pick the winner...he's such a computer geek, but then that's one of the things I like about him. I laughed and told him that I didn't have a problem with setting up a list, I had already planned to do that, I'm good at making lists but setting up a formula in order to pick the winner was a whole different thing....I had no idea how to do that. My knowledge of Excel is very limited. So, once I set up my list....I added the name of each entrant along with a number for each chance (in the order that it was posted on the blog), I emailed it to Michael and he set it up so that all I had to do was press F9 in order to pick a number.

The list is ready and it's time to pick a winner. I'm going to press F9, 12 times (I couldn't decide whether to press it once twice or what so chose 12 because it's today's date). Here we go....and the winner is.....

neonsafari is the lucky winner of the Emile Henry Pie Dish.

Congratulations neonsafari....email your name and address to me at, cookiebakr@yahoo.com, and I will forward it to the people at CSN Stores and they will send out the pie dish.

I would like to thank CSN Stores and all of you who participated in this contest.

My First Giveaway!

I don't know about you, but I'm so excited!!!

The kind people at CSN Stores have offered to provide the prize for my very first giveaway. CSN Stores have several stores that carry a large variety of great merchandise….I know because I’ve already been to their site and drooled over a lot of the cookware. Click on this link, Home Bars to visit one of their stores. You can scroll down to the bottom of the site to find a link to visit their other stores as well.

One lucky person, in the USA or Canada, will be winning this pretty Emile Henry Pie Dish. Many of us have pie dishes but some of us probably don’t have anything this nice. “I don’t make pie” you say….. Use it for pot pie, Sheppard’s pie, baked pasta, to roast several heads of garlic for those yummy Pioneer Woman’s, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes or…… re-gift it, I’ll never tell.

All you have to do to enter is:

1. Become a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this post to let me know that you’ve done so. If you’re already following my blog, leave a comment here stating that you are.

2. Mention this giveaway on your Facebook page, along with a link to this post, then come back to this post and leave a comment letting me know.

3. Tweet about the giveaway, along with a link to this post and comment here to let me know that you did.

You can do one, two or all of the above…doing all three just gives you more chances to win.

When you leave your comment, feel free to tell me what you will be making in this pie dish. This is just for fun, not a requirement.

You have until midnight, Eastern Standard Time, April 12, 2010 to enter.