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Thank you so much for your participation in the Pick Nick’s Brain Holiday Season giveaway!! I loved all the feedback and the article ideas. A special thanks to those who wrote a guest post for 10 entries. I will get those posted very soon.

I appreciate the comments about the color scheme. It will be a long time before I change it, though, as I’m still paying for the original design. We really wanted to have it appeal to both men and women and be soothing enough that someone could sit and read a lot of pages at one time. I see from my statistics that some people stay and read up to 30 minutes or more, so it needs to be easy on the eyes (don’t worry I can’t spy on who is reading at any given time, just that SOMEONE did. ;))

I have thought about whether the navigation is easy enough now that I have so many articles, so I’m glad to know that my gut was right on that. I’ll work on that in the near future!

And, now what you all are waiting for! To choose the winners, I assigned numbers to all the comments, in order, including the extra entries (for example, the 5th comment was assigned 5, 6, & 7 because she had 3 entries (comment, thumbs up and tweet)) and then I went to random.org and used the number generator to choose the comment # for each winner. Here are the winners of the contest:

1. Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera - Sharla
2. LeapFrog Learn & Groove Musical Table - Sarah
3. One Week Unlimited E-mail Consultation Package ($99 value) - Mary_Freebies
4. 5 E-mail Consultation Package ($44.95 value) - Blima
5. A copy of my e-Book, Help Your Child Sleep, a Step-by-Step Guide ($30 value each) - Janet & Rose
6. A full set of pre-selected Monkey Do Alphabet Flashcards - Janet F

Congratulations!!! The winners will be contacted via e-Mail later today.

Thank you again for participating, everyone! Be on the lookout for another giveaway sometime around Valentine’s or St. Patrick’s Day!

Just in time for the holidays! Because the response to the holiday giveaway has been better than I expected, I’m adding another prize! Moms are such an innovative bunch and one of the online mommies I know has created such a cool product that I had to add it to the holiday giveaway.

You have just 3 more days to enter my holiday contest and on top of the prizes I mentioned last week, you now also have a chance to win a set of Monkey See Flashcards, a great gift to add for your child this holiday season!

Each 4×6 “Monkey Do” Alphabet card is laminated in virtually indestructible, waterproof 10ml laminate and has a colorful photo on the front of the card to engage your child as she learns their alphabet.

On the back of each “Monkey Do” flashcard is an added guided-writing exercise. The sturdy, wipe-able laminate makes these cards perfect for use with washable marker or white-board crayons for repeated practice.

There is a large library of photo-quality, pre-made cards from which you may choose a custom set of flashcards for your child. You may also choose to use your own digital photos to customize up to eight cards in each set. So “M” doesn’t have to stand for “Monkey”. “M” can stand for “Mommy” or “D” for “Daddy”! How fun is that?!

The prize includes a full set of pre-selected Monkey DO alphabet cards. And, should you want to add some custom cards to your prize, the owner of the Etsy store is including a very special offer for 10 additional custom (or stock) cards (she will contact the winner with details).

To learn more about Monkey See Flashcards, please visit her Etsy store at www.flashcards.etsy.com.

To enter the contest for a chance to win this wonderful prize and other prizes, please follow the rules, here:

Enter Holiday Giveaway Contest

It’s time for another giveaway contest! I’d like to give something to my readers in the Pick Nick’s Brain community and encourage new members to join, too. Please pass along to friends and family.

You have a chance to win one of these several prizes:

1. Kodak EasyShare C713 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom shipped direct from Amazon ($71 Value)

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2. LeapFrog Learn & Groove Musical Table shipped direct from Amazon ($39.97 Value)

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3. One Week Unlimited e-Mail Sleep Consultation Package! (1) ($99 Value)

4. 5-Email Sleep Consultation Package! (2) ($44.95 Value each)

5. A copy of my e-Book, Help Your Child Sleep, a Step-by-Step Guide! (2) ($30 Value each)

(Just Added!) 6. A full set of pre-selected Monkey DO alphabet flashcards. And, should you want to add some custom cards to your prize, the owner of the Etsy store is including a very special offer for 10 additional custom (or stock) cards (she will contact the winner with details).

How to Enter:

You only have to do at least ONE of these things below to enter, not all of them. You MUST comment below to state how you entered. If you enter multiple ways, please include them all in one comment, if you can.

For one (1) entry each:

* Leave a comment below about how I might improve this site or topics you’d like to see more articles about.

* Thumb-up the contest in StumbleUpon.

* Tweet the contest. Post a link to your tweet in a comment below.

* Post an update about the contest on your Facebook page.

* Subscribe to Pick Nick’s Brain by Email (and you also must confirm it and comment below for the entry to be valid) or via RSS.

For five (5) entries:

* Write a blog post about the contest and give me the link in the comments below.

10 ENTRY BONUS OPPORTUNITY

Write a guest post / article and receive ten extra entries in the contest. Write about your story about your baby and sleep, how becoming a parent has changed you, or anything somewhat related to babies, babies and sleep, or parenting. Leave a comment with the title of your article and e-mail it to me to be posted (or let me know if you’d rather not have it posted).

Contest will be open until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 14, 2008. Winner will be chosen via random.org. Winner will be notified via email and I will post on Monday, December 15, 2008.

Good luck!!

I wrote a guest post on another blog, Ambajam, with five baby sleep tips. You have a chance to win one of their very cute Cuddle Up baby blankets or a copy of my Help Your Child Sleep, a Step-by-Step Guide e-book, if you enter the contest before MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008. Enter today!

Woohoo! I am giving away another copy of my e-Book, Help Your Child Sleep, a Detailed Guide. I wrote a guest post, Teething, Crawling, Traveling - What About Sleep?, on Mommy Daddy Blog - Jr. High Sweethearts Chronicle Their Journey Through Parenthood. Check it out and comment on how my e-Book can help your household. Enter before MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008, 7 p.m. to win!

I just had my first free giveaway last week and here are the winners! There weren’t too many entries, so you had a good chance to win! Next time, I need to find ways to advertise it more, I suppose, but I don’t mind giving away to most people who entered!

To choose the winner, I counted up the number of entries and asked my husband to choose 5 numbers, randomly, so here are the winners:

A copy of my e-book: Shay and Jessica
A free 2-email consulting services package: Laura
A custom-made baby blanket by Elizabeth Artiz: Julie and Jennifer

Congratulations!! I’ll send you an e-mail with either instructions on getting your prize or send you my e-Book, directly. I’m going to plan another giveaway next month. Maybe I can try to do one once a month or every other month.

And, thank you for any feedback you gave me on the site! I really appreciate it!!

I am giving away two (2) free copies of my Help Your Child Sleep, a Detailed Guide e-Book (Value $27 each), one 2-email package sleep consulting services (Value $19.95), and 2 free custom-made baby blankets by Elizabeth Artiz (pictured below, but color may vary) (Value $12 each).

To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is post a comment on this post or e-mail info [at] picknicksbrain [dot] com BEFORE MIDNIGHT EST on Thursday, 7/24/08. In your comment or e-mail, give me some constructive criticism (does not have to be a lot) on my free guide 5 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night, the website, or just Pick Nick’s Brain, in general, so that I can improve products and services for my customers. That’s it!

I will choose 5 winners randomly on Thursday, 7/24/08. Good luck!

Picture of blanket:

If you haven’t bought anything for Father’s Day yet, you may be able to win something free! I thought I’d post some links for some free giveaways I’ve seen around the web. I was not ahead of the game enough this year to do one of my own, but still would like my readers to be able to win something. Maybe next year I will host one for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day! Remember, though, the best Father’s Day gift is sleep!.

Father’s Day Giveaways still in play

Mommy Daddy Blog - Jr. High Sweethearts Chronicle Their Adventure Through Parenthood are new parents since April and have a great blog with their reflections as they go through it. I think many of us can relate to them…except for the Jr. High sweetheart part which is just so awesome!

Win a Dyson! (Valued at $499) at An Ordinary Life. It’s a blog in which she talks about her journey through life as a Mom, and college student. Talk about multi-tasking!

My Mom Shops is giving away a Little Tykes Fold-Away Climber. Deadline is June 10th.

Dr. Moz is having a give away worth over $160 with some cool stuff in a gift pack!

Great Father’s Day gift ideas:

My Mom Shops will be posting ideas for the next few days. This site has some great shopping ideas for any day!

Amazon always has great gift ideas and if you are an Amazon Prime member, you get FREE 2-day shipping all year! It’s great! For the high-tech and green dads out there, check out Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device. It looks very interesting and you won’t use up paper reading your favorite books.

AskMen.com has a top 10 Father’s Day gift list, too.

I hope you find the perfect gift you’re looking for! One week to go!