The round up of all the giveaways going on in our blogs is up on Amoores.com, the Friday Giveaway Hop 8th edition. Check out the other giveaways listed on the McLinky blog hop too. I have found some amazing giveaways listed and I have even won some of them!
So if ever you are skeptical about the chances of winning these giveaways, I’m here to tell you, your chances are really good to win any of the amazing prizes. In this blog, for instance, we’ve had a few winners win multiple giveaways! There are giveaways for books like we have here but there’s also giveaways for snacks, gift certificates, etc. I even saw something about naked brothers. LOL! Gotta check that one out. Unfortunately, no one’s giving away and billet grilles which is what the hubby just left early for; so he can go check out what’s available at the flea market and car show at the old fair grounds next town over.
When you don’t see the giveaways listed right on the front of this blog, don’t forget to check out the permanent list of giveaways because an awesome prize may have just been pushed off the front page. You don’t want to miss out on anything, now, do you?
Years ago when I first started blogging, I blogged mostly about the kids and food. While searching online for Filipino recipes, I ran across an interesting blog about coconuts. I was there mostly for the recipes which I printed out and have referred to since, when making Filipino rice cakes. I riffled through the other pages of that site and found out that they have a small farm in the Philippines and that they produce coconut products with an emphasis on what they termed ‘virgin coconut oil’.
Coconut oil was not so foreign to me. I grew up in the Philippines with a grandmother who swore by the benefits of coconut oil and even made her own. She used it for everything from cooking to personal hygiene. It’s a great moisturizer, she used it as body oil and hair oil. After she came to live in the U.S., my grandmother always made a point of requesting virgin coconut oil whenever someone went to the Philippines so they can bring her back some. She always had a jar in her room and she always smelled pleasantly of coconut.
First off, they knew what they were doing when they said these were designed for children because my girls were immediately attracted to the packaging. As a mom, I can tell you that when marketing to kids, packaging is very important and no matter how we moms warn them about the allure of packaging, they ignore us and go for the thing that catches their eyes first anyway. My girls liked how you can see another message on the back of the front label when you look at it from the back. They got a kick out of that one. I know, easily amused they are 
