I am trying a new kind of winner selector, in the past I’ve went to random.org to generate numbers to determine winners. Tonight is the first time I am using a WordPress plug in called And the winner is… I like it so far! Basically once the giveaway has ended I close comments, then use […]
Deals and Freebies for Veteran’s Day 2010
I was getting ready to go searching for some freebies to share with you for Veteran’s Day when I saw @MomDot’s tweet RT @MomDot 2010 Veteran’s Day Free Meals and Discounts | MomDot Mom Blog http://bit.ly/99OvPE. She has a pretty amazing list of deals going on so no reason to reinvent the wheel right! I’m […]
Protect Your Children from MRSA during fall sports season
As a mom to two active kids I do tend to worry about their health, both in and out of the locker room. That’s why I thought it was important to share this informative video on MRSA. The skin infection, MRSA, is an antibiotic resistant Staph infection that can be potentially life threatening. One way […]
To PR checking on review status
If you are a PR rep who has been in contact with me, you may be wondering where your review is. Our hard drive recently crashed. Unfortunately I lost all of the emails, contacts and info I may have exchanged with you concerning your products, reviews and giveaways. I had been without a computer from […]
Update and a couple of winners!
My computer is still down. the repair shop couldn’t do anything so a friend of ours took it in to work to have a friend of his look at it and see if he can get any of my data off of it. Keeping my hopes up! After we find out if anything can be […]
My computer has died :(
I finally made it over to my Mom’s to write this post! Unfortunately Friday morning I woke up, turned on my computer and…. nothing! My computer is dead :( :( We took it in to the repair place Friday. They called later to say that Windows crashed and that they aren’t sure if my hard […]
Welcome to A Hen’s Nest new blog!
Okay, not new but it sure does feel all shiny and exciting to me! I’d love to ask that everyone updates their links and bookmarks to the new address https://ahensnest.com. I really appreciate it! I’ve been hunting down as many of the old blogspot links that I can to update them, but I fear I […]
Teens Audition for Talent: The Casting Call
Does your daughter, niece, sister or friend dream of having a music career? If so tell them about Alloy Entertainment’s newest web series, Talent, created by execs of The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl! Girls aged 16 to 24 can upload a singing audition on www.thetalentshow.com by 9/28/10. One lucky girl will win a major […]
A little Construction going on!
Yes I know that some things are messy at the moment! I am having fun trying to learn everything I can in WordPress and in the Atahualpa Theme I am using. It’s an adventure! The kind souls at the theme’s forum are very helpful! After spending two days revamping all of my categories and tags […]
Big Big News for A Hen’s Nest! (well big to me anyway!)
I have some major news that I’ve been keeping under wraps for a few weeks now. Sometime very very soon – say between now and this weekend – A Hen’s Nest will be going from http://hensnest.blogspot.com to https://ahensnest.com! That’s right! I’ve taken a big giant leap and bought my very own domain name and will […]
Three lucky Book Winners!
Congrats to these three lucky readers who each won a great book for a child in their life! I’ll be contacting you shortly to get your mailing info to send to prize fulfillment! Don’t forget to enter to win the Carolina Pad Studio C prize pack! And be on the lookout for several more giveaways […]
Giveaway Scout – List your giveaways on this new giveaway search engine!
As I was making my rounds for weekly Entrecard dropping I ran across a blog talking about Giveaway Scout. How did I not know about this site? Giveaway Scout is a “giveaway search engine”! You are able to submit your giveaway blog to the site and then Giveaway Scout will scan your blog automatically and […]