First of all, thank you for the ULTRA successful blog party today. We had our largest page view day yet, with nearly 13,000K page views since this morning. Some of you are emailing me and letting me know you had record numbers on your blog today from ours. We are SO SO happy. We realize its a LOT of work to go to other blogs, comment, come here, post on your site, etc. It IS a lot of work. But this is how successful blogs are made…by networking! Its going to be a long blog party, so if you miss a day, it IS ok to come back and go to other blogs and blog late. The key is to keep going, all 10 days. If you make it out alive at the end, you will probably be rewarded, at the very least, with new friends. We do find that bloggers that comment the most in our contest entries usually end up winning the most prizes. Hey, who thinks we should have a LIVE contest during the blog party???!?!? That may be insanity.

If this is your first time here, check out these posts to “know” us better

• Top 10 children shows I hate the most
• Dear Fisher Price
• As political as we get
• Only in Alabama (We have lots of these if you look around the blog)
• Undercover Reporting
• To read about Alicias go Here
  
• To read about Bridgette, go HERE
• To read about Trisha, Go HERE

Note that NON blog party contests are still going on, so enter those here:

• Boons FLAIR Highchair
• One Step Ahead
• Take me Back $250 Readers Prize Pack (ends in 1 day)
  
• Protect a Bub (three winners!)

Every night, I wanted to come back and talk a little about our sponsors for that day.

Our very first sponsor today is Kadi from Womb at the Innsane. She just started an etsy store and is donating a handpainted painting to a lucky winner from her site La Belle Toile.  Keeping in with the etsy theme today, This and That is also sponsoring today. This and That carry lovely art including this handpainted table (charlotte would love it). Both of their donations will be eligible for a pull at the end of our blog party, along with over $1000 worth of other prizes! Please come back daily to see ALL the sponsors and get entries. Prizes range from the new leap frog DIDJ to $150 diaper bags, to Mutsy grow up chair and Kushies My Bag! Dont miss out!!

A few questions I was asked today:

If I miss a days post, can I go back and comment? YES! Please do…if you can only get 10 blogs done today and catch up tomorrow, it COUNTS! If you have to sit and do it on the weekend, it counts! Of course, you may not get as many back to your blog, but you can still visit others.

Are we eligible for all prizes or just the ones sponsoring the question we answer? ALL prizes. If you blog only three days and visit 6 days, you are still eligible for ALL prizes during the giveaway. We are just highlighting the sponsors on the way and don’t forget visiting them is a way to earn entries! That is why we have only one contest ENTRY post. Make sure you put them HERE and not in the question post.

Am I eligible for more then one prize? YES!

Second, if you are a blogger and new to our site, a few things you may want to check out. First, ENTER THIS!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe only FIFTY entries? WHA-WHA-WHAT?

Say it with me, people. A Brand new, On the market THIS MONTH, DC25 Animal vaccuum from DYSON. OMG! ANd i know people are reading the entries and thinking that their story isn’t “sad” enough to win so they are not entering. Im not looking for a SAD story. I’m looking for why you think you should win. Maybe you had a great year and want to top it off. Maybe its been terrible. Maybe you want to donate it back out to all the bloggers that entered. Inspire me, and you may win. That drawing will be on the 28th of this month. Your entire Christmas, done in ONE swoop.

A few other announcements:

Macy’s is doing a campaign to believe and offering $20 gift vouchers to bloggers who get the word out. Just contact Deana at dburke@youcastcorp.com if your interested.

Katja is doing an online class for bloggers to learn how to make money with gift guides. Sign ups here. If you join, tell her we sent you!

Last, but not least, I got a review for some anti aging lotion and I am not going to reveal who its by yet, but here is my PREphoto. For the record, I am 30 29 years old and holding.

Ick. Ugg. Gross. See the zit? That’s from the LAST anti aging lotion review that broke me out (different company, i wont be telling you to buy it, no worries). Do you see what I go through to share with yall the best on the market?  The lotion I’m using now is supposed to decrease and fade red marks. They also sent some eye cream and wrinkle stuff. So here I am in all my no makeup, hair wet and pulled back, glory. It says 4 weeks to 33% improvement. Ill take another picture on Saturday, which was when i started this, and we can see if i have any improvement.

~Trisha

ps and im still in that youtube contest trying to reach the finals…just need page views, would you have pity and click? If i win, ill give you a funky friday you will never forget.