There is a contest going on at eBillme.com. It’s called the Shop and Confess contest. All you have to do is sign up, refer this blog (charlottestips.net), and you could win $1000 for a video or $500 for a text post. Prizes are given away monthly. The contest runs until 11:59 PM EST on December 26th, 2008 so you only have a couple more chances to win. There is a $15,000 grand prize too!

The winnings could make for a really nice online shopping spree! Watch the video that shows how the contest works. Enter, confess your shopping guilty pleasures and win some spending money. What a great way to feed your spending habits. I know I could sure use that extra money especially with the holidays just around the corner.

So go and sign up right now! Don’t forget to add charlottestips.net as your referring URL!

*Drum roll please*

Ann from Feeding Time At The Zoo. Congratulations Ann!! Ann wins a cookbook and a $10 Amazon gift certificate. Ann will also get some linky love on my other 2 blogs.

The prizes will be sent out soon. The linky love will go up sometime today.

Thank you to all who entered.

The results were:

Ann: 12611 Votes
Reesa: 4080 Votes
Lisa: 59 Votes
Holly: 9 Votes
Elizabeth: 9 Votes
Mrs. Mecomber: 5 Votes
Faith: 3 Votes

The Christmas Cookie Recipe voting is ready. Please go and vote for your favorite Christmas cookie recipe.

I think you should be able to vote once a day for your favorite, but I couldn’t find that anywhere at PollDaddy. If anyone knows, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!

Thank you to all that entered and good luck!! I will not be voting, but all of the recipes sound so good.. I wouldn’t be able to pick just one anyway!

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I’ve come up with the contest rules. This contest will be to pick the best Christmas cookie recipe. Submit your recipe link to me using my Contact Form. You have until December 1, 2007 to get your entries in. Then on December 3rd I will post the recipes and the voting will begin. There will be a voting form in the post with the recipe links. Voting will be from December 3rd to December 14th.

The winner will get a cookbook entitled “Best of the Best from the Mid-Atlantic Cookbook (a $16.95 value). It contains selected recipes form the favorite cooks of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. The winner will also get some linky love from me on all 3 of my blogs… Army Mom: New Jersey, Charlotte’s Tips and South Jersey Fun.

So find your favorite Christmas cookie recipe and send it in! I can’t wait to drool over see the recipes you come up with!

Edited to add: I will also send the winner a $10 gift certificate from Amazon.com.

This post will stay as a sticky post until the contest ends.

After I get back from Texas I’m going to run a contest here. I’m thinking it will be the best Christmas Cookie Recipe contest. The winner will get the cookbook I was giving away in the last contest. That contest didn’t work out and no one entered. I sure hope someone will enter this one.

Look for the details sometime shortly after December 3rd. Meanwhile start looking for your best Christmas cookie recipe!

Only 2 days left to enter our contest and win a cookbook! Get your entry in by midnight on Sunday November 4th!

My friend Skeet issued a challenge to another blogger, Jenn, on whose grilled cheese and bacon sandwich is the best. I had to throw in my 2 cents because I think mine is the best! Well, now it’s a 3 way challenge and we need our readers to pick the winning grilled cheese and bacon sandwich. We have all decided to let you all pick the best one.

Here are The Rules:
1. Go to each of the recipe links:

Jenn: Recipe Challenge-Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwich

Charlotte: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwich

Skeet: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwich-Illustrated

2. Make the sandwiches.

3. Write a post about your experience and name the recipe that you think is best.

4. Go to all three contest announcements and give a link to your post in the comments for each one: (I’ll link the other contest posts as soon as they’re up.)

Jenn: A Contest and a Challenge - Win a Cookbook!

Charlotte: You’re reading it now.

Skeet: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Throw Down - Win a Cookbook!

Deadline:
You must complete the process by posting your comments to each of our blogs by midnight EST on Sunday, November 4th.

Prizes:
Charlotte, Jenn and Skeet will each draw a name from among the entrants and will reward a cookbook to that lucky winner. Bonus! Want an extra entry? When you write your post, include a picture of at least one of the sandwiches you made.

Eligibility:
The contest is open to anyone with a US or Canadian mailing address. We have nothing against the rest of you, but postage, taxes and customs requirements could turn this into a major hassle instead of a fun contest.

The Prize:

This cookbook contains Best of the Best from the Mid-Atlantic Cookbook: Selected Recipes from the Favorite Cookbooks of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. This will go to the winner. Good luck and happy cooking!