Bronzed Envy Review and Giveaway Notice!

I love a good tan as well as anyone, but to get it is another story.  I have never been to a tanning salon, never had a air-brush tan and quit laying out in the sun trying to get color on my skin as of 18 years ago.  Frankly, I thought it took too much work and time--time that I wasn't willing to put into getting that golden, tanned look. Plus, as it turns out, it may not be the best thing for you to lay out for hours in the sun or be radiated with infra red and ultra violet light in a tanning booth.  

But wait, there is one option that I am definitely open to, provided it doesn't turn me orange!  That option would be a self-applied tan!  I had a great tanning product 2 years ago, but then the company that made it quit making it!  I couldn't find another product or seem to have the motivation to get into using one regularly.  

When I was presented with the opportunity to review Can Tan, a great new spray-on self-tanner made by Bronzed Envy, I jumped at the chance!  I wasn't disappointed either!  This tanner has a great ability to go on without streaking and without blotchiness!  It also presents with a really great color, very natural, and no orange!  I'm now back on the self tan wagon and just love it!  And what a fun name--Can Tan!  Yes, I can tan!  And you can tan too!  With Bronze Envy! 

Bronzed Envy also has other great products, all with the intent and ability to make your skin look as beautiful and luscious as you could ever imagine!  Go check it out at Bronzed Envy! 

One more thing--Bronzed Envy offers a home business option with this.  There is a huge income potential with vanity the tanning industry! If being an airbrush tanning consultant sounds like you, explore the possibilities here! 

Change Complete!

A couple days ago, I mentioned that I was bored with my Island Paradise blog theme and background.  Well, it is two days later and my blog change is complete!  Like Jeff from Life Can Be Funny (Sometimes) mentioned, the malcontent could have been a seasonal thing, and obviously I went with that!  So for a few weeks at least, my theme is seasonally based.  You can't go wrong with a seasonally-based theme!  Plus, I just love home-grown tomatoes!  We put in 4 tomato plants this last May and I thought they might not produce this year.  They took forever to get started.  But right now, they are doing really well!  This last week we've seen more tomatoes than we can eat ourselves and so are thinking about salsa and even giving some away!   I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather and getting in some last-minute outings before the dreaded cold comes! 

Tropical Traditions Virgin Palm Oil Giveaway!

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Palm oil is the #1 dietary oil in the world, except for the U.S., where soybean oil is the most widely used oil.  Traditionally, palm oil has been used for baking, shortenings, margarines and deep-fat frying.  It has a long shelf life without being hydrogenated and has zero trans fats!


Today, Malaysia is the Word’s largest producer of oil from palm fruit, although it is native to West Africa. Being an introduced crop to Asia, they are mainly harvested from large plantations. Tropical Traditions Virgin Palm Oil is produced by small-scale family producers in Africa that are certified organic. When you purchase Tropical Traditions, you are supporting the small scale family farmers in Africa and NOT the large, corporate run plantations in Southeast Asia! Read about the history of Virgin Palm Oil here!

 The nutritional and health benefits of palm oil are staggering. It is 15 times richer in beta-carotene than carrot!. 

I wasn't sure that I would like this oil or not but I tried one of the recipes featured on Tropical Traditions using Palm Oil, the 'Orange Coconut Cookies', using orange zest and coconut.  They were SO delicious!  There are also recipes for Chops, Steak, and bread. I'm excited to try all of these and take advantage of the healthful benefits of this great oil!


Right now you can purchase Organic Virgin Palm Oil at Tropical Traditions for half price!
(For first time purchasers, please use the referral code 5954910.  You will receive a complimentary copy of the book 'Virgin Coconut Oil:  How It Has Changed People's Lives And How It Can Change Yours' with your purchase.  This book includes over 85 recipes using coconut oil and research showing the health benefits of coconut oil!)


WIN A JAR of Tropical Traditions Organic Virgin Palm Oil!  Please complete the mandatory entry before you do any of the other entries!  This giveaway is open to US Residents, Canadian Residents, bloggers and non-bloggers. You must be able to have product mailed to a mailing address other than a P.O. Box and must have a valid e-mail address that I do not have to look high and low for.  Good luck!


MANDY: Visit Tropical Traditions and find one recipe that you'd like to try and tell me about it!


EXTRAS:

+2 Visit Tropical Traditions on Facebook and like them! (Leave two separate comments for two entries!)

+3 Grab my 'A Gal Needs...' button on my right sidebar and post it on the main page of your blog!  Leave me your link! (Leave three separate comments for three entries!)


+3 Subscribe to my RSS Feed in a reader of your choice! (Three comments for three entries)

+5 Place an order at http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/ and where it says 'How did you hear of us?' put in this referral code: 5954910

+5 Blog, Stumble or Facebook about this giveaway and tell me where you did by leaving me the link!  (5 entries each method)


+3 Follow me on Twitter! (Three comments for three entries!)


+2 What is the strangest food you ever tried and ended up liking?

+1 Follow Tropical Traditions on Twitter and tweet this..." #Win a jar of @TropTraditions Organic Virgin Palm Oil @Melahelen http://bit.ly/9c8JwF #Giveaway - 10/18/10"  (Can be done 1x daily for one entry each!)  Leave your tweet status!


This giveaway will close on October 18, 2010 at 11:59 MST.  The winner will be chosen through random.org and notified by e-mail.  The winner will have 48 hours to respond!  Thanks for participating and thanks to Tropical Traditions for the chance to review and host this giveaway!  The opinions in this blog are mine and are honest and candid!  I was supplied with product to sample and review!

Uh Oh! I'm Getting Bored!

Yep, I'm getting bored of my whole template, background, blog theme.  And that means I will head out into the land of free backgrounds and see what I can come up with.  It may be jazzy, it may be feminine, or it may be crazy, I don't know, whatever appeals to me.  It may come out absolutely ghastly, but know one thing...in about a week it will be different.  That's the thing with me, I have a very eclectic taste palette.  I am not one to just stick to one background theme, one template format, or one color palette.  But I guess I am consistent in a couple things.  I won't ever display adult themed material or politically based themes.  I may occasionally refer to something adult in my posts, or allude to a political stance I am taking and why, but that's about it.  So get ready to see something a little different here in the next week or so!  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  Because I'm getting bored...

Great Giveaways!

• Two $50 Amazon Gift Cards and a digital photo keychain is up for grabs, among some other cool stuff to celebrate the release of 'Trance' by Linda Gerber!  Go to LindaGerber.com and check out the details!

• Win a $100 Gift Certificate to Novica at A Nut In A Nutshell!  Ends 9/27/10!

• Win a $45 Gift Certificate to CSNStores.com at Animated Confessions!  Ends 10/1/10!

• Win a $45 Gift Certificate to CSNStores.com at Kelly's Lucky You!  Ends 10/3/10!

• Win a teeshirt of your choice from Nachomama at And Then There Were 4!  Ends 10/18/10!

Learning As I Go On 'Blogger'

About 9 months ago, I discovered the world of Giveaways, Reviews and Social Networking.  I already had a blog that I did just for fun among friends and family and so when I found out how you can integrate a blog, Twitter, Facebook, Stumble, Technorati, Digg and any number of the blogging communities into one great social engine, I was definitely hooked.  I do believe it changed my life trajectory somewhat!
The thing is, I really didn't use a blog mentor or a coach. I just started from scratch and learned and am learning as I go, probably making horrible, glaring, stupid mistakes, but loving it nonetheless.  A couple of things I learned JUST this week are:

• Blogger has Stats that you can look at to see how your blog is doing!. You can get where traffic is coming from, how many page views per hour, day, week, month, etc., what kinds of searches are being done to land someone on your page, etc.  That is so cool.  I knew that you could go to outside sources to get that info but it's so much easier to get it from your own blog source. I'm not sure if I just didn't notice this before or if it's a new feature.  But I like!  Just click on Stats and you will see everything I did!

• I just learned how to disable comments on a certain post.  Say, if I'm done with a giveaway, I can disable more comments from coming in.  (Not sure if I'll use it for that purpose, but very useful to know because you never know when you might need that feature!)  Just go to EDIT POST, click POST OPTIONS, click DON'T ALLOW, SHOW EXISTING! Easy!

• I learned about a great tool for bloggers called screen capture software!  It allows you to capture anything you see on your screen window including windows, menus, full screen, rectangular regions, web pages and even shots of moving images!  Maybe now I can actually capture that tricky Random.org window to show winners of my giveaways!

So another week is upon me and there are surely more things to learn as I make my way through this blog realm, which is surely every bit as captivating and interesting as anything Alice found in Wonderland!  One of these days I will look up how to create my own siggy!  Until then!

 Hugs,
Helena