Congratulations Blog Contest Winners!

I awoke this morning with Chloe's (my three year old) knees buried in my back. I distinctly remember hoisting her out of my bed last night and gently laying her in her toddler bed. As luck would have it, sometime during the wee hours of the morning she snuck back into my bed. Of course, being IN my bed isn't enough.  She has to have at least one elbow or knee piercing my kidney at all times.

So as I lie pondering my ability to go back to sleep, I realized it would be much more fun (and less annoying) to come sit at the computer and figure out the winners to my first blog contest.  I plugged everyone's entry into the random name generator equal to the number of times they had entered the contest. I enjoyed once more the funny comments left by many and began the selection of winners.  Thanks again to everyone who entered.  

The First Official Orange Jeep Dad Blog Contest Winners:

First Place Prize: Super Survival Pack from Seed for Security goes to....Gwenivere McCourry!

Second Place Prize: An Autographed Copy of The Simplicity Primer goes to...@SLHaynes!

Third Place Prize: Sport Berkey Water Bottle from Directive 21  goes to...Kris!

Fourth Place Prize: $10 Home Depot Gift Card goes to...mollyonviola!

I'll be sending out emails to the winners shortly. If you are a winner and didn't leave an email address with your comment, please send me an email so I can get your shipping address for you prize: OrangeJeepDad@gmail.com.  Congratulations to McCourry, @SLHaynes, Kris, and Mollyonviola and a big THANKS to everyone who participated in helping me to grow my blog. A special thanks to the Sponsors who were kind enough to offer support: Patrice Lewis @ Rural Revolution, Directive 21, and Seed for Security.

Our First Contest Has Ended

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to everyone who participated in our first ever blog contest! We had a terrific response and I'll be using a random generator to pull out winners.

I should have it posted by noon tomorrow (July 17th) and will notify all winner by email as well.

Thanks again to all of our sponsors:

Directive 21

The Simplicity Primer

Seed For Security

You guys/gals are the best!

~OJD

Join the Contest, Win Great Prizes!

To CELEBRATE the posting of my first guest post at Rural-Revolution, I'm starting our contest about 18 hours early! Welcome to all of you coming from Patrice's wonderful blog!

Oh snap! Another guest post of mine popped up today at TheSurvivalistblog.net! Perfect timing! Welcome Survivalistblog.net readers!

The time has come for our FIRST EVER BLOG CONTEST! We've gathered some great prizes that everyone is sure to enjoy. Let's face it, who wouldn't enjoy:

• 6,000 open-pollinated seeds from fifteen heirloom varieties that are included in the Super Survival Pack from Seed For Security!

• An AUTOGRAPHED copy of The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life More Livable from Patrice Lewis (Rural-Revolution.com!) 

• Directive 21 is sponsoring a Sport Berkey Water Bottle Portable Water Purifier - BPA Free!  

• A $10 gift card from Home Depot!

Are you excited yet? I know, I know...let's get started! Since this is our first contest, I'll keep the rules simple. Each of the following actions will earn ONE (1) entry into the contest drawing:

1. Follow this blog. (link to Follow)
2. Like our Facebook Page AND leave a comment.
3. Post a message about this contest on your Facebook wall with a link to this contest page.
4. Use our Official Contest banner on YOUR blog or website homepage and hyperlink it to this page.

Once you’ve done each of these things, leave a comment here on this blog post telling us what you did.  Leave a comment for each of these things that you choose to do (not just one comment saying you did all of them) and each comment will be treated as an entry into the contest.  Don’t worry if they don’t show up immediately (we might have to turn the filtering on if we start to get spam).

The Fine Print:

• If you have already "Liked" us on Facebook or are already a "Follower", leave a comment and it will still count. 
• All entries from each action listed above will be tallied up for each person. If Sally@mail.com has 3 entries (or 3 completed actions from above), her name will go into the Random Winner Generator 3 times. The first name drawn will receive the Seed For Security prize, second name receives The Simplicity Primer, etc etc.
• The contest will run from July 1st until July 15th.  Any submissions/actions will not be accepted after midnight on July 15th, 2011 (MST).  I will diligently read through the comments under this post to tally up the number of entries per person.  I will verify all actions claimed and will be announcing the winners of the randomized drawing no later than July 17th.
• All winners will be contacted via the provided email address you leave when you comment.
• For posting our Official Contest Banner, use the following logo (alter size if you need to):



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A BIG Thank you to our Sponsors!

SeedForSecurity.com

TheSimplicityPrimer.com

Directive21.com

Good luck to everyone!

~OJD

Contest Coming Soon! Great Prizes Too!

I'm SO excited to announce that I'll be having MY FIRST CONTEST! Why am I SO excited? Check out these sponsored prizes:

• Seed For Security is sponsoring a Super Survival Pack with a retail value of $75 + s&h! Suh-weet!

From SFS's website: "The fifteen heirloom varieties that are included in this Super Survival Pack will not cross-pollinate in your garden. This will enable you to save seeds from year to year. There are over 6,000 open-pollinated seeds PLUS a pint each of Hulless Oats and Winter Rye." I have blogged numerous times about how awesome these seeds are. Check my posts for proof!

• Rural Revolution is sponsoring an AUTOGRAPHED copy of The Simplicity Primer!  Retail value (autograph=priceless) + s&h. Awesome!

From The Simplicity Primer website: "The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life More Livable addresses simplicity from a concrete, no-nonsense, realistic standpoint. It offers guidelines for family life, finances, the workplace, health, relationships, spiritual life, home, recreational activities, and much much more." I personally own this book and it IS TERRIFIC! (No, you can't have mine. Besides, mine isn't autographed <sniff>.)

• Directive 21 is sponsoring a Sport Berkey Water Bottle Portable Water Purifier - BPA Free!  Retail value of $25 + s&h. Can this contest get any better?

From the Directive21 website: "The Sport Berkey Portable Water Purifier Eliminates or Reduces up to 99.9% of:

• Unpleasant taste and odors, cloudiness, silt, sediment and chlorine.
• Toxic chemicals: Trihalomethanes, VOCs, detergents, pesticides, etc.
• Harmful microscopic pathogens: Cryptosporidium, Giardia, E-coli 99.99999% and other pathogenic bacteria.
• Heavy metals: Aluminum, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Lead, and Mercury.
• Radiologicals: Radon 222

• ONE (1)  Home Depot card worth $10! Who can't use that?!?

From the Home Depot website: "It's a card...worth $10."  Okay, maybe that isn't on their website but it IS true!

The contest will start July 1st, so set your calendar reminders. The Rules and Regulations will be posted at that time (July 1st.)  There's lots of ways to win with activities for writers, Facebookers, Tweeters and more! All shipping and handling will be covered. It is FREE to you, the lucky winners!

Hooray for contests!