Who Is Your Favorite TV/Cartoon Mom 1-800-Flowers Giveaway

April 28, 2011 by Momstart 426 Comments

Television moms have been a part of our families for decades – from the iconic moms of the past like June Cleaver to the more modern, spunky moms like Lorelai Gilmore, these leading ladies have reminded us and made us appreciate all of our own families time and time again. In honor of ALL moms this Mother’s Day, both real and fictional, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is searching to find the all-time favorite TV mom – but they need OUR help to do it!

I grew up watching TV as a family and there were a lot of really great TV moms at the time. We watched the Cosby show for years and I have to say that Claire Huxtable is one of my favorite TV moms. I also really liked watching Rosanne even though she wasn’t the best character morally when it came to her kids and family you didn’t mess with them unless you wanted to get into trouble. 1-800-Flowers asked me to come up with a list of my top three favorite TV moms. I had a hard time coming up with a list.

My final choices were:

Clair Huxtable

Laurali Gilmore

Wilma Flintstone

Then I asked you guys on twitter and you came up with a few moms that I didn’t even consider that I LOVE even more. I wish I would have said, Mrs. Incredible, or the mom from Seventh Heaven. She was great too. Now 1-800-Flowers is holding a little friendly competition between these moms that they came up with. This contest will live on the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Facebook page and will end on my birthday Friday, May 6^th.

Enter to Win:

50.00 Gift Card to 1-800-Flowers

From roses and lilies to towers of treats, please check out some of the fantastic gift ideas for Mother’s Day. Click here to view the full Mother’s Day collection.

To Enter:

Leave a comment on this post about who your favorite TV/Cartoon Mom is.

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This giveaway ends May 16th. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Disclosure – opinions expressed are my own and are NOT influenced by monetary compensation.

1-800-Flowers Celebrating Love Share Remember Cherish And Flowers

February 7, 2011 by Momstart 16 Comments

Last year I received Celebrating Mom from 1-800-Flowers, it was a treat to read with beautiful color and illustrations. When the kids see the book they know it’s for mom, and sometimes they want to read it to me. This year, 1-800-Flowers collaborated with Jim McCann again with Celebrating Love.

Celebrating Love is a collection of loving stories that reminds us to share, remember, and cherish each and every touching memory in our life. Celebrating Love is filled with full-color drawings. These drawings illustrate the book throughout and are interspersed with meaningful quotes and little-known facts about love and affection. Divided into four sections based on the distinct seasons of love, Celebrating Love features 150 entries, including:

* Spring: "Love that is not madness is not love." –Pedro Calderon de la Barca

* Summer: Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice. Falling in love with you was beyond my control. Becoming your wife was my fairy tale come true.

* Fall: The Geography of Love

* The oldest love song in existence, whose origin is from somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was written 4,000 years ago.

* Nevada issues 120,000 marriage licenses a year.

* Winter: I love you, my forgetful wife. Who knew that love not only lasts longer than memory, but that it continues to grow?

As a special treat to Mom Start readers, 1-800-Flowers is thrilled to offer us a special giveaway of Celebrating Love: Share, Remember!

In addition to this great giveaway that I will share with you in a moment, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is hosting a special Valentines Day "Love Note" contest! This four-week contest encourages 1-800-FLOWERS.COM fans to post their own love notes, and cast their vote for the most touching love note on the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Facebook page. The love note voted the most touching will win a bouquet, courtesy of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM!

About Jim McCann:

Jim McCann is a highly successful entrepreneur whose vision and energy have helped grow 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, the company he founded in 1976, into the world’s leading florist and gift company. He is also the founder of Celebrations.com and appears frequently on many national TV networks, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and Bloomberg TV.

Enter to Win:

Celebrating Love

To Enter:

Leave a comment telling me which flower arrangement you like most.

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This giveaway ends February 21st. I received samples in exchange this post. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

1-800-Flowers Summer of Smiles Giveaway

August 22, 2010 by Momstart 503 Comments

1-800-Flowers was at BlogHer and I received some cookies, a lot of cookies. We love their cookies. My husband, loves them just as much as I do, but since we’re trying to eat better, I made sure that I didn’t make it home with them. I shared them with my roommates and anyone else that I could. Those Fannie-May cookies that 1-800-Flowers sells are really just so delicious that they make me smile, a guilty pleasurable smile mind you!

So how can you share the smiles with 1-800-Flowers?

Send a friend a bouquet to brighten up their day. 1-800-Flowers has offered me the opportunity to share a smile with someone I know, I have not decided yet who that will be. There are so many people in my life that I want to thank, and I would love to be able to thank each and every reader. You guys are what keeps my blog going even when I don’t feel like keeping it going. So I hope for now that a giveaway from 1-800-Flowers and the Summer of Smiles campaign will bring each of you a tiny smile. Just check out some of the options!

It’s Your Sunny Day Bouquet

Fields of Europe for Summer

Martha Stewart Sweet Pink Rose and Ivy

Enter to win:

50.00 Gift Card to 1-800-Flowers

To Enter:

Tell me who you would send flowers to and why it would brighten up their day!

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This giveaway ends September 6th, I have been offered a bouquet to send to a friend. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Spotting Moms with 1800Flowers Giveaway

April 7, 2010 by Momstart 591 Comments

Today’s Mother’s Day giveaway is brought to us by 1800Flowers. 1-800-Flowers is one of the best ways to honor Mom for Mother’s Day, why? Because it’s so easy and they deliver everywhere. I’m in love with them right now because they honored me for Mother’s Day, asked me to host a giveaway and let me honor another Mom Blogger. I chose Robyn from Robyn’s Online World. Why?

Martha Stewart Pure Bliss Bouquet

Because she is another mother that does it all just like me but she makes it look even easier than I do. Her blog is about her, taking care of her family, and products that her family uses. Like me she doesn’t classify her blog into any certain category, we both blog about what we fancy that day. She is better at using the word no than I am and I admire that in her. I had the opportunity to meet her and her son on one of the Blogging Trips I went on. He is a very well mannered teen and it was a pleasure and delight to meet them both.

roses, lilies, daisies in green gathering vase

1-800Flowers.com has a Mother’s Day Gift Center. There you will find lots of ideas on what to get for Mother’s Day. You can even choose by what kind of mother you are shopping for. I find myself to be in the new mom category. I’m still pretty wet around the ears when it comes to being a mom, most things I learn from trial and error but they are the world to me and I love being a mom. That’s why I was hoping to bring my readers a month of Mom Giveaways.

1800Flowers also has a blog written by Julie Mulligan, a weblog by lifestyle expert. She is featuring mommy bloggers for 1800flowers and I was her feature on April 6th. I was the first mom to be spotted this year and I’m so excited about being featured on another blog. I’m not sure that’s ever happened before. You can read about The 2010 Spot a Mom Movement. Thank you Julie for that wonderful article and Thank You to 1800flowers for the lovely flowers you sent me.

Enter to Win:

One of My readers will get a copy of Celebrating Mom and a $75 gift certificate to use at 1-800-Flowers.

To Enter:

Tell me about your favorite Mother’s Day.

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The contest will run until April 26th 11:59 pm Pacific. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

The Popcorn Factory 50.00 #Giveaway

December 16, 2009 by Momstart 573 Comments

Popcorn

There is always a tin of popcorn when it comes to celebrating the holidays. Those bins of popcorn are the “unwanted” presents under the tree that still find themselves emptied in no time. I certainly don’t need the calories but I have been enjoying the caramel popcorn out of the trio tin that the Popcorn Factory sent to me. My husband has been eating all the other flavors. He doesn’t like the caramel so more for me. 😉

The Popcorn Factory has been the authority in popcorn for more than 30 year. They have quite the impressive collection of gifts and great tasting snacks. They start with the finest corn grown right here in the USA and transform each kernel into premium popcorn using 100% corn oil and infusions of the very best flavors. They pop over 1 million pounds of popcorn per year in many great flavors and all of their popcorn is Kosher OUD.

The Popcorn factory can personalize any tin for you!

They are offering a 50.00 Gift Card to one lucky reader.

To Enter:

Visit Popcorn Factory and tell me what you would purchase with your gift card.

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Popcorn Factory sent me a tin of popcorn to try out for this giveaway. They are also providing the 50.00 prize for the giveaway. No other compensation was received

Popcorn Factory is under 1-800-Flowers. For a gift that truly “pops,” The Popcorn Factory offers Big Snow design tins ($24.99-$39.99). Available with The Popcorn Factory’s traditional three-way combo of robust cheese, butter and caramel corn, these tins are a classic gift that keeps on giving – in two-, three-and-a-half- or six-and-a-half gallon sizes. Tins can be personalized with a photo or message label on top. For more information, visit www.thepopcornfactory.com.

Chocolate Defines your personality 50.00 GC #giveaway sponsored by Fannie May

December 14, 2009 by Momstart 681 Comments

What kind of chocolate are you? Fannie May has compiled a list of chocolate personalities. My favorite type of chocolate is dark chocolate so let’s see if the personality fits:

Based on research compiled by Fannie May my dark chocolate personality is:

Dark chocolate = Dark Chocolate, with the highest amount of antioxidants, is the perfect gift for someone who has had a hard year, or is just a Grinch!

Hmmm, I’m not sure this fits me but secretly I do think I’m a Grinch, or at least I’m a tight wad. I hate spending money. That’s probably something I haven’t shared, my deep dark secret. I love to spread joy though, so it’s a toss.

Here is the entire chocolate personality list:

Dark chocolate = Dark Chocolate, with the highest amount of antioxidants, is the perfect gift for someone who has had a hard year, or is just a Grinch!
Milk chocolate = Milk chocolate is best matched with innocent child like or innocent personalities. Choose this type for younger ages or for the kid at heart!
White chocolate = Fits the personality for someone who is gentle and timid, with a ravenous sweet tooth. White chocolate is a perfect gift for shy types
Mint chocolate= Both mint and onions stimulate the same nerve (The nerve that makes you cry when you cut onions) and show a person’s ability to endure stress. Mint chocolate is best matched with stable and strong personalities, for your friends and loved ones who always “ seem to have it together” (Mint Meltaways)
Fruity chocolate = This personality likes to step outside the box; fruity chocolates, such as raspberry and strawberry, are the perfect gift for the quirky type.
Chocolates with nuts = Ideal for someone who enjoys a challenge or an adventure; choose nutty chocolates for your loved ones who continuously test the limits. (Pixies)
Caramel Chocolate= Since the delicious gooey caramel that seeps out of a delicious chocolate casing is so difficult to eat, caramel lovers tend to be patient, tolerant and detail oriented. The ideal gift for teachers!
Someone who enjoys surprises? Of course, you can always create your own special assortment of chocolates at your local Fannie May store or at Fanniemay.com

In honor of the holidays and our love of chocolate here at Mom Start and women everywhere. Fannie May is offering a 50.00 Gift Card to use on their site.

To Enter:

Tell me what type of chocolate you are based on the descriptions above and if it actually fits your chocolate choice?

Extra Entries:

Visit Fannie May and tell me what you would purchase with your GC.

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Fannie May sent me a small box of truffles to try out for this giveaway. They are also providing the 50.00 prize for the giveaway. No other compensation was received.

Fannie May is one of the many companies under 1-800-Flowers. For a scrumptious countdown to the holidays, the chocolate lover on your list will love the Fannie May truffle assortment gift box ($17.99-$25.99) from Fannie May fine chocolates. The 16- or 25-piece assortment features a variety of Fannie May treats to indulge in, including Classic, French Vanilla, White Russian and Orange Royale flavors, all tucked inside a gift-ready holiday box. For more information, visit www.fanniemay.com.

Flowers Cheer You Up in the morning, evening and in-between #giveaway

July 18, 2009 by MomStart 449 Comments

As many times as I give away flowers you would think my house is full of them. Well, it’s not currently full of flowers. I love flowers, I prefer them outside in my yard where they can live year after year. However, when my DH gets me flowers it still makes me all giddy. He likes to get them for me just because.

Roses make me feel loved and the smell makes me all tingly. Did you know that 1-800-flowers has a guide that specifies which flower produces what scent. Then how that particular scent is supposed to make you feel?

They also include a color chart and how colors make you feel. I do remember learning when I was very young that red is supposed to make you feel angry and blue or green is a cool and soothing color but that was YEARS ago. Let’s see what the current trend is on colors according to 1-800-Flowers.

De-Stress and Recharge Floral Guide:

Scents:

Roses – In need of a pick-me-up? The sweet aroma and bold colors of red roses can help boost energy and improve mood. Check out the Rose Elegance™ Premium Long Stem Red Roses ($49.99 – $159.99)or Sweetheart Rose Bouquet ($39.99 – $49.99)

Lavender – Considered a natural remedy for insomnia, the scent of lavender can prompt your body to produce a calming compound which promotes relaxation and helps relax and alleviate stress. Check out the Lavender Dish Garden ($49.99) or the Crabtree & Evelyn® Lavender Hatbox (SALE $55.99)

Mint – With a scent that immediately awakens, the smell of fresh mint is refreshing and purifying to both the body and soul. Check out the Summer Herb Garden Trio ($44.99) or the Taste of Tea ($16.99)

Colors:

Light Purple & Blue – These hues are soothing and can help relieve tension and reduce anxiety. Use these colored arrangements to create an atmosphere of comfort and tranquility. Check out the Blue Hydrangea ($59.95) or the Blue Purple Arrangement By Jane Packer ($100.00)

Yellow – A cheerful and uplifting color, yellow enhances alertness, increases self-esteem and can strengthen overall wellbeing. Try sunflowers such as Martha Stewart Golden Sunflower Bouquet ($59.95)

I love purple and so does my daughter. My husband took her to Home Depot to buy some flowers and they brought home blue/purple hydrangeas. Did you know that Hydrangeas change color depending on the acidity in your soil. It’s fun to watch them change colors.

Julie Mulligan, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM’s floral lifestyle expert, recently did a blog post about the “power of flowers” so if you’re interested in learning some of her tricks of the trade for easily incorporating fresh flowers into everyday décor, feel free to let me know and I’ll forward the question.

Enter to Win 50.00 Gift Card

Visit 1-800-Flowers and tell me what your arrangement choice would be.

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None Bloggers get and extra entry for every e-mail they send out linking to this giveaway cc louise@looksblue.com (be sure to leave a comment for every person you e-mail, for example if you e-mail 10 different people leave 10 different comments)

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The contest will run until Monday August 10th 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org

1-800-Flowers Facebook Giveaway & My Birthday #giveaway

July 3, 2009 by MomStart 364 Comments

Mom Start is one year old this month. Isn’t that exciting. So Happy Birthday Mom Start!!

1-800-flowers is on facebook now and they are giving away flowers every week to help celebrate birthdays. Wouldn’t it be nice to send someone flowers on their birthday. I think that would brighten my day without making me put on a few extra pounds. Which reminds me why I haven’t been writing about Fitness Friday it’s because I’m putting on weight instead of losing it so I do not feel fit. Thank goodness my birthday has already come and gone. Now it’s work work work to get those pounds off. Hopefully Miles will be walking soon and chasing him will get those unwanted pounds off of me.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM is on Facebook and we want to celebrate birthdays with free birthday flowers. Every Monday, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM will pick a birthday winner from Facebook and give away a free birthday gift. All you have to do is fan 1-800-FLOWERS.COM on Facebook (www.facebook.com/1800flowers) and watch for the birthdays we are looking for on Mondays. If you or friend’s birthday falls within that time period, write on the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM “Wall” and you can enter for a chance to win birthday flowers from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.

Each Monday 1-800-FLOWERS.COM will announce a winner by posting a status update, so be sure to keep checking in at www.facebook.com/1800flowers to see if you are this week’s winner!

About 1-800-Flowers:

For more than 30 years, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc. has been providing customers around the world with the freshest flowers and finest selection of plants, gift baskets, gourmet foods, confections and plush stuffed animals perfect for every occasion. 1-800-FL OWERS.COM® offers the best of both worlds: exquisite, florist-designed arrangements individually created by some of the world’s top floral artists and hand-delivered the same day, and spectacular flowers shipped overnight "Fresh From Our Growers sm." Customers can "call, click or come in" to shop 1-800-FLOWERS.COM twenty four hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-800-356-9377 or www.1800flowers.com. Sales and Service Specialists are available 24/7, and fast and reliable delivery is offered same day, any day. As always, 100 percent satisfaction and freshness are guaranteed. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. stock is traded on the NASDAQ market under ticker symbol FLWS.

About the Giveaway: To Enter unlimited entries:

white carnations in reusable cupcake cup Because of my busy week this week and the next I’m running this giveaway for a few weeks. You guys can comment with a Birthday Shout-out as many times as you want. Tell your friends to check out your birthday shout out. (leave the shout out in the comments section)

1-800-Flowers is supplying a gift certificate for $40 or you can choose from either the Cupcake in Bloom or Birthday Flower Cake.

Birthday Cake made of Flowers

Extra Entries:

The contest will run until Monday July 27th 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org

Calling All New York Mets Fans

June 12, 2009 by MomStart 2 Comments

nym The NY Mets and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM are “teaming” up to celebrate YOUR big day!

Sign up at www.1800flowers.com/mets for a chance to have your name displayed, during your birthday, on the video board at Citi Field!

Enjoy an early birthday gift on 1-800-Flowers and save 15% on your next purchase using promo code, METS1.

1-800-Flowers Interview and Giveaway

May 7, 2009 by MomStart 263 Comments

1-800-Flowers offered me the chance to interview Julie Mulligan. Julie Mulligan has over 25 years experience creating floral arrangements. She has designed for weddings, celebrities, and for instructional videos. She has appeared on The Montel Williams Show, Extra, WABC Eyewitness News, and NBC’s Weekend Today.

Julie Mulligan writes her own blog at http://blog.1800flowers.com/julie/.

How would you decorate with flowers with a very modern and straight line theme?

I like color but I don’t like filler and baby’s breath. Gerbera daisies are the way to go for a modern look – they are great without filler. The stems are beautiful and look great in any shaped glass vase.

How can people like my sister would LOVE flowers, keep their home decorated with flowers but not break the bank?

First of all, proper care and handling are essential. Be sure to always have clean water in the container. Change the water every couple of days and give the flowers a fresh cut on an angle. Also, be sure to use flower food in the water. Remove flowers past their prime. As the flowers die, cut the stems shorter and put them in a smaller container. By following all of these steps, your flowers are sure to last and your home will look beautiful without breaking the bank.

Where can you get the flowers and what helps flowers stay fresh longer without molding? (in WA we have a mold problem too much moisture in the air)?

Don’t mist your flowers and keep the water level low. If you keep the water level low, you must remember to add water more often.

You can win a gift card or gift code for $30 for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, which is perfect for their Every Mom Counts Collection, which is a selection of 30 gifts under $30.

Send mom some flowers for Mother’s Day, you know she’ll love them.

To Enter:

Visit Julie’s Blog and tell me what you learn from her.

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Leave a comment for every entry and the giveaway ends May 28th