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Glymm: Beauty in a Box

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Glymm.com as you’ve probably heard me talk about last month is a Canadian company offering an exciting Glymm Box subscription with a full boutique where you can use earned points to get free products. More on that later.

You can sign up for a monthly subscription for just $10 a month, and do month-to-month if you wish. Or you can save some money by purchasing the deluxe Glymm Box yearly subscription for $110. Glymm box is delivered straight to your doorstep every month, and each month it comes with 4-5 deluxe sized, luxurious beauty samples. Last month I received Gucci perfume, and OPI nail polish to name a few. At first when you sign up you take a quiz which then gets your samples hand selected by a panel of Glymm Experts according to the personal Beauty Profile you filled out. Other brands that are up and coming into Glymm include Stila, NARS, and even Lise Watier.

Once you’ve had time to use your products that you recieved in your latest Glymm Box, if you like your product enough to buy it you can access the product in the Beauty Boutique and purchase the full sized version of your sample there. My favorite part, which is a nice added bonus, Glymm even offers Glymm Points! The points are very easy to rack up and can be traded in towards purchases in the Boutique. You can also leave your opinions through monthly product reviews, ask questions to Beauty Experts, and of course stay up to date on trends and perhaps learn some new makeup tricks.

It’s only been a month since Glymm.com opened its online doors to the public, and within two weeks the first Glymm Box sold out at record speed!  Since limited membership spaces are available, make sure you order your Glymm Box in time for next month!

Now for the fun part!

One of you lucky Canadian girls will be eligible to win one of the Glymm Boxes for September. Please note this giveaway is only available to residents of Canada and will end on August 19, 2011 at 11pm EST. There are a few easy and fun ways to enter the contest:

To enter:
Do any/all of the following for one additional entry each (leave one comment per entry please):

1 separate entry: “Like” Glymm on Facebook
1 separate entry: Follow @GlymmGirl on Twitter
1 separate entry: Follow me @spiffykerms on Twitter
1 bonus entry: Tell me what you would like to receive in your next Glymm box. Be creative! (Wouldn’t it be great to see a hundred dollar bill, or the swoon-worthy David Beckham in your Glymm box!)

The winner will be drawn on August 19th and notified shortly there after. I will send the winners mailing address to the Head Office at Glymm. Glymm boxes are mailed out on the 10th of each month, so in September you’ll probably get it the second or third week.

Good luck!

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Blogger business cards

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Do you have any blogger business cards? Wanna win some?

A rep from Next Day Flyers contacted me to giveaway some business cards to you guys and I obviously accepted to do so, because I think it’d be neat to carry around blogger business cards. I’d hand them out to everyone and post them everywhere and anywhere.

I mean, anyone going to blogger meet ups, or conferences in the upcoming year? Having business cards with your name, twitter, e-mail, website and possible youtube url’s help out people to remember you and also visit your blog after the meet up. It was fun going to the Toronto Blogger meetup in January, as everyone had all sorts of neat business cards, and flyers handed out. I personally haven’t thought of it, but I thought it was clearly a genius idea to have some handy to give out.

Okay, so how it works is that one reader of mine from the Continental US will win a set of 250 standard business cards printed on 14pt card stock. Full color on the front and black and white on the back.

Entering is easy as pie. Mmm lemon meringue pie.

  • Just follow me on twitter (@spiffykerms) – 1 entry
  • Follow the company who is giving you guys these business cards (@NextDayFlyers) – 1 entry
  • Leave a comment telling me how you would use these business cards.  1 entry
  • Note: Giveaway is only available to those in the Continental US
  • Giveaway ends February 7, 2011 at 1:00pm EST. Entries there after will be deleted.

Next Day Flyers will print them with next day turnaround time and ship them anywhere in the Continental US. Next Day Flyers will be in charge of picking a winner using random.org. From there, the customer service team will contact the winner via e-mail and set everything up.

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Thanks everyone!

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I’m very surprised of the outcome in the poll that I had you guys do the other day.

I subscribe to about 100 blogs via Google RSS feed, and I have a handful of couple that I love seeing update daily. But for the most part I skim through the pictures and text and basically hit it as read. So I’m glad everyone (for the most part) would like that I keep updating as often as I do!

Thanks for the feedback and your support.

I have another giveaway for you guys which will be great for either you, or you can also give it away as one of your Christmas presents to someone. This giveaway will be only a handful of days long just so we can co-ordinate and get the basket out to you in time for Christmas.

I have a total of 13 gifts to buy for this upcoming Christmas, and I’m also doing a swap with a Katie on YouTube. It’s not a huge deal to some as many people give to many more people than that. The problem with me, is that I start shopping early, and I end up giving people multiple small gifts. It adds up!

I’m also responsible for picking out a small number of gifts for people at work. Christmas is steadily approaching and we all need to straighten out our gift ideas.

For those hard to shop for co-workers, friends and family? Why not get a Gourmet Gift Basket? I mean, the kind folks at Gourmet Gift basket would love to give one of you lucky readers one!

Gourmet Gift Baskets are great as mostly everything is already paired up for you. You just have to select whether the person is a chocolate / biscuit or even coffee lover. I’m excited that I even noticed the baby baskets that is available on their website. In the past I have done my Christmas shopping online. It’s much easier than having to go to a store, wondering what you’re going to pick out for someone.

There is such a diverse selection on the Gourmet Gift Baskets website that it would appeal to anyone of any age for that matter, as the baskets just aren’t simply “one set style”. Plus you can keep the adorable baskets once the receiver is done with them. Fill them with towels to put in the guest bath, or even keep it in the kitchen for fresh fruit.

The one I received from Gourmet Gift baskets was called the Christmas Gift Basket Classic filled with cookies, pretzel dip, candy popcorn, crackers and some other fun eats.

You can spot Alfie’s (my dog) nose sniffing that unopened package. (All these images you can click to enlarge)

Unopened, and then just opened! Eee!!

All the goodies spread out.

I was most excited to try these chocolates out. I’m a HUGE turtles fan, and these were uh-mazing. They’re dark chocolate and very tasty.

The first thing my boyfriend looked at were the labels — No transfat!

It’ll be exciting for the next few nights to try each and every one of these goodies out. I can’t all divulge and try them in one evening. I’d get a tummy ache! Stay tuned for my tastebuds review :)

Dark chocolate and wine anyone?

These look great.

I wouldn’t recommend trying to put it all back in the basket though, hehe!

You can also view the massive selection (on the right hand side) of gift baskets they have to offer . Anything from Italian Food Gift Baskets (which you’ll have a ton of options under that selection), tea and cookies (4 different packages), sweets (tons to choose from — drool), even cupcakes and New Years! How fun. Like i said — there’s just an endless possibility on who and what event to shop for.

How to enter: Comment on this post with the words “Gourmet Me” and…
Bonus entries: Tweet it (1 entry per tweet — tweet multiple times!). Blog it (5 entries for 1 post). Facebook fan it (6 entries for becoming a fan).
Giveaway ends: Tuesday December 6th at 10pm EST.
Who can win?: Anyone in the USA and Canada!
When to claim: Winner will be drawn by random.org and announced on Wednesday December 7th. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours I will draw another name.

Good luck!

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