Happy New Year's Eve, my friends!

Going into hiding for the weekend (might see me about on Facebook, lol!), so I wanted to say to all of you who visit me here at Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom, have a very happy and safe New Year's Eve!

May the coming year bring to each and every one of you love, happiness and prosperity!

It's New Year's Eve, a blue moon, and a lunar eclipse.  How much more of a magical day/night can we get?  Get out there and make some magic!!

See you next year, lol!

Ask Mrs.B: Take 2

I had quite a bit of fun doing this last time, and there were a few questions left since then, so I thought I'd give it another go!

You can find the last batch of questions and answers here.

If you have a question you'd like answered on paganism, cooking, parenting - I'm open to anything! - ask away.  I might not know the answer, but I'm betting one of the readers here will!

So ask away!  And leave your 2 cents as well!  All advice and answers are welcome.  Just remember to keep both questions and answers kind and to respect everyone's opinions, even if you don't share them.

Questions that have been asked since last time:

1. Bridgett asked: What are the top three ritual/spell tools you couldn't live without and why? ANSWER
2. Jen asked: I'd love to know do you buy your seeds online for your veggie garden or do you buy plants already started? Will you share tips on how you garden?  Perhaps some spells/intentions you use to help them all along?  ANSWER
3. I had a question before Yule via Facebook that I'm so sorry to say did not get answered in time for Yule (darn you, flu!!) and I believe it was from Angela.  It was about (and I wish I still had the question as it was originally asked, sorry!) being "in the broom closet" and how to share information with the younger kids who might talk about what you are doing - how do you include them without having them tell everyone what you are doing?  ANSWER
4. Tarmara asked: I'm very open with people in my life about my beliefs. They all accept me and I've never ever heard a bad comment or had an issue. With your kids being younger, do the moms of your kids' friends know you are pagan and have you had any problems with ignorance? Just curious.... ANSWER
5. Maman Tattoo asked: How did your life change from having 1 kid to 2? ANSWER
6. Maman Tattoo asked: Do your children have any interest in paganism? ANSWER
7. Asked via an email: I am single, living with diabetes (and an eating d/o), and would like to start making more healthy meals from scratch.  What should I have to stock a small, workable pantry? ANSWER And, since I know you do bread often, how the heck many kinds of flour do I really need?!!? lol  I have bread flour, all purpose flour, and now self rising flour.  good lord! ANSWER
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A Spell for the New Year: Flushing the Negative Away

This year has held many wonderful things for me and my family.  New friends, a fabulous vacation, a new driver's license, growing independence, the growth of my blog - I could go on and on.

It's also held some negative things.  Two separate physical attacks on my son who's dealing with autism. A cyber stalker who dedicated to me a story of 3 children swimming in their mother's blood.  A careless mistake blown way out of proportion. Dealing for months with an insurance company that doesn't want to pay for it's fair share of my son's hearing aids (Now resolved!  Woot!).

Like many Pagans, I make my New Year's resolutions on Samhain.  For the secular New Years Eve, I wanted to come up with something a little different.  A ritual for letting go of the negative aspects of the year, and a way to mentally and spiritually take a step toward moving on from the actions of others that have affected me and of letting go of the mistakes I've made and did my best to correct.

This ritual can be done as quickly as you need it to be.  I suggest taking a little time to reflect on each element, however, and really concentrate on letting go - and reflecting on if you've really done the work to correct or move forward from the things you want to let go - as always, magic will happen when you do your part of the work.  So here goes the ritual:

A New Year's Ritual for Letting Go
Items needed:
Pen or Marker
Something to write on

Select the item to write on carefully.  It should be an item that is easily and permanently disposable.  The disposal form should also be different than one you usually use to make wish magic.  For example, if you use bubble soap to blow your wishes to the wind in the form of bubbles, do not use that as a way to get rid of your troubles for this ritual.

Examples of things to write on or for sending the negative away:

• Whisper the troubles into a bubble as you blow it away on the wind.
• Write it on toilet paper and flush it away.
• Write it on a piece of junk mail and add it to your recycling (best done right before you deliver your recycling or right before it's picked up. Don't leave it to linger in your home).
• Write it on paper and burn it.
• Write it on something that you can add to your compost bin,  add it in, cover it with dirt and let it rot and become something positive and useful.
• Write it on a large leaf and throw it into a body of water to be washed away.

The ritual:

Though I don't always cast a full circle when doing small rituals, this one might be best done in at least a simple circle.  When dealing with negative energies, best not to let any more in.  Cast the circle in your favorite way, with the items you need at hand inside your space.  Think about the things that you want to add to your list to let go of. Make sure that you have done the work to correct things to the best of your ability, be sure that you have made your apologies when it's been necessary, be confident in the fact that you are ready to let these issues go.  Spend some time giving yourself some positive reinforcement.  Remind yourself that you are a good person who does your best and that no one is perfect.  Tell yourself that everyone makes mistakes and it's time to let them go and not dwell on the past.  Strengthen your "shields" so that other people's negativity can not so strongly affect you in the future.

When you are ready to do so, write down all the things that you want to let go of.  You can write in great detail to get it all out of your system or keep it down to a few details to show the energy that it doesn't matter to you anymore - whichever feels right to you.  When you are done, say a small prayer to the deity of your choice to help you let go and to give you strength to be more positive in the coming year.  Release your circle in your favorite way.

Dispose of the list in the way that you've chosen.  From that moment on, if thoughts of these negative things creep into your thoughts,  repeat the word "STOP" in your mind and consciously move your thoughts to something more positive, or repeat a chosen affirmation such as "I choose to live in a positive manner" or "I've let you go, you no longer have power over me".

With your own work towards being more positive, and the help of your God/dess, you can create a more positive year in 2010!

The Winners Are....

Sorry for the delay.

The winner of the Faery Godmother soap from Tribal Horse Designs is: Emerald Kat.


The winners of the Magus of Stonewylde book by Kit Berry (1 copy each) are:

• Not Hannah
• Alternate winner picked
• Gruvkitty
• Catwitch1987
• Bridgett

Congrats to all the winners!  Please contact me with your shipping information.

As much as I hate to do it, I am going to postpone Retro Cooking Month.  I was hoping to have a lot of great things set up to start off the month, but with me and the kids so sick, it's just been impossible.  Thanks to everyone for understanding.

This will be my last post until after the holidays, so let me say to you all: Have a Happy Holiday, a Merry Christmas, and a New Year full of peace, love, joy and prosperity.

Apologies

I've been sick as a dog the last few days, hence the lack of posts and movement on the blog.  Two out of three kids were right there with me.  You know if I'm not posting anything, I'm down for the count.  I'm still not 100%, but I needed to address something and make an apology to someone.

You might remember a post I did over Halloween about the witch jars my daughter and I made.  Well, the thing that I left out of the post was that they were inspired by something I had seen months earlier in another blog.  It was something that I ran across, not a blog that I frequent regularly, and I could not remember where I had seen it.  I should have mentioned that fact at the time, but I failed to do so.

Yesterday, I saw a comment to this post, commenting on the fact that I had copied it from another blog.  I'll tell you straight out, I changed my post to basically cover my own ass.  Yep, I f-ed up.  I should have just come out right then and said, "Yep, I was totally inspired by that!  Thanks for telling me the name of the blog so I can add it on!".  But nope.  I can only claim in my defence that I am still stick and not thinking as clearly as maybe I would have been otherwise.  But even then, it's a lame excuse.

So dear readers, I ask your forgiveness for not letting you know that my craft was inspired by another artist. And I offer a public apology  to PumkinRot.  It was not my intention to pass off your idea as my own, but that's surely what I ended up doing.

UPDATED TO ADD 12/24:  I would like to add, for those emailing me personally about this, that before I put this post up, I privately emailed PumpkinRot to apologize and admit my mistake.  And though there are people who do not believe that I did not have the worst intentions (made quite clear in your emails, let me assure you), I know that I am not the person that you (emailers) are trying to portray me to be. Yes, I screwed up and yes, I apologized.  I am certainly not "the devil incarnate" (and that's one of the nicer things that was said to me).  Choose what you'd like to believe, that's fine.  I will only state again that when I first put the post up, I did not remember where the inspiration came from.  Yes, back in July I had commented on the post.  I comment on hundreds of blogs a week.  Yes, I should have stated that the craft was inspired by someone, even if I could not remember exactly who.  Yes, I handled being confronted on it badly.  Yes, I admitted my mistake and apologized, both privately and publicly.  That's going to be my last word on it, and I'm going to move on with my life. You can call me what you like, email me nasty profane letters, that's fine.  It won't change my life or what I know to be true.


On another note, I am still sick as a dog, and will probably not be posting much more until after the holidays.  I still hope to pull off the Retro Cooking Month starting in January.  All giveaway winners will be posted tomorrow at noon EST, however.

Homemade croutons are easy to make.

Photo: Photo courtesy of the author

Homemade croutons are a quick way to dress up any salad or even some soups.  They are quick and quite easy to make.  Croutons are the perfect way to use up loaves of homemade or fresh bakery bread that tends to go bad faster than grocery store loaves.

Homemade Croutons

Ingredients

6 slices of firm white bread, cut into cubes
4 tablespoons of olive oil
4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed with the flat of a knife
1 tablespoon of dried Italian seasoning mix
1 tablespoon of finely grated Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Add olive oil, herbs and garlic to cold saucepan.  Turn on to medium heat and warm, stirring, until garlic and herbs become fragrant, about 1 minute.  Remove pan from heat and allow to cool for 1-2 minutes.   Add the cubed bread into the pan, and stir gently to coat.  When the oil is absorbed into the bread, add Parmesan, salt and pepper; stir gently.  Spread the herbed bread cubes onto a jelly roll pan in a single layer.  Cook for 15 minutes or until browned well, turning over every 5 minutes.

Use immediate, or store in a tightly covered container for up to 3 days.

This is post copyright to the author. It may not be reposted, reprinted or distributed in it's entirety without express written permission of the author.

Happy Yule!

Unfortunately, I got what Miss M. had last week, and am sick as a dog.  Emails, blog activities, etc. will be postponed for at least today.

Hope you are all having a wonderful, blessed Winter Solstice!

Winner of the Jade Zen Necklace from Cyprus Sun Jewelry Announced!

We are totally under a huge mess of snow and I'm cooking our Yule feast tonight (assuming the kids will go to school tomorrow, it's just a huge deal to make such a meal on a school night).  I will celebrate the sunrise tomorrow with candles and bells :O)

But for now I've picked (via an online random number generator) the winner of the Jade Zen Necklace created by Cyprus Sun Jewelry and it is.......


Huguette English!  Congrats!  Please contact me with your shipping information :O)

Where the Hell is Tanner: That's waaaaay too small edition

Blog Giveaway: Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry: 5 Copies!!

You might remember a little book review I did a while back on the awesomeness that is Kit Berry's Magus of Stonewylde.  Such a wonderful, wonderful book and I can't WAIT to read the rest in the series!!

Well, the very gracious Kit Berry has arranged for me to give away 5 copies of the book!  So if you haven't read it yet, now is your chance!

I'm going to do this giveaway a little differently though, with a couple of different options.  You can enter them all or just one, whatever your heart desires, lol!

Three of these copies will be given away via this giveaway*:

To qualify to win this prize, you must comply with all of the following requirements:

• Have an blog accessible through your user name or leave an email address with each entry.
• Visit the Stonewylde website, come back here, and comment on your favorite part of the site.

For extra chances to win, you may do any one or more of the following (leave a separate comment for each):

• 1 entry each (for a total of three possible) - Write about this giveaway on your blog, Myspace or LiveJournal. Leave a separate comment for each and include the URL to the post. (As per the new Facebook TOS,  Facebook can NOT be used as an entry for giveaways.)
• 1 entry (per hour) - Twitter the following message: Please RT @MrsBsConfession Visit silvermoonwitch.blogspot.com and enter to win 1 of 5 copies of Magus of Stonewylde from @Kit_Berry
• 1 entry - Be or become a follower at author Kit Berry's blog
• 1 entry - Be or become a friend of Kit Berry on Myspace
• 1 entry - Follow Kit Berry on Twitter

Three winners of for this contest will be chosen, via an online random number generator*, at noon EST, December 23.

For the other two winners*: 

The other two winners will be determined on Twitter!  From those who retweet the above message, the people who make the 100th and the 200th retweets will receive a copy of Magus of Stonewylde!  Only one retweet per person per hour counts!**  These winners will also be announced on December 23rd.  Happy Tweeting!

PLEASE NOTE: 
If your blogger profile is set to private, I will be unable to find your blog or email via your profile.  If you don't leave an email address in your comments, and your profile is private, the entries DO NOT count.
Entries that are not on separate posts will be counted as one post. 
Entries that contain links to non-related subjects will be deleted completely.  
Entries must be in English.

*If prize is not claimed within 7 days, a new winner will be selected.

** Anyone found to be retweeting more than once per hour will be disqualified from winning.

The Horde Invades!!

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Oh, loyal, invading Pagan Horde!  I invite you to follow me to Octoberfarm today!

I know many of you will already know this wondrous blog from the insanely amazing Salem basket donated to The 31 Days of Halloween!  If you haven't visited Octoberfarm as of yet, get moving!  You won't be disappointed!

Here's just a little taste of what you'll find:

The original spell book from Practical Magic!

Crazy fun giveaways!

Fabulous recipes!

And walk throughs of her amazing treasures and collections!






So head on over!  She's got a welcome message waiting for you here!

Blog Giveaway From Tribal Horse Designs (and all previous giveaway winners announced!)

Before we get to the wonderful, wonderful giveaway from Tribal Horse Designs, here are a couple of giveaway winner announcements:


The winner of The Field Guide to Cookies from Quirk Books is: Jen!
The winner of the $25 Gift Certificate from Eco Store USA is: Emma!
Please contact me with your shipping info* so that I can pass it on to the prize donors. 
Now on to more giveaway fun!!


I recently got to try some samples from the wonderful Lisa at Tribal Horse Designs.  I love handmade artisan soaps, but let me tell you, the ones that Lisa sent me to try are out of this world!  First off, let me tell you that Lisa makes all of her soaps using the CP (cold press) method.  This isn't some quicky melt and pour thing she's doing.  This is a time consuming  labor of love in which uses real, quality ingredients ingredients and scents.


I got samples in  English Leather, Faery Godmother, Mulberry and Light Mango.  Oh, it's like soapy heaven, lol!   The English Leather was a manly scent without being too overpowering.  Mr.B. is pretty particular about his soap scents, and he loved this!  Mulberry is one of the scents that could go either way - not too strong, not too girly or manly, and I loved the mix of purple and green colors in the soap! Light Mango is probably the first mango anything I'd actually put on my body.  (If you are still reading, take an extra entry by posting  a comment on your favorite commercial soap scent.)  Not that overpowering, artificial mango you get in commercial soaps, but a wonderful clean scent.  (All of the soaps I tried leave your skin super silky without that gross commercial "moisturizing soap" tackiness.)
And then there was the Faery Godmother soap:

 Oh my gosh.  This soap is a combination of shea butter, coconut oil, chamomile, honey, peanut butter and a hint of pumpkin, with a bit of chamomile and oatmeal on top for texture.  When I unwrapped it, I didn't know if I should bathe with it or eat it.  I'm still not totally sure I made the right choice.


And Tribal Horse Designs is giving away a bar of the luscious, smells-good-enough-to-eat-but-don't-because-it's-soap Faery Godmother Soap to one lucky reader!
Here's what you need to do to enter:
To qualify to win this prize, you must comply with all of the following requirements:

• Have an blog accessible through your user name or leave an email address with each entry.
• Have a mailing address in the US
• Be or become a follower of the Tribal Barter blog.

For extra chances to win, you may do any one or more of the following (leave a separate comment for each):

• 1 entry each (for a total of three possible) - Write about this giveaway on your blog, Myspace or LiveJournal. Leave a separate comment for each and include the URL to the post. (As per the new Facebook TOS,  Facebook can NOT be used as an entry for giveaways.)
• 1 entry (per day) - Twitter the following message: Please RT @MrsBsConfession is giving away a bar of Faery Godmother soap from Tribal Horse Designs! silvermoonwitch.blogspot.com
• 1 entry - Leave a comment about your favorite piece of jewelry at the Tribal Barter blog.
• 1 entry - Leave a comment about what other soap scent offered on the Tribal Barter blog you'd like to try.

The winner of the this contest will be chosen, via an online random number generator*, at noon EST, December 23.

PLEASE NOTE: 
If your blogger profile is set to private, I will be unable to find your blog or email via your profile.  If you don't leave an email address in your comments, and your profile is private, the entries DO NOT count.
Entries that are not on separate posts will be counted as one post. 
Entries that contain links to non-related subjects will be deleted completely.  
Entries must be in English.

P.S. You can also find Tribal Horse Designs on Facebook.
* If unclaimed after 7 days, a new winner will be chosen.

ADVENTure Day!

I was invited this month by the wonderful Roxana of Illuminated Perfume to participate in a little Blog-a-rama called ADVENTure.  Every day since Nov. 29, a different blogger has written a post about how scents are wrapped up in our holiday celebrations.

I'll tell you, reading through the other posts through the last weeks, I've been a little horrified about putting words down!  Some of these posts are so beautifully written, so poignant, so heartfelt, I wondered how I would ever come up with anything meaningful.  See, I barely have any memories of Christmas as a kid, and none of them have to do with any scents.  Nothing to do with my parents lack of putting on wonderful holiday celebrations, mind you. I just have a weird memory that brings up strange bits, such as unwrapping about a hundred different tiny Barbie accessories that my mom wrapped separately (6 Barbie hangers, a pair of Barbie shoes, a Barbie purse... you get the idea).  The Christmas dinner that we ate in the Army mess hall because we had just moved (with a Christmas tree, decorated, in our van, traveling from Alabama to Texas).

Then I realized that the scents that I think of as holiday smells are from the traditions that I've created with my husband and family. The bottle of perfume my husband buys me, because it's the scent I wore when we were dating 15 years ago.  The cocoa we drink while we drive around and look at all the decorations and lights on the solstice. The smell of the real Charlie Brown tree that we go and pick our every year.   The chocolate chip cookie "pizza" I make every year for Christmas morning breakfast (Yes, we eat cookies for breakfast on Christmas.  Sue me.).

Though my memories of childhood Christmases past might be a little hazy, I hope, through annual traditions, that  I'll be able to create childhood memories for my children that they will remember far into adulthood. Ones that they will treasure and maybe even recreate with their own children.  Or maybe they'll only remember the year that Tanner threw up all over the Christmas tree skirt....

Ask Mrs.B

Inspired by the  Tampa Paganism Examiner  I thought it might be interesting to try a question and answer feature.  A place to ask a question about Paganism, about ideas for spells, or as the Examiner said, "about what's a good covered dish to take to a Yule celebration."

 I invite any questions that people are looking for ideas for - on any subject, not just Pagan.  I also invite readers to not just ask questions, but to offer up their own advice in the comment section of the answers!

Questions can be posted here to comments at any time, and I will answer any new ones on Tuesdays.

If you don't want to ask your question publicly, use the contact button at the top of the blog, and I'll post your question from "anonymous" (and keep your identity strictly confidential) (as long as you aren't asking something illegal).

And if there's anything you want to ask me personally, I'll try my best to answer as honestly as I can!


Questions, asked and answered:


1. Angie asked, "I'm so disorganized in my home and life...how do you keep everything flowing smoothly?"   Answer
2. Angelique asked: "What can we expect from Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom in 2010?"   Answer
3. Maman Tattoo asked: "Are you doing something special for the upcoming Blue moon?"
Answer
4. Iris asked: "My family is having major money troubles and one of my witchy friends told me to light green candle. Okay I have the candles, now what do I do? Should I surround the lighting of them with a ritual or what? We REALLY need money so I want this to work. I really won't be able to afford any more candles."   Answer
5.  Kallan asked: "Since I've only been a fan for a few months, I'd love to know the history of Mrs. B's confessions, where you get your absolutely charming graphics, etc..."   Answer 
6. Gypsy Moon Art Studio asked: "Alot of our friends go to church and my young children (ages 3 and 5) are very curious about religion and why we don't go to church. I have talked quite a bit with them about nature and different religions. What would be the best way to introduce them to some simple spellwork without being too "over the top"?"  Answer
7. Tarabu asked: "I love this new feature - is it going to be an every Tuesday thing?" Answer

Continue on to week two

Blog Giveaway: From Cyprus Sun Jewelry!

This giveaway is brought to you by Cyprus Sun Jewelry!

The Zen Series...Earthy Jade

So simple or a little sassy, depending on your mood or your fashion selection. This design seems to appeal to women of all walks of life.

Uniquely beautiful glass beads and jade gemstones are hand linked on sterling silver. The handmade "pendant" moves from bead to bead, but doesn't come off of the necklace. 

Adjustable 18 to 20 inches, with an easy to use lobster clasp. All sterling wire, chain, and clasp

To qualify to win this prize, you must comply with all of the following requirements:

• Have an accessible blog or leave an email address with each entry.
• Visit Cyprus Sun Jewelry, return here and comment about the the piece that interests you most!

For extra entries you may do any or all of the following (please leave a separate comment for each):

• 1 entry (per day) - Twitter this message: RT @MrsBsConfession Visit silvermoonwitch.blogspot.com to enter to win a jade Zen necklace! (Leave the URL to each new message each day)
• 1 entry each - Post about this giveaway (leave the URL in comments) on blogger, myspace or livejournal (Please note: Due to new Facebook TOS, giveaways can NO LONGER reference Facebook for giveaways as entries in ANY way.)
• 1 entry - Be or become a follower of the Cypress Sun blog

The winner of this giveaway will be chosen by a random number generator at noon EST on Dec. 20 and announced shortly thereafter.

PLEASE NOTE: 

• If your blogger profile is set to private, I will be unable to find your blog or email via your profile.  If you don't leave an email address in your comments, and your profile is private, the entries DO NOT count.
• Entries that are not on separate posts will be counted as one post. 
• Entries that contain links not related to the giveaway (capital "s", rhymes with "ham") will be deleted. 

Monday Mutterings

Life never seems to slow down, and this time of year is always so busy!  I feel like I am way behind on my blog posts!


One thing that I've been doing a lot of is posting reviews and giveaways.  I've decided to start posting all of these during the afternoon (the shoot-for time is noon).  As my blog grows, I have more and more opportunities to review items and to promote shops and sites that I enjoy - but I absolutely do not want this blog to become just a "giveaway" blog with no "real" content.  So hopefully by posting the personal posts in the morning and the other stuff in the afternoon, I can have a balance between the two.


Something that is just killing me right now is my lack of camera!  My camera's finally died a painful death.  I'm hoping to have another in time for the January Retro Cooking event, as recipes and such are, I think, way better if you can share a picture or two.

On to wonderful Yule news, the Yule edition of The Earth Child's Handbook is out and ready for purchase!  You might remember I reviewed Volume 1: Me and My Family  earlier in the year and just loved it.  The Yule edition is just as wonderful.  It includes craft ideas and directions, a coloring page, puzzles, ideas for the Yule altar and decorations, recipes, correspondences, a simple history and  a simple, kid-friendly Yule ritual for the family.
 Definitely worth the low price of only $3 for the download that you can print out as often as you'd like!  This is great for families with multiple kids who will all want to color the pictures and do the puzzles!


Tune back in this afternoon, because a new giveaway will be starting!  We're going to have some really great items up for grabs this week!

Blog Giveaway: The Field Guide to Cookies!

Have you done your holiday cookie baking yet?  No?  Me neither.  I haven't been too inspired, until I was filtering through my way through the Irreference.com website and saw that they had the recipe for Whoopie Pies listed from their Field Guide to Cookies.  Whoopie Pies!  If you don't know what I am talking about, you need to go find this recipe right now and make them.  You'll thank me. Repeatedly.

Anyway, so with Whoopie Pie recipe in hand, I am now hot on the trail of getting some baking done in the next few days.  But.... if you aren't inspired yet, this might help:

The lovely, lovely people (did I mention that I really like them?) at Quirk Books* is letting me give a copy of The Field Guide to Cookies to one lucky winner!

If you can't find inspiration to bake in this little number, well, you probably just don't like cookies, lol!

Here's what you need to do to enter:

To qualify to win this prize, you must comply with all of the following requirements:

• Have an blog accessible through your user name or leave an email address with each entry.
• Visit Quirk Books at Irreference.com, use the search feature at the top of the page and search for "recipes".  Come back here and comment about your favorite find!

For extra chances to win, you may do any one or more of the following (leave a separate comment for each):

• 1 entry each (for a total of three possible) - Write about this giveaway on your blog, Myspace or LiveJournal. Leave a separate comment for each and include the URL to the post. (As per the new Facebook TOS,  Facebook can NOT be used as an entry for giveaways.)
• 1 entry (per day) - Twitter the following message: Please RT @MrsBsConfession is giving away The Field Guide to Cookies from @irreference - visit silvermoonwitch.blogspot.com for info!
• 1 entry - Be or become a follow @irreference on Twitter
• 1 entry - Sign up for the Irreference.com newsletter (found at the top left of the page)
• 1 entry - Subscribe to Irreference TV on YouTube.

The winner of the this contest will be chosen, via an online random number generator, at noon EST, December 15 - still time to make cookies for the holidays! 


PLEASE NOTE: 

• If your blogger profile is set to private, I will be unable to find your blog or email via your profile.  If you don't leave an email address in your comments, and your profile is private, the entries DO NOT count.
• Entries that are not on separate posts will be counted as one post. 
• Entries that contain links to non-related subjects will be deleted completely.  

* I did NOT receive anything for these comments, nor have I received this book.  I have received items from Quirk Books in the past, but this blog post is not influenced by "swag".  It is influenced by the lure of Whoopie Pies.

PS You can also find Irreference and Quirk Books on the following Facebook pages:
Quirk Books
Quirk Classics
Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies