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Wingardium Leviosa! Wait that’s not right. #hpgiftguide13

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You either love Harry Potter fully or only love the books or maybe you think it’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus (which would be tragic). I for one love both the books and the movies, although I will admit the movies left far too much out in terms of details, but most book to movies do. I absolutely love Hermione. She’s bloody brilliant and the character evolved nicely throughout the series. So it’s super exciting to be able to tell you there is a new Harry Potter Gift Guide out for 2013 AND scrink.com readers have an opportunity to win a gift bag filled with Harry Potter goodies ($60 value)

Harry Potter 2013 Gift GuideHarry Potter Gift Guide—the ultimate source for magical gift ideas for wizards of all ages this holiday season. The Harry Potter Gift Guide, features the best Harry Potter gifts. From authentic wizarding artifacts and stylish Harry Potter apparel, to premium collectibles, your readers are sure to find the perfect gift for the wizard, witch or Muggle on their list.

Bringing together a collection of products from a host of renowned licensees, including The Noble Collection, MinaLima, Insight Editions, Rubie’s Costume Co., Bioworld, Elope, Hallmark, and more, the Harry Potter Gift Guide offers shoppers the chance to find the perfect gift for their favourite witches and wizards in one place. Harry Potter-inspired products ranging from wizard wear and accessories, to collectibles and home décor, are all available at the click of a mouse.

The Harry Potter Gift Guide was designed by MinaLima, the creative team behind the graphic design aesthetics of the Harry Potter films, including the Marauder’s Map, the Daily Prophet, and The Quibbler. MinaLima, now also a licensee of Warner Bros. Consumer Products as The Printorium, is also featured in the catalogue with their fine art print of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The catalogue is now available at www.harrypotter.com/giftguide as well as on the official Harry Potter Facebook page, www.facebook.com/HarryPotterMovie.

Harry-Potter-Prize-PackThe giveaway for scrink.com readers will be a Harry Potter goodie bag filled with items from the gift guide.

• Harry Potter Collectible Wand $39.95
• 2014 Harry Potter Wall Calendar $14.99
• Horcrux Bookmark Collection $34.95

It is a $60 value and we’re super excited about it. Please fill out the rafflecopter tool below to participate. The giveaway will end at 12 am on December 15, 2013. It is open to the US, please no PO boxes.

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Only if you really want an iPad Air or Surface 2

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You may not know this but there are so many amazing giveaways hosted online by blogs year round. Amazing giveaways and all you need to do is be a reader of their blog, check out the post and enter using some sort of form, usually Rafflecopter forms at the bottom of the post. It’s so EASY! I absolutely love entering, but more than that I love hosting and participating so that my readers have the chance to win.

With that said… do you want to win either an iPad Air or Surface 2? Or better yet since this giveaway ends before Christmas, do you know anyone you can gift the item to and surprise them with such an amazing techie item!?

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Welcome to the iPad Air / Surface 2 Giveaway!

Some of us awesome bloggers have teamed up to offer one lucky reader a chance to win his or her choice between an iPad Air or a Surface 2 tablet! This giveaway is organized by Bay Area Mommy and cohosted by The WiC Project, Freebie Depot, Coupon & Freebies Mom and Mom To Bed By 8.

Giveaway ends December 14, 2013 at 11:59pm EST. Open worldwide. Void where prohibited. Must be at least 18 years old to enter. If the winner resides outside the US, he/she will receive $500 cash instead. Entries will be verified. Winner will be randomly picked by Rafflecopter, will receive an email from isis@bayareamommy.net and will have 48 hours to respond. If no response is received within 48 hours from the time email was sent, a new winner will be picked. No Purchase Necessary. To enter, use the form below. Good luck!

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Disclaimer: This blog is not responsible for prize fulfillment. For questions regarding this giveaway, contact Bay Area Mommy.

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Ooooo did the Who’s down in Whoville have a Sousaphone Case?

sousaphonegallery__15580.1375980409.220.220You know all the crazy instruments in the Grinch that the Whos all play while strolling through the Whoville streets to celebrate? Haven’t you ever wondered where they put all those instruments while they are eating or wrapping presents? is there even an instrument case FOR a Seussaphone or rather a sousaphone ;)

My husband, the drummer turned guitarist who hangs all his guitars on our basement wall, he does have a guitar case, too. Although someone painted it with the faces of KISS band members so it’s not something you want to run into in the basement when it’s dark and you’re looking for the socks your toddler just threw down there.

So yes, there are instrument cases for the Whos down in Whoville. They are made with heavy gauge steel ball corners with plywood casing and a die cut foam inside to protect all their fancy music makers. Of course they also all have wheels because they can then ride on the cases while playing their tubas and trumpets and who-sa-whatzits! It will be a magical party, a fantastical holiday shindig and once it is time to sit down and fuel back up they can sit on those sturdy cases and chow down on their roast beast because the thick plastic laminate on the outside will protect the instruments on the inside while also making the instrument case easy to clean.

It’s perfect!

 

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Fracking, atoms and nitrogen OH MY

To be perfectly honest with you I am NOT sure how this happened but somehow I answered 13 out of 13 question correct on a Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz from the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine..

Somewhere along the line in all the “you are a girl and need to be in extra science and technology classes” throughout my education with the Appoquinimink School District it appears I must have been retaining information ;) Mr. Comegy’s should be proud.

The quiz can be found here. It is meant to test the general public’s knowledge of science and technology. I’m not sure if you can really do that with only 13 questions but it was still fun to actually know the answers.

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You belong in South Carolina!

My cousin-in-law, Nikki, posted this quiz on her Facebook page and I was curious so I clicked through and tried it out.

The quiz, from science.time.com, asks you a series of questions to find out which of the United States your personality best fits.

The article is by Jeffrey Kluger and Chris Wilson, their research finds that West Virginia is the most neurotic state, Utah is the most agreeable and the folks of Wisconsin are the country’s most extroverted. According to the quiz, I belong in South Carolina. I think this is a good thing. I’ve never been to South Carolina but I hear really amazing things about the state.

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Sounds like a trip should be planned ;)

Let me know which of the United States you match up with once you take the quick quiz.

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Social platforms that provide career connectivity

Now see why didn’t this website exist back in the early 2000s when I was wandering aimlessly trying to figure out how to break into the design world or work in higher education with technology? Because it’s not so easy to make contacts when you’re fresh out of college and everyone thinks you don’t know what you are talking about. Having a site you can connect on and share your ideas opens so many new doors of possibilities.

Collegefeed is a new social platform and the brainchild of Silicon Valley veteran, Sanjeev Agrawal. Collegefeed acts like a personal career assistant to help students / new grads find their dream jobs, and earlier this summer secured funding from investors including Accel Partners and Mark Stevens. The platforms takes a new turn from the traditional network, as it is designed solely for new grads and is a way for them to brand themselves professionally for the first time using their college experience. Collegefeed offers tools that go beyond simply viewing a connection’s contacts or a university page, but puts students in front of a company–Facebook, Google, Go Daddy, and many others–that are looking to fill entry level positions.  Additionally, Collegefeed includes a Netflix-like recommendation engine that suggests companies and positions (and now fellow students) based on a person’s degree, interests and other factors.

Click image to see a larger versionUse These Shortcuts To Land Your First JobUse These Shortcuts To Land Your First Job via Collegefeed

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A mixer case is not a vehicle for a drink, this I know for sure

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Creating music is not my thing. Writing about music, listening to music, being enveloped by music yes all of those are my thing, but not creating music. So when it comes to a decent carrying case I will default to what I know from my husband, because when it comes to music all of the above are his…

For Christmas and for his birthday I purchased mixing equipment for my husband because he wants to record music. Being a solo artist he would record layers of music individually and then put it all together, he’s talented like that ;) So he asked for a carpeted mixing case and a carrying case for the cords. Both items of which he needed for all his musical stuffs.

He chose a carrying case that is pretty compact and yes also carpeted because let’s face it that is just more attractive sitting in the lower level of our home attached to all his cords, computers and devices.

I’m not going to pretend to know anymore that what I’ve already shared, but I can tell you when he sits there working on music (the slim seconds he has chances to do so) he’s in his element and it’s great to see him that way. I might be biased but I think he’s a wicked guitarist and can pick up any song he listens to regularly. I’ll not be surprised when he records his first complete track and it sounds amazing. :)