Dogs Days of Summer Give-a-way DAY 1!

July 23, 2007 · 196 comments

Today marks the start of the Dog Days of Summer Giveaway Carnival and I’m excited.

As I said, I’m giving away something every. single. day this week. The comments will stay open and all of the winners will be drawn on Friday.

Todays gift is the latest in the Harry Potter series.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post. That’s it! You don’t even have to have a blog….

But if you do….

If you link back to this particular post, you’ll get an additional entry into the contest…

Be on the look out for the rest of the week… I’ve got stuff for crafty people, readers, moms, and jewelry lovers…

Until next time…

Heather

****Edited to add links to the other giveaways I’ve got****
Day 1 — Harry Potter (book 7)
Day 2 — Creative Memories lot of scrapbooking stuff
Day 3 — 5.8ghz cordless phone with caller ID
Day 4 — Gift Certificate of your choice (from approved list)
Day 5 — Bling!

{ 196 comments }

1 CarrieLynn 07.23.07 at 8:36 am: I would love to win this book.
2 Anne 07.23.07 at 8:39 am: A.W.E.S.O.M.E. I am in!
3 Jen Conrad 07.23.07 at 8:52 am: I can’t wiat to get my hands on this last book!
4 Wendy 07.23.07 at 8:55 am: Can I be in the drawing? Thanks!

bendy@epix.net
5 Lacy 07.23.07 at 8:57 am: ohmygosh…I want to win this one THE MOST! *laughs* count me in!
6 connie 07.23.07 at 9:04 am: This is too much fun!! Please add me to your list.

Take care,
Connie
7 slawebb 07.23.07 at 9:20 am: I can’t believe youare giving it away! Please let me win.
8 Sara 07.23.07 at 9:20 am: Oooo. Oooo. Count me in! Thanks!!
9 Kellie 07.23.07 at 9:20 am: WOWIE WOW WOW! That is a generous giveaway! Being a librarian, I NEED this! I’ll be the envy of all the kids at school!
10 Lacy 07.23.07 at 9:22 am: Hey there…are you from Columbia Missouri??? I grew up there!
11 Jen 07.23.07 at 9:26 am: I would love this!
12 Monica 07.23.07 at 9:26 am: I love Harry Potter, I would love this book, count me in. Thanks.
13 Corrie 07.23.07 at 9:38 am: I would love to read this book.
14 melissa 07.23.07 at 9:59 am: cool!
15 Julie 07.23.07 at 10:04 am: Please include me in the drawing. I’ve enjoyed reading the series along with my now 10yo son, and have been looking forward to this one also. Thanks.
16 Hilary 07.23.07 at 10:13 am: I’d adore to give my boyfriend this as a gift! Please enter me in your generous giveaway? Thank you so much!
17 Monkey Giggles 07.23.07 at 10:13 am: I am in too!!! Will be watch ya this week to see what’s going on.
18 summershine 07.23.07 at 10:16 am: Would love to win this one!
19 Katiebod (Rose are Red, Violets are Violet) 07.23.07 at 10:19 am: What a terrific giveaway!

Please count me in!!!
20 Becky 07.23.07 at 10:29 am: The book was great! My son would love his own copy!
21 Jean 07.23.07 at 10:30 am: I would love to win this and will be back the rest of the week. I love giveaways.
22 KarenDV 07.23.07 at 10:31 am: My son is working his way through the series and would love this!
23 Melissa 07.23.07 at 11:01 am: Oh count me in!!
Thanks!!!
24 Nancy 07.23.07 at 11:13 am: How generous!
I’m in!
(I have yet to read a single HP book…this would motivate me!)
25 crafty carolinagirl 07.23.07 at 11:18 am: I love the name of your blog! Please enter me in the drawing. I’d love to read this.
26 Sherry 07.23.07 at 11:20 am: Oh this is awesome!! I wanna win!
27 Jennifer, Snapshot 07.23.07 at 11:28 am: Cool–thanks!
28 Heather 07.23.07 at 11:48 am: count me in
29 amy 07.23.07 at 11:51 am: Hi,

Thanks for a wonderful gift. Please place my name drawing
30 Barb J. 07.23.07 at 11:59 am: My son loves Harry Potter. Count me in!
31 Kellie Penn 07.23.07 at 12:20 pm: Wow! Great prize! Count me in!
32 Amber 07.23.07 at 12:24 pm: I would love this! Please count me in!
33 And Miles To Go.... 07.23.07 at 12:41 pm: I WOULD LOVE to win this!! Thank you for the opportunity!!
34 Angela 07.23.07 at 1:02 pm: I’m all over this!
35 Angela 07.23.07 at 1:04 pm: This is great!
36 Nicole 07.23.07 at 1:04 pm: I’d love to enter your giveaway, please!
37 Sarah @ To Motherhood and Beyond 07.23.07 at 1:07 pm: Oh My Goodness!! I am planning to borrow the book from a friend but would LOVE to win it to complete my collection.
38 peach 07.23.07 at 1:08 pm: I’d love to win this, and I’ll be back all week to see what else you’ve got up your sleeve!

How fun!

Come visit me sometime, too.
39 Mama Money 07.23.07 at 1:18 pm: I would love this–I’m number 67 on the holds list at the library!
40 Heather 07.23.07 at 1:29 pm: Count me in as well! So cool of you to do.

Heather
heather@pagesbyheather.com
41 Karen@FamilyBriefs 07.23.07 at 1:49 pm: I’d love to win the last book – we are such fans! I’ve included a link to your site on a recent post I did about Harry Potter You can see it at: http://familybriefs.com/?p=75
42 kadusey 07.23.07 at 1:52 pm: I’d love to be entered!
43 Rachel Tomsick 07.23.07 at 1:53 pm: Haven’t gotten a copy yet! I am so in! Great blog too!
44 Miranda 07.23.07 at 1:58 pm: I need this book!! I think I’m the only Harry Potter fan who didn’t pre-order (tisk-tisk)
45 Lori 07.23.07 at 2:04 pm: @oohooo! Great prize!
46 Shannon 07.23.07 at 2:11 pm: Count me in!
47 Diana Farley 07.23.07 at 2:18 pm: I would love to win this book!! Please!! Diana
48 Julie 07.23.07 at 2:57 pm: You rock!!!
julie_ruhlman@hotmail.com
49 Karin 07.23.07 at 2:59 pm: I would LOVE this book. I’m the only Harry fan who doesn’t have one yet.
50 Nikki 07.23.07 at 3:02 pm: Ohh I have been soo wanting to read this last book. I am soo in!!

Nikki
51 Amanda 07.23.07 at 3:03 pm: ohh I want this
52 Le Anne 07.23.07 at 3:18 pm: I really love the series. I need to go back and read book 6 to prepare for book 7.
53 Julie 07.23.07 at 3:32 pm: I am one of the few people on the earth who hasn’t purchased this yet. Would love to win a copy — thanks for offering it!
54 Mrs. D 07.23.07 at 4:16 pm: Great idea!!
55 Becki 07.23.07 at 4:36 pm: Look at the comments roll in!!! I want it, I want it, I want it!!
56 kailani 07.23.07 at 5:07 pm: I would love this book. Count me in please!
57 Kyra 07.23.07 at 5:28 pm: What great ideas for giveaways! Count me in please!
58 Sara 07.23.07 at 5:32 pm: Enter me please! I love the Harry Potter books.
59 Christie Daniels 07.23.07 at 6:19 pm: Please include me! Thank you!
60 Gwen 07.23.07 at 6:40 pm: Woo-hoo!
61 margalit 07.23.07 at 6:56 pm: Harry! Love it. Pick me!
62 Mari 07.23.07 at 7:14 pm: I would love to get this book!
63 Ranelle 07.23.07 at 7:30 pm: Please me!!
64 Char 07.23.07 at 7:40 pm: I WOULD SO LOVE A FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK! I haven’t picked it up yet, as I’m waiting for pay day…..a free copy would make the wait even better!
65 Ginny 07.23.07 at 7:43 pm: Enter me & I blogged about it here http://momof2ballerinas.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/harry-potter-contest/
66 Cindy 07.23.07 at 8:01 pm: Great! I’d love this!
Thanks :~)
67 Beck 07.23.07 at 8:07 pm: I would LOVE this! Please sign me up!
68 Terry 07.23.07 at 8:07 pm: Thank you for the chance to win and have a great day:)
69 aBookworm 07.23.07 at 8:11 pm: I have my copy but this is indeed a FANTASTIC prize. But I’ve posted about it on my blog.
70 jessica 07.23.07 at 8:22 pm: my sister adores Harry Potter
71 Jo 07.23.07 at 8:35 pm: What a great prize! My kids wouldn’t let me pass your blog without entering. lol
72 Emily 07.23.07 at 8:46 pm: Oh, pick me! I haven’t read it yet and I can’t wait!!
73 Monique 07.23.07 at 9:34 pm: Love Harry Potter! count me in!
74 Jaxim 07.23.07 at 9:40 pm: count me in
75 Lissete 07.23.07 at 9:42 pm: Count me in Please!
76 Karla 07.23.07 at 9:51 pm: Please enter my name in your drawing.
77 heidi y 07.23.07 at 10:34 pm: Great Giveaway : )Please count me in… Thanks!!
78 Chris 07.23.07 at 10:36 pm: I would love to win the book!!
79 Anastasia 07.23.07 at 10:39 pm: How exciting! I’m in too!
80 Jennifer 07.23.07 at 10:44 pm: I would love to win this book as well! Thank you!
81 Tater and Tot 07.23.07 at 10:47 pm: WOW – that’s a great giveaway!

Thanks!
82 Amy 07.23.07 at 11:26 pm: Oh, I’m bookmarking you for sure!

Amy
mueller7[at]gmail.com

Stop by my giveaway too if you have a chance!
83 Autumn 07.23.07 at 11:30 pm: I want that book! (Please)
84 Laura Williams 07.24.07 at 12:03 am: Please enter me into the drawing! Thank you!

I placed your contest on my blog too. http://laurawilliamsmusings.blogspot.com/2007/07/you-could-win-latest-harry-potter-book.html
85 bee 07.24.07 at 12:19 am: Great prize!
86 linda c 07.24.07 at 4:19 am: I believe #82 is a magical number!
87 Jessica 07.24.07 at 10:40 am: wow! what a prize!
88 Eden 07.24.07 at 10:47 am: Pick me!! I would love to have this book.
89 Stitchblade 07.24.07 at 11:04 am: AWESOME! I want this soooo bad
90 Paige 07.24.07 at 11:06 am: Since my book has not arrived from Amazon, and my son is bugging me every day (and who knows when it will come), we’d love to win a second copy!
91 Sherry Early 07.24.07 at 11:19 am: OK, my mind is a HP-free zone, but my urchins would love a copy of the latest book. SO please enter me in your giveaway.
92 LisaCate 07.24.07 at 11:57 am: I’d love to win! Count me in & thank you so much!

And if you have a minute, swing by my site to check out my giveaway
93 PEA 07.24.07 at 12:01 pm: A fabulous giveaway!!! Please enter my name in your draw:-) Thank you!! xo
94 Kellyn 07.24.07 at 12:24 pm: My peanut would be doing a happy dance if I opened this up!! Sign me up!
95 Melissa 07.24.07 at 12:39 pm: Oh, my girls would be thrilled!
96 Deputy's Wife 07.24.07 at 12:41 pm: What a GREAT gift! Thanks for hosting!
97 Teresa 07.24.07 at 12:49 pm: Please add me to the drawing.
98 Tricia 07.24.07 at 12:54 pm: Count me in!

Tricia
99 Kyleen 07.24.07 at 12:57 pm: Wonderful giveaway! Count me in too! Thanks!
100 Scratchin the Surface 07.24.07 at 12:57 pm: Please add my name. Thanks.
101 Megan 07.24.07 at 12:58 pm: Wow! Great giveaway! Count me in, please!
102 Heather 07.24.07 at 1:06 pm: Please include me in your contest too! Great prizes!
103 Jeannette 07.24.07 at 1:13 pm: Can a Brit enter this?
104 NICOLE MARTEL 07.24.07 at 1:18 pm: oh i want it need it have to have it!
105 Natalie 07.24.07 at 1:51 pm: count me in , please!
106 Janne 07.24.07 at 1:52 pm: Count me in, please!

And I’m giving away Scripture this week. Stop on by and enter.

Blessings,
Janne from
Janne’s Jabberwocky
107 Tiffany M 07.24.07 at 2:06 pm: Cool prize. Please enter me.
108 Beth/Mom2TwoVikings 07.24.07 at 2:10 pm: Wow! Count me in!
109 MoneyDummy 07.24.07 at 3:06 pm: I love it! I’m in!
110 Chappyswife 07.24.07 at 3:23 pm: I’d love to win this book! Thanks for the chance!
111 Jen 07.24.07 at 3:24 pm: Awesome!
112 Dawn 07.24.07 at 3:35 pm: Pls enter me and then come enter mine!
113 Elizabeth F.-The Whole Family 07.24.07 at 4:46 pm: Enter me please! I’d love to have this book.
114 jodene 07.24.07 at 6:10 pm: my daughter would ove if I won this. Thanks for the chance
jodenemuri@hotmail.com
115 Gretchen 07.24.07 at 7:15 pm: count me in, please!
116 Tracey 07.24.07 at 8:07 pm: Oh, I am dying to read this!!
117 Mary 07.24.07 at 9:26 pm: Hi please put me in the contest
thanks
118 robin 07.24.07 at 9:42 pm: would love love to win this book! Thanks!
Robin
119 lissa 07.24.07 at 9:53 pm: Never read any Harry book but I wouldn’t might giving it a try
120 Sheila Jacobson 07.24.07 at 10:00 pm: I’d love to win this. Thanks.
121 Scratchin the Surface 07.24.07 at 10:10 pm: Please add my name to the list. Thanks.
122 Angel 07.24.07 at 10:57 pm: Please sign me up!
123 frugal housewife 07.24.07 at 11:39 pm: This looks great! Please add me to your list. My e-mail address is myspamfoil@gmail.com.
124 LeeAnn 07.25.07 at 12:02 am: I been holding off buying the book until we finish and organizing/remodel project this weekend (otherwise the project will never get done!) Please enter me for the give-a-way. Thanks!
125 Kara 07.25.07 at 12:39 am: Wow! What an awesome prize!
126 Overwhelmed With Joy! 07.25.07 at 1:00 am: Please enter me in your book giveaway! If I win, I’ll use it for one of my future Pay It Forward Book Exchanges!

If you haven’t already, please stop by and enter my free earring giveaway.
127 Annie 07.25.07 at 1:02 am: Count me in for this one too!
128 Marlene 07.25.07 at 1:16 am: Great giveaway!

I am a middle school teacher and I need to read this before summer is over.
129 Elizabeth 07.25.07 at 3:27 am: Oh, you know this one is a popular one!

Thanks for including me in your drawing!

homeschool_mommy@cox.net
130 Trina 07.25.07 at 3:36 am: Count me in!
Trina :0)
131 Tammy 07.25.07 at 3:37 am: Enter me please.
Tammy
132 Lorie 07.25.07 at 6:29 am: Please enter me! I want to read this book!
133 Ladybug 07.25.07 at 6:33 am: Count me in and don’t forget to enter our give a way too!
134 Kendra 07.25.07 at 7:15 am: Please add my name in the drawing. I’d love to win!
135 Erin 07.25.07 at 7:22 am: I’m a little late joining in on the HP craze, but I’d love to have this book for when I get caught up!
136 Crystal B. 07.25.07 at 7:33 am: Please enter me. I want read this book.
137 Carla 07.25.07 at 8:21 am: Count me in…
138 Carol Lee 07.25.07 at 8:30 am: Cool. I’ve only read book 1 and 2 but I’m working on it.
139 Selina 07.25.07 at 8:36 am: Wow! What a great goodie to give away!
140 Elizabeth 07.25.07 at 8:55 am: Oh I would so love to read this book. I was so depressed the other day when I saw it out in the store and I don’t have the money to buy it. My library has all the copies reserved out on a list. I would LOVE, love, love to win this and then I could pass it on to another.
141 Striving\Tessa 07.25.07 at 9:05 am: Very cool. What a good choice. thanks.
142 Holly 07.25.07 at 9:18 am: Can’t wait to read that one!
143 Kim 07.25.07 at 9:23 am: So cool~!
144 Kellyn 07.25.07 at 9:32 am: Count me in!!
145 loallynve 07.25.07 at 9:47 am: How cool. Enter me please.
146 michelle 07.25.07 at 9:59 am: Giving away Harry Potter already! I want it!
147 VAIL 07.25.07 at 10:04 am: Hoping I win!
148 Sue 07.25.07 at 10:19 am: I don’t have this one yet. How great! I’ve linked to your post.
http://jabberwalkiejoke.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-won-something.html
149 cindy Vernon 07.25.07 at 11:32 am: Awesome giveaway!
150 Tonya 07.25.07 at 1:19 pm: LOVE Harry Potter books… I teach and read children’s books regularly the first time I read Harry Potter I couldn’t put it down.
151 Sarafu 07.25.07 at 1:22 pm: Oh Yay! COunt me in!
152 Kelley Rees 07.25.07 at 1:27 pm: Please add me to your contest, i would love to win this book!
153 Denise 07.25.07 at 1:58 pm: Oooh I would love this, please enter me, and thanks for all your offerings.
154 daisyaday 07.25.07 at 2:17 pm: I haven’t read this last one yet, and the waiting list at the library goes around the block at least twice. Please put me in your drawing! Thank you!
155 Jennifer M. 07.25.07 at 2:23 pm: I’d love to win this book!
156 Linda G. 07.25.07 at 3:01 pm: I would love to win this for my daughter!
157 rachelle 07.25.07 at 3:04 pm: I just got back from Target and almost bought this book! It would be so fun to WIN! Thanks for the opportunity.
158 Laura 07.25.07 at 3:20 pm: I have a friend who would love to get this book. I could pay it forward!!! I’m crossing my fingers.
159 tanyetta 07.25.07 at 6:05 pm: yes! count me in please.
160 samantha 07.25.07 at 6:18 pm: Please enter me!
samismad@hotmail.com
161 Briggie, Woodbury, NJ 07.25.07 at 7:19 pm: i would love to win this so i could give it to my future son in law – he’s a potter-fan-atic!
162 Kim 07.25.07 at 8:22 pm: Sign me up!

Come on over to see my giveaways too.
163 Loni 07.25.07 at 9:00 pm: Count me in, please!
Thank you for sharing!
164 Mary 07.25.07 at 9:48 pm: Love Harry! Pick me!

Mary
165 esther 07.25.07 at 11:17 pm: thanks!!! this is so much fun.count me in too pls!!
cookieyellowjar@yahoo.com
166 Karen 07.26.07 at 12:59 am: Hi! I am Karen from Brooklyn, NY. I would love to be entered to win. Thanks for taking part in this great giveaway so we can all have fun and get a chance to browse your blog too.

Karen
bklynspirit05@aol.com
167 Sandra 07.26.07 at 1:30 am: Love Harry!
168 Linda SS 07.26.07 at 1:56 am: What a terrific prize! Thank you for offering me a chance at winning.
169 Becky Kwan 07.26.07 at 2:59 am: Thanks for the chance to win this! Go Harry!
170 NormaJ 07.26.07 at 9:14 am: I admit I haven’t read the previous novels, but this one intriques me, so yes, I would love to be on your list of hopefuls.
171 Elaine R 07.26.07 at 9:31 am: I thought I was the only one that didn’t have it yet!
172 Alex 07.26.07 at 11:07 am: Awesome . Please enter me.
173 Mayogi 07.26.07 at 11:25 am: The last HP won’t reach my neck of the woods for many, many months ye so i’d love to win it! Please enter my name.
174 Mama Zen 07.26.07 at 12:31 pm: Very cool!
175 Deniece 07.26.07 at 12:32 pm: Awesome.Please enter me!
176 Deena @ Wholly Devoted 07.26.07 at 12:44 pm: There’s NO WAY I’ll win…but I’m in.
177 Dee 07.26.07 at 1:06 pm: Cool!
178 managing the motherload 07.26.07 at 1:33 pm: Great giveaway! Thanks!
179 Dana 07.26.07 at 1:46 pm: I’d love to enter Thanks so much for your generous giveaway!

Dana
d07@goldingers.com
180 Heather 07.26.07 at 2:20 pm: I’m not picky!
181 JoAnn 07.26.07 at 2:26 pm: Ooooh! I’d love to win!! Thanks for a chance at my very own HP book!
182 Kristie 07.26.07 at 3:03 pm: Sign me up!
183 Dale 07.26.07 at 5:10 pm: Ok. I know that we are friends and all… so if I won it would appear that you were bias. So, I hope I win, like everyone else, but if I don’t I will not hold a grudge.
dale@whaterevyouwanthoney.com

P.S. I am going to do the linky thing. Not for the extra entry, but because I love you, Matt and Sam!
184 Carla 07.26.07 at 6:07 pm: Thanks for entering my name in the draw!
mommarobin@gmail.com
185 Kristie 07.26.07 at 7:06 pm: Pick me! Pick meeee!
186 Genesis 07.26.07 at 8:42 pm: I have to enter this as I am a huge fan of Harry Potter, but have only read up to book four. So this one, should I win, will have to be saved while I try to find the others in English!
187 lani 07.26.07 at 9:13 pm: Merlan’s Beard!
188 Debi 07.26.07 at 9:24 pm: PLEASE count me in
189 AngieD 07.26.07 at 10:39 pm: Oh, please, pick me! I’ve requested the book from the library and I’m number 458 in line to read it! ::waves hands wildly::
190 Janice 07.26.07 at 10:48 pm: Ooooh, pick me, pick me!!! I am dying to get this book! Thank you so much for this giveaway!!
191 Caryn 07.27.07 at 12:10 am: Count me in
192 Myrna 07.27.07 at 12:10 am: My son would love this!
193 Dawn 07.27.07 at 1:38 am: We love reading the Harry Potter books.
194 Donna 07.27.07 at 6:58 am: I haven’t read any of the HP books yet, but want to…so if I win, I’ll be motivated to start!
195 Misty 07.27.07 at 10:56 am: I’m itching to get my hands on that book! Please enter me!

timandmisty@hotmail.com
196 Wendy 07.27.07 at 4:20 pm: Count me in!