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Two Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora!

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  • WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is Melody! Congratulations, Melody! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

Win a $50 Sephora eGift card from Makeup and Beauty Blog

Musical notes

Good mornin’
Good mornin’
We’ve talked the whole night through
Good mornin’
Good mornin’ to you


From Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Rise and shine, morning glory. 🙂 How did you sleep? Did visions of sugarplums dance in your head, or did obnoxious kittehs jump on the bed?

Tabs was surprisingly well behaved last night AND this morning despite the huge turkey vulture I just saw sitting on the railing of the deck. Normally, Tabs would have been all over that thing, glued to the sliding glass door, chirping and kacking at the bird from inside the house (cat ladies, you know what I’m talking about), but he didn’t seem to care at all.

He must be plotting something…

Tabs, not the bird.

Speaking of birds, have you heard of a Hitchcockian iPhone game called Angry Birds? El Hub has really been into it lately.

I’m more of a Bejeweled and Tetris girl myself.

Have a great day today. Before you bolt it’s…

A Makeup and Beauty Blog Giveaway!

Win a $50 eGift card from Sephora

  • One (1) Sephora eGift card containing $50 sent to the winner by email (or $50 sent by PayPal instead).

  • There are two ways to enter, and you can do both of them for two chances to win. First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all, like, what’s your favorite board or tabletop game? Do you still play dress-up? Have you ever acted in a play? — you get the idea (and it doesn’t have to be about playing, ha!).
  • Second, you can enter by following me on twitter Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:
    • Follow @karenmbb and RT to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora! http://bit.ly/gEW9Sj

  • The deadline to enter is Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 11:59PM (PT).
  • Entrants must enter using a valid email address and/or Twitter account to win.
  • A maximum of two (2) entries per person — one within the comments at the bottom of this post, and a second entry via Twitter addressed to me @karenmbb.
  • Contest is open to individuals of any country who have reached the age of majority according to their local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
  • Sephora eGift Certificates can only be redeemed online and are not valid in stores or available for purchase or redemption in Canada. The winner may opt to substitute the Sephora eGift card prize for $50 sent directly to their email address by PayPal.
  • Tabs and I (heretofore referred to as “T-Money and K-Dawg”) will select one (1) winner at random from the entries either left in the comments at the bottom of this blog post or addressed to @karenmbb on Twitter.
  • The winner will be announced here within 48 hours of the deadline.
  • Void where prohibited by law.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

  • WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is Melody! Congratulations, Melody! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

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  9. Angry Birds might be THE most addictive mobile game on the planet. I’ve lost sleep, missed stops on the train . . . There’s something about trying to conquer those greedy pigs!

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  12. I love playing dress up! My little cousins and I take a day to unwind and dress up! We use my clothes, my mother’s clothes and try to come up with as many different themes. Yesterday, we pretended to be in Paris, sipping on some rich Pinot Noir and petting our poodles! Love you!

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  14. I love the visual of Tabs chirping at the vulture through your sliding glass door! I used to have a cat who would do that with squirrels, but she was so fat and lazy that the squirrels eventually just sat in front of the window and taunted her for fun. 🙂

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  23. I acted in a school play in 12th grade. For some reason our teacher decided to turn it into a movie. We actually went to garbage dump to film the play. (Please don’t ask what the play was about) lol!

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  25. I bought Bella Bamba last weekend and TOTALLY love it, and realized I want a lipstick that is a similar color (maybe a gloss too, for good measure and options). Anyone have any ideas? Thank you for your help! 🙂

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  31. Good Morning! I have just recently started following your blog and i LOVE IT! at first it was more for inspiration in starting my own blog, but I am really enjoying everything you discuss! 🙂

    Enjoy the weekend!

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  36. Angry birds IS pretty awesome. When I got my boyfriend an iPod touch for his birthday, I put angry birds and a bunch of other games I have on my iPhone onto it before I gave it to him. I think he’s better than I am at ithd game, though 🙁

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  44. I’ve been losing sleep these past week because I’m stressing out about my Masters application. I’m going to Singapore, and there’s a lot of paperwork and documentations to be done. Doesn’t help that the University website has contradicting information, and even though I’ve emailed them for clarification, they are a little slow in replying, and unless they reply and clarify I can’t make the necessary arrangements and documentations *Sigh* I’m also stressing about my lecturers, as some refuse to write reference letters unless the students were their tutors , so I’ll need to have “back-up” lecturers to turn to for references.

    Some retail therapy would be good, but money has been tight lately too >_>

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  50. Hubs is the same way with Angry Birds. I tried to get into it but couldn’t. I’m more of a Plants vs. Zombies girl.

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  67. Hey Karen! I’ve changed my email address, so this is the first comment from there, but I”ve been a long time reader/commenter. (that was kinda random, huh?–anyway, it’s Amanda W., from Colorado). So, my cat will periodically decide she wants to sleep in the bed with us. She only does this about once every month or two, but for the last 2 nights she has gotten on the bed. Unfortunately her “choice” position is on my PILLOW, and she likes to get in my hair. soooo incredibly weird to wake up to cat in your hair!

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  70. My fiance discovered Angry Birds a couple months ago, and he’s hooked! I’ll be talking to him for like, 10 minutes, then realize he hasn’t paid attention to a single thing I said because he was too busy trying to kill all the pigs!

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  73. I love classic boardgames like monopoly and clue. I had to stop playing scrabble with my friends, they’re way to competitive hahaha

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  81. I would love a $50 at Sephora – I desperately need new foundation! Have a great weekend, Karen! I hope it’s not too cold and rainy in the Bay. It’s sunny in LA right now after a crazy storm last night, still cold as a witch’s titty, though, lol!
    Lisa recently posted … Creativity for the Uncreative

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  84. Going shopping today to look for something to wear to a wedding in a couple of weeks. I am so not a ‘dress up’ kinda gal-wish me luck!

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  85. I used to loooooove Trouble (board game) when I was a kid. My mom used to always accuse me of cheating. Maybe I did hit the bubble more than once when no one was looking…

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  86. Uhhhh…angry birds… I swear Senor Hubz plays that game ALL freakin day long!!! I swear, I think he’s logged at least 40 hours.

    Thanks for the contest Karen!

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  88. omg angry birds… heard of it… never played. i can’t let myself!

    anywayssss celebrating vday tonight with the hubbster… better late than never 😉 and i DO still play dress up… but I have kids, so its ok… right? haha

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  92. I love Trivial Persuit, Cranium, Pictionary and Cribbage. I suppose Cribbage isn’t a boardgame, but I had to mention it since people in my family are practically born knowing how to play! I still have an old flip phone, so I’ve never played any of the new games. My sister is addicted to Angry Birds though, so I do know what that one is.

    Thanks as always for doing these great giveaways. I’ve tweeted as well…@turtlegirl922.

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  97. Love your blog and of course tabs! i looove cats and cannot wait to graduate college so I no longer have to live in the dorms and I can have a kitty of my own 🙂

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  99. i love love love Angry Birds! I get so sad when my boyfriend leaves… because he takes his phone with the game on it with him. ;]

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  101. I’ve heard angry birds is fun, haven’t tried it though as I don’t need another time sucker in my life! I might crack one day though….

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  106. My favourite game right now is Pit! It’s an insane card game. I find myself screaming out numbers at the top of my lungs and practically climbing across the tabletop whenever my friends and I play! Such a fun and interactive game!! =)

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  113. I like Angry Birds Seasons better than the regular one, but I’m not really good at either one. My husband’s favorite is normally Angry Birds, but he’s playing Tiny Wings now. I think it’s the new addiction.

    I like Cut The Rope the best. The little guy you feed candy to is so cute. Plants vs Zombies is good too, but I haven’t played it in awhile.

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  115. In between calls on slow days I think of all the combos of outfits I can do with my clothes since I don’t have time to play dress up.

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  121. My husband got me into Angry Birds! Then he beat the game and quit playing, and I just sort of stopped because my phone was having trouble loading it. Sigh….anyway, my cats definitely making that weird cackling sound too, more so when they see a bug. 🙂

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  125. I like to do what I call “fashion show”…I go shopping and then my poor hubby is subjected to a fashion show where I try on everything I bought. Poor guy! He’s a trooper. 🙂

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  129. I suck horribly at Angry Birds! I usually delete the game off of my droid when I’m not good at it. My favorite game of all time is probably Word Mole! I love =)

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  132. The only play I’ve ever been in was a casual one they made us do for a church class when I was about 12. We only rehearsed for about 2 days before we performed, and it was terrible of course. I would never act in a play by choice. I have horrible, horrible stage fright.

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  133. I LOVE Angry Birds. It really is addictive, lol. Even my mom likes to play it! And she is so not into video games. My 2 year old son also plays it, heh

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  137. Missy makes a different sound for each type of bird that shows up in our backyard. It’s the funniest thing. I don’t even have to go check who’s here, I just listen to Missy and I can tell!

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  142. I love Angry Birds…. It is seriously addicting!!! I have never really been into board games, however, I like Scrabble. No family event is complete with out a good game of Cribbage, but I think this is concidered a Table Game and not a Board Game. I have been playing Cribbage for, well, probably since I could count, now that I think of it that is probably how I learned how to count! LOL!
    Thanks for all these fantastic giveaways! I tweeted about this too…. @beanagirl01.

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  145. I LOVE Angry Birds! My 6 year old cousin and I play it all the time. He calls me every day to tell me what level he’s on 🙂

    Have you played Words with Friends? I’m hooked on that right now. I play with my mom and my best friend all day lol. They’re the only two who will play with me hah.

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  151. Angry Birds really is addictive! I don’t have an iPhone but I found the PC version and played it three days straight until the end 😛

    I really like the Mystery Case Files series of games. It’s a hidden object game with puzzles.

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  158. I love “Good Morning”! I was so punch drunk yesterday that I sang it when I got down to meet with some coworkers. They stared at me.

    Thinking of changing my nail polish from OPI Strawberry Margarita to Feelin’ Hot Hot Hot – that nth degree of change will really rock my world… 😛

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  160. I’m a monopoly freak. I have many different editions, including The Simpsons, but my favorite is The Powerpuff Girls one. So coot.

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  173. As far as board games, I will THROW DOWN when it comes to Scrabble. I’m not wildly competitive, but you best not mess with my Scrabble skills!

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  174. I’m 30 weeks pregnant… only 10 more to go! So much to do, so little time :). I’m excited to meet my little man, though :).

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  181. I’ve been off for the week from school (3rd year university), going back on the 28th, and I have so much homework left to do. Procrastination at it’s finest right here! 🙂

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  185. I acted in high school plays a few times – supporting player.
    I’m going to a late afternoon wedding today, so I’ll be playing dress-up and doing my makeup later. I’m also going to wear a vieled hat – I love hats!

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  186. I have woken up from the worst sleep I’ve had in AGES. It’s been a while since I’ve had to bust out the heating pad because my lower back was so incredibly tight I couldn’t bend it. Yes, sitting at the desk (and trying to get up from it) is supremely awkward and full of inappropriate noises.

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  189. Hi! Angry Birds is an awesome game. I strongly suggest you and your hubby to play “Plants v/s. Zombies” as well…Especially since you love Zombie themes! It’s the BEST game EVER!!!

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  195. I was one of the four main Oompa Loompas in a summer camp rendition of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” A few years after that I realized I didn’t like acting.

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  196. I was totally a drama geek. I was in all the plays in high school and the local summer teen theater and then was in Guys and Dolls during my year abroad in Cairo. Shockingly enough, for a piece of classic Americana, Guys and Dolls went off REALLY well there!

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  208. Lately I have been loving cetaphil antibacterial bar soap. I just want to shout it from the rooftops! It keeps my oily skin matte like no other! It’s actually for “dry” skin.

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  213. Just downloaded Angry Birds to my iPad the other day and now my 3 year old is addicted. I’m more of a Bejeweled girl myself.

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  215. Actually I’ve been playing dress up a lot lately. I go through all my old clothes to see what I can finally fit in again. I recently lost a total of 30lbs.

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  218. I love that sound the kittehs make when they see an animal out the window…my cat chatters like crazy when he sees a squirrel. He also does it when I sneeze, lol.

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  219. I would buy the LM Silk Road palette if I won this GC- I think the purple/grey/taupe trend for spring is SO pretty! Thanks for all the reviews and swatches you do 🙂

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  223. My cat’s the best. When classes were recently cancelled b/c of snow & I was unusually home during the day, he squished & snuggled with me on the couch even though there was plenty of space for him at the other end of the couch.

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  232. I love playing dictionary man with friends, although I’m not the best at it, it’s fun and addicting, especially with friends 🙂

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  235. I’m trying to buy Rammstein tickets but they keep giving me seats way too close to the side of the stage. Don’t wanna look in Till’s EAR, wanna look at his ugly MUG lol

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  239. My son got a new board game from Santa this year. Its called Headbanz and it is so much fun. They have an adult version, but the children’s one is hard enough! We love playing it you should try it out thx!

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  245. Enjoying a lazy weekend while I recover from a fall on the ice. I am excited to see all of the makeup and nail looks tomorrow night during the Oscars!

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  247. i kinda wish it was raining while i stay in bed all day trying to get rid of this sickness 🙁
    🙂 thanks for this giveaway! 🙂

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  250. I play Words with Friends for quick breaks during the workday. I usually have a couple of games going, distributed between mom, friends, and boyfriend!

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  259. OH MY LORD I AM NOT EVEN COMMENTING TO WIN THE MONEY (but it would be nice!) but KACKING! YES! my sister’s cat used to do that all the time and we all thought it was so weird and i always thought she was the only cat that did it…i guess not! she used to do it at birds, too, and insects that would land on the window 🙂

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  261. My husband is OBSESSED with Angry Birds. I don’t get the appeal. But then again….
    I’m OBSESSED with Sephora. He doesn’t get the appeal.

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  267. I just recently discovered your blog, and I love it! Finally, someone with the same skin tone as me blogs about make up. Keep up the good work.

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  269. yay contest! I’m totally setting up to run my D&D game today because I’m out, loud, and proud about my dorkness!
    Thanks for the contest!

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  273. My favorite board game is Quelf 😀 it makes you do the weirdest things, like single a song with your knees stuck together or dance to disco in silence.

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  279. Oh man Karen, I’m glad you have your contests! It’s a nice thing to do and it makes me smile, which I definitely needed today! I have rude neighbors who kept me up all night and 2 hours of sleep + work in a bakery = me burning myself 3 times (two first degrees and a second). Le sigh. I hope your saturday is going better than mine!

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  286. Random Comment! ~ I’m babysitting today (in exchange for Star Wars costume parts WOO!) and I did rainbow eyeshadow in the hopes the kids will like it! =D

    I also retweeted the message *fingers crossed!*

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  289. please!! i hope i win! i am obsessed with makeup but cant afford high end. i love your blog sooo much and go on it every single day!

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  299. I’ve decided that, starting tomorrow, I need to consume more chocolate. For my health and general well being. A yes, I’m quite excited about this!

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  300. Monopoly hands down lol!! I haven’t played Angry Birds. My boss has it on her iPhone and she showed it to me. I’m thinking about getting me an iTouch. So we shall see. hahahahaaa!

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  303. Angry birds is pretty good, but I’m with you on tetris! It wins every time! I’m just getting ready to fight some snow and ice and go put for the day. Wish me luck. Actually had a day off this week from school due to a blizzard warning! First snow day ever! Loved it!

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  311. I have 3 little girls who love to dress up — so sometimes I dress up along with them. They love to do my hair (yikes!). 🙂

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  314. I was on StumbleUpon [stumbling/procrastinating] and swatches from this beautiful blog came up! Congrats on that 🙂 And great giveaway!

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  316. Was looking for someone who had swatched a particular lip gloss and your blog came up. 🙂 Thank you! Awesome giveaway, and I like your site layout. ^^

    Cheers!

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  317. Never “officially” acted in a play, but was the star of many of my own 😉

    and I was never big on the whole app thing. basically, I take the free ones!!

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  322. I just came back home from getting the MAC Emancipation lipglass from the Wonder Woman collection and the So Chaud lipstick for spring! :3

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  324. ooo if only I can use this $50 giftcard to snag the Naked palette now that’s back in stock!! I haven’t checked since yesterday but I’m pretty sure it’s either already sold out or will this weekend =(

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  325. I have to rewrite 6 poems in portuguese and i hate all those accents and i hate that i have to change my keyboard’s language and i have to learn the new keys. but i have to do it:((

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  334. I could really use some cash to spend at sephora… I have my eye on the Tarte amazonian clay blushes you recommended so highly!

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  336. the weather is so nice today in FL, in the 80’s. Not trying to rub it in to those in the north, just so happy it is warm.

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  339. I’m sick of this cold weather… so to make me feel better, I bought a new bathing suit from Victoria’s Secret – it will arrive just in time before I leave for Florida in two weeks!

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  341. On cold days like today I love to veg out on the coach with my husband and kids and watch movies with a cup of tea or hot chocolate! I’m not into board games but I do like a good hand of gin rummy.

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  347. Last night my flat mates and I played catch phrase and pictionary! We had so much fun that before we knew it, we played for 5 hours and it was already 3:00am!!!!! It was soooo fun! ^-^

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  348. Tried Mac’s lip liner, Subculture, after reading about it on your blog. It is the only lip liner that actually matches the natural color of my lips! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Crossing my fingers and hoping I’m the winner this week 🙂 Have a lovel day!

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  349. Sephora always sucks me in with the personalized emails (“This would look so good with your brown eyes, Robin” over the top of the newest Lancome eye palette) Of course, I cave and buy it. I need the $50 to help with my Sephora addiction!

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  355. I switch games on a regular basis. Past have been tetris (tnet), bejeweled, RO, and some other crazy ones. Currently playing Minecraft. I don’t know why I love it so much.

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  356. I tried to go a day without washing my hair, conditioning myself to try the every other day method, but it didn’t work. I give in once I step into the shower and start co-washing.

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  362. I’ve only played in a sketch so far (Does In the Bank ring a bell for anyone here? I was the banker :D)… oh, and now, I have a theatre course at the university, where we get a glimpse of how a play is adapted to stage… and even if nobody joined the course because they wanted to be actors/actresses, we have to read the dialogues with the teachers’ (there are going to be more teachers, who are really great and semi-well known theatre actors… yippie! :D) instructions… it feels as if we were beginner actors in an acting school, for real 😀 (the first two occasions were held by an actress, who’s lovely but a bit foul mouthed… so, as someone who’s shy and has stage fright, hearing her saying ‘Try to say it with more passion, like you’ve been through 5 years of passion and f.cking’… uhm, yeah, it was kind of shocking and a ‘yeah, right’ moment :P. We’ve been reading excerpts from Pinter plays so far :P.

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  371. Even though my husband got laid off this week, I’m keeping my head up. We already had a vacation planned to visit his family in Florida… we leave on Friday and I can’t wait!!!

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  372. K-Dawg,

    Long time lurker of your awesome blog. I’ll have to comment more often.

    You should check out Plants vs. Zombies (I believe you can find it on PC, Xbox 360, and DS). It will help you in your zombie killing skillz when the zombie apocalypse happens…or when you are playing Tzeitel in your high school’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, like I did.

    Mazel Tov, and have a great weekend.

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  376. One of my fondest childhood memories is playing games with my father. Especially the nightly games of Trouble that went on for a couple of years.

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  384. I am obsessed with angry birds. I always saw the app in the app store, but never got it cause I heard it was a weird game! BUT … I downloaded it and I am obsessed. 🙂
    Vanessa recently posted … DONT JUDGE

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  388. My nine year old and I love to play the new Scrabble Flash!! It’s a new take on the classic game of Scrabble and it hones his spelling skills for school! Fun and learning, win, win! Have a lovely weekend, Karen. It’s gorgeous, warm and breezy here in north-central Florida. 😉

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  391. just ordered Nars the Multiple in South Beach, can’t wait for it to arrive! =) love your blog, it’s so down to earth and approachable. go you!

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  396. okay if I looked out my window and a vulture was staring back at me I would freak! Tabs is pretty brave for a tubby tabby^_^

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  398. today is my best friend’s birthday so we went to a chocolate restaurant and is was delicious! whenever you’re in NYC you should go to max brenner!

    🙂

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  406. Hey-lo! Spent the day helping our young man with his Frederick Douglass report. It’s SO HARD to just supervise and let him do his own paper! The editor in me can barely stay away! (Must leave sentence structure alone.) So, right after I enter this here contest, I’m going to find go some chocolate AND EAT IT ALL. Did I mention he’s had all month to work on it and only told me about it YESTERDAY!?

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  407. My kitty used to sit at the window and talk to the birds outside! I think he’s too old now (16). He’d rather not make that jump to the window sill.

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  412. I’ve tried Angry Birds and failed to get into it, probably because I absolutely SUCK at it! However, I am obsessed with time management games like Sally’s Spa, Sally’s Salon, Diner Dash, etc. One thing, though: they sure do interfere with my time management skills… 😛

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  413. I have both Angry Birds and and Bejeweled and I like Bejeweled a lot better. I just can’t get into Angry Birds for some reason, but everyone I know is obsessed with it!

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  421. I went to the MAC counter at the mall today so I could find out my shade. The girl was SO RUDE, and then said I was an NC45. Well, that’s impossible. When I looked in the mirror, the shade was much darker than my skin and very orange. My chest looked ghastly in comparison. So I instead went to the Lancome counter because I couldn’t handle the MAC girl’s attitude and found my shade in Teint Miracle. Though that’s a little too dark for my skin. Just slightly, though. My skin color is very difficult >_>

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  435. My cat Snook was tearing through the house last night,and sliding around the kitchen floor on the throw rug.I didn’t get much sleep lol

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  437. have you played bejeweled 3? i am absolutely addicted to that game, i do believe that once i beat all the levels and minigames the world & my head might indeed explode

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  440. I JUST CAME TO SAY HELLO!!! My favorite beauty product right now is mac’s mineralized foundation and powder!!! Have you tried?

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  443. I’m talking to my cat right now, about our upcoming move to a new apartment. I’m not sure what that says about me as a person : S

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  444. Thanks for a great giveaway. I”m sucking on a chocolate lollipop and enjoying some down time now that the kids are tucked in for the night. My husband is an Angry Birds addict, too, and I have acted in plays…would love to do that again someday.

    Happy Saturday night!

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  445. Angry Birds was the first app I purchased for my iPhone! We are getting a Sephora store here sometime this spring…the gift card would help tide me over with one more online purchase before it opens 🙂

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  448. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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    for derza give-away dtz gettn me zealous !
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    a quickie lil poem- that ! lol !

    all ryt ! so hr we r ! doz bare again mac sheen supreme truly are gr8- lukin !… glad tht tz gonna bcom a part of d permanent range.

    Dat makes t 2 reasons for the unexpected “glorious-ness” of the morn 😀 !

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  466. My favorite board game is one called Dominion, it’s a card game! Otherwise, I just put in an order for a Naked palette and I’m so excited to finally get to try it!

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    • I love Words with Friends now! although it makes me upset when it won’t let me play certain words. Today I was totally trying to play floo and it said that it wasn’t a word 🙁

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  478. Karen, my boyfriend has been on vacation with his family in Brazil for almost the whole month. I’m losing my mind! Thank you to my favourite make up blogs for taking up a lot of my (incredible amount of) spare time. Appreciate all the hard work you do!

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  480. I love basketball even though I’m not good at it*sighh I feel weird when I tell people that I love basketball but I’m an okay player

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  481. I just had dinner at The Stinking Rose in Northbeach and wow – even after brushing my teeth 3 times, I can still taste the garlic LOL !

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  483. I love board games! we used to have family nights back home where we’d get the games out and just have fun! Though I can’t draw for peanuts, I think my all time fav has to be Pictionary! Love the excitement!

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  490. Hi Karen 🙂

    I Love your site.

    and

    I Love SCRABBLE!!! It would have to be my all-time favorite board game and I rock at it! if I say so myself 😛

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  503. I seriously think Mac is just randomly getting as much lines out as possible (making some whatever limited editions), just to jack $$$

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  507. I’m not so much into board games but LOVE playing cards! I have gotten a group at work addicted to P & A, we play every day during lunch. I also loves me a good competitive game of cribbage but I am a pouty loser lol!

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  509. OMG past few colections of Mac are drop dead gorgeus! I love make up and i don’t have anything from Mac – can you belive that!!!

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  511. Good morning! Its 8am on a Sunday — I didn’t know that Sunday HAD an 8am! LOL … My handyman is on his way to fix some broken grout in my shower … Messing up my beauty sleep! Lol. Hopefully winning a Sephora gift card will help me get beautified 😉
    Thanks for this giveaway Karen!
    Xxxo Vanessa

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  513. My cat sugar has been meowing all night long! I love dressup! My hubby and I are going to the renassaince festival in a few weeks and I am ever so excited to play dressup! My sister is obsessed with angry birds but bejeweled has consumed my life! I’ve done theatre ever since I was a wee little one. But the last play I was in was guys and dolls

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  519. I’ve only recently gotten into makeup and I have never, ever bought anything at Sephora! $50 to buy what I want would be awesome!!

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  521. I decided to give up buying makeup for lent this year…but a $50 gift card doesn’t count as buying makeup if I’m not actually paying for it right?

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  537. SOOOO i’m studying right now… and it’s so boring. I go on spring break soon, so a change to win a $50 gift card would be AWESOME

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  539. I saw a whole page dedicated to cat related beauty products in a recent issue of nylon and immediatly thought of you. Your love for tabs is adorable.

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  544. I love it that you put the song from Singin’ in the Rain on here. It’s such a fun song, and it’s pouring down rain here.

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  576. Is it sad that I would prefer the Sephora gift card over the $50 cash via Paypal so that I would have more of an excuse to spend the money on makeup?

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  578. Sephora is one of my favorite stores to shop at! Thanks for a great opportunity for an awesome giveaway! Cannot WAIT for the Oscars tonight? What will the stars wear??

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  583. my cat is injured, think he got hit by a car. poor thing, he can hardly move 🙁 my family and i are nursing him right now.

    on a lighter note, i’d love to win this! i’ve been getting samples of lavanila’s vanilla lavender perfume. LOVE. IT. SO. MUCH!!!
    Hazel recently posted … G&G Max Pure Pink

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  584. Duck Duck Goose is my current fave because I love hearing my three little ones squeal with delight as I chase them around the circle!

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  585. I could really use some Sephora in my life right about now…Btw, my sweetie and I are big fans of the board game RISK. Last time, because it’s better when more people play and it was just us two, we added my cat as a third player to make the game more interesting and took his turn for him…and the cat ended up controlling the most territory.

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  589. So a few days ago my Uggs betrayed me and I FELL in a snowbank by the gas station. Everyone in their cars lined up to turn onto the street watched me struggle on my back. Then I flipped over and flopped around on my belly for a little bit, before finally grabbing a pole and heaving myself back up onto my feet! I felt like I was climbing out of a trench! At least it was funny 🙂

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  592. i am an addict to angry birds. for some reason you don’t feel guilty about killing green pigs with flying birds. oh yeah, just ordered my first mac from the site this weekend. yay!

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  594. I’m in the middle of watching the Oscars right now!
    I can’t wait to see who wins best picture… I’m in the middle of deciding between The King’s Speech and Social Network. I mighttt just go with The Social Network.

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  596. I love to do dress up. I like being pretty once in a while. I can’t really dress up at school because I don’t have confidence to dress up even though I am in an university and they don’t really care about dress code. I love dressing up 🙂

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  598. Greetings! I usually order my products online, but I’m going to a Sephora store in less than 2 weeks. I’M SO EXCITED!!!! Love your blog, btw! 😀

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  602. nothin could be grander than to be in louisiana! [though reading this post a few hours earlier and winning wouldve been nice lol]

    my bf is into angry birds as well, im more tetris myself (bejeweled/bejeweled variations are also fun, tetris ftw though). but hes the one with the ipod and were usually busy when we hang out, so i hardly play it, and when i do its only for a few minutes cause then were back to doing something. so maybe id like it more if i had some time with it

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