Holiday Guide

This year, Savvy Source is all about giving, and we want to send some holiday cheer your way!

Daily Merriment

December 9th through the 20th

Guidelines:

• You have until Midnight PST on each date listed below to enter each day’s giveaway.
• Write a comment on the post or article noted below to enter — any comment is fine.
• One entry per person, please. (And be sure to include a working email address so that we can contact you.)
• The winner will be randomly picked and announced the following day on Being Savvy.

Dec.9	Leave a comment on the Best Books of 2008 post on Being Savvy (December 4). Three comments will be chosen at random; winners will receive a copy of The Gift of the Christmas Cookie
Dec.10	Leave a comment on "Home is where the holidays live," our guide to creating new traditions with your family. One comment will be chosen at random. Winner will receive a package of Better Bakes™ organic break-and-bake cookies. Available in 5 unbelievable flavors: Chocolate Chunk, Vanilla Sugar, Triple Chocolate Chunk, Oatmeal Raisin and Peanut Butter, these pre-portioned cookie dough packs each make 24 cookies. Better Bakes™ are perfect for a quick and easy dessert or a fun after-school treat.
Dec.11	Leave a comment on "Tis the Season" by Betsy Brown Braun. One comment will be chosen at random. Winner will receive a DVD of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, the first major motion picture based on the popular American Girl stories. The movie centers on Kit Kittredge, a young girl growing up during the Great Depression. Kit’s happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his business and must leave home to look for work. Kit and her mother are left to manage on their own and end up taking in an assortment of boarders in order to keep their home.
Dec.12	Leave a comment on our guide to the best handmade holiday gifts. One comment will be chosen at random. Winner will receive a Ralph Lauren Paint-Your-Own-Polo Shirt kit (a $50 value). Ralph Lauren Childrenswear invites kids to get together, get creative and paint their own polo shirt. With six brightly colored paints, an array of paint brushes, fun stamps and a classic white polo shirt as the canvas, the sky is the limit!
Dec.13	Email us your parent-friendly resolutions for 2009. Is there anything you’d like to do differently as a parent next year? Is there anything that worked so well this year that you plan to continue it? Send your thoughts to . We may use your resolution in an upcoming feature! One email will be chosen at random for the contest. The winner will receive a Creative Projects art table (a $129.99 value) from Step 2. Maybe your resolution will be to do more art with your children next year…
Dec.15	Leave a comment on Corey Colwell-Lipson’s essay "Greening the Holidays" on Being Savvy (will be posted on December 10). One comment will be chosen at random. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from Infused Beauty. Infused Beauty creates aromatherapy products of the highest grade for your body and mind and spirit. You might use your gift certificate for some delicious ginger snap body lotion, a basil-mint salt scrub, or perhaps a Sound Sleep pulse point aromatherapy blend. Sounds heavenly!
Dec.16	Leave a comment on our guide to holiday parties for preschoolers on Being Savvy (December 9). Five comments will be chosen at random. The winners will receive a copy of Mask Parade. With this book, your preschoolers can pretend to be all sorts of fun forest animals. Each page contains a press-out mask and a mirror. There are six masks and mirrors for hours of imaginative play!
Dec.17	Leave a comment on our guide to the best books and toys to celebrate the winter holidays. One comment will be chosen at random. The winner will receive a Leap Frog Didj with one Hannah Montana game and one Indiana Jones game. Perfect for your 5-6 year old. Kids know that Leap Frog makes learning fun!
Dec.18	Meditation? Yoga? Pedicures? We want to know your favorite relaxation techniques. Send your thoughts, along with a few notes as to why this technique works so well for you, to . We may use your idea in an upcoming Savvy Source feature. One email will be chosen at random for the contest. The winner will receive a soothing baby blanket from Shi Shu Baby. These beautiful blankets are made from all-natural fibers and are sure to relax your favorite baby.
Dec.19	Leave a comment (or a recipe!) on "Holidays are delicious" by Ginger Carlson. One comment will be chosen at random. Winner will receive a Pillsbury Pie Crust Gift Basket. The package includes two 9-inch glass pie pans, a pie server, pie-top cut-outs and a CD-ROM with photos and recipes of Pillsbury pie favorites. Pies are simple to make and never go out of style as a kid-friendly dessert.
Dec.20	Email us your favorite memory of your children in 2008. We want to hear you brag on those kids! We may use your submission in an upcoming feature on Savvy Source. Send your memories to . One email will be chosen at random. The winner will receive a Leap Frog Tag Reading System with one Cat in the Hat book and one Dora the Explorer book. A great way to help your little one start reading in the new year.

Share the Joy!

Grand prize giveaway on December 22nd

Help us spread the cheer by brightening your blog or website with a Savvy Source Holiday badge! By doing so you are entered to win our "Capture the Moments" grand prize package giveaway! To enter the giveaway, simply add one of the badges below to your blog or website, and then send an email to with your URL enclosed and HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY in the subject line. All entries must be received no later than Midnight PST on December 21. We’ll draw one winner at random on December 22 and announce the lucky recipient on Being Savvy.

What do you win? A smashing "Capture the Moments" package with a Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5 camera phone, an HP photo printer with Creative Studio software, and a one year premium subscription to the photo-editing website Picnik Who couldn’t use that to start the new year?

• Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5. The MOTOZINE ZN5, exclusively from T-Mobile, is the first mobile phone to combine Motorola's ModeShift Technology and KODAK Imaging Technology redefining the quality, convenience and connectivity of mobile imaging devices. Simply slide the lens cover open to illuminate ModeShift Technology, transforming the full-featured mobile phone into an ultra-fast 5 megapixel camera, complete with auto-focus, low-light optimization, and a bright Xenon flash. ZINETM ZN5 is the only mobile phone to have KODAK Imaging Technology that can be instantly combined with KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology for brighter, more vivid pictures on the spot which look noticeably better than pictures created without the technology. Users can take advantage of multiple capture modes, including panorama, which automatically stitches together continuous shots taken on the horizon line into a single, extended image. No other phone from Motorola puts image capture first, with a high-resolution landscape screen and one of the fastest click-to-click times available for 5 megapixel camera phones.

• Hewlett-Packard’s Creative Studio software package and a Photosmart D5460 printer. New for the holidays, HP’s Creative Studio allows consumers to explore and create all sorts of customizable projects from HP entities like Snapfish as well as third party partners like Disney, Martha Stewart and Tiny Prints – everything from greeting cards and toys to ornaments and gift tags. The HP Photosmart D5460 Printer is an easy-to-use everyday home printer that provides an effortless way for consumers to print lab-quality photos as well as laser-quality text documents. The printer includes an innovative five-ink printing system, a 1.5-inch color display, memory card slots, an auto-engaging photo tray and the ability to print directly onto CDs and DVDs, making printing easier than ever. What a great way to keep track of next year’s memories!

• One-year premium subscription to Picnik. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.

**Savvy Source employees are not eligible to win. Sorry!