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The 30 Giveaway: 30 Items up for grabs!

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please be back on April 15, 2012 for the winners

I turned 30 last February 1!! It’s a big milestone for me.. and 30 days after my 30th birthday I am giving away 30 prizes worth 1k each!!! OK hold your breath, relax and read on…

The rule is simple: LIKE all the sponsors’ Facebook Page, make sure that you like all the FB page of the sponsors, if you missed just one, your entry is disqualified.

Make or Break

Smart Steps

Lemon Kiss

Ainon

Unilab

Mye de Leon’s Designs

Wahmaholic Designs

Diva Fabulosa

LEVYousa

Pop Ups of My Mind

Pen Paper Pan

My Tots Exactly!

After liking the Pages, please enter your information HERE

30 Prizes will be given away, each item is worth 1000 PhP (or more)

10 Winners of gift pack from P&G
5 winners of Smart Steps products
2 winners of GC from Ipanema Kids
2 Winners of Ainon gift pack
2 Winners of Lemon Kiss gift pack
2 Winners of gift pack from Unilab/ Dolan
1 Winner of Mye de Leon Designs kit ($25 each)
1 Winner of header from Wahmaholic Blog Designs ($25)
1 Winner of Gemstone Jewelry set from Diva Fabulosa
1 Winner of Human Nature Products from LEVYousa
1 Winner of $25 paypal cash from Pop Ups of My Mind
1 Winner of $25 from Pen Paper Pan
1 Winner of $25 from My Tots Exactly!

Winners will be drawn via Random.org and contestant can win more than once. Items will be drawn per sponsor. The contest is open nationwide but some prizes are for meet up only (Smart Steps, P&G) others will be delivered right at the doorstep of the winner. Header from Wahmaholic, paypal cash from YAMI, paypal cash from My Tots Exactly and Kit from Mye de Leon designs is open to international readers (just make sure that you follow the required mechanics). For the meet up prizes, it is OPEN NATIONWIDE as long as the winner can send a rep to claim it.

A contestant can win more than 10 items!!!!!!!

GAIN MORE RAFFLE ENTRIES, HERE’S HOW: (please make sure that you tag Make or Break’s page and the sponsor’s page when sharing.)

Tweet and Share to gain more entries to win products from P&G and GC for Ipanema Kids
Twitter: Joining @Pehpot #the30giveaway
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Facebook: Share the contest banner on your wall (CONTEST BANNER HERE)
tagging Make or Break: Join @Make or Break The 3o Giveaway

Tweet and Share to gain more entries and to one of the 5 gift packs from Smart Steps
FB: Join @Make or Break The 3o Giveaway together with @Smart Steps
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Twitter: Joining @Pehpot and @MommySmartSteps #the30giveaway
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Share and gain more entries to win one of the 2 gift packs from Ainon
FB: Join @Make or Break The 3o Giveaway together with @Ainon
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Share and gain more entries to win one of the 2 gift packs from Lemon Kiss
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Share and gain more entries to win one of the 2 gift packs from Unilab
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Share and gain more entries to win one of the 2 kits from Mye de Leon’s Design
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Share and gain more entries to win a header worth $25 from WAHMaholic Designs
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Share and gain more entries to win a pearl set from Diva Fabulosa
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Share and gain more entries to win Human Nature products from LEVYousa
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Share and gain more entries to win $25 paypal cash from Pop Ups of My Mind
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Share and gain more entries to win $25 paypal cash from Pen Paper Pan
FB: Join @Make or Break The 3o Giveaway together with @Pen Paper Pan
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Share and gain more entries to win $25 from My Tots Exactly!
FB: Join @Make or Break The 3o Giveaway together with @My Tots Exactly!
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Every share is one raffle entry! Share it everyday and gain raffle entries everyday!

The 30 Giveaway will run from March 2, 2012 to April 1, 2012. ~~Winners will be announced a week after.~~

Winners will be announced on April 15 (I never thought it would consume that much time! 500+ entries! waah!!) THANK YOU SO MUCH to all who joined!!!!

POTW: Scotch Brite Easy Erasing Pad

POTW: Product of the week*

Last Sunday, after our morning jog, I suddenly had the urge to clean the walls. I remembered that we were given Scotch Brite Easy Erasing Pad sample and that day was the perfect day to test it.

Scoth Brite Easy Erasing Pad removes dirt from the wall without the use of water. It can remove crayon and marker as well as tape markings. Our wall looks like this before we start using the pad:

Tell me you can’t see any markings in there.. LOL seriously, those are tape markings. We love decorating our wall with ABC’s and reviewers. It’s an eyesore.. and here it is after a few minutes of “erasing” the marks with Scotch Brite Easy Erasing Pad:

Convinced? you should be!

Here’s a short clip on how effective it is on erasing marks:

What I love most about this product and the reason why I am sharing it to you is the fact that I don’t need water to achieve this kind of clean. With my old wall cleaning agent, I had to use 2 or 3 pails of water. It will take me an hour just to clean the wall and another hour to clean the mess I created from cleaning the wall and I hate it. Scotch Brite Easy Erasing Pad shortens my cleaning time by more than half! and the mess by almost 80%! now that’s what I call cleaning.

As you can see in the photo, the pad has two sides, the blue and the white. The white is the side for cleaning and the blue is your handle. Use it by rinsing the pad on tap water then squeeze it to drain the water. Be careful not to touch the white part as it can cause a slight burning on your hands (trust me). Use the sponge to erase marks and drawings on your wall by scrubbing it with the white side. You will notice that as the marks fade, the white side is consumed. Throw the pad away when the white part is all gone.

I sill have to check how much Scotch Brite Easy Erasing Pad cost but judging the result I got, I have to say it is worth the money.

*every Wednesday I will try to post products that I highly recommend or products that is worth sharing. Tune next week as I review another great product: Cradle Surface Cleaner.

If you want your products here, send us a sample and we’ll take a look on it.

New Dish: Spring Time Beef Stew

F is for FOOD! and if I can keep up with it, every Friday I will be posting about food, mostly food from our kitchen, not much on restaurant review because you know we don’t eat out a lot (I cook good food that’s why).

For this week, let me share with you my newest dish: SPRING TIME BEEF STEW

Once upon a time, I had the courage to go through my things and discovered some recipe books I bought years ago… that was the time when I don’t even know how to fry a hotdog.. One of the recipe books was about Western dishes as Turkey, Pies and Stew. The Spring Time Beef Stew got me. We love beef stew, it’s a dish I can cook with my eyes closed. It’s a dish where a kilo or 2 of rice is not enough for my boys. Some of my friends can attest to that.

Stew is slow cooking, so just imagine how much time it takes to cook it. I cook my beef stew with onion (lots of it), soy sauce, bell pepper and potato, that’s all. Spring time beef stew calls for green vegetables and is tomato based. The recipe on the book was not appetizing to me so I created my own recipe based on my beef stew and here it is:

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 kg beef brisket, cubes
1/2 cup flour
2 medium potato, cubes
10 stalks Baguio beans, slice into 1 inch long
green and red bell pepper (one each), sliced
1 medium sized carrots, cubes
1 small pouch tomato sauce (about 2 -2 tablespoon)
8 medium onions, sliced
1/4 cup soy sauce
salt and pepper
5 cups of water

Start by seasoning the beef with salt and pepper. Take a container or a plastic ware with cover, put the beef cubes and the floor and shake it until all the cubes are coated with flour.

Fry the beef until golden brown.

In a casserole, put the beef, onion and the soy sauce, simmer for about 2-3 minutes then add the tomato paste. Cook in low fire for about 10 minutes (adding water from time to time). Add all the water and adjust the heat to high and let it boil. Turn the heat to a very low setting as it boils and leave it for about an hour(sometimes 1 hour and 30 minutes, sometimes more than that) or until the beef is tender.

When the beef is tender, put the bell pepper, potato and carrots, wait until the vegetable are done before adding the Baguio beans. Let it simmer for about 2-3 minutes and turn off the stove.

The sauce will thicken due to the flour in the beef. It is the onions that will give this dish its distinct taste.

Give this dish a try and let me know 🙂