Free Stuff & Fab Deals: The Denim and Diamonds Edition

Welcome to this week's Free Stuff & Fabulous Deals, your weekly source for good shopping stuff.

Congratulations are in order for this week's winner:

Melissa, who wins a prize package coutesy of Fresh Brush!

Thanks for playing, everyone!

This week's freebies and deals: CMA tickets, discounts on jewelry, designer fashions, and more

Let's dive in, shall we?

Fab Deal: Win tickets to the Country Music Awards from Purpose Skincare
PURPOSE® is proud to announce that they have signed on to be an official sponsor of the 43rd ANNUAL Academy of Country Music® Awards, honoring country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging talent.  The event will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 and will be broadcast at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

Visit CountryWeekly.com for your chance to win:

·         2 tickets to the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 18th!

·         Meet and greet at the MGM Grand with Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Webber on “General Hospital”)

·         Meet and greet with the country star who receives the most votes as country’s “fresh face”

·         3 day/2 night trip to Las Vegas for two

·         Round trip airfare for two

·         2 nights hotel accommodations (double occupancy)

*HURRY!  The deadline to enter is tomorrow, May 2nd at 12pm CT! Yeehaw!

Fab Deal: Gift with Purchase and Free Shipping on Allison Dayton Jewelry from Give Simple
Spring is here and summer is coming! Liven up your look by adding colorful jewelry. More and more, we see stylish and savvy women wearing well cut but rather basic clothing that can last for season after season. Could it be that these wise women are using their wardrobe as a backdrop for their wonderful jewelry? Talk about ways to Live Simple! If you are like us, you really live in 20% of your wardobe, and the other 80% hangs in the closet, waiting to be worn. When you wear your favorites a lot, your jewelry can be what is new, vibrant and fun about your outfits.

This is where Allison Dayton comes in, with her globally diverse and colorful jewelry collection. ($18-$68) For a limited time, get a FREE bright and lively Chinese porcelain bead bracelet with any $50 Allison Dayton purchase (while supplies last.) And we will even ship it to you FREE through May 5th. Just use the promotional code ALLISON at checkout.

Fab Deal: Save an average of 40% designer duds with Shop It To Me
From J.Crew to Joe's Jeans and Marc Jacobs to Michael Kors, a fabulous free service called Shop It To Me (www.shopittome.com) will tell you as soon as the stuff you love goes on sale. Be it bags or blouses, shoes or super-hot frocks, once you sign up for "sale mail," you're on their way to never paying full price again. It's like having a personal shopper who gives a private heads up on all your favorite merchandise -- better than a sample sale!  Perhaps best of all -- users, on average, save over 40% by using Shop It To Me, and they don't have to scour through emails of numerous retailers to find great deals -- it's all in one place!

Fab Deal: Enter to win a $500 gift certificate from women's sharing site Capessa
Celebrating mother’s day with with other fab mamas over at capessa.com. We've all had some moment when we realize that life as a mom is just completely different. If not for our mom status, we might actually look crazy licking another person's hand or picking their nose. Am I right? Not only are these stories fun to share, they are prize-worthy! Here’s the skinny: follow this link (http://capessa.com/members/BlogActions.aspx?g=147883&m=99440) and leave a comment with one of your defining moments and you'll be eligible to win a $500 shopping spree from Zappos! Share what makes a mom, enter to win a shopping spree! Happy almost Mother's Day!

Assorted kewl freebies:

• Free Samples of YoBaby Yogurt
• Free Samples of AquaFresh Advanced 2X Whitening
• Free Samples of Nature Made Liquid Softgel Vitamins

And there you have it! If you know of a fabulous freebie or deal, or if you have a product or
service that you'd like to put before the smart, savvy, influential readers of this newsletter, please contact me at stefania (at) blogher (dot) com. (Bloggers with exceptional give-aways or contests, please email me, too!)

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See you next week!

Your shopping pal,
Stefania/CityMama