Contest Winners

07 Apr, 2010 by in contest winners, giveaway 1 comment

Congrats to Entre_Libros for winning our two Nancy Drew Hardback Books http://fireandicereads.com/2010/04/moms-monday-nancy-drew-books.html

and slowclublover who won her choice of handbags from Etsy shop Foggy Notions!
http://fireandicereads.com/2010/03/foggy-notions-hobo-bag-giveaway.html

Enter today to win The Upcycled Earrings, Shiver Inspired and Three Little Birds necklaces on the right hand sidebar. Tomorrow we draw those 🙂

Winner…Email us your street address to fireandice.heather@gmail.com and we will send you your gifts!

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Teaser Tuesday- Shifty by Lynn Hazen

06 Apr, 2010 by in lynn hazen, shifty, Teaser Tuesday, tricycle press Leave a comment


This is a weekly book meme
hosted by Miz B. of Should Be Reading.

This is how it works:
Grab a book that you are currently reading
Turn to any page and grab two teaser sentences from that page
Make sure it’s not a spoiler in case anyone wants to read the book
Include the author and name of the book


“Typical San Francisco summer weather–it’s just past noon and the fog is already rolling back in, misty and cold. Papers are soaring up and down Mission Street and ladies’ dresses are flying every which way…” p.105 Shifty by Lynn E. Hazen
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FizzMonster Pink Lollipop Necklace

06 Apr, 2010 by in etsy, plush 24 comments

Today’s sweet giveaway is from Etsy shop Fizz Monster =)
We’re a couple from England and we’ve been selling for just over 5 months now, but we’ve been making for a very very long time!
We adore everything handmade and want to expand our stock as much as possible.

We’ll be selling handmade jewellery and cute plushes. We believe our stuff is fun, colourful and playful and we hope you love it as much as we do =D

To Enter To win: leave your name and favorite sweet treat below
additional entries
+3 for each dollar donated to the Chile earthquake relief fund at heatoddgardner@yahoo.com
via PayPal
+2 Visit their website and comment: http://www.fizz-monster.co.uk/ on your favorite item
+2 Become their friend on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fizz-monster
+2 check our page at Eternal Conflict Music and pick your favorite song
+3 Become a fan of FizzMonster on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Fizz-Monster/167171316865?ref=ts and Fire and Ice
+3 Follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FizzMonster and @FireIcePhotos, leave your username below
+2 Follow their Blog: http://fizzmonster.blogspot.com/ and ours, leave your username below

Contest ends May 6, 2010 and is open Internationally Good Luck!

Mom’s Monday- Nancy Drew Books

05 Apr, 2010 by in book giveaway, mystery, nancy drew 6 comments


The Hidden Staircase
published May 1st 1987 by Grosset & Dunlap (first published 1930)

details Hardcover, 182 pages

characters Nancy Drew

isbn 0448095025 (isbn13: 9780448095028)

description from Goodreads: Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion

Does anyone else remember the old Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books?! The beginnings of mystery and detective work…We give them a thumbs up and we happened upon two duplicates which we are giving away to you!

To Enter to win Nancy Drew Hardbacks #2 and #5 both:

RT this contest on Twitter @fireicephotos and you will be automatically entered! Ends April 8th.

Contest Winners

05 Apr, 2010 by in giveaway 3 comments

Congrats to @kghobbs who won our Grey Felt Purse giveaway http://fireandicereads.com/2010/03/grey-felt-purse-giveaway.html From Misha’s Handmade on Etsy and

La GattaSiamese, lizzyRM, Jayne/ Candid Whisperer, Candid Reader and Artsy Image who all won Templar book thongs from Bad Candy Studios http://fireandicereads.com/2010/03/templar-book-thongs-giveaway.html

Please email me your street address to fireandice.heather@gmail.com and check our previous week’s posts for giveaways which were unclaimed and still up for grabs! First come first serve to anyone who donates to the Chile relief fund. As of today we have send out 22 boxes 🙂

In My Mailbox

02 Apr, 2010 by in marilyn bunderson, mark, Sweep 2 comments

Sweep #4- Dark Magick bought and read Cate Tiernan
Shadow of the Sun– in the mail, ARC to review by Laura Kreitzer
Camp Club Girls and the Mystery at Discovery Lake– in the mail, ARC to review
The Mark- autographed ARC in the mail for review by Marilyn Bunderson
Wonderland Revisited-in the mail to review by Keith Sheppard
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-in the mail to giveaway by Bookish Kind Etsy shop
If you are interested in joining the ARC tour and reviewing any of these as well let me know!

Iris Design Book Print

02 Apr, 2010 by in etsy 6 comments

Today’s Photography Friday giveaway is Flickr and Etsy user Iris Design! In a nutshell: Iris O’Connor, born in Germany, moved to Ireland 22 years ago, now married to himself (Mr. O’Connor) & cat (Mouse).

I have always dabbled in a variety of artistic avenues but I think I can say that for the moment I have settled on mixed media.

Having said that, I am very busy looking where I’m going these days as I like to pick up flattened cans and bottlecaps and anything else that takes my fancy and goes under the term ‘recycled’
It gets cleaned and disinfected immediately when I get home!!!!
Same goes for sea glass and sea shells of course….all sea shells are inhabitant free 😉

I always have my camera on me when I go out, results can be seen on the blog I started with a friend: http://www.dublingutterart.blogspot.com/

And can I just say that whenever I use bookpages in my pieces these pages are from books I have rescued from a certain ‘bin’ death (I work part-time in a second hand bookshop!). No new books have been harmed in the process…

Hope you like my stuff and thank you for looking at it.

And thanks to the wonderful Bonzie you can see me in my place at work as they asked me to submit something about myself for the Storque feature:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/shop-local-ireland-with-bonzie-3550/

the other shop I had before I opened under my own name:
http://www.irisdesign.etsy.com/
(if want to read additional feedback)

I am to be found here as well:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdesign/
http://irisoconnor.blogspot.com/ (resurrected as we speak!)

Description
You will receive a print of the original ‘altered’ bookpage, taken from ‘Life and Finding of Dr Livingston’.

I found this book in the second-hand bookshop where I work, but I am not able to state exactly when it was printed. The only clue to its age is an inscription by the person it once belonged to dated 1901.

This is a limited edition (50 prints) print of my original illustrated bookpage and every print will be signed and numbered.

The size of the print is approx 9 x 7 inches (23.5 x 17.5 cm) on A4 paper with a white border around the image for easy framing.
Printed on Canon Satin 260gsm Photo Paper Plus with Canon archival inks.

It will be shipped in a protective clear sleeve and sturdy mailer.

The copyright resides with the artist – that’ll be me 🙂

To Enter To win:

Leave your name below
additional entries
+2 Visit her Etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/irisoconnor
and heart it
+3 Visit her blog http://irisoconnor.blogspot.com/and comment:
+3 Visit her Flickr photo stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdesign/
and pick your favorite photo
+3 tweet this contest
Giveaway ends May 3rd, 2010 Good Luck!

Time Slip Thursday with Myra McEntire

01 Apr, 2010 by in myra mcentire 26 comments

Introducing the new time Slip Collection on Etsy, inspired by the novel “Hourglass” by Myra McEntire

Time Slip Necklace

Hourglass Earrings

Myra McEntireIndustry: Publishing
Occupation: YA Author
Location: Nashville : Tennessee
About Me
My debut novel, HOURGLASS, a YA time slip romance, will be published by Egmont USA in 2011. It will also be published by Random House in Germany and Record in Brazil! I am represented by Holly Root at Waxman Literary Agency. You can find me on Twitter as @MyraMcEntire …

Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?
Flexibility. For obvious reasons.
Interestswriting, reading, laughing, dancing, music, sneakers
Favorite MoviesThe Philadelphia Story, Christmas Vacation, Harry Potters, Twilight (specifically the commentary) and old school John Hughes
Favorite MusicMilesBillie, Muse, Blue October, John Legend, Corrine Bailey, Rae, anything I can dance to…dance breaks are important
Favorite BooksBible, Harry Potter series, Stephanie Plum series, Twilight Series, anything by Jane Austen, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, anything by a Romantic poet (especially ByronShelley or Keats

To Celebrate our new collection, I am giving away this cute little hourglass charm!

To enter to win the charm:+1 Leave a comment below
+3 for each dollar contributed to our Chile relief fund via Paypal to heatoddgardner@yahoo.com or if you prefer to send supplies, please email me at fireandice.heather@gmail.com
+3 Visit her blog at http://writingfinally.blogspot.com/ and comment
+3 Follow us on Twitter @FireIcePhotos and her@Myramcentire
+3 Become a fan on our facebook at Fire and Ice
+5 add our button to your blog
+3 add “Hourglass” to your Goodreads to be read list, leave the link
+5 add this contest to your blog, leave the link
+3 Visit our Etsy shop and pick your favorite item http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeatherZahnGardner

Contest ends May 3rd, 2010 and is International Good Luck!

Contest Winners

01 Apr, 2010 by in contest winners 4 comments

Congratulations to our two most recent contest winners!

Not Just Spirited Book Giveaway- Rose, joonieshoney@hotmail.com http://parentingpartner.blogspot.com/2010/03/chile-relief-spd-book-giveaway.html

Little Red Riding Hood Tee-Book Addict Girl http://fireandicereads.com/2010/03/little-red-riding-hood-t-shirt-giveaway.html

**And we have four unclaimed prizes so I am giving them away to the first four people to make donations to the Chile relief fund via PayPal at heatoddgardner@yahoo.com! We have sent over a thousand dollars worth of aid and 20 boxes of food and supplies to four cities in Chile. I have two more ready to mail if we receive donations today, so, GO GO GO**

Three Signed Steampunk Alice in Wonderland by Strangeling Prints http://fireandicereads.com/2010/02/steampunk-alice-in-wonderland-signed.html

Puck on a Spider’s Thread necklace http://fireandicereads.com/2010/02/puck-seated-on-spiders-thread.html

Please email me your street address so we can send them off!