Archive for February, 2010

CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ Blacksocks.com Review & Giveaway!!CLOSED

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

 

 

There are few things less desir­able than sock shop­ping for my hus­band.  That is why I found the Blacksocks.com Sockscrip­tion to be such a fab­u­lous idea.  For an annual sub­scrip­tion fee of $89, “sockscribers” receive 3 pairs of socks every 4 months…so 9 pairs a year.  Ship­ping is included, so it works out to be around $10 per pair.  The socks are very soft and are made in North­ern Italy from high qual­ity, durable yarn.  Even the most par­tic­u­lar guy would find these to be great socks.  They come in dif­fer­ent heights and fab­rics depend­ing on his taste.  The only detri­ment is they only come in black.  But, for socks deliv­ered auto­mat­i­cally to your doorstep all year long, it’s totally worth it!

Choose your sock style:

•Calf Socks (most popular)

 •Busi­ness Light Trouser Socks

 •Knee Socks

•Cash­mere Silk Socks

•Ath­letic Socks (short)

•Ski socks

 

“BLACKSOCKS are man­u­fac­tured near Milan in North­ern Italy, the fash­ion cap­i­tal of the world. The fac­tory is run by a second-generation fam­ily of sock arti­sans, who pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the intri­cate details it takes to pro­duce high-end, high-quality prod­ucts. Our black socks are made from a blend of the finest Peru­vian Pima cot­ton — con­sid­ered the silk of South Amer­ica — Lycra and polyamide fab­ric to rein­force the toe and heel.

All Nat­ural, Hypoal­ler­genic: Our men’s dress socks and every­day socks are cer­ti­fied by the Oeko-Tex® Stan­dard 100, an inter­na­tional test­ing ser­vice that ensures that prod­ucts are eco­log­i­cally sound, use no harm­ful sub­stances, are hypoal­ler­genic and are suit­able for sen­si­tive skin. Our entire prod­uct line has been sci­en­tif­i­cally eval­u­ated under this standard.

Com­fort­able: Over 40,000 dis­cern­ing Euro­peans turn to Black­socks each year to reg­u­larly pur­chase their socks. They know the socks are com­fort­able to the feet and will not fray or wear out quickly. Even with repeated wash­ings, our socks main­tain their high qual­ity and wearability.

Soft and durable: These crew socks are soft to the skin and made to last. Dur­ing the man­u­fac­tur­ing process, they are ran­domly tested and washed 20 times to ensure long last­ing wear.”

Blacksocks.com not only car­ries an exten­sive line of socks, but they also sell men’s under­wear and t-shirts as well!

Hubby was over­whelmed with the feel of the best sell­ing Calf-socks that he was sent to review! They are made of high qual­ity and he says they felt so great on while wearing!

One can­not go wrong with Blacksocks.com!

 

The extremely kind and gen­er­ous folks over at Blacksocks.com has offered to give one lucky Cool­Canucks reader the chance to win a pair of their pop­u­lar calf socks as well! AWESOME!! 

 

To Enter:

*****Let me explain on how to enter here as alot of peo­ple are not fol­low­ing the rules, and their entries are sim­ply being deleted! I am sorry to say this but, if you can­not fol­low my rules here, then your com­ments are sim­ply deleted. It’s not hard to do these 3 easy things!!*****

 

1)  Head on over to Blacksocks.com and tell me why you would want a pair of these great socks!

 

2) You MUST ALSO SUBSCRIBE to Cool­Canucks Blog (right hand-side) via email! (You must ver­ify the sub­scrip­tion in your email too, as I will check! Not ver­i­fied = dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion, sorry!) Leave me which email addy you sub­scribed with in your com­ment and SAY I SUBSCRIBED VIA EMAIL!

 

 
3) And thirdly for any entries to count, fol­low Cool­Canucks Via Google Friend Con­nect!! TELL ME THAT YOU FOLLOW COOLCANUCKS VIA GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT IN A COMMENT! SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT ALOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW OR READ RULES AND I HAVE TO GET THEIR ATTENTION SOMEHOW!!!!!

 

******************If you don’t do the top 3, then your com­ments will be DELETED, plain and simple************************************

 
————->The Above is MANDATORY before any extra entries count. <—————

 

EXTRA ENTRIES: (Optional, these are there for you just in case you would like more chances of winning!!)

 

Fol­low @coolcanucks  and @joeblacksocks on Twit­ter! Leave me your twit­ter name!

 

Tweet this con­test link­ing to @coolcanucks  and @joeblacksocks! Leave me the Sta­tus Link to your tweet! *Do this ONLY MAXIMUM of ONCE a day, and leave a com­ment each time with the Tweet Sta­tus Link* (Please note, there is a NEW Retweet but­ton added below this post – you may also use that for a quick and easy tweet – be sure to leave me the sta­tus link though!)

 

 Become a Reg­is­tered Cool­Canucks Mem­ber in our forum and leave me your user­name there!

 

Blog, Stum­ble, Digg or share this give­away on any open pub­lic forum and leave me the link to it! +5, leave 5 comments

 

Grab our Cool­Canucks but­ton located to the right of the blog. +5, leave 5 comments

 
Sub­scribe to Cool­Canucks RSS Feed! + 2 leave 2 comments

 
Refer a friend to Cool­Canucks Forum – do not sign your­self up and cheat, I can check IP’s! Tell me who the refer­ral is, and earn 10 extra entries at once!

 
Pur­chase any­thing from Blacksocks.com for the dura­tion of the give­away and get 10 extra entries!! Just tell me in a comment!

 

**Give­away open to both Canada & US and expires on April 27th, 2010**

 

A HUGE thank you to Blacksocks.com for spon­sor­ing us with this GREAT Con­test here at CoolCanucks!!

 

Con­grats to #51

 

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  •  Jen­nifer T.
    March 4th, 2010 at 1:59 am 

    My hus­band could really use a pair of these durable socks.
    I’m an e-mail sub­scriber. jtmagmom73(at)gmail(dot)com
    I fol­low via Google Friend Connect.

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    CoolCanucks Review of Novica.com!

    Sunday, February 28th, 2010

     

    Novica is one of the lead­ing fair trade arti­san web­sites. Novica works with National Geo­graphic to give tal­ented arti­sans around the world a place to express their artis­tic tal­ents and pro­vide access to the world market.

    Novica, in asso­ci­a­tion with National Geo­graphic, sells prod­ucts — home decor, jew­elry, apparel, gifts and more — made by arti­sans from Asia, Africa and Latin Amer­ica. Artists post their work on the Novica site for free; Novica allows them to set their own prices. The com­pany makes money when a piece sells, and goods ship directly from the coun­try of origin.

    The online com­pany gives you the oppor­tu­nity to learn about the artists lives, explore fas­ci­nat­ing cul­tures,  and browse more than 30,000  unique gifts includ­ing green gifts, Gifts for her, apparel, home decor, beau­ti­ful hand­made jew­elry, Turquoise Jew­elry, Sil­ver Neck­laces, Unique Gifts, carved wood fur­ni­ture, gifts for mom, and soooooooooo much more!

     

     

    Novica was designed specif­i­cally to give artisan’s a chance to sell their designs. This is such a great site. I was thor­oughly impressed with the designs that they offer! They offer any­thing from sil­ver jew­elry to home decor that are hand­made. They also offer gor­geous neck­laces! These arti­sans are truly gifted!

    Each of the artists have a bio that you can view to get an inside glance at the per­son from whom you are pur­chas­ing from.

    “We want to give artists and arti­sans around the world a global plat­form to express their true artis­tic tal­ents and to spur their cre­ativ­ity. And, we want to pro­vide you with access to unique, hard-to-find items at great val­ues that only the Inter­net infra­struc­ture can allow.

    At the deep­est essence of our phi­los­o­phy, we want to cre­ate a bridge between you and the many tal­ented arti­sans across the globe.

    We want you to know about who you’re buy­ing from. We want you to feel that attach­ment to the prod­uct and to the hands that cre­ated it.”

     

    Every­thing that Novica.com sells is com­pletely gor­geous and made of high quality.

    I was sent two really gor­geous unique hang­bags to review, and absolutely love them both!

    Their deliv­ery time as well as their cus­tomer ser­vice skills are also beyond outstanding!!

    “Mighty and regal, ele­phants cel­e­brate Thailand’s artis­tic her­itage in a design by Jiap Roj­jana. The bro­cade adorns a cot­ton shoul­der bag trimmed with rain tree wood and a coconut shell but­ton. The lined inte­rior fea­tures a prac­ti­cal pocket.”

    “Embroi­dered in pre­cise pat­terns, hill tribe motifs form col­or­ful stars. Ancha­lika Cham­nan works with locally grown or pre­pared mate­ri­als to craft this chic shoul­der bag. The cot­ton motifs are applied to hemp, while lon­gan wood hoops attach the straps.”

    I give this com­pany a huge thumbs up, and rec­om­mend them to everyone!!

    I want to thank Novica.com for let­ting me be part of their review!!

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    CoolCanucks Blog Contest ~ Chocomize Review & Giveaway!!CLOSED

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    Wel­come to my dream world, a world filled with creamy lus­cious mouth-watering choco­late 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

    Let me have the plea­sure of intro­duc­ing you to Chocomize, where all of the scrump­tious cus­tom choco­late just can’t taste any better!!

    Imag­ine the best piece of choco­late you have ever had. Now try and imag­ine if you could take your favorite choco­late (dark, milk or white) and add any ingre­di­ents you want to it to make it the “per­fect” choco­late bar for you? What would your choco­late bar include?

    Well Chocomize makes your dreams a real­ity, because you can do just that! You can choose any type of choco­late your fan­tasy mind desires, add any type of ingre­di­ent, and voila! Chocomize will make you your dream choco­late bar and send it right to your home!!

    You can choose exactly what you would like to add to your choco­late bar, or pre-order their hot best sell­ers listed directly from their site at extremely low unbeat­able prices!

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    Chocomize allows you to cre­ate your per­fect choco­late bar using a large assort­ment of fruits, nuts, herbs, can­dies and other mis­cel­la­neous goodies!!

    Look­ing for the per­fect choco­late bar to be used as Wed­ding Favors? Chocomize is an expert!! How about Choco­late Cor­po­rate Gifts? What an excel­lent idea! Chocomize can spe­cially design them for you as well! The ideas are end­less at Chocomize!!!

    You can even give a Chocomize choco­late bar as a birth­day gift. One of the ingre­di­ent options is a sugar can­dle holder that you can insert a can­dle into and sing “Happy Birth­day” to the lucky recip­i­ent. What a unique and won­der­ful idea!!

    Cre­at­ing a “Chocomized” choco­late bar is super easy. You first need to select the base choco­late (dark, milk or white). Then you add up to five dif­fer­ent ingre­di­ents from all the avail­able options. Each option shows it’s indi­vid­ual price so you can keep track of the over­all cost of your Chocomize choco­late bar in case you are work­ing with a bud­get. You can cre­ate a choco­late bar for just over $5.00 (plus ship­ping) upward to around $15.00 if you opt to use the most expen­sive ingre­di­ents like the gold flakes. Ingre­di­ents range in price from .25 cents to $3.95 with most ingre­di­ents in the .25 — .75 range.

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    Chocomize let me review two of my own choco­late bars! I first chose the dreamy milk-chocolate, and my first one included macadamia nuts (YUM)! The sec­ond one I wanted to try was their ever pop­u­lar choco­late bar called “That’s Nuts” which includes Dark Choco­late, Pecan Halves, Wal­nuts, But­ter Toasted Peanuts, and Hazelnuts! And wow — both choco­late bars were extremely tan­tiliz­ing to the taste buds!!

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    Over­all I am very impressed. The choco­late was fresh tast­ing since each choco­late bar is made fresh for each order. They didn’t “skimp” on the ingre­di­ents. The choco­late had more than enough extra good­ies. I am also pleased with the large size of the choco­late bar!

    The com­pany was quick to ship and even included the ingre­di­ents on each bar as well as the nutri­tion facts.

    I can hon­estly say I am now a huge fan of Chocomize. I know I will be order­ing from them in the future. With Easter com­ing I know that a Chocomize bar would make a great gift or goodie tucked into an Easter basket!!

     

    Win it!!

     

    The extremely kind and gen­er­ous folks over at Chocomize has offered to give one lucky Cool­Canucks reader the chance to win a $25 E-certificate from their online web­site!! AWESOME!! 

    Also, if you would like to pur­chase any­thing from Chocomize, they have also set us up a coupon code! Sim­ply use code ‘cool­canuck’ in the coupon sec­tion of the check­out to save $5.00 off of your order!!

     

    To Enter:

    *****Let me explain on how to enter here as alot of peo­ple are not fol­low­ing the rules, and their entries are sim­ply being deleted! I am sorry to say this but, if you can­not fol­low my rules here, then your com­ments are sim­ply deleted. It’s not hard to do these 3 easy things!!*****

     

    1)  Head on over to Chocomize and tell me what your dream choco­late bar would be made of!

     

    2) You MUST ALSO SUBSCRIBE to Cool­Canucks Blog (right hand-side) via email! (You must ver­ify the sub­scrip­tion in your email too, as I will check! Not ver­i­fied = dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion, sorry!) Leave me which email addy you sub­scribed with in your com­ment and SAY I SUBSCRIBED VIA EMAIL!

     

     
    3) And thirdly for any entries to count, fol­low Cool­Canucks Via Google Friend Con­nect!! TELL ME THAT YOU FOLLOW COOLCANUCKS VIA GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT IN A COMMENT! SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT ALOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW TO FOLLOW OR READ RULES AND I HAVE TO GET THEIR ATTENTION SOMEHOW!!!!!

     

    ******************If you don’t do the top 3, then your com­ments will be DELETED, plain and simple************************************

     
    ————->The Above is MANDATORY before any extra entries count. <—————

     

    EXTRA ENTRIES: (Optional, these are there for you just in case you would like more chances of winning!!)

     

    Fol­low @coolcanucks  and @Chocomize on Twit­ter! Leave me your twit­ter name!

     

    Tweet this con­test link­ing to @coolcanucks  and @Chocomize! Leave me the Sta­tus Link to your tweet! *Do this ONLY MAXIMUM of ONCE a day, and leave a com­ment each time with the Tweet Sta­tus Link* (Please note, there is a NEW Retweet but­ton added below this post – you may also use that for a quick and easy tweet – be sure to leave me the sta­tus link though!)

     

     Become a Reg­is­tered Cool­Canucks Mem­ber in our forum and leave me your user­name there!

     

    Blog, Stum­ble, Digg or share this give­away on any open pub­lic forum and leave me the link to it! +5, leave 5 comments

     

    Grab our Cool­Canucks but­ton located to the right of the blog. +5, leave 5 comments

     
    Sub­scribe to Cool­Canucks RSS Feed! + 2 leave 2 comments

     
    Refer a friend to Cool­Canucks Forum – do not sign your­self up and cheat, I can check IP’s! Tell me who the refer­ral is, and earn 10 extra entries at once!

     
    Pur­chase any­thing from Chocomize     for the dura­tion of the give­away     and get 10 extra entries!! Just tell me in a comment!

     

    **Give­away open to both Canada & US and expires on April 26th, 2010**

     

    A HUGE thank you to Chocomize for spon­sor­ing us with this GREAT Con­test here at CoolCanucks!!

     

    Con­grats to #13

     

     

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  •  susan var­ney
    Feb­ru­ary 27th, 2010 at 1:13 pm 

    milk ccocolate,sliced almonds,banana chips, and gummi bears i eor­eilled the two other require­ments lons ago

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    Canadian Contest ~ NCIX — Esther’s Easter Extravaganza — Win $10,000 In Prizes!

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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    Enter this con­test daily from NCIX.com for your chance to Win $10,000 In Prizes in Esther’s Easter Extravaganza!

    Con­test ends on March 31st — Best of Luck!!

     

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    Canadian Contest ~ Fashion Magazine — Win 1 of 2 prize packs of $100 worth of skin and lip care products from Glysomed and Blistex!

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    Enter this con­test once for your chance to Win 1 of 2 prize packs of $100 worth of skin and lip care prod­ucts from Glysomed and Blistex!

    Con­test ends on March 15th, best of luck!!

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    Canadian Contest ~ Elle Canada — Elle Canada 2010 Beauty Grand Prix ~ Win 1 of 10 prize packs of all 50 winning 2010 Elle Beauty Grand Prix products

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    Enter this con­test daily to win 1 of 10 prize packs of all 50 win­ning 2010 Elle Beauty Grand Prix prod­ucts from Elle Canada.

    No Que­bec, sorry!

    Con­test ends on April 5th, 2010!

     

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    Canadian Contest ~ Home and Decor — Win a Manhattan Easy Chair

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    This con­test is open to Ontario res­i­dents only. Enter here once for your chance to Win a Man­hat­tan Easy Chair from Home and Decor!

    Con­test ends on April 27th, best of luck!!

     

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    Canadian Contest ~ Toronto Home & Garden Show — Shopping Spree Contest — Win A $10,000 Shopping Spree

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    Click here to enter to win a $10,000 Shop­ping Spree from the Toronto Home & Gar­den Show!

    Con­test ends on March 21st, best of luck!!

     

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    Canadian Contest — WhatsYourTech.ca — Win A Samsung Camcorder

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

     

    Enter here once until this con­test ends on March 22nd for your chance to Win A Sam­sung Camcorder!

    No Que­bec, sorry!

     

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    Canadian Contest ~ Cineplex Blog ~ Top Oscar Moments Contest

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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    Enter this Cine­plex Blog Con­test once to win one of five DVD or Blu Rays of any Oscar nom­i­nated films. You must answer the ques­tion, “What do you think the top Oscar moment of all time is and why?” Sim­ply give them your best and most cre­ative answer for a chance to win!!

    No Que­bec, this con­test ends on March 12th — Good Luck!

     

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