Last All Women Carnival of the year

Pinch and a punch for the last day of the month and year! Welcome to the 30th edition of the All Women Carnival.

Hope you girls don’t have anything too crazy planned for tonight.

Seems everyone is doing wrap up posts, best ofs etc. Have you posted one? I don’t think I have enough exciting things to fill a post about, but would love to see yours. Leave a comment and let us know.

Sounding like a broken record, but have you guys checked out our new Women Bloggers forum?

On with the carnival….

Marcella Chester presents Real Joke Or Real Excuse To Escape Accountability? posted at abyss2hope: A rape survivor’s zigzag journey into the open, saying, “Two men who tried to have their violent actions dismissed as a joke found that restraining a woman and hacking at her clothes with a knife was considered a serious crime by the police.”

desinet1 presents How to get Backlinks with DoFollow Blogs posted at Web Tools and Tips, saying, “Yet another popular method of getting backlinks to your blog is by commenting on blogs, which have rel=”nofollow” attribute removed from their comments section. There are lots and lots of them, and this method is an easy one to get some crucial backlinks to your blog. But, how to find good dofollow blogs”

Tali presents Top 10 Christmas Neo-Pinups posted at The Pinup Shop Blog, saying, “Tattoos, piercing and brightly dyed hair is what the neo-pinup girl is all about. Find out who the top neo-pinup is for Christmas 2007!”

Tali presents Merry Christmas to The Marketer Review Readers- StomperNet Going Natural 2.0 posted at The Marketer Review, saying, “Find out where the best, freshest, free SEO information is at!”

Jenn presents The Letter (Part One) posted at Mixed Metaphor.net, saying, “A fictional story about a woman coming to grips with the choices she made in her youth, the state of her life, and the direction she wants the remainder of her journey on earth to take.”

Torrie presents How I ended up here posted at A Time of Grief.

Nicole presents Victoria’s Secret Manipulates « Makeitbetter’s Weblog posted at Makeitbetter’s Weblog, saying, “Society and Victoria’s Secret (mass marketing etc) effects on women.”

Micellaneous Mum presents Appreciating Australian Poetry - Gwen Harwood posted at Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “An appreciation of a poem about motherhood by a famous Australian poet”

Leigh presents New Business Cards posted at crazy meezer 

Health and Beauty

Eve Turner presents The Curse of Breakfast posted at Life Learners.

Megan Bayliss presents Sheila’s Twin Peaks for social understanding in the sisterhood of the travelling bra posted at Imaginif…, saying, “BRAvo to that Sheila who ate the last prawn off the barbie on Christmas Day. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Bra visits the far north of Australia and raises some titillating looks from bemused international tourists.”

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Clearing Out Beauty Clutter posted at Tip Diva.

Home sweet Home

GP presents The Best Gift of all- Friendship posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range, saying, “I know, I know.. your’ve been stressed about the holidays . But you can’t go to the grocery store or stick the turkey in the oven yet, so put those worries aside for now and start doing something that will lighten your load .”

Hopeful Spirit presents In “other” Words on the Horizon posted at On the Horizon, saying, “Does God cause hardships, catastrophes and disasters? Hopeful Spirit argues that such events and circumstances occur because this is a broken world and we sometimes misuse the gift of free will given to us by a merciful and loving God.”

naturelover presents dominican dreaming posted at dominican dreaming.

Home Life Weekly presents How To Look After Your Bra posted at Home Life Weekly, saying, “How to keep your bras looking fresh and new”

Melissa Hills presents Veggie Strata: or What to do with all those vegetables you bought at the Farmer?s Market posted at Oh, Mindy!.

Parenting and Family

Christine presents Choosing a French Lycee (High School) for Your Child posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France.

Lori Prokop Keyboard Culture Co-Founder presents Do Your Children Have Negative Self-talk? posted at Paula Fellingham - Stay at Home Moms.

Jenn presents His Christmas Legacy | Mixed Metaphor.net posted at Mixed Metaphor.net, saying, “A man leaves a Christmas legacy for his family. A fictional short story about love within the context of marriage, family and family traditions.”

Louise Manning presents Paper-chains posted at The Human Imprint.

Hopeful Spirit presents The Letter (Part One) posted at Mixed Metaphor.net, saying, “A fictional story about a woman coming to grips with the choices she made in her youth, the state of her life, and the direction she wants the remainder of her journey on earth to take.”

Nicola Marsh presents Romance, rumours and rogues posted at Romance, rumours and rogues.

Carole Fogarty presents Adjust your yin yang time clock and bring a delightful energetic flow back into your day: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE.

Karen Dowell presents Are the kids driving you mad over the Christmas break? posted at Wiggly Wigglers.

Lucynda Riley presents Wicca: Satan’s Little White Lie posted at The Witchy Woo.

Shopping and Money

Mina Togonon presents What I love to Do on a Year-End posted at 24 Hour Paradigm, saying, “Women, greatest planners of the households. Making all things in proper and in schedule make one woman like me face the challenges of combating with alzheimer’s or any simple memory lost. Women like me love to keep journals, diaries and planners. For sentimental reasons, scrapbooks and diaries are a sure hit. I get to shop some materials for my girly fetish. How about you? What do you intend to have or finish this year end?”

Akemi presents How to Get Rich and Happy posted at Gratitude Magic.

Mariquita presents Feeling Naughty? Learn How to Make Patent Leather Look Classy | Independent Kitten posted at Independent Kitten, saying, “Learn how to add the patent leather trend to your wardrobe.”

Jennifer Gervens presents Beyond Freebies posted at The Freebie Diva, saying, “The Freebie Diva is a blog updated daily with links to legitimate free samples on the web. Additionally, separate links are posted to free coupons, by-one-get-one-free offers, and bargains. A special ongoing section on making extra money on the web has just been introduced and contains information on getting started making extra cash on the web through companies that I have personally tried and can vouch for.”

supermom_in_ny presents Ten Ways to Reduce Your Daily Expenses: Part One posted at Getting Out of Debt, saying, “Here are 10 tips to help you cut back on your daily expenses.”

We wish you a Merry Christmas

All Women Blogging Carnival

Only one more sleep!! Hope you have all been super good girls and Santa brings you some great goodies.

This weeks carnival is hosted by Anne at My Day off

Good luck to everyone braving the shops today!

Updates

A bunch of updates in one lazy post

12 Days of Christmas Competition

A big thank you to everyone who joined in the Christmas fun with our 12 Days of Christmas competition. Congratulations to all the winners.
A big congratulations to Sonja Hardwick who was the $100 winner. Hope she buys herself something nice for Christmas.
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors who made the competition possible.

Top 50 Australian Women Bloggers

Ok, so close your eyes and imagine yourself going back in time to Tuesday. Tuesday, when you still had a week left till Christmas and you were sitting here checking out the newly updated top 50 list. Megan told me to blame the rumballs, I think she has eaten enough for the 2 of us. I lost a week somewhere, and could have sworn it was due next week *blush*
New, returning, or I have no idea why they weren’t there to start with blogs to the list this week are..

• Lifehacker Australia
• Abundance Highway
• Cook almost anything
• Hey Jude
• Design to Inspire

Also, don’t forget our new Women bloggers forum!

Guest Bloggers

Things will be a little light on for the next few weeks (well, more than usual ) I have the man pet home for 3 weeks (please, save me!) So I suppose I best spend sometime with him, doing loving family, non blogging type things. My new shirt will come in handy, I am sure. So if anyone is interested in submitting a guest post to help fill the lonely void, contact me.

All Women Blogging Carnival

It’s Monday again, and carnival time. Can you believe it is only 7 more sleeps until Santa comes. I wish he would hurry up so I can stop spending money!

The carnival is hosted over at Moggie Madness this week. Jump on over to check out the line up. Don’t forget we have the lovely Kookaburra hand puppet from Imaginif. If you have an article in the carnival, all you need to do to be in the draw is link back to the host, easy!

We still have our 12 days of Christmas $100 give away open until Wednesday, so hurry to get your entries in.

Would you like to win an iPod? Join in the Christmas Scavenger Hunt over at Outfit Inspiration. Follow the clues to fine the secret word for your chance to win an iPod.

Have you checked out our new Blogging forum for Women. A forum for women bloggers and webmasters to get together and network, share ideas. We’d love to see you over there.

Don’t shop too hard this week ladies!

and the winners are…

Entries have closed for our 12 days of Christmas giveaways, and the winners have been selected. Thank you to everyone who entered. I hope you enjoyed the giveaways and got some great last minute gift ideas.

Congratulations to all our Winners….

Day 1- Katef

Day 2- Lisa

Day 3- Kelley

Day 4- Riayn

Day 5- Cherie Nixon

Day 6- Daisy

Day 7- Katie

Day 8- cerebralmum

Day 9- Karen-picnic set Laura- tea set

Day 10- Lightening and Kimba

Day 11- Kristie

Day 12- You could still win $100! Entry is open until 20th December!!

We will be in touch over the next few days to organise your prizes ladies

12 days of Christmas Giveaway- Last day!

Well, here it is ladies. We have made it through 11 days of great prizes and we have saved the best for last!

How would you like to have $100 to spend for Christmas! You could buy yourself something extra special. Entry is a little different today, but you know you want that cold hard cash.

Visit our sponsors, answer the following questions and you are in the draw for the cash. Entry is open to everyone, and the money will be sent via direct deposit or paypal so you can have it in time for Christmas!

Question1.
Day 1 -Bright Star Kids visit their site and tell us how much is the Christmas Display Window Graphics?

Question2.
Day 3 -Clickonprint Photobooks visit click on print and tell us how much is a 42 page book?

Question3.
Day 4 -Slim Ink Book Rental visit slim ink and tell us how many books you can have at a time with the Passion Plan 3.

Question4.
Day 5 - La Toriana visit La toriana and tell us what colours does the “AnnieB” Play Palace come in?

Question5.
Day 6 -Two Small Puppies visit two small puppies and tell us how much is a puppia santa hat?

Question6.
Day 9 -Urban Child visit urban child and tell us how much is the 3 Piece Cat Puzzle, a great stocking stuffer?

Question7.
Day 10 -Imaginif visit Imaginif and tell us what does BITSS stand for?

Entries are open until 10pm Wednesday 20th December AEDST and the winner will be posted here and contacted by email. Good luck everyone!

Now Closed. Congratulations to Sonja Harwick

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway- Day 11

Only 2 more days to go. Are you all having fun! I’ll be honest in saying I am looking forward to the end LOL You best be all here early for tomorrows prize, it is HUGE and sure would come in handy with a little over a week till Christmas.

Have you checked out our new forum for Women bloggers and webmasters?

Don’t forget you can still enter the previous days competitions, they all end tomorrow night.

• Win 3mth book rental membership from Slim Ink
• Win a $50 gift voucher from La Toriana
• Win a puppia harness from Two small puppies
• Win a personalised pet bowl set from crazy meezer
• Win your own blog
• Win a tea set or picnic set from urban child

Today up for grabs is an advertising package here on All for Women. What you will get is

• 125×125 banner (over there>) for 1mth.
• 468×60 banner displayed through out the site
• Featured listing in the links directory for life.
• A blog post just about you

For your chance to win…

• Entry is open to WorldWide
• Leave a comment below, telling us what you like most about All for Women, be sure to use a working email address or website where you can be contacted.
• Competition is open from 12am Thursday the 12th of December until 11:30pm Friday the 14th of December AEDST

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