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Back To School With Carolina Pad: A Review and Giveaway!

It's that time again; time to start hauling out those back-to-school checklists that you received from your children's schools detailing all the things you need to buy for the first day of school.

When it comes to notebook and stationary products, I hope you will seek out the products from Carolina Pad Company! 

The ones that I am reviewing are from the Dreamsicle Collection, designed by JACKIE to benefit Girls On The Run International.   This collection includes such items as a 3-subject notebook, a ribbon tie journal,a binder with tabs, and a composition book. 

The fact that the purchase of products from this collection support Girls On The Run International makes them so much more attractive in my opinion.  Girls on the Run is a 501(c)3 positive youth development program which combines an interactive curriculum and running to inspire self-respect and healthy lifestyles in pre-teen girls. Their core curriculum addresses many aspects of girls’ development - their physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. Lessons provide girls with the tools to make positive decisions and to avoid risky adolescent behaviors,

You can buy the Dreamsicle line at such stores as CVS and Staples.  In addition Carolina Pad has other cool collections to check out as well!

Here's what's really cool: Carolina Pad is offering to give to you, my dear readers, products from the Dreamsicle collection to get a good start to your back-to-school shopping!  If you want to win, this is what you have to do:

(1) You MUST be a Google Friend Connect follower of my blog ( this will be verified)


AND

(2) You MUST "like" Carolina Pad on Facebook ( please leave a note on the wall that this blog sent you there!)


BOTH (1) and (2) MUST be done for your initial entry! Leave me ONE comment stating that both items were completed and tell me in that comment what your facebook name is for verification.
If you already follow/like either/or/both please just let me know in that mandatory first comment as well.

If you want additional entries:

(3) Follow me on Twitter

(4) Follow Carolina Pad on Twitter

(5) Tweet about this giveaway ( leave one comment with a link to your tweet)

(6) Go to the Carolina Pad website, check out the other collections, and let me know which one looks good to you!

(7) Blog about this giveaway and leave me a comment with a link to your post and link back to this give-a-way post as well!

(8) Subscribe to my blog via email

Give-a-way to run until 11:59 pm EST on August 16, 2010. Winner will be chosen via Random.org. Email will be sent to winner with a response needed within 72 hours of winning email with shipping information. If winner does not respond to email, an alternate winner will be chosen. Good only within the continental USA. Make sure you leave a contact email within your post or check to make sure that I can email you via your blogger profile.





Disclaimer: Carolina Pad provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the product sample.