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I really hope that my ideas are helping you with your stocking and gift needs. Christmas Stockings were a big tradition when I was a kid and it’s something that I like to keep alive.

Plus I love telling you about things that I come across in San Jose, California.

Today’s stocking stuffers are for movie fanatics. To find stocking stuffers for movie fans you just have to think like a movie fan.

What would you want at a movie, during a movie or about a movie?

Goodies
Every movie fan has something they like to munch on while watching a film. Many stores sell microwave popcorn by the bag. Or simply purchase a whole box and put the bags into their stocking singularly.

Snuggles
I know I always need something to snuggle up with during the last part of the movie. Lap blankets and wraps really help, especially with the weather we have been getting in San Jose.

Vintage
I use to have a friend (Gary) that collected statues from all his favorite movies. Each year, he had no problem telling us what he was collecting because it was all over his apartment. I swear that the Alien statues look as creepy as the actual movie.

The best place that I have found to find movie posters, toys, and memorabilia is at Time Tunnel Vintage Toys. They have an amazing selection of toys and posters from all movie genres. Most movie posters are in Japanese but still amazing.

Time Tunnel Vintage Toys is located at 532 S. Bascom, San Jose, CA 95128

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I love the Silicon Valley Bloggers ideas on finding the perfect gift for the lady in your life. Since I am a girl, I thought I would chime in. What does a girl want? Appreciation and the feeling of being a queen is what we want. Go ahead blame it on our Dad’s for the “Princess” complex.

Put away the credit cards, you can make the lady in your life feel like a million bucks without spending a million bucks. All it takes is a little investigative work for the right gift.

Beautiful Nails
Does she get her nails done or do them herself? This may require sitting at a nail appointment with her or talking with her girlfriends about what nail polish she uses.

One gift could be an outing to her favorite nail salon and then lunch out with friends. If you both have been in a long relationship, you’ll know exactly where these two places are. The second gift could be a gift basket of nail supplies that she’s always in need for.

Beautiful Shoulders
Did you know that women carry most of their stress in their shoulders and upper back? Another gift that would make your lady feel like a Queen is back massage. You could give her a coupon book full of back massages with you.

You could give her a day at the spa. I’ve seen great gift baskets that included a person’s favorite wine, a wine glass, and a gift certificate for the spa.

Beautiful Hair
This gift is going to take some investigative work. You’ll need to find out what products your favorite lady uses on her hair. Wrap all these things up with a gift certificate to her favorite hair stylist and you’ll have the gift in the basket literally.

Of course all of these gift ideas are practical and focus on personal upkeep but the corner stone of the topic is to keep her constantly in mind. Just make sure that the gift is something that makes her feel wanted and loved.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

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I love Christmas stockings. I always dreamed of owning a fireplace mantel to hang them on. It’s like a “goodie” bag that you get at birthday parties. You open up the bag and it’s filled with sweets and neat little things.

Today’s stocking stuffer is for that friend or family member who loves Al Capone slims and humidors. Some great stocking stuffer ideas for cigar lovers in your life would be a new pair of cigar scissors, a new lighter, humidor solution, or a travel case.

San Jose and Wave magazine voted West Coast Cigars the best place to get all of these things. They were also voted South Bay’s Largest Walk-In Humidor.

I don’t smoke cigars but I love the designs that West Coast Cigars has on their humidor boxes. If your like me and don’t know anything about cigars. Find out what your cigar lover likes and head over to West Coast Cigars. As for pricing expect to spend $20 or more for any of these stocking stuffers.

Bill, Mark, Matt, and Robin will be happy to help you find something that you’ll love to give Christmas morning. Don’t be put off by Bill and Marks appearance they’re really knowledgeable about cigars and willing to inform you about the aspects of fine cigars.

West Coast Cigar is located at 1650 Almaden Rd. in San Jose. Don’t forget to check their website on upcoming Cigar tastings and card tournaments. You can find their doors open from 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. on Sunday till Thursday. They are open from 10 a.m. till midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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Hi Everyone! If you saw me out and about San Jose, you would think that I was a mad woman. I fell about a day behind in decorating the home for Christmas. That put me a couple days behind of telling you about neat stocking stuffers that I have found.

Can you put a tree and flowers into a stocking? I think I’ve found a way. Planting a tree and Grow A Note cards are a great gift for everyone especially those who love being green. Shouldn’t we all be a little green?

Here’s what you do. Make a $5 donation to The IVillage Forest, which really goes to The Conservation Fund. Then take a Grow A Note and write down that you planted a tree in their name.

The cool thing about donating to The IVillage Forest and using a Grow A Note is that both help the environment. The note card has seeds that the gift receiver can plant in the spring. If your friend or family member is big on gardens then you could add some extra seeds or gardening tools to the stocking stuffer to make it extra special.

Any note cards that you don’t use before spring can be planted in your own earthy garden.

Well I could tell you about a lot of other neat stocking stuffers but I’ll wait. It wouldn’t be 30 days of stocking stuffers if I didn’t. Plus I need to see if I can sneak a peak in my own stocking. It looks like Hubby is already filling it and it’s not even December yet.

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Sorry for dropping the ball around Veterans day. I was really looking forward to finding Veterens around San Jose, California and celebrating with words. Especially the United States Marine Corp which I hear celebrated their Birthday recently.

About San Jose
I’ll be visiting six new San Jose locations. Plus I’ll have six full days of events and fun for the whole family.

Talking About San Jose
I’ll be writing about the community, culture and society of San Jose, California. Come join me and give your 2 cents.

Movie Review
I’ll be giving my review of several movies in the box office and on DVD. I know there has to be movie lovers out there like me. This week we have Jack, Wild Hogs, Vacancy, Failure To Launch, The Seven Ups, Live Free or Die Hard, The Invisible, and Pan’s Labyrinth.

I’ll also let you know what will be coming out on DVD this week and hopefully obtain some good video feed.

30 days of stocking stuffers
It’s 30 days of interesting places around San Jose, California to get stocking stuffers for Christmas. I’ll give you suggestions for moms, dads, kids and more!

Free Friday
I’ll be opening up the contest crate to see who is giving away free stuff, having contests, and giving away prizes. It will also be time to announce what reader will be receiving a crisp $20 from us.

Chatting about The Biggest Loser
Tomorrow I’ll be catching up on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. We’ll see if all my exercise has dropped the scale a few pounds. I don’t know about you but I can’t wait until the finale and I’m crossing my fingers that someone from San Jose, California will be on next year.

Anyone have a video camera so I can apply?

Twisted Thumbs
I’ll let you know about a few online and downloadable games.

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The holiday season is coming. Soon Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas will be here!

How about a free Caramel Apple, Apple Pie, or Snowberry Pine candle to light up the holidays. I will be giving a reader a free jar candle in their scent of their choosing.

I have over 100 scents to choose from. Visit my site, choose your scent, email your information to me at catherine@glowingwyck.com, and one of you will be a winner each month!
Let me know if you have a blog too because I love reading other peoples work!

October is a busy month! We have Domestic Violence Awareness, Breast Cancer Awareness and Halloween! Buy any product from Glowing Wyck and I will donate my profit! That’s right any profit that I make will go to a Domestic Violence organization, Breast Cancer organization, and Enviromental organization in San Jose, California.

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Everyone loves free things! Free products, free samples, free advertising, and free food are always a good thing.

The people and companies I talked about last week are still having their competitions. Here are a couple of companies and people who are giving away freebies.

Lane Bryant Woman is giving away 59 shopping sprees! The grand prize is $1000 worth of clothing! What woman doesn’t like nice clothes especially when they are free!

Wrigley’s Gum is giving away a Brand New Dodge Charger Sprt8 to 4 lucky people
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It’s Friday! Time to relax and check out all these contests and giveaways! Don’t forget to check out all the other free stuff and contests at The Prize Blog! If your store, company, or site is having a contest send the 411! I’ll be happy to put you up on Friday!

Garry Conn is offering free traffic for one month! Your RSS will be on Garry Conn site for a complete month allowing you to receive more traffic. Keeping the readers is up to you!
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Anime Fans Online is giving away 2 DVDs and 1 CD.

The big prize is a copy of the special edition of the Fullmetal Alchemist movie, Conqueror of Shambala. Second place gets the regular version DVD of the same movie. The music CD goes to a contestant picked at random.

All three prizes are autographed by the voice actor who plays Edward Elric in the English version of the show.

To win you just need to write about your favorite episode or character from Fullmetal Alchemist.

The contest will be announced Monday. It will run until Friday Sept 28th.

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Have I told you how much I love The Prize Blog. So far it is the greatest place I’ve found to win money, prizes, and blog traffic. I also have some links for those of you who love to travel!

Garry Conn is offering free traffic for one month! Your RSS will be on Garry Conn site for a complete month allowing you to receive more traffic. Keeping the readers is up to you!

Stay at Home Dad is giving away a 20″ Apple iMac. Along with giving away great prizes through the Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away Dev. Dad gives away good advice. Don’t most Dads?

“Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style” is the place to go for website help, SEO help, and more. All that wisdom from a man in his early 20’s.

What if you need some little R&R from the kids and pets after a long day of Blogging. That’s where Sittercity comes in! Sittercity offers child care and pet care for busy Mom’s and Dad’s.

I like the fact that everyone who has a profile as a sitter has had a complete background check. Security is always important in my family. Sittercity offers sitters around the nation with easy to use profiles that include reviews of past parents. Last but not least the application to post a Sitter job is easy to do.

Don’t forget to check the rest of Prize Blog. I hear that John Chow is giving away a Wii!

I haven’t forgotten about the Non-Bloggers! The Travel Channel is giving away a trip to Iceland! What a wonderful way to spend holiday time! Take time to tour Iceland, enjoy the food, and the natural wonders.

Allison at Reality on Bravo is giving away great prizes for Bloggers and Blog readers! A little birdie told me that some of the great prizes could be hand made soaps, candles, personal classes, and even cold cash!

Do you like books? Is your special time with a good read? Nine different authors are giving away free Ebooks. All you have to do is comment on their pages to enter! To find out more check out Fiction Scribe!

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We all love to get free things! There is nothing like getting a new product, sample or present in the mail for free. So I thought it would cool to direct you to different places where you can get free samples, win prizes, win cash, and more.

Tide, Downey, and bounce want to give away three grand prizes of $5,000. With your choice of getting “Clean” in Sedona, AZ, being on “Soft” snow in Park City, UT or smelling the “Fresh” Air in Hawaii. 9 lucky winners will get $500 plus a year supply of Tide, Downy and Bounce products.

Don’t forget to purchase a t-shirt to help build homes in New Orleans.

If I had $300 dollars I would buy _______.

What would you buy with $300? Or even $200 or $100? Now is your chance to find out! Comment on any 451 Press site during the month of August and you could win! Three comments will be chosen at random to win a cash prize of $300, $200 or $100. The more you comment the more chances you have to win. So start reading and let those fingers fly.

I know I could use the cash! How about you?

Are you into Christian Literature? Has Beth Moore helped you? Life as a Christian Woman is giving away a copy of Breaking Free: Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life.

Has Pennysaver helped you find your job, car or home? Just tell them about your success story and you could have two tickets to Great America or Gilroy Gardens! Include your name and mailing address to Penny Saver Success Story, 2025 Gateway Place, Suite 118, San Jose, CA 95110. Or you can email bpotter@pennysaverusa.com

Does your blog need attention? Do you know nothing about SEO like I do? The daily moolah is giving away The SEO Book by Aaron Wall. John Chow has used the tips and tools in this book to receive over 400% increase in readership!

Stop by Daily Moolah to earn more daily moolah! Daily Moolah takes steps to teach you everythig from why contests work to hiding affiliate links. Along with Problogger, this is going to be one blog that I will be visiting daily.

That’s it for this week but I promise to return next week bigger and better with more prizes to win! If your a blogger and have prizes to give away on your blog, please let me know. I would love to send you some blog love and have a chance to win too.

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We all love to get free things! There is nothing like getting a new product, sample or present in the mail for free. So I thought it would cool to direct you to different places where you can get free samples, win prizes, win cash, and more.
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