Brita Water Pitcher
Thanks to WalMart and Brita, I’m hosting a last-minute Twitter giveaway for a Brita Water Pitcher! To enter, submit your best Green Tip for Earth Day on Twitter, using the hashtag #11MOMSGREEN. Don’t forget to enter my Earth Month Giveaway!
Giveaway Details
Submit your best Green tip for Earth Day on Twitter using the hashtag #11MOMSGREEN.*
Example: “@ErikaLehmann My Green Tip is ___________#11MOMSGREEN
After tweeting please leave a link to your tweet in this post.
*Please note that all tips maybe be used on Walmart.com.
Don’t forget that you can listen to myself and fellow fashionista Audrey McClelland tonight on Blog Talk Radio as we host our show, Feel Good Fashion! Tonight we will have on Sarah from Nankeen as a guest on our show, and we will be giving away a cosmetic tote live on the air! 
Don’t forget to join us tonight on Feel Good Fashion at 9pm EST, 8pm CST for 30 minutes of fun and fashion (and a chance to win that bag!)
Earth Day is April 22nd, and I’m continuing my celebration of this great month with another rockin’ giveaway of products that can make your everyday more eco-friendly!
WalMart Earth Month Giveaway Package
Over the past few years I have made a much more concerted effort to “go green” in my daily lifestyle. Going green doesn’t mean you have to do a complete 180 and sell your car to start walking everywhere! You can do simple things each day to make your life more green and leave a much smaller imprint on the environment. I have started bringing reusable bags to the grocery store, buying organic and local products when I can, and using non-toxic, eco-friendly cleaning products. Before I was a mom, these things were important to me, but once I held my sweet baby girl in my arms, I realized how much more I wanted for her life, and how important it was to protect everything around us so that it would be here for her, and for her children. It might be cliche and cheesy, but hey, I never said I wasn’t those things! (I am most certainly both!)
I especially feel good about my decision to feed Little AG only organic milk, foods, and produce whenever possible. I am glad that I know exactly what she is getting, and I never have to worry about fillers or unnecessary additives. I also try to use only organic skincare and body products on her delicate skin (do you know that the things you put on your skin gets partially absorbed into your blood stream?) so that I can protect her however possible. I also shop for organic clothing, and yes, you CAN get stylish organic clothing!
WalMart is also celebrating Earth Month, and as one of their newest Eleven Moms, I’m so excited to bring you this special Earth Day Giveaway! This awesome package is valued at $130, and includes Tide Coldwater (helps you to save money on your energy bill!), A Brita Water Filter Pitcher, a Little Green Machine by Bissel, White Cloud’s “Green” Paper Towels, and a supply of Clorox’s Greenworks Eco-Frienly cleaning supplies!
Win it!! To enter this giveaway, leave a comment below with a way that you are trying to go “green”. After your initial comment, every other (pertinent) comment left on this site on other posts from now through April 24th will count as an extra entry each. You don’t need to come back to this post and tell me you commented on another post, I can stalk track you via your email/IP address. As usual, extra entries are also available for blogging this contest with a link back here, stumbling Chic Shopper Chick (leave your stumble name), subscribing to my site, listening to the Feel Good Fashion radio show on Friday nights at 9pm EST/8pm CST, following me on Twitter. That’s a ton of ways to win, so good luck!
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on April 24th, 2009.
Hey there CSC readers!
Wow, it’s seriously INSANE to think that one year ago today I woke up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, and had this crazy idea to start writing this blog thing. I can still remember exactly where I was sitting when I wrote it, and you can even go back and read my very first post if you’re interested. I was now the author of a blog. About shopping. Oh, and wouldn’t it be cool if people would like, READ it and stuff? My friends were constantly bugging me to know where I found these awesome products, accessories, pieces of clothing – you name it – and I was even getting stopped in the grocery store on a regular basis so that people could inquire about my shirt/baby carrier/necklace/shoes. So I just thought – maybe if I wrote it down in blog form (blog form? Is there such a thing?) then I could just give my friends the URL and they could read about it for themselves.
The First Design of Chic Shopper Chick
You know what’s funny? My friends didn’t read it. Nope, not one of them. And they STILL bugged me about where I got my cool stuff. *Sigh* Is there no rest for the chic?
You know what else is funny? Other people did read it. Like, people I didn’t know. Isn’t that crazy? I was so excited just to get my first comment! And no, it wasn’t from my mom.
Things took off. I had my first custom design done on my Blogger blog and I found my now-signature Chic Chick up there at the top. When I eventually moved to WordPress and had another redesign done in October, I asked my designer, Emily to incorporate the Chic Chick into this design too – I’m sure she’ll always be around.
Oh, and people were still reading Chic Shopper Chick! A little ole blog written by lil ole me. Who woulda thunk it?
Since then…
I’ve run countless giveaways, written hundreds of posts, and responded to thousands of emails and comments.
I made the most amazing lifelong friends in the process, women I would have never met otherwise became close friends, partners in crime, and confidants.
I attended Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, and more recently SxSWi in Austin. If I hadn’t started blogging, I would have never had that opportunity.
I kicked myself for creating a name like “Chic Shopper Chick” which so many people struggle to say, but is great to make a joke out of now! You’d be surprised at how many people can’t pronounce “chic” (sheek), for the record. I’m ALWAYS called the Chick Shopper Chick. But hey, you can’t win them all.
I’ve received emails addressed to Ms. Chick — those always make me laugh. Especially since my name is on my About page.
I was asked to be a Wal Mart Eleven Mom! (More on that soon, I promise!)
I was asked to join Frito Lay in their “Only In A Woman’s World” campaign as part of the Fabulous 15.
I became addicted to Twitter.
I was featured on 100 interviews! (Go check it out!)
I even recently started co-hosting a weekly radio show with my close friend Audrey called Feel Good Fashion!
….all of that, in just a year. I can’t wait to see what exciting things this year holds. A huge thank you to everyone who reads or has ever read Chic Shopper Chick for your love and support! Keep reading, and I promise this year will rawk even more than our first year!
xoxo,
Gossip Girl
Erika
