Ji Ga Zo Puzzle Review & Give-Away!

This is an amazing new type of puzzle, and you'll never find another like it to keep your family well entertained for hours.  This puzzle has practically unlimited "solutions"!   Ji Ga Zo Puzzle has 300 pieces that you arrange to create any face or maybe your pet!  

Start out with any digital image and upload it using the Ji Ga Zo software. The software figures out the placement of each piece and builds a unique icon map. Then, it's up to you to arrange the pieces according to the icon map and watch your own special image come together! These 300 pieces are specially created with unique colors and shading that let them interlock to create almost any face image you upload. The possibilities are virtually endless and the "face-making" fun goes on and on!

• 300 puzzle pieces that you can use again and again to create pictures of just about anything!
• Puzzle comes with CD-ROM with software, instructions and assembly grid
• Requires personal computer
• Adult installation required
• Completed puzzle measures 9.98" by 13.27"
• Ages 8 and up

HOW TO ENTER:

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Give-away will end on 3/11/11 at 11:59 PM CST

Winners will be chosen by random.org and will be e-mailed. The winner has 48 hrs. to respond to my e-mail or another winner will be chosen.  

*Disclaimer:  I received no monetary compensation for hosting this review/give-away.   I, XmasDolly wrote my own honest review, and honest opinions were used from the information I had gathered on the Internet and this product to form my own opinion is 100% my own and may vary from others, and no monetary compensation was given.

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

 OUR WINNERS for the Skin MD Natural Give-Away are:

True Random Number Generator  Result: 63 -  CONFIRMED!

pinklady705 said... 63

email subscriber #2 2liv2laf2luv at gmail dot com

February 16, 2011 8:47 PM

and for the Slide into Super Bowl Sunday with a Slider Bar & Win “101 Things To Do With Meatballs” cookbook, written by NYT best-selling author Stephanie Ashcraft", One Winner! - Review & Give-Away!

True Random Number Generator  Result:   7

Aimee said... 7

I entered the gnomeo and Juliet giveaway. #3

February 8, 2011 2:51 PM

 Yes, thank you to all who entered in both give-aways.  I will be putting up two more give-aways between now & tomorrow!  Stay tuned!  Have a wonderful weekend & don't forget "Monday's Music Moves Me"!  This month is dedicated to Love Songs & Hug your Neighbor Day! So when you go bloghopping show them some love & leave a nice comment with a great big "HUG"!

Aloha Follow Friday, NEVER GROWING OLD, & Photo Flashback!

Alicia at More than Words started "Friday Photo Flashback". I'm having a blast & you can too! Dig out your photo album! Don't forget to sign up so we can all visit and comment on each others pics/blogs! IT'S GREAT FUN!   The top picture (1968) is my family in the house where I grew up.  From right to left is my Grandmother (Nana), Mom, Dad, Aunt Bernice, and my Godfather & Dad's older brother Uncle Robbie who my youngest son was named after, but they're both Robert, but Mom started to call him Rocky (or Rocco) instead of Robbie.  This little girl is in the same house with my mom's dog Peppy.  Now I bet you're wondering who she is!  ~hehe~  Okay! Okay!  That's NightOwlMama (my baby girl - Tricia Lita, a nickname my Dad use to call her).  This is Dec. 1969.

 

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"In Hawaii, Aloha Friday a day of rest. So we're doin' the same. On Fridays we're taking it easy on posting. Therefore, our hostess is asking a simple question for you to answer; nothing that requires a lengthy response.If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at the very friendly place of Islandlife808.com. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends and find new followers!


My question is:  Can you remember your favorite toy as a kid, and maybe your favorite game?   

I loved my Connie Stevens doll.  (She was like a Barbie).  I loved making clothes for her, and I loved my phonograph.  Had lots of records too.  My favorite game was "Life"!

  Wasn't that fun?  ~hehe~  Have a Great Weekend Everyone, and THANKS for stopping by, and following me.   Oh!  Don't forget about "MONDAY'S MUSIC MOVES ME".  This month's theme is:  "Amor"!  Yes, my darlings it's the month of love!  Each and every Monday we are going to have nothing, but songs of  "LOVE"!  So, get in the mood cuz we're going to turn up the temperature a bit, and get ready for a very romantic Valentines Day!  I truly hope you ALL can make it. It's tons of fun!  Bring a friend!  Hell, bring lots of friends.  Have a great weekend! 

RECIPES FOR OVER-THE-HUMP/WORDFUL WEDNESDAY

This week I'm going to give you a recipe that my mother-in-law gave me back in the early 90's, and I've been making it ever since. We love it in our home & I hope you will too. This week's recipe is "Impromptu Meatballs". 

IMPROMPTU MEATBALLS

1 lb. of ground beef

bread crumbs

2 eggs

salt, pepper, marjoram, thyme

2 large can of tomato sauce

spring noodles

chopped onion

1/2 cup of brown sugar

2 tbsp. vinegar

2 tbsp. barbecue sauce

2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

First of all, let's boil our squiggley noodles until done, rinsing in cold water.  Preheat your oven at 350 degrees.  Let's make the meatballs.  Put your ground beef in a bowl, and then add your bread crumbs,  two eggs, garlic powder, a touch of oregano & accent, seasoned salt, pepper, marjoram, thyme.  Most of this is to taste.  Mix, and make little meatballs.  Fry them until they are about medium done.

After which we will now make the sauce put garlic powder, onion powder, seasoned salt, pepper, marjoram, thyme, 2 large can of tomato sauce, 1/2 cup chopped onion, 1/2 cup of brown sugar,

2 tbsp. vinegar, 2 tbsp. barbecue sauce, and 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, and mix.  Then taking your baking pan sprinkle some sauce on the bottom until covered.  Add cooked noodles, then your meatballs, pour you sauce all over everything and mix.  Once you're finished sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on top, and bake for 30 minutes.  Bona Petite! 

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Thanks to all who played our meme yesterday, "Monday's Music Moves Me"     We had the most beautiful love songs.  Some old & some new!  Keep up the good work.  So, come one, come all to our musical day of love! The entire month with  Love Songs!  Every Monday will be love songs from the  heart!  Thanks to all who took the time to  play along with us.  Next time bring a friend!  Oh hell, bring lotsa friends!  All is welcome.  Until then be safe, be healthy, but most of all just BE!  LONG LIVE ROCK & ROLL!   From my home to yours Peace, Love, & Happiness!  From Lori, Larry, Callie and myself the HAPPY M4

Valentine's Day Dinner!

As in a previous Post I showed you where my hubby took us, the Arcada theater to see Maceo Parker.  We had a blast listening to some down home "Funk"!  Valentine's Day I thought I'd clean up the house really good, and set the table really nice & have a candlelight dinner for two!

(Hubby brought me home a card on the table)

NUMMERS!

We have a frontroom & dining room  combined.  I worked hard all day & I made us Spinach & Mushroom Manicotti for dinner!  I made authentic Italian sauce with the fresh garlic, meatballs & Italian sausage & let that simmer all day.  I even put my Nana's family secret ingredient in there & simmered it all day! mmmmmmmmmmm  It was great!   Normally you wouldn't put so much sauce on top, but my hubby likes his smothered! 

Okay, so you're dying for the recipe aren't you.  Well, maybe not the sauce, but how about the Manicotti!  Actually, I got a recipe off the box for the Spinach & Mushroom Manicotti, but I gave it my own flare.

 1 box of Manicotti    -   2 garlic cloves
 2 T. of extra virgin olive oil
1/2  bag of fresh spinach
 Fresh mushrooms chopped   -  2 eggs
1 tsp. of seasoned salt         1/2 lb. of ricotta cheese
1/3 cup of chopped basil leaves
2 T. of cooking wine

   *While preheating oven to 350 - Cook Manicotti for 7 minutes and rinse/drain in cool water - set aside.   Take a large frying pan put your chopped fresh mushrooms in a pan of your olive oil and chopped garlic and 2 T. of cooking wine and saute for 5 minutes stirring occasionally.  Then put your chopped spinach mix in with mushrooms etc. cooking for five minutes.  Set aside to cool.  Take your eggs & beat lightly in a bowl after which you pour your ricotta cheese with it, basil and salt then stir in mushroom/spinach/garlic mixture in the bowl too!  Add any spices you like.  I added a touch of garlic powder, pepper, and oregano.

 Get your baking pan and pour some of you sauce covering the bottom.  Fill the Manicotti... I find if you hold the cooked Mancotti actually straight up in the mixture and take a teaspoon & pour it down the Manicotti it's easier that way without anything falling out the bottom.  Once it is stuffed hold it straight up with one hand, and then take a spatula and put it in your baking pan.  Once your pan is full sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese on the plain Manicotti then take a ladle and pour your sauce over them.  Then sprinkle parmesan cheese and bake for 30 minutes.

Let me add one thing here when your cooking your sauce all day I started mine at noon & it simmered all day for six hours.  I also cooked fried my meatballs and sausage, and taking grease & pouring it all into the sauce & cooked it together. mm There ya go my friends!  Bona Petite!

Now, what I want to know is who's gonna
clean up this mess?

HUH?!!??

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

WE HAVE THREE WINNERS SO WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY HERE THEY ARE:


1.  True Random Number Generator Result:  45

Jackie said... 45

I entered the Black Diamond Screen Cleaning Wipes Give-Away #2 jackievillano at gmail dot com

January 21, 2011 8:36 PM

 

2.   True Random Number Generator Result:  110

Christina said... 110

Shared on Facebook for the second time today. Entry #1 christinaalmond at gmail dot com

February 2, 2011 7:11 PM 

AND THE FINAL WINNER IS:

3.   True Random Number Generator Result:  223

Tylerpants said... 23

Likes XmasDolly & Purex on Facebook (Lisa L). tylerpants(at)gmail.com

February 12, 2011 6:49 PM 

Thanks so much to all that entered, and for those that didn't win hugs to you.  I do have other give-aways.  Why don't you check those out!  To our winners that I have e-mailed you have 48 hrs. to contact me to confirm otherwise I shall be picking new winners!  Have a great day!