One lucky person will win a 1 hour photo shoot at the famous Viewpoint Inn, located in the scenic Columbia George by Jeanine Kolkemo from Photos by Jeanine. Stand in the same place as Bella and Edward danced the night away at the Prom Your prize will include a disc of the photos taken at your shoot at the Inn and the nearby Women’s Forum (with a view of the Inn in the background).

Jeanine, a declared Twilight Mom, lives in Camas, Washington with her husband and two daughters and owns her own photography business Photos by Jeanine. She was recently published in an upcoming edition of Northwest Travel Magazine. You will need to live in or around the Portland area, or be willing to travel there at your own expense in order to win this prize.

Check out Jeanine’s website and gallery HERE

One lucky person will receive a software package from Send Out Cards for sending out printed greeting cards.  This is SOOO cool!  I love snail mail, so when I saw this I got totally excited.  This package is valued at $99 and includes the software, your login id and password, and 10 cards and stamps.  Tara, who is the wonderful TM offering this to us today, sent me a card with an Edward theme that I just love.  The quality was beautiful and I know you will be impressed.

Check out Send Out Cards HERE

And last but not least, 3 (thats THREE) lucky people will win a New Moon Goodie Bag from NECCO!  These look so yummy  I am a sucker for candy, I just love these!  They each contain various New Moon candies, chocolates (yum chocolate!) and sweethearts.

Follow them on Twitter @my_sweethearts
And also on their Facebook page HERE where they have awesome links and movie info.

OKAY, now for the details.  All you need to do is leave a comment on this post and you are entered into the contest one time.  For a second entry, please tweet or blog about this giveaway and LEAVE A SECOND COMMENT here on this post.  VERY IMPORTANT: if you are eligible to win the photoshoot with Jeanine, meaning you live in or around the Portland area or are willing to travel there AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE you MUST let us know in your comment by saying “I WANT THE PHOTOSHOOT.”  That is the only way I will know who is eligible from the comments for that particular prize.

Please remember that for each entry you MUST leave a new comment on this post, when leaving your comment it’s important that you leave a valid e-mail address in the e-mail box because that is how we will be contacting our winner. A winner will be chosen at random from the comments. The deadline to enter in Tuesday November 24th at Noon Pacific time. Good luck everyone!

This quilt is going to be auctioned at The New Moon Experience in Salt Lake City November 19th & 20th.  All proceeds from the quilt will go to the TwilightMOMS official charity, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. 

Here are close ups of most of the squares-

Aren’t they gorgeous?!?!?!  WOW!!!

You can get all the details about the quilt here.

We are thrilled to announce our new featured artist- Hana Pestle.  Hana’s song Need is a song that describes Bella’s feelings after Edward leaves in New Moon.  TwilightMOMS had the opportunity to interview Hana.  Watch the interview and several of Hana’s performances here.

Hana gave us a copy of This Way to give away on the blog!  Respond to this post with your favorite song from her MySpace page.  Get extra enteries for posting about this contest on your blog, MySpace, Twitter…Please leave the link to your posting in your entry post and if you Tweet, make sure you have #HanaonTMs in your tweet. 

The contest runs through midnight pacific time on October 27 and the winner will be announced October 28th.

Congratulations to Cody for winning our Mixology Makeup Giveway!

OME!! I love it. I am sending a Christmas wishlist to the hubs right now. LOL I like the victoria collection! Partly because I am also a redhead and partly becaause I love maroon colored makeup and it’s so hard to find. Awesome!!!

Cody- we will be contacting shortly via e-mail.

Thanks to everyone for participating! Make sure you enter this weeks giveaway! Find all the details here.

We will be chatting with this month’s Book of the Month Author, Kaleb Nation, on Tuesday October 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern Time. 

The chat will take place in this thread.  We hope you can join us!

Hey everyone!

I have a really fun announcement for you all, and I hope you will be as excited as I am.  I have spent the last several weeks lining up a bunch of contests and giveaways that we will be holding here on our blog.  These giveaways will range from Twilight related, to non-Twilight related but just freaking awesome.  I am seriously giddy from the things we have lined up; I honestly am in awe of the talent out there in the world.

The fun will begin this coming Wednesday with a fabulous giveaway that you will not want to miss out on, I promise.  I will have each giveaway run for one week, and I hope to announce the winner AND the new giveaway each Wednesday. 

Please, don’t forget to check back on Wednesday, you will be sad if you do!

~Gypsy

Although Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is our official charity we like to also spotlight other charities.  This month our September Charity Spotlight of the Month is one that is very near and dear to the reader in me- The American Library Association.  How perfect is that for a fan site that started because of a love of reading?!?!?

Read all about this extremely important cause here.   

(Special thanks to Pixie for our new Spotlight graphics! Aren’t they fabulous?)

Our TwilightMOM of the Month for September is the amazing graphics guru Lara, a.k.a. Singer.  Read all about her here.

It’s September 1st (How did that happen?!?!?) which means that our September Book of the Month forum is now open!!!  This month we’re discussing the Poison Study Series by Maria V. Snyder. You can find our discussion forums here.  I loved, loved, loved these books so I hope lots of you will join the discussions.  I’m anxious to read your reviews!

Exciting news!!! We have a chat scheduled with the Maria V. Snyder on September 10th. I will be posting the times when we have that information solidified.  It will be in the evening so clear you calendars now!

Now, I don’t want to seem pushy, but the reason I’m doing this is because the second book in the series, Catching Fire, will be available September 1st. And that only gives you four days, eleven hours, twenty-nine minutes and thirty-three seconds to read The Hunger Games. (Though I promise it won’t take that long. And I’ll give you fair warning, you won’t be able to put it down once you start. So make sure everyone in your house has been fed and bathed or can fend for themselves for a few hours at the very least. I don’t want to get hate mail from any children or spouses.)

Here’s what Stephenie had to say about Catching Fire:

It not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them. It’s just as exciting as The Hunger Games, but even more gut wrenching, because you already know these characters, you’ve already suffered with them…Stunning. You won’t sleep when you’re reading this one…I suggest beginning in the early morning and clearing your calendar for the day.

And for all of you who just can’t WAIT until Tuesday, I have some news that may just make your day. You can read the first two chapters on-line RIGHT NOW!

Chapter 1 @ Scholastic.com
Chapter 2 @ NPR.org

So to recap, The Hunger Games is amazing, incredible, suspenseful and all kinds of awesome. If you have not read this book, you should. (Once you do, you can check out The Hunger Games BOTM forum to see what other TMs thought about it.)

And with that, I think I’m done bossing everyone around now. (Seriously, go read it!)

From the very beginning of our Spotlight section Britten (EndlessTwilight) has been doing all the coordinating and researching by herself.  She has worked so hard and is so dedicated to the section.  For quite some time we have worried that Britten is going to burn-out by carrying the burden all by herself. She has finally agreed that she needs some assistance.  We’ve recruited some great women to help her out.  Here is our new spotlight staff-

Charity of the Month

amanda31: COTM Assistant

TwilightTammy: COTM Secretary

Vendor of the Month

ceflathrop: VOTM Co-Assistant

txtwihard: VOTM Co-Assitant

momof5: VOTM Secretary

TwilightMOM of the Month

Katieb: TMOTM/VMOTM Co-Assistant

lollylew: TMOTM/VMOTM Co-Assistant

IsabellaCullen: TMOTM/VMOTM Secretary

Current Featured Artist

Calicat: West Coast CFA Co-Assistant

mayfayre: West Coast CFA Co-Assistant

dazzledforever: East Coast CFA Co-Assistant

amydod: East Coast CFA Co-Assistant

erinlovesjoe: Southern/Mid-US CFA Co-Assistant

secsec1: Northern/Mid-US CFA Co-Assistant/Secretary

Thank you ladies for being so willing to help TwilightMOMS spotlight section continue on!

If you have spotlight suggestions or questions please send us an e-mail- Spotlights@TwilightMOMS.com

If you listened to the radio at 8:30 AM, you will have heard comments by Mitch and Kirsten about the special events that will be out on in the valley at the Expo Center. “Todd and Erin from B98.7 were fun, friendly, and excited about the event.”, reported Kirsten.

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Revealed, but to no surprise, was the New Moon Experience on November 19th and continuing through the 20th. There are packages to purchase which include a deluxe package with a concert ticket, music CD, SWAG and more. Check out the EventsByAlice.com site to find out how to order your ticket today.

This was soooo cool! Good job Kirsten representing us and we love you Mitch and The Mitch Hansen Band. We can’t wait!!

Meeting so many TwilightMOMS is definitely the highlight and has made all the chaos of delayed flights and slow shuttles worth it. (Seriously, a couple of you brought Lisa to tears yesterday)  If you see is wandering around please, please, please stop us and introduce yourselves.  We ♥ meeting fellow TwilightMOMS!!! 

Make sure you stop by the TwilightMOMS & The Mitch Hansen Band booth and say hi to Britten (EndlessTwilight).

We’re taking tons of pictures but uploading them is proving to be a bit of a challenge due to the less than stellar internet connection in our room so I’ll just post my favorite one from last night.  I’ll have to post the rest when I get home. 

This is Lisa in a “manwich” with the guys from Evil Iguana-

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Fantastic News!!!!  Lina Zol will be holding a silent auction at TwiCon for her Jasper Hale, Emmett Cullen and Jacob Black portraits.  All proceeds will go to the TwilightMOMS Official Charity- Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.  Don’t miss out on this chance to have one of these masterpieces in your collection!

“I’m asked to growl a lot, and I don’t really enjoy doing that. I just tell people to wait for the movie to see me growl.”

I’m not sure why, but it would have never occurred to me to ask him to growl. I’d think he’d have more people growling AT him.

One of the very first books that Stephenie Meyer chose for us to read as our Book of the Month was City of Bones.  It is the first book in The Mortal Instruments Series.  Many of us fell in love with the world of Shadowhunters, Downworlders and Demons just as Stephenie had.  When the third book, City of Glass, was published Stephenie made this statement- “Dear Edward and Jacob: I adore you both. But I’m spending the weekend with Jace. Sorry!”

If you haven’t had a chance to read City of Bones yet this is your chance!!!  For a limited time City of Bones  is available to read for free on this website. 

For those of you that have already read the series the site has some great features you should check out.  There’s a book trailer and interviews with author Cassandra Clare.

We are excited to announce that the author of our July Book of the Month, Bliss, Lauren Myracle will be joining us for a chat on July 23rd.  The chat will take place at 5:00 pm PDT/8:00 pm EDT. Check out the Bliss forum for details on the chat, info about prize giveaways and great discussion of this book. 

 Congratulations Ladies!!!!

For more information about the Twilight Quilt check out the Quilters Coven Blog here.

(Team Jasper girls- are you still breathing???)

All info about this auction can be found here.