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Lux Sugar Cupcake Contest

Kary — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:15:06 +0000

If cupcakes hit your sweet spot or you enjoy keeping up on celebrities you will love our new contest. Lux Sugar was created when four friends decided to share their love of baking with the masses. They blended a splash of bling, a quarter pound of celebrity personality and a cup of LUXury, the recipes were enhanced and LuxSugar was born.

If you take a look at the menu you can see how they incorporate celebrity personality.

For the contest leave a comment proclaiming what your favorite cupcake on the menu is and why.
You may comment right here on the blog or go to Fling it Girl to comment.
The LuxSugar ladies will pick the most creative comment and the winner will receive one dozen minis!
Once again twitter is allowed, you must twitter your answer and provide a link to our contest to be eligible. Please let us know if you do this so we can keep track.

The contest will run until next Tuesday at midnight MST.

***Lux Sugar just announced the winning comment, saraolive is the winner with: Shakira! Shaking up a sweet party with coconut and pina colada, yummmm sounds delish!

Sweet, Shakira Shakira FTW! Congrats Sara and let us know how those cupcakes taste….so jealous:)

Hoodie People Discount

Kary — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:00:21 +0000

You guessed it HoodiePeople.com specializes in hoodies. They officially launched today so check out their site and see what you think. Use coupon code FlingItGirl and get a $10 discount on any product. Offer good until October 15th.

Crooked Monkey Funny T-Shirts Giveaway

Kary — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:00:17 +0000

Crooked Monkey Funny T-Shirts is a t-shirt company that will have you rolling! They sent us a few to sample awhile back, we gave them two thumbs up as they are by far the softest tees we have Flung. They want to giveaway 5 tees to our users to enjoy. We will randomly pick the winners from submissions and comments on Fling it Girl. Twitter peeps if you tweet about our contest or post about it on your website we will count you in! The lucky winners will have the chance to pick out the Crooked Monkey tee of their choice. Contest ends on September 24th at 9am mst.

Winners: Bunnyb, Mary Jenkins, flingthingy, ErinZilla, SheFindsRebekah. Congratulations! You should receive an email from us, if you do not receive it please email me: kary at flingitgirl dot com.

Site Nomination

Kary — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:33:29 +0000

Fling it Girl has been nominated for Love! This Site Awards from DivineCaroline. Please click on the link to cast your vote! Winners will be announced in December.

Tea Giveaway

Kary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:07 +0000

Tea=Bliss! For the next 7 days we will be giving away a container of tea from Tetulia. Tetulia is a great company that offers premium hand-picked organic teas from a garden in Bangladesh. Tetulia brings you exquisite, organic teas unlike any you have experienced before. Fresh. Clean. Smooth.

Each day we will giveaway a container of tea that includes 16 biodegradable pyramid tea bags. We will randomly pick a winner from the submissions and comments from each day. All you have to do is go to Fling it Girl, submit a ‘Fling Up’ or comment on a ‘Fling Up’ and you have a chance to win!

Day 4: CNET, Digg & Obama’s Speech

Kary — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:31:23 +0000

Just when we thought our week could not get any better it did and totally blew us away. We woke up to find out we were featured on CNET News, which was a huge bonus! Then we hit up the Digg Townhall that was being taped live at The Big Tent. I had the chance to speak to Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson. It was pretty cool to speak to the guys behind Digg, the site that inspired us to build Fling it Girl. I told them about Fling it Girl, they thought it was cool and congratulated me on creating it.

After that our group was scrambling to score some tickets to the speech. Just a few hours before the speech we had tickets in our hand. We have some great friends to thank for making it happen! As you can imagine we were so excited to be attending Obama’s speech. It is hard to put into words what kind of a night it was…all Mr. FlingitGirl could say was WOW. All I can say is that it was an amazing experience and one I am very thankful I could be a part of.

To view all our pictures go to our flickr page, also see short clips at 12seconds.tv.

Local Celebrity Giveaway!

Kary — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:36 +0000

We are big fans of Local Celebrity! They have fresh, fun tees that you see actual celebrities sporting. Fling It Girl is holding a giveaway where 3 random winners will be able to pick out the Local Celebrity shirt of their choice! Visit Local Celebrity to see all the goods! Go to our official contests/giveaway page to learn more.

DNC Day 3–Rage!

Kary — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:09:00 +0000

Day 3 of the DNC was AMAZING! The coolest event so far was the free show that Rage Against the Machine put on at the Denver Coliseum. Everyone who went is talking about how insanely sweet the show was. It truly was a great concert, the energy was overflowing as you can imagine. We were on the ground floor about 8 rows back before Rage came out, when they started with Bulls on Parade a huge mosh movement started and we were shoved up to the front row! See a video of my view. Check out Andrew Hyde’s photos from the event, the first two below are pulled from his photo set.

Right after the concert Rage, The Flobots and The Coup (bands that opened for Rage) led a peaceful protest in support of Iraq Veterans Against the War. To read up on the details check out MTV’s coverage.

Day 2 of the DNC

Kary — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:10:03 +0000

Tuesday was another eventful day here in Denver for the DNC. One of the highlights was a visit to the Big Tent, thanks to Mathew Gerson of eConscious Market. The Big Tent is the new media center that is being sponsored by Digg, Google and YouTube. It was overflowing with bloggers from around the world. Even with the free speech zones set up there are still some heavy duty protesting going on. My favorite protester is pictured below, he was very adamant about seeing change and bringing back Crystal Pepsi! Fling it Girl is trying to eye all the fashion here at the DNC, the outfit below won our Fashion Find award of the day!

DNC Hits Denver!

Kary — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:29:25 +0000

It is only Sunday and we have already had a memorable day here in Denver as the DNC festivities are under way. We are volunteering this week at the Electric Vehicle Rolling Showcase which is part of the Green Frontier Fest. Located at the New Energy Station at Champa and Speer you can learn about electric cars and even have a chance to ride in one. The event is being held by Nate Vanderschaaf a delegate who has a strong passion for environmental issues and feels electric vehicles are the only logical pathway to clean air, energy independence, and freedom from high gas prices.

Actress Daryl Hannah a longtime supporter of the eco movement was on hand today at the Green Frontier Fest. When she needed a ride back to her hotel team Fling it Girl was at the right place at the right time and had the opportunity to drive her there in the RAV4 EV. We picked up Daryl and her publicist in a back entrance to an undisclosed building (I actually have no idea what building it was). She jumped in with a coconut shell filled with ice cold coconut milk and sipped it as she talked to us just like anyone else would. For the short time we spent together she came off as sweet, laid-back, and real. When I had my picture taken with her I mentioned this blog and she said she has a blog too called dh love life. It was really cool to meet her and awesome to see a celebrity who is passionate about making a difference.

What a fun and eventful day! I can’t wait to see what the rest of the week has in store. Team Fling it Girl will be out and about to bring you as much footage as we can. Follow us throughout the week by checking out our twitter stream.