So here’s a new one for the JonesLife blog:  a contest with real freebies for the winner!  The creators of the widget you see below have teamed up with iDerma, a skin care products company, to offer the readers of this blog and others a chance to win a free product.  All you have to do is click through the products shown below (on this post) and interact with the different tools that are offered.  Here are the specific rules:

• They must comment on at least 5 products in the widget
• They must click the “See It” link in the widget to read about each of the 5+ products they commented on
• They must make all comments in the widget (not at the bottom of the post or on iDerma’s site)
• They must identify themselves by giving their name/alias in the comments “Name” field (so that you know how to identify the winner)

It’s as simple as that!  We will judge the comments based on the quality and helpfulness of the comments.  The winner will receive a free product of their choosing from one of the products in the widget!  Please make sure you leave your comments on the widget below for the purposes of this contest!  The contest ends in one week (7/12) and is open to US residents only.

Casey is actually pretty excited about this because she has used iDerma products in the past (they sell it at the dermatology office she used to work at, Westlake Dermatology) and she loves their products.  She is pretty much a skin care products junkie so you can take her word for it!  In addition to leaving your comments on the widget, feel free to email us or post a comment to the blog to let us know if you like this sort of thing and would like to see more of it in the future.  Here is the widget:

And before I go, I wanted to let you know why we have not been very active with the blog lately.  For one, we are really, really busy – even more so than before – but as usual, it is all a really good, fun kind of busy!  Second, we cannot talk much about anything that may end up on the new episodes of the show and videos are an absolute no-no so it kind of limits the blog topics quite a bit.  Hopefully we can work something out with TLC to allow us to blog a bit more once filming is complete, but we are more than happy with the freedom they have allowed us…(apparently we have a bit more liberty than others because the blog was well established at the time TLC entered the scene).  Thank you, TLC, for allowing us to continue blogging…your viewers love keeping up with the JonesLife while they wait for the new episodes to air!!  :)

Good luck on the contest!

Ethan