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O’BON Notebook Pencils Review Giveaway Mother’s Day Event
April 3rd, 2010 by Connie RobertsO’Bon offers eco-friendly stationery items, including pencils and notebooks. Have a mom who is green? One who still likes to write instead of always using a computer? Then think Mother’s Day gifts. O’Bon means “Oh Good” in French. They used this because of hearing the phrase, “Oh good, you use recycled materials”.
Pencils from O’Bon are made with recycled newspapers, are non-toxic, protected with the deeply wound newspaper so that even if dropped, the graphite rarely breaks, and they save trees because they’re not made from wood. Notebooks from O’Bon have beautiful covers, are non-toxic, made with soy-based inks and sugarcane paper. The sugarcane is called “bagasse” which is the the fibers left over after sugarcane is used to make sugar. Normally discarded but now recycled into paper for these spiral notebooks.
Children can purchase a notebook and colored pencils from O’Bon for a Mother’s Day gift focusing on their mom’s interest in the environment, in living a green lifestyle and in a focus on companies that give back. O’Bon is working with the Arbor Day Foundation to reduce forestation. With every purchase, O’Bon is making a donation to the foundation.
My Review: The O’BONanza Colored Pencil Pack is a delight. They feel sturdy in my hand and write beautifully. The colors are lovely and each pencil features a different fruit. I actually hate to sharpen them because I don’t want to lose any of the pencil! The OBONanza Strawberry Notebook is a nice, small size. It’s more like a diary and each page even has a space for the date. Lined pages and the yummy looking cover are the perfect added touch.
Purchase: The pencil pack with 12 colored pencils is $6 and the notebook with 80 pages is $5. There are regular pencils, binders and various designs to chose from.
Giveaway: 3 Winners will receive the 12 colored pencil pack and a strawberry notebook.
The Rules:
- Contest starts now and ends April 14th midnight EST.
- Open to adults 18 and over from US and Canada.
- One entry per household.
- 3 Winners will be chosen by Random.org.
- Winners have 2 days to claim prize via email.
- Have fun and tell your friends.
How To Enter:
For One Entry For Each Below: (please leave a separate comment for each entry)
- Visit O’Bon and comment about one item you’d like to own. Be sure to use the exact name from the store.
- Leave a comment about something green your mother, mother-in-law, step-mother or favorite woman in your life keeps in does.
- Leave a comment about something that your mother, mother-in-law, step-mother or favorite woman in your life writes by hand.
- Let me know if you shared about my Mother’s Day Event by commenting here.
- Follow me, ConnieFoggles, on Twitter. (Please leave your Twitter ID)
- Use the share button below this post to share this on any network. Leave a comment for each network and your ID there. For example Reddit.
- Write a blog post linking to this blog post. Leave a link to your post. This is worth 5 Entries. Please leave 5 separate comments such as I wrote a blog post #1, I wrote a blog post #2, etc.
- Enter another giveaway and leave a comment on which one.
- Tweet this exactly: (leave a link to your tweet or your Twitter ID)
Win @OBon notebook and pencils @ConnieFoggles – http://bit.ly/bwpyyQ PL RT #giveaway #green
For this event I am not suggesting that children make their own purchases, especially online, without the approval and guidance of an adult. Please remember single mothers in your life for Mother’s Day. Help their children make or buy gifts so that their Mother’s Day is special too.
This Mother’s Day event will continue throughout April. Stay tuned for more suggestions, reviews and giveaways.
I was provided with the pencils and notebook for this review.
Giveaway Ended. Winner Announced.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
The newspaper pencils!
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April 3rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
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I just helped my MIL get a great compost pile started in her backyard!!
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April 5th, 2010 at 6:00 am
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April 5th, 2010 at 8:44 am
I would love to own the A6 Kiwi Notebook!
April 5th, 2010 at 8:44 am
My mom has started composting!
April 5th, 2010 at 8:45 am
My mom writes travel journals whenever we go on vacation.
April 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am
I love the kiwi notebook and the Bird A6 Notebook Iridescence notebook…looks like peacock feathers
April 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am
My mom recycles EVERYTHING! yay mom! <3
April 5th, 2010 at 10:11 am
My mom still writes hand written letters to her friends…I love that and so do they
April 5th, 2010 at 10:11 am
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April 5th, 2010 at 11:33 am
I’d like to have the Bird A6 Notebook: Iridescence.
April 5th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
i like the Sugarcane A6 Notebook White Blue case of 10
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April 5th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
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April 5th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I’m madly in love with the Bird A5 Notebook Iridescence!! very pretty!
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April 5th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
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April 5th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I like the Wildlife Color Pencil Pack
April 5th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
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April 5th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
She writes us lots of beautiful notes.
April 6th, 2010 at 5:44 am
I like the L’Artiste Art Set!
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I like the L’Artiste Art Set
April 6th, 2010 at 5:55 am
My mother is big on composting. She keeps a small bucket in the kitchen and puts all food scarps in it. Egg shells, coffee grinds, potato peels etc… She then adds it all to her compost heap. In the spring she uses it as the soil to plant flowers. It’s not uncommon for tomato plants to sprout among her petunias.
April 6th, 2010 at 5:56 am
My mom always writes down her recipes. she makes a lot of changes to perfect them so she keeps notes. Unfortunately, she writes them in German so I can’t understand them.
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I would love to own the L’Artiste Art Set.
April 6th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I would love the Wildlife color pencil pack.
Thanks for the chance.
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April 6th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
I love peacocks, so I’d like to have the Bird A5 Notebook Iridescence. Thanks for the great giveaway!
April 7th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I’d love the colored pencils.
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I’d love to own the Bird A5 Notebook Iridescence. Absolutely gorgeous!!
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My Mom has always been an avid gardener, composter and recycler — even before green was chic. It really influenced my life.
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L’Artiste Art Set
and Earth set
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OOps – you did not ask if I followed you so I will make this entry 2 to make up for the one that is not valid.
My mom writes plenty of lists by hand. I swear she has a list for everything LOL
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April 11th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
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April 13th, 2010 at 12:12 am
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L’Artiste Art Set for my children who love to create art.
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April 13th, 2010 at 1:10 am
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April 13th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
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April 13th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I like the Bird 1″ Binder Crimson.
April 13th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Would love to own the Bird A5 Notebook Iridescence!
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April 14th, 2010 at 12:58 am
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April 14th, 2010 at 12:58 am
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Earth Day Bundle. Thanks!
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April 14th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I like their O’BONanza A6 Notebook Kiwi. Nice picture, but it’d make me quite hungry if I had a class around lunchtime with this one.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
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April 14th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
O’BONanza A5 Notebook Strawberry
April 14th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Love the Bird A5 Notebook Peacock.
April 14th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
I love the O’BONanza A5 Notebook Strawberry!
April 14th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
My mom recycles cans and bottles.