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Guess the Gumballs Giveaway

I’ve been seeing candy inspiration everywhere lately, however my favorite source so far has been Amy Atlas’ site on event planning.  Here is just a glimpse of one of her signatures; the candy buffet.

 amy-atlas-candy-buffet-450x312

Her images moved me to visit my local candy store, where I found some gumballs and fun swirly lollipops.

gumballs and swirl lollipops

These in turn inspired me try my hand at some lollipop sugar cookies…

 decorated lollipop cookies in bags with ribbon

And of course, there’s the disco dust again.  🙂

I didn’t get to these cookies below yet, but wanted to mention that I’ve got them next on my lollipop wish list:

 lollipop cookies confetti cakes for kids

They’re from Elisa Strauss’ book Confetti Cakes For Kids.

 planet cake lollipop cake

Cakes are still very new to me, but I’m thinking this one (above) from Planet Cake will be one of the first on my ‘to try’ list.

Anyways, why am I mentioning all this?

I was inpired by all this candy fun to do a giveaway.

Confetti Cakes for Kids and Planet Cake Giveaway

If you’d like the chance to win a copy of Elisa’s book, Confetti Cakes For Kids, or Paris Cutler’s book, Planet Cake leave a comment below guessing how many gumballs are in the ‘jar’ below.  CONTEST CLOSED.

 gumball giveaway

The person who guesses the closest number gets to choose either of the two books, and the second winner, who will be chosen randomly at www.random.org, will recieve the second book.

Another way of entering the draw is to retweet this post on twitter.  Tweets will be added to the draw! (One per twitter user please).

The draw will be held on Sunday, October 18th, 2009, at 7pm EST.

Here are the gumballs a liiittle closer for you.

gumballs in jar

And cloooser:

gumballs in jar giveaway

Good luck and happy counting!

xo,

Marian

Don’t miss out!

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  18. hi Marian,
    I just did a jelly bean guessing competition for my son’s 5th Birthday, so we are on the same page! I’m guessing 123. P.S Those bikkies look too good to eat!

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  25. Wow: Mys first visit to your website and I just WANT (to make, to eat…) these cakes!
    And I guess there are 132 gum balls.
    Have a sweet day!

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  31. I have a jar that I keep on the counter at home filled with gumballs. It’s the first stop for many of the kids and teens as soon as they hit the door. I wish it was the shape of this one, it sure would make it easier to guess. But, for some reason, the number 172 is on my mind so that’ll be my guess. Thanks for the fun!

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