And thank YOU – everyone who visited and voted. We’ve raised a nice little chunk for Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, and remember that all July Blogher Ad Revenue will be donated, so keep visiting until the end of the month!

I’d also like to thank our fantastic sponsors:

Lingerie.com, Bare Necessities,  Eden Fantasys and NippleCharms.com

They care enough about bewbies to step up and make Bewb Fest ’10 even more fun and exciting with some great prizes, so please visit them and show them some love.

Our BEWBs Winner is: #33, Diane Bramos / @pilateschik

First Runner Up: #30, Angelia of Mommy Needs Meds

Second Runner Up: #05, Veronica of Veronica Foale

And because all bewbies deserve a chance at a prize for being brave enough to bounce on the web:

Wild-Card Winner: #36, MommyNamedApril of April’s Little Family

Wild Card Winner is drawn using the random integer generator from the pool of those left after Winner, 1st RU & 2nd RU were identified by the results of the poll.

MEWBS Winner is: #04, Coderblues

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There, now wasn’t that fun?  YES, YES IT WAS.

And please remember that ALL JULY Blogher Ad Revenue will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, so *please* keep visiting until the end of the month!

And stay tuned for me to talk about how you can be reminded of next year’s Bewb Fest in time to submit your entry, as well as my pledge to raise money and run in the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure in Austin, TX this November!

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it’s time for BEWB FEST!

We get to enjoy nature’s bountiful chest selection… and raise money to fight breast cancer in the process. A big thanks to @shutterblog for putting a bug in my brain last year about donating ad revenue for good. *ALL* my BH Ad Revenue for July is going to go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. This will become an annual tradition for the month that Bewb Fest runs.

Bring page loads to this site this month if you want to drive that number up. And please consider donating directly to Susan G. Komen – many people only think about this in October, but we need to give cancer the finger all year long.

Remember to see the scoop on prizes and check out BF10 Sponsors, button up, and then make your vote count here (below) for your favorite BEWBs/MEWBs of your fellow internet denizens.

Without further ado, I present the BEWBS and then the MEWBs…

Thanks so much to the following BEWB Contestants:

@TalinaN of Harvest of Daily Life
Agentninety9 of Worn Off Novelties
Amber of A Drifting Mind
Angelia of Mommy Needs Meds
Angie of A Whole Lot of Nothing
Beej of The Bean
Bryn of The Unbearable Bearableness
Califmom of Califmom
Chantel of Chantelligence
Chantelle (photo mommy) of photo mommy
Carol / @Cheeky_Geek
Casey of moosh in indy.
Dawn of Kaiser Mommy
Dawn / @pgoodness of Pgoodness
Denise of Musician’s Widow
Diane Bramos / @pilateschik
Elissa of Punk Rock Parents
Habbala of Habbala
Janet Isserlis of there might be cake
Jen of Tropical Fruit
Jenny of Miss Grace’s Disgrace
Karianna of The Karianna Spectrum
Lady Red
Lauren / @laurencarlton of Mommy is Rock ‘n Roll
Lcool
Lyssa / @sixesandseven of Catastrophically Lyssa
Maria Myrback of Boobcast
Malia of Just Malia
Mandi Bone / @princessmama of Mandibone’s Blog
Maria Melee of Mommy Melee
Megan of Kitsch in the Kitchen
Meg @sleepynewmommy of Sleepy New Mommy
MommyNamedApril of April’s Little Family
Mr. Goodwrench’s Lady
Padme
Piper of Piper of Love
SadieCass of Redefining Perfect
Terra of Raising Zoeyjane
Texan Mama of Who Put Me In Charge Of These People???
Tina of Send Chocolate Now
Usedtobeme of Why are you Stalking Me?
Veronica of Veronica Foale
Vicky of Secret Mom Thoughts
Vixen of Vixen’s Den

(list in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of BEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows these BEWBalicious photos… You can pick up to THREE Pair of BEWBS each time, and you can vote as often as you like* through July 21st.  Come back often, and tell your friends!

Thanks so much to the following MEWB Contestants:

Adam Avitable of Avitable
bender69
CoderBlues
Josh of Raging Dad
Tim of The Inflatable Soapbox

(list is in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of MEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows the MEWBtastic Chestiness… Pick your favorite MEWBS and you can vote as often as you like* through July 21st.  Come back often, and tell your friends!

Don’t forget to display a button to support BEWB Fest ’10 and help increase the amount to be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

Please share via your blog, email, Twitter, Facebook and yelling madly on street corners.  If you have a bus, consider shrinkwrapping it with the URL of this post.  No, really.  Come on. Please?

Bottom line:  The more traffic you drive to the site this month, the higher the amount I can donate.

Please note that this now annual Bewb Fest developed independently and with no prior knowledge of Boobiethon, and is not meant to copy, diminish, or devalue the work that is being done there.

*I have placed no restriction on the number of times you can vote. There is a blurb on the Polldaddy website that mentions that you may get a message indicating you are blocked for a time period >> “This is because we have received too many votes from your I.P. address. You will be unblocked again in about 4 hours.” No verbage on how many is too many. So just roll with it, and please don’t complain to me if you hit the wall.

I’m calling the bewbs out to play.

mah bewbies. © lotus carroll 2010, all rights reserved

It’s time for BEWB Fest 10!

Bewb Fest ’10 is waiting in the wings, just around the corner, and that means you need to dress up those tatas in their best ‘ready for my close-up’ threads and send me a photo.

Confused?  Visit the Bewbs Page on my website and scroll down to the links about Bewb Fest.  There you can ogle all the fantastic photos read up on the history of Bewb Fest.

Last year, a separate MEWBs Category was added and this tradition will continue.  What are MEWBS? Man Boobs, Pecs, Male Chest… get the idea?  As long as I get at least 3 entries for MEWBs, we’ll have this category again.

All sizes and types of BEWBs/MEWBs are welcome and appreciated here.

That means don’t you dare say yours aren’t good/large/whatever enough.

Yes. They. Are.

So get out your camera and photograph your dirty pillows, ladies. Shine up that lens and snap a good one of your pec area, dudes.

And then send those suckas to me via bewbfest@gmail.com

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Rules for Photo Submission:

1. BEWBs need to be tastefully covered in some way. This ain’t no nipple show, ladies. Sorry.

2. Yes, it is okay to send a breastfeeding photo, if you still fall within all the other rules. Bewbs are hawt AND functional, and there needn’t be a separation in those instances.

3. MEWBs can be covered or uncovered. Yes, we are all about double standards here at BEWB Fest. Deal with it or #suckit.

4. Please send me only ONE photo of your BEWBs/MEWBs. I know you are a gifted photographer, and your chestal area looks awesome from many angles. Choose your favorite and send me that one.

5. Please make sure your photograph is no larger than 550px wide, and no smaller than 300px wide. Please, good quality.

6. No text anywhere on the photo, please!

7. I’m sure your face is what dreams are made of. Let us dream. NO CONTESTANT FACES IN PHOTOS!

8. Your email to bewbfest@gmail.com should include: your photo, your preferred name/screen identity, your blog name and URL (if you have one)

9. No submissions accepted after July 10, 2010. Don’t put it off until the last minute!

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Prizes!

Oh, and are you wondering what the winners of this year’s Bewb/Mewb Fest will be receiving as a prize for their hard work willingness to let us have a gander? You’re probably dying to know.  Well…

Lingerie.com, Bare Necessities, and Eden Fantasys are sponsoring Bewb Fest ’10 – click over to the Sponsors/Prizes Page to find out the awesome details!

And because bewbies are not only fun to look at, but also attached to women we’d all like to save (so that we can look at their bewbies some more because everyone deserves a chance to live as long as they possibly can), all Blogher ad revenue for the month of July will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, “the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.” It doesn’t have to be October for us to make donations, so if you can spare some dollah-dollahs, it’s a good cause to support in June or July, too. Please consider donating.

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I will take photo submissions through July 10, 2010. Voting will open on July 12, 2010 and run through July 21st.  The winners will be announced on July 22nd, 2010.

Now go go go, photograph those bewbies/mewbies!

And remember to tell your friends.

Still have questions?  Email me at bewbfest@gmail.com

News from Room 704 and Me:

Not attending Blogher 09, and bummed about it? Blogher@Home is hosting posts and giveaways to keep you entertained and get you in on the fun, even if you can’t attend! Check them out.


Friends of Maddie is kicking off a charity that will support families and babies by raffling a Netbook.  Your donation will honor Maddie, help families and babies who need it, and enter you for a chance to win.  Trifecta.

Sitting at home, but you still want swag?

Click the appropriate link below, pay flat rate shipping, and get entered to win swag collected for you from fabulous merchants/companies by The Purveyors of Swag (Room 704).

For $10.00, anyone in the USA and Canada can buy a ticket.
For $20.00, everyone else in the WORLD can buy a ticket.

Click to pay your shipping/buy your swag ticket:

US/Canada
International

One swag ticket = One piece of swag.

Who wins? EVERYONE who has a ticket.

You buy a ticket = You win swag.


We have LOTS of swag. The more tickets sell, the more we show you.

Swag Teaser List so far:

Elf Makeup Sets/Products & Accessories
Jewelry from RBH Designs
Assorted Children’s Books
Reusable Shopping Bags
Baby Products
$50 Crocs Gift Certificates
$50 Monkey Toes Gift Certificate
Nava Atlas’s Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife
Eden Fantasys Bullet Vibe

More to be revealed as tickets sell… so, so much more. Buy your ticket!


Still bummed you’re not attending Blogher 09, even though we’re throwing swag at you?

at least your bewbs aren’t going w/o you. like mine did last year.

If you’re STILL bummed… Dude. I can’t help you.

I mean. Bewbs. ^  At least smile. Sheesh.

People had a lot to say about Bewb Fest 09!

“Waking up at 5 to write. Taking bets. Will I write, go back to sleep, or vote on bewbs?”
–@Neilochka

“Voting is like Sophie’s Choice, but the tears are tears of wonder.”
–@debontherocks

“The entire male class of Indy Law 2009 is now voting on bewbs.”
–@mooshinindy

“Hubs called @ lunch: “Whatcha doin’?” Me: Looking at Boobs.”
–@some1s_sista

“#bewbfest09 FTW!”
–@aaronvest

“RE: #bewbfest09 my husband says: You guys are funny. (pause) Show me yours. #snort”
–@VDog

“My blog stats are down today and I’m blaming you!”
–@TwentyFour

“Ladies of the Bewbfest, I thank you. You’re all beautiful. I’m like a kid in a candy store. Y’know, if all the candy was boobs.”
–@karlerikson

“What did we twitter about before #bewbfest09? I have forgotten.”
–@undomesticdiva

“I’m totally in it for the bewbs. Bewbs make the world go round!”
–@GeekByMarriage

“Even if there was no prize or contest at all, the holiness of bewbs was upon us.”
–@Zoeyjane

Amen.

Thanks SO much to all of you who entered your BEWBS and MEWBS into BEWB FEST 09. You all are clearly brave and have a great sense of humor. Thank you for playing!

Thank you to the Sponsors! It was nice to offer some fun prizes this year. Please visit them, m’kay?

I have worked out one slight change to the prizes which I think adds a slice of total fairness and gratitude to the BEWBs prize plate, so to speak.  More on that in a minute…

Winner and 2 Runners Up get prizes (see here) —

Our BEWBs Winner is: #25, Miss Grace of Miss Grace’s Disgrace

She receives the autographed t-shirt from Kaiser Mommy, a lovely lingerie prize, and takes her place in the BEWB Fest Hall of Fame!

First Runner Up: #10, Anissa of Hope4Peyton

Second Runner Up: #04, Laura of Adventures in Juggling

And the slice of fairness and gratitude? We have a Wild-Card Winner, drawn using the random integer generator from the pool of those left after Winner, 1st RU & 2nd RU were identified by the results of the poll. Because you know what? ALL BEWBS deserve a chance at a prize for being brave enough to bounce on the web.

This person gets a Wild-Card Prize. Click to visit the Sponsors/Prizes Page to see what it is.

Wild-Card Winner: #15, Megan of Undomestic Diva

The  MEWBs Winner gets a place in the MEWBs Hall of Fame – and hey, that’s pretty sweet, right? Right!

MEWBS Winner is: #01, Busy Dad of Busy Dad Blog

Again, thank you so very much to everyone who entered, and all of you who celebrated this Bewbtastic event.

Now, next year? New rules. More prizes, bigger excitement. It’s all in the works. Is it bad that I already can’t wait?

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