The Carnival of Snowflaking is up at Dreaming of Ferraris! Foxie did a great job of interspersing facts about actual snowflakes (the cold frozen kind) in her carnival. her two editor’s picks were posts I’d highlighted here before:

• Brip Blap: Wealthstreaming, Or Snowflaking For Income
• Five Cent Nickel:  Reducing Your Debt With Micropayments

Stay tuned for next week as the carnival travels to My Small Cents!  Get those entries in and thanks for a great carnival Foxie!

Carnival of Snowflaking #3 was at Antishay Ventenne this week and included some great snowflaking stories and strategies!  The three editors picks were:

• Finance Gets Personal: My Co-Worker Debbie’s Old-School “Keep the Change” Program
• My Daily Dollars: Spending My Way to a Snowflake
• Pennywise and Pound Foolish:  Sell the truck, retire early
  

Thanks for hosting Shanti!  The carnival travels to Foxie’s Ferarri Dream next week so get your entries in!

The Carnival of Snowflaking is continuing as scheduled this Thursday, making its way to Antishay Ventenne.  However, Blog Carnival, the service that collects the entries, has been having continuing issues for the past week.  If Blog Carnival is down when you try to submit your entry, entries can be directly submitted to the carnival by emailing them to snowflakerevolution at gmail dot com.

However!  To make things as simple as possible for the host, please include the following information with your entry:

• Title of Blog
• Your screen name
• Your email address
• Link to entry
• Title of entry
• Any comments to the host about your entry

If you do not include this information and simply send a link, it may be ignored.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in snowflaking and get those carnival entries in by Wednesday morning!

The second edition of the Carnival of Snowflaking is up at My Daily Dollars!  With only 5 entries explicitly tied to snowflaking, the carnival is short but sweet and definitely worth a read!  To encourage visits to the carnival, I’ll refrain from repeating the entries here, but mention that Snowflake Revolution’s entry about Income Generation Snowflakes was included.  Thanks!

Next week the carnival travels to Antishay Ventenne - get those snowflake entries in!

Welcome to the very first Carnival of Snowflakes! I am paidtwice, and I founded the Snowflake Revolution to help promote the concept of snowflaking and provide a way for people to encourage each other to make positive financial choices and reinforce each other. I am delighted to continue fostering that attitude with the very first Carnival of Snowflaking - a place for people to share their snowflaking successes, challenges, and attitudes.

First up, my Editors Picks. It was a tough call, but I’ve chosen 3 of the entries as great examples of the spirit of snowflaking:

• My Small Cents talks about her journey to becoming a snowflaker with Learning To Snowflake.
• My Daily Dollars shows us that its all in how you look at things with Snowflake State of Mind.
• Antishay Ventenne outlines how you too can build side income and use it to snowflake with An Honest Guide to Building Up Snowflakes [side income].  She also has this post available as a podcast.
  

Now, here are some excellent snowflake successes!

• Nine Circles finds snowflakes in her jewelry box with Snowflakes of Gold.
• All Things Frugal takes the first step to become a snowflaker with Snowflake Revolution.
• How I Save Money outlines her snowflake status and how far she’s come with State of the Credit Cards.
• Sometimes just getting things together enough to list things on an auction site to sell is a success in itself. Sick of Being Poor gets ready for the snowflakes to roll in with Craigslist Experience-Earning Extra Snowflakes.

Snowflaking can also come with its share of Challenges:

• Sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the trees. Tales From The Road Less Traveled works on the snowflaking mentality with Snowflaking, sort of.

Snowflaking is more than a concept, it is an Attitude:

• Remodeling This Life shows that snowflaking is about more than just money with Snowflake Your Way to a Better Self.
• Finance Gets Personal reminds us that often, we snowflaked ourselves into debt with My Credit Card Debt: An Example of Reverse Snowflaking.

Finally, there are many Methods to applying snowflaking:

• Debt Non Sequitur gives ways and places to find those snowflakes with How To Find Snowflakes.
• Dreaming of Ferraris shows that you can concentrate on multiple goals simultaneously with Snowflaking to Multiple Goals.
• My Retirement Blog wants you to remember that retirement is important too with Snowflake Your Way To Retirement
• Greener Pastures Personal Finance explains where their money goes and what to do about it with Cha-Ching Spending.
• Rocket Finance shows how he finds snowflakes with bank bonuses with $250 worth of snowflake money with Chase Freedom.

And I couldn’t resist an entry from my finance site, since I love snowflaking so much:

• I’ve Paid For This Twice Already provides 10 Can’t Miss Ways To Kickstart Snowflaking - try one!

Thanks for participating in and reading the first Carnival of Snowflaking! Next week it travels to My Daily Dollars, see you there!

This Thursday will be the very first Carnival of Snowflakes.  If you have a recent post about snowflaking methods, successes, challenges, or anything else specifically snowflaking related, make sure to submit it by Wednesday at noon!  I’m really excited and we already have several hosts lined up for the next several weeks!  I will be updating the schedule today. 

Don’t delay, submit today!

There was some interest when I posted the query about having a Carnival of Snowflakes, so I went ahead and created one.  The first Carnival of Snowflakes will be hosted here at Snowflake Revolution next Thursday, April 24th!  After that, it will travel to volunteer blogs every Thursday - you can volunteer to be a future host by sending an email to join at snowflakerevolution dot com.

The host page is linked in the header of this blog or you can find it by clicking here, and posts can be entered through this blogcarnival link.  Post questions or comments and I will see you next Thursday with your snowflaking posts!

When I started this network I mentioned that one of my possible future plans was to have a Carnival of Snowflakes, and Shanti reminded me of that fact by asking about the possibility of a carnival in her latest comment.

I hadn’t gone forward with the idea yet because I wasn’t sure that there was interest in a carnival, but I want to ask now - would people be interested in a Carnival of Snowflakes that traveled to different members blogs (volunteers of course)?  The carnival would be to share recent successes, setbacks, snowflake ideas, and any other snowflaking-related information published recently on your blog.  I would host the first one here to kick it off, and then when it travels to other blogs I would write a little roundup/highlight of the carnival here every Thursday.

If there is enough interest, I will set it up through blog carnival and kick it off in the next few weeks.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think!  Yays and nays are both welcome!

PS:  I also have a once weekly round-up idea for this blog in the works of members’ recent successes in quick link form, but I haven’t had the time to set everything up in my RSS reader to track it completely yet.  That plan might take me a little while longer.  :) 

The final round of the Personal Finance March Madness competition at Free Money Finance started on Saturday, and my Snowflaking: A Primer post made it to the finals!  thanks for all the votes and if you would like to go vote in the comments of the competition post for “Snowflaking” I would appreciate it!  The competition is very very close and every vote counts!

What I have loved about this round is all the people who in the comments have mentioned how snowflaking has personally helped them and their financial goals.  I love that my unbridled enthusiasm for the snowflaking concept has infected so many people.  Win or lose, I can’t beat that feeling.

The proceeds of the contest go to charity and I am playing for The Make A Wish Foundation, so if my post wins $500 goes to them.  Even if it doesn’t win, second place is $250 so not too bad!

Also, on another topic, I’ve sent out a lot of the Snowflake Spotlight interviews by request but I haven’t gotten very many back, so I didn’t run an interview this past week.  If you would like to be interviewed, drop me a line and I will send you the questions.  It’s your chance to publicize your blog and your snowflaking methods!

Thanks for being a part of the ever-growing snowflaking movement!

Starting in a few weeks, I want to start doing member spotlight posts on Fridays.  This would involve any interested members filling out a short interview by email, and then on Friday I would pick one to turn into an interview here and post the answers.

I am still working on the list of interview questions so I am not sure if it will start next Friday but definitely by April it will be in full swing.  If you are interested in being spotlighted as a member, please send me an email through the Join Contact Page and I will add your name to the list and send out the interview questions as soon as they are completed.

In other business, tomorrow morning my Snowflaking Primer post will be in the Sweet 16 round of March Madness at Free Money Finance facing off against some very tough competition from The Simple Dollar.  Consider spreading snowflaking awareness and hopping on over to vote for my post. :)  The winner receives $500 for the charity of their choice, mine is the Make A Wish Foundation.  I’ll post another short reminder this weekend with a link to the actual voting post once it is live.