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The geeks behind ShopStyle have a big announcement that I could barely keep under wraps. They've just launched ShopStyle Living! It's the perfect place to solve all your home shopping desires in one easily searchable and incredibly fun format. Personally I'm really into the dining and kitchen portions — although the furniture is great too. From cutlery to table linens, it's time to decorate that kitchen you've always dreamed of.

To celebrate the launch, we're giving away five $500 giftcards to some of our favorite home stores including Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn and Macy's. To enter the contest all you have to do is create a look on ShopStyle Living. Click here to learn more about the contest. Here are some things I would buy with the $500 giftcards.

Plus, if you're a registered Sugar user, you're already all signed in on ShopStyle with your same username and password — plus, your wonderful Sugar friends are all there as your "followers" (and you theirs, too). If not you should totally get on that, sign up either on TeamSugar or ShopStyle to be automatically logged into both. So easy!

Chocolate is one of those gifts that just about everyone loves to receive. Male, female, young or old, chocolate seems to make everyone happy. So when our pals at Hotel Chocolat wondered if I was interested in their Valentine's Day Chocolate Gift contest, I naturally said yes. This Valentine's Day they're helping you treat your loved ones by giving away a selection of their chocolates. To win, all you have to do is tell them why your loved one deserves this treat! However, you have to act fast, the contest ends this Friday!

Oh and the best thing? They promised that one of you — a YumSugar reader — would win. So what are you waiting for? Go to their website and enter now!

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Godiva Chocolatier has debuted an entire, edible room made out of chocolate! The room contains a plush sofa you can actually sit on and chocolate renditions of famous artwork: Gustav Klimt's famous painting "The Kiss" made of multi colored chocolate pieces and a Jackson Pollock canvas of black and white chocolate drippings. Books are actually boxes of chocolates and the chandelier is made from chocolate pearls. It's so fab that even Heroes' Ali Larter couldn't keep her hands off of it.

So how much does a room like this cost? A mere $23! The room is being given away as part of a contest — anyone who buys a Valentine's box of chocolates could win the chocolate room. If I won, I'd have a wine and chocolate party and invite everyone I know to eat part of the room. How about you? What would you do with a chocolate room?

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What are your favorite pizza toppings? Personally, I'm all about cheese, cheese, and more cheese. However I do know that there are quite a few of you who love to go crazy with your pizza toppings. If you are one of those folks then you will be interested to hear about the new $10.99 deal at Domino's. Say what you will about the quality of their pies, but $10.99 for a large, unlimited-topping pizza is a pretty good deal. Actually I should have said fantastic deal, as the campaign is actually called the Big Fantastic Deal, or BFD for short.

To celebrate their new deal, the folks at Domino's are actually doing a BFD Builder Contest and asking you to create your dream BFD pizza. The most creative — determined by a panel of Domino's employees — will receive $500 in Domino's gift certificates, and bragging rights that will surely impress friends. At least, it would impress me, and that stands for something right?

So tell me, what kind of pie would you make?

Just in time for the new season of American Idol, the folks at Dreyer's/Edy's have released their "second season" of American Idol flavors. They're urging their customers to check out all five Idol-themed Slow Churned Light flavors, and then vote for their favorite. This year the flavors are:

• Cheesecake Diva — cheesecake ice cream, brownie bites, and fudge swirls
• Cookies 'n' Dreamz — chocolate ice cream with crunchy chocolate cookies
• Mint Karaoke Cookie — mint ice cream with chocolate cookies
• Most Orange-inal — vanilla ice cream with orange sorbet swirls
• One Split Wonder — banana ice cream with fruit and fudge swirls

You have until May 31 to vote, but if you cast your vote before April 29, you will be entered in a contest to win a trip to the American Idol finale. The winning flavor will end up in the regular Slow Churned Light lineup.

To get the nation ready for the new flavors, last year's American Idol finalists Melinda Doolittle and Chris Richardson will go on a 20-city tour to perform and sample the flavors. They will actually give private living-room tours in each city.

Do any of the flavors strike your fancy? I haven't tried any of them yet, but going on names and descriptions only, I'll have to vote for Most Orange-inal. It sounds like a creamsicle in an ice-cream format!