Disclosure: I received free product for review purposes in my Holiday Gift Guide. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. Do you have someone on your shopping list that love going green? That would love recycled and upcycled products? Then TerraCycle is a site you NEED to check out. DwellSmart is the Official Online Retailer for TerraCycle, a company reducing waste by finding innovative uses for materials others deem garbage. TerraCycle pays … [Read more...]
Keeping Snacks Contained with Nuby
Disclosure: I received a free product sample as part of the Nuby Mommy Blogger program. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. At our house the Snack Keeper from Nuby is called the "monkey trap". You stick your snacks inside the container and the special lid keeps them inside the container. To get the snacks out you stick your hand in and grab them out. The lid is flexible and soft so your hand won't get stuck or hurt when pulling the snacks out. This … [Read more...]
Be #CartonSmart This Holiday Season
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carton Smart. All opinions are 100% mine.All of the stores have switched their decorations over to Christmas. I have also started to think about the holidays and the ingredients I need for our traditional meals. It was a plesantly surprised to learn about Tetra Pak cartons and how I can Become Carton Smart this holiday season. Did you know a lot of the ingredients we use for holiday baking is available in a paper carton?Prepare your … [Read more...]
Jawbone Band + App = UP Program
Disclosure: I received a Jawbone bracelet to temporarily review as part of the Verizon Wireless Midwest Bloggers program. All experience and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. I have something to confess: I quit the Gym!! (GASP!) OK are you settled down from that announcement? OK Good. I LOVE the gym, I really do, but with how busy my life gets towards the end of the year I just wasn't going and I didn't want to spend all that money on a membership I was using. … [Read more...]
Mobile Bluetooth Keyboard for a Google Nexus 7
Disclosure: I received a free product sample for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.When I received my Google Nexus I had no idea there was such a thing as a bluetooth keyboard for it. I was searching for cases so I could keep it protected and stumbled upon Minisuit, which is a cool website that sells accessories for your devices. Plus, it is worth mentioning their prices are really good! While browsing Minisuit I saw the bluetooth … [Read more...]
Tweekaboo – Easily Capturing Special Moments
Disclosure: I received compensation for including Tweekaboo in my Holiday Gift Guide. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.Tweekaboo is a life story app that makes it easy for busy moms to capture their children's everyday moments and instantly save them to a digital scrapbook which can be printed, all using your iPhone. Because every child wants to know what they were like when they were small!Tweekaboo founder, Eugene Murphy, discovered that being a modern dad … [Read more...]
Scented for the Holidays with #FebrezeHoliday Smells
Disclosure: This is a sponsored article from SheSpeaks and Febreze.Regardless, all experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. It's it funny how certain things can trigger memories. Certain foods remind me of times and places I have visited with my family. Sometimes when I see a Sunset a certain color it will remind me of a trip. Songs remind me of where I was when I heard it, or who I was with. It's fun to be reminded of happy memories by the simplest of … [Read more...]
Want A Great HandBag? Try the Butterfly Bag From Maggie Bags
Disclaimer: I received a free product sample for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. I have a handbag fetish. I LOVE purses. Even though I love them I don't just buy them to buy them. I wait until I find a special bag, or an amazing bag and then I buy it. When I am traveling I usually try to choose a purse as my souvenir. That way I will get to use it often and remember my trips. I have purses from my trips to South Korea, Austria … [Read more...]
Different Sippy Cups for Different Stages
Disclosure: As a Nuby Mommy Blogger I receive products for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.Nuby has some great sippy cup options. As your child moves from bottle to sippy cup and beyond to a straw sippy cup Nuby provides some great options.This insulated no spill soft sipper cup is one of my favorites for several reason.They are very colorful. You can choose from a wide variety of colors and characters. The are insulated so the cup … [Read more...]
Give the Gift of Lugz for Your Leading Lady
Disclosure: I received a pair free shoes for review purposes for my Holiday Gift Guide. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.Listen up! Lugz shoes are NOT just for men. When you check out the Lugz website you will see a plethora of darling shoes just for the ladies. After my husband enjoyed his Gypsum sneakers so much, I was VERY excited for the opportunity to try out my own pair of shoes. I picked the Laurel slip-ons in Turquoise.Aren't these shoes the cutest? I … [Read more...]
A Microwaveable Safe Bowl from Nuby
Disclosure: As a Nuby Mommy Blogger I receive product for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. I am not entering the stage of life where my baby is eating "real food". This time around we decided to skip the expense of baby food and so he is going from breastfeeding to table food (though I do still breastfeed him). Since we are embarking on this new stage of life I thought it would be fun to get him his own bowl for food. I love that this … [Read more...]
Squashed – A Clever New 3D Board Game
Disclosure: I received a free product sample to review in my Holiday Gift Guide. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. My family LOVES to play games. We love to have family game nights that the whole family can be involved in. Even though Squashed is recommended for ages 6+ (safety first!), my 4 year knows not to eat the pieces and he understands the game! We have had so much fun learning and strategizing about this game together.We have also had several … [Read more...]
Great Big Canvas – Your Premiere Source for Images
Disclosure: I was compensated for including Great Big Canvas in my Holiday Gift Guide. Regardless, all experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. I like having art on my wall. I am by no means an artist but I did go through a phase when I enjoyed painting canvases and painted some for our guest room and guest bathroom. That phase has now passed and I prefer to buy the art I put on my walls. I think it is hard to find something I love. You have to go to so many stores … [Read more...]
Cyber-Cam Digital Camera Review
Disclosure: I received a free product sample for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. I recently dropped our little point and shoot digital camera, shattered the LCD screen and wanted to replace it. Our camera wasn't too expensive and we got it on sale so it was more inconvenient that I dropped it than a tragedy. I decided to pair up with EverBuying.com for a digital camera review. EveryBuying.com gave me a budget of $50 so I … [Read more...]
Cooler Weather Requires Warm Sandwiches – Hamilton Beach Panini Press
Disclosure: I received a free product sample to review for my Holiday Gift Guide. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. As the weather get cooler and cooler, we start eating and drinking warmer and warmer foods. We break out the boxes of cocoa, sharpen up my soup making skills, the crockpot see's a lot more action and now I have this amazing panini press to add to the mix! Think of this: Panini's and soup! YUMMMMMHamilton Beach sent me this amazing … [Read more...]
