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Yanni – “Truth Of Touch” CD Review

Posted by Brande on April 11, 2011
in Downloads, DVDs & CDs, Music, Shopping

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review as a member of One2One Network. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

Yanni’s Back! It’s been over 8 years since Yanni has released an original composition. Yanni’s new CD Truth of Touch is available now! In addition, Yanni also started his US tour in March.

Truth of Touch has 15 amazing tracks. Your melodious journey begins with CD entitled Truth of Touch. The only thing missing from this track is a tall glass of ice water with a lemon and someone rubbing my feet. As you continue on your Yanni trip, Vertigo is a faster up tempo song and will take your mind to dancing fountains. Yanni also incorporated a few tracks with vocals including Can’t Wait and Secret.

My Review:

I know of Yanni but never really sat down and listened to his music. I’m sure I’ve heard his music in various places and didn’t realize it was Yanni. After listening to his new CD Truth of Touch, Yanni has another fan. His music in this collection was beautiful! Each song has it’s own story, as your mind wanders through the calming tones. I will keep telling people about Yanni and his new CD Truth of Touch.

His CD or download is available now at his website, www.yanni.com or in stores now. Yanni also started a US tour in March.

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Midnight Lullaby CD Review

Posted by Brande on March 21, 2011
in Baby Products, Downloads, DVDs & CDs, Music, Pregnancy and Birth

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

Jane Roman Pitt : Midnight Lullaby

“Jane Roman Pitt’s Midnight Lullaby is a delightfully soothing collection of bedtime songs written by some of our genreation’s most endeared singer songwriters including Bob Dylan, Wilco, Tom Waits, The Dixie Chicks, Sade and more. In those moments when it’s time for parents and baby to retire for the night, this CD serves as something that parents and babies alike enjoy.”

“Midnight Lullaby was produced in Nashville by Grammy Award winner Mac Gayden and feature many of Nashville’s finest musicians.”

“Not only is the act of lulling children to sleep with music a pleasurable experience, but studies show that music enhances a baby’s brain development. These songs, which crossover into adult contemporary genre, have significant impact on the child’s health and well being.”

About Jane Roman Pitt:

“Jane’s introduction to music came from sneaking downstairs at night to hear the classical chamber music her parents and their friends were playing, and later by listening nonstop to folk music, pop, and jazz from all over the world. She started to play guitar at 15, and began to sing and play at local coffeehouses, college campuses, and on public television as the resident folk singer. She has a graduate degree in music history and composition, and has published her classical choral music with Transcontinental Music in New York.”

“Jane started collecting lullabies in preparation for her first grandchild. “Since the beginning of time, singing lullabies has been a way to express love and comfort. The languages may vary, but the message is exactly the same: ‘I love you very much, I’m here, and now please go to sleep!”

My Review:

Great baby shower gift! I’m also recommending this CD for people that need to relax and let their day go. When my daughter and I listened to this beautifully soothing CD, I almost fell asleep before her. The music takes you to your relaxing/happy place. If you close your eyes and listen, your there. All the songs are wonderful, however my favorite song on the CD is “My Darling” written by Wilco. You are able to listen to partial songs on her website.

www.ladylullaby.com

You won’t regret purchasing this CD.

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Download N Go Correction

Posted by html404 on May 27, 2010
in Downloads

Just wanted to let you all know that I used the wrong graphic and link in my Download N Go reviews, so be sure to check out their current contest and prize offering on the Whale Tales and Davy Crockett posts, ok?

Or I can just post the contest and prize here:

THE PRIZE:

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and Amanda Bennett Unit Studies have teamed up to celebrate the successful launch of Download N Go™ with a Sweet Treat Prize Package in The Adventure Begins … Giveaway!

They’re offering one lucky winner the SWEET chance to go EXPLORING this FALL!

The entire FALL curriculum lineup of Download N Go™ (Wow! That’s 19 studies!).
A $25 gift certificate to Baskin-Robbins (yummy ice cream).
A $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com (for those back-to-school supplies).
A $15 gift certificate to Starbucks Coffee (a special treat just for the teacher).
A full year’s subscription to The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine (encouragement and resources all year long).
A “sweet” blue and brown Homeschooling With Heart tote bag (THE must-have accessory for FALL!).
ENTER HERE!

For more information just click on the icon above! Contest will run May 24 and through June 12!

Sorry about my mistake and I hope one of you will be a winner!

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Download N Go Davy Crockett Blog Tour

Posted by html404 on May 27, 2010
in Downloads

I received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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Davy Crockett was another hit with our children. They have seen a movie about Davy Crockett and knew quite about him already, but we still enjoyed doing the review of Download N Go’s Davy Crockett as there was still much more to learn in this 5-day unit study.

Again, this unit study is set up much like the Wale Tales one that I just posted a review about earlier this morning. It utilizes a lapbook to keep all the information and activities in one place. The unit study itself contains activities for the children to do, links to online activities/articles, as well as a list of suggested books to read to learn more about Davy Crockett. It covered Davy Crockett’s life on the frontier, history of Texas, patriotism, geography, vocabulary and more!

This was another positive lapbooking experience for our family. Our children had fun doing the activities and using their creativity to create their own unique lapbook. They were asking to do more each day so that shows you how much of a hit it really was!

As much as the Download N Go products were made for homeschooling families, they would be a great supplement for families using alterative schooling methods. Such as summer enrichment or just a fun learning activity to do with your children.

Don’t forget about Download N Go’s special offer to you below:

DNG has decided to offer a coupon code for 20% off multiple packs of the DNG units! The code is: DNG20PKS - just use that code at check out and receive 20% off any multiple pack purchase.

Purchase now at for only $7.95 plus your 20% off! AND another contest for you to enter…

THE PRIZE:

They’re offering one lucky winner the SWEET chance to go EXPLORING this FALL!

For more information just click on the icon above! Contest will run May 24 and through June 12!

http://www.facebook.com/DownloadNGo

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Download N Go Whale Tales Blog Tour

Posted by html404 on May 27, 2010
in Downloads

I received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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We received a free copy of Download N Go’s Whale Tales Lapbook Unit Study. It is a 5-day unit study about whales. If you are new to lapbooking, that’s ok because we were too. Download N Go provides links to video and article resources to teach you how to put your lapbook together.

Our children loved the hands on activities of coloring, drawing and assembling their lapbooks. They also loved the videos of the whales that the study provided. The unit study even included a list of books to read, as suggestions. We basically only used the online activities and that was plenty to keep my seven children busy for a good half hour to an hour, if not longer on some days. That included printing off the sheets from the unit study too since I never seemed to get them done ahead of time.

We not only enjoyed the educational facts of the whale study, but also the biblical study of Jonah and the Whale that was also a part of the unit study.

The unit study covered a different type of whale each day or at least a different aspect about whales and had plenty of activities within the download itself or online. The suggested book list was extra for us that I hope we can go back through and print off and see which books our library has or can get for us. Due to the ages of our children, it will be easy to cover the same material but in a different way the next time around.

The great thing about unit studies is that they are suitable for a multi-age group. We are quite familiar with unit studies as we have done those a lot over the years.Overall, we really enjoyed our first experience with lapbooking and with Download N Go.

DNG has decided to offer a coupon code for 20% off multiple packs of the DNG units! The code is: DNG20PKS - just use that code at check out and receive 20% off any multiple pack purchase.

Purchase now at http://downloadngo.com/WhaleTales.htm for only $7.95 plus your 20% off!

http://www.facebook.com/DownloadNGo AND another contest…

THE PRIZE:

They’re offering one lucky winner the SWEET chance to go EXPLORING this FALL!

For more information just click on the icon above! Contest will run May 24 and through June 12!