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Fall Table Top Ideas

Posted by html404 on September 18, 2012
in Home, Houseware, Products for Mom, Reviews, Seasonal Stuff

Fall is pretty much here and lately in our state we have been experiencing cooler weather and all the stores have begun to stock fall goodies. A great way to celebrate the coming of the new season is to use some great fall table top items from Bormioli Rocco – an Italian glassware company that offers modern designs with classic twists.

The first item on our list are the Bormioli Rocco, Sorgente Fuchsia Glassware that come in a set of six. I really like the two glasses sent to me. They are cool looking and a great addition to our glassware collection. I have been using them almost every day and the frosted color is very cute.

With the fall season you are sure to have guests over for a football party or just a fall dinner and these glasses are a great way to showcase some color and fall style without going overboard. You can find the Fuchsia Highball Glasses for $46.00 per set at Macys.com

The other item that is perfect for fall are the Bormioli Rocco Quattro Stagioni 8 1/2 Ounce Canning Jar, Set of 12 $32.55 at Amazon.com

This jar set is really cute and even though I haven’t used the one I received it’s pretty safe to say that I will probably put jam in it. If you don’t do fall canning you can also use these jars to organize meals for the back to school season. You could also use these jars for table top decorations or candle holders.

You can find these products at Macys.com and Amazon.com

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

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Zonderkidz Book Review

Posted by Professor on September 17, 2012
in Books, Fun Stuff, Reviews

Zonderkidz Book Review

The Beginner’s Bible Collection introduces FOUR fun-filled books for Preschoolers!

The books arrive in stores just in time for the new school year. The books are sure to provide hours of entertainment and invaluable life lessons to preschoolers. The new editions include two vibrant picture books depicting famous Bible stories and two interactive activity/coloring books, each with artwork from The Beginner’s Bible.

The collection consists of the following FOUR books:

The Beginner’s Bible Jess Feeds The Hungry AND Jesus Heals The Sick

These two books present traditional Bible stories in a lively and simple way. Each tells a celebrated story of how Jesus performed miracles such as feeding the crowd of five thousand, healing a paralyzed man, and restoring sight to a blind man.

The Beginner’s Bible Super-Duper Mighty Jumbo Coloring Book AND The Super-Duper Mighty Jumbo Activity Book.

In these two books youngsters can color, doodle, and connect the dots, as they bring their favorite Bible characters to life with a series of fun prompts. Each book contains nearly 400 pages of pictures and games, promoting hours of creativity and imagination.

Zonderkidz Book Review:

We received all FOUR books! This is a wonderful collection. Not only does my preschooler love the books and coloring/activity books. But my older children enjoy using and reading them too. This is truly a collection that the whole family can enjoy! (I have even caught my self-coloring with my little one!)

The books Jesus Feeds the Hungry and Jesus Heals the Sick presents uplifting messages with wonderful original illustrations that pop off the page and explode with vivid colors and playful animation.

We especially like that the coloring/activity books are not only fun companions to the books but also they reinforce what was learned in the bible stories to help strengthen and increase bible knowledge.

The Books are available for purchase now through Zonderkidz.

Visit their site and peruse all the wonderful books they have to offer!

http://zondervan.com/children

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.

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Zoobies Review

Posted by Brande on September 16, 2012
in Baby Products, Bedding, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Kids Toys, Reviews, Shopping

What will they think of next!

Zoobies

Zoobies are a stuffed animal,

that turns into a pillow,

THEN can turn into a blanket!

Hooray! Less things to bring in the car for trips! And there is a lion.. a tiger… and a bear (OH MY!) to choose from, in addition to 27 total Zoobie Pet Blankets to choose from! Zoobies also carries – Book Buddies, Duffle Dogs, Storytime Pals, Blankie Babies, and Slumber Pets.

Zoobies Review

We welcomed Jafaru the Giraffe join our home last week and he has been very loved since the moment he popped out of the box. Greatest feature ever is the blanket can zip off Jafaru to clean separately! To change Jafaru from a stuffed animal to a pillow, just un-velcro the two loops under his belly and to use the blanket unzip the bottom of Jafaru and pull the blanket out. I found folding up the blanket and putting it can in Jafaru is very easy to use and it fits nicely back into a pillow (if you fold it the way the instructions suggest). The blanket is 44 inches by 34 inches unfolded a good size in my book. We also found Jafaru makes a funny hat!

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Kidorable Towel Review & Coupon Code!

Posted by Brande on September 15, 2012
in Baby Products, Clothing, Coupons, Deals, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Parenting, Reviews, SALES, Saving Money, Shopping

All our children have big dreams of being mermaids, space Heros, and pirates. Here’s their chance to live out their dreams with Kidorable Hooded Towels! These terry cloth soft towels are great for the beach/lake or after bath time. They are 100% cotton, machine washable and dryer safe. My kind of product – easy care! The hooded towel are available in 2 sizes (Newborn to 2 years old and 3 to 6 years old). Here’s the tough decision, which one to choose out of the 11 Kidorable Hooded Towels available.

Here’s what Kidorable has to say about their hooded towels…

“Our customers tell us that our towel designs are the best anywhere. Now our towel quality leads the industry as well. The old material was a soft and absorbent terrycloth. The new material retains all that is good about that, and adds a layer of super soft velour. The result is an equally absorbent, and now lighter, brighter, softer towel. ”

Pictures can say a 1000 words.

Kidorable Towel Review

Here’s my kiddo in her Kidorable Mermaid Towel! She loves it!

From the moment we got it in the mail, she’s been wearing it! The Mermaid Towel has a starfish on the head, an orange fish on one side blowing bubbles and a seashell pocket on the other. Then in the back is her mermaid fin. One of my favorite features is a big yellow plastic snap, that’s even friendly for her to snap herself. We always try and slip some motor skills in even during bath time. The Kidorable Towel is very soft with vibrant colors. Two thumbs us from us!

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“From September 15-30, you can get 20% off your entire order when you purchase Kidorable’s impossibly cute and soft cotton hooded towels. Just use code DRYOFF33 at checkout on www.kidorable.com”

Head over to Kidorable today and get a few towels for your kiddos to live out their fantasies!

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Part 2 ~ Polly Pocket Review

Posted by Professor on September 14, 2012
in Kids Toys, Reviews

Back in August we participated in a Polly Pocket campaign, to review product. Well, this is PART 2! The campaign is still going on and we received more products to complete our Polly Pocket review!

Polly pocket continues to delight my children. The dolls are not too large and store nicely. In this portion of the campaign we received the Polly Pocket Playtime Pet Shop Play Set and a Polly Pocket DVD.

The play set is very nice and I love that it folds up when not in use. It is a bit larger than the other Polly pocket sets we received but the girls LOVE it! My girls especially love that it is a pet shop… they love animals! When we initially got the set the girls went and pulled out all of their Polly pocket sets and made a little village with the new set and all of their previous sets. It was so nice to see them playing together. Since we received the product the girls are STILL playing with Polly pocket the only difference is the toys have moved from the living room floor into their bedrooms, but no difference in excitement and play. This is so nice to see from a mom’s point of view; I love seeing my children getting along and playing nicely.

One other item we received was a Polly pocket DVD. This was a cute little DVD that shared short clips of Polly in action…the cartoon Polly pocket. My daughters wanted to know if she had a full-length movie out so they could go rent it. They really liked the animated version of Polly.

Overall this was a great campaign packed full of great products that kept my children entertained and let their imagination run wild while playing with the play sets! Thank you Mattel and Polly Pocket!

“I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Mattel Polly Pocket. I received a product samples and a promotional item as a thank-you for participating.”

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Fellowes Laminator Video Review

Posted by html404 on September 8, 2012
in Business, Reviews, Technology/Electronics

As a homeschooling mom, I have had projects over the years that needed laminating but I was rather frugal and settled for a roll of contact paper and a pair of scissors. It worked great for the first set of flash cards I made of the alphabet and numbers for our girls, but as the babies arrived and I became busier with children, the extra time I once had to sit and cut diminished, a laminator would have come in very handy.

Fellowes Laminator

The Fellowes Saturn2 95 Laminator is very small and compact. It doesn’t take up much space at all. A definite plus as I don’t have a lot of flat surface to store that and our printer. Right now it’s stored beneath my little table/desk, but we used it at the dining room table. It is also lightweight so moving from room to room it isn’t an issue at all.

The laminator came with 3 packages of laminating pouches 25 – 9 x 11.5 hot laminating pouches, 25 – 4.5 x 6.25 pouches and then 10 other laminating pouches, which I haven’t figure out what to use for yet. We used the smaller size to laminate a few farm stand signs for selling produce.

How it Works

The Fellowes Saturn2 95 is very easy to use. My girls have used it successfully. You simply put the item you want laminated between the pages of the laminating pouch and you slide it in the opening and wait for it to come out the other side fully laminated. Simple as that.

Laminator Review

We love it. It is going to be a great addition to our office equipment enabling us to laminate flash cards for the kids or signs for our businesses. There’s a photo story of how we laminated market signs above. I am pleased with the laminating results but not the type setting of the words. Those were off. But hey, it was our first time and nothing is ever perfect the first time around, right? Video review is below:

As for the laminating machine? It’s definitely a keeper. Wish I had it 15 years ago when I spent hours making our first flash cards.

Two thumbs up from me!

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Gutzy Gear Giveaway

Posted by html404 on September 7, 2012
in Giveaways, Reviews

Magen recently wrote a great review of Gutzy Gear products. She and her kids loved how fun and creative they are. As a mom she loved how they inspired her kids to share and play together.

What are Gutzy Gear products? They are a brand new innovative way for your child to express themselves through customizing your backback, sports duffel, messenger bag, and more! Gutzies are cool looking removable patches that can be traded between kids. There are fifty-six Gutzies in a series and new Gutzies constantly being introduced, so your kids will be sure to find something to express themselves!

Gutzy Gear wants to offer one lucky winner a starter kit and two patch packs!

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Lilla Rose Hair Clip Review and Giveaway

Posted by html404 on August 31, 2012
in Giveaways, Products for Mom, Reviews

I was contacted by Sarah an independent Lilla Rose distributor about hosting a review and giveaway as well as a Lila Rose Party.

My middle daughter and I chose the Sea-Inspired dolphin clip to review. My daughter loved the sea theme and her favorite color is blue so she was really pleased with the clip when we received it.

Before choosing a Lilla Rose clip be sure to watch the sizing video to choose the correct size so you don’t end up with a bad fit!

When we tested this clip out we were surprised at how well it fit my daughter’s hair. It didn’t slip or fall out and it stayed in all day which is surprising considering very few hair clips do. We are in love with these clips and think they are a great alternative to the cheap clips you can buy elsewhere because they are so well made not to mention beautiful!

I love that the Lilla Rose hair clips are not only pretty and fashionable, but they work great in any type of hair. Lilla Rose offers beautiful hair jewelry in seven different sizes so it doesn’t matter how thick or fine, short or long, your hair is, but they will have one that works for you!

We are really pleased with the quality and customer service provided by Lilla Rose. Sarah is extremely helpful in choosing a clip and is fast at responding to e-mails, not to mention very pleasant to work with!

If you’d like to purchase a Flexi-8 clip you can do so here. Remember! Orders placed today get FREE shipping!

$16 gift card to two winners (you can easily purchase almost anything from Lilla Rose with these)

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Chungaboo Language Series For iPad Review

Posted by Brande on August 26, 2012
in Books, Downloads, Ebooks, Education, Family Stuff, Fun Stuff, Kids Stuff, Reviews, School, Shopping

I love my apps! My daughter and I recently got this new app from Chungaboo Language Series (formally Lingo Slingo). The first selection is “Words” – the app will say bear and then toss about 5 cards with different pictures and your child needs to select the correct picture. If they select the wrong picture you get an “X” at the top of the screen. This app has a choice of 6 different languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish). In addition, there are achievements – in this section there is “All-Time Scoring”, Beginner’s Badge by Language, and Maestro Badge by Language (50 card streak). From this app you can also purchase – Animals, Travel, and coming soon is Color Door. They have teasers to let you try before you spend the money.

This is a great app for your preschoolers! My daughter will be 4 next month and really enjoys it. The Chungaboo app not only helps her connect words to pictures, but it helps with her motor skills by the cards moving. The music is not bad for parents either. This is a wonderful learning game for road trips! Check it out in your apps store! Sorry, I didn’t see anything for you android users.

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Signature Stamp

Posted by html404 on August 25, 2012
in Business, Reviews

As a business owner there are times when paper work gets piled high, whether that is filing, mail or flyers and contracts to signed and delivered. Sometimes I wish I had my own Virtual Assistant! Recently I found myself sending out a small mailing of about 100 letters (yes via snail mail, shocker I know). I signed each letter individually. Now I didn’t have to sign them individually, I chose to use my signature as a way to give the letter more of a personal touch instead of just running off 100 form letter copies and sending them. However, it took so much time I quickly regretted ever making the decision in the first place.

I can’t remember the timing between that business mailing and an opportunity from Stamps Done Right to review a signature stamp, but when it marched into sight I knew exactly what I wanted to do…Yes, I took full advantage of being offered an easier way to do any future mailings.

My Review of the Signature Stamp

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Back

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The signature stamp works well. The name explains what it is and what it does. It gives a clean looking signature. The stamp itself is not overly bulky, I’ve seen larger, and does not jam when pressed down upon.

Signature Stamp – I know the watermark defeats the purpose, but we weren’t really comfortable putting my signature out there for the whole WWW (World Wide Web) to have access to, if you kwim?

The Signature Stamp retails for $30.99 but is only $23.49 at Stamps Done Right.

About Stamps Done Right

Stamps Done Right offers a full line of custom rubber stamps for all you home and office needs. For the professional look, try one of the many text stamps and embossers which can be customized according to your preference. Stampsdoneright.com has a large selection of self inking stamps and embossers. Keep your home or office organized and well run with our custom return address stamps, notary stamps and embosser, signature stamp and more.