Tiny Bubbles: Handmade With Love Blog Hop Introduction

I met Heather from Tiny Bubbles when she stopped by my mom’s house during Christmas with her little boys. 6 degrees of separation here. Her brother lived with my parents for a couple years and he’s my brother’s best friend. I’m getting ready for this Handmade With Love blog hop and here’s Heather with a gift for my mom from her Etsy shop!! AHHHH

She brought my mom a neck wrap that she had made. It was so soft and beautifully made! I knew as soon as I held it I was going to:

1) Buy one for my aunt for Christmas

2) Ask her to be part of the blog hop

I put in my special order last week (computer issues and all) and the neck wrap I ordered for my aunt is on it’s way!! So, here’s a little bit about her neck wraps and back wraps:

“Each neck wrap measures approximately 6 inches by 20 inches and has two chambers which contain a mixture of rice and organic flax seed. Each back wrap measures approximately 9 inches by 17 inches and has three chambers. One side of this wrap features your fabric of choice, the other side is a soft fleece.

Microwave this wrap for 1 - 2 minutes to desired temperature to create a wonderfully relaxing moist heat. Or store in your freezer to use as an ice pack.”

This one above & below is my aunts!!

Heather also makes Binder Bags (hello couponers!)

“This trendy bag is actually a convenient way to cover and carry your binder in style. Made with study cotton fabrics, these bags are great for class, coupons, photo albums, wedding planners and more!

Each bag features a transparent pencil bag sewn-in for easy access, as well as a pocket big enough to hold standard sized paper. (Pencil bag color may vary from picture).

Sides have velcro closures and cover should easily fit either a 1 1/2 inch or 2 inch binder. (Please indicate in comments if a larger size is needed).

Hooded Bath Towels With Hand Mitts

Tiny Toes Shoes, Burp Cloth and Skirt Set

“Dress your little girl in this elegant skirt and shoe set made from Pottery Barn's Penelope Collection fabric and she'll receive endless compliments!

This skirt features an elastic waistband along with a ribbon tie which can be worn either to the side or in back. Fits about 3 months up to 18 months.

Shoes pictured are size 6-12 month, but custom sizing is available upon request. (Custom shoes will vary slightly from shoes pictured due to design in fabric. Please allow 1-2 weeks for custom orders).

Burp cloth is made with a Gerber prefold diaper, and is trimmed using pink ribbon with tiny white polka dots.
Skirt, burp cloth and shoes are machine washable on delicate cycle. Air dry or tumble dry low.”

Tiny Toes Shoes

 

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Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/people/TinyBubbles

I have not received any compensation or product from this review. I purchased the product mentioned above. The opinions expressed are my own and never influenced by the company or person I work with.

Hip Hip Hurray Giveaway Linky

Hurray...a few of my current giveaways:

Bob Evans Fit From the Farm Meal 1/21

Dora Talking Digital Camera 1/27

Gorton's Seafood Giveaway 5 Winners 1/31

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Gorton’s Seafood Contest AND Giveaway 5 Winners

Back again to talk about Gorton’s again. The boys and I had the Potato Crunch Fillets last week. Buddy ate two, Doodle ate one and I had the one they left me. =) It was a yummy mix of potato and fish. Here are a few Gorton’s packages we currently have in the freezer that I personally purchased in the last couple weeks.Gorton's Seafood January Grilled Facebook Giveaway!
One thousand (1000) FREE grilled product coupons will be given out in four (4) Drawings of two-hundred fifty coupons (250) on: January 10, 2011; January 17, 2011; January 24, 2011; January 31, 2011. One (1) Grand Prize: Xbox 360 Console with Kinect (Retail Value $300.00) to be drawn on January 31, 2011.

Now I get to giveaway 2 coupons each to 5 winners! So worth the win! Yes, I can say this from lots of personal experience.

Required: Visit Gortons and tell me which variety you’d like to try the most!

Giveaway open to US Residents 18 yrs or older. Please leave your email in the required entry or have it available in your profile. No email/contact = No entry. Giveaway ends 1/31/11 at 11:59 PST. Winner has 48 hours to respond.


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I’d like to thank Gorton’s for sending coupons for me to purchase more Seafood and for providing the giveaway coupons. The opinions expressed are my own and never influenced by the company.

Dora the Explorer Digital Camera & Giveaway

I was sent a really cute Dora the Explorer Talking Digital Camera and I allowed Doodle to try it out! He’s a pretty big shutter bug and didn’t have a problem with the fact it’s a Dora camera.

I was surprised at how light weight it was. Not sure why I always expect cameras to be heavy. Probably because I’m comparing it to my full sized camera.

How does the Dora Camera work? Well, I thought this had a lot of features for the little crowd. Here are the options you can flip through:

• Continuous Shot Mode


• 3 Shot Mode


• Delete All


• Delete Last Photo


• Photo Resolution


• Compression


• Frequency

Now if you look through that list you realize this is definitely a hands on parent activity. I can’t think of any 4yr olds who will choose from that list on their own and know what they’re doing with the camera.

I found it easy to set it on Continuous Shot Mode and leave it there. With the way Doodle was running around with the Dora Camera there should’ve been an “active” mode!

Next comes the fun Digital Software that comes with the Dora Digital Camera. The software has photo editing options and games for the kids to play. You can also email photos, print them or watch a slide show.

Now, I have to admit, many of Doodles photos are blurry because he takes his photos while running around. And I don’t mean that in a random way, I mean he’s actually running in most of the photos he took! But I was able to snap one of him. =)






Now for details on the giveaway:

*Sakar isn’t providing a camera for giveaway, which is fine, so I’ll be giving away our review camera. It was only used once by myself and my son and all photos have been deleted. I cut the packaging on the side and you can’t tell it’s been open other than the slice. If no one is interested, I will take away the giveaway offer, no problem. =)

Required: If you win this camera, who would be the shutterbug using it?

Giveaway open to US Residents 18 yrs or older. Please leave your email in the required entry or have it available in your profile. No email/contact = No entry. Giveaway ends 1/27/11 at 11:59 PST. Winner has 48 hours to respond.

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I’d like to thank Sakar for sending this review item. The opinions expressed are my own and never influenced by the company.

Hip Hip Hurray Giveaway Linky

Here are a couple of my current giveaways:

Purex Free Softener 3 Winners 1/17

Bob Evans Fit From the Farm Meal 1/21

To add your giveaway linky you must link to your giveaway not to your homepage! It will be deleted if it doesn’t. Spam will go as well. If you believe I’ve deleted your linky by accident, please let me know.

CoverGirl 50th Anniversary & Opportunities

CoverGirl is celebrating their 50th Anniversary and want you to join in the fun!

Celebrating 50 beautiful years

The next generation of COVERGIRL… is you! Visit the MyCOVERGIRL tab to celebrate and let friends and this iconic beauty brand know just what it is that makes you an easy, breezy, beautiful COVERGIRL. As part of the fun, they’ll be offering samples, fun quizzes, sweet rewards, monthly and quarterly prizes and amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Go ahead, invite your friends to the party and rock your COVERGIRL all year long!

I joined, even though I’m not a huge make-up wearer. They are currently giving away their LashBlast Volume Mascara to the first 1000 CoverGirls. After you join, you have to go back and watch the “commercial” they create with your information. For me it cracked me up as I’d never be selected as a CoverGirl! LOL

I am BzzAgent and participating in this campaign.

Bob Evans Review & Giveaway

Living in Minnesota I don’t always get to visit yummy restaurants such as Bob Evans. The only time we get to go is when we drive out of state and visit my mom in Virginia.

I was sent a great kit from Bob Evans to learn more about their Fit from the Farm meals. I’ll fess up, my favorite item at Bob Evans is their Smiley Face Potatoes from the kids menu. Guilty pleasure.

I suggested to my folks while we were visiting them if we could go out to dinner at Bob Evans. They were more than happy to go because they like Bob Evans. We got there around 7:30pm with 7 of us in tow.

The waitress seemed a bit frazzled. Maybe it was because we’d just gotten done with the holiday weekend, I don’t know. I ordered the Grilled Chicken Breast from the Fit from the Farm ^® menu. The rest of the family decided to go with their usual choices.Oh my goodness, this was a de-lish meal! I ate every single morsel. The chicken had a wonderful seasoning on it so I didn’t feel like I was missing anything without a gravy or sauce to go with it. I had a huge serving of broccoli that I scarfed and I ate the entire potato, skin and all. My plate was clean when I finished. I would absolutely order that meal again.Doodle unfortunately didn’t get exactly what he ordered. He got the pancakes with chocolate chips but they just piled the chips on top and then flipped them to burn them to the pancake. Kind of a bummer so I sent them back.

My brother M asked for an omelet (can’t remember which one) but it didn’t come at all like it was described. He was embarrassed by the attention being focused on him so he just kept asking us to leave it alone.Dessert came and M wanted to get something so my boys chimed in. Unfortunately, the waitress came back with desserts only for my boys and not my brother.

On to our drive home. I decided that instead of actually eating at the restaurant, we’d use their Carry Out option. So, I used my Droid2 to look up a location about an hour ahead of our drive. I called when we were about 10 minutes from the restaurant.

I have to tell you, Tommy was such a kind and helpful guy. I had no idea where I was going and he got us to his restaurant without issue.

This time I decided to order the Chicken, Spinach and Tomato Pasta. I love all three of those items and combined together sounded delicious!All of our food came up at different times so by the time I left some of the food was cold. My pasta came without the chicken. They said they had given me catsup and syrup (for my kids) but that wasn’t in the bags. Thankfully I know better than to drive away without checking so I had to run back inside a couple of times to get the needed items.

That being said, the service at this restaurant was phenomenal and the food, at least mine, was scrumptious and again I ate every single bite.

No photo because we were on the road and I didn’t know where my camera was. Sorry.

Here’s your opportunity to win a FREE Fit From the Farm Meal Of Your Choice.

Required: Visit Bob Evans and tell me which Fit From the Farm menu item sounds yummy. (you can also look under the Lunch & Dinner links on the left side for more options)

Giveaway open to US Residents 18 yrs or older. Please leave your email in the required entry or have it available in your profile. No email/contact = No entry. Giveaway ends 1/21/11 at 11:59 PST. Winner has 48 hours to respond.

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I’d like to thank Blog Friendly PR for connecting me with Bob Evans. I was provided 3 free meals, one of which I am passing on to you. It expires on 2/28/11 so be sure to use it ASAP! The opinion expressed is mine and never influenced by the company.