My friend, "Gert," over at Chicken Scratches is having a great giveaway from her Etsy Shop! Perfect for this time of year! How cute is this ornament? And of course you get to personalize it with your own photos! I am thinking it would make a beautiful keepsake of your past year. A new baby? Wedding? Family Portrait? I love it. She is so talented! Go take a look at all of her fun stuff at her Etsy shop and then go enter her contest! She's asking that you spread the word about her contest and shop through your blog or facebook, etc. and that is how you get an entry (don't forget to tell her about it in the comments). The winner of this giveaway will be announced on November 20, 2009!
I was given the opportunity to review Lovable Labels for my family at the start of this school year. I am eager to see how they continue to hold up throughout the school year, but so far they have been great! I received the Back to School Mega Pack which includes: 
*15 Sticker Labels *60 Slimline Labels *48 Press N’ Stick Clothing DOTS™ *16 Shoe Labels *2 Mini-Metal Tags * 5 Book/Binder Stickers. 
Since I have 5 kids in grades 1-6, we end up with a lot of hand me downs and shared items. So I just put our last name on the stickers with a star because I figured it would be well reecived by both my girls and my boys. They all want the bag tags of which there were only 2 so I have had to choose which kids get those-although they can be easily moved from one pack to another so they can easily trade off--if they are in a sharing kind of mood. I received more than enough labels to cover the needs of my large family. I felt that was a great value. I have plenty for now and some to spare as we add items throughout the school year that will need labels. At their website they have lots of other fun products like stationery and household labels.
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To top off the evening April was like Oprah giving us all of her "Favorite Things" as swag to take home! . We got reusable grocery bags from Harmon's as our swag bags-and when you shop at Harmons and remember the bag you get a discount on your groceries. I already loved Harmon's and now I have one more excuse to shop there. Some of my favorite swag that I came home with were:
Photo via TwitpicThat’s a $20 value—yours free for supporting the new book! Send your e-receipt to book@womenforhire.com and indicate the city of your choice.
So guess what I won this morning!? I won Tory's special edition Flipcam. I have wanted one of those for soooo long. I might even have to start vlogging! I want to Thank Women For Hire and Tory Johnson for this gift. You can enter too for the rest of the week! Tory is an amazing woman and I have had the opportunity to work with her wonderful organization, helping women, in the past. I am glad to see that she has been so successful in her endeavors! Thank you again Tory! I will love my new Flipcam!
If your kids are already out of school (like mine are) and you're looking for ways to keep them occupied (like I am) try taking them for a free donut at Krispy Kreme. See if your local Krispy Kreme is participating! If you live near me, Our's is!
At Disneyland, the kids also majorly got into pin trading. I had first heard of this concept as an idea when reading Design Mom. And then our Travel Agent friend told us that we could buy them inexpensively on KSL.com or eBay. We found a seller with good reviews on eBay and bought a lot of 60 pins for a fraction of the cost they'd have been at the Disneyland Parks (the cheapest ones started at $6.95--we paid about $1.25 each.) The pin trading was such a hit. The kids loved finding cast members to trade pins with and came home with some really fun finds. Each of them had a goal in mind as they traded--one daughter wanted all the baby princess pins, another daughter only wanted large pins--if it was big she traded for it and if it was big and had Tinkerbell on it--even better. One son started a quest for Star Wars themed pins and then changed to the baby prince collection to match his sister. On the last day trading pins was their main focus and desire. It was a lot of fun and we were able to allow each child to have 10 pins to trade compared to the 2 they would have gotten for the same price had we purchased them at the park.
The last little tip we were given which was really great was to buy each of the children a gift card of a set amount for souvenirs. We told them that as soon as the money was gone it was gone so they really had to think about their purchases. Since we were at the park for 5 days we also told them they wouldn't be allowed to buy anything with their gift cards until the 3rd day. They were so good about their purchases. They thought them through and were happy with their purchases, because they had seen multiple options before deciding on what they truly wanted to bring home with them.
Tomorrow, Tues April 21st between noon and 8pm is Free scoop day at Ben & Jerry's. I used to go when there was one close to my house, but now the nearest one is an hour away!!! Maybe the rest of you are more fortunate than I. Go to benjerry.com to find a scoop shop near you!
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