Welcome to the Bright Starts Ultimate Baby Shower Giveaway!Bright Starts and Mom to Bed by 8, the Iowa-Mom have teamed to offer an amazing Bright Starts Sunnyside Safari Collection giveaway to one lucky reader!This includes the Sunnyside Safari™ Chair Top High Chair, Playard, Plug in Sway & Swing, Portable Swing and Saucer making this truly the Ultimate Baby Shower Gift.Special thank you to the wonderful bloggers who made this possible including our co-hosts: To Sew with Love, The Lucky Ladybug and Mom Blog Society.I myself have used several Bright Starts items, including a highchair, tummy mat and various toys. Their products are extremely durrable and will last you a long time. This set will be a perfect additon to your nursery. Big smiles and bright adventures go hand in hand in this exciting, fun-filled collection!Take a walk on the sunny side-where baby gear goes together in delightful new ways. It's a win for infants and parents alike, with irresistable jungle characters ...
Coupon – Free & 0.99 Cent Cards @ Treat
Have you heard about the new personalized greeting card company, Treat? Treat is a new brand from the folks at Shutterfly and Tiny Prints that lets you create unique, personalized greeting cards. With more than 4,500 customized card designs at launch, the Treat service offers one of the industry’s largest selections from the best designers, including Hallmark. To ensure that you never miss an important date like a birthday or anniversary, Treat also offers an integrated service that will remind you of all those important events. A Treat calendar can be set up with reminders for anniversaries, events, family holidays and more. Plus, users can use Facebook Connect to link their Facebook and Treat accounts to import friends’ birthdays. Treat is an easy and revolutionary new way to make personalized greetings in your own style and personality just in time for Mother's Day! Here is how it works: Choose your card from their thousands of designs, including the Mother’s Day Collection. ...
Product Review – KnowPhone.com
A few weeks ago, I was invited to try out KnowPhone.com. KnowPhone is a reverse lookup site that allows you to not only look up phone numbers, but find people, emails, and public & criminal records. I was giving a Platinum Pass membership so that I could check out the site and see how stuff works. I get a lot of wrong number and telemarketer calls, so I’m pretty used to looking up numbers on the Internet. I searched several of them on the site. I was able to get the carrier name and general location, but I was unable to get actual reports. When I tried to get the reports, it came up telling me I needed a membership to the site…which I already have. I then searched them through Google and came up with companies, if they were telemarketers, and what they were trying to sell. The next thing I tried was looking up my own information. Surprisingly, other than finding my parents address, there was nothing. I didn’t find anything on my husband or other family members either. ...
Movie Review – Otter 501
Last week, I received a screener copy of the film Otter 501. The film was produced by Sea Studios Foundation, and follows the story of a baby sea otter and the young woman who found her. While staying in Monterey Bay, aspiring marine biologist Kate comes across a baby sea otter that has been washed up on shore. After the otter is rescued, Kate become curious about what will happen to it and eventually visits SORAC, the Sea Otter Research and Conservation center at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. From there, she becomes involved with the sea otter program and watches on as the baby sea otter she found, now called Otter 501, learns what she needs to in order to survive out in the wild. The story is very good, and there is a plethora of interesting information about the conservation efforts for sea otters. I had no idea that they are as endangered as they are. At one point, there were only 50 left. Thankfully, their numbers have since risen, but there are still only around 2,500 or so. ...
Guest Article – Facebook’s e-Commerce
A group of e-commerce start-ups are pinning their hopes on Facebook, Inc. to become an e-commerce powerhouse that can stand up to Amazon.com, Inc. and eBay, Inc. Moving closer to going public, Facebook will come under more pressure to perform and find new sources for profit growth and rely less on advertising income which accounted for 85 per cent of its 2011 revenues.F-commerceSome business minds are of the thought that e-commerce on Facebook will be the answer. BeachMint, Yardsellr, Oodle, and Fab.com are start-ups that are introducing innovative ways to persuade Facebooks users to shop on-line as well, not just to stay connected with their friends. Backed by venture capital firms and big investors like Goldman Sachs, AccelPartners, and Andreessen Horowitz, these e-commerce outfits are pushing out shopping apps, hosting on-line garage sales, and testing out new business models on Facebook. They’ve always viewed e-commerce as such a huge category with a strong history, and as a ...
Guest Article – Tips for Using a Storage Unit
As your kids get older, you might realize that the amount of things in your home grows alongside with them. After a certain amount of time, you might be thinking about getting a storage unit to store those extraneous belongings. Here are a few small tips in using a storage unit. Get rid of bulky items! That small table that doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of your furniture? That treadmill that you use to hang your clothes on? If you’re not using them, they shouldn’t be in your home. Stow them away in your storage. Keep them there until you’re actually ready to use that treadmill, or if you plan on selling it! Hide the gifts! If your kids are sneaky, which is probably a given, they might already know their gift’s hiding locations. Kids will never look in your storage unit! If you’re planning a surprise party, hide the favors in the storage unit so your kids won’t catch on. Also, although it’s May, it’s never too early to stow away gifts for Christmas too! Find a storage ...