Hallmark Cards

Everyone remember how I went to Hallmark at the beginning of April? Well, they were nice enough to sponsor a giveaway for all of you!

They have re-designed their $.99 cards to make them more up to date and I think they are great! I know times are tough for a lot of people, so they can't spend a lot of money, but for under $1, these are a great alternative.

While at Hallmark I had the chance to be a part of a focus group for some of their new cards. I'm not allowed to talk about the specifics, but let me just say that these were hilarious and awesome cards, and some of them were only $.99! You can't beat that!

Hallmark also has some great musical and recordable cards. My sister has sent me a Little Mermaid musical card the past two years for my birthday, and I love them. My daughter thinks they are great too. Well, their new recordable cards take this a step further and not only have music, but they allow you to record your own message. This is great for people who live far away from you. I love this idea for my parents who live a few states away and don't get to see my daughter, their only grandchild, very often. They love to hear her talk, and so this would be perfect for them.

I received a few of the recordable cards to try out, and I can tell you that it is super easy to do. You pull out a tab, press a button, and after the beep record what you want, and if you mess up, you can re-record it! That's it. The instructions are right on the card too.

What's really cool is they have cards that you can not only personalize with voice, but you can also add your own picture to them to make them one of a kind photo cards.

Hallmark has been around for such a long time, you know you can trust their quality of cards. There are a lot of behind the scene work that goes on before a card is made. I only saw a small portion of it, but wow, there's a lot more than I realized. They do their best to make sure they uphold their reputation.

(Please note that I am not saying this because Hallmark sent me on a trip. These are my honest opinions and they have not been bought!)

Well, Hallmark has agreed to giveaway a card package to one of you viewers!
The winner will receive two of Hallmark’s Mother’s Day Recordable Cards with Music; two Hallmark Recordable Cards with Music for Father’s Day, and four of the newly-redesigned 99-cent cards.

Since they want to make sure to get these cards to you before Mother's Day, I will be holding a live contest for these!

To enter, tell me if you still send cards to people or not.

Once you tell me that, you may enter as many times as you want. BUT, you must leave a full sentence. I don't care if it's punctually correct. You just can't say LOL! and try to make that count.

Since last time we got to 153 in like 30 minutes, I'm going to make it a little longer and say the first person to get to comment 521 wins. Hehehe!

Ready, go!

Some Winners

I have a few winners to announce.

First up is the winner of the Polka Tot Boutique giveaway:

MaddyRu said... 32

I would love to have the Ocean, Sea Turtle & Starfish Canvas Wall Art. Thanks!

Next is the winner of the Clorox Disinfecting Wipes:

Mommyhood is Thankless said... 74 I have your button on my blog: Here

Then the winner of the Pretty Peacock Handstamped Necklace:

Jinxy said... 17

you're on my bogroll

Prima Princessa DVD Review and Giveaway

We have always said that my daughter would be a dancer. She is super flexible and when she would sit, she would point her toes, with her legs out to the side. Or she would stand on her tip toes. It's in her blood, what can I say?

I received the Prima Princessa DVD from the company to do a review, and I thought it was perfect for my daughter. I remember a few months ago I did a basic pirouette and my daughter just laughed and laughed. I don't know why she thought it was so funny, but she liked it. I figured she would like this video too.

We have pulled it out a few times, and she kind of watches it, but not really. She doesn't watch many DVD's however, so I think it's just a little old for her. (She's almost 2) She does like spinning and jumping with the little kids on the movie, however. In fact, I got a video of her doing it.



We had to pull out her pretty princess dress so she could look as pretty as the ballerinas. She had so much fun spinning and jumping around the room.

So what exactly is this DVD?

It is a 40 minute DVD for anyone aspring to be a ballerina or princess and stars a cartoon fairy ballerina princess named Prima Princessa who takes an adorable group of pre-school girls on a magic journey to see a live performance of Swan Lake, performed by the world famous Paris Opera Ballet, complete with kid-friendly narration by Prima Princessa. Between acts they come home and in a fun montage of animals, kids, and young dancers from the New York City Ballet's SAB they learn basic ballet steps. Our DVD gets kids up and dancing and twirling in their livingrooms!

I love how they incorporate a real ballet, but they explain everything that is going on, so kids can understand the story. It's also fun to see other kids actually demonstrating real ballet steps that your kids can immitate at home. I bet my daughter will really like this in a few years when she's a little older and appreciates the pretty ballerinas. For now we'll just continue dancing and spinning around the room.

Want to win a copy of Prima Princessa?

To enter:

• Visit their site and tell me what kids activities they have available on there.

For extra entries: (the entry above must be completed for these to count)

• Add me to your blogroll (1 entry)
• Add my button to your site (1 entry)
• Blog about this and include a link to here and a link to Prima Princessa (5 entries)
• Subscribe to my feed (1 entry)
• Follow me on twitter and tweet this giveaway (1 entry- leave a link to the tweet)

Contest is open to US residents only and will end May 7th at 11:59pm MT. Winner will be drawn by random.org, and will have 48 hours to contact me or I will have to draw a new winner. Please make sure you leave each entry in a separate comment and leave me a way to contact you.

Prima Princessa is a Playdate Pick!

*Please note that this is just my opinion and someone else might have a different experience with this product*

View lots more contests at the Ultimate Blog Carnival on LiveGiveaways.Com!

My Snaptotes Bag

I finally received my SnapTotes bag, and here's what it looks like:



Adorable, right?!? The nice thing about the Gigi Bag is that it's customizable. You can choose the design of the material on the sides of the bag, with choices including plain black, black and white checks, black and white flowers, or black and pink design. I chose the black and white checks, and I think it goes great with the pictures I chose.

Here's a video I made all about my bag and how much I love it, and all the cool features it has.


Don't forget that if you want to order one for Mother's Day you need to get your order in by tomorrow April 30th!

Oh, and SnapTotes was nice enough to increase the discount they are offering. Instead of 10% off, you can now get 15% off your SnapTotes order by using the code SASSY15.

Wordless Wednesday- "Cookies!"

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I Feel Like an Idiot.

I consider myself being pretty tech savvy, but apparently not today. I just got a new HD Vado from Creative, and was trying to put it all together. So I put the battery in and tried to turn it on and nothing happened.

OK, the battery must be dead. No problem, let me go plug it in. I plug it in to my computer and it comes up as the battery is full. Um, OK. Why isn't it turning on? I did this a few times. I still couldn't figure it out. I was just about to go to the MomDot forum to see if anyone else had this problem.

Then I decided to check the battery.

I had it in upside down.

LIVE Contest right now! Exergen Thermometer

So I recently ran a contest to win an Exergen Temperal Thermometer. I pulled a winner, and they had won at another blog and are getting it to review, so they passed. So I emailed another winner and as my rules state, they had 48 hours to contact me. Well, it's been over 48 hours, and I haven't heard anything. Since I have to send this info over to the sponsor tonight, I'm holding a live contest for it.

Rules:
For the first entry, tell me why you want this thermometer.
After that, you can comment as much as you want

First one to reach 153 wins.

Go!

Monday's Free Redbox Code 4/27

Today's free Redbox Code is here! It's:

4CW33N

Remember that it expires tonight at midnight, so you have to use it today.

Update on My Daughter

Thank you everyone for your well wishes for my daughter. We took her in and she has a small ear infection. I'd hate to see what a full blown ear infection is like! We've been lucky and this is her first one.

We got her on antibiotics and after one dose she is doing 110% better. She's a completely different kid. I'm just glad she's feeling better and we know what's wrong.