CyberMonday Deals at Mabel's Labels

Here are some great Cyber Monday deals from Mabel's Labels:30% off Holiday Gift Tags and Return Address LabelsRegular Price: $18.50, sale price $12.9540% off Selected Write-On! Stationery, in choice of Bzzz or Cowpoke designsRegular Price $34, sale price $20.40Backyardigans Write-On! Stationery Kits 40% offI did not receive a sample or monetary compensation...

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Imagine: Fashion Designer -- Review and Giveaway

Win an Imagine: Fashion Designer World Tour game for Nintendo DS by Ubisoft! To enter, keep reading....I loved designing clothes when I was a little girl, and The Pea is just like me. Whether it's drawing designs on paper or cutting up bits of paper to drape on paper dolls or pinning scraps of cloth to make a cape for Barbie and American Girl, she...

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Klutz.com Holiday Sale

Can you say, Ho Ho Holiday Sale? Klutz.com is having a holiday special until December 16 for 25% off your entire order. Just enter promo code HOLIDAY25 when you check out at Klutz.com. Now is the time to get those great activity books and craft books your child loves -- I recommend any of the Paper Fashions books for girls, any of the Building...

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The Fairytale Collection -- review and giveaway

It's a fact that kids like to watch and listen to other kids. Think of the live video footage on Sesame Street, Yo Gabba Gabba, The Wiggles, Barney, and other shows. And it's also a fact that parents don't like it nearly as much as their kids. Take Kidz Bop and other cd's where little kids sing nursery rhymes. I know my kids like it, so I'm happy...

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Shopping for the Perfect Holiday Present at Staples

When the Silicon Valley Moms blog selected me for a $200 Staples shopping spree, I thanked them and politely declined, saying we didn't really need anything from Staples.Joke!!! Are you kidding me ???? I snatched that giftcard and wrote my name on it in permanent marker and coughed on it and peed around it in a circle to make sure everyone knew that...

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Bonggamom's Friday Finds -- The Bestest Giveaways Around the Blogosphere

As a giveaway blogger, I've found it's a great way to get more traffic to my giveaways. And as a person who loves entering giveaways, I've found it's a great way to find out where all the best giveaways are.So I've started a weekly giveaway roundup post that hopefully people will find useful. Feel free to leave links to your giveaways, everyone....

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The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary -- Review and Giveaway

Win a copy of this cd! To find out how, keep reading....Happy Thanksgiving! We didn't have Thanksgiving in the Philippines, were I grew up, but I'm well-versed in traditions. One tradition my family had was visiting my grandmother and aunt every Sunday and hunkering down in my aunt's dark, airconditioned bedroom after lunch, eating potato chips...

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Name Bubbles name labels

A label is a label is a label. Once you're tried one label company, you've tried them all. Right? Wrong. When label company Name Bubbles invited me to try out their labels, I accepted with thanks; I'm always ready to review products created by "mompreneurs", especially products that make my life as a parent easier. But I've reviewed some really...

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A Century of Flavor Review and Giveaway

Win this cookbook! To find out how, keep reading.....Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/whatever winter holiday you like to celebrate is almost here! I'm so excited to begin all our fun holiday traditions, like driving around and looking at all the beautifully-lit houses, baking cookies, wrapping presents and hanging stockings....

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chicBuds Sport Headphones

When I first discovered chicBuds at the beginning of 2009, I knew I had to have them; the combination of chic bling-y jewels and practical retractable cord sounded like a winner. Reviewing the chicBuds and chicBuds JR.earbud headphones a couple months later turned me into a loyal fan; I've used and abused my chicBuds so much that I need to buy a...

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"Firsts: Origins of Everyday Things That Changed the World" review and giveaway

Did you know that Ben Franklin came up with Daylight Saving Time (his analysis showed that the savings due to using natural light versus artificial light would come up to $299 million in today's money). Did you know that Sylvester Graham invented ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and Will Kellogg invented cornflakes? Or that London was the city which...

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Win one of Twelve Disaster Survival Kits

Last week I attended a blogger talk given by California Volunteers, the lead oversight agency for the California Citizen Corps Program, which was created post 9/11 to coordinate volunteer activities to make our communities safer, stronger and better prepared to respond to any emergency. They talked to us about ways we could prepare ourselves and our...

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Knex 400 Piece Value Tub

There are some toys that you can never have too many of, and one of those is K'nex. We absolutely love it. You can't go wrong giving my kids (or any other kids) a K'nex set; with K'nex, it's truly "The More, The Merrier", because with more pieces you can build more, bigger and better projects.We are definitely a K'nex family. Check out our K'nex...

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K'nex Sesame Street Neighborhood Collection

Believe it or not, my kids still love their chunky building blocks? Even though they usually play with the smaller, more complex building sets like K'nex, whenever I try and make a move to donate the blocks to charity, they let out such a howl of protest that I convince myself we can wait another 6 months. So when Team Mom and K'nex sent us a sample...

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Give a Gift, Help a Family, Win Jewelry

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”I have always loved this quote. Contributing to self-sufficiency programs is such a wonderful way of giving because it sets the beneficiaries up for the long term, empowers them to help themselves, and preserves their dignity. But I think there's...

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20% Off Young Scientist Kits on ToysAndGamesOnline.com

A couple of months ago I reviewed (and gave away) a Razor Scooter from ToysAndGamesOnline.com. It's a great source for online toys, with a great choice of high-quality kids' products and lots of deals -- for example, orders over $69 ship free, and right now they're offering and extra $20 off any order over $250 (use promo code TwentyOff).This holiday...

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Cinemin Swivel

One of the cool products that were showcased at last Sunday's SV Moms holiday party (I know, I know, I haven't gotten around to blogging about it yet. Until I do, check out Kim's post) was a teeny-tiny iPod-compatible projector called the Cinemin Swivel. Party attendees were lucky enough to receive a free Swivel (or at least a free order; the actual...

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Bonggamom's Friday Finds -- The Bestest Giveaways Around the Blogosphere

As a giveaway blogger, I've found it's a great way to get more traffic to my giveaways. And as a person who loves entering giveaways, I've found it's a great way to find out where all the best giveaways are.So I've started a weekly giveaway roundup post that hopefully people will find useful. Feel free to leave links to your giveaways, everyone....

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Boston Market for the Holidays

Those of you who read my blog know that I didn't grow up in the US; I'm from the Philippines, so I never celebrated Thanksgiving until I was in my mid-twenties. Now we celebrate it every year, but I'm not a stickler for slaving over a hot stove in order to come up with a home-cooked meal. I love prepared holiday feasts like those you can get...

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My First Lego Fire Fighter Building Set

I don't think I need to go into detail about how great LEGO is. Everybody plays with it -- we have a big tub of LEGO in the playroom (actually we have two big tubs -- one holds regular sized LEGO, and one holds DUPLO bricks), and I don't know of a family or daycare or school that doesn't. It's one of the best toys for building and themed play around,...

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Bakugan 7-in-1 Maxus Dragonoid

I remember the moment like it was yesterday: sometime last spring, 3Po and Jammy went for a playdate at a friend's house, and when I picked them up they had discovered a new religion: the Church of Bakugan. They have been obsessed with Bakugan since then, and they treasure their small collection of magnetic pop-out action figures like they're the...

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