Living with an electrical engineer has made me appreciate lighting on a whole different level than most people.  Whether I want to know or not, Bill can look at say some Chandeliers and tell you how much they cost, why they used that specific brand, and so on and so forth. It also has allowed me to have some awesome Bathroom Lighting and under cabinet lighting in the kitchen.

That being said, I still enjoy looking at companies like Littman Bros that have some great lighting deals.  They also have some the top namebrands out there at reasonable prices.  Who doesn’t like that?  Their site is just so easy to navigate.  Our next lighting purchase will actually be a ceiling fan with a light for Will’s bedroom, and they have a lot of us to choose from in that department too!  With free shipping for orders over $100, how can you go wrong?  I love that these guys are local to me (they are in Schaumberg, IL), so I’ll get my orders fairly quickly.  They also have a local showroom, so I can easily go in and check them out.

If you are in need of lighting in your home or business, definitely check out Littman Bros.

The Step ‘n Shine Wireless Night Lighting System is a great product to have in your house.  How many times have you went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and stubbed your toe?  How many times have you blinded yourself by turning on the bathroom light?  Well, you won’t have that problem anymore.  The Step ‘n Shine Wireless Night Lighting System comes with a light zone activator mat and 1 wireless illuminator light.  Once you step on the mat, it lights up all the illuminator lights (you can buy extra ones).  To turn it off, you just step on the mat again.

Even though there are several adult uses, this is great if you have kids too.  Madison can get out of bed and have a lighted path to the bathroom.  She doesn’t fully have to wake herself up anymore.  Another great use is that we know when she is up (as long as she steps on the map).  We can keep the illuminator light by us and see when she got up.  We are actually planning on packing this up and bringing it to Green Bay with us when we go to visit my parents.  My parents house isn’t as familiar to Madison as ours, so this will help tremendously for her late night bathroom trips.  This also works great to check up on Will (my 18 month old) at night without having to turn the light on.

The great thing about the Step ‘n Shine Wireless Night Lighting System is that there are no wires, no cords, and no clapping!  You don’t get an easier system to use than this either.  If you have anyone up at night in your house, you should definitely look at getting one of these.

I am going to let you all in on a little secret that I am doing to do for Christmas this year. See the picture on the left? Those are stamps. I made them over at PictureItPostage and will be affixing them to all my Christmas cards this year. Tell me that isn’t the cutest thing you have ever seen?  There are just so many uses for these stamps.  You can do what I did and put them on Christmas cards.  However, I can see them being used for baby announcements, engagements, holidays and graduations.  You can’t make an invitation more customized and personal than this.  Plus, you don’t see stamps like this too often.  That makes it unique, and people will love it!  You will be the talk of everyone you send these too!

How hard is it to make these?  It is not hard at all.  PictureItPostage allows you to either create these stamps on their site or you can download a program, and you can create them on your desktop.  You can customize the background color and what color the text is on them too!  It literally took me about 10 minute to completely put this together.  Shipping took no time at all.  I am 100% satisfied with this company and would highly recommend you use them also.

Also, they are having a “Get Real” Photo contest that starts October 31st. They want to see the best of the worst when it comes to photos.  They want you to send them your worst pictures that you really don’t want to see the light of day. How do you enter?  On October 31, head over to PictureItPostage and upload your photo. Beginning November 21, all visitors to the “Get Real” contest website will have a chance to vote for their favorite photos.  The winners will be announced December 8.  What can you win?  They are giving away two Canon Digital SLR Camera and five PictureItPostage coupon codes good for 100 customized photo stamps. The ten first prize winners will each receive one PictureItPostage coupon code good for one pack of customized postage stamps.  We all have horrible pictures — now have them work for you!

Make sure you check out PictureItPostage!