I have to apologize for not picking the winner sooner. I had this brilliant idea to upgrade my blog to WP 2.7 yesterday, and well, things did not go well. It took me all day yesterday to get my blog back into working order. Now that it is working correctly, WP 2.7 isn’t too bad. It is just going to take some time to get use to it.
The winner is Jessica Gugel! I will be emailing her shortly for her information! Congrats!
Another site that has great Christmas cards is Paper Shouts. They have Traditional, Vintage and Modern designs, so there is something here for everyone. You can get cards where you can put your kids photos on them (my favorite) or just the traditional cards without that. The paper is quality card stock and is printed on 100% recycled, high-quality, uncoated paper! What I love the most is that you can but your custom order in and have your cards back in less than a week! For a busy mom, that is exactly what I need! Now, I know you all would love to get some of these, so I have arranged to giveaway a $50 gift certificate to Paper Shouts! Now, if you can’t wait and want to order some of these cards now, I have arranged for 10% off all your orders. You just need to use promo code: lreviews.
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This giveaway will end on November 30 at 8:00 pm CST to make sure you have enough time to order and is available to US residents only. Good luck!
Do you kids write and draw lots of stories? Would you love to make them into keepsake? If so, Tikatok.com is a website you will want to try out. With Tikatok, you are able to take your kids stories and drawings and make them into either hard cover or soft cover books! They even have title pages and dedication pages! You can keep them yourself or give them away as gifts! Registration on the site is free, and you don’t get charged until you order your book. You can even buy gift certificates for the author or artist in your life.
It is pretty easy to set up your book too. Kids can definitely do it themselves. As for the illustrations, you can either scan them and upload them yourself, or mail them in for them to to do. If they don’t know what to make their book about, there are suggestions they can use. You just put in what you like, and it will give you several different ways you can talk about that topic. Your kids truly do have control of every aspect of their book.
If you’d like a unique original gift for someone, this is definitely it! Kids like nothing more than to express their creative side, and this allows them to do so and show everyone.
Do you always find you can never your pen when you need one? With Kooky Klickers, you will never lose your pen again. However, you will find more people borrowing your pens and not returning them. Each Kooky Klickers pen has a unique design and are six inches in length. They have crazy stringy hair that bounces and springs when you write too! Each Kooky Klicker has a special design, unique name, birth order, and number holographic sticker. They are released as part of a six member crew too. These easily attach to your key chain, and everyone will want to know where you got yours when they see it! (I know that has happened for me). Now, if I have as much fun as an adult with this, imagine how much fun your kids will have! Madison thought they were super funny looking, and she loved writing with them. Since Will is only one, he just giggled when he saw them. He also thought they were pretty funny when he was trying to write with his pen too!
Kooky Klickers are an excellent stocking stuffer for Christmas for both adults and kids alike!
One of the gifts I plan on getting Bill this Christmas is called PrismaPixels. For those who don’t know, Bill is an electrical engineer who loves to do logic puzzles. Anything that involves math and logic, he is there. PrismaPixels is nothing like you have seen before. Each puzzle has numbers along the top and along the side of it. These numbers will give you clues about which and how many boxes to color in. If you color all the boxes correctly, you will see a picture.
The rules for this kind of puzzle are fairly easy. First, those numbers I talked about before, represent the number of consecutively colored boxes of the same color in that row or column. The colored boxes and group of boxes occur in the same order as the numbers. There must be at least one blank box between two sections of the same colored boxes. There may or may not be one or more blank boxes between two sections of different color boxes.
Once you get the puzzle book, all these rules are listed. There is also a couple of pages of tips (and images), so you can learn how to do these puzzles. Now, by following the directions, I even figured out how to do these! These puzzles do require you to think, but are pretty fun to do.
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