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Baby Einstein

Lisa — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:13:11 +0000

Did you know that Baby Einstien has been around for 10 years? I can’t believe it either. Granted, my oldest child is only going to be five, so I’ve only been able to enjoy them for half the time they have been around. That being said I love baby Einstein and all of their products. We own a ton of Baby Einstein DVDs and books. I can totally see how they are the #1 selling infant DVD line. The best part of their DVDs is that they are timeless. Madison will still watch the DVDs with her little brother Will (who is now 18 months old). Their DVDs are some of the best ones out there in my opinion. Not only do they entertain your children, they also learn from them. You can easily interact with your children and talk about what’s on the screen. It is almost amazing how memorized little kids get while watching these DVDs. I also love that their music collection. We have used their Lullaby Classics CD with both of my children. Baby Enstein’s book collection is also great. Their books are very interactive. They include your children as part of the story and require your children to interact with the book. For example, in Touch and Feel Farm animals, they are able to feel a sheep’s wool, a cow’s nose, and a horses mane. Will is very much into textures right now, so this is one of his favorite books. Madison still reads their See and Spy shapes book! Each page asks you to look for a count certain items, and no matter how many times we do it, she still loves it!

Having been a huge fan of Baby Einstein for 5 years, I can only tell you that I highly recommend all of their products. We have yet to have a product of theirs that we didn’t like. Their products make great presents for you kids, a baby shower, or just for the fun of it.

TokBox

Lisa — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:52:30 +0000

As many of you may know, the majority of my friends and family live about four hours away from me. That means, that it is a long distance phone call for me to talk to them. When I found out about Tokbox, I was pretty excited to try it out. Now, this is super easy to use. I tried it out with a few people, and they were all impressed with the clarity of both the image and the audio. I’ve tried other programs before (**cough**yahoo messenger **cough**) that the video was choppy. When you’ve got little kids using these programs (which I have Madison talk to her cousins with it), they don’t understand the choppiness. Mom doesn’t really care for it either. However, there was no choppiness, no lagging, and really I have no complaints about Tokbox. It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up for the service and get a chat started with one of my friends. Now, the coolest part is that you both don’t even need to have a webcam (though the person initiating the call does I think). Once you have your account set up, all you have to do is hit invite, and it will give you a link to pass onto the person you want to talk to. You can even put this on your blog and/or social network profiles. Then your visitors can click “Push To Talk” and connect to you in real time. I’m not adding it here, because I really don’t think you want to listen to screaming kids which is usually how my day goes. You can even record a video and email it someone too!

If you are looking to connect online, TokBox is the way to do it. The clarity of the video and the audio can’t be beat, and it is so easy to use!

Countdown To Christmas: Scentsational Greetings

Lisa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:37:11 +0000

Did you know . . . .

There are over 1,000 different kinds of “smellers” in your nose?
- Test show a 40% improvement in mood when exposed to a pleasant scent.
- The average human being is able to recognize approximately 10,000 different odors.
- Your nose can smell directionally, telling you where an odor originates.
- A woman’s sense of smell is keener than a man’s.
- No two people smell the odor the same way.

With that being said, it isn’t all that surprising that you can get cards that actually smell. Scentsational Greeting has come up with a way to add scents to their cards, and let me tell you, they smell wonderful. I was amazed at how good they smell. Their signature scents include lavender, vanilla, ocean breeze, lemon, roses, and coffee. They even have a holiday line including peppermint, christmas tree, and gingerbread. All you have to do is gently rub the front of the card to release the awesome scents. They have card for just about every event too.

If you want to send a unique card that everyone will love, check out Scentsational Greeting. You’ll be the talk of your friends and family.

PictureItPostage

Lisa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:52:00 +0000

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!