Sunshine and Sippy Cups

I’m on the HAPPYBABY site!

As most of you guys know, I am a brand new blogger, and am still learning A LOT every day! So I was pretty excited to see that HAPPYFAMILY had listed me on their website as a partner, for my help in spreading the word about their GenerationHappy Contest on Facebook.

You still have the chance to be a winner in this contest… Check out THIS POST for more details on how to enter.

And be sure to go over to the HAPPYBABY website and check me out! I’m listed under bloggers and businesses, down towards the bottom.

I was just excited to see myself on there, and wanted to share my excitement with you guys too :)

Posted by Meagan Paullin on March 10, 2011 Filed Under: Contests | 2 Comments

FREE Purex Complete Crystals Giveaway!

As a Purex Insider, I get to try out new Purex products, so that I can give them some useful feedback, and share my opinions of their products with my readers.

Well, last week I got the chance to try out a sample of the brand new Purex Complete Crystals fabric softener, and I can tell you honestly that I LOVE it! Read what Purex has to say about this new product:

“Purex Complete Crystals™ Softener is 92% natural crystals that go in at the start of the wash so they spend more time with your laundry infusing them with long-lasting freshness.”

I’m one of those odd people who actually kind of enjoys doing laundry, and so I’m always looking for new goodies to try out. I haven’t always been a fan of fabric softeners, because I never could remember to add them to the right cycle. Thats one of the reasons why these Complete Crystals rock, you just pour them right in at the beginning, with your detergent. I have new-mommy brain quite often, so remembering isn’t really my thing lately :) And since they stay in the wash longer, they have more time to freshen up your clothes!

Another thing that makes this product pretty awesome is that the Purex Complete Crystals are 92% natural, and won’t leave a bunch of icky chemical residue on your clothes. With a new baby at home, this is pretty important to me!

So…. By now you’re thinking, oh my HECK, I’ve got to go get some of this for myself! Check it out:

Click this link to learn a little more about the product, and get a coupon to use towards your own purchase of Purex Complete Crystals.

If you want to apply to be a Purex Insider just like me, you can apply today!

AND one of my readers will WIN a coupon for a FREE FULL SIZED Purex Complete Crystals of their own! All you have to do is check out the Purex Complete Crystals site, watch the video or get the coupon, and let me know something that you learned about the product. Easy, right?

Remember, to enter any of my giveaways you have to be an email subscriber (confirmed) or follow me with GFC (the little box under the email subscribe box on the top right!).

The winner will be drawn on Monday, March 14, and will have 48 hours to respond to my email before a new winner will be drawn. I’ll announce the winner on my Facebook page too, so you can go on over and “like” me there, and stay updated!

So… Go check out the site, leave me a comment with something that you learned, and an email address that you want me to use to contact you if you are the winner!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on March 9, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies, Contests | 36 Comments

Free Pepper Mill

Cafe Marsanne is celebrating their 26th anniversary! To help you celebrate with them, they are giving away a FREE gift…

All you have to do is fill out a quick form, and they’ll send you out this awesome pepper mill, with their logo on it. Sweet deal :)

Get it on their website at CafeMarsanne.com today. Hurry, this one will run out fast!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on March 9, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies | No Comments

$25 Credit at PayBox.me!

So, I’ll admit that signing up at PayBox.me is easy, but using it is a little bit confusing! They are a brand new company, and the idea is to be a service similar to PayPal, where you have money in your account that you use to pay for purchases and services online. But they are working on a bunch of cool features that would set them apart from PayPal, and make it cooler.

If you get signed up today, they give you a $25 credit just for getting started! Plus, every day that you stay active, they’ll add more credit to your account… I haven’t even used it too much, and I already have $65. But remember, right now, this is not cash, it’s PayBox currency. That means that it can only be spent through their system.

The reason that they’re giving you this free credit currency is to get people to go in and test things out, complete surveys, and give feedback, as they finish developing the system.

Soon, it should be ready to begin getting retailers signed up, so that you can “spend” your currency with them.

I figure, what the heck? There is really no loss here…. If it does work out to be a really great program, I have a bunch of credit to spend! If it doesn’t, I didn’t waste too much time with it :)

So check it out, sign up at PayBox.me today and get some credit built up!! Let me know what you think of it….

Posted by Meagan Paullin on March 9, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies, Deals and Coupon Codes | No Comments

Recording Memories in a Moment Garden

Sharing Memories and Special Moments…

Moment Garden is a new website that I came across this weekend, and I think that it is such a wonderful idea. I love scrapbooking, photo albums, memory boxes… And so I save EVERYTHING, especially when it comes to my new little girl. But sometimes it can be tough to get all of those special moments and memories written down and saved, in between diapers, bottles, spit-up, tantrums…. You know.

Moment Garden gives you a new way to easily keep track of those amazing little moments! It only takes a minute to get signed up for a new account. You are then able to start logging in to quickly leave little markers in your “garden” each time some random adorable moment happens that you want to remember! Read Moment Garden’s description of their service…

“Children are amazing! From day one their pictures and the little moments throughout their life are priceless. Looking at an old picture, or even reading a quote from when they were 4 years old and commented “Don’t worry Daddy, I’ll teach you” can bring a smile. Our vision is helping parents collect, save and share these precious moments with the people that matter most.”

You can send messages by email or from your phone, making it so easy to keep things updated. You can add authorized users, like dad or grandma, so that they can log on and add new memories and stories too!

I love that this gives me a way to keep track of my little girls achievements, and a fun way to see how she is growing every day into such a big girl!!

Moments like this have to be saved and shared, right?

There is also a brand new feature that lets you share individual moments to your Facebook page! You choose the moments to share, and they show up as a post on your Facebook page. All of the comments that your friends leave on that photo will also be saved into the Memory Garden, as part of the post. I love this!

{Update: I’ve been using this for awhile now, and it is so great. I love that they send you an email every once in a while, with a question to help prompt you to add a new memory. Today I got an email asking, “What did Abby have for breakfast today? What else does she like to eat?” I realized that this IS something that I’ll want to remember later. So I added a picture of her eating/squishing/playing with her breakfast banana today. This timeline will be so much fun to look back at later….}

To get started, go check it out at Moment Garden or on Facebook. Let me know what you think…. :)