Kids stuff — Page 22

Moms Meet: New Sampling Opportunitys!

“The Mom Ambassador Program is a network of confident, charismatic, and commited moms who are enthusiastic about parenting and green living.”

If you are not a member of Moms Meet yet, you can learn more about becoming a Mom Ambassador in my post here.

I have been a Mom Ambassador for about a year now, and it has been such a great experience! Not only do they provide your group with very generous sampling kits of healthy family products to test out, they also offer FREE webinars on tons of interesting topics.

I know that when I did my last post a lot of you had questions about getting started, and how you would be notified when new events were available. Sampling opportunities are invite only, based on your profile… Things such as the age of your children, area of the country that you live in, etc.

If you did sign up last time, I just wanted to let you ladies know that new event invitations are going out now!! I’ve gotten two invitations today, one for an eco-friendly dish detergent, and another for a new gummy supplement program. So check your email to see if you have an invite too!

If not, don’t get discouraged… There are a bunch more events coming very soon for spring, and I’m sure you’ll get to participate in at least one! When you do, be sure to come share your experience with everyone else :)

Posted by Meagan Paullin on April 5, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies, Product Testing | No Comments

Free Personalized VeggieTales Song for Kids

Get a FREE Personalized VeggieTales Song for your kids by visiting Just Me Music today!

Enter the code myveggie to get the FREE download of 5 tracks!!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on April 5, 2011 Filed Under: Freebies, Fun Stuff | No Comments

Great Collection of FREE Easter Printables

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. I love that it is the first “Spring” holiday, I am excited to buy my little girl her first fluffy little Easter dress, I love decorating eggs… It’s just such a pretty, bright, and cheerful holiday! One of my favorite blogs, Living Locurto did a post with a ton of really fun, FREE Easter printables. There are printables for cards, crafts, and treat packaging. Plus, sign up for her email subscription and get a FREE printable gift! She has the funnest stuff, you’ll just love it.

Here are a few of my favorites:

These little Easter cupcake toppers are too cute! I love this idea, and have been looking for just the right toppers to use for my little girls first birthday this summer.

I love ideas like this… What a quick and easy way to personalize the goodies in the kid’s Easter baskets! Very fun.

The little tissue paper pom-pom tails here make me smile :) I plan on making some of these with the kids! Just adorable.

Visit her site for more fun ideas!

All of these ideas came from the wonderful list from Amy over at Living Locurto… I don’t even begin to try and claim these fun designs as my own! So go check out her list for the rest of the ideas, and leave her a comment thanking her for putting together such a great list!! I’ve used these for projects here in our home, and had so much fun with them – so I knew I had to share them with you guys too!

Posted by Meagan Paullin on April 2, 2011 Filed Under: Printables | 3 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…. :)

Posted by Meagan Paullin on March 6, 2011 Filed Under: Reviews, Fun Stuff | No Comments

Join StorkBrokers!

Do you have kids? Then you probably also have loads of stuff that you don’t need anymore… Kids grow and change so fast. StorkBrokers is a brand new way to sell your outgrown and un-needed kids items… Check it out:

I just signed up as a seller, and opened up a shop. I haven’t listed any items yet, but it looks super easy to use. The idea is similar to ebay, but with a big difference:

“It’s a simpler way to find and sell the toys, clothes and accessories you and other parents are looking for — there’s no need to wade through unwanted kid-related content like you may on auction sites.”

I browsed around the site a bit, and there are some really great deals available. So even if you aren’t ready to set up your own shop, check it out to see if you can find a good price on something you need! Since this is a BRAND NEW site, the selection is a bit limited. But I found so much great stuff… A Fisher Price Swing & Glider that looks almost new, for only $25 bucks!! What?? I know, sweet deal, right?? :)

Check it out, and let me know what you think. After I set up some items for sale, I’ll update you guys, so you can check it out. And I’ll give you guys some feedback on how the process works as I use it more.