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Kmart Footwear – for moms who demand style and value

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Kmart shoesMoms who demand stylish shoes for themselves and their kids but are on a budget will love Kmart’s shoe line.  I particularly like the Route 66 Elodie pictured here.

Kmart’s variety of trusted brands and exclusive collections is designed to give moms value, quality and style–all at affordable prices.

Kmart’s summer collection features Summer Wedges which are very popular now.   I can’t wear heels.. I have absolutely no coordination but I think I could pull of a pair of wedges.

Shoes for kids include Fisher-Price toddler sandals, outdoor shoes, and I’m sure their Transformers shoes are selling like crazy these days!    A few shoe brands Kmart offers are Disney, Protege, and Wrangler Jeans.. yes they make shoes.  Who’d of thought?

GIVEAWAY!
We are giving 1 lucky reader a $20 Kmart gift card!  Simply leave a comment below related to Kmart and/or shoes and you’re email address will be entered to win!  Contest ends July 10th.

Lil’ Tag Alongs baby blanket
review + giveaway

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Lil' Tag Alongs baby blanket with link attachmentsWhat new mom doesn’t love a product that makes life a little easier? I certainly do and I recently learned about Lil’ Tag Alongs, a blanket that is sure to make any new mom’s life easier, really!
Lil’ Tag Alongs blankets perform several functions including keeping baby warm, cozy, and Lil’ Tag Alongs ensure that your baby’s favorite toy won’t fall on the dirty grocery store floor as long as it’s attached to a link on the blanket. You wouldn’t believe my reaction when Madelyn dropped a toy onto a dirty grocery store floor.  First I would gasp, then my super speedy reflexes took over as I picked the toy. Madelyn wasn’t allowed to touch it again until I sanitized it making for a miserable remainder of our grocery trip.  You’ll be happy to know that I’m not that crazy anymore… maybe in different ways but I’m not a “germaphone” (what my son used to call me) anymore.

Obviously, I would have benefited greatly from a Lil’ Tag Alongs blanket during Madelyn’s infant months.   The ability to attach Madelyn’s favorite toys to her blanket would have saved me time running from room to room looking for her favorite rattle or teething toy that I could have attached to a link on her Lil’ Tag Alongs blanket.  Toys attach to Lil’ Tag Alongs blankets using links sold at Wal-Mart and Babies R’ Us like those in the photograph here.  A lot of infant and baby toys snap right onto the links.

Lil' Tag Alongs blanket with links attached

Benefits of the Lil’ Tag Alongs:

  • Attach your baby’s Lil’ Tag Alongs blanket to your stroller using links
  • Lay the blanket on the floor and your new baby will playing with and reaching for the links.. great for doctor recommended tummy-time!
  • Your won’t have to go from room to room looking for baby’s favorite toys because they can all be attached to her Lil’ Tag Alongs blanket!

Lil’ Tag Alongs are available in large ($48) and small ($29.95) and in lots of colors and patterns.

GIVEAWAY!
One winner can choose a large Lil’ Tag Alongs blanket of their choice. Leave a comment below telling me what your favorite design is (use the link above) and you are entered to win! Contest ends July 10th.

Review + Giveaway!
Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips

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I’m a very visual person.  I want to see what makes something work.. I love the show “How It’s Made”.   Toothpaste is no exception.  Colgate’s MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips is super satisfying because I can see the hundreds of white strips in the tube and know that they are working hard to keep my teeth clean, shiny, and white.
I’ve been using Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips for about one month and really like how clean and smooth my teeth feel after brushing.colgate-maxwhite

I am not in much need of the whitening factor of Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips because I whitened them recently,  but I do think that it’s helping keep my teeth white.   I have one tooth that is very sensitive to some toothpastes (it gets a yucky cold feeling when the toothpaste touches it) but haven’t had a problem with MaxWhite.

For under $5, Colgate MaxWhite Toothpaste with Mini Bright Strips is a great value.  It’s the first toothpaste that has mini breath strips, fights cavities, whitens teeth, and freshens breath.  Colgate MaxWhite is available in 2 flavors:
Cool Mint and Clean Mint, in tube and transparent liquid formats.

Go to the Colgate MaxWhite website to learn more

GIVEAWAY!
We are giving away 5 tubes of MaxWhite!
Simply leave a comment below (related to MaxWhite, teeth whitening, toothpaste) and you are entered to win!
Entries accepted until June 30st.

Fun News & Giveaway: What celebrities did before becoming famous

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I stumbled across this information this morning, not sure how, and had to share it with you.  I find some of the pre-celebrity jobs fascinating such as the coffin polishing __________ (ya’ gotta keep reading!).   Do you know what a celebrity did before becoming famous? What about Prince, Kate Gosselin (yes, her), or Tom Cruise?  <UPDATE:  The celebrities I listed have all been listed by now.. be creative in your celebrity search! Do the research and leave the info, including a link to the source, in the comments below and I will give one random commenter a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate!  Entries will be accepted until 10pm May 29th and I will announce the winner right here in this post!

Whoopi Goldberg was a bricklayer.  That’s a tough job!

Russell Crowe was a waiter.  I’m sure he got some great tips from the ladies.

Gwen Stefani’s previous job was as a Dairy Queen cleaner.  Wacky huh?

Johnny Depp was a telemarketer!  What a bummer..wasting his good looks by sitting in a cubicle bugging people on the phone.

Pink was a McDonald’s worker.

Simon Cowell worked in the post room.

Madonna worked in a doughnut factory.  WHAT?

Colin Farrell was a dance teacher.  Not the suspected sexy kind of dancing.. line dancing!

Barack Obama was an ice cream seller.  How much more ‘all-American’ can you get?

Geri Halliwell, pre Spice Girls, was a Turkish game show hostess.  Huh, can you picture that?

Brad Pitt was a chicken dancer for a Mexican restaurant.  His job was to entice people to eat at the restaurant.  Couldn’t he have just stood there as himself, not a chicken?

Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  I can’t really vision that one.

Sean Connery was a coffin polisher.  I can vision that.

Annie Lennox was a waitress at a cafe in North London.

Source: Virgin Media

Congratulations to the winner of the amazon.com gift certificate, Lily K.!