Month: November 2015

Kushies Holiday Toy Giveaway

Kushies Holiday Toy Giveaway

This holiday season there are more options than one can imagine when it comes to children’s toys. But what toys are really the best option? Some of the things MamatheFox considers are: safety, engaging, developmentally appropriate, will last through rough play, easy to travel with and can entertain multiple children. Kushies makes toys which hit each of these points. Check out their huge selection of products here.

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Kushies Toy Giveaway

 

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Fun To Learn Magazine Giveaway

Fun To Learn Magazine Giveaway

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Welcome to the Twas the Hop Before Christmas Giveaway Hop!

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Many bloggers have teamed up to bring you the last The Hopping Bloggers Giveaway Hop of the year! And we saved the best for last – just check out these prizes! Be sure to enter them all – there is no limit to how many you can win. GOOD LUCK and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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Cozywoggle Giveaway

Cozywoggle Giveaway

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Bloggers wantedThank you for stopping by the Home for the Holidays giveaway hop hosted by The Anti-June Cleaver and Our Piece of Earth.

We have teamed up with an amazing group of bloggers to bring you a lot of fantastic of prizes to kick of the holiday season. After you have entered my giveaway, be sure to visit the linky below for more great prizes.

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Crayola Holiday Giveaway

Crayola Holiday Giveaway

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This or That Holiday Hop

This fun holiday hop has a $25 gift card or a $100 value prize at each stop! Perfect for last minute shopping and paying off those layaway balances. This event is brought to you by: The Mommy Island, The Kids Did It & The Review Wire

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Crayola $50 Holiday Giveaway

Sherwood Print Buttons Cloth Diaper

Sherwood Print Buttons Cloth Diaper

I love my Buttons cloth diapers. They are the best 2 in 1 style diapers for my child. I love them for quick trips out and about. Instead of lugging a ton of AIO diapers in my diaper bag, I can toss in a few super absorbent, yet thin inserts, along with a Buttons cover and bang! I am ready to rock!

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My sons skinny legs and tiny waist can cause diapers to leak not only through the leg gussets but also up his front. Buttons Diapers have never leaked do to his size. I have had a few leaks, but hey, all kids have a mega pee load occasionally right!? This print is really what makes it stand out. Foxes are so on point. They are everywhere you look, but this print is unique. I have never seen it used before, making it more appealing. Its a dark brown and orange combo, its the perfect unisex diaper. Little arrows that intersect each other are the underlying spacer design which fill the diaper in a subtle way; not taking over the primary focus of the fox design. I cannot say enough awesome stuff about this diaper!

Click here to buy one for yourself. Be sure to follow Buttons Diapers on Facebook for fun updates and more designs.

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Crayola Cling Creator Review

Crayola Cling Creator Review

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With each holiday my family loves to put fun and festive window clings on a few of the windows in our home. This is a fun way my kids can participate in the decor each holiday and season. I have fond memories of my brother and I playing with the window clings growing up in our home. Making up stories like our own story book come to life. Hours of screen-free entertainment. Crayola, always a step head of the game, now sells the Cling Creator. This amazing product allows us to make our own clings to use as we see fit. Making fun everyday designs, or customizing them, I can make a cling for anything I desire.

Being that this kit if for children ages 8 and up, and my daughter being only 3, I was able to have her help with small sets, making her feel as though she is really making the cling. The Cling Creator comes with everything you will need to get started.

  • Modeling clay
  • Clay rolling pin
  • 5 double-sided molds
  • Multipurpose molding tool
  • Cling solution
  • Four mixing pots
  • Color solution
  • Shaker maker
  • Refill packets are also available
In as little as 15 minutes you can have your own homemade window cling!

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This Cling Creator is so easy to use. Buy following the simple 4 step process you will have your own original cling in minutes. This is such a fun and family friendly activity. Spending time with each other is priceless and Crayola helps your family make memories that will last a lifetime.

Complete Clings in Just 15 Minutes

Kids will love how easy it is to use the Cling Creator to create custom clings all on their own. Labeled color mixing pots make it easy to pour the correct ratios of color and firming solution. Once you pour the liquid cling solution into the mixing pot, drop the pot into the mixing chamber and blend it using the fun mixing mechanism. Then pour the solution into the molds and let your clings solidify. The process only takes 15 minutes.

Design Your Own Mold from Clay

In addition to five pre-made double-sided molds, the Cling Creator comes with clay you can use to create your own mold designs. Use the included drawing tool, a stamp, or a toy to make impressions in the clay where you’ll pour your cling solution. Kids get to experiment to see how different shapes create different kinds of molds.

Make up to 20 Clings

With enough color and firming solution to create 20 custom clings, the Cling Creator provides hours of creative entertainment. Specially designed storage nooks for the solution tubes, mixing pots, multi-purpose tool, and molds mean you won’t have to worry about misplacing anything. Refill packs of additional color and firming solution are sold separately.

Decorate Your Window, Mirror, and Locker

Apply your custom clings to flat, smooth surfaces like windows, mirrors, and even metal lockers. The clings stick for as long as you want. When you get tired of your old designs or want to show off new ones, simply remove the previous clings. You can also re-position the clings if you accidentally apply them unevenly, and you never have to worry about cling residue or stains on surfaces.

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Mama’s Experience

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This kit is so fun and easy to use. The directions are very clear and easy to follow.

Simply combine liquids, mix and pour into molds. Waiting it the hardest part!

Having the 3 primary colors provided in the set, you are able to make them solids or mix to make new colors like green or purple. This really allows for creativity to blossom and ideas to flow. Add googly eyes, glitter or drip in a second color to create polka dots. Keep your mind turning and you will come up with dozens of great ideas. This is the perfect too-cold-to-play-outside activity. I highly recommend this to any child who is being home-schooled as a multi-step learning activity.

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My family celebrates Christmas each December. Not as simply another gift based holiday, but as Jesus’ Birthday! We count down the days to baby Jesus’s birth. We talk about what He has done for us and for all people. Keeping our holiday faith based we don’t focus on Santa, but on Christ our Lord. Using the clay which comes with the kit we choose to make a cross for our own homemade symbolic nativity scene. Making a cross to be the center, 2 stars to show how the shepherds and wise men followed the star to find Jesus and a music note to symbolize the angels singing in heaven above for His glorious birth.

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Kushies Toy Review

Kushies Toy Review

Kushies is one of my favorite children’s brands. They carry everything from toys to clothing to cloth diapers. Always in style, and made in Canada with high quality materials I am able to fully trust them. Follow Kushies on Facebook to keep up with all their fun features.

Beanstax

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These stackable figures are perfect for children of any age. They are safe for small toddlers to play with but colorful and engaging enough for small children as well. These inspire children to use their problem solving skills and understand how gravity and balance work. As they play they are learning basic science laws without even knowing it! Children can play alone with Beanstax or with their sibliings. They will gain self confidence as they see that they are able to create fun stax all by themselves.

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Beanstax come with 12 super soft bean-filled shapes in a reusable carrying case. I really think these are the perfect to-go toy. You can toss them into their carrying case and take them with you as you need. I hate dragging toys with me during the holiday season to each house we visit. They kids get board and need a small yet engaging toy. The beanstax can be left in their case in your car so you always know there is an exciting toy at your finger tips.

There are 3 levels of play with the Beanstax: Basic play (1+ yrs), Intermediate play (3+ yrs), and Advanced play (5+ yrs). Basic play consists of stacking them flat. Feeling the textures and weight of each stax. Intermediate play would be trying to stack different shaped stax, as you would with different shaped blocks. This helps with understanding balance and gravity.  Lastly, advanced play would be the building of little creatures and creating stories about them. This helps with developing creativity and enables their imagination.

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My 3 year old daughter and my 1 year old son equally love these stackers. My daughter and son both like to organize them by size and shape. My daughter can stack them high and make little people. My 1 year old son just likes to hold them and toss them up and down. It’s a great toy they can both play with together.

Zolo Boa

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The Zolo Boa is the coolest ring stacker you could imagine. Simple ring stackers have been around for generations. What makes the Zolo Boa Stacking Rings so special is that each ring makes a fun animal sound! All kids love toys that make sounds. Animals make it that much more exciting. By squeezing the soft and squishy rings you hear a noise that opens the imagination.

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The Zolo Boa if perfect for children ages 6 months and up. My son is 21 months and thinks the Boa is the coolest toy. You can see the concentration on his face as he tries to get the rings back on the holder. This is a great toys for hand/eye coordination and doesn’t clutter up a room.  I love the head topper, which giggles when placed on top as a reward for a job play well done! My son loves this circle ring stacker so much. He carries it around like a stuffed animal. He loves trying to get them all on the tube. My daughter thinks the sounds are hilarious and enjoys stacking them together as well.

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Stacrobats

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I have talked once before about my love of Kushies Stacrobats. These are the most unique toy my children have. Magnets are a magic concept to any toddler. Playing with fridge magnets it a fun game for my 3 year old, but having a 1.5 year old who feels the need to place small things in his mouth, magnets can be dangerous. Not any more! Stacrobats are a plush, safe toy that toddlers and children alike can explore the excitement of magnets. Each doll and ball have several magnets inside of them allowing the user to feel the magnetic attraction as you pull and push them apart. Having both positive and negative chargers they can feel them attract or press back. This blows my children’s minds. A toy like this should be a staple in any home.

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As your child grows developmentally and their mind expands they can be more and more creative with how they play with this Stacrobats. When they are small just holding them and touching them together is what will engage them. They, they can learn how to connect several together, and eventually they can practice their problem solving an balancing skills and create a real acrobatic like show with their little Stacrobats. I am the 1st to admit that I too love to play with these. I love feeling the magnets attract and retract as well as trying to make them stand in fun positions.

 

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Rifle Paper Co Review

Rifle Paper Co Review

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About Rifle Paper Co

Rifle Paper Co was founded by a Anna and Nathan, a husband and wife team who believe that personal stories and moments are best told through through the gift of a handwritten note or journal. They hope to inspire people with their unique and beautiful designs. Starting with classic stationary as their roots, they soon branched out into the world or calender’s, planners and home decor. They use FSC-certified paper stocks with recycled content, environmentally responsible printers, and select high quality materials that allow for products that are both well-made and beautiful.

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Mama’s Experience

I fell in love with Rifle Paper Co at first glance. Their designs and color concepts are modern and classic at the same time, giving me an immediate sense of comfort and joy. Being that they are an eco-conscious company, and try to use recycled materials and environmentally friendly printers, I knew that they would really appeal to all my readers.

As I clicked through pages and pages of amazing products I bubbled with excitement and ideas. When I hold a new, crisp stationary product, whether it’s a note card or a journal, I feel the potential which it holds. The thoughts, words, feelings and moments that will be captured inside are priceless.

Art Prints

Art prints have a very large appeal. In the day and age of Pinterest we live in, the wall art collage is something many people are now displaying on their walls. Some people go to places like Lulu & Georgia to get their wall art that brightens up their home. Of course I totally jumped on this bandwagon. My husband and I picked out rustic and earthy toned frames, mirrors, display case and chalkboard. Our home has cream walls and very old hardwood floors, so we choose to run with those earthy/rustic vibes. I love flowers, trees and leaves. I would much rather spend my time in a forest than a beach. Guess it’s a good thing I live in Ohio, right?!

I was immediately drawn to so many of the Rifle Paper Co’s prints. From floral to locations to modern graphics, they have something for everyone. Keeping true to their design and color schemes, they were still able to make a huge variety of art prints to choose from. These are such a fun gift to received and give this holiday season.

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Blue framed image on left “Coral Botanical” can be found here. Yellow framed image on right “Rose Botanical” can be found here.

These prints and many more can be found at RiflePaperCo.com (Images in 6 pack below are courtesy of RiflePaperCo.com)

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Monogram Stationary

So many times throughout the year I am in need for a blank card. It may be for a thank you, a hello note, a note with a gift…the list goes on and on. Instead of holding onto a plethora of cards, I love having blank cards that can fill any topic. By choosing a monogrammed stationary set, I will always have the appropriate card on hand. A simple flat card with a beautiful initial. It’s classic, personal and fun to receive. Check out all the monogram options here.

“The linen envelopes have a scalloped edge giving the flap a unique
look. All 8 notes and envelopes fit tidy in a reusable linen paper box.”Rifle Paper Co Website

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Greeting Cards

Sending a card in the mail is so much fun. Receiving one is every better! I try to take the time to get a really personalized card when mailing someone a greeting card. With so many options your head can spin. I am now able to check out Rifle Paper Co’s selection and easily find the perfect card all the time. Each card features a fun print that you would find on their stationary. art and other products. This allows you to maintain consistency in your personal stash at home. They also have a large selection of just fun and simple cards. Check them all out here.

You’re a Fox Greeting Card

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Bella Organics Giveaway

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Bella Organics Dead Sea Mineral Mud Mask

bella-organics-dead-seaNot all Dead Sea Mud Masks are created equal; our mineral mud mask is soft and smooth and will not irritate your delicate skin! Bella Organics Dead Sea Mineral Mud Mask does not contain any additives or fillers, just the pure Dead Sea Mud, Perilla seed oil & Geranium essential oil!

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SivanaSpirit Giveaway

Enter to win a $75 Gift Card for Sivanaspirit.com. Subscribe to their newsletter and win a bonus $75 gift card. That’s $150!

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