National Care Bears #ShareYourCare Day

Share Your Care Day

September 9th, 2015 is National Care Bears #ShareYourCare Day. On that day, the Care Bears encourage sharing, caring, love and friendship. You can do something little like share with your sibling, take the trash out for your parents, or help someone in need. You can also do bigger things like plant a tree, volunteer, or donate to charity.

Care Bears 

How will you share your care? You can sign up here and tell a share your care story. This movement is important and it reinforces kindness with children. It's good to get the young kids involved. 

The Care Bears support organizations such as CARD, Operation Smile, and Zach Kaplan. Zach is a 10 year old boy with a kind heart. His mission is to gift children in need with a soft bear to hug at night. Care Bears will stand behind him and donate 400 bears to a head start program. 

I love hearing stories like this. Brands that give back and help with charities also give me the warm fuzzies.

Pedi Princess Pedicure Time

Pedi Princess

Pedi Princess is a cute flip flop with toe spreaders. These are perfect for going to the salon when you are getting a pedicure. You know those foam spreaders you get when you go to the salon? Those usually get thrown out after a few times or every time. The Pedi Princess is not only cute on your feet but saves you from using the foam spreaders.

They feel good on your feet. I'd wear these out to the beach too. I chose the black with light purple flowers which you can find in the Pedi Princess shop. 

This is such a clever design. They are sold at a good affordable price. This set is $19.00.

Pedi Princess (black with light purple flowers)

The next time you go to the salon, make sure you have a pair of these. They come in many different designs. You will have no problem finding a design fitting to your personality and fashion sense. These make a great gift for a pedicure princess in your life. 

Pedi Princess 

(disclosure-I received a product for review. All opinions are my own.)

Educational Insights Learning Through Play

Design & Drill Flower Power Studio

Before going to Blogger Bash this year, I wasn't too aware of the brand Educational Insights. I'm excited I got to see their brand and what cool toys they have on the market. My kids got to review two adorable and fun toys.

Design & Drill Flower Power Studio is a cute flower shaped toy that teaches hand and eye coordination, patterning, and problem solving. Inside there is a booklet to show you some designs that you can follow. There are 60 bolts in five different colors. It comes with a power drill too. 

Inside the Design & Drill

Here is a look at the inside. The bolts are pretty colors. Even if you don't use the drill, you can use your fingers to turn the bolts. This is good for fine motor skills. Also at one point, I told my kids "righty tighty, lefty loosey."

My daughter who is 3 got a real kick out of this toy. She carried it outside and back inside. She even made up her own designs.

Magic Moves Rainbow Jam

Magic Moves Rainbow Jam is another fun toy. We haven't had that many music toys in the home. There are two modes: instrument mode and song mode. If you are on song mode and press on a color, it will then sing that color's song. Each color has its own song. Instrument mode will let you press on the colors to make your own song or follow a song in the book. The music activity book has familiar songs such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and the Wheels on the Bus. The preset color songs are in different styles ranging from country to rock. The inventor of Rainbow Jams is Educational Insights Product Manager, James Tu. I think he did a fantastic job. His creation is smart and fun.

The holidays are coming soon. You should check out the Educational Insights website for gift ideas. 

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(Disclosure: I received a complimentary product for review. All opinions are my own.)

CarolesArt Quartz Pendant Giveaway

GIVEAWAY!

Cherry Quartz
Single Stone Necklace


from CarolesArt


Any piece from CarolesArt is certainly a treasure. The pendant necklaces and other jewelry pieces are unlike any others you'll find. With an earthy, artisan quality, these pendants and stones simply shimmer with beauty and exquisiteness!


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Up for grabs in this giveaway!

A beautiful Cherry Quartz pendant -- so pretty with its soft melon color. This one is a puffed square stone and is wrapped at the top. Including the bail it measures approximately 1.5" x 1.2". It hangs from a lovely stainless delicate 18" chain. ($39 ARV).





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HipFits Backpack Hangers Review and Giveaway

HipFits

HipFits Backpack Hangers are stylish accessories. They are plush, dress shaped hangers that dangle on your pocket books, book bags, diaper bags, or key chains. There are 21 dresses to choose from. I received the Cotton Candy Dress, Birthday Dress, Sweetheart Dress, and the Sparkle Dress.

HipFits Sweetheart Dress Packaging

Each box has a poem on the back. This is a really cute idea for the children going back to school. You can give them a little first day back gift or maybe each time they get an A on a test. A little pick me up could mean all the difference to a child or teen in school. These are not just for kids though. Ladies, you can put them on your purse or key chain, to add a little fun to your outfit.

HipFits (back of dress)

This is what the back of the dress looks like. It has a little tag telling your the name of the dress. If you give it a squeeze, it feels like a hard gel. The outside fabric is very soft.

HipFits Cotton Candy Dress

Let me tell you why this Cotton Candy dress is special. There are 3 dresses in the collection that are for charity. It makes me happy when brands and businesses give back or give to a charity. Each dress cost $9.99 and for every Cotton Candy dress, Sweetheart dress, and Taffy dress that is purchased, $3.00 will be given to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. BCRF is a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds for breast cancer research. Besides being a super cute dress, the money goes to a good cause.

Birthday Dress

The Birthday Dress would make a cute gift. Dare I say it, for someone's birthday.

Sparkle Dress

This one is my favorite out of the four. Purple is my favorite color. I put this one right on my purse.

I love how each dress is different, because we are all unique and special in our own way. We each have our own style. 

Time for the fun! You have a chance to win 4 HipFits (randomly chosen). Fill out the rafflecopter form below. All entries are optional. You could do one or all of them. This giveaway is open to the US and 18+. The prize will be mailed from the sponsor.

The Winner is Audra. Congrats!

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