Adorable Gloves For Women At D&Y
January 27, 2012 | Author emmy
I love the trend of adorable animals that have been showing up on hats, coats, boots and more for kids. I love how in some cases this trend has carried over into adult products because I find animal gloves much cuter than regular gloves too, so why not make them in adult size? I recently got a chance to check out two pairs of adorable animal gloves for women from D&Y. D&Y stands for david and young accessories, where you can find hats, scarves and gloves for women and hats for men. The critter kingdom animal gloves come in panda, penguin, lion, moose, mouse, monkey and deer designs. There is also a very similar line of gloves that are bears that have several colors to choose from. For my review I was sent the moose and panda gloves. I have big hands for a woman and often find that women’s gloves are too small for me, so I was pleasantly surprised that I could get these gloves on. They are 50% acrylic and 50% Viscose.
I’m not really familiar with the material but they feel fairly firm when wearing them, however they were a bit tight when I first put them on and after a few wears they had stretched to fit comfortably. They can be worn as fingerless gloves or as mittens. When you want to wear them as fingerless gloves, you can pull the mitten portion onto the back of your hand, where a button is found that allows you to hook the mitten to the backside of your hand, so it stays in place. I’ve worn these adorable animal gloves for a few weeks now and I love how I can use them in fingerless glove mode when I need to grasp something or work on something small. Yet, if we take off to the store last minute and don’t warm the car up, I can slip them into mitten mode to warm my fingers up quickly. I think they will be great for springtime as well because when worn in glove mode they provide some warmth but they aren’t going to make your hands too warm because the tips are exposed to the air. For me, my hands are the coldest part of my body at any given time so I will appreciate being able to use these well into spring as well. I’ve gotten lots of comments about how cute these are from cashiers and other people in town and I have to agree that they are just too cute.
Buy it: You can purchase d&e products online at the david and young accessories website. Their critter gloves are $24.00.
Lucky Puppy Children’s Clothing Review & #Giveaway US (02/09)
January 26, 2012 | Author Laurie
Lucky Puppy is a playful line of onesies, hoodies, and t-shirts. The name Lucky Puppy fits the company very well. Lucky Puppy graciously donates a percentage of their proceeds to different animal organizations to help make more “Lucky Puppies”.
Lucky Puppy founder Sandi Hochman is by nature very giving. After adopting her dog Maddie, Sandi found a passion for helping dogs in need. She wanted to create a line of Children’s clothing that would help them show love for their pets. Sandi also wanted the line to be able to help pets so, that’s when the idea of donating a percentage of the proceeds came to her. At this time, Lucky Puppy is teaming up with The Grey Muzzle organization. Grey Muzzle helps homeless senior dogs. Nationwide, they help fulfill different needs of shelters, rescue organizations, sanctuaries and other non-profit agencies.
For our review we received Lucky Puppies Pink Raglan t-shirt and Dark Pink Burnout t-shirt. These shirts are adorable and the girls love them.
Lucky Puppy has “struck a chord” with me. Nine months ago, we lost our beloved golden lab, Colt. Colt was in no way homeless but, he was a senior dog with some issues. It breaks my heart to think of him or any other dog (of any age) being alone. Purchasing from Lucky
Puppy is a WIN/WIN, you get fun shirts and you help a dog in need.
To learn more about Lucky Puppy or see all of their products go to their website, Facebook, or twitter pages.
GIVEAWAY: One lucky winner will win their choice of onesies or t-shirt.
To enter: MANDATORY: Visit the Lucky Puppy website and tell me one other item that you’d like to own, or something you learned.
Additional entries: Only count if the mandatory entry is completed. Leave each entry in its own comment. Leave proof of your entry
whenever possible.
Entries:
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4) Vote for me on the fence (right sidebar). 1 entry. Can be done daily
5) Follow the sponsor on Facebook or twitter. 1 entry.
This giveaway is open to the continental US and will end February 9th at 11:59 pm EST. Winner will be chosen via random.org and will have 48 hours to reply to the winning notification email to claim their prize before a new winner will be selected.
Trop50 Review & $50.00 Spa and Wellness Gift Card #Giveaway (2/7)
January 25, 2012 | Author emmy
Have you been able to keep up with your new years resolutions so far? Most people make new years resolutions every year to lose weight and get healthy. Of course, changing old eating habits and getting used to exercising regularly are big changes that are difficult if you struggle to find healthier food that still tastes good to you. Tropicana has their trop50 line that has 50% less calories, sugar while having no artificial sweeteners. This sounded too good to be true, but Ryan likes Tropicana orange juice so I thought it was worth a shot. When we went to the store we picked up some trop50 for review and I didn’t explain to Ryan that trop50 gets it’s name based on how ti has 50% less calories and sugar. After he had tried a glass I asked him what he thought and he said “what do you mean, it’s good..it’s just orange juice” so I explained that it has less calories and sugar. He was pleasantly surprised at how it tasted fine, unlike how most diet or healthy foods have a difference in taste. I personally don’t care for orange juice at all so I can’t give my opinion, but even my 5 year old niece drank trop50 without mentioning that it tasted any different, so trop50 definitely gets two thumbs up from us.
To celebrate trop50, we have a 50.00 spa and wellness gift card to giveaway.
To enter: Complete any of the tasks below. No mandatory entry for this one.
Additional entries: Leave each entry in its own comment. Leave proof of your entry whenever possible.
Entries:
1) Follow me by Google+, email, Facebook or Twitter. 1 entry for each way.
2) Display my button on your blog. 2 entries.
3) Tweet about this giveaway using the green retweet button. 1 entry. You can tweet once daily.
4) Vote for me on the fence (right sidebar). 1 entry. Can be done daily
5) Follow the sponsor on Facebook. 1 entry.
This giveaway is open to the US and will end 2/7 at 11:59 pm est. Winner will be chosen via random.org and will have 48 hours to reply to my email and claim their prize before a new winner will be selected.
Infant Meningitis Awareness
January 25, 2012 | Author emmy
I tend to avoid politics or controversial topics here on my blog. Vaccines are a controversial topic for many parents and in some cases I understand why. When I was asked to help spread the word about the dangers of infant meningitis I couldn’t say no. In my view, it’s great that parents are looking into the details and weighing the pro’s and con’s for each individual vaccine. Perhaps in some cases, the affects of the disease or illness aren’t as serious as the potential side effects or reactions to the vaccine. Other times, the disease that the vaccine protects against is extremely serious. Meningitis is a disease that, when caught by infants will end in death for one out of every 16 babies. Of those who survive, many will have seizures, require amputations, or suffer from learning disabilities as a result of the disease. Currently, vaccines are available for adults and recommended for those who are parents or who work with babies. Right now, a vaccine is being made that hopefully will be a approved soon, so that the vaccine will be available to be given directly to infants. That way, they can be protected without having to require every adult around them to be protected just to keep them safe. Below you can watch a video about infant meningitis. There is also a protect infants now petition that you can sign if you’d like to ask the cdc to recommend the meningitis vaccine for infants.
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central andMeningitis Angels. This campaign was made possible in part through support provided by Novartis Vaccines. A small donation to a charity of my choice was made in my name from Mom Central as a thank-you for participating. All opinions in this posting are 100% my own.
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