The Fabulous-Coolest Butterfly Blog Award

Thank you so much for these awards Cindy! Make sure to check out her blog called Mom Maven.
The Fabulous-Coolest Butterfly Blog award comes with a few rules: Put the logo on your blog or post. Nominate 5-10 blogs which you think are fabulous and cool. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog. Share the love and link it back to this blog.
1) Kim - Crafty Mama of 4
2) Elizabeth - Two Little Lambs
3) Beth - Plus Size Mommy
4) Felicia - Go Graham Go
5) Karen - Lil Mommas Haven

Build a Bear Workshop Wii game Review and Giveaway!

Go to my Family Blog Leecie Loo and 7 Boys Too to try and win a copy of the Build A Bear Wii Game!!

Mom of 2 Dancers Pouchee Review & Giveaway

If you want a chance to win a pouchee go to Mom of Two Dancers she is doing a review and giveaway of the tan cotton pouchee!! Check it out! Her contest ends on 2/8/2009.

Smart Shopper Review and Giveaway

I was sooooo excited to be able to review the Smart Shopper. The kids have seen it advertised on TV before and tell me that I need that!!
I opened the box and it was all very neatly packed as in the picture. There was a roll of paper loaded and 2 others in the box. I needed to add 4 "AA" batteries and it was ready to go!!
It said it had magnets on the back of it...but I didn't see them, so I doubted that it did and my first concern was mounting it somewhere. But guess what...the magnets are there! They are strong too. I have no question that they will hold.
It just looks cool doesn't it? I just couldn't wait to try it out. I did read the instructions though. There are over 2500 grocery items listed in the memory. So it works on voice recognition. I thought you would just say the item and it would somehow know to type it out. (Silly me...miss untechie would think that.) But there are so many items in there. You are given a book with all of them listed. There is a feature to be able to add more items if there is something you want in the memory that is not listed.
It is so simple to use. You just hit the big blue "record" button and say your item. Then it shows you a list of about 3 possibilities of what you said (or just varieties of that item) and you chose the one you want. Hit select and it is on your list!
I am a list maker. I will sit down and write out my grocery list. I do have a place on my daily list for groceries that I can add to that as I need, but many times I am not around my list when I think of something. Then I forget to get it on the list. With this...it is so handy. I just walk up to the Smart Shopper and add my item right then and there. I know there were two things I would have not remembered if it had not been for this. One was a furnace filter that I had meant to get several times but never got on my list. I came up from the basement one day when I thought of it and went straight over to the Smart Shopper and added it. The other was fabric softener that I had missed on my last shopping trip.
Then when you are ready to go to the store you just print off the list.

It not only has your list for you but it is all categorized into sections of the store. Example: dairy, canned goods, fresh produce. I don't know about you but when I am making my list I many times just think and write in no order...so I sometimes do miss something on my list when walking through the store that I would not have if it was in the proper place.
This is fantastic! I really love it and will continue to use it all the time. The only problems I had were there were times it didn't understand what I said. But you can go in and improve the voice recognition of any item so that won't be a problem. You can also add more items as I said, so that instead of cake mix you can add, German Chocolate cake mix (as I did). So at first it may not be a perfect Smart Shopper for all your specific needs (although it probably has 98% of them)but with very little work it can have anything and everything on there that you would ever want. Oh...and it even has a feature to add errands that you run!! You can put in dry cleaners or shoe repair, library or lottery tickets and like a zillion more!

To Buy: Oh my gosh...I just went to their site to get the details on their prices...and there is a major price reduction!!! They had been $69.99. Now they are only $49.99!!! Just go to Smart Shopper to order yours while this price last!


To Win:

1) Go to Smart Shopper and check out their site. Tell me how much an extra 3 pack of paper cost if you buy it with your new smart shopper!

Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your
e-mail address.

For Extra Chances To Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow me on twitter. Come back here and add your twitter name.

4) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (I have three.. My organizing blog, my family blog and this review blog) you can earn 3 entries each. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

5) Add any of my 4 buttons to your sidebar and earn 3 entries for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.

This contest will run until Wednesday February 4th at 8pm.

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
(I will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or I will pick another winner.)

Carolyn's Apron Giveaway

You can find a really cute apron giveaway @ Cookie Girl Creations for an apron from Carolyn's aprons!! So cute.

Pouchee Review and Giveaway!!!

Felicia from Go Graham Go is having a review and a giveaway of the pouchee! She did a great review and also has a video clip of it in use! (I have to learn to do those...it's great!)
Go to her site and sign up to win one!

A 2nd chance for the Organising E-course Giveaway!!!

Marcia has graciously agreed to run her giveaway for a 2nd time!! Isn't she the bomb!!
Marcia Francois is the Organising Queen of South Africa! (Yes the spelling is different). She does speaking engagements and has several e-books on her site.
She was kind enough to give me the one called, "Organise Your Home E-course". It comes to me once a week for a period of 12 weeks!
In this course she helps you go through your home an reorganize it. She takes small things at a time so it isn't overwhelming. Week 3 for instance you organize your chest of drawers, go through your shoes, your bedside table and your handbags.
Her weekly sessions are easy to read and follow. She adds pictures for ideas and to help you understand.

*Simple and easy to follow
* E-book to keep it on your computer. Very eco-friendly!!
* Doesn't overwhelm you with an entire book at once.
*Tips and suggestions that you may have not thought of before.
*A lot of material for the price!
*She gives extra material for the price.

If you want to print out the information you can do that and follow it that way also!!


To Buy it go to: Take Charge Solutions (here is some information directly from her site.)
You Also Get 5 Great Bonuses
1. F-r-e-e Household Organising File (with 25 downloadable forms and checklists) worth $15
2. F-r-e-e report - my DREAM method of organising ANY space worth $17
3. Bonus section on organising your personal life worth $17
4. Lots of photo tips from my very own home to give you ideas (I’m very visual and I know this helps my clients too) - worth $37
5. Email support for the 3-month duration of the e-course (this alone is worth $141)
ALL THIS FOR ONLY $27!!! YOU GUYS THAT IS A FANTASTIC PRICE!!! This price will be going up on Feb. 1st so order yours today!!

To Win it:
1) Go to Take Charge Solutions and come back and tell me one other item she has for sale on her
site that you may be interested in. You may have to travel to one of her other pages. Then
come back here and comment about it. Be sure to leave an e-mail address for me.

For Extra Chances to Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest then come back here and tell me about it.

2) Follow me on twitter

3) Blog about this giveaway and come back to tell me.

4) Follow my blog by adding yourself to my followers list on the my right hand sidebar and
earn 3 more entries for each one of my 3 blogs you follow!! Come back to tell me though!

5) Add any of my 4 buttons and you can earn another 3 entries per button, but be sure to
come back and tell me if you want your entries to count! Make sure I have your e-mail
address!!

This giveaway will end on Friday January 30th at 6pm.
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

(You will have 48 hours to reply back to my e-mail if you are chosen as the winner. If you do not get back to me within that amount of time, I will pick another winner.)

Car Cubbie Review and Giveaway!

This is the Card Cubby. It is really cool! This little organizer is for all your gift cards, credits cards, insurance cards, discount coupons, frequent flyer cards!
Ok...here it is, my "before" picture of my the front of my pouchee. (Keep in mind I straighten it up every several days, but took a good "messy" picture for you - my pouchee is very loved!!)

So I took out all my gift cards (I had some more in another pocket of my purse) and put them in the alphabetized card cubby and it is great! I actually found some cards myself that I didn't realized I had that were tucked in behind some others. What I really love is that it has it's little dividers to keep them separated by letter. It will be soooo easy to find what I need when I go shopping now. I won't have to worry about not using a gift card or punch card that I have just because I can't find it.


I put in my gift cards and I also put in a couple of coupons that I want to make sure I use. I also put in some of my business cards. On the other side of the Card Cubby is a place that you can place your business card or your license. This would also be a GREAT BUSINESS CARD ORGANIZER!! If you are going to some kind of conference (Blissdom 09 for instance) and know you will be giving out and picking up many business cards...what easier way would it be than to put them in here as you get them. So easy to then retrieve them!
The Card Cubby is 5"x3" wide and can hold up to 80 cards!

So when I was finished....my purse looked like this!! I love it! So Organized! It fit in so nice and easy. This would also be very easy to use in your car console or brief case.


To Buy: Go to the CARD CUBBY and purchase. There are 7 different colors to pick from. They are $19.99 (except for the caramel leather which is $24.99). Buy two and give one as a gift!


To Win: I am able to give away a card cubby to one lucky winner. You get to pick your choice (caramel leather not included in giveaway)

1) Go to Card Cubby and check out their site. Tell me what card cubby you would like to win. (caramel leather not included). Come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your e-mail address.

For Extra Chances To Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (I have three.. My organizing blog, my family blog and this review blog) you can earn 3 entries each. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

4) Add any of my 4 buttons to your sidebar and earn 3 entries for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.

This contest will run until Monday January 26th, 2009 at 8pm.
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

(I will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or I will pick another winner.)

FUMI PurseHook

Like my bracelet? It looks really nice doesn't it? Any you thought this review was about a purse hook.
Well, it is....it's a bracelet...no it's a purse hook...no it's a bracelet...It is both!!
This is the coolest invention!! Nicole and Natascha Shamlin invented this FUMI pursehook. They have worked with and sold the original purse hook that many of you have seen before. (They still sell those!)...but the comments that they heard about them was that they got lost at the bottom of their purses or they never had them with them. So they came up with this idea to take care of it.


You can wear it as a bracelet and when you do not want to wear it, you can clip it to your purse..so it is always there.
I got this to review and I was so excited. It was nicer looking than I expected.
I decided that we needed to go to dinner that night just to try it out. So we went to Rooster's restaurant within hours of when I got this. I looked at the table when I first got there and though.."Oh no, this isn't going to work...the table is too thick!" But guess what....it did work!!
My second thought was, "My purse is soooo heavy it will break it!" (I'm an organizer...I carry it all..but very organized keep in mind!) Again, I was wrong! This had no problems at all holding my purse.
Another thought I had before I got the FUMI pursehook was, "Won't it scratch up the table top if it is a bracelet." Nope....there is a rubber piece on the underside to protect the table and keep it from sliding.

I asked Nicole before I got the FUMI PurseHook if it could be used in a bathroom stall to hang your purse if there was no pursehook available. She said that it could, that was one of the things that she and her sister wanted while developing this.
Here is proof!!! (Ok..it is 3 days after I posted this. I went to a movie tonight and there was no hook on the bathroom stall door...and yes my Fumi pursehook was still hooked to my purse and I was so excited to really use it!! So cool....just had to add this on. )


When I came home I took it off and hooked it on my purse. It looks cute there too!!
This pursehook is great!!! I am just loving it. Way to go Nicole and Natascha!!



Now for the best part. Nicole and Natascha have offered to give one of their FUMI PurseHooks away to one lucky winner!! You can take your pick of 7 different bracelet styled ones.

TO BUY! Go to FUMI PurseHooks (www.pursehook.net and go to left sidebar to FUMI pursehook) and purchase one...or two for $24.95 each. There are also the original pursehook that you may be familiar with for sale on this site. Look at the cute charms that you can add to either one of them too!

TO WIN!
1) Go to FUMI PurseHooks and check out their site. Tell me which of the 7 bracelet style FUMI Pursehooks you would like to win!
Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your
e-mail address.

FOR EXTRA CHANCES TO WIN!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (I have three.. My organizing blog, my family blog and this review blog) you can earn 3 entries each. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

4) Add any of my 4 buttons to your sidebar and earn 3 entries for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.

This contest will run until January 21, 2009 @ 6pm.
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!

(I will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or I will pick another winner.)

Chatter Chix Review and Giveaway!!

I love these!! I actually first came across them when I won them from another review and giveaway site. These are designed for girls ages 5-12. I purchased a couple of packs of the cards for Christmas for my step daughter and she thought they were really cute. Then came the Starter Set I won. There is a cute vinyl notebook and 3 packs of cards along with 5 protective pages to put the cards in. (The organizing factor in this giveaway!..organize your Chatter Chix cards) There is a map of the United States in the front of the notebook. Each one of these trading cards has a girl from one of the states on it. It tells you which State she is from on the front. On the back is her little bio and at the bottom of the card it tells you that States Capital, Flower, Nickname and Bird. For each card you take one of the little flower stickers and put it on the state map. The girls try to collect all of the states!! How cute is that. Elise was excited because she also got one of the Limited Edition cards in her pack. She can go online and see a little more about each girl from any State. There is also a newsletter and activities.
These cards are colorful and with the big smiles you just want to smile back at them!

As soon as we opened the package Elise was all excited checking out all the cards and loading her notebook after first putting her stickers on her state map.

Here is what her notebook looks like now! You can see how cute these little girls are!


She just told me, "I LOVE this..these are the coolest! Now I have cards of my own that I can play with when the boys are playing with their football cards."
There is a great testimony on it's own!!

Pros:
*Educational - teaches knowledge of the United States
*Promotes sharing
*Promotes trading
*Promotes a postive role model (no sexy outfits or celebrities)
*Gives the girls an female alternative to the boys trading cards.

Cons:
*The only one I can say is that my little girl doesn't read cursive yet and the States on the front of the card are in cursive. She could get most of the cards, but a few she had trouble with only for that reason. Other than that..it's all positive!!



To Buy: Go to Chatter Chix site and look at their site. The Starter Set that I got with the notebook and map along with 3 packs of trading cards, is only $19.99! Great deal!

To Win:

1) Go to Chatter Chix and check out their site. Tell me one of the girls name and what state she is from. Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave your e-mail address on your entry so I can find you if you win!!

For Extra Chances To Win!!
Robyn Bard the creater of Chatter Chix cards has so sweetly offered 3 prizes to be given out!! So there will be 3 winners of the same cool Starter Set that I won!!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.
2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.
3) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (I have three..organizing blog, family blog and this review blog) you can earn 3 entries. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.
4) Add any of my 4 buttons to your sidebar and earn 3 entries for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.
5) Purchase something from the Chatter Chix site and earn 15 more tries!! (I feel this is probably why I won on the giveaway I won on...I bought 3 packs of trading cards and earned another 15 tries!!)

This contest will run until January 17, 2009 at 6pm.
(If you win this contest then you will have 48 hours to return my e-mail to you otherwise I will pick another winner.)

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!! YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE CHATTER CHIX BY VISITING THEIR SITE.

Leg Huggers Review and Giveaway!

Go to my family blog, Leecie Loo and 7 Boys Too and enter to win a pair of these ...So cute Leg Huggers!
Since these are not organizational products, I did the review on my other blog.

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!

Organising Your Home E-Course

Marcia Francois is the Organising Queen of South Africa! (Yes the spelling is different). She does speaking engagements and has several e-books on her site.
She was kind enough to give me the one called, "Organise Your Home E-course". It comes to me once a week for a period of 12 weeks!
In this course she helps you go through your home an reorganize it. She takes small things at a time so it isn't overwhelming. Week 3 for instance you organize your chest of drawers, go through your shoes, your bedside table and your handbags.
Her weekly sessions are easy to read and follow. She adds pictures for ideas and to help you understand.

Pros
* Simple and easy to follow
* E-book to keep it on your computer. Very eco-friendly!!
* Doesn't overwhelm you with an entire book at once.
*Tips and suggestions that you may have not thought of before.
*A lot of material for the price!
*She gives extra material for the price.

Cons
* You can't carry your computer with you or read ahead. But you can print out the weeks assignment and carry it in a notebook..so it really isn't a con.
*I had trouble downloading it on my laptop, but no problems on my desktop. (But keep in mind I am pretty untechie!)

To Buy it go to: www.takechargesolutions.org (here is some information directly from her site.)

You Also Get 5 Great Bonuses

1. F-r-e-e Household Organising File (with 25 downloadable forms and checklists) worth $15
2. F-r-e-e report - my DREAM method of organising ANY space worth $17
3. Bonus section on organising your personal life worth $17
4. Lots of photo tips from my very own home to give you ideas (I’m very visual and I know this helps my clients too) - worth $37
5. Email support for the 3-month duration of the e-course (this alone is worth $141)
ALL THIS FOR ONLY $27!!! YOU GUYS THAT IS A FANTASTIC PRICE!!! This price will be going up on Feb. 1st so order yours today!!

To Win it:
1) Go to Take Charge Solutions and come back and tell me one other item she has for sale on her
site that you may be interested in. You may have to travel to one of her other pages. Then
come back here and comment about it. Be sure to leave an e-mail address for me.

For Extra Chances to Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest then come back here and tell me about it.
2) Blog about this giveaway and come back to tell me.
3) Follow my blog by adding yourself to my followers list on the my right hand sidebar and
earn 3 more entries for each one of my 3 blogs you follow!! Come back to tell me though!
4) Add any of my 4 buttons and you can earn another 3 entries per button, but be sure to
come back and tell me if you want your entries to count! Make sure I have your e-mail
address!!

This contest will end on January 14th, 2009. (The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail if they win, otherwise I will choose another winner.)

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
The winner is Stacie Congratulations!

Featured on Crafty Mama of 4 Blog!

Kim at Crafty mama of 4 did a review for me on the console caddie. She has some fantastic pictures she took of it..much better than mine! I couldn't believe how much stuff she was able to get in this caddie. I was amazed myself...and I sell them!! She has an awesome blog that you will have to read and was featured on the Walmart 11 Mom's as a guest blogger! Go you girl!!