HelloVino.com is a wine pairing and suggestion tool that will make wine (or bubbly) recommendations by occasions, meals, taste or regionial preferences. This handy little service can be accessed – entirely free – from the Web or from your mobile device (Hello Vino supports, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Palm and others).
And, should you not have Internet access on your phone, you can always use the Text messaging service: text the word “Hellovino” to 368266 that will trigger a question & answer exchange to get you to find the right wine. Seems like they thought of everything not to leave us stranded.
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I’m a fan of good advertising campaigns. This one, for Eini & Co Cupcakes (only available in the Toronto, Ontario area, sorry!). I love that, aside from the logo, there is not a single word on the page. The gorgeous images and visual references speak for the product. Makes me yearn for cupcakes and for spring!

WE HAVE OUR FOUR WINNERS!
CONGRATULATIONS  Michelle, Shilo, Audrey & Charlotte!
You each won a set of Follow Your Conscience reusable shopping bags.The winners were selected at random using the Random Integer Generator. This giveaway contest is now closed but do subscribe via RSS or email to get updates on new giveaways as they get posted.  Thank you all for playing!

Thank you to ConscienceTees.com for providing a set of their bags for our Reusable Shopping Bag Giveaway. The company’s tagline proposes to “wear your cause on your sleeve” or, in this case, on your shopping bags. This set of bags includes [...]

The “My Life Story” diary has to be one of the best new baby gift ideas. But I would also love to give this as a gift to almost anyone. It’s never too late to start recording your life. The grand momentous events, the small but joyful happenings, the sadder experiences… all are moments in our lives that shape us.

A beautiful volume like this one would provide incentive for practically anyone to start collecting all the  memories that will be required to write that best-selling memoir. Ya never know.
Designed by the very cheeky Suck UK, it’s available online, on this [...]

Although I love how I feel when I conform to a raw food diet, it’s oftentimes challenging for me to maintain. Breakfast raw meals are very do-able, since everyone in our home is on their own for breakfast. It’s either a plentiful bowl of fruit & g-raw-nola, raw pancakes or a smoothie. All these choices are wonderfully satisfying to me. Lunches are easy too. I usually brown bag a salad with a raw-foodist dressing (today’s is Kreamy Curry, my fav). But dinners… My kids are not into the raw stuff. Guacamole and salsa are pretty much as far as they [...]

WE HAVE A WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Angie!
The winner was selected at random using the Random Integer Generator.
This giveaway contest is now closed but take a look at Part 3
for for very eco-friendly “Your conscience” bag giveaway. Thank you all for playing!
The charming  Sue at WhatsurBag, the designers of the its-laS-tik bags has offered a set of three (yes! THREE) medium reusable bags for our reusable bag giveaway series. Magnifique! The its-laS-tik bags are absolutely unique in that they are the only reusable bags that are elastic. They are the bags that keep on … taking! These innocent looking bags are, [...]

WE HAVE A WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Danielle J.!
The winner was selected at random using the Random Integer Generator.
The giveaway contest is now closed but do take a look at the Reusable Bag Giveaway
Part 2 for for fantastik its-laS-tik bag giveaways. Thank you all for playing!

The absolutely lovely folks at Flip & Tumble have offered a set of two of their 24/7 bags for us to give away. They also sent me one to keep. Let me tell you how much I loooooooove this bag. Just like their video shows, the bag scrunches up for storage in mere seconds. So, now [...]

What a brilliant win-win-win idea. Anyone with a Gmail or Yahoo account (the only participants thus far) can add a banner to their email signature to support a global cause. This is absolutely free to the user and is as easy as joining ReplyforAll and then downloading the plugin, though one must be using Firefox (and if you’re still using IE, you just need to switch anyhow. IE is just so… passé). Once the cause is picked out (Cure for Cancer, Stop AIDS, Children’s Rights, Animal Rights, Education, etc…), the email signature banner displaying that cause appears with every message, [...]

It’s the little things in life… Like having your denim jeans fit decently. Being of a definite curvy figure, I’ve always had a challenge finding pants that don’t gap hugely at the waist so that they can fit at the hips. It’s been a lifelong frustration that only seems to be amplified with age. Ugh.
I had heard about the Instant Button and finally gave it try when I grew tired of the uncomfortable, unflattering and bulky creases caused by belting my jeans.
I just got my order: a package of two silver Instant Buttons. My son’s reaction “You paid $15 for [...]

I just fell in love with Nikaya’s gorgeous brass pendant necklaces and then, fell head over heels when I heard the Nikaya story. The Nikaya Handcrafted company’s products encompass all the notions of “meaningful business” and “meaningful beauty”. The company was started by Andrea and Brandon Ross, a dynamic husband and wife duo. After having lived in Southeast Asia for five years the Ross’ wanted to find a way to bring the traditional crafts they so admired to a wider audience.
“Nikaya allows us to share the traditional Cambodian craftsmanship with the world and enables buyers to help provide a sustainable [...]