WE HAVE OUR WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Sylvia!
You have won Overlooked Undertakings, Audrey Heller’s fantastic book.
The winner was 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!
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A couple of months ago, we wrote about Audrey Heller’s unique photographs. We loved her whimsical photographs so much that we gave her “The Succulent Wife Gift Worthy Seal of Approval” for the great gift appeal of her images.
Now, in honor of [...]

WE HAVE OUR WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Polly!
You have won the Kymera Magic Wand Remote.
The winner was 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!
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Remember this feature on the Kymera Magic Wand? It is indeed a remote control: “No buttons. Just good old fashioned magic.” What big boy wouldn’t just love to play with one of these?
Well, we’ve been anxiously waiting for Father’s Day to tell you about this giveaway [...]

Until I discovered someecards.com some months ago, I had been feeling very sad about the sorry selection of ecards (Please. No. Not another teddy bear, rainbow, balloons and cheezy platitudes). But, admittedly, someecards are perhaps a wee bit too irreverent to be appropriate for everyone and every occasion.
This is where VerveCards.com comes in: colorfully designed and clever with a great choice of very “appropriate” ecards when that is required. Nancy, co-founder of VerveCards, apparently as appalled as I by the dismal choice of reasonably decent ecards ( I know, it’s just totally outreageous!), actually did something about it. Her moment [...]

WE HAVE OUR WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Tammi!
You have won the Juice Beauty Clear Skin Kit.
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My son is a senior in high school. His school is all abuzz the upcoming senior prom in May. The other day, his girlfriend and I were talking about her hair and makeup for the prom. I told her about this great website that I learned about, [...]

WE HAVE OUR WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS Jessica!
You have won the Castaway Kit of your choice.
The winner was 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!
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Remember the great Castaway Kits that we featured a few weeks ago? The superb company that makes them, Trash for Teaching, has offered us a giveaway prize to share with our readers. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to mention this great company again and even more thrilled [...]

By Audrey van Petegem, Contributing Editor

Have you ever noticed the younger the child the more questions they have?  My two young daughters are full of them. From the easy one like “why do I have to brush my teeth?” to more difficult ones “what is tapioca?”.  Uh…
I learned from my son, who is now a high school senior, that all questions are important, no matter what. It’s my answers that need some fine tuning. I discovered this great website called Whyzz.com.  It is simple to use and all answers are written so that they are perfectly understood by [...]

So, I was at the garden show this past weekend. A very odd place for me to find myself in since I can barely keep  artificial plants looking proper in my house. I guess that the essence of spring and its promise of foliage were calling me. The show itself was just… meh. But I did find this really unusual, architecturally pleasing plant/flower/whatever that I took home because the vendor (a charming gentleman from Holland) told me that all I had to do was to plop the bulb on the counter and let it do its thing, i.e. bloom. Now, [...]

Yes, I know, I know, nothing beats the hand-written note and greeting card to show someone that you – really – care about them. In our electronic age, affixing a stamp to an envelope and popping it in the mailbox is the ultimate demonstration of love. But, let’s get real. I don’t always have the perfect card on hand, or the person’s address, or… And neither do you. So, sometimes, there has been room for wishes-via-email. I adopted ecards some years ago and then abandoned them. I couldn’t cope with all the “free” ecard sites that were either really spammy [...]

By Audrey van Petegem, Contributing Editor

THANKS TO ALL THAT PARTICIPATED. THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
 

My daughter lost her tooth yesterday. Thea came home from school and was excited to show us all.  After “the showing” Thea proudly took her tooth and put it under her pillow. For the rest of the day we had to hear about “the Tooth Fairy coming tonight”.
I wrote an article just before Christmas which featured the I Caught Santa website and knew that they had different characters at the Catch a Character website, specifically the Tooth Fairy for this very occasion. So, last night I [...]

I looooooooooooove this video. If you remember (you should, it was one of last decades most viral videos), OK Go is the band that made the Treadmill video.

The “Machine” in this video was invented and created by 20 (yes 20!) engineers. The construction of the Machine – using 10,ooo sq. ft. of space over two floors – must have been a daunting though thrilling task. I don’t even want to guess how many trials they had to go through to make this work. And how many pianos, TVs, mannequins and other items had to be smashed to get to that [...]