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Looking for a Fun and Modern Gift? Check Out Modify Watches! – Review & Giveaway

Dear children of the eighties, you may have grown up, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have fun with your accessories! If you were a fan of Swatches back in the day, Modify Watches are the newest way to make your watch fit your personality and outfit for the day.

I recently received an original size Modify watch to review with both the green band, a grey band and a black pinstripe watch face. Unlike the Swatches of old, Modify watches simply snap together, no more trying to slide bands onto the watch face. The watches are extremely comfortable too.  I loved how easy it was to interchange the bands, but the watch itself felt a bit chunky for my tastes. Luckily, they also offer a mini version, which would be the way I would go if I buy another one.  I think that they would be the perfect size for me.

Below is a picture of what I was sent.  You can see the size of the watch on my wrist.

I do love that Modify Watches are unisex and can be worn by any hip guy or girl no matter the size.  Traditionally smaller sizes are meant for women and larger for men but these days fashion really just depicts what the wearer is in to.  If you are a gal that prefers the chunky style you will be equally pleased as the gal that likes the mini, like me.

When you first start placing bands in your cart, you will see simple item names like “green band” or “yellow band” but the real fun starts when you add a watch face to the cart! Modify is set up so you will see what each face will look like with each band you place in the cart and they have come up with great names for each combination. So, instead of having a green band with a white face, I was suddenly donning the “Umbrella-ella” watch. And I didn’t wear the grey band with the white face, I wore the “New Coke” watch (how’s that for another throwback?).

The high quality watches from Modify would make a great gift for men, women and teens. You can customize each gift to make sure it’s perfect for the recipient, just make sure you don’t click on the buttons to share to Facebook or Twitter if it’s a gift, that kind of ruins the surprise! Not feeling creative? Modify also has a large selection of watch and band sets, ready for you to click and ship.

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Win It!

One lucky Pretty Pink Momma reader will win one Modify Watch of their choice!  (ARV $60)

Entry is super simple via the Rafflecopter widget below.  Simply leave a comment on this post telling me which combination you would choose for your Modify Watch if you were chosen as the winner.  Then check I did this!  off on the Rafflecopter widget.  Don’t forget to do the extra entry options too for a greater chance at winning,

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Crayola Has Great #GiftIdeas for Under the Tree This Year! – #Review and #Giveaway

There are some classic gifts that I always like to put under the tree.  Crayola is one of them!  Crayola has so many wonderfully creative ideas that bring out the imagination in children.  Some of my favorite “Santa” presents to get for the kids are from Crayola.  Each year Crayola comes out with fantastic new products in addition to the classics and I am so excited to share some of them with you!  Any of these would make great gifts for the kids on your list this year.

 

Crayola Jewelry Boutique

With the new Crayola Jewelry Boutique, kids can become their own jewelry designers! Crayola put a unique “spin” on jewelry making with a special “jewelry spinner” that creates multi-colored beads using Crayola Model Magic. As kids spin their beads into shapes, they can string them together to create original bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and pendants that reflect their own personal style. Let the designing begin!

  • By combining eye-popping colors to create unique beads with the Jewelry Boutique “spinner,” the amount of fun and creativity is endless because no two beads turn out exactly the same!

 

  • For a dazzling finish, coat designs with bead glaze. For even more sparkle and pizzazz, add gems, and interchangeable pendant and bracelet charms!

Recommended for children ages 6+, each Jewelry Boutique kit includes 8 packs of Crayola Model Magic to mold 160 beads, 5 bracelet charms, 3 pendant charms, 2 shape cutters, a bead dryer rack, 5 toggle sets, 4 earring posts and ear wires, a bead punch, 18 gems, 2 necklace cords, 1 elastic cord, bead glaze, and the Jewelry Boutique Spinner with storage areas and retails for $24.99.

 


Crayola Glow Book

Let your kids’ imaginations run free this holiday season while creating glowing, moving art with the Crayola Glow Book. Turn the lights out and watch their artwork come alive on each page and appear as if it is actually moving!

Using special glowing-ink markers to draw on each of the four clear pages, kids can choose one of the four tracing guides to create original scenes, signs and messages, and arrange them in their desired order. Then, just hit the lights and allow your kids to wow you with wildly colorful, glowing animated scenes. Variable light settings create colorful, multi-layered effects. The Crayola Glow Book wipes off easily so kids can use their imaginations to create endless glowing artwork! A simple wet cloth will do.

Recommended for children ages 6+, the kit includes one Glow Book with 4 clear pages, 4 animation tracing guides and 6 glow markers and retails for $24.99.

 

Crayola’s Telescoping Crayon Tower and Ultimate Art Supply Case

For everyday inspiration and creativity, be sure to keep Crayola’s Telescoping Crayon Tower and all-inclusive Ultimate Art Supplies case handy, so they’re can always be prepared to create! Filled with crayons and all of the classic art tools for drawing and painting, kids can share their creativity through colorful works of art! The Telescoping Crayon Tower and Ultimate Art Supplies casemake great gifts every child can use to jumpstart their creativity.

  • The Telescoping Crayon Tower puts limitless color at kids’ fingertips and compacts neatly for storage with 150 Crayola Crayons and a built-in sharpener for extra convenience.
  • There are no limits to a child’s imagination with the all-in-one, portable Ultimate Art Supply Kit.

Recommended for children 4+, the Ultimate Art Supply Kit contains 24 crayons, 8 washable broad line markers, 12 colored pencils, 8 washable watercolors, 1 paint brush, school glue, scissors, and colored paper and retails for $16.99. The Crayon Tower retails for $17.99.

My boys had so much fun playing with the Crayola products. The only thing I set aside was the Jewelry Boutique because the product is more on the feminine side.  I am definitely saving it though to pass on to my 7 year old niece as one of her Christmas presents from us this year.  I know that she will have so much fun making her own jewelry.

For some reason my sons are all enamored by markers- which I hate.  I like crayons better because they don’t run or leak and you don’t have to worry about them drying out.  I have had the hardest time selling crayons to the boys to use until they got the Crayon Tower.  All of sudden crayons are cool again!  They think that its great how it goes up and down and they love to see the crayons in tower form.  My three year old is really trying to figure out the crayon sharpener though.  We all thought that the inclusion of the metallic and glitter crayons are awesome to color with.  I am a bit jealous that I didn’t have these cool crayons when I was growing up!

The Ultimate Art Supply Case has everything your child could need to create a work of art.  I love that its all contained in a handy case that can easily be taken to grandma’s too.   Everything has its place and doesn’t fall loose when contained.  I will admit that the case can be a bit tricky to open but even if one of the sides falls out the contents are contained.  My only suggestion for the kit would be to include some white paper in addition to construction paper.  I love pictures drawn on white paper sometimes too.

If you need some new ideas for coloring pages be sure to check out Crayola.com?StoryStudio because they have a great tool called the Story Studio.  You can upload pictures from your digital camera and then the studio transforms them into coloring pages!  This would make such a great gift for grandma!  You could print out a great picture of grandma and the kids and then have them color them.  Once done you can have them framed and give Grandma a piece of artwork that will pull at her heartstrings!  Very affordable and thoughtful.

My husband’s birthday was last week and my sons all got together and used the kit and the tower to create their very own special birthday card for their Dad.  My oldest two drew a picture of themselves with their Dad and my youngest scribbled and doodled but insisted on multiple pages and that we glue them together so his creation was very unique.  Below are pictures of each of them with their card.

 

Even though they are all different ages its nice to see that they all enjoy the creativity that Crayola brings to the table.  I love seeing them share ideas and get their creative juices flowing.  The cards they made definitely put a smile on their Daddy’s face as well as their own.

Crayola has so many great kits and activities out.  My boys loved the Crayon Tower so much that Santa is bringing them a Marker Tower too!  I only mentioned a handful of products offered so be sure to check out the Crayola Holiday Gift Guide and see all the options available for what will fit the personalities and ages of the children on your list.

Don’t forget to follow Crayola on Facebook and on Twitter for all the latest Crayola ideas and innovations.

 

Win It!

One lucky Pretty Pink Momma reader will win a Crayola Prize Pack!  The prize pack will include one of each of the products mentioned above:

  • Crayon Tower
  • Glow Book
  • Ultimate Art Supply Kit
  • Jewelry Boutique

 

Mandatory entry for this giveaway will be to leave a comment on this post telling me which of these products from Crayola would you most like to give as a gift to a special child in your life to inspire creativity, and why?

Entry is easy.  After you leave a comment on the post be sure to click “I did this” on the Rafflecopter widget below.  Don’t forget about the extra entries too!

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Celebrate the #Holidays With #Movies On Demand – #Visa #Giftcard #Prize Pack #Giveaway

One of our favorite things to do as a family is watch movies.  Over the last year we have all really enjoyed having a family movie day on Sundays.  Its our day to veg out and just eat and hang out together.  Prior to Sunday my husband and I check out all the great movies that are on demand via our cable provider to plot out what we are going to watch that weekend.  Actually we really like to pick out two movies, one for the whole family on Sunday and one just for us that we can watch in our bedroom on Friday or Saturday night sans children.  There are so many new releases each week and because we don’t often get out to the theater there is usually something that one or both of us really want to see.

Movies On Demand are so convenient and easy – I just love it!  I really like that there isn’t a need for a debit card or anything like that, it just simply gets added to my monthly cable bill.  It’s fun and affordable family entertainment and something that we do much more of during the holiday season while the kids are on winter break.

One of my guiltiest pleasures is watching movies from the comfort of my bed.  I love watching movies with my husband too but I confess that if there are chick flicks that I know for certain that he will not want to see I watch them by myself when he is gone at work. I may have to pause it a million times from the boys interrupting me but its still one of my favorite ways to relax after a rough morning.

If you are still not convinced that Movies On Demand are as awesome as I think it is check out this video that points out some great reasons why you should take advantage of it.

I am always watching shows and movies on demand and every day I see movie critic Leonard Maltin sharing his top picks that week for Movies On Demand.  He always has interesting picks and shares some great insight about each movie that he recommends.

 

As I mentioned earlier, Movies On Demand has great new releases each week.  Today, 12/6, Movies On Demand released Cowboys & Aliens, The Hangover 2 and The Help.  I haven’t seen Cowboys & Aliens but the trailer looks good.  I have seen the the other two but my husband hasn’t seen The Help and even though it seems like a chick flick its really a movie for everyone to see.  I would definitely order that on Demand just so he could watch it and I would love to see it again.

On Friday, 12/9, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom is set to release.  This was a such a fun family movie to see and if you haven’t seen it yet getting it On Demand this weekend would be a great way to share some family fun in between all the frantic holiday shopping and planning.

Also, if you want to see new trailers, interviews and more you can visit the Movies On Demand YouTube Channel.  I just say a trailer for Sarah’s Key and it looks so good that I think I will recommend it to my husband for this weekend.

For more fun Movies On Demand new releases and to stay up to date with what’s going on be sure to “like” their facebook page.  There is also a Holiday Movies tab too so you can see what movies are available to watch with your family this holiday season.  While your visiting their page be sure to check out some fun apps like List it! or Click Your Flick and share them with your friends.

List It! is a sweepstakes widget that allows you to list your top five movie picks from the list inspired by The Hangover 2.  By submitting your list you are automatically entered in a daily drawing for a $5 Movies On Demand credit and for the grand prize of a brand new 46″3D TV.  Talk about a Merry Christmas!

Click Your Flick is a great way to help you decide which movie you most want to see – and if you still can’t decide you can ask your friends to weigh in!  How cool is that?  The app asks you to choose from two movies and with each selection it narrows down what you would rather see based on the answers you give.  Then it ultimately gives you the two options to choose from.  If you still can’t decide post it on your wall and leave it up to your friends to help.  It was really cool to play with and there were descriptions of lots of movies that I know I would have skimmed over based on their title but reading the description and seeing a picture helped to get me interested in some new movies.

 

Win a Movies On Demand Visa Gift Card Prize Pack!

One Pretty Pink Momma reader will win a $25 Visa Gift Card, a Fast Five T-shirt, and a Movies on Demand tote bag!  What a great way to get started on enjoying your favorite Movies On Demand for the holidays!

Entry is easy.  Simply enter via the Rafflecopter widget below.  For the mandatory entry simply tell me which new release this week are you most likely to rent: Cowboys & Aliens, The Help, The Hangover 2 or Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom.

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$50 #FF Friday is Here!

 


Everyone loves cash, right? As promised your chance to win $50 this FRIDAY is here! Well, I am very excited that I have joined with yet another amazing group of bloggers to offer you this WEEKLY cash giveaway! YAY!  Let’s face it, we could all use a little extra moolah during the holidays right?

 

Well, there is only one catch, this is only opened TODAY so you have only ONE DAY to enter!

And the clock is ticking!!!!

2011 Shop from Your Seat Showcase & G!veaway

 

I am SO excited to be teaming up with CEO of Me, Inc and over 25 other family friendly blogs to bring you the 2011 Shop from Your Seat Showcase and Giveaway November 21 – 30th! You have probably heard of Black Friday and maybe even Cyber Monday, but we want to help spread the movement of Small Business Saturday. On Saturday, November 26, Americans are being encouraged to shop with a small business!

We are showcasing 24 fabulous small businesses and small business owners that can provide great Christmas gifts for your friends & family! You can shop from your seat and not on your feet as you support a small business!

I personally love to support small businesses when I can.  When purchasing from a small business the odds of finding a more unique and personalized gift for your list recipients is higher than if you shop at all the major chain stores that everyone else is shopping at.  I have found some of the best gifts from small businesses and I love that my friends have given me the title of “Best Gift Giver”, because my gifts always seem so thoughtful and original.  Many of which are thanks to small businesses!

Something to keep in mind this holiday season is that YOU, the customer, are direct sales, handcrafted business and small business owners’ everything! Spending $100 at a BIG BOX store during the holidays won’t make a bit of difference to anyone. However, spending $100 through a home business owner for Christmas means their businesses can continue; it gives them their pay, provides for their families, helps them meet their personal goals, and helps them continue to do what they love without using harsh sales techniques. The big stores will not care about you the way they will! You mean the world to all of them so shop a home based, direct sales or hand crafted business for Christmas this year!

Our 24 sponsors are each offering some special sales and offers just for this giveaway! Be sure to click here to visit our Shop from you Seat Showcase & check out all the companies and their specials!

This is more than just a showcase, it is also a GIVEAWAY!

We want to reward our readers for being so supportive of our blogs (which are also small businesses) and we want to help you with your Christmas shopping too! We have over $350 in cash & prizes we will be giving away including gift cards to all 24 companies that are sponsoring this event!

To enter to win, simply go through the Rafflecopter form below. There are numerous ways to earn entries and 28 total prizes you can win!

Thank you for supporting small businesses including this blog!

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Commemorate the Holiday Season This Year With a Personalized Ornament From Ornaments With Love

We love Christmas ornaments in our house!  In fact, we have so many that each year we have to pick and choose which ones will actually end up on the tree.  Our favorites are the personalized ornaments, we have several different types and love them all!    They also make great gifts for families and couples!  Last year we found tons of great options for personalized ornaments at www.OrnamentsWithLove.com.  They really know their stuff and is run by a family that has been in the retail gifts business for over 50 years!  They have been selling personalized Christmas ornaments for the last 16 years.

This was what we picked out last year!

About Ornaments With Lovetaken from www.OrnamentsWithLove.com

 2000+ Personalized Christmas Ornaments

Perhaps you’ve struggled to find the perfect gift for someone or run out of ideas of what to get. A personalized Christmas ornament is a relatively small and inexpensive gift, but it leaves a lasting impression, huge smiles and becomes a “priceless” treasured possession to the one that receives it. Our ornaments can be purchased with the recipients name on it or with a personal message such as “World’s Greatest Dad” or “#1 Dad”. They also come in a variety of different themes, such as sports, hobbies, weddings, graduations, engagements, expecting mothers, birthdays, birth of baby, and other special occasions. Every ornament is beautifully personalized with names and dates at no additional cost to you and is meticulously wrapped and shipped with a whole lotta love! Yes, its true what they say, great things do come in small packages! Order one of these treasured possessions today and find out what people are absolutely raving about.

The Review

My husband browsed Ornaments With Love forever with me and finally it was a unanimous decision that this family ornament was our favorite.  My husband is SO Christmas crazy that he insisted on being a part of the selection process.  Which is funny because in the end he chose what I had picked out anyways – go figure!

I love it and I think that it came out extremely well.  Its made of resin and the colors are bright and cheery.  We finally have an ornament with all five of our names on it!  Please excuse the fact that the picture is not as great as last years, our tree isn’t up quite yet.

The ornament comes very neatly packaged and padded with care so you don’t have to worry about any breakage issues.  It also comes with a cute little cellophane bag perfect for holiday gift giving.

I only have one complaint about the ornament selection. I wish that they had skin tone options available for the ornaments that feature people. Don’t get me wrong, I love our ornament, but it would make it that much more personalized if the Dad wasn’t a white guy because my husband isn’t white. And our kids aren’t completely white either… their mixed. Hopefully this is something that they can work on for 2013.

You can find ornaments based on family ties, professions, hobbies, pets, picture frames – you name it and they probably have it!  So if you are a personalized ornament junkie like me you gotta check out Ornaments With Love!  Christmas ornaments make great stocking stuffers and would be a fun addition to the top of any present you are giving this year.  Plus, they are fun to pick out for yourself too!  

Oh yeah!  Don’t forget to like the Ornaments With Love Facebook Fan Page too!

Win It!

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#FF Twitter Follow $50 Friday G!veaway Has Begun – Two Group G!veaways to Enter! ONLY 24 Hours to Enter


Everyone loves cash, right? How would you like a chance to win $50 EVERY FRIDAY? Well, I am very excited that I have joined with an amazing group of bloggers to offer you a WEEKLY cash giveaway! Cool, yes? 

 

Well, there is only one catch, the giveaway is only OPENED TODAY!

 

#Free Milk Event at Kroger Nov 13th – 26th & a Kroger #GiftCard #Giveaway #myblogspark

I love shopping at Kroger for their awesome deals and coupons when I can.  My nearest Kroger store is a Fred Meyer that is about 40 minutes away.  It happens to be near the Costco so when I plan my Costco shopping trips I also plan to go to Fred Meyer and get my favorites because they have everything you could possibly want or need.

Get Free Milk!

Kroger and General Mills are partnering up to offer customers free milk between Nov 13th through the 26th.  This is an easy way to get free milk or $3 off of your purchase just by buying some of your favorites like Lucky Charms and Fiber One Bars.  Which is exactly what I bought when I went shopping on Sunday.  Well I also bought some Cheerios and Nature Valley bars too because all four of those products are qualifying General Mills products.  The picture on the right is what I bought minus the Lucky Charms because I forgot to take a pic before I poured them into my cereal keeper.

* my local ad

What’s better than being rewarded for buying your favorite products from your favorite store? Visit Kroger.com for more information and great ways to save and be sure to check out the Kroger Facebook page to join the conversation and share which General Mills products you’d like to stock up on during the promotion

  • From November 13th through November 26th, with the purchase of any four participating General Mills products, you will either receive free milk (up to $3; limit of 2) or to receive $3 off your shopping order
  • Look for some of your favorite participating General Mills products like Cheerios, Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookies, Nature Valley Bars and Fiber One Bars
  • Promotion varies in different locations. Please be sure to check your local Kroger Co. Family of Stores for specific deals and offers which include Kroger, Ralphs, King Scoopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Fred Meyer, Pay Less Supermarkets and Scott’s Food & Pharmacy

*Excludes General Mills meal and baking products including; Betty Crocker, Old El Paso, Progresso, Hamburger Helper, Macaroni Grill, Wanchai Ferry, Yoplait

For more info please check out the Kroger Website, Kroger Facebook Page and the Kroger Twitter Page

 

 Win a Kroger Gift Card

One lucky Pretty Pink Momma reader has the opportunity to win a $25 Kroger gift card.

Entry is super easy via the Rafflecopter widget below.  For the mandatory entry just tell me which participating General Mills products that you plan to stock up on during the promotion at Kroger.

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#Christmas Angel #Giveaway Nov 14th – Dec 5th

Pretty Pink Momma has joined with other great bloggers to bring you our Christmas Angel Giveaway. The holidays remind us to think of others and what we can do to help make their holidays a little happier.  The unique thing about this giveaway in particular is that every blogger that joined in this giveaway donated money to support families in need this Christmas – called Christmas Angels. These families have been laid off, ill or otherwise in need this Christmas. The money will be used to purchase gifts, toys and clothing for the children of these families.

In fact, the bloggers in this giveaway gave over $250 to the Christmas Angels ON TOP of the amazing prizes that you have the chance to enter to win!

If you would like to donate money to this amazing cause you can do so by following the directions in the Rafflecopter widget below. You will also receive additional entries into the giveaway for your donation (100% optional.) Sounds great, right!

I really enjoy being a part of such a great group of bloggers.  I would never be able to host a giveaway on my own of these proportions so it’s really nice to be able to team up with like minded bloggers and not only give you the chance to win some AMAZING prizes but to help give back this holiday season through Christmas Angels.

Here are the Prizes that you can win:

  • Grand Prize: $130 Target Gift Card (may come on multiple cards)
  • Second Prize: $80 Amazon Gift Card (may come on multiple cards)
  • Third Prize: $50 Paypal CASH (must have a Paypal Account to be eligible to win)

Runner Up Prizes:

  • $25 Crate and Barrel Gift Card
  • $25 Restaurant.com Gift Card
  • $20 Walgreens Gift Card
  • $10 iTunes Gift Card
  • $10 Walmart Gift Card
  • Eversave Voucher for Noise-reducing Earbuds from Vice Couture ($49.99 Value)
  • (12) Tide 2X Laundry Detergent Travel Packs ($12.00 Value)
  • 3 Piece Floating Candle Set
  • Doggie Wag Mist
  • Movie Stars Sticker Dolly Dressing Book
  • $50 in Coupons
  • 6 Months of Website Hosting for Family-Friendly Websites
  • Mystery Prize

The giveaway begins on November 14, 2011 at 12:01 AM (EST) and ends on December 5, 2011 at 11:59 PM (EST.) You may enter this giveaway one time on one blog only. Duplicate entries will be deleted and excessive duplicate entries will be disqualified from winning any prize. After the entries are verified, the winners will be selected at random and have 48 hours to reply back before a new winner is selected. Additional Giveaway Terms can be found on the Rafflecopter Widget below. Good luck!

If any of the entries do not work for any reason, please send an email HERE

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Thankful #GiftCard #Giveaway – $100 #Walmart & $75 #Target Gift Cards Up for Grabs!!

 

We are THANKFUL for our wonderful readers all year long but this month we are going to SHOW YOU just how thankful we are.

I have teamed up with a group of really amazing bloggers and we are going to give you not ONE, but TWO chances to win in the Thankful Gift Card Giveaways.

The holidays are here – there is shopping to be done, gifts to be bought, pies to be baked, food to be cooked and although we all LOVE doing those things – we know it costs money…So, we want to help you with that!

Starting NOW you have the opportunity to win one of TWO GIFTCARDS!  LEt’s face it, we can all use gift cards for shopping during the holidays.  Or use the gift cards as a gift for YOURSELF after all those long days spent wandering the mall searching for those perfect gifts to give.  Either one of these gift cards would be an awesome win!

The Grand Prize is a $100 GIFT CARD TO WALMART!

The runner up prize is nothing to sneeze at either- a $75 GIFT CARD TO TARGET!

Entry is simple, just fill out the Rafflecopter form below!  This giveaway runs from November 9th until November 23rd, 2011.

Good luck!!!

 

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