LittleMissMatched Project Sock: Season 3

LittleMissMatched is putting a call out to anyone who loves to think outside the “sock”! That’s right it’s time to put your thinking sock on and come up with a design that will, well, knock their mis-matched SOCKS off! It’s that time of year again, LittleMissMatched is running their Project Sock contest and the person that comes up with the winning socks will get a pretty awesome prize, $1,000, 10 packs of their winning design, AND their winning design will be added to an upcoming collection that is not only sold on their online site, but LittleMissMatched stores NATIONWIDE!! How amazing would that be? Also there will be an additional five entries will be selected by LittleMissMatched VIPs to become part of the same collection, and awarded $250 and 10 packs each of their winning designs and the best part is one of these 5 finalists will be someone under the age of 12! How amazing would that be?

Want to enter? Want to enter but not all that creative with a pencil? Well it’s simple really all you have to do is visit Project Sock to download your sock template and you can either print it off and design it by hand OR download it and use your favorite computer program to create 3 MIS-MATCHED socks. They can be 3 completely different sock designs or can coordinate it doesn’t matter as long as they do NOT match. Then make sure you enter by  April 5th, 2011 at 6 EST. After the contest closes they will pick the top 24 designs that will be uploaded to an online voting gallery for everyone to vote on their favorites! Well what are you waiting for? Go download your sock now, I  can’t wait to see the winning designs!

You Can Make This Discount!

I LOVE the site YouCanMakeThis. I’ve been feeling VERY crafty lately and I can’t wait to get a few of these projects. They have some really cute projects that are for great for beginners and even those are more advanced crafters. I’ve been eying these cute little  Lilly Lamb Dolls that I think would be cute for my nieces. Also I really want to learn how to make these Personalized Name Pillows that I know O would love to have in his room or even make one with our last name for the living room.

Do you love You Can Make This? Well today is your lucky day as Courtney has been generous enough to give you guys a discount code YouCanMakeThis which is good for 15% off your order and expires 2/28/11.

Wordless Wednesday Old Navy Fun

Shaking the Mannequin’s hand when we entered Old Navy

Happy Birthday Swagbucks!

Did you hear? Swagbucks is turning 3 on the 28th?! Also, they are giving the presents to YOU! Swagbucks (which is the best place on the web for Free Stuff) is officially starting the party on 2/28/11 and I can tell you they have that day jam packed full of birthday fun.  My favorite part is that they are having a Swag Code Extravaganza which is going to have 5 different codes going out through out the day and a lot of ways to earn some big ‘bucks’ with these codes as well. I’ve also heard there are going to be some site design changes that are going to enhance the friend feature they have on their site and even a new product that will redefine the way search is used! I don’t know about you but I’m very excited to see all these changes.

As if all that wasn’t cool enough, they are starting the party off early with a special code for new sign ups. Using my referral link and using the code 3rdBirthday21, you will automatically receive 50 swagbucks in your account without even doing anything. Act now though because this coupon is good UNTIL February 28th at 11:59 EST and with all the birthday fun they are having you do NOT want to miss out on this!

Wooden Swing Sets Anyone?!

Growing up I remember we had this amazing wooden swing set that my dad built us. We loved it, it had swings, rings, a slide, and of course a cool club house with a hiding spot underneath. We played with that thing until it was just a ‘club house’ with a slide that could go at any moment. Unfortunately we lost it in a tragic “high wind storm” (we believe it was a small tornado due to the damages that were left after the storm but what do we know) and the backyard has never looked the same.

O has so much energy I know that he would love one of these swing sets but which one is the problem. He has really been into the Berenstien Bear’s book No Girls Allowed so we would definitely need a club house so J can make a sign for him that says this, Of course this doesn’t include Mama. and he loves to slide so he’d want a neat slide. It’s a good thing that CSN’s swing set site, Swing Sets & More offers a WIDE range of swing sets because not only does it give us bonding time while looking at all of them but it gives me the chance to find exactly the one that he would love to have. Though after looking a bit myself I believe the Gorilla Playsets (pictured) would probably be the one he falls in love with and has enough stuff to hopefully wear off some of that insane amount of energy he has.

*I was given a free free product and/or was paid for this review. Any opinions expressed are my own and are not influenced in any way.

My Sweet Valentine

This photo is an entry for Heart + U = UPrinting Valentine photo contest. Make your Valentine photos extra special through poster printing.

My favorite part of the week is when O comes home from school. I LOVE getting into his backpack and looking through his folder because it gives me a small glimpse of what he does those 2 hours of Kindergarten. Well last week I found the cutest little art project ever, it was a construction paper hand that has the middle and ring fingers held down by a simple heart sticker. It was simple but oh so cute. So I tried to get O to replicate this with his hand for a cute Valentine’s Day photo …. after some yelling from him that his thumb was just TOO small this is the final product …. I love it:

Spark Energy Chicago & Pump It Up

As a Chicago area mother and wife that moved the day BEFORE the biggest blizzard we’ve seen in a while, I have to tell you how frazzled I am. As if that wasn’t enough my two biggest fears came true this week; Our electric bill came and it was insane. Also O is on a FOUR day break thanks to the wonderful President’s Day holiday. Now I’m sure you’re wondering how these two things fit together and I’m going to tell you about a new site that now lets Chicago area families CHOOSE their energy provider and after looking at our first electric bill and seeing all the taxes and “other” outrageous charges makes me extra excited to look into Spark Energy

I’m sure you’re going to ask me what Spark Energy is. Spark Energy is a multi-state provider of low cost electrical services. Spark Energy also provides long term savings to ComEd customers which is intriguing since I’m a ComEd customer. Now how this fits in with my fear of O having FOUR days off of school would be that I found out that thanks to Spark Energy Chicago, also to celebrate Spark Energy now offering energy service and savings to the Chicago area, Parent’s of children 12 and younger can save some sanity on Monday February 21st, 2011 with FREE session to one of the 7 participating Pump It Up locations in the Chicago Area. How do we do this Brandy?! It’s simple really, Today (Sat. Feb 19th, 2011) at 5:00pm CST you will find a downloadable coupon for Pump It Up that is good for Monday February 21st, 2011. Just “like” the Spark Energy Chicago’s facebook page.  Doesn’t this sound like a parent’s dream?!

So how are YOU spending YOUR President’s Day?

*I occasionally receive compensation in the form of gift cards and products for posts. However, the opinions I share are solely my own.

Tooth Fairy Wordless Wednesday

His very first lost tooth!!