E-Signs : A Review

Recently, I got the opportunity to order a 3x6 vinyl banner from E-Signs for review. I have to say that I am extremely happy with the product! Not only was it easy to send them a file, you can also design your product online! Fortunately for me, we had a file ready to go and all it took was an email! They confirmed my product upload and poof, it was on it way!

Within days, I had my banner in hand and with perfect timing! We had an event with which we would debut this beautiful banner.



Isn't it beautiful?! The colors were spot on, just as when we designed it. The fonts crystal clear! And the quality of the material, so durable. Its lightweight, cleans easily and folds nicely.

If you need a banner made and don't know who to get it from, look no further! E-Signs is your company for all your printing needs! You can also find them on facebook!



 

Disclosure:  Banner was provided by E-Signs as compensation for this review.

Seventh Generation Prize Pack Giveaway

The power of scent is remarkable. It can have positive effects on your mood, reduce stress, and even help you sleep better. But not all scents are created equal. The fruit, floral and herbal ingredients used to create the scents in Seventh Generation’s new natural dish liquid come from fields, not factories.

• Seventh Generation dish liquid contains only essential oils and botanical extracts, and delivers real cleaning power. Your tableware will be left fresh and ready to serve your next home cooked meal.
• With authentic ingredients like lavender from the fields of Drome in the foothills of the Alps, clementines from sunny Calabria and lemons from the soils of Sicily, Seventh Generation natural dish liquid is free of unnecessary synthetic colors or chemically engineered scents.
• Enter the “Nature Makes Perfect Scents” sweepstakes at seventhgeneration.com/scents and you can have the chance to take a trip for two to visit one of the sourcing sites of Seventh Generation natural dish liquid fragrance ingredients. Visit seventhgeneration.com/scents to learn more about each scent’s origin.

Enter to win this awesome prize pack:

• (4) bottles of Seventh Generation natural dish liquid varieties in Free & Clear, Lavender Floral & Mint, Fresh Citrus & Ginger, and Lemongrass & Clementine Zest scents

• Premium 3 Qt. 12” x 9” Baking Dish from Le Creuset
• (2) Twist© loofah sponges and (2) Twist© scour pads made from 100% post-recycled materials
• Set of 3 organic cotton dish towels

To win this awesome prize pack, please comment below with:  Which of the Seventh Generation Natural Dish Liquid varieties are you most interested in trying?


For bonus entries, like Seventh Generation on Facebook and follow the on Twitter.
Make sure to leave a comment below letting me know you liked and followed!


Giveaway ends Nov 24th, 2011 @ 11:59pm. Winner will be chosen at random and contacted via email.


Seventh Generation is also having a sweepstakes, "Nature Makes Perfect Scents", For the chance to be featured on the Seventh Generation Facebook page and/or online newsletter, we would love for you to create or share a natural and organic recipe that incorporates natural ingredients that are highlighted in the Seventh Generation natural dish liquid varieties (e.g. lavender, lemons, orange, etc.) For a full list, see the ingredients on the label/ website.


For more information on Seventh Generation Products, visit them here.


“Disclosure: The Seventh Generation Natural Dish Liquid prize pack, product and information have been provided by Seventh Generation through MyBlogSpark.”

Shopping for My Boys - Cookies Style!

Yesterday, I embarked on a mission...clothes shopping for my boys! I set out with a list in hand of what I needed:

1. Underwear
2. Pajamas
3. Long Sleeved Shirts
4. Jeans
5. Sweaters
6. Slippers

I took that list, packed my boys in the car and off we went to Cookies Kid! Upon walking into Cookies, which I had not been to since my eldest was a baby and he is now 14, I saw the bright sign for moms just like me...BOYS!!! 

Down we went into the land of BOYS and I started to think about my list and what I would possibly find here. To my surprise, there were many trends and super sales. For me, when I shop for my boys, I think about what they need not necessarily what's in style. Like for my two year old, I know he is super active and into things, so I need to make sure what I get him is casualty friendly. Clothing doesn't last many wear with him. Now, for my six year old, he is more stylish but grows WAY too fast! I mean, every season I have to shop for him because he grows out of his clothes so quickly! So, when I shop for him, my focus is size and low cost because I know that in a few months, I will have to do this all over again! And finally, my eldest, he is 14, and a tall one so shopping at Cookies Kids is just about impossible to do for him! But we were able to pick up some much needed underwear...which definitely has boundaries. He will not wear briefs! He thinks they are hideous. So, even undergarment have a trend! Its boxer or boxer briefs only for him!

So, here I am in the midst of this huge store filled with name brands and not so name brands but all reasonable priced! This is my kind of store! Check out some of the awesome red tag sales and cool gear I found!

When we were all done shopping, we had filled two bags and spent $100! I have to say, for the merchandise I got and meeting my shopping criteria of quality at low cost, I got just that! I will definitely be shopping at Cookie Kids again. These are just my two cents, but they count! Now what are your two cents? Here are my bags and the great items I got! For more pics, check out my Google+ story here.

Living Social will be running a deal for those in the Louisville area on Monday, October 24th, for $40 worth of clothing for $20. For those not in the Louisville area, if they get a good response to this deal, they are considering doing the same in other cities across the country, if they get a good response for this deal, they are considering offering this deal in other areas! You can also find Cookie Kids on Facebook, check them out and Like them! #luvcookies

This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. #CBias

Shecky's Girls Night Out Oct 18th - 20th

Mommy's Links will be attending Girls Night Out and we can't wait to tell you all about it! So, look out for exclusive press interviews and pics to follow!

If you would like to attend a Shecky's Event, please visit them at www.sheckys.com and find your night!

Shatobu - The Workout You Wear - Review

I was given the opportunity to review Shatobu and I have to say....spanx smanx! I received the High Waist Tights and boy was it a definite workout! Once I was able to get them on! WOW...I started to think, is this the workout! But once they were on, I have to say everything was in its place and the tightness was comfortable. You walk a little taller, feel your body working with the tights and the shape your body transforms into is amazing.

I would love to try all their products!

Shatobu Get Fit Shapers
Shatobu Get Fit Tights
Portable Flats

From Shatobu.com :

ShaToBu - The Workout You Wear - is the revolutionary shaper that helps women shape, tone and burn more calories during everyday activities.
The benefits go beyond ordinary shapewear - ShaToBu instantly gives a sleeker silhouette, but women can also see and feel a difference in their bodies with regular use over time. By incorporating resistance bands right into the garment, muscles work a little harder and more calories are burned during daily activities.
ShaToBu helps women fit a workout into their normal day, while looking and feeling great.

I mean, a workout just because I got dressed, is super convenient! But that just my two cents, but they count!


Disclosure: Shatobu provided item as compensation for review.

Jenna McCarthy's New Book To Be Released October 4th, 2011!

Jenna McCarthy has written a new book that I am sure will be a GREAT HIT! If it Was Easy They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married (Berkley Books) You can find it on bookshelves, October 4th, 2011! Hurry and get your copy!

7 Steps to a Happy Marriage

by Jenna McCarthy

I have a remarkably happy marriage, and people ask me all the time how I got so lucky. (Not as often as they ask me about autism, vaccines and Jim Carrey, so let’s get something straight before we go any further: Not. Her.) I used to wonder if it had something to do with pheromones or having relatively low expectations, but after eleven years of wedded bliss I am pretty sure the key is some combination of kindness, respect and my ability to read a road map upside down divided by my husband’s skill at tuning out my nagging.

Okay, fine. We got lucky. 

Busloads of studies have attempted to figure out why roughly every other marriage fails miserably. Turns out, the success stories share a few similarities beyond the obvious stuff like “they don’t have sex with other people”.  Here, then, are seven scientifically proven* steps to marital ecstasy.

1. Be thinner and better looking than your husband. I have no idea why this works to create nuptial delight but I’m guessing it’s because if you’re fat and ugly you probably never want to have sex, which makes him grumpy and mean because sex was the one and only reason he got married in the first place. (Well, that and pie. Think about it: Most guys will never bake a pie in their lifetimes and from what I’ve seen, they really like pie.) Of course, I don’t know many women who are dying to have sex with fat, ugly men, so this one remains a bit of a mystery.  
2. Make sure he does more chores than you do (well, duh) and try to talk less than he does. I have to admit, if you asked my husband the top three things I could do to make him happier, “shut the hell up for five lousy minutes” would probably be on the list. (But not at the tippy-top. Ahem.) 
3. Don’t watch a lot of chick flicks. Seems that after sitting through Gnomio and Juliet (or any other rom-com) relationship dissatisfaction tends to skyrocket. Apparently this is because maybe it could happen to you but you realize that it hasn’t and it probably won’t and that fat bastard never sprinkled rose petals on your bed, dammit. At least you’re thinner and better looking than he is.  
4. Don’t win a best-actress Oscar. I included this one because unlike getting hotter or having your jaw wired shut, it’s actually pretty painless and doable. Personally, I am going to make this a priority in my marriage. 

1. Limit your booze consumption (both of you). No comment. 

1. Become or urge your partner to become a farmer, nuclear engineer or optometrist. Evidently every career choice has its own unique divorce-risk profile, with these three being on the lowest end. Dancers and choreographers are pretty much screwed. You can’t make this stuff up.  
2. Prefer having the car windows down. I haven’t technically seen a study on this, but do you not fight about this every single time you ride in a vehicle together? And doesn’t he get all pissed when you want them up and accuse you of being more concerned about your hair than his precious need for non-recirculated air? If anyone bothered to study this, I’m confident the results would back me up. 

So there you have it. I do not suggest trying to master all seven steps at once. For instance, if you stop doing housework altogether (to try to tilt his portion of the ratio toward more), you’ll have a lot of extra time on your hands which you may want to spend drinking alcohol. Remember, there’s no rush here. Till death do us part is a really long time**.   

*I may have bastardized the language a bit in some cases but the facts are mostly accurate.

**I stole that line from If It Was Easy They’d Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married, which I wrote (and please note that it says the blah-blah-blah man you married, not the one I married. My husband likes it when I point that out). You can find out more about me, my books and how I survived tanorexia on my website. 

Don’t forget to google Zestra after you watch it... or better yet, check out the link on Jenna’s homepage,

http://www.jennamccarthy.com/