Archive for October, 2009

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Gift Guide Round-up

If you haven’t checked out my Holiday Gift Guide, it’s time to do so. I’m constantly adding new items, and this week the two newest additions are the Honeywell air purifier, heaters and air circulator products from Kaz and an HP Photosmart Premium printer.
If you’re interested in having your product featured in this gift guide, [...]

25Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
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Beauty Prize-pack Giveaway

You may have noticed that I’ve got a pretty cool beauty tips widget in my right sidebar that has rotating beauty tips.  I’m a big fan of Dove products, particularly since the brand started the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
In case you missed them or would like to see them all in one place, [...]

22Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 147 comments | Continued
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Vampire Movie Prizepack Giveaway

Tomorrow, October 23rd, the movie “Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” will debut in theatres. The movie, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires.  Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and [...]

22Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 129 comments | Continued
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Comfortable Shoes Giveaway – Amen!

Disclaimer:  If you’re looking for shoes that your teenage daughter will admire and want to borrow, then this giveaway isn’t for you. If that’s not important to you, and you’d be interested in winning a pair of shoes that mix comfort and practicality with enough style to be acceptable to this Mom of many hats, [...]

21Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 317 comments | Continued
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If You Like Going to the Bathroom and You Need a Job . . . ?

My father-in-law sometimes refers to my mother-in-law as his “drink and wet doll” when they are traveling because she wants to stop frequently and he doesn’t. These days, my husband often uses the same term for me. Cute, eh? Anyway, when I heard about the job below and figured lots of us “drink and wet dolls and dudes [...]

21Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
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Skin Care Products to Love

I regularly receive skin care products for review on Lipstick to Crayons. Many of them are just “okay” and some of them don’t work with my sensitive skin. But I’ve received a few that I’ve used for a few months and I really like, so I  want to tell you about them.
Votre Vu Anti-Aging products:
Votre Vu  [...]

20Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Don’t settle for a dull Jack-O-Lantern

On my block, Halloween is a big holiday. Most of my neighbors go a little crazy with lights, over-sized spiders, witches and all sorts of spooky things. As a result, we get hundreds of trick-or-treaters and we actually gave away some 16 pounds of candy last year.
For most people, though, Halloween decor is mostly [...]

20Oct2009 | LesleyWeidenbener | Comments Off | Continued
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Build-A-Bear Animals Come to Life in New Animated Holiday Feature

Move over Frosty and Rudolph. Holly and Hal Moose are joining the holiday television lineup.
ABC Family and Build-A-Bear Workshop® are coming together to create a little holiday “hoofla” this season as the network debuts an animated special that marks the first time in the retailer’s 12-year history that its plush animals are brought to life [...]

15Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 2 comments | Continued