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Win a KRUPS Espresso Machine

Did you know that November 23rd is National Espresso Day?  In light of this lesser known food holiday, KRUPS  is hosting a Facebook and Twitter giveaway for a KRUPS XP5220 Precise Tamp Espresso Machine for their  fans.

Celebrate your love for coffee by entering to win this new coffee machine.  The contest [...]

21Nov2011 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Drinking More Water & Loving Our New Water Cooler!

I made lots of New Year’s Resolutions this year, and among there were:

Sign up to run the 2011 Chicago Marathon – Check. I’m registered for this October event.
Learn a new training/exercise program that requires me to run a little less and cross train a little more. Working on it.
Lose weight, of course. Working on it.
Drink [...]

26Mar2011 | lipsticktocrayons | 3 comments | Continued
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Must-have New Toy for Preschooler — Mickey Mote!

Don’t you just love it when your child interacts with something she is watching on television. It makes you feel good about letting her watch T.V. when you hear her counting with Mickey or singing with Minnie or learning her ABC’s with Big Bird or conjugating verbs in Spanish with Dora.
Well, the new Mickey Mote, [...]

16Nov2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Children’s Products (Toy) Award Winners & Giveaway

The National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) has announced the winners of its 2010 Children’s Products Competition. After evaluating hundreds of outstanding submissions, NAPPA’sexpert judges and family testers selected 83 products to receive the esteemed NAPPA Gold Award and 122 products for NAPPA Honors.
And if you want to win one of the award winners — the Ground [...]

2Nov2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
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Gloves that Let You Operate Your Touch Screen!

I’m not very good at the whole ‘touch screen” thing, but have you ever noticed that it’s impossible to operate a touch screen with gloves on your hands — not your phone or the ATM or the GPS or the iPod or even the dang gas pump. Your hands had to freeze off during the [...]

3Oct2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
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Coolest Gadget to Come Into Our House Lately – PowerMat

On any given day, we need to charge three LG cell phones, one iPhone, one iTouch, a PSP, a DS and three iPods. Crazy.
I bought a fancy charging station from an organization store, and some cute little cord wraps to keep the cords from spilling all over my counter. It was no use. My $40 [...]

28Sep2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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The Coolest Photo Scanner!!

This week, Pandigital announced the Pandigital Personal Photo Scanner/Converter — a new portable photo scanner that can scan print photos up to 8½ x 11-inches large. I received one for review and I’ve been playing with it all evening and it is so VERY COOL and easy to use and portable and fun and . . .
The new [...]

15Jul2010 | lipsticktocrayons | Comments Off | Continued
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Great Organization Products for Couponing Moms – Giveaway: CLOSED

If you have joined me on the couponing bandwagon (and I hope you have — if not, start reading here), then you know the value of being organized in order to save the most money. I recently had the privilege of trying out a few new products that make grocery shopping with coupons and lists [...]

15Jun2010 | lipsticktocrayons | 62 comments | Continued