My two teens, my husband and I watched this movie together last week and it was worth our time. Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett, The Help is a courageous and empowering story about very different and
extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project 00  one that breaks society?s rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor and hope — and complete with compelling, never-before-seen bonus features — The Help is a timeless, universal and triumphant story about the ability to create change.

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard all deliver good performances, and the story really makes you think. My kids asked lots of questions throughout the movie and were shocked to witness some of the accepted segregation practices portrayed in 1960s setting.

Here’s one of my favorite parts of the movie and a message I’d like to be sure to deliver to my children regularly:

The Help Blu-ray Combo Pack provides audiences with the chance to delve deeper into the movie through compelling, never-before-seen bonus features, including “In Their Own Words: A Tribute To the Maids Of Mississippi,” which is an honest observation of life in the South from real-life maids, including director Tate Taylor?s childhood caretaker, Carol Lee; Deleted Scenes; and nine-time Grammy Award®-winning and multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter, Mary J. Blige?s “The Living Proof”, music video from the film?s end titles.

In continued efforts to provide consumers with multiple viewing choices and unprecedented quality, value and portability in a single purchase, The Help has been packaged as follows:

3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack  (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) = $44.99 U.S./$51.99 Canada

Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Features:
The Making of “The Help:” From Friendship To Film
In Their Own Words: A Tribute To The Maids Of Mississippi
Three deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor, including „Humiliated,? „A
Book About Jackson? and „Johnny?s Home? (which is a Blu-ray exclusive)

DVD Bonus Features:
Two deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor including „A Senator’s Son.
and „Keep On Walkin
“The Living Proof” music video by Mary J. Blige

2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD) = $39.99 U.S./$46.99 Canada

Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Features:
The Making of “The Help:” From Friendship To Film
In Their Own Words: A Tribute To The Maids Of Mississippi
Three deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor including „Humiliated, „A
Book About Jackson and „Johnny’s Home (which is a Blu-ray exclusive)

DVD Bonus Features:
Two deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor, including „A Senator’s Son
and „Keep On Walkin
“The Living Proof” music video by Mary J. Blige

1-Disc DVD = $29.99 U.S./$35.99 Canada
Bonus Features:
Two deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor, including „A Senator’s Son
and „Keep On Walkin

“The Living Proof” music video by Mary J. Blige

High Definition Digital Download = $39.99 U.S./$46.99 Canada
Bonus Feature:
Three deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor, including „Humiliated, „A
Book About Jackson and „Johnny’s Home (which is a Blu-ray exclusive)

“The Living Proof” music video by Mary J. Blige

Standard Definition Digital Download = $29.99 U.S./$35.99 Canada
Bonus Feature:
Three deleted scenes with introductions by Director Tate Taylor, including „Humiliated, „A
Book About Jackson and „Johnny’s Home (which is a Blu-ray exclusive)
“The Living Proof” music video by Mary J. Blige

On-Demand
For additional information and pricing, please contact your television provider or favorite digital
retailer. Bonus features are not offered with On-Demand.

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Until now – until I found AboutOne.com, a family management Web site.

I am stealing this sentiment from a fellow blogger who introduced me to AboutOne, but I am not exaggerating when I say that I have been looking for this resource for most of my adult life. And let me say the next part in all caps:

IF YOU HAVE KIDS AND IF YOU EVER PLAN TO FILL OUT FORMS FOR THEM TO PLAY A SPORT OR ATTEND A CAMP OR APPLY FOR COLLEGE OR A SCHOLARSHIP OR AN AWARD, YOU WILL WANT TO BEGIN CAPTURING ALL THEIR INFORMATION ON ABOUTONE.

AboutOne is a place that lets me upload and store all of the following:

• Records of immunizations, school physicals, dates and details of doctor’s and dentist appointments, medications and reactions, allergies, locations of where prescriptions were filled, blood types, heights and weights, emergency contacts. And much of this information automatically flows into printable caregiver sheets that I can create with the touch of a button to give to a sitter or a grandparent who’s staying the weekend, etc.

• Education information on schools attended, dates, GPAs, copies of report cards, standardized test scores, honors and awards, extracurricular activities and volunteer/service hours. Again, all of this information flows into a printable that I can use to fill out award, scholarship, job or college applications.

• My address book, which I can then enhance by adding information to the contacts including birthdays, Web sites, a gift log, labels (to make it more searchable) and attached files. I can also attach photos to contacts and connect contacts to other things on the site. So, if I’m looking at my daughter’s medical record, I can see a picture of her pediatrician, all his contact information, and click on a link to his practice Web site. In other words – my whole life is INTEGRATED.

• Memories. I’ve been trying to get into the regular habit of journaling, but I just can’t seem to get into it. AboutOne changed all that. I can type in memories or daily thoughts or comments on a family event or one of the kids’ activities right on the site, then attach it to a family member and upload a photo and even a file if appropriate. If I want, I can mark it to be included in a monthly newsletter that the site will generate for me. Then, at the end of the month, I can generate the newsletter with the click of a button and email it to friends and family. It’s a great way to stay in touch. And, I can add memories/milestones from my PHONE and even include pictures as attachments. My plan is to get my family  members in the habit of sending milestones and pictures to the site (wish me luck).

Check out this two-minute video on AboutOne:

Other things to LOVE about AboutOne.

• It’s very affordable – you can try it for free for 15 days and when you LOVE it (which you will), you can subscribe for $5/month or $30/year.

• It’s EXTREMELY secure – This was my first concern. After all, I’m uploading photos, medical records, school records, etc. I talked at length with the folks at AboutOne and they reassured me. You can read all the security information that they shared with me at the end of this post.

• You can click on the “live help” link on the site and get live, online help to learn to use the site most efficiently.

Now the fun part. AboutOne is giving five of my readers a free, one-year subscription. Here’s how to enter the contest:

Giveaway Guidelines:

To enter the contest, you MUST leave a comment below on the video. Then you can gain additional entries by doing any or all of the following (but be sure to leave a separate comment for each thing you do):

1. Follow AboutOne on Twitter
2. Like AboutOne on Facebook
3. Blog about this contest
4. Share your favorite winter road trip or “must have” winter essentials
5. Tweet this giveaway on Twitter (you can do daily tweets, but leave a comment each time you do)
6. Follow @MyMidasGuy or “like” Midas on Facebook
7. Add Lipstick to Crayons to your blogroll or my button to your sidebar
8. Become a fan of Lipstick to Crayons on Facebook.
9. Post a link to this contest on your Facebook page.

This giveaway closes at 11:59 p.m. Central time December 3, 2010.  Be sure to include a valid email address with each of your entries. Winner will be randomly chosen via random.org and will be notified via email and announced on this post.

If  any winner does not claim the prize by December 6, 2010, she will forfeit the prize to an alternate winner who will be drawn at random.

SECURITY REASSURANCES  FROM ABOUTONE

We are as concerned about data security as you are. After all, everyone at AboutOne uses AboutOne, and we don’t want the hackers, phishers, scammers or anyone else including other members or our own team reading our private information either.

So, what are we doing about security? A lot. We use the same technologies and practices that banks and other financial institutions use to protect customer information. We even scoured the globe looking for the strictest security standards, and used them as the basis for how we store and transmit your information.

Here are just some of the things we do to keep your information safe and still easy to access from anywhere:

Data Center Security

• We use a state-of-the-art data center with firewalls, redundant hardware, redundant power sources, redundant battery backups, redundant cooling and redundant cabling, and video surveillance.
• Entrance is controlled by biometric authentication (things like fingerprint or retina scanning) & key card access and staff must pass these two-factor authentication points no fewer than three times to access data center floors.
• Facilities are nondescript and have no published address.
• They are built with military grade perimeter control beams in addition to other natural boundary protection–think ‘Fort Knox for the Internet.’

Server Security

• We use Verisign 128-bit SSL encryption to make your data impossible to read by anyone but you.
• We hack our own site daily. We scan our ports, test for SQL injection, and protect against cross-site scripting and we also use McAfee SECURE to continuously test AboutOne with the latest hacker tools and techniques to make sure we aren’t vulnerable.
• We apply bank-level data security standards. This includes encryption, auditing, logging, backups, and safe-guarding data.

Data Security

• Your information is backed up every hour. These back-ups are encrypted
• Passwords and account numbers are encrypted at rest so no one is able to every ready your password.
• To top it off, we have taken strict precautions to make sure that even AboutOne employees don’t have access to your information.  We also never share anything you enter with anyone unless you authorize it.
• We take all of this seriously, which is why we have hired TRUSTe to make sure that we honor our commitments to you.

Still not convinced? Fill out the contact form on the site  and AboutOne will  have a security specialist get back to you and answer all of your questions!

For more information check out our Privacy Policy.

DISCLAIMER: This product review was made possible by the Double Duty Divas.  I received a trial subscription for review purposes; all opinions are 100% mine.

THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO KRISTI, BROOKE, ALEX & CHRIS!

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• A/S/L Age/sex/location
• A3 Anyplace, anywhere, anytime
• AA As above
• AAF Always and forever
• AAMOF As a matter of fact
• CD9 Parents are Watching
• CD99 Parents are no longer Watching
• DOC means “Drug of Choice”
• MIRL means “Meet in Real Life”

The ebook includes a number of abbreviations that may be warning signs that your kids are chatting with strangers or engaging in dangerous online behavior.

“Parents have a responsibility to know what their children are doing and saying online,” said David Barker, spokesperson for TrueCare.net. “At TrueCare, our primary concern is keeping children safe from the dangers of online social networking. We’ve released I Don’t Know What My Kids Are Saying Online because we want to give parents easy access to this ever-changing language, so they can decode what their kids are saying to their friends.”

TrueCare is easy to use, respects the child’s privacy and offers parents valuable resources for protecting their children against online dangers like predators, cyber bullying, and harmful posts which could damage their reputation.

For more information on the company and its services please visit www.truecare.net or call 1-877-368-6390

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Mia My is a one-of-a-kind friendship jacket that allows girls to show off their unique personality and/or their best friends. It’s a stylish white blazer that comes with  four yummy scented colorful markers for the girl’s to decorate or for B.F.F.s to sign their chic jacket. And if they want to restyle their Mia My jacket, just toss it in the wash and the ink is gone!

Mia My asked me to review one of their jackets, but my 15-year-old shot me down. “I am NOT wearing any such thing,” she declared. I’m thinking it really is for the tween set and younger. So, I asked my neighbor’s adorable daughter, Ava, to put the product to the test. She was delighted to do so, and what you see here is her third design on the jacket. She wasn’t satisfied with her first two designs, so her Mom washed it and voila — ALL TRACES of the previous design were gone!

Ava loves the jacket because it provides an outlet for her creativity. And she has something that no one else at her school has. Plus, she has some ideas for decorating it for school spirit day, St. Louis Cardinal’s Day, various holidays, etc. What FUN!

What impressed me about the jacket was the quality of the design. It is constructed like a well-made designer piece. The fabric is thick, the seams are sturdy and the cut is tailored and stylish. It’s not the kind of quality construction you can find in just any children’s clothing — this is boutique-quality stuff.

What impressed Ava’s Mom was the fact that no matter how dark she colored her designs, they washed out easily in the laundry. She did say she thought the markers were “running out” rather quickly, but you can buy additional marker sets for $4.99.

The Mia My jacket comes in two different styles, the one you see Ava wearing in the above pictures is available in sizes 4, 5 and 6. And a teen size jacket that ties around the waist is available in sizes XS, S, M, L, and XL. The jackets sell for $49.99, so they are rather pricey for a birthday party favor, which is one idea suggested by the company. I’m sure that would make for some kind of fun birthday party activity, but it would be expensive. Of course, the birthday girl could perhaps receive the jacket as a gift, and then her friends could sign their birthday wishes onto her jacket, and that would be fun, too.

I personally think this would be a great birthday or Christmas gift, so if you’re starting your shopping early this year and want something unique, Mia My has my endorsement.

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That’s one of the reasons I love this bedroom by Studio M, home of some very talented folks in Tampa, Florida.

The combination of colors – the soft orange, spring green and hot pink – is perfect for a girl. I love the idea of the matching twin beds – great for a sleepover with a best friend.

Plus, there are so many fun elements: The pretty chandelier with just the right amount of crystal and glass. The pink wicker chair and bright green cushion. That magenta, fuzzy floor pillow and pink paper lantern. And of course those gorgeous painted wood beds with the little fish on the posts.

“My favorite room,” said Studio M’s Tom Wiebe. “It’s the ’surfer girl’ daughter’s room inside a 4,000 square foot luxury beach vacation residence on Reddington Beach, Florida.”

The wonderful beds are from Russell & Mackenna, where you can have pieces custom made with your choice of colors and finials. But you pay for it. These beds start at $2,160.

The dresser – with drawers, cubbies, glass knobs and a special paint finish – is also from Russell & Mackenna. The base cost of the dresser is also $2,600.

Studio M also found pieces for the room at the beautiful Maine Cottage.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a room like this for your kids? But not everyone can afford it!

Don’t fret. You don’t have to be a designer or spend a fortune to copy the idea – especially if you’re willing to do a little work yourself.

Here are some ways to try:

Start with some great wall colors.

I picked Hep Green and Tango from Sherwin-Williams but you can probably find something similar from almost any paint brand.

Pick up a simple, unfinished bed.

I found this FJELLSE bed at IKEA for just $39.99. It lacks the posts of the Studio M bed. But add some bright orange paint – spray it or roll it on – and you’ve got the base of a great room.

You could even add a couple little wooden fish from the craft store to the headboard. Leave them natural or paint in a contrasting color.

Find a bright pink quilt.

I picked this Tie Dye Bed In A Bag Comforter in Pink from Target because of its colors, particularly the touch of orange.

The Studio M room has floral spreads with green trim, but I think these also would look very young and hip. Also, the entire set – which includes the comforter, sheets and sham – is just $89.99. That’s hard to beat!

Look for an affordable wicker chair to paint.

My first suggestion would be to hit your favorite thrift store looking for a chair to paint. I think you could find something really close to the chair in the Studio M room and then hit it with some pink spray paint.

But if you’re going new and trying to save dollars, try this Wilson & Fisher Resin Wicker Stack Chair from Big Lots. It’s much simpler than the cute chair in the Studio M room but this one is $15!

I would paint mine with this Krylon Fusion for Plastic paint in watermelon. It’s a very different pink than the one in the Studio M room, but I think it would look good with the comforter I picked above and with my other paint colors.

Find a fun chandelier.

I love the Studio M chandelier. It doesn’t look like a piece made for a kids’ room. It looks like a foyer pendant and is really gorgeous.

I picked something a little less serious. This is the MINNEN chandelier from IKEA and is $19.99. It’s got some multi-colored beads and “crystals” and a single, simple light.

It’s not as glamorous as the one in our inspiration room but the price is right!

Pick the perfect floor pillow.

I’m really jealous of that fantastic, furry floor pillow in the Studio M bedroom. It’s so adorable and looks incredibly comfortable for hanging out on the floor.

I just couldn’t find anything like it.

So instead, I started looking at poufs on Etsy and found several that might look good in the room. There was a great, affordable one at the elevenEleven eE shop for $45.

But ultimately, I picked the bean bag chair at right from Paniolo’s shop on Etsy. It’s $130 but I think the beachy look and the flip-flop fabric would look cool with the rug I picked below.

Get a coordinating rug

The rug in the Studio M room is really cool and brings together all the fun colors in the room. I also love the shapes.

I found this Surfboard Rug in pink and green for $39.99 from Target. I think two of them would mimic the shapes on the Studio M rug while bringing an interesting element into the room.

Make/Buy a wall mirror.

This would be a great opportunity to buy a flea market mirror and paint it up to match the room. You could add some stars or buy some wood cutouts a the craft store to decorate your mirror.

If you don’t want to go that route, I found this cool BARNSLIG wall mirror at for $19.99 at IKEA. It’s a great color for the room…except that you might have to adjust which colors you paint which walls to make it pop. Fortunately, with all these colors going on, just about any adjustment will work!

Find a bargain on a paper lantern.

Since we’re shopping IKEA anyway, I’d pick up a pendant HEMMA cord set for $3.99 and then get this Parallel Ribbed Fuchsia 12-Inch Round Paper Lantern from Amazon for $5. Then I’d hang it from the corner of the room.

It’s certainly not the fun shape of the one in the Studio M room but the idea is the same and the price is right! It’s less than $10 for the light and doesn’t need to be hardwired.

Get creative with a dresser.

The dresser in this room is incredibly special and custom designed. That means finding a replacement would be tough. Once again, I’d  head to the thrift store to find a chest of drawers you could repaint — either with a solid color or by trying a special paint treatment.

With all the white trim in the room, you could also get a white dresser – I love this KOPPANG three-drawer dresser from IKEA for only $99- and you could spice it up with some fancy knobs.

I might try something like these pretty prism knobs for $10 each from Anthropologie or the fun seashell knob for $5 each from Cool Knobs and Pulls.

Finally…

It may seem intimidating, but I really think you could do it – without emptying your bank account or hiring a designer.

But, of course, that’s because we’ve got the fun Studio M room to copy! Thanks to the folks there – Michelle Jennings Wiebe, Tom Wiebe and Lisa Clark – for letting The Design File post the photo of the room and use it as our inspiration!

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Adoramapix photo books are printed on actual photo paper (Fujifilm Crystal Archive Album) so they have unbelievable color and detail, and the hard cover is thicker and the binding sturdier than any of my other photo books. Their unique binding system allows every page spread to lay flat without any gutter or unsightly seam to separate the pages. And you have complete control of what goes on the cover of the book — your photo can go edge to edge, front to back or spine.

When I made my first photobook at Adoramapix, I used one of the custom themes because I thought that would be the easiest way to learn the process. I made my second book “from scratch”  in that I designed it without a pre-designed theme , and I have to say I think I like that option better. But even if you choose a pre-designed theme, you can manipulate everything within that theme, so it’s still very customizable. Either way, here’s the basic process for making a book on Adoramapix and the things I like about the process:

Create a free account.

Choose Photo book and then Create a Book.

Choose the size (portrait, landscape or square, with sizes ranging from 6×4 to 12×12, 14 pages to 76 pages, prices ranging from $12.95 to 189.95)

Choose a theme or “build your own” from a blank book. (There are 39 different themes, including Baby Boy, Baby Girl, Wedding, Autumn, Gallery, Love, Portfolio, Guest Book, Recipe, Seniors, etc.)

Upload your pictures. I love that you can upload your pictures directly from Flickr, Picasa or your computer.

If you chose a blank book, you can now begin choosing backgrounds, stickers and banners. Or you can place your photos on pages and then go back and choose those things. If you chose a theme, you can simply begin putting your pictures into the pre-designated places for photos, or you can manipulate some of the layouts and designs to better suit your needs.  There is nothing you cannot change in the pre-designed themes.

Here are some other features to love about the Adoramapix process:

• You can easily crop your photos and pan your photos so that just the part you like shows up on the page.

• It’s super easy to add borders and frames around your photos, and you simply drag a slider to increase or decrease the point size of those borders and frames, or click on a color box to change the color.

• You can easily rearrange photos on pages, and rearrange the pages within the book.

• With just the click of a button, you can change the page background colors, and you can add stickers over the top of photos or click the “send backward” button to have them print behind a photo.

• You can copy and paste page layouts that you like, so that you don’t have keep “re-creating” a page style throughout the book.

• If  you discover as you are making your book that you need to add more photos, it is very easy to add pictures to the gallery with the click of a button.

• Adding text boxes is easy (click a button) and manipulating the text size, color, text box background and text orientation is even easier (click buttons on a text toolbar).

I was a little reluctant to share pictures of my photo book here for two reasons — 1) the photos I used to make the book were taken from very far away, without a flash, inside a natatorium, so the photo quality is less than perfect, and 2) Taking pictures of “less than perfect” pictures inside a book should be left for professional photographers.  Still, I wanted to share the book with you to give my excitement about the final product more validity. The book, which I made for my teenager whose high school swim team won state, is one of her prized possessions!

Downsides?:  The only downside I found to this program is that your book must have one of the pre-established number of pages (14, 26, 38, 50 or 76). You can’t have 21 pages, or 16 page, etc. In some other programs I’ve used, you can start with a “pre-determined” number of pages, but you can add pages one at a time. So, this is where the feature of being able to add photos to your gallery easily comes in handy.

Now, if you’d like to make a fantastic photo book (size of your choosing) at Adoramapix, enter the contest below:

Giveaway Guidelines

To win, visit Adoramapix then come back here and tell me  in the comment section below what on that landing page makes you want to try their photo book product.

Receive additional entries by doing any/all of the following, but be sure to leave a separate comment for each thing you do:

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This giveaway closes at 11:59 p.m. Central time May 28, 2010.  Be sure to include a valid email address with each of your entries. Winner will be randomly chosen via random.org and will be notified via email and announced on this post.

If winner does not claim prize by June 1, 2010, he/she will forfeit the prize to alternate winner who will be drawn at random.

U.S. &  Canada residents only, please.

THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATS TO KELLIE C., COMMENT #16.

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At The Design File, I love sharing the newest trends in colors. So I was eager to share Glidden Paint’s Top 10 color guide, which focuses on kids’ rooms and provides suggestions for nurseries to a teenager’s bedrooms.

“A bedroom or playroom is often one place in the house where a child or teen can inject their own style into the space, making it a true reflection of their individual personality,” said Barbara Richardson, director of color marketing services at Glidden. “The Top 10 Growing Up Colors offers a variety of classic and contemporary shades designed to stand the test of time and is sure to please kids of all ages.”

The room above by Glidden is painted Spring Green, described as a “refreshing, crisp green that reflects the outdoors and provides a feeling of nature.”

It’s so cute! The color is beautiful and room decor is very sweet and so DIYable!

Here are the other Growing Up colors by Glidden:

Blooming Fuchsia – A vibrant magenta designed to energize a youthful attitude in any bedroom.

Rich Navy – A deep blue designed to add a touch of boldness and adventure to a variety of settings. Rich Navy is shown at right.

Fresh Pink Lemonade – A refreshing springtime shade of pink that works well as an accent color in artwork, lamps, or painted accessories.

Sunbaked Orange – A glowing, warm, spicy color sure to enliven any space.

Sunbeam – a bright, cheery yellow reflects the sun’s warmth to create a cozy space. Sunbeam is shown at right.

Refreshing Mimosa – A creamy yellow color creates a cozy feeling. With a touch of red, this color can make any room feel warm and inviting.

True Turquoise – A daydreaming green-blue designed to create a serene environment.

Lilac Bouquet – a delightful and playful violet sure to please girls of all ages.

Blue Marina – Reminiscent of the shades of the ocean tide, this color creates a cool atmosphere in any room. Blue Marina is shown at right.

The Top 10 Growing Up color cards are available now in the Glidden paint color centers at The Home Depot stores nationwide. Consumers can also find the complete selection of Top 10 color palettes at www.glidden.com.

Want to see some other recent trends?

Check out these links…

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Home decor trends for 2010

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