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Getting Crafty with Cricut
Craft Lake City hosted an event recently with Cricut that my friend Aimee and I decided to attend. It took a bit to find the right location but once we arrived we were able to get our craft on. The project was making a recipe box and cards with the Cricut machine.
Here is the Cricut in action, cutting the paper I had chosen for my recipe box
Nathan from Cricut working in Cricut Craft Room. He is probably adding owls to my recipe cards. Hehe
Here are some of the recipe cards on the left and on the right is a piece of the recipe box.
Here are the completed boxes! Mine is on the left and Aimee's is on the right. It was a little tricky at first to figure out how to fold them right to make a box but we had some good people helping us and it didnt take us too long to put together. All in all a really fun project and I cant wait to write some recipes on my cards.
What have you made on your Cricut machine lately or what would you make if you had one?
What have you made on your Cricut machine lately or what would you make if you had one?
"Monsters University" Products GIVEAWAY by Crest & Oral-B Pro-Health!
Monsters Can Be Fun and So Can Trips to the Dentist With These Tips from America's ToothFairy! Fear of the unknown can have a negative impact on a child’s feelings toward their dental visits. Ensuring that your child is familiar with the dental practice and the people that are going to help them keep their smile healthy will ease their fears and make the dental visit go smoothly.
- Visit the dentist with your child prior to their first appointment. Help your child understand what to expect on their visit by taking a tour of the practice and asking the dental assistant or dental hygienist to explain what will be done and demonstrate how each instrument will be used. Not only will this help ease your child’s fears, but it also creates a wonderful learning opportunity!
- For slightly order children, bring them along to observe your routine dental cleaning and exam. This will allow them to ask questions, see how each instrument will be used, eliminate potential fears by observing your experience and help them understand the importance of practicing good oral health behaviors. (Contact your dental office prior to your appointment to advise them that your child will be with you.)
- Regular dental visits will enable your child to develop a sense of familiarity and comfort with the dental team and practice as well provide vital preventive care necessary for a healthy smile.
- Reinforcing concepts such as daily brushing and flossing, by posting a calendar and rewarding your child a gold star or sticker for every day of excellent oral care. Help get your child excited about their next dental visit by bringing the calendar with you to show the dentist.
- Allow your child to bring their favorite toy or blanket with them on their dental visit to give them an added sense of security and comfort.
- Reading can have a soothing and calming effect on your child. Bring their favorite book to read to them during their dental appointment.
- Let your child wear a costume on their dental visit. This special treat can help them view going to the dentist as a fun activity.
Be positive about going to the dentist. Avoid grumbling about your own dental appointments and help your child understand that going to the dentist helps them keep their smiles healthy! This is important because after all, the ToothFairy likes to collect healthy teeth!
Win a BluApple! Giveaway!!
In an effort to stay healthier we've started to eat at home more. This has been a struggle for us for YEARS! Along with eating healthier is buying produce. Some produce likes to go bad faster than others, and its a lot of wasted money. Wasted money just frustrates me. Part of our eating at home efforts are to save money as well. The BluApple product from Aureus Product Innovations can help us out!
They sent me one of their products to test out. Go visit their website HERE.
We immediatly put these cute little things to work! We put one in the crisper in the refrigerator and the other on the counter where we keep some fruits at times. It used to be our produce would go bad in a day or two. Some things we've had in there a week, and its still good! This helps me, so I don't have to go to the store EVERY SINGLE DAY, and spend more money on food that I probably won't eat. :) So if you've ever wished you could keep your produce around a little longer, then these are for you! Read a little bit about them below, and then visit their site, and enter the giveaway for more information as well!
**Here’s a quick explanation of how the Bluapple works:
Ethylene gas is given off by all living plants, especially by fruits, vegetables and flowers, and acts as a chemical signal to speed up the ripening process. The release of this gas is thought to be a mechanism by which plants promote uniform ripening or opening, etc. In nature, the uniformity of these events attracts the maximum number of pollinators or seed disseminators, such as birds and insects. At home, however, when you store your fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator, ethylene gas builds up. As a result the ripening process is accelerated too quickly. This is a major reason we all throw out so much spoiled produce!
The Bluapple is based on technology that has been used in ships, warehouses and trucks for many years to absorb and neutralize ethylene gas buildup. The Bluapple does not release any gas or chemical, but only absorbs, constantly removing this harmful gas from your produce storage area. The Bluapple is not a "magic" pill, but a scientific and essential part of keeping produce fresh. When produce was cheap, no one cared, but as prices have risen, it became apparent that a very beneficial product for the home could make a huge difference.
There are three key elements to long produce life: a) temperature - keeping produce cold; b) humidity - using vented plastic bags to keep a moist, but not wet environment; c) ethylene gas management - using the Bluapple. Disruption of any one of these elements will cause premature spoilage.
It may interest you to know that we provide a money back guarantee, which we are proud to honor. After selling many hundreds of thousands of Bluapples, they have processed less than 50 refund requests, to each of whom they have written a letter.
BluApple has put together a very informative post about why their product is important to use. If you would like that file sent to you, leave your e-mail in the rafflecopter below, and when the contest is over, I will email it out to you. It was very informative for me to read as a produce consumer. I was amazed by all the things I learned in it.
BluApple is offering my 3 of my Readers one package of these awesome little things! If you don't want to wait to find out if you've won, you can buy them HERE!
Enter the Giveaway Right Here!!! 3 Winners Will be chosen!!
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Aimee from Aim's Creations received this product for review in exchange for this post. Her opinions are 100% her own. Aim's Creations and Nite Owl Creates are not responsible for shipping. Any questions can be directed towards http://aimscreations.com
Free TechTots Classes at Microsoft
If you live in Utah you might have heard that Microsoft recently opened a new store out at the City Creek Mall in SLC. There is something really cool happening that your kids can get involved in and learning - for free - more about technology and all it can do for them. This class is focused more for kids ages 2-5 and the store become a "hands-on, interactive playground" for kids and their parents. The classes are about an hour long.
They will be Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 10-11am.
Includes:
1. A fun class in our family-friendly theater
2. A special giveaway for each parent
3. Snacks during class
4. Discount cards for each attendee for up to 10% off qualified purchases in-store
To register for a TechTots class, visit www.microsoftstore.com/
Family Share
I recently learned about a website called familyshare.com which holds a wealth of information. For reals! You can read about topics such as love, marriage and pregnancy, to family, life and spirituality. A little something for everyone!
This is basically what you'll see when you go to the website. On the left hand side is a list of categories you can click to learn more about and the stories in the middle are what is currently being featured.
I checked out a couple topics that interested me, the first one was Life Challenges because I feel like I have had a lot of those lately (but also feeling very blessed lately too) and this link talks about topics such as divorce, disability, conflict, disaster...one of my favorite links was to a story I have been following on Facebook for awhile now, Mitchell's Journey. Here's a link to the story on Family Share.
Next I checked out Personal Growth, because that is something I can always be working on. I read some good articles about having balance in life and creating possibilities. This section is definitely one I will be checking out again.
There is a new section of the site called Share Love where you can send an e-card to someone that you love and care about. I like it a lot, check it out here Use it for Mother's Day, Father's Day or any occasion!
When you join family share (you dont have to to read the articles) you can login with Facebook or an email address. This way you can share your own story. If you click on the Answers tab you can ask a question or search through the Q & A's. Pretty interesting to read stuff in this section too.
Check out this Family Share site and let me know what you think. What article did you read about that you found interesting?
Win For Your Mom! (Giveaway)
Mother's Day is coming up and even if you are not a mom to your own children you can be a mom to other people's kids - that counts too! Utah's Best Vacation Rentals is having an awesome giveaway where your mom could win a 2 night stay in a vacation rental property, a massage and $50 to dinner at Madeline's Steak House (super delicious!) You'll want to enter quick because the contest is over really soon.
You can enter the contest here ==> Utah's Best Vacation Rentals
Must be 21 or older to enter.
Offer is not compatible with any other offer
Cannot be combined and is not retroactive to any current booking.
Winner will be notified by email or phone on May 11th, 2013.
Winner will have until May 31st, 2013 to book the vacation home.
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