In Kind Hair Care, Facial Care, Hand Care and Body Care made from Natural Ingredients Giveaway

I wonder how many times this year you’ll see me say, “oh how I love to take a bath” or something along those lines. I love taking baths and trying out new bath time products. Between this blog and using coupons and sales, I haven’t purchased shampoo for myself in three years. (oops, last time I went to the salon I did buy a shampoo, ‘cause I thought I needed a color safe shampoo (all the good that did)). Aside from that, I’ve tried quite a few products and this is the first product that my husband actually said something about.

He said I smelled really nice!

Which products did I use that day?

I used the new In Kind products from Safeway. You may already know that Safeway is a leader in healthy living products like O Organics™ and Bright Green™. Because of their desire to improve healthy living Safeway is proud to announce entrance into the natural, personal care category with In-Kind™ for the body, hair, face and hands. Developed by leading category experts, In-Kind is a comprehensive line of natural products that deliver nurturing personal care from head to toe that smells delicious. 

Safeway In Kind Personal Care ProductsI received the Daytime Facial Firmer with shea butter, Sensitive Body Lotion with aloe and chamomile, Moisturizing Shampoo with sunflower seed extract, and Natural Hand Soap with mint and green tea extract to review.

The In-Kind line is exclusively available at the Safeway family of stores, including: Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick’s, Carrs/Safeway, Randalls, Tom Thumb and Genuardi’s. It features 30 new, affordable products that contain natural ingredients including grapefruit, cucumber and mint extracts as well as coconut, rosemary and olive oils. These products effectively cleanse, moisturize and nurture the body, while protecting it from harsh chemicals and synthetic colors that can be harmful to the body and damaging to the environment.

In-Kind uses a unique system called Oleosome Technology that naturally provides more effective moisturization without emulsifiers that can cause skin irritation.

That’s important to me because I have extra sensitive skin, my face being the most sensitive of all. Each of the products that I tried had a different smell and each one reminded me of the ingredients it was made with. One of my favorite scents is coconut and the shampoo smelled beautifully tropical with that coconut flavor.

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Enter to Win:

In-Kind spa package filled with all the same great products that I tried (Daytime Facial Firmer with shea butter, Sensitive Body Lotion with aloe and chamomile, Moisturizing Shampoo with sunflower seed extract, and Natural Hand Soap with mint and green tea extract), as well as Facial Foaming Gel with grapefruit extract and Exfoliating Facial Scrub with rosemary

To Enter:

Leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite natural scent is.

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I Need Help What To Wear? Boots or Heels?

I’m attending the red carpet premier of Gnomeo and Juliet with Elton John and 14 other bloggers on behalf of Disney and I want to dress appropriately. We have three days of events and the dress code is

Friday, 1/21 – Casual attire.

Saturday, 1/22 – “Nice” casual attire.

Sunday, 1/23 – “Nice” attire (the actual red carpet event which is an afternoon premier so we were told to leave the ball gowns at home, but since I never get to dress up I’m tempted to wear one anyways)

So I’m going to be looking at my friends and their closets for help. But I did go out shopping with the kids the other day and I bought a dress, but I went really safe so if it’s not red carpet approved by you guys then I’ll wear it on the day before. I just need to know what category the dress falls into and if you like the boots or the heels better?

This Dress is from Karen Millen

The Boots are from Camper: (300.00 shoes I purchased for 20.00)

Karen Miller Dress with Boots

 

Again the Dress is Karen Millen

The Heels are  from ClarksKaren Miller Dress with Heels

Help me please?

Should I look for anther dress?

Should I wear the boots or the heels?

I’m taking the dress with me on the trip no matter what, the question is do I wear this dress on Day to as Nice Casual or day three, nice!???

Live Healthy This New Year Choose You Giveaway

ACS_Choose-You-Woman-Image_thumbI made no resolutions this year. Sitting on the couch thinking of all the things that needed improvement I felt that they only way to really make a difference in my life would be to just change gradually by making life long choices. I have decided to cook more greens, eat a lot of salad and just make the whole family more active by being more active myself.

Resolutions just don’t work!

Life Changes do! Because behind a life choice, you choose you!

I was contacted on behalf of the American Cancer Society to help raise awareness on the fight against breast cancer. Remember back to October and you saw breast cancer awareness everywhere right? Well, women are affected by breast cancer every day, it is a year long fight and takes a daily commitment.

CY_logo_thumbIn 2010, 40,023 deaths are expected from breast cancer. Recent reports have created a lot of confusion in women about mammograms and breast health, so the American Cancer Society is helping women turn what they know about breast cancer into what they can DO about it, by joining the Choose You movement.

At this time, the best defense against breast cancer is detecting and treating it as early as possible, and women can pledge to do so by logging on to ChooseYou.com and making a commitment to get a mammogram. Women can also commit to other preventative steps like maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active and limiting alcohol intake.

CY-Woman-Working-Out_thumbChooseYou.com will provide support tools for women to help them fulfill their commitment like an online mammogram reminder, breast health e-kit with tips and information on how to prevent breast cancer, a “Mammograms Matter” video, among other available resources.

I urge you to make a change in your life, resolve to live better with healthy choices in the new year. And, if you go and make a Choose You Commitment before January 31st you will be eligible to enter for a chance to win a fitness trip to Los Angeles with a celebrity trainer, gift cards, and more!

Enter to Win:

A Choose you Gift Pack!

including workout kit (with pedometer and calorie counter, resistance band and jump rope), a Choose You t-shirt and flower pin.  You can keep one for your own use, or use both for a giveaway.  Estimated value of each prize pack is $30.00.

To Enter:

Leave a comment telling me what your healthy lifestyle changes are for 2011.

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Fancy Makeup Giveaway

Wearing makeup is not something I do everyday, even though it wouldn’t hurt. Wearing it would protect my face from the sun giving me an even complexion and you never know who a blogger might meet on any random day. HA HA! I only wear it when I’m going out somewhere fancy but I do love to look at it. I love to have it. It’s kind of funny. Zoe loves makeup too. She loves to look at it and play with it, and would just go CRAZY with excitement if I allowed her to wear it. Every time we go to Rite Aid she is looking over at the make up aisle with her brother. How does an excitement for makeup transfer to a child when I never wear it. I have it hidden in a drawer, and I don’t let her have any. Maybe that’s the key…

I don’t let her have any.

Well, please don’t tell my little girl that I’m hosting another makeup giveaway!

Annie’s Costumes is part of The Extreme Halloween Network. This network, also houses  professional grade make up. Stage And Theater Makeup up has to hold up under lights so you can expect great quality from these brands, and just like the variety in costumes that you can find, there is a great deal of variety in their make up

This month we are featuring their Aura Bronzing Gel and Velvet Finish Primer

Enter to Win:

Aura Bronzing Gel: 

Aura Bronzing Gel

A unique, lightweight bronzing gel for all over body coverage, gives skin a beautiful, even natural-looking glow, mimics the look of a day in the sun without the damaging effects, provides soothing comfort, and ease of application. Contains a "super-hydrating/skin-smoothing" extract blend of Lemongrass, Ginseng, Chamomile, Comfrey, Cucumber , Aloe Vera gel, and Japanese Green Tea, plus a generous helping of golden-bronze shimmer. Use alone or mix in foundation for a natural, radiant glow. Compliments all skin tones. Oil-free and Paraben-free. 1 fl. oz. (30ml)

or

 

Velvet Finish Primer:

velvet_finishVelvet Finish Primer Serum is the result of intensive research by the Mehron Team. Realizing that Vitamin C is a powerful anti-oxidant but not a stable ingredient in skin care products, the researchers and chemists at Mehron got to work and formulated a fully stabilized Vitamin C Complex that resists normal breakdown from air, heat and moisture.

Of course the world renowned makeup folks at Mehron didn’t stop with just a Vitamin C serum, they added Aloe Vera Extract and Vitamin E to their complex Vitamin C formula to give Velvet Finish Primer Serum the ability to heal, soothe, and hydrate the skin. The proprietary formula of New! Velvet FinishPrimer Serum creates a smooth even skin texture which can be worn alone or under a Mehron foundation, such as Mehron’s Celebré Professional m Make-Up.

Use Velvet Finish Primer Serum everyday to combat the effects of pollution and aging. The powerful antioxidant formula of Velvet Finish Primer Serum helps increase production of collagen and decreases the look of fine lines and pigmentation that are the result of aging.

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Tell me which of the two you want to win.

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A Year of Scentsy Scented Candle Bars Giveaway

A friend of mine from high school asked me if I wanted to host a giveaway for her and I said yes. I haven’t seen her in over 13 years, but thanks to social media, the internet, and all that Jazz, I’ve been reacquainted with her. Isn’t that awesome? Anyways, she is a Scentsy rep and I LOVE things that smell good especially candles, but since we’ve had kids we haven’t been lighting the candles. We just don’t want an accident to happen so we avoid it all together. Well, guess what, that’s what is nice about using a Scentsy warmer. There is no candle. So…..

We are having a Scentsy Giveaway! We want to give YOU the gift of FREE Scentsy! Do you never win anything? Are you always thinking that online contests are scams? Well fear not! We are giving away $50 of FREE Scented Candle Bars this month to welcome in the New Year! You choose what twelve (12) Scent Bars you want… and WIN!

Here’s the catch – You MUST Follow all rules below to be eligible and you must LIST which 12 scented candle bars you’d choose! Make sure to tell all your friends to enter & follow our rules below so they can enter to win also!

Scentsy Scented Candle Bars

Scentsy Scented Candle Bars

Enter to Win:

Win 12 Free Bars of Scented Candles – one for Each Month of 2011!

To Enter

1. Please make a comment BELOW on THIS POST telling us which 12 Bars you’d want! You can view all of the Candle Bars in our Fall/Winter catalog online at http://sherraogden.scentsy.us to make your selections! Not redeemable for cash…only for Scentsy Candle Bars.

2. Please provide your name and email address so we can contact you if your name is drawn. (Your email address will NOT be displayed publicly)

3.Subscribe to the Scentsy monthly newsletter.

4. Only one entry allowed, per person, each month. Contest open to all residents of USA, Canada, Puerto Rico &; Guam (excludes existing Scentsy Consultants – Please DO NOT enter!)

 

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“Like” Scentsy Facebook Fan page.  (You can also win/earn extra Freebies from our Facebook Site, Free Samples and updates on our products!

For the chance to earn one other Additional Contest Entry, follow Sherra on twitter @bakingupchaos and tweet: "$50 in Scentsy scented candle bars #giveaway @momstart  http://bit.ly/gRd4dh from @bakingupchaos – sign up and retweet"

Please contact us at http://sherraogden.scentsy.us for more information on our Products and/or Joining our Scentsy Team!

Happy New Year!

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Story Time: Madeline at the White House Book Giveaway

Wow, this book showed up this morning, Zoe tore into it, crawled into my lap and asked me to read to her. Oh how I love my daughter so much!

We’ve been watching all of the Madeline DVD’s that we’ve received, so I’m familiar with the storyline, but what I didn’t expect was

how much I enjoyed reading it to her. The story is in a rhyme and just flows. Surprisingly the story ended quickly because it was so fun to read. We greatly enjoyed it.

Madeling at the Whitehouse Book CoverAbout the Book

Welcome to America, Madeline!

Madeline and friends are off to enjoy a wonderful American adventure. The White House in Washington, D.C., is their destination, where they are the guests of the president’s lonely only daughter for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Cake and ice cream, dress-up games, and scary stories told in the dark are capped off by a magical nighttime tour of the capital’s most famous landmarks, before it’s time for the twelve little girls in two straight lines to say, “Au revoir, America!”

The Story Behind the Book

“The idea for sending Madeline to the White House was my grandfather’s and grew out of his friendship with Jacqueline Kennedy. In a series of letters from late 1961 and early 1962, my grandfather sounded out the First Lady on ideas for the book, which he proposed calling “Madeline visits Caroline,” with text from Mrs. Kennedy herself. My grandfather died in 1961, before the book was finished.”          – John Bemelmans Marciano, author and illustrator of Madeline at the White House and grandson of Madeline creator Ludwig Bemelmans


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Madeline at the White House (3 winners)

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Have you ever Flipped? Flipped Movie Review

The fun of a young romance is enchanting. I’ll tell you a cute little story about my husband and I. We met in college, so it’s not as cute as the movie you see described below, but it was still fun for us. The story goes..

When I was in college I worked none-stop paying for college as I went. One of my many jobs was as campus tech support. I was in training for one particular building. I went into that building on an assignment and I couldn’t figure out how to get the machine on and yes that made me feel really dumb. Andrew walked by, or I found him in another room, I can’t really remember that detail very well, but he helped me turn on the computer and left. I remember thinking about that a lot and that he probably thought I wasn’t going to last long. It turns out, I made no impression on him at all.

I worked with him in different ways every Friday for an entire semester.

One Friday, he brought in a really cool Star Wars movie set that he purchased and was showing it off to everyone. I had to ask him if I could look at it too. It was like I wasn’t even there for him.

As I said, this went on for an entire semester.

So then..

I no longer worked there…

We went on a Computer Trip with a bunch of other people

And something Flipped!

Suddenly, we both really saw each other and he finally noticed me.

Flipped is a bit different because it’s more about young love. Two kids coming of age and one of them took longer to notice the other. It’s a cute movie and I recommend it.

Flipped Movie Box ArtFlipped” is directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Rob Reiner & Andrew Scheinman, and is based on the novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. It’s a wonderful coming of age story about the lessons of friendship and family – about first love, identity, communication, standing up for a cause and acceptance of others. These are themes important to tweens and kids, and, of course, their mothers.

When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it’s love. But Bryce isn’t so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm’s length… for the next six years, which isn’t easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. But if Juli finally looks away, will it be Bryce’s turn to be dazzled? “Flipped” takes Bryce and Juli from Grade School to Junior High, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are – and who they are to each other.

 

 

I received the movie listed above for review on this post.

Dallas Season 14 The Complete and Final Season

You know, TV has changed so much since the days of Dallas. As a child, Dallas was one of those shows that was considered to be, not quite appropriate for me to watch, but since the whole family watched it, grand parents included, I was allowed to watch it. Now, a show like this would be OFF LIMITS to my children because it would never be as decent as Dallas was. Dallas was great.

Dallas Final Season DVD Cover ArtIn the midst of all that rambling, I hope you can tell that I think Dallas is decent television.

Synopsis: In its 14th and final season, Dallas goes out in a gusher of murders and kidnappings, lies and blackmail, seductions and schemes. J.R., Bobby and Cliff – three original characters so big only Big D could hold ’em – are at the heart of the action, surrounded by oil-country folks who joined the series over the years and a passel of dynamic newcomers. And of course there’s that Dallas hallmark, a white-knuckle cliffhanger. This time it’s a two-part finale inspired by It’s a Wonderful Life in which J.R.’s guardian from the great beyond shows the Lone Star State’s meanest rattler what the world would have been without him. Think everything’s for the better? Then you’re in for some surprises!

Available on DVD:       January 18th Dallas: The Complete Fourteenth Season

“Family Dinner” Clip

 

 

I would be happy to watch Dallas from Season one to Season 14 without interruption. Well, I mean a few episodes every night until I’ve seen the entire run. Who was your favorite character on Dallas?

ER The Complete Fourteenth Season

ER was a bit of an addiction to me every Thursday night for years. I watched every season without fail using a DVR when I knew I had to work or was busy. Even in college, I would watch ER instead of doing the responsible thing like homework, as I said I was obsessed. Of course it changed a lot by the 14th Season, half of the cast had changed, and the doctors even made jokes about remembering who used to work there. Look out, because here comes Season 14 of ER on DVD.

Oh and I’m slightly ashamed to mention that I was so very addicted that I would watch season back to back over and over again on TNT.

ER: The Complete fourteenth Season

1000168260DVDLEFSynopsis:  At an ER party, Nurse Chuny Marquez recalls, “I still remember when Mark Green and Doug Ross were running the place.” “Who?” asks a newcomer. So much has happened in 14 seasons, so many people have come and gone, but the chaos of saving lives and the dedication of the people who make County General run remain. In this penultimate season of the powerful, award-winning series, personal tragedies threaten – and sometimes strengthen – relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman arrives in the ER expecting her 13th baby. Triumph, loss, tears, joy…next!

Available on DVD:       January 11th

The Cute Kid:

 

A product was received free of charge from the company Warner Brothers in exchange for this post. Yes I love, love loved ER.

Discount Code for Mickey’s Magic Show Comcast Arena in Everett

800 x 600 Art Sharing discount codes from Comcast Arena has been quite a pleasure for me. Kids get to go out and have a blast watching their favorite characters up on stage and their mommies and daddies get to save money while using the on-line discount code. Today’s Discount Code is for Mickey’s Magic Show use MOM in the promotion section at Comcast Arena.

Get ready to watch the All New Disney Live! Presents Mickey’s Magic Show at Everett’s Comcast Arena.

 

When: Sunday, January 23 – 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm

What: Abracadabra! In a captivating combination, Master Magician Mickey Mouse, the always-dazzling Minnie, and a host of Disney friends join forces with professional illusionists to perform magic from legendary Disney films right before your eyes. Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show features grand illusions and favorite Disney characters, including Donald and Goofy; Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother; Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter; and beloved Disney princesses Jasmine, Belle and Snow White.

From the breathtaking levitation of Minnie and Aladdin’s Princess Jasmine, to the Fairy Godmother transforming Cinderella’s rags into a beautiful ball gown in a split second, Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show gives families a whole new way to experience Disney Magic. Adults and children alike will delight in this stunning spectacle that will keep them in awe from opening to the curtain call.

Tickets: Tickets ($19, $26, $31, Front Row $49) are on sale Monday, October 18 at 10 am at the Comcast Arena at Everett Box Office, online at www.comcastarenaeverett.com, or by calling 866-332-8499. All tickets subject to agency convenience charges. Groups of ten or more, call 425.322.2609.

 

Here is the information regarding the discount on tickets to Mickey’s Magic Show:

Valid: NOW – Saturday, January 22 at 10:00 pm

Use the Code: MOM

Price Levels: P3 ($26) and P4 ($19)

Offer: 4 tickets for $44

Available: At the Comcast Arena Box Office or online

Enter to Win:

One family 4 pack of tickets to Mickey’s Magic Show.

To Enter:

Just leave a comment here telling me if you want to see the 12:30 pm or 3:30 pm on January 23rd.