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Sunday Savings, What’s your best Money Saving Tip? #giveaway
It’s Sunday and it’s the day that I set aside to scour the ads and collect coupons from the Sunday paper. I also go blog hopping and find the best deals at the pharmacy stores like Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS. When I looked in the paper, I saw that there are three things you can get free at Rite Aid this week. Contac Cold & Flu Get $4.99 SCR #33 (Limit 1) GE Soft White Light Bulbs, $2 Get $2 SCR #89 Theraflu, 4.99, Get $3 SCR ...
Fitness Friday – Fighting Depression
My Progress for last week was wonderful and with the small amount of movements I’ve been feeling better. I had my follow up with my doctor and I’ve been released. So I can do more movement and get my life back to normal. I took the kids for one to three walks every day rain or shine and I hate the rain I really do. I’ve been depressed because of the rain. I need some sunshine so I’m going to spend a few weeks in Texas. It’s rained for 15 days straight. I’ve ...
Alight.com Plus Size Clothing, Trendy Shirt #giveaway
Social Media has become the best way to advertise for on-line markets. I started following Alight.com on twitter and they contacted me. They are right on top of social media and I guess I grabbed their attention. Alight.com has decided to partner up with me for the next three months. Each month we are going to giveaway one shirt of their choice (not necessarily the one pictured) to one of my lucky readers. Alight.com makes plus size clothing come to life. They have the hottest trends that you can find in the junior section of any retail store. I’ve seen ...
Melissa & Doug’s Puppet Time Theater #Giveaway & Donation Sponsored by Gummy Lump
Gummy Lump is an on-line toy store, an on-line boutique high quality toy store. Many of the name brands they carry are from the top learning toy companies. They carry Alex, Crocodile Creek, Haba, and Schylling just to name a few. They have generously donated a Puppet Theater to my toy drive. I’m still collecting donations because I feel that giving should be all year round. We’re very grateful for this donation. The Melissa and Doug Puppet Theater is very high quality. Melissa and Doug makes most of their toys out of wood and keeps to the highest ...
Miles Loves to Wash his Hands
I’m working on potty training the kids and Miles isn’t quite as ready as I first thought he was. No problem, what he does love though, is washing his hands. All he wants to do is wash his hands every time we go to the bath room. So on his birthday, when we were getting ready to bake his cake; he had to was his hands and he just played in the water for quite a while. But it was so cute, it deserved a blog post!
Tropical Traditions Organic Coconut Peanut Butter Review and #giveaway
I’ve been trying different Tropical Traditions product for a few months now and the Organic Coconut Peanut Butter is by far my favorite. One, I love peanut butter and two, I love coconut milk and the combination is like magic. I want to eat the peanut butter straight from the jar. Tropical traditions is made from organic Peanut Butter and organic Coconut. There is nothing else in it, no sweeteners, no fillers, not binders and it’s perfect. Valencia peanuts grown organically by family farmers in New Mexico and Texas. Grown in the dry climate ...
Wash them grow with Suave Sweepstakes
I’ll be trying out some products from Suave. They will be sending me some new kids products to try out next week and I’m excited. My kids love to play in the bath tub and love to get all soapy. So it will be fun to share this experience with you guys. For now though, I have some great information for you. The Suave Kids “Wash Them Grow” Sweepstakes, offers awesome weekly prizes!!! And I have a huge request of you. The MomSelect blogger ...
Repax Reusable Grocery/Shopping Bags #giveaway
Going green is on everyone’s mind, even the mass merchandisers. Companies like Target are offering cents off for every reusable bag you bring in for shopping. Most grocery bags end up in the trash can and then in a land fill and it takes forever for them to decompose. So it’s very important to remember to bring in your reusable bags. Save money and the environment. Repax Bags are cute, stylish reusable bags that fold up super tiny so they are easily stored. They come four to a bag, and each one is a ...
Tinker Bell’s Disney Fairies Video Contest And Costume #giveaway
Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies are known for their diverse personalities and talents. To celebrate the recent DVD launch and Disney Channel television premiere of the newest Disney Fairies movie, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Disney Consumer Products is inviting all little girls to discover their fairy talent by creating a video with a parent to showcase their talent in the most creative way possible. All videos can be posted to www.youtube.com/disneyliving now through January 24, 2010, and one will be selected to win two Disney Fairies collector dolls (click here for complete Terms of Use & Rules ...
Donation from Aurora: YooHoo & Friends Valentine’s Day and Easter Pals #giveaway
February 8, 2010 · Filed Under giveaway · 117 CommentsAurora sent me a donation to send off to the charity of my choice and one to giveaway on my blog. They sent the YooHoo & Friends raccoon and fox.
Kids of all ages, young an old will enjoy the five and eight inch YooHoo & Friends characters. My son, especially loves the cute little sounds they make when you push on their little tummies. I had to snatch it right back out of his hands before he decided that it was his new toy. He sister already understood it was a donation so she was yelling at her brother, “It’s a donation bubbie”. 
The 2010 introductions include the brand new 24-inch original YooHoo & Friends in pink and blue (MSRP: $109.99), which are great for rounding out retail displays. A birthday assortment includes two styles and each plays the song “Happy Birthday” when squeezed (5”, MSRP $7.99).Aurora is another company that also includes a free, interactive Web site www.yoohoofriends.com with the purchase of one of the YooHoo & Friends plush animals. Actually, it doesn’t even require an activiation code. I encourage you to learn more about the YooHoo & Friends’ endangered animals.
“Fans everywhere write to tell us that the Web site makes learning about creatures in their natural habitats fun and entertaining for their children.”
When on the site, you can play games, download wallpapers, calendars and icons, watch previews for the upcoming YooHoo & Friends animations and adopt and raise YooHoo & Friends. The YooHoo & Friends are forest creatures and their story is set in a forest called Yootopia, which features the “Tree of Life.” Your kids can join YooHoo & Friends on magical journeys that teach them to value friendship, harmony, honesty and courage. Which are life lessons we all need to learn and practice.
For Valentines:
YooHoo Greetings” which combines the two most popular selling Valentine’s Day items – a plush toy and greeting card. Showing its soft side, Aurora’s “I Wuv U” Bears and “U Make Me Wild” Monkeys are sure to tug at the heartstrings of your special someone. Pearls Before Swine’s cheeky Valentine editions, based on the world famous comic strip, round out Aurora’s product highlights for its Valentine’s catalog.
Welcoming Spring and Easter, YooHoo & Friends are available in six styles sporting bunny ears (5”, MSRP $6.99). The graduation themed YooHoo & Friends are available in yellow, pink and blue; each makes a sound, holds a ribbon scroll and dons a graduation cap that reads, “Big Dreams” (5”, MSRP $6.99).
The YooHoo & Friends line also includes four “WannaBes” featuring YooHoo & Friends dressed as other popular animals – pig, bear, frog and panda. The Springtime WannaBes are available in three styles as either a pink or purple bunny or duck. WannaBes have removable hoodies (5” with sound, MSRP $8.99), and retailers will appreciate 12-piece display box for impulse buys. “YooHoo WannaBes encourage kids to play, pretend and exercise their imaginations, which is reinforced as they head over to the virtual world of yoohoofriends.com,” Kessler says.
For Easter:
For Easter, Aurora’s bestselling YooHoo & Friends, one of the world’s most popular selling plush lines, is available in six styles and welcome Spring sporting bunny ears (5” with sound, MSRP $6.99). The cute and creative mischief-making YooHoo & Friends WannaBes are available in three styles as either a pink or purple bunny or duck. Each features bright colors with removable hoodies (5” with sound, MSRP $8.99). Retailers will appreciate YooHoo & Friends being sold as part of the 12-piece display box.
There are four new styles joining the Dreamy Eyes line whose cast of characters already includes Bashful the Rabbit, Loveable the Lamb and Dewie the Duck (10”, MSRP $11.99). New for Easter 2010 are the five-inch bee, butterfly and frog – each makes a funny sound when squeezed (MSRP $6.49).
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Give me Smiles on my Cozi JournalThe contest will run until Feb 22 nd 11:59 pm Pacific. The winner will be selected by www.random.org. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.
Aurora sent two plush, one for donation and the other for me to send to the giveaway winner.
Aurora – photo editing software giveaway
April 23, 2009 · Filed Under giveaway · 204 Comments
* Aurora is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that suggests the improvements you see in the pop-up image selector. It’s as easy as clicking on the improved image you like best.
* The unique Relight feature is like turning on a light bulb inside your photograph. Aurora can detect where your photograph needs more light, and where it doesn’t, and it will naturally relight your image. (You can see in the attached before-and-after image that shows how you can transform an image where half of someone’s face is in a shadow).* When you save your edited image, you are NOT saving over the original. Aurora is non-destructive. It will save your edited file with the same name as the original plus an “_au” at the end of the file name so you know which is the edited version. This is a nice feature so that you can keep your originals for future editing (or other needs).
* Log in to Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug or other social media accounts from within Aurora. That will sync Aurora to your social media account and then enable you to edit photos you have on Flickr in Aurora, automatically updating the version on Flickr. Pretty cool!
There was a very positive review on Imaging Resource which is a website for amateur photographers.
"Aurora is the answer for intuitive photo editing," said Tracey Clark, photographer (www.traceyclark.com), mom and founder of ShutterSisters.com. "I love its unique way of presenting editing options. In my experience using the software, Aurora makes it easy for anyone to improve and beautifully enhance their images."
About Light Crafts, Inc.
Light Crafts, Inc. is a company that believes everyone’s photos should look great and that getting them to look that way should be simple. Light Crafts’ patent-pending image processing technology powers Aurora, the powerfully simple photo editing, organizing and sharing software, and the award-winning LightZone(TM) digital image editing application suite. Light Crafts was founded in 2004 by Fabio Riccardi. The company is privately-funded and based in Palo Alto, California. For more information about Light Crafts and Aurora, please visit www.lightcrafts.com.
My Opinion on Aurora
The software is made by Light Crafts downloaded and stalled with no problems. Then when I opened it it took a long time before I could do anything. I know it was because it actually indexed all of my photos and we have tons, we’ve been completely digital since the birth of my daughter and take 1,000s of pictures.
I was a bit impatient and tried to do some editing before it was done and it crashed on me. However, when I opened it again it worked just fine. This software is not something that I would purchase and that’s because we already own Photoshop.
However, I like it and will recommend it because it is cheaper than Photoshop and it indexes your photos(organizes), you can easily add comments and tags to your photos. You can edit the photos and it doesn’t copy over your original photo. I am happy to have a copy of it now.
It has limitations in what it does, you can’t add graphics or make it look like Kim Anderson art. You can just make adjustments, sepia, black and white and the aurora setting is pretty cool. The enhancements are much better than what you can do with the on-line places.
Best of all is automatically uploading the photos from within the program.
Aurora’s powerfully simple solution not only edits
photos, but it has sophisticated tools to help organize
photos; online back-up services to help keep photos
safe; and Aurora makes sharing photos easy with photo
publishing tools and photo sharing capabilities with
sites like Flickr and Facebook.
Aurora believes that everyone’s photos should look
great, and that getting them to look that way should be
simple.
Aurora is available to download & buy online for
$19.95
OriginalWin it:
I have ten copies to give away. Visit Lights Crafts and tell me what you learn on the site.
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