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How Zoe’s Addiction to Her Nails Spread with Klutz Nail Art #KlutzBooks

November 15, 2012 by Momstart 9 Comments

With The six water-based, non-toxic, peel-off paints, girls like Zoe can decorate their nails with any design imaginable bumblebees, berries, butterflies, bears, and baseballs…and that’s just the beginning. From apples to zigzags, there’s something here to please even the most finicky fingertips and her were never finicky.

Klutz contacted me asking if I wanted to be a Holiday ambassador and offered me a list to choose from on that list was the Klutz Nail Art book. I NEEDED this book so I could be more creative in painting her nails. Usually it’s just enough for me to get her nails painted at all, I mean, it’s hard for me to put everything that I’m working on down to paint her nails. TERRIBLE I know, but having this book has made it easier. I’m inspired when I can be creative. I LOVE ART!

So I made candy corn nails on her toes. There were a lot of Halloween options in the Nail Art book, actually there were options for everything. Christmas, stripes, and anything under the sun, the sun included.

To Make the candy corn,

Apply a Yellow strip of polish

Apply a orange/red strip of polish

Apply a White tip to each nail

Then she painted her grandmother’s toes and I think she did a fantastic job. She’s only five years old.

She just loves doing her nails, she loves it more than I do, but with these paints I feel comfortable letting her do it herself.

There are 60 pages recommended for ages 8 and up. The nail polish that comes with the Nail Art kit is easily peeled off. This can be an advantage or disadvantage, depending on your point of view. It does make changing the nail fashions quicker and easier. The polish was a good consistency for nail artwork though. We had so much fun.

Be sure to enter to win your own books. The prizing of the WRAP IT UP SWEEPSTAKES changes out every Monday featuring new themes touching on the wide variety of titles Klutz has to offer – Science, Games, Classic Crafts, Holidays and more! The weekly sweeps start every Monday and fans can enter through November 26.

I’m a Klutz Brand Ambassador and received books to review, test out and share my results and will also be compensated for my time. This doesn’t affect my opinion of the brand at all because I’ve loved using Klutz for years!!!

Fingerprint Fabulous & The Most Amazing Thumb Doodles Book #KlutzBooks

November 8, 2012 by Momstart 10 Comments

Again, like I mentioned last month I went overboard when it came to KlutzBooks and purchased more than they sent me to review. I purchased the Fingerprint Fabulous and The Most Amazing Thumb Doodles Book for Miles and Zoe. Why? Because I knew it would spark creativity in both of my kids. They started creating mermaids, robots and crazy stories and names for their creations. Then they started getting super duper silly with the giggles and had a great time for a few hours of creating.

Miles made awesome robots

And vegetables.

And Zoe made Mermaids

And dogs, creative dogs

And of course we had lots of very dirty fingers!

In this video Miles and Zoe show off their creations and why they like doing art projects and crafts.

We purchased these two books.

Fingerprint Fabulous is a glamorous take on one of our favorite art forms: thumbprint drawing. We provide three ink pads — purple, green, and, of course, pink — plus a black felt-tip pen. And really that’s all you need to transform ordinary fingerprints into pretty kitties, poodle puppies, hairstyles, butterflies, a festive squad of cheerleaders, and more. Inside the book, along with our legendary instructions and inspiration, we include four tear-out greeting cards, glitter glue, and 100 tiny sequins.

Comes With: 3 ink pads (pink, purple, green), 1 black marker pen, glitter glue, sequins, tear-out greeting cards

The Most Amazing Thumb Doodles Book

Create awesome artwork with your thumb as a paintbrush and ink pads as paint. For the finishing touch, add some personality with a few pen strokes. All these tools (except the fingers) come with the book in a convenient, reclosable, storage case. And when your thumbs need a rest, give your other digits a chance: play Finger Four Square or Tic Tac Toe — now with real toes!

Comes With: 4 ink pads ( blue, orange, green, purple), 1 black marker pen

I’m a Klutz Brand Ambassador and received books to review, test out and share my results and will also be compensated for my time. This doesn’t affect my opinion of the brand at all because I’ve loved using Klutz for years!!!

Halloween Photography Nail Art: Candy Corn Toes #KlutzBooks

October 24, 2012 by Momstart 10 Comments

I’m A Klutz Books Brand ambassador and we’re having lots of fun exploring the world of Klutz for Halloween. I’ve got more to share with you this week on how Miles loves making paper air planes.

WRAP IT UP SWEEPSTAKES:

What’s fun about the sweepstakes is you can enter once per week because the prizing changes out every Monday featuring new themes touching on the wide variety of titles Klutz has to offer – Science, Games, Classic Crafts, Holidays and more! The weekly sweeps start every Monday and fans can enter through November 26.

I’m a Klutz Brand Ambassador and received books to review, test out and share my results and will also be compensated for my time. This doesn’t affect my opinion of the brand at all because I’ve loved using Klutz for years!!!

Photography: Child Nail Art A Spoooky Smile #KlutzBooks

October 23, 2012 by Momstart 8 Comments

I’m A Klutz Books Brand ambassador and we’re having lots of fun exploring the world of Klutz. I’ve got more to share with you this week.

WRAP IT UP SWEEPSTAKES:

What’s fun about the sweepstakes is you can enter once per week because the prizing changes out every Monday featuring new themes touching on the wide variety of titles Klutz has to offer – Science, Games, Classic Crafts, Holidays and more! The weekly sweeps start every Monday and fans can enter through November 26.

I’m a Klutz Brand Ambassador and received books to review, test out and share my results and will also be compensated for my time. This doesn’t affect my opinion of the brand at all because I’ve loved using Klutz for years!!!

Working Klutz Books into our Educational Curriculum #KlutzBooks

September 24, 2012 by Momstart 19 Comments

We’ve just recently decided to take Miles out of preschool and keep him home for this year which means, I’m teaching him at home. He’s already learned his ABC’s colors, numbers and shapes and it’s my job to makes sure he remembers all those things he learned and try to take him a step further. Plus I want to give him a lot of enriching experiences at home and Klutz books help me do just that.

As you may know, I recently became a Klutz Books Brand ambassador and they sent me six different books that I can use with both of my children and we already have two other boos in our Klutz library. I have a feeling we have another one somewhere but I couldn’t find it in the mess known as my son’s closet. I can over a wide assortment of subjects.

Math Science and Dexterity:

Gotcha Gadgets
Star Wars Folded Flyers
Fashion Forms

Art and Home Economics:

Spiral Draw
Nail Art
Marvelous Book of Magical Horses
Kids Cooking – We have been cooking out of the Kids Cooking cookbook for years now and it’s so much fun. Both of my children have such a love for helping in the kitchen and it includes clean up and I couldn’t be happier.

A Parent’s Perspective:

The thing I’ve noticed most about the kids’ experiences using the Klutz books is that they don’t realize they are learning anything. They are creating, using their imaginations, and retaining information through experience and fun. Plus each book or single activity in the book keeps them busy for about an hour, for Zoe, I think she could spend all day playing with the Magical Horses. I’ve always wanted to get her a set of paper dolls and now she has paper dolls and paper horses. Miles keeps asking a lot of question, and his dexterity has improved a great deal. I can tell because he can actually make really great cuts in the paper used to create the Star Wars Folded Flyers!

Enter to Win!!!! Wrap It Up With Klutz! Sweepstakes

Klutz launched their Wrap It Up with Klutz! Sweepstakes last week. They are giving away 1000 prizes over the next 10 weeks – 10 fans each week will win a prize pack featuring 10 Klutz Books!

What’s fun about the sweepstakes is you can enter once per week because the prizing changes out every Monday featuring new themes touching on the wide variety of titles Klutz has to offer – Science, Games, Classic Crafts, Holidays and more! The weekly sweeps start every Monday and fans can enter through November 26.

I’m a Klutz Brand Ambassador and received books to review, test out and share my results and will also be compensated for my time. This doesn’t affect my opinion of the brand at all because I’ve loved using Klutz for years!!!

Seattle #TweetDrive 2010 Almost Wordless Wednesday

December 14, 2010 by Momstart 17 Comments

I LOVE using my influence on-line to make a difference in my community. Last week we had a tweet up in Seattle and I helped gather swag, donations and door prizes. The event was the Seattle Tweet Drive. I posted in detail about the Seattle Tweetdrive a few weeks ago when I started looking for sponsors and I’m so happy with all the companies that supported us. See the full list below! We had a great turnout and Look at what we did for the charity Treehouse! I’m exhausted and extremely behind on my blog posts, but I feel great because it was all for a really great cause. Club Sur donated the space, My Seattle Night Out organized the event, and local bands and entertainers donated their time and efforts for all of us to have a great time! We gathered around 333 toys total! Tweet Drive is going on nationally in many different locations, check Tweet Drive 2010 to find a location next to you.

Special thanks to Channellock (100 bottle openers)

Special thanks to DKNY Be Delicious (over 100 bottles of DKNY Be Delicious Perfume, towels, and awesome swag bags)

Special thanks to Zhu Zhu Pets (104 Zhu Zhu Pets donated)

Special Thanks to Klutz (10 books donated)

Special Thanks to Energizer (40 iPod to go chargers donated)

Special Thanks to Soft Lips (100 packages of lipgloss)

Special Thanks to Build a Bear (5 bears donated)

Special Thanks to Hasbro (for their continued support of Mom Start and donation of 5 large toys)

Special Thanks to TJ Maxx and Marshalls (50.00 Door Prize)

Special Thanks to Hexbug Nano (3 habitats donated)

Special Thanks to Clean and Green Pet Cleaner (100 Free Product Coupons)

Special Thanks to Blue Bunny (door prize)

Special Thanks to Success Rice (door prize)

Special Thanks to Voskos Greek Yogurt (100 Free Product coupons)

Special Thanks to Sesame Street PBS (2 Wii games for door prize)

Special Thanks to Sid The Science Kid (100 notepads)

Special Thanks to Conair (door prize gift basket)

I hope to do a single post for every company because you all deserve a huge thanks!!

Have A Big Klutz Holiday

November 15, 2010 by Momstart 231 Comments

With my husband sitting right next to me as I’m posting this, he asked, if Klutz is still popular? Yep, they are still popular. I saw a smart mom on an airplane just last week using Klutz to keep her kids busy. Klutz is such a fun company making great activity books. Some of them are perfect to take on an airplane to keep your child busy for hours. Others are just great for a rainy day activity. I’m amazed at how many different craft ideas and other fun projects they come up with. Not only do they get the attention of children but they also reach adults with some of their funny books. I like looking through one every now and then! My husband just said he liked them as a kid too, which is super cool that Klutz is generationally fun!

I’ve been enjoying different Klutz books for a few years now. They make all kinds of activity books for ages 4 and up, but I’ve let my kids play with a few of them and my kids are 2 and 1. The Only Coloring Puzzle Game, Dot-to-Dot Activity Book that I won 2 years ago was quite the winner with my daughter.

So any Klutz activity book is in my Christmas Guide this year. Keeps the kids minds active and off the TV.

KLUTZ Window Art and Capsters

About the Books:

Capsters is the ultimate introduction to a form of pop art using bottle caps, specially sized round art, charms, gems, glitter and special goo, all included within the book!

Window Art Classic features ready-to-trace designs along with window paint to decorate all the glass surfaces in your house!

Headbands and Hairstyles features everything your little one needs to create stylish headbands.

Paper Airplanes has been a favorite for a very long time. I loved looking at it and thinking about how each plane in the book would fly.

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A HUGE KLUTZ prize pack featuring:

Retail Value: $75.99

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Klutz Animation Blog Tour Stop #2

September 21, 2010 by Momstart 248 Comments

Klutz is such a fun company making great activity books. Some of them are perfect to take on an airplane to keep your child busy for hours. Others are just great for a rainy day activity. I’m amazed at how many different craft ideas and other fun projects they come up with. Not only do they get the attention of children but they also reach adults with some of their funny books. I like looking through one every now and then!

The Klutz Blog Tour started yesterday, I’m stop number two. Klutz sent us the Book of Animation and it comes with a package of clay to make your own stop animation movies. Looks like fun to me!

Anybody with a computer, camera, internet connection and a little bit of creativity can create animated films for the masses. The Klutz Book of Animation is a how-to-guide for this art form. Step-by-step instructions show you how to create a variety of different classic stop motion special effects. Watch the real videos we created here and then start making your own!

Here is Zoe enjoying the book!

Please be sure to stop stop by Table4Five.net tomorrow, that is stop number three!

Enter to Win:

One (1) Winner will receive:

a copy of The Klutz Book of Animation
as well as Battery Science, Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes and Tricky Video!

Prize Pack valued at: $80.00

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Visit Klutz and tell me what other book you would like.

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This giveaway ends October 11th, I have been compensated for this post with product. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Klutz Part Robot Part Toothbrush Activity Book Invasion of the Bristlebots Review and Donation

November 18, 2009 by Momstart 4 Comments

The final book in the donation series from Klutz is Invasion of the Bristlebots. With this book you can create the ultimate maze rat, or just your own creepy crawly critter. Yikes get mom running for the hills when you set your little creation on the loose. This craft book makes activity time seem like play time for the little boy in your life. It is a great learning tool, allowing also for creativity and ingenuity. I heart Klutz.. This does not magically make your children want to brush their teeth, but will make youngsters feel that they should put all the pieces in their mouth. So don’t let your toddler play with it. 😉

Product Page

http://www.klutz.com/Invasion-of-the-Bristlebots

Video Clip

http://video.klutz.com/flix/#9 (I couldn’t figure out how to embed this one)

Price: $19.95

#1 Award winner 2009 Toy of the Year Award, FamilyFun magazine Invasion of the Bristlebots comes with two mini-robots —basically motorized toothbrush heads. These guys zoom around like caffeinated cockroaches, spinning, skittering, and bouncing off walls. Resistance is futile. The book bristles with ideas for robot games and activities: race robots against each other, use the included punch-out walls to construct a bristlebot maze, stage a robot sumo-wrestling match. You can even customize your Bots with the provided wire legs, feelers, and beady eyes.

KLUTZ.com BIG HOLIDAY SALE – 25% off your entire order (no minimum!)

The coupon code is HOLIDAY25 and expires on 12/16.

– Onetime use coupon per email address/user

– Not combination with other offers

– Expires 12/16/09

– Valid only at Klutz.com

Klutz Paper Fashions Fancy review and donation

November 18, 2009 by Momstart 2 Comments

Klutz sent me a few more books for donation to the Toy Drive I am doing. I’m very thankful for being able to provide all these children with different toys. This book is the Paper Fashions Fancy craft book. In this book you can create the paper doll fashions of your heart’s desire. There are cut out patterns and plenty of pre-made designs that you can cut out and use; but there are also instructions on how to create your own. You are provided with trim, fabric and glue. Then when you are finished you can hang all of your designs on the set of hangers that is provided.

PAPER FASHIONS FANCY

Product Page

http://www.klutz.com/crafts/Paper-Fashions-Fancy-Book

Price: $21.95

Paper fashions get glam! In the Klutz paper fashions custom, young designers get to turn colorful paper, ribbons, beads, sequins, and jewels into glamorous fashions and accessories.