Not Everyone's Mama

This is too cute!  Let me show you what I did -

See, Santa was off duty that night that we went out for Halloween and he hijacked my photo.  Who knew Santa was hanging in Des Moines, IA on Halloween night?  Not I.  He seriously should have won the most creative costume that night.

I can see so many ideas with iCaughtSanta.com.  If you do it quickly, you can prove to your kids there is a Santa!  Take a picture of yourself in front of the Christmas tree, upload it to iCaughtSanta.com, pick your Santa, your border, and voila your done!  It’s $9.99 or you can upgrade to a bundle of 4 for $10 more!  Too much fun!  I just showed my picture to the girls and they loved it!  But mom, how come you didn’t tell us you saw Santa that night?  I was waiting for the picture of course!

Oh, another idea!  Take a picture of your sleeping child and place Santa in front of them!  Print it out and show it to them on Christmas morning!  Bonus excitement!

Santa is in excellent quality and goes with my picture quite well if I do say so myself, though I should have moved him down a tad bit farther looking at it now.

More info on icaughtsanta.com.

More info on Catch A Character.

Search: iCaughtSanta in the iPhone app store to catch Santa anywhere.

Like iCaughtSanta.com on Facebook and follow them on Twitter!

I’m not doing very many giveaways anymore, but this is too fun.  I had to do one.  We’re going to make it easy and quick!

Ready?

Set?

Tell me who/what pose you would use for this picture if you won? You can visit iCaughtSanta.com to get some ideas!

Or

Tell me which Santa over at iCaughtSanta.com you would use for your picture.

Either or.  Whichever you choose. Short and sweet so you can do this before Christmas!

Win one of 5 codes to iCaughtSanta.com!

Go!

(Giveaway ends 12/18/10 at 11:59 PM CST)

I received a free photo and a shot at an iPad with this post but all opinions remain my own.  It’s still too much fun!

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commissions 16 CFR, Part 255 Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. Tomoson Product review & giveaway Disclosure.

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Prima Princessa Presents the Nutcracker

Become a ballerina! Prima Princessa brings you England’s world famous Birmingham Royal Ballet performing excerpts from The Nutcracker that will inspire the ballerina in you! Come join in the holiday fun with Prima Princessa as she takes you to a magical show filled with snow fairies, toy soldiers, tutus, pirouettes and plies.

If you remember from my Prima Princessa Presents Swan Lake review, you know that my girls LOVE Prima Princessa!  They were so excited to get the next DVD in the series: Prima Princessa Presents the Nutcracker!  It is perfect for this time of the year since they presenting the Nutcracker and who doesn’t LOVE the nutcracker?

I love both of the DVDs, Alyce especially spends her time watching trying to imitate the moves, spinning around on her toes, and she is just totally enthralled with the whole thing.  She loves to dance.  I need to get her in ballet. Kat likes the DVDs, but Alyce is the one who can watch them over and over and over again.

Since I like to let my kids tell you about the things they get to review, I’ll turn the mic (keyboard) over to them!

Alyce (Age 4 years old):

It’s really fun!  And funny.  And awesome.  And I like their dancing clothes and I like to spiiiiiin (as she throws in a spin) and jump (and a jump).  And that’s all mama.  I just like to watch them dance and dance with them.  It’s fun.  Mom, I want to dance.

Katiana (Age 6 years old):

I like this DVD because it shows you how to dance and you can dance with it and there is lots of fun parts you can do in it.  My favorite part is when you get to dance. 

Kat is more my tomboy soccer playing diva.  She’s not into dance as much as Alyce is, but she does like the DVD and she puts it in.  Alyce on the other hand, like I says, she spins and twirls, and claps, and jumps, and dances along with the kids, with prima princessa, and with the ballet dancers.  Just for the spins and twirls alone I give it a -

These DVDs are so inexpensive too if you have a little dancer in your life.  $6.99 on Amazon.  I’m serious.  And if you get it now, it will be here in time for Christmas!

As always, check out the Prima Princessa website!  They always have tons of fun things for your little ballerinas to do over there!

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I had the most fun with this review!  I received a European Natural Wig – The Cassandra in color 18E to be specific. 

I was nervous, I’ll be honest.  I love hair pieces, I’ve worn them for years, pony tails, full head pieces, etc.  It’s just a lot of fun to play around with your look.  I’ve always stayed fairly close to my hair color though.  This one was way different than what I color my hair as.

See, this is me:

I’ve got dark hair naturally, helped along with a box of really red hair dye.

How surprised was I when I ended up looking like this –

I mean seriously, my brother didn’t even know it was me when I sent him the picture via phone.  He said, who is that?  Um, your sister, silly.

I had a lot of fun playing with it.  I still do. 

I used it as part of my Halloween costume.

Side note: Can you tell I’ve lost 20 lbs?  Woot woot!

Then when I went out that night, I pulled it up.

I had danced quite a bit at this point, my hair is peaking out of the side, I really want to get one of the nets that covers your head when you wear a wig so I don’t have that happen again.

My kids love it.  They say it’s my Hannah Montana hair.  They are always handing it to me before soccer practices or games.  Um, I don’t think they are ready for that side of Heather yet.  They are dealing with “just got a new piercing” Heather at this point.

This is so much easier to keep nice than my older hair pieces are.  Brush it, wash it with a gentle shampoo, and hang it up to dry.  Simple as that.  It doesn’t feel ratty like cheaper hair pieces do after one wearing, even though the price isn’t too much for this type of wig.  It also hasn’t lost a lot of hair like my other pieces do when I brush them.  Bonus!  You can use hot rollers on this wig.  LOVE that!  Change up your look completely.  I’ve worn it pulled up in a roll like in the picture above with tendrils (I should have taken a picture of the back), I’ve worn it in a twist, and I’ve worn it in a low pony tail.  I’ve never noticed anyone looking at me like I have a wig on.

I’ve also noticed, people look at you a lot more when you’re a blonde.

Why is that?

You actually turn heads when you have long wavy blonde hair.

Unlike my short curly red hair.

Oh well.  I like me both ways.

Why did I put this as a gift idea?  Because if you have a person in your life who loves to have fun with their hair, change up their look, etc, this would be a perfect Christmas gift!

Or, more serious, if you have someone who has lost their hair due to chemo – my cousin is wearing a wig now.  She’s successfully gone through treatment, but as a side effect, lost her hair.  She wears a GORGEOUS full red wig and it looks so natural.  She’s got gorgeous natural red hair, unlike some of us who need a little help from a box.

Perfect for so many women and Favorite Wigs has so many styles to choose from with synthetic wigs, real hair wigs, African American wigs, hair pieces, extensions, costume wigs, they have something for everyone!

Follow Favorite Wigs on Twitter and Facebook!  They give so many awesome tips for taking care of your wig PLUS offer discounts! Like right now they have a 14% off code – FAVORITE for their favorite customers that they announced over Twitter! (on Dec 8).

Here is a few of their tips:

• A great way to remove makeup, that may rubbed off onto your wig, is with an old toothbrush and hand soap.
• Another thing to keep in mind when washing wigs, is to use cold water. Its better for your wig and will keep it look new.
• Long, straight wigs—spray lightly with Wig Conditioner and brush with a Wig Brush, starting with the ends first, before styling

Definitely check them out!  It’s a fun, well made, easy to use wig.  I plan on getting some more hair pieces from them.

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commissions 16 CFR, Part 255 Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. Tomoson Product review & giveaway Disclosure.

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I think I have cabin fever.  Doesn’t help that Jordan was home sick.  He wasn’t faking it this time.  He truly was sick.  I have the proof.  He threw up ON my bed last night.  My bed that’s not even a year old.  And he probably threw up 4 other times.

Not one throw up today but school rules say no throwing up for 24 hours before you can return to school.

Blah.

I’ve been asking him to do his chores today since he was feeling fine.  Nope.

I’ve been asking Alyce to do her chores today.

Nope.

Someone with kids tell me the magical solution that does not involve raising your voice?

Take things away….Check.

Ground from electronics….Check.

Time out….Check.

Fed up….Check.

Katiana got home from school.  Asked her to start getting her chores done.

sigh

The chores are halfway done now.  Half.

Only because I threatened with hot sauce because they were screaming at each other.

Then they stopped because Jordan found some of his homework shredded up on the floor.  It had been in his binder on his desk where it’s supposed to go.  I can only assume a little one thought they could find paper in Jordan’s binder and somehow ripped it up.  Do I know which little one?  I can narrow it down to 2.  Alyce and Nano.  Alyce is my best guess, but I can’t prove it.

All hell broke loose after that because Jordan is throwing a complete and total conniption fit over his homework.  I emailed his teacher and told her about it, I told her it wasn’t his fault.  Please don’t give him a late assignment for it.

He’s still ticked because he had it done.

Now he has to do it over again.

Hijo de la la la la la la la la la.

No, can’t swear in Spanish on my blog either.

He needs some sort of safety clothing type apparatus to put over his homework.  Safety clothing for papers – protect them from siblings.

I need to get out.

Mom is taking me to the casino in the morning for my birthday.

Then I’m going out with 2 friends from high school on Saturday to celebrate all 3 of our birthdays.

I need it.

Pato can be in charge tomorrow and make them finish their chores.  I’m done with it tonight.  I’m feeding them supper and sending them to bed early.

Works for you?  Works for me.

Have a great night!

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Have I got a hidden gem for you here in central Iowa!  She ships too, so this is available to everyone!  She doesn’t have a website yet, but she does have a Facebook fan page.  Beautiful Beading  Her prices are beyond reasonable and her work is just gorgeous!

and seriously people, how much fun would this one be at this time of year?

I <3 me the Santa one.  Do you know how much Santa is? $5 (plus shipping if you have her send it to you.)  Told you, beyond reasonable!

Can I share also that Amanda (the wonderful woman behind Beautiful Beading) is the same amazing woman who rescued out little Junie Bee!  Talented with a heart of gold!  I adore her and am so happy to support someone like her.  I was amazed when I was looking through her Facebook photos and saw these pictures of jewelry she made.  I had to share it with you guys.  She can use wire or make a stretchy bracelet, she can customize it in your favorite colors, or for your favorite cause.  Plus, she has the ones above for sale and many more if you check out her facebook page!  And, if you like her page, she is giving away 3 bracelets to people who like the page!

Check her out – Beautiful Beading and make sure to click that little box that says like above it her name.

To the FTC (wo)man:  I have received nothing for this post, no sample, no monetary compensation.  This is just me showing off some beautiful jewelry from someone I believe in.  Thank you mucho!

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