~~Switch Flops Review & Giveaway!~~

Can I just say: I LOVE SHOES!!!! I have dozens of pairs of sandals, tennis shoes, flip flops, heels~ anything you can think of, I have. In my defense though I come by it honestly, everyone used to compare my mom to Imelda Marcos and I have taken over. Libby is not far behind either so the fetish wont die with me.

Check this out:
This is a rack on the back of my door that holds the ones I am currently wearing for this season or my current favorites. I also have no less than 4 large boxes of shoes in the closet to change them out when I get tired of what I am wearing.
My biggest problem with this is that Jeff gets irritated at all the space my shoes take up. He thinks I need one pair to exercise in, one pair of heels and one pair of sandals OR flip flops. He just doesn't get it.
BUT, I have found a product that is going to help me out. It is called Switch Flops and they are made by Lindsay Phillips.

Here is a little information from the web site:
"Lindsay Phillips is the energetic inspiration and founding force behind SwitchFlops. Her footwear concept evolved from a high school art project—ceramic flip flops. Amazed by the response, Lindsay began designing functional flops with colorful straps, each adorned by a unique button. Her idea evolved when she realized that by using Velcro she could create one shoe with many straps–unlimited choices with minimal effort. This simple, yet brilliant innovation was the birth of SwitchFlops. Lindsay applied for a patent on her idea before she graduated high school."

So let me tell you what is so cool about them. You can choose from several different pair of "basic" flip flops and then you can choose from tons of different straps that just velcro on and off to make your shoes look like a brand new pair. I got the Lulu Pink Peace pair. See? Don't mind my feet, they could really use a pedicure.

And I got 2 pair of interchangable straps. Check them out:

I absolutely love this idea. I can get so many pair of shoes that look different, but they take up only a tiny portion of the space. You really need to go over to Switch Flops and check them out. It is a great way to change from beach casual to a formal affair in a matter of seconds, by just changing your straps.

I can't say enough about these shoes or this company. If you go to any of the places I tell you are awesome, this would be one of the best!!

The only down side I found at all is they seem to run a TINY bit small. I usually wear a 6, but got a 7 just in case because when I order off the internet I always try and play it safe and these were a little tight. Quite honestly though, I would wear them even if they were A LOT tight because they are so cute!

Lindsay from the Switch Flop company has generously offered to give one of my readers a pair of their own Switch Flops so you can see just how great they are. All you need to do is head on over to Switch Flops and come back to tell me what you would choose. Of course there is always the extra entry options:
1 entry for following me
1 entry for grabbing my button
2 entries for commenting on a non giveaway post(tell me which one in your comment here)

This giveaway ends August 25 2009 @ 11:59pm. So get entering because I promise you will want to win these!!!

~~Go Jane Review & Giveaway~~

Looking for a place to shop that has prices lower than the lowest of bargain basement, yet cute and stylish as the high end boutiques? If you are a cheapskate like me you are! I am ALWAYS looking for a deal and I have really found one here at GoJane.

Kristin at GoJane sent me a super cute Black & White Tank Dress. See:

Cute huh?!?!?

So anyway, let me tell you a little about GoJane and you will see why I have fallen in love with the place.

They add at least 100 new styles every week so you can shop anytime and find something new. They carry an awesome selection of dresses, tops and pants. But that isn’t all. Take a look around the site and you will find sun glasses, belts, bags, hats, jewelry, hair accessories, make up, swimwear, shoes and more.
GoJane apparel and accessories are available for prices anyone can afford, with many items available for less than $20! Go here to see the new items each week!
I have said on here before that Princess Complains A Lot wears only designer and name brand clothing. But she is actually excited by the GoJane web site because it has so many different things to offer. From mild, mellow everyday clothes to wild and outrageous to the slinky club clothes, she can find it all.
They do have some pretty wild things that I wouldn’t personally wear, but I think that is what is best about the site, we can all find something we like and order together to save on shipping. Even better if your order is over $50 the shipping is free. So go on over to GoJane and see what you think.

Information from the GoJane site:
“We are constantly updating our collections to include trends straight off the runway, so you can wear celebrity styles without having to spend a Hollywood-sized paycheck. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay on top of our newest arrivals, best deals, and great fashion trends and tips. Every fashion-forward young woman can find a dress suitable for any occasion at GoJane. Our extensive women’s dress selection features unique designs and bright colors for a cute and breezy style perfect for running errands or going out for a night on the town. From halter dresses, to tube dresses, we have cuts to highlight the best features of every body type, including sizes for petite women. Before you know it, you’ll be the envy of all your friends with styles from GoJane.”

Now for the best part my great readers. Kristin has offered a $25 Gift Certificate to one of you. That is right, you can shop around, find what you like and get it FREE!!!
For entry just go over to the GoJane site, have a look around and come back here to tell me one thing you love and you are entered. Easy as that!

Extra entries? You know it!
1 entry for following me
1 entry for grabbing my button and telling me where you put it
2 entries for signing up for the Go Jane news letter/ email
2 entries for commenting on a non giveaway post (let me know where)

So good luck everyone. Get those entries in because this giveaway ends August 20 2009 at 11:59 PM.

~~Piggy Paint Giveaway~~

Piggy Paint nail polish is a great new invention. You might be saying to yourself, Trina nail polish is not a new invention-get on the train to 2009, but it really is new. Did you know that regular old nail polish is full of toxic materials that can melt a foam plate if dripped on it? Go ahead, give it a try I'll wait..........


See, I told you. Now imagine what those same chemicals and toxins are doing to your little girl when she puts her fingers in her mouth after you do her nails. Imagine what the toxins could be doing to her nails and nail beds. Not a pretty thought is it?!?

However, I do have an alternative. Check out Piggy Paint!!!



Look at all the great colors!

Piggy Paint™ is specially formulated from God’s natural ingredients and dries to a hard, durable finish. There are no toxic chemicals; it’s free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, biphenyl A, ethyl acetate and acetone. Say good-bye to harsh, smelly chemicals and hello to Piggy Paint™…it’s as Natural as Mud!

Piggy Paint™ Ingredients
Water, water-miscible acrylic and polyurethane film formers and thickeners (well below 100 parts per million), glycol ethers. May contain mica, D&C red lake, ultramarine blue and chromium, iron and titanium oxide pigments.
It also dries in about 60 seconds so you wont get a lot of messed up nails when your little one can't hold still for them to dry.

Laurie from the Piggy Paint company has offered to give my readers a 15% discount on anything you buy from Piggy Paint until July 31, 2009.
Even better, on top of the discount you can get free shipping on any purchase over $25. Just use the discount code "LIFE15L" on the check out page.

Laurie also generously offered to give one of my readers a $20 gift certificate to the Piggy Paint store to buy whatever you would like. This is really an awesome offer so jump on over to Piggy Paint and have a look around. Come back here and tell me what your favorite color is and you are entered to win. Easy as that!!

As always the extra entries are below!
1 entry for following me
1 entry for grabbing my button
2 entries for blogging about this post and linking back to here and the Piggy Paint site
2 entries for telling a friend about this post and having them comment mentioning you

Giveaway ends 6/21 11:59 PM

Ouchies

I don't know about any of you, but my girls go through a whole box of bandages for a tiny scratch. It drives me nuts and I threaten to never buy them again. I guess it is the thought of having a "new" bandage is cool, can't be sporting a dirty one now can they??

BUT I have found the solutions!! Yep, some handy dandy, don't need a new one every ten minutes, cute as can be, perfect size for little hands cut, scrape and scratch coverings.

Ouchies Bandages. Are they not the cutest??? With all the different designs in each package your child can chose the one they like and then keep it on to show it off.

Their site says "Hide your wound, not your style. Down with beige bandages baby!" How cute is that??
They come in BOYS styles:


GIRLS styles:


And these super cool BLANK ones that come with 3 little markers to make your own design:




Soon to have

BAND-AGES (band names) styles.

Libby has actually had one on her knee for the WHOLE DAY!!! Never, ever has this happened before and she has had to show everyone who comes around her how cute it is. Hey, whatever works right?

These awesome little tins come with 20 bandages in each one and you can buy them straight from the company or at dozens of retail outlets which are listed on their website.

The wonderful people at Ouchies sent me one of each kind to try out, but I thought I would keep one and share the rest with my readers. So if you would like to have your own tin of either the BOY or BLANK style just leave me a comment about what you think about Ouchies is cool after going here to check them out.


1 entry for joining PABB (People Against Boring Bandages) for great discounts.
1 entry for following me
1 entry for grabbing my button
2 entries for blogging about Ouchies and linking back to this post.
2 entries for telling a friend and having them comment, mentioning you

Ends 6/18 11:59 PM

~~Layers Clothing Giveaway~~

Layer Clothing has an out of this world selection of clothing that helps sculpt your body, helping hide those bumps and bulges. They sent me this super cute shirt:

I know the pictures are tiny, but here is a link to go check them out normal size. (I have no idea why this wont work today). When it got here my daughters had words over who got to have it because it is so cute! The material is awesomely soft and it looks really cute on! Jacki won and she loves it. Now you need to know she only shops at high end places and she said this top is great. I am not going to tell her it doesn't cost a fortune to get!

Layers clothing has a ton of super cute stuff and the best in my opinion is the sculpting Tees, Tanks and Camis. It not only extends the length of your shirt so you dont have to show everyone this:

It also helps hold in that little belly you got after having a baby or going on a long food and drink filled vacation!

They also carry the most amazing swimwear, very modest, but super cute!! Seriosly go check it out, you wont be sorry!

Laura at Layers Clothing has oh so sweetly offered to give one of my readers a $25 gift certificate. So head on over to the Layers Clothing site , take a look around and come back and tell me what you would use your gift certificate on.
Extra entries as always:
1 for following me
1 for grabbing my button
1 for commenting on a non giveaway post
2 for signing up for the Layers Clothing news letter

Giveaway ends 6/17 11:59PM

~~ Super Saturday Giveaways~~

Here are some of the great giveaways I found today!!

A great hand made necklace of your choice at Etsy it Up.

A wonderful Baby & Mom pendant at Playground for Parents

Great tile necklaces at Painter Mommy

A super cute pair of Shoo Shoos at Momma in Flip Flops

$50 worth of product from Bug & Pickle from Piece of Me.

Great pairs of Top It Off Flip Flops from The Funky Monkey

$5000 outdoor play ground made by Kids Creations and a Canon Power Shot camera from Dad Blogs

A stuffed animal by Zoocchinni from Kid Buy Products

A pair of kids Kushies sunglasses from Inside Out

A Kimochis doll of your choice from The Funky Monkey

The chance to win one of the cutest shirts I have ever seen. They are Temporary Language shirts from Baby Loving Mama

Vinyl Wall Art made by Visions in Vinyl from Ladybug Soup.

Fuzion scooter offered by The Mom Buzz

A Shrunks Ududoll offered by The Mommy Diaries

There are soooooo many more at Mommy Giveaways. Go check them out!!!!

~~Super Soft Giveaway!~~

This contest is over.


This blanket is the softest thing I have ever felt. It is made by Kids Line and is actually carried by Shopko. They have several you can buy that come in complete crib sets. I chose this Snug as a Bug one because it is pretty much gender neutral.
Now, down to the "rules" for entry. Since there isn't a sponsor on this one all you have to do to enter is leave a comment. BUT you can get an extra 2 entries for blogging about it and linking back to me. Also if you follow me you can get an extra 5 entries. Good Luck!! We will choose a winner next Saturday!!

~~The Next Super Give Away!~~~

This contest has ended. Please chek out whatever I have up for grabs now!!
I had so much fun doing the Spring Fling give away I decided to do another one this week. Kristy at Toywrangler.com sent me the cutest Toy Wrangler to share with one of my readers. In my opinion it is the best thing invented in a long time. It attaches to your car seat or stroller and then to a bottle or pacifier and your baby cannot throw them out as you are going along. Saves you from the "I will throw it and mom will pick it up" game when you attach it to a high chair when you are out eating and then you don't have to run off and wash the nipple before giving it back to baby so you can eat your whole meal before it gets cold.

The cloth end works great for cups, and larger toys. You just clip the linky to the stroller or shopping cart, or the handle on an infant car seat, and you have a holder for a bottle or a cup! Or, you can use the stretchy end and attach that to something, and the linky part can hold a pacifier, or you can attach at smaller toy to it
I can't say enough about this so follow the rules and enter to win this great product.

1. Go to Toywrangler.com by clicking here and check out their site. Come back, leave a comment and tell me what you think is the best feature of the Toy Wrangler.
2. For an extra entry become one of my followers.
3. Blog about this contest and link back to me for another entry.
That is 3 chances to win this great product so jump over there now and get started!
I will draw the winner 3/28/09 and post it here, so stop back by to see who wins.
I also have a couple other things to offer later this week so keep visiting!!
**Ladies I also still need 2 more people to sign up for the Pay It Forward program. Please scroll down and check it out!!**

~~Have you entered???~~

Don't forget to go here and enter to win a Toy Wrangler.
And I still need one more for the Blogger Stimulus Program. Have a great day!!

~~Hello World~~

Hi... Yes I still exist!! Yes I know that nobody cares, but shut up, I am trying to make myself feel better. I have neglected the blogging world this week because the baby was back in the hospital again with a staff infection. Makes me wonder if all the holes they poked in him at Primary Children's caused it?? Who knows? Anyway he is coming home today and I wanted to share this picture of his little hospital gown and pants. Just like the big ones, only miniature. I am sure most of you have seen them, but whenever we have had a baby in the hospital they both just wore diapers before and I think these are so freaking cute!!!
Hope everyone is having a beautiful day like the one we are having here in Utah.
Remember to check all the give aways (mine & others) and enter, enter, enter!!!

~~Not Me Monday!!~~

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not spend $300 on tickets to take my 4 & 6 year olds to the Jonas Brothers. That price is not outrageous!!

I did not spend $250 10 minutes later to buy my husband the concert tickets he wanted so he couldn't complain about the others I didn't buy!! Yeah, I'm sneaky like that!!

I did not actually get all my laundry done on Friday so I had nothing to but relax all weekend. No, I am not that organized!!!

I did not have 3 sick kids to take care of all weekend. Guess that teaches me to do things early- they don't like me to have any extra time and I should have known that!!

After 2 weeks of it I am so not tired of puke and poop!! I did not completely tear down their beds and Lysol everything to try and kill the germs. I do not think that would be some kind of germslaughter or something.

I did not shamelessly send out 75 letters to companies asking them for items to do blog giveaways with.

I do not absolutely love my daughters new car.

I do not wish I was getting one!!

I have not felt like I am coming down with something all day long and my throat is not killing me.

I am not going to go to bed now and end this Not Me Monday!!!

Don't stop scrolling here!!! Keep going, the next 2 posts have lots of stuff to give away!!!

~~Cool Blog Giveaways~~

Go see Jen's blog here and get involved in this super fun Flip Flop Find contest.

Then go to Jeannie's blog here and here for even more.

Then to Mamarazzi's site for a really cute thing to win.

Also go here to Callapidder Days to see what Katrina is offering.

And then to hereand find some more!!

What a great bunch of bloggers!!

~~SITS Spring Fling Give Away~~

The girls over at The Secret is in the Sauce are having their Spring Fling give aways. Go sign up and enter a few contests.

NOW...... In honor of my sweet little Zoe, the cutest Chihuahua in the world I am giving away this DVD of Beverly Hills Chihuahua:


Make sure and leave a comment to be entered. Winner will be announced Wednesday. Good Luck!!!!

~~Contest you need to check out!~~

Myspace Comments

Over at iMommy there is a super contest for a sweet Valentines (or any time item). Go check it out here: http://www.imommyblog.com/2009/02/valentine-giveaway.html
Hopefully I will have a fun giveaway like this in the next month if I can get enough interest going for it.
I still can't get the link to work out so if anyone has some simple directions to help me figure outwhat I am doing wrong I would appreciate the help.