Are you familiar with those gorgeous pictures that are printed on canvas? Many people have them hanging in their homes and they are wonderful but pricey! Right now the Canvas People are having a 60% promotion.
You basically upload a picture and they print onto canvas that is wrapped. If you don’t have a picture but are looking for a piece of art, have no fear. They have a gallery of images you could choose from. This is a great gift for Christmas so it can help you get a jump on that! So head over at start shopping! The 60% off will be taking at checkout. I understand it says 4th of July sale but it is still going on.
(And yes, these are affiliate links! Shop through them to support this blog!)
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So now you need to add your giveaways and go enter some giveaways! Let them know that Contesting Monday sent you! Make sure you pop back later this week for a giveaway of my own!!!
I am such a West Coast girl. I have never been to Atlantic City and between the Real Housewives of New Jersey and Donald Trump, well I had a picture in mind;). But recently a few of my favorite bloggers were tweeting out pictures and fun things they were doing in New Jersey (#JerseyLove) and not only have they made me see beyond the bad MTV shows but I actually want to go!!
Then my friend Rajean mentioned that there is an Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival! Not only is it 4 days of fabulous food but there are some big food names participating along with local talent! It starts July 25th and runs through the 28th. And if the pictures that are on their Facebook page are an indicator of the quality of food and the fun!!!
I wish I was going! Are you near by and going to be hitting the festival? If so you have to let me know how it is!! And I must say, it changing my mental New Jersey picture;).
(Disclosure: Caesars Entertainment was a sponsor of the #JerseyLove trip and this post is affiliated with that event.)
I wanted to share some of my 4th of July pictures that I took with my Samsung Galaxy S4 that I received from Verizon!! These are totally untouched so please excuse the lack of cropping!
Will I ever fall out of love with the site of fireworks in the dark? Even with the smoke they are still gorgeous!
Seriously, this is just the S4 camera with the flash off. That is it!!! These are the best pictures of our yearly fireworks that I have gotten yet! I usually take my point and shoot out and might get 1 that is even worth editing.
The shutter speed was pretty fabulous! The one bad thing… I was getting such great pictures I kept getting closer and closer like my camera was going to protect me;). Seriously, we had a ball on the 4th and I am stoked that I got some fab pictures!!!
Thanks again to Verizon for the Samsung Galaxy S4!!! I am loving it! But while they gave me the phone all thoughts and words are mine and mine alone!!!
So here is the deal. If you are hosting a giveaway or have a post about someone’s giveaway just leave a link. Make sure this link is to the giveaway post itself and not just the blog or it will be deleted. If you listed it last week but your giveaway is still open, list it again! Also your link must be to something family friendly or it will be deleted.
Before you head out to enter all the fabulous giveaways make sure to enter my 2 giveaways!!! I am giving away a set of Psi Bands and also am giving away a Babee Covee! Make sure to enter both giveaways!!
So now you need to add your giveaways and go enter some giveaways! Let them know that Contesting Monday sent you! Make sure you pop back later this week for a giveaway of my own!!!
So here is the deal. If you are hosting a giveaway or have a post about someone’s giveaway just leave a link. Make sure this link is to the giveaway post itself and not just the blog or it will be deleted. If you listed it last week but your giveaway is still open, list it again! Also your link must be to something family friendly or it will be deleted.
Before you head out to enter all the fabulous giveaways make sure to enter my 2 giveaways!!! I am giving away a set of Psi Bands and also am giving away a Babee Covee! Make sure to enter both giveaways!!
So now you need to add your giveaways and go enter some giveaways! Let them know that Contesting Monday sent you! Make sure you pop back later this week for a giveaway of my own!!!
When I recently attended the Disney Social Media Moms on the Road event and there was a Huggies Momprenuer panel with Alma Moussa. She talked about a fabulous product she invented and brought to market the fabulous Babee Covee (and has provided one as a giveaway for you, my fabulous readers)!
If you have had a baby you have probably been faced this common problem… You are taking a young baby out in its infant seat and you throw a blanket over the top (for a variety of reasons) and you struggle with the blanket or it would fall to the ground. Well, Alma figured there had to be a better way! So she created this blanket that fit perfectly over the infant seat. But she didn’t have room in her diaper bag for something that could only do one thing. So it also works as a nursing cover, high chair cover. shopping cart cover and a few other things. And these Babee Covees are the softest thing I have ever felt!!!!
Right now these are in some boutiques and Amazon but not many other places! So how would you like to win one??? I am giving away this gorgeous blueberry one!
If you are not a fan of Shark Tank or have never suffered from extreme nausea you may not be familiar with Psi Bands.
Psi Bands were created by Romy Taormina after she had experienced debilitating nausea (like I did). She had found out about pressure bands but while the research was great on it, she wasn’t satisfied with any of the products that were on the market. So rather than get through her nausea and try to forget that time, like I did, she made a better product and started a business!!!
Psi Bands are stylish and durable. They are a drug free treatment for anyone who is battling nausea for any reason! I really wish that I would have found these during any of my pregnancies!!!
I recently saw Romy on a Huggies Momprenuer panel at the Disney Social Media on the Road Event. And she gave me a set of Psi Bands to give away to my readers. So enter to win them for yourself of for some one you might know who’s life they would change!!
Mindee Doney and myselfI once heard someone say that everyone has at least 1 book in them, well I am of the mindset that everyone has at least 1 business idea in them (regardless if you need someone else to help make is work)! And I must not be alone in this thinking. According to the Center for Women’s Business Research there is 10.1 million women owned businesses! Some of these are traditional businesses but some are things like blogging and inventing brand new products!
I was recently blessed to attend the Disney Social Media Mom’s On the Road conference up in Berkeley and it was all about the “Mompreneur”. What is a Mompreneur? A mom entrepreneur. Our keynote was the fabulous Mindy Doney who invented Boogie Wipes and there was also the creators of PsiBands (Romi) and Babee Covee (Alma).
I was so inspired that I wanted to share 5 simple tips to get you going towards a small business!
1. Solve a problem or meet a need!
– Mindee talked about how she was once again pulling out the saline and tissues to take care of a child’s nose and thought how much easier it would be to have saline already on something to wipe up noses. She was sure it must already exist and when it didn’t, she made it!
-Alma was doing the whole blanket on the carseat thing and when it kept falling off, she was sure there had to be a better way! And she wasn’t going to just carry a single application item so she made her Babee Covee work in 6 different ways including a nursing cover, shopping cart cover and a high chair cover.
-Romi had crippling nausea and wasn’t happy with any of the options that were already out there so she came up with something better with her Psi Bands (and yes, she is the Psi Bands that was on Shark Tank;).
-I got tired of hearing people say how “they never could” so I decided to start blogs that showed people that they could! Be it homeschooling, cooking or just finding the right app.
2. Be uniquely you! The name Boogie Wipes seems to fit Mindee’s fun and quirky personality but she was told mom’s wouldn’t want to buy something with boogers in the name. I think she has proved them wrong. And do you realize that I have people tell me almost weekly that I am not a nerdy mom? But it is who I am and by claiming it, that means I have left a picture of how I want myself and my brand to be thought of in your mind. And by judging by the random questions I get, you all believe I am the NerdMom;).
3. Try it on a limited group of clients/friends. I use the phrase clients/friends because your audience may not always be your friends. Try out your business idea and be open to feedback! It will either give you ways that you will change your business or hone in on a more specific client/need.
4. Reach out to the local Small Business Administration or incubators to find out legal requirements. They can provide some great information on how to work with your local government for a business license and all the details that go with starting a business. It can seem daunting but really it is just a series of small steps.
5. Buy your business name’s domain! Ok, really this is the first thing I always do. To the point I have a collection of domain names. But it always seems crazy to start a list with it. Buy the domain and do to availability, you may change your business name.
To celebrate the awesome inventors and business owners I met, I have a couple of giveaways!!!
So here is the deal. If you are hosting a giveaway or have a post about someone’s giveaway just leave a link. Make sure this link is to the giveaway post itself and not just the blog or it will be deleted. If you listed it last week but your giveaway is still open, list it again! Also your link must be to something family friendly or it will be deleted.
So now you need to add your giveaways and go enter some giveaways! Let them know that Contesting Monday sent you! Make sure you pop back later this week for a giveaway of my own!!!
