The Vintage Pearl ~ $50 Gift Certificate Giveaway CLOSED!

Congratulations to #225 Rusheika from Island Mama's Adventures!!!

I am so excited to share The Vintage Pearl with you! Not only are they a current blog sponsor, they sent me a gorgeous necklace, and are offering a giveaway to my readers! First, here is my awesome necklace…

I chose the Circle of Love, with the names of my 3 children on it. I also added a pearl in the middle. I chose the whimsy font and a 16” chain. This is one of the first “girly” necklaces I have had in a long time so I am totally in love with it!!!! I am not sure I will wear anything else now! I am SO happy with this necklace and have already received many comments about it.

Here are several more options The Vintage Pearl offers, aren’t they wonderful? I had SUCH a hard time choosing which necklace I wanted, it took me days!!!

BUY IT…

Can’t wait to see if you’ll win? You can use this special discount code to receive 15% off of your purchase: ONEplusONE15

WIN IT…

The Vintage Pearl is offering a $50 gift certificate to one winner!

Mandatory Entry…

Visit www.TheVintagePearl.com and tell me your favorite item after you browse around their site a bit. Leave the name of the item in your 1st comment!

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

1. If you follow @thevintagepearl on Twitter, give yourself an extra entry.
2. If you follow @1plus1plus1 on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway, give yourself an extra entry.
3. If you Follow 1+1+1=1 in Google Friend Connect, give yourself an extra entry {this is not the same as subscribing, this is publicly following}.
4. If you Follow The Vintage Pearl blog, give yourself an extra entry. This Giveaway is open for anyone, the gift certificate will be emailed to you.
5. If you Like 1+1+1=1 on Facebook, give yourself an extra entry.

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS August 8, 2010 . Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

Easy Lunchboxes ~ GIVEAWAY CLOSED

Winner #81-Lauren! Congratulations!

We were recently sent a set of Easy Lunchboxes along with a cooler to review. I am about to admit how truly dorky I am. I was probably more excited for these to arrive in the mail than I have been for any other item we have had sent to us for a review!!!!! Yup, I LOVE containers and I knew if these ended up being half as great in person as they appeared online, I was in for a plastic container state of bliss.

They arrived and I tore into the box to find my plastic slice of heaven. They ARE better in person! I honestly had 2 main concerns that I knew I would have to figure out when they actually arrived…

1. How easy the lids came off, and if they sealed enough for my liking without being too tight or too loose. They are PERFECT, seriously. Somehow they stay on, but yet the kids can open them alone.
2. The quality of the plastic itself. I have used both Tupperware and also Ziploc…and I don’t love either. Tupperware tends to be a bit too tough for my liking, and the lids are often too tight and secure for me. Ziploc {and other cheaper brands} are too flimsy and don’t cut it for me either. Easy Lunchboxes are the perfect middle ground, Honestly I was shocked, they are much sturdier than Ziploc-ish containers, but the lids are still able to be removed easily.

Within hours of their arrival, they were neatly stacked in my fridge like this……all ready for the next day. I also decided to color coordinate the boys’ juice cups {they only get 1 per day} and pre-fill those too. The container under the juice cups is the morning snack, and to the left are the boys’ water bottles.

Lunch the next day was a dream {and each day since then}. I pulled out the boxes and handed them out. It was wonderful.

After lunch, what wasn’t eaten, got left in the Easy Lunchbox and put right back into the fridge to be eaten before afternoon snack!!!! This was a feature I hadn't thought of! It makes lunch easily re-storable for those little sweethearts who don’t eat all of their healthy food only to beg for snacks later. We don’t offer our children alternative meals, and if they don’t eat what is served, they are either done for the day {if it is dinner} or if it can be saved, it will be saved for the next time they are hungry. Easy Lunchboxes make this plan work beautifully!!!!

The boxes that were emptied went into the sink, and that was the ONLY mess I had to worry about! I didn’t have to clean up the entire kitchen after preparing lunch in the middle of our homeschooling day. Nor did I need to stop early to begin preparing lunch!!!! Doing the prep work at night saved me tons of stress!!!

I LOVE these things!!!!!! I highly recommend them to all of you…both for home use and for traveling use. Whether you homeschool or pack your child’s lunch for “going” school…they are perfect!

FDA approved. No BPA, phthalates, lead, vinyl, or PVC. Safe for dishwasher, freezer, and microwave.

BUY IT…

Can’t wait to see if you will win? Use this discount code to save 10%…ONEplusONE {valid through 9/6/10, good for one time use per customer} here on the Easy Lunchboxes site.

WIN IT…

Easy Lunchboxes is offering a set of 4 lunchboxes along with a cooler {winner chooses cooler color} to one of my readers!

Mandatory Entry…

Visit www.EasyLunchboxes.com and tell me one thing you learned about their products after you browse around their site a bit.

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

1. If you follow @easylunchboxes on Twitter, give yourself an extra entry
2. If you Follow/Subscribe to 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry
3. If you follow @1plus1plus1 on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway, give yourself an extra entry. Sample Tweet: @1plus1plus1 is hosting a giveaway for @EasyLunchboxes Enter here: http://bit.ly/9Jactx
   
4. If you are a member of 1+1+1=1’s BlogFrog community, give yourself an extra entry

This Giveaway is open for USA or Canada only.

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS August 1, 2010. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

Girl’s Life Application Study Bible ~ Review

I was sent an awesome new Bible to review from Tyndale House, the NLT Girls Life Application Study Bible. I was so excited to see this Bible in real life and was even more impressed than I thought I would be when I opened it! it is simply gorgeous and perfect for a girl.

The Bible is a regular size, with a soft leather cover, and the Bible inside is, THE BIBLE…not much to review there!!! It is the NLT ~ which is not a translation we use often, we are mostly NIV folks around here. I read through several parts of the Bible and it didn’t bother me at all that it wasn’t my normal NIV.

The Life Application portion of the Bible is great, with many different stories and notes focused around preteen girls. It also has several key features that make it unique…

• “What Now?” Learn how to make good choices in tough times
• “I Survived!” Personal survival stories from older teens about how they made it
• “Amazing Facts” Bible trivia
• “At a Glance”—the lives of famous women in the Bible—good and bad—become lessons for teens
• “Is It OK?” A reality check on what the Bible says about the questions that are really on your mind
• 2-color interior; 16 pages of full-color illustrations about Bible times
• Book introductions and timelines
• Charts and 3-dimensional maps
• Unique colored pattern on outside of page edges

I am saving this Bible to be Ladybug’s first Big Girl Bible ;-). It is already hers, but she just doesn’t know it yet! We are grateful to Tyndale House for sending us this awesome Bible to review! You can purchase this Bible here on CBD!

Songs for Saplings ~ Giveaway! CLOSED

This Giveaway is Closed, Congratulations to the following winners...

#10-Lindsay, #173-Mozi Esme, #190-Jen, and #318 JustCorey

I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone who reads my blog that we love Songs for Saplings! You have seen the verses featured on Totally Tots, and seen them featured on my calendar page {we focus on one verse per week}. Here’s Krash with some of his review cards, reciting his verses!

Songs for Saplings is music designed to teach your children about God. You can read more about their mission and their music here. Most of you know that we are a missionary family, so it is awesome to know that Songs for Saplings has an awesome missions program, supporting missionaries {both short and long term} worldwide!!!

You can purchase Songs for Saplings CDs here on their website, and use the code “totallytots” to receive 15% off! You can also purchase Songs for Saplings ABCs here on Amazon, or on iTunes.

Songs for Saplings has generously offered to give 4 of you your choice of 1 of their awesome cds!!!!

You can see all of their cds here, and even listen to samples!

Mandatory Entry…

Visit Songs for Saplings and tell me which CD you would choose if you won! Leave the name of the CD in your 1st comment!

After you do that, you can gain some extra entries by any of the following, remember to leave an extra comment for each item so they will count as entries...

1. LIKE Song's for Saplings’ Facebook page, for an extra entry!
2. LIKE 1+1+1=1’s Facebook Page, for an extra entry!
3. If you Follow 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry!
4. If you have printed any of the Songs for Saplings verses we offer at Totally Tots AND featured them on your blog at any time, leave a link to the post for an extra entry!
5. If you tweet about this giveaway, give yourself an extra entry! {leave your twitter id in the comment} Sample tweet: @1plus1plus1 is giving away a Songs for Saplings CD to 4 WINNERS!!! Enter to win here: http://bit.ly/9qT5fv
   
6. If you Follow/Subscribe to Totally Tots give yourself an extra entry.

This Giveaway is open for USA only.

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS July 18, 2010. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.