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.

Tickle Tap Apps & $20 iTunes Gift Card Giveaway CLOSED

Congratulations Love, Comment #66, you won!

We were given an adorable app set to review, Tickle Tap Apps and, we love them!!! We got this set right before our cruise back in April so it was perfect for my kids while we were away! I thought it would be great for Krash but guess who also LOVES it—Ladybug! Her favorite is the Sound Shaker…You choose a sound and then just tap the screen to make the sounds change tone and eventually get bigger and crack into a cute little birdie {which you can see under her left thumb}. It is so simple and makes her giggle, she loves it!

Krash loves the Field Flier game, and really all of them, but Field Flier is his favorite.

I even found these cute printables on their site, if your child loves the cute characters!

Since I can’t show you myself, you can see their info video here…

You can purchase the Toddler Pack that we have here on iTunes. Here’s what is included in the Toddler Pack {$4.99}:

• Sound Shaker ~ tap the screen to create different sounds {chimes, whistles, barnyard animals and more}
• Field Flier – Toddlers help the little robin fly around outside and watch him play.
• Count Caddy – A fun counting game by 1’s, 2’s and more!
• Sort Slider – tip and tilt the screen to slide an item to the matching shadow
• Pattern Painter – Complete and create patterns using shapes

Tickle Tap Apps is generously donating a $20 iTunes giftcard to one of you! How cool is that?

Mandatory Entry…

Visit Tickle Tap Apps and tell me your favorite app after you browse around their site a bit. Leave the name of your favorite Tickle Tap app in your 1st comment! FYI-I just noticed that the Sound Shaker will be FREE this Friday {May28} only-see info on the homepage of their site!!!

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/Subscribe to 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry
2. If you Follow 1+1+1=1 on Twitter, give yourself an extra entry
3. If you Follow @Zincroegames on Twitter {the great creators behind Tickle Tap apps!}

This Giveaway is open for USA & 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 June 21, 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.

Letter of the Week ~ Giveaway! CLOSED

Congratulations #360 Debbie, YOU WIN!!!!!

{chose via random.org}

I am honored to share my good bloggy-friend- Erica’s Letter of the Week Curriculum with you!

Most of you probably already know Erica, her blog- Confessions of a Homeschooler, is hard to miss because it is simply amazing! If you haven’t been there, go now! Erica is the one who taught me how to put the fancy navigation drop down menu bar on my blog and I am so grateful, it is probably the most useful thing I have ever added to my blog! She is also a Totally Tots team member, managing our Crafty Corner feature for us.

Erica has generously offered to give away her set of Letter of the Week printables in either download or cd format! She graciously offers them for free on her blog too, but as a package download for a fee…I think this idea is brilliant. It allows those who can’t afford to pay the $ the option of downloading the pieces one by one, but also gives those of you who can afford $10 a way to support her efforts financially while also getting the printables as a simple package.

As I well know, a LOT of time goes into into not only creating the printables, but also sharing them. Converting them, uploading them, and presenting them often takes more work than creating some of them! The amount of work that has gone into her printables is unreal! Erica does this generously not only for her Letter of the Week, but also for many other printables she makes.

We use her Letter of the Week printables on a regular basis, here’s a few action shots of Krash enjoying Erica’s work…

K is for Kite…

You can find all of her printables on her site [which is so easy to navigate using her top bar and sidebar box}. If you can afford to purchase her package, I highly recommend it, even just as a way to say THANKS to her and to give her some financial encouragement as she shares so freely with all of us. Plus, it gives you the ability to have all of the printables at your fingertips after you download them all at once.

One of you is going to win the Letter of the Week Curriculum!

To enter, leave a comment here telling me who you would use this curriculum for!

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/Subscribe to 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry.
2. If you Follow/Subscribe to Confessions of a Homeschooler, give yourself an extra entry.
3. If you Follow/Subscribe to Totally Tots, give yourself an extra entry.
4. If you would post about your win on your blog, give yourself an extra entry.

This Giveaway is open for anyone, although if you want the cd format it is for US shipping 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 May 9, 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.

100 Days in the USA ~ Giveaway! CLOSED

Updated-Congratulations Laura #21-you won!

Way back when we had our 1000 Subscribers Celebration, I was sent 2 awesome games from Out of the Box . The first one, Backseat Drawing-I reviewed here {we still love it}. The next one, 10 Days in the USA-I saved until now as Pac Man is a bit older and it is more of an advanced game.

You can read the rules of this unique game here, and some modifications for younger kids here. This is a game that I will need to play with Pac Man for quite awhile, and we have yet to get Dad involved but I am sure he will whoop us all.

This game takes tons of focus and strategic thinking, even my brain was tired {in a good way}. It is recommended for ages 10 and up, Pac Man is almost 8. We just played it in a modified way and worked togetherer and it was awesome. I could really see his brain working as he explored the different ways to create a travel plan that would work for him.

It is an awesome game, the board alone is wonderful as a teaching tool itself even without the game! You could easily just use the board and cards to find the states! In our version of play this day, Pac man won the game!

Here’s the view of how Pac Man won {and yes, the cat helped a ton}…

Start in Texas, walk to LA {since it borders TX}, fly to GA {since they’re both blue}, drive to MO{since they share a bordering state}, walk to IA, drive to ND, walk to MT.

They also have different versions of this game, {Europe, Asia, Africa}, and so many other great learning games on their site, we love Apples to Apples also!

Would you like to win 10 Days in the USA???

Mandatory Entry…

Visit Out of the Box Games and tell me one other game that you like after you browse around their site a bit. Leave the name of the game 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/Subscribe to 1+1+1=1 give yourself an extra entry.
2. Follow Out of the Box Games on Twitter
3. Become a fan of OTB on Facebook
4. If you will take a photo of your kid(s) playing this game and post about it and Out of the Box Games on your blog if you are the winner, give yourself an extra entry!!! (an honor thing)

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 April 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.