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Feature Friday-Melissa & Doug Toys (giveaway)

November 20, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 71 Comments

This giveaway is now closed. 🙂

Are you making your list and checking it twice? Today’s Feature Friday is a great line of toys just in time for the holidays. Melissa & Doug makes such wonderful things, I could not help but share! For the feature I will be reviewing one particular toy set, the cutting fruit crate. But, there are so many options, they have something for everyone!

I was asked by All Children’s Furniture to do a review and I knew right away that my little guy would just love this Melissa & Doug cutting fruit play set. He is very analytical and loves toys that he can manipulate, besides the fact that it means he gets to play with a knife.

Here it is straight out of the box. It was a success right away, but I wondered if the initial excitement would last. Sorry the video is so poor, I was lazy and took it with my camera.

It lasted all right! He played with it for an hour straight, which is unheard of for my active 2 year old! Usually, he doesn’t play with anything for more than five minutes. Here he is an hour later.

He would have played with it longer, but I made him put it away for dinner time.

I have now had this set for a little over a month and it is holding up like a champ with a boy that is not gentle on anything. He knows all the fruits and can put the pieces back together by himself. It is solid wood, so he cannot break it. He has chipped the paint slightly on a few corners when he throws it across the hardwood in the kitchen, but the velcro is still in great shape and he still loves playing with it. I am looking forward to collecting more Melissa & Doug products! We may just have to tell Santa about them!!

And guess what?! Santa has come early for you! I am giving away a Melissa & Doug Cutting Fruit Crate to one lucky reader! I do what I can to help those Recession Christmas budgets. 😉

Melissa and Doug Play Food Cutting Fruit Crate - 4021

To enter:

Visit All ChildrensFurniture.com for fun brands like Melissa & Doug, KidKraft, Little Tikes and more. Come back and leave a comment on this post including what item, besides the fruit crate, your little one would like under the tree. Also, please leave an email if you do not have one on your profile.

Leave only one comment including all entries.

Extra entries:

2 extra: Tweet about the giveaway including @LittleTipsyblog so I can see you did.
2 extra: Blog or facebook about it and include the link in your comment

Giveaway closes on Wednesday the 25th so you will know if you won by Black Friday.

Oh, and All ChildrensFurniture.com is offering 10% off all orders until Sunday. Bonus!

All Children’s Furniture provided the product for review and is providing the product for the giveaway. I was not paid for my comments, I only rave about things I am truly impressed with.

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YW Leadership Idea-Don’t be a Turkey

November 19, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 3 Comments

We had our Young Women presidency meeting at my house this month which means I was in charge of the leadership moment for the Young Women class presidencies. I wanted to focus on confidence and not being scared to share ideas and beliefs. I came up with this turkey handout since it is the month of Thanksgiving. It also goes along really well with nest year’s theme: “Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” Joshua 1:9.

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I talked about how they should not be scared or ashamed to speak out whether it be conducting at church or defending their beliefs at school. I read them the story of chicken little and how he was brave (one of my little guy’s faves) even when he felt alone.

Don't Be a Chicken! (Disney's Chicken Little)

Then, I gave them the turkey handouts and with my family’s traditional turkey cookies.

They loved the turkey cookies!

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Wordless Wednesday-Family Obligations

November 18, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 7 Comments

This is my apology for slacking in my writing a little bit this last week.
I had family obligations. 😉

If you have not been to Disneyland when it is all dressed up for Christmas, do yourself a favor and go! It is amazing! It even snows during the fireworks.

Linking up with 5 minutes for Mom Wordless Wednesday.

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Feature Friday-Sisters Stuff Blog Swap

November 13, 2009 By Michelle Barneck 3 Comments

Today’s Feature Friday on this lovely Friday the 13th are two cute sisters Whitney and Alish who combine forces to create Sisters Stuff.

I found their adorable blog, like they say below, when Alish and I became swap partners. Just look at all the cute stuff I got in the mail. If you get one of those cute cards, just pretend you didn’t see this and act like I made it. 😉 Thanks again Alish!

They are obviously very talented, so I’ll hand it over and let them show you around!

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We discovered A Little Tipsy when Alish got her as her Tip Junkie Trade Secrets partner.
We are so excited that we found her blog and are swapping with her today.

Here are a few questions Michelle wanted us to answer:

What is your favorite crafting tool or secret weapon? Hot Glue Gun

What is your favorite organization tip? De-junking

What is the last movie you saw in the theater? The Proposal

Here is a little more about us.

We are 2 sisters that love crafts, recipes, saving money, organizing, home decor, trends, and love being moms. {Sisters Stuff} was created to share all the stuff we love.

Here are some of our favorite posts.