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Trendy Treasures Boutique Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)

Trendy Treasures Boutique Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)


You may have read a review I wrote a few months ago about Trendy Treasures Boutique. You can find my original post HERE! Trendy Treasures is truly a unique Internet destination, it is their goal to help you find the perfect gift fora new baby, big brother, big sister, new home, your best friend, anyone you may need a gift for, or yourself. Trendy Treasures is a MOM run business that prides itself on their unique gift ideas!

You can find anything from snack and meal time accessories, kids clothing and shoes, arts and crafts, towels, wraps, robes, blankets, burb rags, bibs, stationery, gifts for the home, women,and men, cosmetic bags, travel case, and so much more.You can have almost any of their gifts monogrammed to make it extra special to the person receiving your gift.




The PINK DOODLE BAG is one of my All Time Favorite Trendy Treasures Boutique items! "This handy art bag comes complete with 24 Crayola® crayons, pad of paper, 12 pieces of Crayola® chalk and mini chalk board.It opens to reveal a pad of paper and pockets to hold your child's favorite Crayola® colors, and a front pocket to hold stickers. The perfect way to keep your child busy on the go."(product description found on the Trendy Treasures Website) Trendy Treasures has several Doodle Bags available for both boys and girls and is a GREAT addition to any Holiday Gift List this year!

Little Miss Diva is really into playing with her kitchen set and pretending to cook. She is such a Little Mini Mommy these days! The Chef Apron would be a great gift for any little chef in training! The apron comes with a hat and can be customized in any color available and with any name or saying you would like on it! A perfect Gift for any child!







Trendy Treasures really does have it all! Including this Wood Rectangular Tray. "This fabulous tray is the perfect piece for entertaining. It measures 17 ½ by 11”. Buy it for yourself or when you need to be a gracious guest. Please note that since it’s made from a natural product, colors may vary."(product description found on the Trendy Treasures Website) This Wood Tray would be a great gift for anyone who has just purchased a home, a couple who just got married, or anyone that person that just has everything!


Trendy Treasures is offering 1 LUCKY reader a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate to their online Boutique! All you have to do is enter the Love To Shop Mom Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event! And there is even BETTER news! You get EXTRA ENTRIES just by reading this Review! Just simply head on over to the GIVEAWAY post and leave a separate comment for the following Questions!

EXTRA Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event Entries
Extra Entry 1: Visit the Trendy Treasures Boutique Website and tell me what you spend the $20 Gift Certificate on if you were the winner
Extra Entry 2: Visit the Trendy Treasures Boutique and tell me anything that else that you like from their site
Elizabeth Grant Cosmetics Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)

Elizabeth Grant Cosmetics Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)


Elizabeth Grant was faced with a problem that most people face at sometime in their lifetime, skin care issues. The only difference was that Elizabeth Grant was left with damaged skin after the Second World War, which caused her a lot of personal shame and embarrassment. She would avoid public outings when possible and wore huge hats and sunglasses to hide her face. In 1948, Elizabeth Discovered a natural substance that was used to treat war wounds, and developed a product that improved the look and feel of her skin dramatically. Her work as a make up artist helped her to develop a new line of skin care for women at a time when it was extremely unusual for women to in London England to own their own companies. The Elizabeth Grant Skin Care Line has evolved from a home based business to the multi-million dollar global corporation that it is today.

Elizabeth Grant Cosmetics and Skin Care was once available by special order only, but their beauty products are now available in select retail locations in Canada, The United States, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Poland. Elizabeth Grant Cosmetics and Skin Care is the winner of International acclaim and countless awards over the years, and is leading the way in Skin Care for women all over the world. The secret ingredient to Elizabeth Grant Skin Care Products is found in Torricelumn. Torricelumn is a compound that has revolutionised skin care. It is found in the ocean and is an extract from sea kelp. You can read all about Elizabeth Grant and the story behind TORRICELUMN™ HERE.

In today's society when beauty and youth is so key, Elizabeth Grant has what you are looking for to stay young and youthful longer. You can find products to help fight aging and wrinkles, cleansers, masks and exfoliates, moisturizers, serums, products to help smooth and firm your skin, sun and bronzing products, and even products to help tone your skin. If you are trying to target a certain area, such as your face, hands, lips, or even the neck and decollete area, Elizabeth Grant has you covered. They offer skin care products for every skin type, combination, dry, oily, and even sensitive skin. Their product lines consist of a Caviar Line, Collagen Line, Biocollasis Line, Soliel Smart Line, Vitamin C Line, and an Exclusive Line as well.


Three products that I was very impressed with are the Caviar Day Creme, Vitamin C Illuminating Eye Pads, and the Soleil Smart Lip Protection with SPF 15.


Caviar Day Crème uses deluxe ingredients to delay and improve the signs of aging. Skin will appear energized, smoothed and moisturized.


Product Description found on Elizabeth Grant Website.






Vitamin C Illuminating Eye Pads are the key to erasing the appearance of darkness from your under eye area. Rich in skin lightening, brightening and smoothing vitamin C and infused with Torricelumn™'s anti-wrinkle properties, these eye pads can be applied daily or weekly for an intensive under eye treatment. Your eyes have never looked brighter or more beautiful.
Product Description found on the Elizabeth Grant Website



Soleil Smart Lip Protection with SPF 15 is a moisturizing balm for lips that includes SPF 15 to protect from sun damage. Great for everyday use, but especially perfect for beach days spent in the strong summer rays. Product Description found on Elizabeth Grant Website.



Elizabeth Grant is a great Skin Care line for anyone who wants great skin. Any of the Elizabeth Grant products would be great gifts for any mom this Holiday Season!

Elizabeth Grant is offering 2 LUCKY readers, YES 2 LUCKY readers, a chance to win an Elizabeth Grant Prize Pack. 2 Different Winners will each win a sample of the Caviar Day Creme, a sample of the Vitamin Illuminating Eye Pads, and a FULL SIZE Soleil Smart Lip Protection with SPF 15! All you have to do is enter the Love To Shop Mom Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event! And there is even BETTER news! You get EXTRA ENTRIES just by reading this Review! Just simply head on over to the GIVEAWAY post and leave a separate comment for the following Questions!

EXTRA Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event Entries
Extra Entry 1: Tell me why you would be excited to Win this Elizabeth Grant Prize Pack

Extra Entry 2: Visit the Elizabeth Grant Website and tell me what your favorite EG product is other than the three I told you about in this review

Extra Entry 3: Follow Elizabeth Grant Skin Care on Twitter

Extra Entry 4: Tell me what you are currently keeping care of your skin, do you have any secrets to staying youthful and beautiful

Gloveables Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)

Gloveables Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)

Lindy Kummings, a mom of 2 boys, is the creator of Gloveables, a products that puts the "fun" in cleaning! Lindy is a cancer survivor and you can find her AMAZING story here. In 2001 Lindy brainstormed with the idea to apply colorful pleated oilcloth borders and attach them to standard rubber gloves to combine fashion with function! She wanted to give women a new rubber glove that would make cleaning and other household choirs more fun and enjoyable to complete. And with in a few years Gloveables was born and took off running.

Gloveables has since been featured in "O," "British Vogue," "Readers Digest," and countless other publications. Gloveables was even featured on an episode of the hit ABC show "Desperate Housewives". Gloveables has grown from just rubber gloves to aprons and hand bags.

Gloveables was very nice and sent me a pair of their rubber gloves for the purpose of this review. I absolutely do not mind doing household choirs when I am wearing a pair of Gloveables! I feel a little more girly and a little less dirty when scrubbing the toilet. I love that I can combine fashion and cleaning house all in one, gone are the days of feeling gross while cleaning.

Gloveables has many features that I love. They are waterproof so that I do not have to worry about messing up a manicure when it is time to clean the kitchen. They are perfect for protecting my hands from harmful chemicals that dry out your hands, there is nothing I hate more than drying chemicals that take days for the smell to fully go away and for my hands to feel "normal" again. Gloveables also protect my hands from heat and dirt. I am always afraid that if i use chemicals to clean that i need to take a steaming hot shower after before I can touch Little Miss Diva. Well now with Gloveables I can go clean the bathroom and then take them off and I am good to go for a Little Mommy and Miss Diva play time. Which makes Miss Diva happy.

Gloveables are also very fashionable but yet comfortable. They feel soft on your hands unlike some rubber gloves I have used in the past. I really love the cute ruffled fringe at the bottom, not only is it cute but it ads extra protection from splashed. And the best part about Gloveables is that they are durable and will last a long time because they are made from high quality materials.

I am a huge Gloveables fan and I know that you will be too! Gloveables is a must in my book and I would love to give them to ALL my girlfriends and moms all over the world! Being a stay at home mom, anything that can make cleaning a little more enjoyable and a lot less choirish and dull gets a major plus in my book!!!!

Gloveables is offering 6 LUCKY readers, did you see that 6 LUCKY readers, a chance to win a pair of Gloveables of their own!(2 pink with zebra, 3 black and zebra, and 1 red) All you have to do is enter the Love To Shop Mom Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event! And there is even BETTER news! You get EXTRA ENTRIES just by reading this Review! Just simply head on over to the GIVEAWAY post and leave a separate comment for the following Questions!

EXTRA Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event Entries

Extra Entry 1: Visit the Gloveables Inc. Website and tell me what your FAVORITE style of Gloveables is

Extra Entry 2: Tell me why you would be excited to be one of the 6 Gloveables winners! Would you keep them for yourself or would you give them as a Christmas Present?

Extra Entry 3: What household choir could you see yourself using Gloveables to complete? How would it make cleaning better for you?
A Few MAJOR Updates

A Few MAJOR Updates

I am so proud of where Love To Shop Mom is going! I am just happy to have such wonderful readers! Thank you so much!

First I want to start out by mentioning that there have been a few items added to the Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway Event! Relish and Kokopax have offered items as Giveaways items too! So I wanted to let you know about them if you had not niticed yet! I have written a review for Relish but look out for the Kokopax post in week 4! Kokopax is offering a baby carrier worth $149.99! I am so excitted to be adding these items to the Love To Shop Mom Holiday Gift Guide Giveway Event! This Holiday season is going to be extra special! Keep an eye out for those reviews and bonus giveaway entries!

I am also planning on some great reviews and giveaways comming up next week that are not part of the Holiday Gift Guide Event so keep and eye out for those as well!

I am also planning on adding a few new things to Love To Shop Mom in the New Year and would love to work with other bloggers on my ideas! I am looking for a few bloggers to write guest posts after the new year! If you are interested in contributing I would love to hear from you! Email me if you are interested! lovetoshopmom@yahoo.com

Oh and on a personal acchievment and update on yesterdays post, I ate lunch today at T.G.I Fridays with my mom and........DID NOT THROW UP MY LUNCH! This is so huge for me!!!! I have not kept down a meal in weeks!!!!!! Oh and I found a way to go to a doctor that i might be able to actually afford! But more to come on that in another post, gotta do all the research and then i will share my findings with you guys!
I realy miss enjoying my favorite foods

I realy miss enjoying my favorite foods


So I have a very nasty stomach, for some reason mine just does not seem to like me lately. Due to weight gain, stress, and a few other factors, I have issues. If I eat something that is to spicy my stomach says ya right and then it is painful. If I eat dairy my stomach says ya right and it is really painful. If I eat meat my stomach says hell no and well you get the point. PAINFUL and i mean stomach pains like you would not believe that usually end up with me throwing up 95% of the time. Which after a few days of throwing up you can image the grumpy mood I am in because I am hungry, the pains from hunger, and the lack of energy that I have. Not to mention the fact that my hair is starting to fall out.
My muscles are really starting to hurt, I am loosing weight, which I love but with this effect I am willing to gain it all back for a happy tummy. I am loosing my boobs, which is fine with my because after pregnancy they are way to big for me anyways and i would like my old boobs back anyways so no complaints about that. But my jeans are getting too big and I was able to buy smaller shirts recently. And i love that i am loosing weight and i needed to anyways but not like this.
Yesterday was a rough day I was sick all day and vomiting everything I ate. Today my stomach hurt so bad from the pain I thought i would not be able to get out of bed. And then when I thought ok i feel just a little better and can eat something, i threw it back up. The hubby was so nice to bring me some crackers home after work and that is all i have had today. And most days this is what life has become for me, vomiting and trying to eat food and then vomiting again. I have seen the inside of my toilet more times in the last few months than any normal person should.
I know for a fact that I am not pregnant so that is not an issue here. In fact we have had failed attempts to get pregnant recently and I fear that this may be why. But with no health insurance to visit that doctor for something like this would cost us a fortune, and well when you live on a very strict budget, doctor visits are not on the top of the list of needs.
I fear that my husband and family think that I have relapsed into an eating disorder. I had an eating disorder when i was younger and i fear they think that this is the problem again. And i assure them that it is not. I do not know what is happening but i hope it stops soon. I really hate throwing up and I can be a total bitch when my stomach hurts like this. The pain today is just plain unbearable. I do not want Miss Diva to think that it is ok to throw up everything that you eat, i do not want her to have issues with food like i have had in the past, i want her to be healthy and love her body and food.
And i miss being able to enjoy my favorite foods, like mexican food, i really miss that!
Baby Dipper Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)

Baby Dipper Review Holiday Gift Guide Event (GIVEAWAY Item)


Barbara Schantz, a stay at home mom to 2 sets of twins, was faced with the inevitable challenge of trying to feed 2 babies at one time. With twins everything comes in 2's, including feeding time. Frustrated with other baby feeding bowls available to moms, Barbara wanted something that she could use with one hand, that did not slide around the table, and that would aid in the collection of baby food. So she created the Baby Dipper Bowl for moms!


The Baby Dipper Bowl is a unique item available to moms because of it's shape and design. The Baby Dipper Bowl has a non slip bottom surface, sloped interior surface, a spoon shaped collection point to help gather food right down to the last bite, vertical sides that help push food onto the spoon, and transparent sides that allow food to be seen easily by bother parent and child. The Baby Dipper Bowl is proven to make feeding much easier for parents and toddlers trying to feed themselves. It is truly a unique feeding system available today!


Barbara was so nice and sent Miss Diva and I a Baby Dipper Bowl to try out for the purpose of this review. I had read about the Baby Dipper and heard how great it was for toddlers and could not wait to try it out myself! Little Miss Diva in Training is extremely independent and when it comes to meal time mommy had better not come close to her food. She even tells me "NO" when i try and help feed her. She is truly a Little Miss Independent! I am just waiting for the day when she says "No I DO MOMMY" I think I might actually cry when that day comes. So we took the Baby Dipper out for a spin and OH BOY it lived up to it's promise!

I decided that I would give Little Miss Diva chocolate pudding for the first time ever in her new Baby Dipper Bowl. What I was thinking giving her chocolate pudding? I have no idea?!?! Lets just say the sugar rush she got after was JUST SO FUN! hehehehe
So Miss Diva dove right into the pudding and in Miss Diva true fashion she would not let mommy help her, so i just stood by with the camera and went to town taking pics!

The Baby Dipper spoon was shaped just right for Miss Diva's tiny little toddler hands, it has a slight curve in it to help toddlers feed themselves. Right away I noticed that Miss Diva was holding the spoon a lot more comfortably than she would any other spoon. She was able to actually spoon the pudding onto the spoon and then take it straight to her mouth. The bowl really did help to guide the pudding onto the spoon.

I was really impressed at how well Little Miss Diva was feeding herself with the Baby Dipper bowl and spoon. Usually when Miss Diva is eating she holds the spoon in one hand and then puts food in her mouth with the other hand. With other spoons and bowls she gets frustrated and gives up all together and food usually ends up being thrown onto the floor. But not with the Baby Dipper Bowl and spoon, she actually ate all of her pudding and did not share any with the dog. Which made this mommy one happy mommy and the dog was a sad dog :(

OK so she still had her "MESSY FUN" Which may have been a little mommy encouraged, because really, eating pudding for the first time ever you have to make a mess and get down and dirty with it! So this mommy may have encouraged some snack time food playing! Lets call it modern food art shall we!
All in all I was very impressed and will be using the Baby Dipper at all meals for as long as Little Miss Diva will let us! And I will most definitely be giving it to friends as baby shower gifts and using it if we ever have another baby! The Baby Dipper Bowl and Spoon are a must for any new mom! Well at least Love To Shop Mom and Little Miss Diva in Training think so anyways! Thank you Baby Dipper, i foresee stress free meals in our future!
Barbara is offering one LUCKY reader a chance to win a Baby Dipper Bowl of their own! All you have to do is enter the Love To Shop Mom Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event! And there is even BETTER news! You get EXTRA ENTRIES just by reading this Review! Just simply head on over to the GIVEAWAY post and leave a separate comment for the following Questions!
EXTRA Holiday Gift Guide GIVEAWAY Event Entries
Extra Entry 1: Visit the Baby Dipper Bowl website and tell me why you would be so excited to win a Baby Dipper Bowl of your own!
Extra Entry 2: Follow Baby Dipper on Twitter
Extra Entry 3: Follow Baby Dipper on Facebook and become a fan
Extra Entry 4: Subscribe to the Baby Dipper Newsletter
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