Playhouse Disney Blog Tour with a Giveaway **Closed**

I wake up to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Handy Mandy every morning! Brandon loves it, its so cute too how he tries to sing along and knows whats happening next, I love it! Its nice to know that there is still some good wholesome shoes for kids to watch these days. Some of the shows I have seen on other channels and just boring and not even appropriate for kids to be watching. That Sponge Bob certainly doesn't seem like a kids show to me lol. The five shows that we got on our DVD were Handy Many, Imagination Movers,Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Special Agent Oso and My Friends Tigger and Pooh.

Even though I don't have the Playhouse Disney channel, don't get me wrong I would love to have it, we still get to see lots of the shows on the Family channel. I don't know what I would do without Playhouse Dinsey, the shows are Brandon's favorites out of all of the shows there are and while Kristina won't admit it she enjoys watching them too! There are new ones on all of the time which is great for me because I can only handle watching the same show so many times.

Mom Central and Playhouse Disney sent us a PHD DVD with 5 full episodes, pencils, a magnetic pen and colouring magnets! Brandon went straight to work playing with the stickers and putting them all over some paper and then proceeded to color his magnet and put it on the fridge! This would be a great activity to do in the car, although I wouldn't leave crayons in a hot car, I have done that and the outcome isn't pretty! Its a great rainy day activity or just something for quiet time.

If your little one, or not so little one as it maybe, loves the shows on Playhouse Disney then be sure to enter to win a prize pack like the one I go which includes a PHD DVD with 5 full episodes, pencils, a magnetic pen and colouring magnets. There are other giveaways going on like this but you can only win once! Good luck!

To Enter:

Just tell me what your favourite Playhouse Disney show is!

(This must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
- like me on facebook (leave your first name and last initial so I can find you)
- blog about this giveaway with a link to me
- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
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Win a goodie basket including a 5 episode DVD from Playhouse Disney and Mom Central @Funfunkymommy #PlayhouseDisneyCanada http://tinyurl.com/372hdwg

***** Contest will end on August 18th at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to Canada only*****

I am participating in the Playhouse Disney program by Mom Central. I received a Playhouse Disney prize pack and a thank you gift card to facilitate this post. The opinions on this blog are my own.

Holiday here we come!

So if you don't hear from me much this week we are just getting ready to head down our beautiful island to Victoria for a much needed holiday. I have an appointment with an allergy specialist next Monday so we are going down this Thursday and will be back Monday night! The kids are so excited and so are we!! We are going to do a bit of back to school shopping and lots of relaxing and sightseeing! So I will have a post up now and then just probably not daily! Don't miss me to much lol! See you all soon with pics!!

Warm Buddies with giveaway **Closed**

Warm Buddy Company creates world famous microwavable aromatherapy heat wraps and heat packs. Karen McKee developed the first Warm Buddy heat wrap in 1995. Warm Buddy's rejuvenating heat therapy products are perfect for providing stress relief and can help ease menstrual pain, muscle pain, shoulder pain, neck pain and back pain. Warm Buddy products are proudly made in Canada.

I have seen a few of these type of products out there before but none of them were made in Canada and has this good of quality. Warm Buddy sent my kids each a Warm Buddy. Brandon got the black beary bear and Kristina got a sheep. They are recommended for ages 3 and up but I had no worries giving it to Brandon.

They love them. Kristina asks for hers to be heated up every night before bed and Brandon just likes to cuddle his. The two of them get them out together and they play together with them, it so cute. I think when Brandon's sick again I will keep heating it up for him, and when its really cold out. It will help to keep him warm and cozy.


Warm Buddy has so many great products for you as well as your kids, they even sell their products to spa's. If you have been wanting one of those neck wraps or eye pillow they use at the spa check out Warm Buddy, that would have been exactly what it was. I love the idea of the eye pillow, I could see myself laying in bed at night with one of those and just nodding off to spa dream land. Hint Hint Hubby!


Warm Buddy has a small Beary Bear to one lucky winner

To Enter:

Go to Warm Buddy and tell me what else you would love to try that I didn't mention here

(This must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
- like me on facebook (leave your first name and last initial so I can find you)
- blog about this giveaway with a link to me

- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
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Win a small Beary Bear from Warm Buddies @Funfunkymommy http://tinyurl.com/28khdjr

***** Contest will end on September 3rd 2010 at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to Canada and the USA*****

Koo and Poppet with a Giveaway **Closed**

I did a review a few months ago for Koo and Poppet and now we have a giveaway for you! You can check out my review here! She has redesigned her bears and wants to giveawy one away now! (The first pic is of the new bears!)

To Enter:

Go to Koo and Poppet and tell me which animal is your favorite

(This must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
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- blog about this giveaway with a link to me
- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
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Win a bear from Koo and Poppet @Funfunkymommy http://tinyurl.com/27gds35

***** Contest will end on September 3rd at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to Canada and the USA*****

Sibu Beauty with a Giveaway **Closed**

The journey to create a successful company can be as arduous as scaling a Tibetan mountainside, but well worth the view from the top. Bruce McMullin founded Sibu in 2003 after series of events led him to Calcutta, India where he crossed paths with an ayurvedic specialist in Chinese plants and herbs. In passing, this expert mentioned a powerful holy fruit, the seabuckthorn berry.

High in the Tibetan Himalayas (12,000 feet above sea level) grows a tiny but resilient fruit that resists the harsh weather conditions and high altitudes. The sea buckthorn berry fortifies itself against the elements by producing an array of powerful nutrients. With over 190 bioactive compounds, sea buckthorn is an unsurpassed source of Omegas 3, 6, and 9. And it's a rich source of the elusive essential fatty acid, Omega-7, an essential fatty acid vital to collagen production and healthy skin, hair and nails.

From our innovative liquid supplement and soft gel supplement, to our facial soap and daytime facial cream, beautiful skin, hair and nails are nourished from both the outside in, and the inside out. Each Sibu Beauty product is packed with nutrients from the sea buckthorn berry to revitalize, renew and replenish.

Sibu Beauty sent me out some of their facial cream and facial soap to review. I am in love. The facial cream is supposed to help with eczema and rosacea, both of which I have, and I can't believe it but it actually has lessened my rosacea, my eczema only comes out in the winter. I love the light scent, it goes on so nicely, not oily and greasy at all. And best of all its lasting a long time because you need so little. I will definitely be picking up more of this, its the first thing that I have found that actually has lessened my rosacea!

The facial soap is nice to, I usually use a cream cleanser so the bar was different but it is really nice. It left my skin feeling really clean and refreshed. I just lathered the bar up in my hands and used my lathered hands to wash my face, its was really nice. I love knowing that the Sibu products are all safe for your skin and 100% natural! Check out their blog too!

Here are some of the benefits:


Promotes tissue recovery and healing
Rejuvenates sun-damaged skin
Protects against environmental stress
Preserves healthy skin tone and texture
Boosts collagen production
Helps reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines
Helps address rosacea and eczema symptoms
100% natural


Sibu Beauty has offered up any one product to one lucky winner!

To Enter:

Go to Sibu Beauty and tell me what product you would choose AND why

(this must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- like Sibu Beauty on Facebook

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
- like me on facebook (leave your first name and last initial so I can find you)
- blog about this giveaway with a link to me
- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND @Sibu_Beaty AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
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Win any one product from Sibu Beauty @Sibu_Beauty @Funfunkymommy http://tinyurl.com/36obt7q

***** Contest will end on September 3rd at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to Canada and the USA*****

Lays Chip Trips Adventure!

We have had a crazy week last week camping and even though it was a lot of fun I was a little sad that it turned into August and it just made me realize that before you know it Summer will be over! There is still so much that I want to do with the kids and experience before Summer ends that I just decided that I don't care how exhausted I am, I am just going to keep on going and do everything that I want to do because life is to short!

I used some of my Lays Chip Trips points to go to the Paradise Adventure Mini-Golf & R.V. Park! We went and played a round of mini golf with a buy one get one free coupon and were going to do the bumper boats to but didn't have time. We were on our way to my 3 nephews and one niece's birthday (all in one thank goodness!)

We have been mini golfing at the Paradise Adventure Mini-Golf & R.V. Park before and have always had a great time so I knew it would be fun. Kristina played with Kris and I and Brandon just helped out. We all had so much fun and it was a great way to spend a morning! We will definitely be going back!


The Paradise Adventure Mini-Golf & R.V. Park also has a big game room, gift shop, bumper boats and the most delicious ice cream around!

The Lays Chip Trips program is great! You eat the Lays chips you love already and bank up some points and use them for so many great coupons and gift cards to help you and your family have the best holiday or weekend or day to just get away! I love searching through the pages of coupons to see what I want to go and do I just wish there was more for the island. If you are in a big city though or near a big city there are so many!! Check it out!

Hole in 1!!!

Glamma Toys with a Giveaway **Closed**

****US ONLY**** I am so sorry that I missed this guys so here it is again and its US only! AND you need to set up an account with Glamma Toys to be eligible Sorry!!! ****

GlammaTOYS is where you’ll discover a world of unique toys and games that create smiles, giggles and imaginative play for children of all ages. We scour the globe for high-quality, American-made specialty toys that you won’t find anywhere else – each one carefully selected by our discerning staff to enrich young lives and bring families close.

We’re moms and dads, too. That’s why children are at the core of every product we offer. You won’t find guns or cheap, plastic knock-offs at GlammaTOYS. Instead, you’ll unearth a huge selection of innovative and educational toys aimed at enhanced play and family fun. Whether you’re looking for travel toys for a road trip or want to send your favorite grandchild a special something, you’ve come to the right place.

What you’ll also discover at GlammaTOYS is unmatched customer service. If you have questions or want to place an order by phone, we’re available from early morning to late at night. Our cheerful staff are ready to help you find just the right gift, whether it’s for a special occasion or simply to brighten someone’s day.

Glamma Toys carries educational and fun toys for kids of all ages! There are so many toys on their site that I want to get for both kids! It was made very easy for me though because Glamma Toys wanted to send me the newest and greatest toy on the market! They sent me the Kimochis Huggtopus. The Huggtopus is a stuffed animal that teaches children about their feelings and how to get them out and work through them safely and in a healthy way.

Huggtopus is, needless to say, all smiles and giggles. Everyone needs a big Hugg every now and then! Comes complete in peekaboo box with

How-to Feel Guide and 3 child-safe feelings—Happy, Silly and Frustrated.
Helps children identify and express feelings
Helps parents understand the thoughts their children try to communicate
Learn by placing the cushion that best matches their feelings into the pouch/mouth and share the experience
Calms, comforts and instills confidence
Includes a story book, a beautiful peek-a-boo box, and three emotion cushions

Glamma Toys has free shipping on a minimum $75 purchase, has toys for children with special needs and a 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Glamma Toys has offered up another Huggtopus to one lucky winner!

To Enter:

Go to Glamma Toys and tell me what other product catches your eye

(This must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
- like me on facebook (leave your first name and last initial so I can find you)
- blog about this giveaway with a link to me
- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
***Feel free to Retweet this***
Win a Huggtopus from Glamma Toys @Funfunkymommy http://tinyurl.com/26zudbq

***** Contest will end on August 29th at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to the USA only*****

Hope all my fellow Canadians had a great long weekend!!

I am enjoying my long weekend and just wanted to give you all a quick look at how I spent my last week! We had an amazing family week at the beach. There was 25 of us at some point and it was amazing. We couldn't have asked for a better week weather wise and just sat on the beach soaking up the sun.

I think Brandon was a crab in a past life because you couldn't get him out of the sand. He would sit there for hours playing, digging, and shoveling. He loved running down to the ocean and splashing in the waves and looking for crabs. He was in his glory. Kristina had an amazing time too! There were four other girls there around her age and they had so much fun together. There was the girl drama or course but nothing that was too upsetting for any of them and nothing to stop the fun!

Here was my view while I was blogging!

Mom Central UNDERway blog tour giveaway x10! **Closed**

Are you like so many other moms out there that struggle with food daily. I have struggled with food my entire life and its not like smoking where you can just quit it, you have to eat to survive and you just have to watch what you eat. Its a lifelong battle that many people just can't seem to win. When I heard about the UNDERway system I had to hear more!

UNDERway™, the first true appetite suppressant supplement drink is available in 3 delicious and nutritious flavors. UNDERway™ not only suppresses your appetite naturally and quenches your thirst, but is filled with HeroFiber™ (a super fiber) and vitamins. Invented by Dr. Sass, one bottle of UNDERway™ appetite suppressant supplement drink delivers the equivalent of 9 grams of fiber nutrition which is nearly a third of your daily recommended requirement of fiber content, in only 20 calories.

underWAY™ CURBS YOUR HUNGER TWO WAYS. Its special formulation not only takes longer to be absorbed by the stomach, it also slows the absorption of what's already there - making you feel fuller, longer. What's more, its unique ingredients stimulate your stomach, telling your brain you've consumed more calories than you really have - which, with underWAY™, is almost zero!

Your body has multiple ways of signaling hunger. Some are in the stomach and gastrointestinal track and some are in your brain. underWAY™ has been designed to naturally help you control hunger both ways. By having a very low glycemic index, your brain never registers a sugar or insulin rush that leads to the hunger signal. HeroFiber™, a Super Fiber, increases the bulkiness in your stomach and slows down the digestion process so you feel fuller longer.

Besides tasting better, you will notice appetite suppression with only 10 calories versus 50 or more calories with other drinks. We want you to lose weight while getting good hydration without extra calories. We suggest you drink underWAY™ instead of what you drink now in order to get all the other health benefits as well.

It tastes great and is even more to go along with it! underWAY also makes cookies, cupcakes, soups, cereals, shakes, bagels, and crunch! Its all delicious and I am hooked! I love that it has cut down my snacking and keeps me full longer, so I am cutting calories! You really have to check this out!

Mom Central and underWAY have offered up eight bottles of underWAY (four Acai-Pomegranate and four Grape) along with aSmart for Life assortment including: cookies, cupcakes, soup, cereal, shake, bagel, and crunch to 10 very lucky winners!!! Anyone is welcome to use the following discount code for 10% off! MCCAN10OFFUW

To Enter:

Tell me why you would like to try underWAY

(This must be done for additional entries to count)

Additional Entries:

- add my Fun and Funky Mommy button to your blog (2 entries)
- follow me publicly (2 entries)
- subscribe to me
- like me on facebook (leave your first name and last initial so I can find you)
- blog about this giveaway with a link to me
- follow me on twitter @Funfunkymommy AND tweet about this giveaway for one entry (can RT daily for another entry per daily retweet)
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Win a case of underWAY and some goodies to go along with it! @Funfunkymommy http://tinyurl.com/23bdttj

***** Contest will end on August 11th at 8:00 PM. I will use Random.org to choose the winner, email the winner and post the winners name on Fun and Funky Mommy. The winner will have 72 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Make sure that your profile is set to public or that you include your email in your comments because if I can't get a hold of you you can't win! Contest open to Canada only*****

You may enter the contest on multiple blogs but are only eligible to win once as part of the underWAY blog tour contest!

Disclosure - I am participating in the underWAY program by Mom Central on behalf of Better Health Beverage, LLC. I received a gift card as a thank you for my participation. The opinions on this blog are my own.

CSN Stores

I am sure most of you have seen me talking about CSN Stores before, they have over 200 stores with pretty much everything you can imagine! Bedding, shoes, toys, baby furniture, rugs, tools, lighting and so so so much more!!

While it was super hard to choose what to review from CSN Stores I finally narrowed it down after a few hours on their site, its really addicting! My husband has really gotten into fishing in the last two months or so and we have about 20 salmon fillets sitting in our freezer. I love salmon and could eat it everyday, for dinner, smoked, candied, mmmmm.

We had been wrapping all our fish in saran and then a freezer bag but it has gotten to be very wasteful, time consuming and still not keeping out all the freezer burn. When Kris is fishing we can have 20-40 fillets in the freezer at any given time and don't necessarily eat them all for a few months. I would hate to have to throw out some food because it was all freezer burned and not edible. What a waste, its happened to us before as I am sure it has happened to you too.

Not any more with the Deni Magic Vac Turbo Pump Vacuum Sealer! I was thrilled when it arrived as Kris caught 4 fish the day before and was going out that night for another 4! The next night we pulled it all out and read the instructions at the counter and had our first fish vacuum sealed within 5 minutes. It was so easy to use. I am still tweaking how big to make the bags so that I am not wasting the bags and putting even less into the landfill!

To use the Deni Magic Vac Turbo Pump Vacuum Sealer all you do is use the built in cutter to cut the size of bag you want. You place one end of the bag into the sealer and hold down the black part for about 7 seconds and it seals that end. Then you fill the bag with whatever you want to fill it with and then put it back in the sealer, this time you put the small sucking part and close the lid. Once its as sealed as you would like, or totally sucked dry, you push on the black piece and hold it down again for about 7 seconds and its sealed!

The only thing I was surprised about was that when you push down to seal it you can see a small amount, it was very small amount, of air go back in when you go to seal it, it wasn't enough air to do any harm really and from what I have been told most vacuum sealers do this. It was such a breeze to use and to go even faster I started making all the bags I needed for whatever I was sealing and then filled them all then just sucked and sealed them one at a time and that was super fast. Way faster and cheaper than saran wrap and a freezer bag and no freezer burn! I am in love! At only $49.99 this is a super good deal!!!

I also got two big replacement rolls because when we are vacuum sealing up 4 fish every couple of days we go through lots!!! Be sure to check out CSN Stores for all your shopping needs!!