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 HappyHealthyMom.com, BellyButtonBoutique.com & Premier Baby Concierge invite you to:
Join us at the Philadelphia Happy and Healthy Mom Fair on September 19th from 11am to 3pm
at Please Touch Museum where the focus is on empowering and supporting moms!
Local (many mom-owned) businesses and national sponsors will offer information and samplings, great Raffle Prizes (over $750 worth of baby products!), Mini Makeovers, Seminars on topics including “Pre and PostNatal Health and Nutrition;” “Pregnant and Uncomfortable?”; “Going Green with Baby”; “Healthy Meals for the Family,” “How to Create a Great Home Video” and more!
The fair is free with paid admission to Please Touch Museum. The first 200 people to pre-register for the Fair will receive a VIP swag bag at the event! (Register here!)
The event hosts:
The www.bellybuttonboutique.com online store is for mommies and mommies to be. You can find fabulous products from Boppy, Belli Cosmetics, Earth Mama Angel Baby, as well as some unique products that aid in the comfort of pre- and postnatal women. An array of experts offer advice on the site and http://blog.bellybuttonboutique.com
Premier Baby Concierge, Philadelphia’s first and premier baby planning service, was named “Best of the Main Line” and offers baby registry assistance, nanny placement, parent education, car seat safety checks and much more! www.premierbabyconcierge.com
Sponsored by Traditional Medicinals Teas (www.traditionalmedicinals.com) & Belly Pilates (www.bellypilates.com)
The event location:
Please Touch Museum
4231 Ave. of the Republic
Philadelphia, PA
United States-19131
*GPS users: use 4231 N. Concourse Dr. as address!
www.HappyMomPhilly.com
Twitter: @HappyMomPHL & #HappyMomPHL
See the Happy Mom Philly website for more information on all of the giveaways and raffles that will be happening at the fair. This sounds like an amazing event for moms-to-be, new moms, and current moms of little ones!
Giveaway! One lucky reader will win two tickets for admission to the Please Touch Museum for entry on September 19th so that they can also attend the Philly Happy and Healthy Mom Fair. Please leave a comment below to enter! One winner will be selected. Distrubution of the prize will be by bellybuttonboutique.com. This giveaway will end on September 7, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will be contacted by September 9th. Good Luck!
In honor of back to school, that time of year that excites parents, kids and teachers, Avery Dennison has announced a sweepstakes to help out dedicated teachers.
The “Avery Celebrates Teachers” Sweepstakes honors U.S. teachers and all that they do for our children on a daily basis. Avery, the school and office supply company, is sponsoring this wonderful sweepstakes to help out our great teachers. Due to budget cuts and the economy, many teachers and students go without even the most basic school supplies. Studies by the non-profit organization World Vision show that teachers spend on average at least $500 of their own money each school year on supplies for their students. This sweepstakes aims to alleviate some of this financial burden, as well as pamper a few lucky teachers. (Note: homeschooling parents are eligible to win as well!)
This sweepstakes is open to those who are currently working in the teaching profession: teachers, administrators, student teachers and homeschooling teachers. Please see the official rules of the sweepstakes for more complete rule information.
The Avery Celebrates Teachers Sweepstakes runs until September 15th, 2010. Teaching professionals may enter once daily to win one of these fantastic prizes:
- One Grand Prize Package, which includes: a goodie bag of Avery products valued at $500; a SpaFinder gift card valued at $350; and a Starbucks gift card valued at $150
- Three (3) Second Prize Packages valued at $200 each
- Five (5) Third Prize Packages valued at $80 each
Did you know that Avery is the only school and office supply manufacturer that participates in Box Tops for Education? When you purchase select Avery school supplies for the new academic year you also receive Box Tops coupons to clip and return to participating schools to be redeemed for cash. Each school then uses the cash at their discretion to purchase new supplies, fund programs, or buy much-needed equipment, computers, etc. To learn more, visit www.avery.com/btfe.
Spread the word about this wonderful sweepstakes by sharing this information with anyone in the teaching profession you know!
For Mama’s wonderful readers, Avery has provided a special gift basket prize full of Avery Dennison school and office supplies such as Avery NoteTabs™, Label Pads, HI-LITERS®, Glue Stics, Labels, Binders, Dividers, Markers and more—a retail value of $50! To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment below and tell us a favorite back to school memory you have! This gift basket giveaway will end on September 13th at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will be contacted by September 15th. The gift basket will be mailed to the winner by Avery-Dennison.
Disclosure: Avery Dennison and Mama’s Little Helper have a working relationship in promoting this sweepstakes and giveaway. Avery Dennison will provide the giveaway prize and a similar basket to Mama.
Looking for a wonderful activity for your toddler? Have you heard about Creative Parenting classes?
Creative Parenting is an interactive, hour long class, filled with crafts, music, play, exercise, bells, bubbles, parachute, finger plays, snack and story time, for moms and tots 16 months through 3 years. Classes are held weekly and parents and toddlers both participate and interact in the classes. Your toddler will learn important skills that will help him or her with preparation for preschool and kindergarten. During each eight week session, your child will interact with peers, spend quality time with you, and you will meet other parents and learn new ideas regarding parenting.
There are locations in Newtown, Yardley and Huntington Valley. Classes for the next session start the week of September 13th. For more information, please see their website.
Would you like to try out an eight week session for free? One lucky Mama’s Little Helper reader will have the opportunity to enroll in the next session, starting the week of September 13th for free. To enter, please leave a comment about your favorite activity to do with your child. This giveaway includes enrollment in one 8-week session of classes at the winner’s choice of location, based upon availability. This giveaway ends on September 7th at 9:00 pm EST. The winner will be contacted by September 9th. The winner’s email address will be forwarded to the coordinator of the Creative Parenting classes. Classes begin the week of September 13th.
It’s that time again, the part of the summer that kids dread and parents rejoice: Back to School! It’s always exciting to start a new school year and having some personalized school supplies adds to the excitement. I recently learned that Snapfish by HP is offering some fun Back to School choices for parents and students, whether they are heading to school for the first time or off to college.
My little guy is heading off to preschool for the first time this year, so while the traditional “back-to-school” supplies do not apply there are a few things that I found on Snapfish’s back to school page that I can use to enhance his experience. I ordered a personalized notepad with his name and photo on it to use for sending quick notes to his teachers or for him to “write” a little note or drawing to a new friend. I had fun choosing a design to use of the many offered and found a cute one with the alphabet on the bottom. Adding his photo and a short message was easy. I picked out one of my favorite photos of him from my Snapfish library of photos.
For older kids, I noticed some great collage photo gifts, such as mousepads and personalized notebooks. I would have loved to have a notebook customized with a photo of all of my friends when I was in school, or even one of my pets’ photo on it. With Snapfish gifts, it is easy to make something fun for every student in your family. You can even make a personalized wall clock with your favorite photo on it. That may help keeping track of new schedules a bit more fun.
For parents, Snapfish makes it easy to create a photo book filled with childhood or summer memories. I’ve made a few books myself of family vacations and birthday celebrations. Snapfish provides fun layouts and designs and has options for different types of covers. My family enjoys looking through our books of memories and I’ve received many compliments as to how well done the photo books are produced.
If you have never used Snapfish before you will be surprised at how easy it is to upload photos and order prints and gifts. I find it extremely convenient to shop late at night when everyone else in the house is asleep. I’ve order many gifts on Snapfish since becoming a parent. Coffee or tea mugs with a grandbaby photo on them have been enjoyed by proud grandparents. At the holidays I make personalized greeting cards for each grandparent with my family photos and personalized messages. Snapfish makes shopping online for photo gifts fun.
I placed an order for some prints from our summer fun and in less than 24 hours I received an email notice informing me that my order had been printed and shipped; it was received within a week. While it takes longer than walking into a local photo center, the savings is significant and the convenience seals the deal for me. As a parent I don’t have much time to upload photos at the store and place an order. Using Snapfish from home keeps ordering my digital prints easy.
One lucky reader will have an opportunity to win a “back to school” $50 gift card credit to Snapfish to try out their great products. To enter, please go to Snapfish’s website and pick out one photo gift item you might like to purchase and leave a comment on this post. This contest will end on September 7th, 2010 at 11:59pm. The winner will be announced by September 9th.
For additional entries complete any or all of the following and leave a separate comment for each extra entry.
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Good Luck!
Mama Diane
Disclosure: Snapfish provided a gift card credit in order to write this review. The opinions expressed are mine alone!
Congratulations to Jeanine L. on winning the passes to Giggleberry Fair. Look out for an email!
Have you ever been to Peddler’s Village in Lahaska, PA? It is a lovely collection of shops and gardens spread out over 42 acres and easily walked via the brick pathways. I was a young child the first time I visited Peddler’s Village and it has been a favorite place of my family’s to visit throughout the year ever since then. There is no “good” time of year to visit, as every season brings something special to this Bucks County landmark.
As part of a mommy/daddy blogger event, I had a chance to visit Peddler’s Village again with my son and some fellow bloggers. We started off our day at Giggleberry Fair, which is an indoor play area specifically for family entertainment. There is a restored 1922 Philadelphia Toboggan Company Grand Carousel, which may just be my favorite thing there (I just love a good merry-go-round!) There is the amazing Giggleberry Mountain that has berry blasters and vacuums to use with 30,000 foam balls. There is a six-level, three story slide and an obstacle course filled with netting mazes. The kids in attendance had a blast shooting out foam balls at the parents below. My son loved the vacuum—cleaning up the balls so that the big kids could re-load their blasters. The game room at Giggleberry has a variety of video and skill games, such as skee-ball, a favorite of mine. All of the games are suitable for all ages. These games use tokens for play and many award tickets to exchange for prizes. For the littlest ones there is Discovery Land, which reminds me of some of the exhibits from the Please Touch Museum. My son liked dressing up like a fire fighter and driving the big fire truck.
After a couple of hours of fun at Giggleberry Fair, the bloggers group of approximately 70 parents, kids and friends strolled through Peddler’s Village’s many pathways to learn a bit about the specialty shops there. There are 70 independently owned shops there featuring all sorts of merchandise. The shops are unique, specialty stores that you probably won’t find anywhere else. While having my son there was fun, I really love going to Peddler’s Village with my mom for a day of shopping and lunch. There are many fun stores to explore and some beautiful clothing boutiques.
Our group walk landed us at Sweet Lorraine’s Café & Bar. For lunch we dined on a delicious buffet meal that featured a variety of sandwiches, salads, a fresh pasta station and hot mac n’ cheese. I’ve been to Sweet Lorraine’s before for lunch and both times I really enjoyed the food and atmosphere. The staff was extremely gracious and accommodating, considering how many little ones were filling the restaurant. There is a great patio area that makes outdoor dining fun in nice weather. There are five other restaurants in Peddler’s Village, each with its own style.
Peddler’s Village is known for its fun festivals held throughout the year. The upcoming Scarecrow Festival starts on September 6th and runs through October 24th. During this time visitors can view hand-crafted scarecrows that are competing in competition. During the winter holidays, be sure to check out the beautiful gingerbread houses on display inside the enclosed gazebo. Our family makes our annual holiday trek to Peddler’s Village in December to see them and all of the beautiful holiday lights that illuminate the Village at night.
After lunch, the bloggers dispersed, but I ran into many of them at the Town Crier Bakery checking out all of the amazing sweets and beautiful cakes. My son picked out a cupcake with a cherry on top, which he devoured! We stopped off at The Fun Place to check out their display of toy cars and the Cookery Ware Shop to see their assortment of cookie cutters. We had a fun time exploring today! Thanks to the folks at Peddler’s Village and to Chrissy at Mama’s Little Helper for arranging the blogger day!
The next time you are planning for a day of much needed mom-shopping time or a family fun-filled outing, consider visiting Peddler’s Village. Check out their website for their calendar of events.
Peddler’s Village provided me with 2 day passes to Giggleberry Fair to pass along to one lucky reader. Please leave a comment below describing something you would like to see when visiting Peddler’s Village, or a favorite memory of a past visit. This contest will end on August 30 at 11:59pm EST! The winner will be announced by September 1st. Good Luck!
Mama Diane
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