Lady Bugs N Butterflies Fine Boutique Children's Hair Accessories

Ladybugs N Butterflies has been making Fine Boutique Children's Hair Accessories since 2004. Their products are all made piece by piece lovingly by hand, right here in the United States of America. The time and attention to detail is obvious when you look closely at the delicate little details of the, too cute, Abriana Joy Dragonfly that they sent my granddaughter. The tiny beads make the dragonfly look so real that Sydney actually thought it was alive when she touched its tail. She also liked the Abby Lynn Butterfly clip in Pink too. She is really into Butterflies right now.

My granddaughters hair is very fine so that barrettes and clips tend to fall out quite easily, just by the movement of her head -and at 3 years old, she is always moving!

The two clips that we were given to test were alligator pinch clips. The clips were hand covered with Grosgrain ribbon to prevent slippage. After fixing Sydney's hair, I was afraid the clips would not be strong enough or grip tight enough because they were so delicate. But she wore them All Day and they did not fall out! I was amazed.

They looked so cute in her hair. Sydney wanted to look at them too, so she kept asking me to take her picture so she could see the Dragon Fly & Butterfly too.

Ladybugs N Butterflies have Sooo many adorable designs that you are sure to find one for every different outfit your little one has. What little girl wouldn't love to have some fun with these little Fishies?And for special occasions, imagine how pretty a few of these would look in her hair.


Visit the Ladybugs N Butterlies website to see all of their wonderful handmade works of art, or check their retailers listings to find a store near you so you can see these adorable bugs in person.

The kind ladies at Lady Bugs N Butterflies have generously offered to give one of our Lucky Readers a choice of Two Hair Clips!

If you would like to WIN Two Hair Clips from Ladybugs N Butterflies, here is what you need to do:

Entries in this particular giveaway are open the US only!

FIRST, you must complete the Mandatory Entry by visiting Ladybugs & Butterflies website, and telling me what two clips you would like to Win. Be sure to include your email address in EACH comment so I can contact you if you win. To prevent bots from picking up your email address and sending you spam, please enter your email address like this: "BloggerMommies at gmail dot com"

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This Giveaway will end on Thursday, February 4, 2010 Midnight (Mountain Time). Five random comments will be chosen. The winning comments will be verified at that time, so if you said you follow the blog in your comment and we don't find you in the follow list, we will choose another winner. The winners will be contacted by email the following morning and will have 48 hours to reply with their name and shipping address. If a response is not received within 48 hours the winner will forfeit the prize and a new winner will be selected. Sorry, no exceptions. [37104-38348]

Disclosure: I was given two full-size hairclips described & pictured above, for the purpose of testing, and reviewing if I liked it...which I did! I have received NO monetary payment or favors in exchange for this review. The statements made in this review are my own, honest opinions.

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SAVE the SIPPIES - The ORIGINAL Sippy Straw Cleaner

I cannot begin to add up how much money we (my daughter and I) have wasted throwing away perfectly good Sippy Cups because we could not get the Yucky Gunk out of the straws and the tiny orifices in the lids. We have resorted to buying really cheap sippy cups that leak and break after just a few uses, because we don't want to spend up for a nice one that will end up in the trash bin in no time, simply because it gets dirty in the areas that we cannot possibly reach to clean.

Then we met Jennifer Reyes, the creator of The Sippy Straw Cleaner! She has totally changed our way of thinking about sippy cups. Now we can clean those Nasty straws and get into those tiny little areas that previously we tried to clean with such rudimentary tools like q-tips & toothpicks...and not very successfully I might add.

Jennifer has started the Save the Sippies Revolution with her wonderful Mom-Invented tool! Don't be fooled by cheap imitators who are selling the prototypes that she cast off while she worked tirelessly to create the Perfect Sippy Straw Cleaner...you should only accept the Triple Award Winning Original!

You may not believe it, but I actually had fun cleaning old sippy cups that were destine for the trash and making them like new again. Here are some pictures of my "Sippy Revitalization" in progress. You can see all the little nooks & crannies that I am able to finally clean!

And here it hangs...ready for the next Sippy that Needs Saving!

The Sippy Straw Cleaner comes with two Cleaner Brushes in each pack and retails for only $3.98, that is less then the cost of most Sippy Cups! One has a plastic polypropylene handle to help you keep a good grip on the brush while scrubbing and the other one has a twisted wire handle to allow the brush to go even deeper, this is especially nice for those really long straws. The rust-free stainless steel wire is flexible so that you can push it through curved areas like in the Silly Straws. The nylon bristles are just wide enough to thoroughly clean even the accordion type straws, while still narrow enough to squeeze into the smallest sippy straws. The Sippy Straw Cleaner is FDA aprroved and BPA Free and meets all of the strict federal guidelines.

The Sippy Straw Cleaner works great on other things too, like thermos straws, sports bottles, regular drinking straws and my husband has threatened to steal them for cleaning auto parts & whatever else he plays with out there in the garage.

Well, I could go on forever about how much we love the Sippy Straw Cleaner but I wont...lets get right to the fun! If you would like to get your hands on a set of Sippy Straw Cleaners right now, then click her to buy one on her website. Jennifer has generously offered to give 5 of our Lucky Readers a Free pack of The Sippy Straw Cleaners!

If you would like to Be 1 of our 5 Lucky Readers to Win a Sippy Straw Cleaner, here is what you need to do:

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FIRST, you must complete the Mandatory Entry by visiting The Sippy Straw Cleaner website, then come back here and tell me something you learned about The Sippy Straw Cleaner. Be sure to include your email address in EACH comment so I can contact you if you win. To prevent bots from picking up your email address and sending you spam, please enter your email address like this: "BloggerMommies at gmail dot com"

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~ Tweet about this Review & Giveaway on Twitter, you must include at least the following in your tweet: I Want to WIN The Original SIPPY STRAW CLEANER & Save the Sippies! @BloggerMommies 5 Winners! http://ow.ly/ZdJG (Copy & Paste as it is, to prevent errors in your tweet. If you get a 'Duplicate Post' notice from Twitter just add the RT to the beginning.) You may tweet twice daily (space your tweets at least 6 hours apart). Be sure to post a comment here immediately after each time you tweet and include your Twitter ID & link to your status in the comment box (I will reject any comments that say "tweeted yesterday, or earlier this morning", comments must be submitted within an hour of when tweet posted).

~ Add a message to The Sippy Straw Cleaners Guestbook! (then post a copy of your guestbook message here, including your name.)

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~ Blog ABOUT this Review & Giveaway before February 3, 2010 to get 3 Entries! (You may NOT simply copy this review post, you must blog 'About' it on your blog and include links back to this blog. For each of the three entries you must comment that you have blogged about this review & giveaway and include the URL of the post on your blog. Also please post each entry separately and include #1, #2, or #3 with each comment.)

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~ 3 Entries: Grab one of the "Save the Sippies" or "Sippy Straw Cleaner" Buttons from The Sippy Straw Cleaner website and post it on your blog or home page of your website. Then copy the exact page address where it is posted from your browser window and paste that link in the comment box. Note: If it takes me more than about 30 seconds to find it on your blog or website it will not count, please don't put it on a hidden page or on one of those really long scrolling blog rolls (unless it is near the top). Also please post each entry separately and include #1, #2, or #3 with each comment.)


This Giveaway will end on Thursday, February 4, 2010 Midnight (Mountain Time). Five random comments will be chosen. The winning comments will be verified at that time, so if you said you follow the blog in your comment and we don't find you in the follow list, we will choose another winner. The winners will be contacted by email the following morning and will have 48 hours to reply with their name and shipping address. If a response is not received within 48 hours the winner will forfeit the prize and a new winner will be selected. Sorry, no exceptions. [37025-38348]

Disclosure: I was given a full-size sample of this product for the purpose of testing, and reviewing if I liked it...which I did! I have received NO monetary payment or favors in exchange for this review. The statements made in this review are my own, honest opinions.

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Win a $25 Gift Certificate to EcoStore USA for Products with NO NASTY CHEMICALS

I am the human mother to three small dogs, two of which are Boston Terriers. If you know anything about that breed, then you know that they are known for their pointed bat-like ears. Because those distinctive ears are always at attention, they tend to get all kinds of 'stuff' in there. I have even tossed them a treat and had it land inside their ear before!
















My two Boston's, Pickle & Max need to have their ears cleaned out quite often, or else they tend to get 'stinky-ear'. That is the the medical term my vet uses, but its the best way that I can describe it. It usually takes two of us to hold them down and squirt an over-the-counter dog ear wash down in their ears, then rub it around and let them shake their heads, and the oily ear wash gets all over us, and anything near by. What an unpleasant task for us & equally unpleasant event for them, until now...

Recently I had the pleasure of testing EcoStore USA's Herbal All Natural Ear Wash. The package says, "YOUR PET WILL LIKE IT", and I thought, "Oh yea, I bet they will...NOT!" It is a major ordeal in our house to clean their ears and I did not believe that this was going to be any different. But it was!

I started with Pickle because she is calmer, older, and more willing to let me 'do' stuff to her, although she really hates having her ears cleaned. I did my routine of changing into an old raggy shirt (that I didn't care if it got oily spots on it), laid out the necessary instruments: paper towels, toilet tissue, Q-tips, and the bottle of Ear Wash. Then I grabbed Pickle before she could figure out what I was up to.

When I first dripped the liquid in her ear as instructed, she jerked away, but I just held on to her and began to massage the liquid into her ears. To my amazement she stopped trying to squirm away. The ear wash was not oily like the over the counter stuff that I am sure is loaded with all kinds of nasty chemicals. I used a few Q-Tips and the tissue and quickly cleaned her ears. As you can see in this picture, Pickle is not running away. You can also see that Max felt the need to get really close, to thoroughly examine that dirty Q-Tip for himself. I think he actually liked the smell.

Then came Max...he Really hates this job. However I only had to hold on to his collar, and I did this all by myself AND took these pictures! It did not take the two of us to clean their ears! That is a first. Max actually seemed to calm down once I started massaging & wiping the yuck that was in his ears. Neither Max, nor Pickle did any head shaking this time. I think they really Did Like It! They both seemed more calm afterward.

And look at the Yuck that I cleaned out of their ears! Eeww!

So, besides the fact that I felt better cleaning their ears with something that had No Nasty Chemicals, even more wonderful was the fact that now their ears actually smelled Wonderful! I am not kidding! When they cuddled up with me later that evening and got their little faces up near mine I could smell the wonderful scent of Chamomile and Lavender -my two favorite scents. It was like getting aromatherapy from smelling my dogs ears, lol! I love it!

Never again will I dump nasty chemicals in to my babies ears, and you don't have to either, because this wonderful product is available at the EcoStoreUSA for just $8.00 per 4 oz bottle, and a little goes a long, long way. You will find lots of other Pet-Friendly products on their site, as well as Baby Care, Bath & Body, Hair, and Household products that all carry the "No Nasty Chemicals" trademark.

The wonderful folks at EcoStore USA have generously offered to give one of our Lucky Readers a Gift Certificate for $25.00 so you can try some of their wonderful products for yourself.

If you would like to Win a $25.00 Gift Certificate to the EcoStore USA, here is what you need to do:

Entries in this particular giveaway are open the US & Canada only!

FIRST, you must complete the Mandatory Entry by visiting the EcoStore USA to see all of the wonderful products they carry, then come back here and comment to tell us what other products you would be interested in trying. Be sure to include your email address in the comment so I can contact you if you win. To prevent bots from picking up your email address and sending you spam, please enter your email address as: "BloggerMommies at gmail dot com"

After completing the mandatory entry above, you can get additional entries by doing any or all of these tasks: (INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL IN EVERY COMMENT! You must leave each entry in a separate comment in order for them to each count.)

~ Subscribe to our Posts or Comment feeds by RSS feed or Email. (Then comment that you now subscribe to this blog, include your email address in each comment.)

~ Follow @BloggerMommies on Twitter (then tell us that you follow on twitter & include Your Twitter Name in the comment box)

~ Follow @EcoStoreUSA on Twitter (then tell us that you follow them on twitter & include Your Twitter Name in the comment box)


~ Tweet about this Review & Giveaway on Twitter, you must include at least the following in your tweet: I really want to Win a $25 Gift Certificate from EcoStore USA for products w/ NO NASTY CHEMICALS! @BloggerMommies http://ow.ly/YQN3 (Copy & Paste as it is, to prevent errors in your tweet. If you get a 'Duplicate Post' notice from Twitter just add the RT to the beginning.) You may tweet twice daily (space your tweets at least 6 hours apart). Be sure to post a comment here immediately after each time you tweet and include your Twitter ID & link to your status in the comment box (I will reject any comments that say "tweeted yesterday, or earlier this morning", comments must be submitted within an hour of when tweet posted).

~ Subscribe to EcoStore USA's "No Nasty Chemicals" Newsletter. (then post here that you now subscribe to the No Nasty Chemicals Newsletter.)

~ Become a Fan of EcoStore USA on Facebook. (then come back here and mention that in your comment, include your facebook name in the comment.)

~ Blog ABOUT this Review & Giveaway before February 3, 2010 to get 3 Entries! (You may NOT simply copy this review post, you must blog 'About' it on your blog and include links back to this blog. For each of the three entries you must comment that you have blogged about this review & giveaway and include the URL of the post on your blog. Also please post each entry separately and include #1, #2, or #3 with each comment.)

~ Enter Our Other Giveaways! Then come back here and comment to say which giveaway you have entered. (You get 1 entry here for each other current giveaway you enter and comment about)

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This Giveaway will end on Thursday, February 4, 2010 Midnight (Mountain Time). One random comment will be chosen at that time. The winning comment will be verified at that time so if you said you follow the blog in your comment and we don't find you in the follow list, we will choose another winner. The winner will be contacted by email the following morning and will have 48 hours to reply with their name and shipping address. If a response is not received within 48 hours the winner will forfeit the prize and a new winner will be selected. Sorry, no exceptions. [36943-38348]

Disclosure: I was given a full-size sample of this product for the purpose of testing, and reviewing if I liked it...which I did! I have received NO monetary payment or favors in exchange for this review. The statements made in this review are my own, honest opinions.

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