Back To School Giveaway....Day 5

My final Back to School giveaway is an adorable personalized acrylic cup!!!
They keep your drinks very cold.
These cups are all the rage these days, but finding one with your child's name on it is not so easy. This gorgeous one comes from Etsy once again (can ya'll tell I love that site?). Holly makes these to your specifications and ladies...they are only ten dollars a piece! What a deal! I will be getting them as teacher gifts this year with either an initial:
Or the teacher's full name!

Holly has several designs to choose from. I think they would be great for your child's sport instead of a boring water bottle, a great gift for yourself this year while you wait in the carpool line, a birthday gift for a friend, party favors....the list is endless! I will be putting small packets of Crystal Light in there for the teacher gifts once I know their names.

To enter the giveaway for one cup of your design choice, visit Holly's Etsy shop and come back here to leave a comment as to whom you will be purchasing the cup for.
For this weekend only, you can order from these cups at a 10% discount with the promo code adopt10.

I will announce ALL the winners of the giveaways by midnight tonight via a random drawing.
SO get all your comments in today to be entered!! Good luck!!

Back To School Giveaway....Day 4

A child's art smock!!
You can pick from 3 colors and it will also have your darling's NAME monogrammed on it!!
How adorable is this? And it comes to us again from our sweet Etsy friends at
Jan's-n'stitches.
Remember them from the last giveaway?

To win this prize which is a $30 value with shipping, head over to Jan's-n-stitches and browse the 3 apron options and their large selection of other personalized products, and leave a comment here telling us the name and age of the child you would want this for. For a second entry, you can "like" them on facebook and leave a comment that you came from Adoption Creates Families. Let me know you did that too! Here is the link for their FB page. And don't forget to follow this blog!

Back to School Giveaway....Day 3

The giveaway today comes from the company, Thirty One.

I was in Bible study with Sara, the consultant who is generously offering these two products in the giveaway. You can view her site and the Fall catalog, here.

The bag on the left is an All-In-One Organizer and has a mesh pocket on each side. I think it would be perfect as a library bag, or a tote for your children's sport (think waterbottles in the mesh pockets!), a fantastic teacher gift OR of course an adorable diaper bag!! The item on the right is a Small Thermal Tote and it has an exterior pocket, zipper closure, and a silver thermal lining. I think the lunch bag is perfect for your child's lunch or your baby's bottles...or of course for one of you teacher moms out there to take your lunch to work! :)

Leave a comment here and tell me what you would use these bags for!

Monogramming is not included with this giveaway, but this giveaway's BONUS is that through the month of August, ALL products in Thirty One's fall catalog are 15% off!!
So go check out
Thirty One's great totes, lunch bags, and purses!
And remember almost everything can be personalized with your name (or your child's teacher's name) for an additional charge. Happy shopping!

Back To School Giveaway....Day 2

Today's Giveaway is a set of 30 waterproof labels offered from the Etsy shop, MYTWOBABES. These are great for school supplies, sippy cups, sport water bottles...or even your baby's pacifiers! I have loved having waterproof labels. That way I know my child's lunch box fork and water bottle will come home with him every day!

The above photo shows you the size they will be, and then you choose the color and font you want yours to be~

To enter the giveaway, visit this Etsy shop and then come back here to leave a comment. For a second entry, you can "Like" MYTWOBABES on facebook by going here. Then come back and tell me you did! Good luck!!!

**Bonus for those who want these labels. If you like them on facebook...you will receive 10% off your order.

Back To School Giveaway....Day 1

My first giveaway this week starts off VERY fun!!! These are reusable sandwich and snack bags handmade by the very talented Candice over at the Etsy shop, CreATEmeMOM.
They seal at the top with velcro and can be used and washed over and over again. Perfect for those of us who want to be a little nicer to the environment by having less baggie waste AND you will save money by not having to replenish pricey boxes of Ziploc bags for your kid's lunches. Also these make great "Going Greener" party favor bags. Just fill them with little treats or use them to collect pinata candy. Moms would just love their kids to come home with a bag they can reuse!

I have to tell you that this was an especially exciting giveaway for me, because when I contacted Candice via Etsy and told her about my blog and the upcoming giveaway...she not only was delighted to participate but wanted to send me "a couple bags" to try out. She asked me what fabrics I liked and after I told her, she sent me ALL of them. The above 3 sets will be for Isaac, Vivi, and Jayden this school year. What a sweet generous fellow Mama!! She also sent the below bag for Jasmine's diaper bag for pacifiers! Yeah. Thank you so much, Candice.
I can tell you all now from experience these are GREAT bags to have!! You just turn them inside out and rinse them or put them in the washing machine. For my giveaway CreATEmeMOM is offering one lucky winner a free VALUE COMBO of five bags of your fabric and size choice! That is a $20 value with shipping. All you have to do is visit her site via the link above, come back here and leave a comment as to which fabrics you like best and what age children will be using these (just out of my own curiosity ;) and you will be entered!! You can enter twice by joining this site as a follower and telling me you did (or are already one) in a separate comment and posting this giveaway on your blog/facebook/twitter by simply using one of the buttons below this post. And finally, just because I love you ;) you can enter to win a third time by "liking" CreATEmeMOM on facebook, leave a comment on her wall saying you are from "Adoption Creates Families" and come back here to say you did that for your entry! Just follow this link.You do not need to have a blog account to enter the giveaway...just type in your first name under name/url in the comment box.
The winners of all 5 days of giveaways will be announced together by midnight on
Friday, August 5th.

DOUBLE bonus is that for those who do not win, CreATEmeMOM is offering free shipping for all orders during the month of August who use the coupon code: backtoschool. These bags are so reasonably priced at $18 for the Value combo of 5 and just $8 for a matching sandwich/snack set. They would also make a great gift with a lunch box for a little one in your life.
Order yours today to have them in time for when school starts!!

Back to School....Yes It Is Only 6 Weeks Away!

After July 4th, I usually start wrapping my brain around the coming school year and with our budget the way it is, it is helpful to plan ahead vs. paying for everything the kids need all at once. I am convinced that this is the "it" style of boy's backpacks for this school year as it is popping up everywhere. I got my eye on this Blue Camo design at the end of last year even though I have not actually seen it in person anywhere. But, I said that I would set out to find this for Isaac's first grade year. The above set is my favorite with the deep blue colors...but of course it is Pottery Barn Kids so that should be of no surprise! However...without the addition of $6 in personalization, this backpack and lunch box combo totals for a whopping $68.00. They offer free shipping (how generous of them I proclaim, as I roll my eyes!) but even with that this is an outrageous price. So...of course my search was on for a similar yet much cheaper version!!

Which led to Oldnavy.com and this messenger bag which is currently onsale for $12.00...a great deal and really cute! However, I do think a 6 year old is a bit too young yet for a shoulder bag...so my search continued for the backpack.

I came across this one at llbean.com but I was not really a fan of the print. OR the print on this one at hannahanderson.com. Nope. But can you see what I am saying about the popularity of this Blue Camo design? :)

So then there was this one which I love at landsend.com on sale for $27.50. Not bad...but by the time you pay for shipping....eh...I wanted to do better.

And finally...I found the mother of ALL deals at CompanyKids. Both the backpack and the lunch box can be found in the Clearance section for 60% off. Then I found a coupon code for free shipping...bonus! So I sprung for the personalization on the backpack for $6 and that brought my total for the set to a grand total of..... $27.98!

Hooray!! This means that with this set, and Vivi's black and white polka dot backpack/zebra lunchbox she got for her birthday...I am ahead of the game for the start of the new school year. All I need is a new backpack for J, the boys' school supplies and back to school teacher gifts...and we are ALL set for August 22nd. I even found some new school shoes for Viv today for $4 that were originally $14. I will be posting more Back To School in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!