This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the winner, Stacey from All Because Two People Fell In Love!

This is so cute- Story Time Felts produces felt images that bring to life familiar children’s stories, nursery rhymes, and environments. You can purchase pre-cut or un-cut felts that correspond to stories like “The Three Little Pigs”, have backgrounds like homes, forests, and pirate ships, buy felt dress-up dolls, advent calendars, and so much more.  My Mom taught 2nd grade and she used felt cut-outs to illustrate stories and they were always a big hit with her kids. Plus, manipulating the felt pieces gives kids a chance to tell their own story.

I received a “Very Hungry Caterpillar” set to review. I’d love to show you the pieces all set up on a felt board with Kaitlyn playing with them, but someone- *cough*myhusband*cough*-never made the felt board he promised me from the bazillions of pieces of scrap cardboard we have in our garage and the piece of green felt he has in the basement from his card-playing days. Here’s the image of the pieces from the site:

As you can see, you’ve got the caterpillar, all the foods he eats, the cocoon, and the butterfly he becomes. The set also comes with information about teaching the life cycle of a butterfly.  I think it’s adorable!

WIN IT: I’ve got one “Very Hungry Caterpillar” pre-cut felt set to give away. NOTE: because of how close it is to Christmas,  neither the sponsor nor I can guarantee shipping in time for Christmas. The site says that orders placed by December 18th will arrive on the West Coast by Christmas, so if you want to order one, do it soon!  For your entry, please visit Story Time Felts, browse the product listing on the right side, then come back and tell me one other product you would be interested in having besides the Hungry Caterpillar. Leave your real first name or blog name and valid email address. Open to U.S. only. I’ll choose the winner on December 17th at 6:00 PM and email them for their mailing info.

EXTRA ENTRIES: I’ll give you one extra entry for each of the following that you do. Please leave a separate comment for each:

1.Post this button on your blog and get one entry into every giveaway! Let me know in a comment so I can keep a list of everyone posting the button.

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4. For FIVE ENTRIES, mention this giveaway on your blog with a link back to this post. Please include that it ends Wednesday, Dec. 17th at 6:00 PM ET.

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If you own cats, you’ll find yourself nodding your head along in agreement as you read Jane Seabrook’s “Purry Logic“.  Cats have their own agenda, spend the majority of their time sleeping, and can be very demanding. After all, it is really THEY who rule your house, no matter what you might think! Seabrook is the owner of four cats, one of whom hates the other three so much he wouldn’t pose for the group photo at the back of the book, and she collected the quotations that appear in the book along with her beautiful painted illustrations.

My favorite page in the book is the one that could have been written about our cat Blackdrop- “Do the absolute minimum. Always. Try to do even less”. Yep, that’s our cat. This sweet little book from Ten Speed Press would make a cute gift for a cat lover, and at $9.95 each, it’s a great deal, too.  Thanks to Family Review Network, I have a copy to give away, but I have to send in the winner’s name by this Sunday the 14th, so if you enter, you’ll need to be available on Sunday morning to get my email saying you won and asking for your address.  Since this needs to be so quick, I’m also going to give out more entries than usual for spreading the word about the giveaway.

WIN IT: For one entry, visit the Purry Logic website, then come back here and tell me if any of the cats pictured on the site look like yours! Each of those represent a painting you can buy, too. Make sure to leave your real first name or blog alias (absolutely no keywords, those comments will be deleted) and a VALID email address. I’ll choose the winner this Sunday at 9:00 AM ET and email them for their mailing info.

EXTRA ENTRIES: FIVE ENTRIES for Twittering, Stumbling, or posting the URL to this giveaway on your blog. You can do all of them if you’d like but I’ll only give out five entries each, the rest are just good karma for helping me

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When Family Review Network announced that we would be doing a review of Polliwalks, I have to admit, I wasn’t sure what my daughter’s reaction would be to being asked to wear them. She hates her feet being hot and peels off her socks every chance she gets. Asking her to wear shoes lined with fake fur? I was sure that would be akin to torture.

I was wrong. Kaitlyn loves her Kitty Polliwalks so much, that she regularly asks if she can wear them at naptime, and when I say no, she asks to have them on her bed with her. As if they are a cuddly stuffed animal and not a pair of shoes! If you aren’t familiar with them, Polliwalks are more than just shoes, they are like toys for your child’s feet! But that doesn’t mean they sacrifice proper support for growing feet-each pair has arch support, a footbed shaped to support the foot, and a heel cup to help them stay on. And how fun is this- Polliwalks have Footprinting on the bottoms, meaning each time your child takes a step in water, dirt, mud, or sand, they leave behind an animal footprint!

The Polliwalks company is also aware of the impact that the manufacturing process can have on our planet, so they have taken the following steps:
# No Waste Manufacturing - all excess material created from molding process is recycled.
# Environmentally friendly packaging - tags and hooks made from recycled paper and plastic, minimal packaging used.
# Environmentally friendly water based adhesives used in manufacturing.
# Vegan- no animal products are used in manufacturing process.

This holiday season, you can purchase the original Polliwalks styles, AND two NEW styles that won’t be widely released until Spring but are available right now at Dillard’s and on Zappos.com. The original styles are shown in the image above, the new styles are FISH LIPS (a fish sandal whose squishy lips change color when exposed to UV rays of the sun) and FIREFLY (a clog in the form of a firefly that has a light in the back that lights up when in motion, like a firefly!). We got a pair of FIREFLY clogs in addition to the Kitty shoes for this review, and they are so adorable and fun!  If you look closely at the photo on the right here, you should be able to see the light on in the back of the shoe-I had her stamp her foot and snapped the photo real quick. Why she’s WET in this photo, I have no idea, but whaddya gonna do? lol

Now that you’ve read the review, let’s do a giveaway! I’ve got one pair of Polliwalks to give away, the winner can choose the puppy, kitty, gator, duck, frog or ladybug style.

WIN IT: For one entry, please visit Polliwalks, come back here and comment on which style you’d like to win, color and size. In order to minimize the number of emails I’ll need to send, I will only consider an entry eligible for this giveaway if it has the STYLE, COLOR, and SIZE listed in the comment. Open to U.S. entrants only, one entry per person. Enter by December 16th at 9:00 AM ET.

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3. Use social media to spread the word about this giveaway, by posting the link to StumbleUpon, Digg, Kirtsy, Twitter, or posting it on a Forum. You must leave your username for that site in your comment so I can check. This is a great way for non bloggers to earn an extra entry! Links are at the end of the post.

4. For FIVE EXTRA ENTRIES, mention this giveaway on your blog with a link back to this post and to www.polliwalks.com. Please include that it ends Tuesday, Dec. 16th at 9:00 AM ET.

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