Part chemistry set, part spa-in-a-box, the Magnificent Manicure Kit is a new product from Scientific Explorer, a division of Elmer’s, that teaches kids cosmetic chemistry!  The kit comes with lotion, crystal mud,  and bath salt bases,  fragrance, green dye, toe separators, a nail buffer, a a pumice stone, tools for mixing and measuring, and an activity guide. With this kit, girls ages 8 and up can see the science behind making beauty products, and then pamper themselves with the results!

Kaitlyn is still a little young to participate in an activity like this, although she did enjoy stirring the dye into the lotion base. The activity guide suggests asking older kids questions like whether the crystals feel like a solid or a liquid, and explaining the difference between unsaturated, saturated, and supersaturated. It also includes facts about nails and helpful tips.

Walmart.com has the Elmer’s Magnificent Manicure Kit for $17.88. There are two fragrance scents available, Lavender and Cucumber Melon, check the package description to make sure you get the one you want. This is a great gift idea for the holidays!

disclosure: I received the Magnificent Manicure Kit free from Elmer’s and Team Mom for this review. No other compensation was provided and all opinions are my own.

I haven’t disappeared! I didn’t mean to go four days without posting, but I’ve been trying hard to spend more time with my kids and husband.  As much as I love reviewing products, I love my family a bazillion times more than that, so I needed to take a few days to make sure they KNEW that they are important to me! Hope that makes sense

But of course, taking four days off means I’m four days (and more) behind on reviews! It’s a Catch-22 for sure. So I need to fire up the posting machine and get caught up. First up, a WAY overdue post for Team Mom, who sent us two packs of the new Bella Sara collectible Miniatures and two packs of the new Treasures trading cards.

Bella Sara Miniatures Series 1 Collection introduces 20 velvety horses from the land of North of North for you to collect, trade, display, and cherish. Each pack comes with a stand for the horse,  a bonus code to use on the Bella Sara site and a checklist showing all 20 horses. I’m not sure what the odds are of this happening, but our two packs each contained the same horse! Kaitlyn didn’t mind though, she pronounced them to be “Mama Horse” and “Baby Horse”, so of course they would look alike, right? lol

Treasures is the newest game in the Bella Sara Trading Card Game series. Each Treasures card pack contains 5 random horse and/or treasure cards, a random sticker card, a random tattoo card, a mini-game, a card checklist, online codes, and positive messages such as “Beauty comes from within” or “Be the hero in your own story” . The online codes can be redeemed on BellaSara.com to nurture horses, earn rewards and treasures, as well as horseshoes, to spend in the bazaar with every code activated.

Check out the Bella Sara website for information on a Treasure Hunt Contest, and to print out a coupon good for 15% off on Bella Sara products at Target. Any of the Bella Sara items would make wonderful Easter Basket surprises!

For this month’s Team Mom review, we are checking out  Qlubb, the site that gives groups a secure way to organize events, files, photos, and information. It takes less than a minute for the group leader to create the free Qlubb account, and then get all this:

* Secure, Private Site
* Public Webpage
* Group Event Calendar with Reminders
* Shared To-Do Lists with Reminders
* Group Invites/RSVP’s
* File Sharing
* No user registrations required
* And Much more!

Qlubb is the easiest way to get your real-life groups organized and on the same page. Between our children’s classrooms, scout troops, religious groups, social groups, book/wine clubs and families, we are constantly running around trying to plan and coordinate our group activities. Too often, organizing is just simply a source of headaches and undue stress.

With easy user sign-on, group calendaring, shared sign-up sheets, online rsvp, and much more, Qlubb automates many of the tasks and significantly reduces the time it takes to organize group events, activities and members, giving you more time to enjoy your groups, families and friends.

I created an Edwards Family Qlubb so I could see how it works.  I added a few photos and an event so you could see what it looks like.  The 30 day calendar has a very cool feature- you can attach files and photos to individual calendar days.  So, for an upcoming trip, you could attach the itinerary, and then because you can scroll forward and back on the calendar, you could attach photos from the trip to the days they were taken for family members to see.

My one suggestion for the Qlubb people is to make it easier for the group leader/admin to make the group page public. I had to go to the “Learn More” link and click the Public Page link to figure out that there was a box I needed to check .

If you are looking for a secure way for members of any kind of group to organize information in a central location, check out Qlubb. It’s fast, easy and free, and packed with features that are sure to get your group running smoothly!   Thanks Team Mom for this review opportunity!