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Spruce up your home with a new mailbox!

May 11, 2010 By

All over my neighborhood, my neighbors are sprucing up their yards now that it’s Spring. They are planting flowers, resurfacing their sidewalks and driveways, spreading woodchips around their bushes and trees, but you know what they are missing?  Exchanging their battered, rusty mailboxes for new ones!  Mailboxixchange is an online marketplace for all kinds of mail boxes, and they want to let MomReviews readers know more about their products.

In my neighborhood, which was built in the 50s, the older houses each have a wall-mounted mailbox next to the front door. While those are generally more protected from the elements, the lid hinges get rusty, and the lids themselves can get bent out of shape from having heavy packages leaned up against them (ahem, MomReviews’ mail carrier, lol).  Mailboxixchange has a bunch of great ones, some even have hooks underneath to hold a rolled-up newspaper.

The site also has dozens of styles of traditional driveway mailboxes, with personalization plaques included. If it’s been a while since you bought a new mail box and yours is looking worse for the wear, check out the options available at Mailboxixchange!

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Disney Princess Table and Chair Set

September 9, 2009 By

In July I wrote about CSN Stores, a one-stop shopping site of over 200 stores with great discounts on pretty much everything. Whether you need furniture, appliances, luggage, a swingset, a new trash can, a rug, a jewelry box, or an air hockey table, there’s a CSN Store for that!   To thank me for taking the time to write about the site in July, CSN Stores offered me the product of my choice under $50. Do you know how hard it was to choose just ONE thing from everything sold at 200 + different sites?  After much debating, I finally settled on something I knew my 3.5 year old daughter would LOVE- a Disney Princess Table and Chairs set.

See, my daughter loves to have pretend tea parties.  She has two different tea sets and the pieces were scattered around her room. I wanted her to be able to have a proper tea party with a chair for her to sit in and a chair for a doll. I found the perfect table at All Children’s Furniture!

Tea Party

As you can see, Kaitlyn and Zoe (from the Karito Kid collection) are enjoying an assortment of pretend tea and cakes, served from both a recycled plastic tea pot and a Fisher Price Musical tea pot, because it’s important to have variety. I just wish Zoe would have removed her hat at the table :)

This table and chairs set is extremely sturdy, was easy to assemble, and the surface is wipeable. Here’s a close up of the table top:

Tea Table

I really appreciate CSN Stores sending me the table and chairs for review. Next time I need to buy something online, I’ll be checking their site first to see what kind of deals I can get!

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Olive Kids Personalized Floor Pillows

August 6, 2009 By

Olive Kids is the place to go for well-made, eye-catching, non cartoon-character designs for your child’s bedroom, playroom, bathroom-any room in the house! Kaitlyn love her personalized framed print in “Blossoms and Butterflies” and Nathan’s personalized clock in “Boats and Buoys” hangs in our playroom.

Another fun option in personalized decor from Olive Kids is their floor pillows. Sized at a generous 20″ x 26″ x 2″, the removable machine washable outer shell is made of supersoft plush, with beautifully embroidered icons that match each of the bedding patterns. The inner pillow is gusseted, quilted, 100% cotton with a sterilized polyester fill.

Olive Kids generously offered me a personalized floor pillow and I chose one for Kaitlyn in the “Tea Party” design. I’m telling you, she now has the most comfortable pillow of any of us! It’s meant to be used as a floor pillow, but when she insisted on taking it to bed the first night, we discovered that it fits PERFECTLY in her toddler bed. So now she sleeps on it every night! Here’s a photo of her using the pillow in bed:

And this is the pillow by itself:

Kaitlyn's Pillow

Trust me when I say that $45.99 is absolutely NOT too much to pay for this incredibly soft, comfortable, washable, huge, and adorable floor pillow! It would make a wonderful birthday or Christmas gift too. I hope to be getting an Olive Kids button up in my sidebar soon so you can visit the site any time you are looking for a truly unique personalized item for a special someone!

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