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Elmer’s Magnificent Manicure Kit

November 21, 2009 By

Magnificent ManicurePart 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.

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Qlubb-Online Meeting Place For Groups

January 19, 2009 By

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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!

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Cabbage Patch Kids are back!

September 17, 2008 By

It’s the 25th Anniversary of the original release of Cabbage Patch Kids, and to celebrate, Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Cabbage Patch Kids are available, but only for a limited time. The special 25th Anniversary Kids are remakes of the original Kids, and they come packaged with a silver anniversary baby spoon and a special 25th Anniversary Birth Certificate with “Adoption Papers”.

Thanks to Team Mom, we received our Kid to much excitement. I was in High School in 1983, although I do remember the stories in the paper and on the news about people fighting over the last CK Kid on toy store shelves. Cabbage Patch Kids set off a frenzy among toy and doll collectors, and they were scooping up dolls, clothes, and accessories as fast as they could. I haven’t read or seen anything about any mania at stores this time around, so you should be able to get one without incident.

As you may know, Cabbage Patch Kids come with a birth certificate and a paper your child can sign to officially adopt their kid. But I have a confession to make- I can’t find the birth certificate! So, I can tell you that this is Mayme Lucille, but I can’t tell you when her “birthday” is.

Isn’t she cute? Kaitlyn likes playing “baby” with her, lying her down on a nest of blankets and covering her up for a “nap”. It’s been bugging me that the doll’s name is spelled “Mayme” and not “Mamie”, so I finally googled “cabbage patch kid mayme” and got a very interesting possible answer. It seems that Woody Kling, a very famous and highly acclaimed television writer who was the head writer for The Carol Burnett Show and All In The Family, also wrote the Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas Special for TV in 1983. His mother’s name was Mayme. Coincidence?

Check out the Cabbage Patch Kids website for information about the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition dolls, plus games and a lot more info. Thanks again to Team Mom for including me in this fun campaign!

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