It’s All Too Much! DVD
January 26th, 2010
Peter Walsh is known as the de-clutter/organizing guy. He has helped TONS of people to organize their lives and to understand that by cluttering our homes and lives it weighs us down. Through TLC’s Clean Sweep and his appearances on The Oprah Show Peter has been helping people to live richer and fuller lives without drowning in their stuff. You can now bring Peter into your home through his new DVD “It’s All Too Much”.
During the video, Peter takes viewers room-to-room within a home offering ideas, tips and solutions for common clutter challenges. This is a live version of his New York Times best-selling book. You will be inspired to clear out the clutter and learn that organizing your home can be a very powerful experience. It is like a great cleansing…inside and out. As an organization expert, author and regular TV guest, Peter is known for his positive, fun-loving approach to organizing one’s home, life and mind, which is brought to life in his new DVD. You can see a preview of the video at http://peterwalshdesign.com and learn more about his books as well as over 100 organizational tips!
Title: It’s All Too Much with Peter Walsh DVD
Cost: $19.99 plus S+H
Watch video preview and purchase at: http://peterwalshdesign.com/
About: Peter Walsh’s New York Times bestselling book is now available on DVD featuring over an hour of tips, techniques, and encouragement from organizational living expert, Peter Walsh, which will help you de-clutter every room of your home once and for all.
Peter also has a young adult version of his book, It’s All Too Much: So Get It Together. In this edition he offers practical advice for today’s teens with easy-to-use solutions, entertaining quizzes, stories from teens and more. I have tied my daughter to a chair and am forcing highly encouraging her to read this book! It teaches them to IDENTIFY what exactly clutter is. This is a HIGHLY sought after tool in our home. See, my kids do not think that a dresser piled high to the ceiling is clutter. They see it as treasures to sit there for all enternity or till Mom gets fed up and cleans it herself.Both of my kids met the requirements to be Cutter King and Clutter Queen. I wonder what that says about me. No, scratch that, I do not want to know. And, I have to go make sure Erin hasn’t escaped moved onto something else besides reading how to de-clutter my her life
I received a copy of the book and DVD to help facilitate this review. I was in no other way compensated for this post.
An Update…
January 12th, 2010To those of you that have been visiting me for some time I hope that you will remember me telling you about a book called “Somewhere In Germany”. This book was written by Deborah King and was centered around a man who lived not 2 miles from me. Paul was an American Soldier who was stationed in Germany during WWII. He fell in love with a young German woman…to understand it all you just have to read the book. You can visit HERE to get a brief version of the story.
Anyway, I wanted to let you all know that the woman that the book was centered around, Anna, passed away last week. Deborah King let me know that she passed peacefully with the knowledge that Paul never forgot her and never quit loving her. Anna was buried on Friday in Fahrenzhausen at the Church there.
To New Adventures
December 17th, 2009This has been such an exciting week for me. I have had lots of new projects on the burner and they are almost done cooking. There are a couple that I just can’t discuss just yet, but information will be coming VERY soon. I have spent so many hours at my computer over the last few days that I think I am going to need that lasik surgery Mexico has to offer. One I can tell you about is that I have started working for a company called Wool Street Publishing. I am handling their online marketing approach concerning bloggers and other social media aspects. They have written and illustrated a precious board book for children ages 2-6. Flip Along Fun is a new mix and match board book that tells a story, teaches numbers and counting and helps understand sequencing. It contains nine “pages” comprised of three panels. The panels are mixed and matched to tell a story by matching the numbers and/or the pictures on each panel. The child selects randomly to arrange the first two panels then they have to find the correct panel to complete the storybook page by adding the numbers or matching the characters.
The Flip Along Fun book encourages learning by incorporating a fun game-style format into traditional reading and arithmetic! It helps children develop cognitive skills such as:
* Structuring sentences
* Matching
* Rhyming
* Adding
* Logical thinking
You really have to visit their website at www.flipalongfun.com and watch the video. You will fall in love with this new approach to learning and your children will have so much fun they won’t realize that it is educational.
It’s A Puzzler!
December 2nd, 2009
We love puzzles…of every kind. But throughout the winter months you can bet that we have a jigsaw puzzle going. It is what we do on those cold days when we just don’t want to get out. And well, we are all addicted to them. My Mom started the tradition when we were very young. There would always be a puzzle going in our Dining Room, because it was the warmest room in our house. We lived in a very old house growing up…it was built in the 1890’s. It has no insulation and was always very cold in the winter and steaming hot in the summer. So as we all gathered in the central dining room around a table next to the old wood heater we would sit and work on a puzzle, catch up on daily events and just hang out as a family. It is a tradition that I remember fondly and have passed onto my own children.
Now, every Christmas we all look forward to getting a new puzzle from my Mom. Once we have completed our puzzle we will usually trade with one of my sisters so that we have another new one to complete…and I gift puzzles to my own children as well. We look for hard ones these days…and this is one that I found this year that I fell in love with:
I love, love, love all of the Alex Beard products, but his puzzles…oh his puzzles are fabulous and hard. Of course he has some that aren’t quite so difficult, but I am loving this Peacock puzzle BECAUSE it is hard. It isn’t going to be done in a day or two as so many of ours are. The quality is so good, meaning that this puzzle will last us for a long time, no matter how many time we put it together…and the hard ones, we do over and over again for the challenge.
Check out all of Alex Beard’s products, you will find so much to fall in love with. There is something for everyone on your list including the kids!
Alex Beard Studio provided me with a sample product for review purposes. I was in no other way compensated for this post, I do just really happen to love all of his stuff!
Get Out! (giveaway)
December 1st, 2009
That is right…I said to GET OUT! Get Out and play. Get Out and live…all the while being a little greener along the way. Get Out! is chockful of eco-friendly ideas to help families, classrooms, and groups get outside, learn about nature, experience the world in new ways, and take a hands-on approach to green living. There are chapters on being an eco-friendly consumer and eco-friendly eater, as well as on choosing an issue and taking a stand, make for a well-rounded yet easy-to-use handbook for making a difference indoors and out. Making this a great gift for the families in your life that are looking to make an impact on our environment.
Tip # 143 - Participate in an Earth Day Event. These include fairs, festivals, educational talks and hands on activism like park restoration, tree planting, and river clean-ups. (more information is included in the book)
The kids and I have all enjoyed this book. It has given us some really creative ideas to reduce our Carbon Footprint while enjoying the outdoors and enjoying spending some time as a family.
Erin’s favorite? # 24.
Tate’s Favorite? # 58.
You will just have to get the book to figure out what those things are, but I can assure you…it has been fun!
Open to any page to find something to do today. The payoff is huge: not only is nature just plain awesome to be in, but research shows that spending time enjoying nature can actually improve our physical and emotional health. Bonus: Kids who learn to love nature will naturally do more to conserve it. Eureka!
Get Out! shows you ways to:
* Get Started: Cool Ways to Embrace Nature Today
* Go Further: Projects, Plans, and Outings
* Get Smart: Be Green Consumers-and Eaters
* Get Active: More than Just the Three Rs
* Get Involved: Take a Green Stand
With Get Out!, green living is fun and easy. And at $10.99 it makes an affordable gift for several people on your list this year. For more information or purchase visit HERE.
Or, you can enter to win a copy! Thanks to Get Out! and Free Spirit Publishing I have a copy to giveaway to one lucky reader!
To Enter: Leave a comment stating one thing that you do regularly to live a little greener. All entries must be received by December 8th at 5 PM EST. All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected at random and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail.
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Chilling Tales (GIVEAWAY)
November 29th, 2009THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED !!!
Here is a great holiday gift for anyone’s favorite Do-it-yourselfer, handyman or anyone else who just loves a good story. ” Chilling Tales from the Porcelain Seat” is a vignette-style bathroom reader featuring the SyFy channel’s Ghost Hunters Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. The book details tales of plumbing horrors and hilarity in an easy-to-read short story format. Nothing too gross, or too scary but certainly enough to make people of all ages chuckle.
According to a news release, “The idea behind the book stems from all the strange, funny, unexplained and simply weird experiences both the Ghost Hunters and other Roto-Rooter plumbers have witnessed over the years involving pipes, drains, sinks and toilets inside America’s homes and businesses.
“There’s a story about a Roto-Rooter man called to unclog drains at a Florida alligator farm who worked in waist-deep water while handlers kept gators at bay with prods. Another story deals with a kitchen sink drain clogged from end to end with broken glass from a full case of beer bottles that had been pushed down the garbage disposal at a party. ‘Chilling Tales’ features toilet trivia and even a chapter that tells the Ghost Hunters’ inspiring story,” the release says
There are some really great stories in this book that chronicles the funny, the weird and the just plain strange. Makes a perfect gift for almost anyone on your list and is affordable at $12.95.
Feel free to check out www.chillytales.com for purchasing information, reviews and excerpts.
AND, you can enter to win it here. Two (2) lucky readers will each win a copy of the book.
To Enter: Visit www.chillytales.com and leave me a comment telling me what your craziest Porcelain Seat tale is. Mine? It would have to be the time that my son flushed an owl figurine down the toilet. The thing is…it made this weird noise and I didn’t KNOW that was what he had done. So all I knew was that the toilet was stopped up and making weird noises even when no one was in there. It was kinda scary at night when all of a sudden you would be just about asleep and all of a sudden hear a screaching sound coming from the bathroom. All entries must be received by December 3rd at 5 PM EST. All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winners will be selected at random and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail.
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The Marvelous Toy (GIVEAWAY)
November 19th, 2009THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED !!!
You can however visit The Marvelous Toy for ordering information and you can always check out some of the other great giveaways going on here at The Post-It Place.
If you are looking for a very special gift to give a child in your life the Christmas…Here it is!
It went zip! when it moved
And bop! when it stopped
And Whirr! when it stood still.
It was The Marvelous Toy!
For nearly half a century, “The Marvelous Toy”-composed by the legendary singer/songwriter Tom Paxton-has enchanted children and adults alike. A simple tale about a mysterious, magical, and mystical toy that a father gives to his son-and that eventually gets passed down to the next generation celebrates a child’s sense of wonder. The witty, evocative lyrics spark the imagination. No surprise, then, that the song has been recorded by countless major artists, from Peter, Paul, and Mary to the Chad Mitchell Trio to John Denver, and won legions of fans through the years.
Paxton’s marvelous song has finally become a stunning picture book-oversized, wonderfully packaged, and complete with a CD offering three songs sung by Tom himself plus a music-only version of “The Marvelous Toy” to sing along with. Featuring incredible and wildly imaginative art by Steve Cox, illustrator of the award-winning Pigs Might Fly, the story is now as amazing to look at as it always has been to listen to.
This is such a great book and CD combo. It will be passed from generation to generation as children try to imagine what The Marvelous Toy could be and you will find yourself singing the song and reading the book time and time again.
To Enter: Visit the THIS site and leave me a comment telling me why you would like to win it. All entries must be received by November 30th at 5 PM EST. All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winners will be selected at random and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail.
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