Tiny Prints is a very cute shop offers a great selection of party invitations, holiday cards, photo birth announcements, thank you cards and much more!  Creative, personal, custom and VERY fun for your family! 

If you are planning a baby shower or expecting a baby you will definitely appreciate Tiny Prints’ Baby Shower invitations and Birth announcements.  If you’re looking for a great gift for an expecting mom, they even offer gift certificates!  Personally, I have always found it difficult to find a good selection for twins (or higher order multiples).  Tiny Prints has a beautiful selection of twin Birth Announcements that are very fun. 

I also really like the personal feel of their party invitations!  They offer a wide variety of birthday party invitations for boys, girls, even a line of gender neutral.  Their Summer Party Invitations are very popular right now.   I’m also told that their Halloween Party invitations are quite popular.

Tiny Prints offers a great selection of cards, invitations and more just for the holidays!  We give out Photo Christmas Cards to all of our family and friends each year and I have to say the ones offered at Tiny Prints are fun, beautiful and simple!

Tiny Prints has also offered a $50 gift card for one of you.  All you have to do is visit Tiny Prints and take a look around.  Be sure to come back here and leave a comment telling us what your favorite item is and/or something you’d like to see at the shop.

This contest will end on July 28th.  If you have a chance to blog about it and let others know that’s always appreciated by these great contest sponsors (but not required to enter).

I recently had the opportunity to experience Little Star Video’s unique and wonderful services.  They offered to compile a video featuring photos of my children.  Sounded like fun, so I sent them quite a few pictures of my Twinkies from birth and their time spent in the NICU to now!! 

They were wonderful to work with and transfomed my images complete with music, into a fabulous high quality video/slideshow that we can play again and again for our little ones.  I was so happy with it!

Before I share more details, I want you to see this wonderful video, it is super short (no, my kiddos aren’t in it) …

I had the opportunity to ask Andrea, owner of Little Star Video, some questions and would like to share that interview with you:

Tell me about the history and passion of your business:

We want to provide a way for parents to encapsulate the numerous pictures and videos captured of their children in a way that is unique and cherished. Our company provides busy parents an easy way to display their photos and videos to friends and family. In essence, we bring photos and videos to life by creating a mini-movie of the images captured. Each movie is uniquely customized and images are easily uploaded to our site. Parents have a choice of song selection to match their individual style and can add custom titles and dedications of their choice.

What products do you offer?

We offer several different movie packages:
All of our packages include: song requests, photo retouching, custom transitions, pan & zoom effects, custom titles and dedications, custom DVD menu, custom label, case and shipping.

~Simple Package starts at $175 (50 pictures) and increases with the number of pictures and video submitted.
~Capture the Years starts at $225 for Year 1 (100 pictures). We are doing a special for $450 you can receive Years 1-3 (1 year at no cost – saving $225!).
~DVD Birth Announcement - $125 (25 pictures, one video, 15 copies).

What’s your most popular product?

Our most popular package is called “Capture the Years”, similar to a video yearbook, where parents can recap each year of their child’s life starting with Year 1. Our other popular package is a DVD birth announcement where new parents can have 15 DVD copies of the first few days of life that includes up to 25 pictures and one video clip . It is a new take on the traditional birth announcement. We also have our simple movie packages that start at $175 for 50 pictures and increases with the number of images that are submitted.

All of Little Star Video’s DVDs are created in High Definition quality for use on standard and widescreen televisions. Their video packages can be customized or even given as a gift. At this time Little Star Video only accepts digital photos, so all pictures need to be scanned (offered at most retail locations).

You’ll want to be sure to take advantage of the discount they have offered just for A Frog In My Soup readers!!! Get $40 off on any video package, just use the code FROGGY (offer expires 8.31.08).

They have also offered a wonderful giveaway. One of you will win their Simple Movie Package A (wroth $175 for 50 pictures)! In order to enter, you need to visit www.LittleStarVideo.com and take a look around! Come back here and leave a comment telling us what you think of the sample videos they offer at their site.

This contest is open to US and Canadian addresses and you may enter until July 25th.

Be sure to hop on over to A Frog in My Soup to enter an unbelievable contest for a Starter CD Pack offered by Wiggle Giggle Learn (a customized cd for two winners each containing age appropriate learning plans and more for your child[ren] worth $139.95 each). They have also offered 25% off if you go shopping with them before August 30th. Just visit Wiggle, Giggle, Learn and use the code baby.

I am truly excited to be able to introduce this brand new company that offers a unique and diverse learning system for toddlers and preschoolers. Wiggle, Giggle, Learn is owned by Tracey Stuckey and when shey contacted me and asked if I would try out some of the products with my little ones, I was very excited!

Tracey compiled product specifically to meet the needs of my children. She breaks down activity plans for specific ages … and I mean SPECIFIC! If your child is 2 years and 2 months old, there is a specific activity plan for that month. There’s also some great finger plays, nursery rhymes, coloring pages and much more!

ENTER HERE … http://froggyreviews.com/2008/07/wiggle-giggle-learn/. 

This contest has ended, thank you for your participation. Be sure to click on the contests link above and visit www.froggyreviews.com for more great contests.

Live barefoot … imagine!  That is the whole vision of Barefoot books in one little statement.  I was recently introduced to Barefoot Books by Alpha Sanford when she contacted me about their products.  I was definitely interested and as you may have noticed it didn’t take me long to decide it was a great company to promote (see my sidebar button).

I had started by asking Alpha to share why she loves the company so much!

All the books that they publish speak to what I want my daughter to learn! The colors, the vocabulary, the diversity of people and characters presented are just amazing!

Barefoot Books offers award winning Children’s Books, Music CD’s, Gifts and more. They have many books that are great sellers, but their Whole World Book was featured on Oprah and is very popular. Alpha’s daughter’s favorite book though is Animal Boogie (which I plan to order very soon)!

You can see Alpha’s Barefoot Books site at www.BarefootBooks101.com.  She also has a wonderful Barefoot Books review blog and I encourage all of you to visit that as well to get some great first hand information about Barefoot Books - go to http://barefootbooks101.wordpress.com/ and be sure to leave a comment letting Alpha know you were there.

Alpha has offered a copy of Barefoot Books’ board book Bun Bun, the Middle One. If you’d like to enter to win this be sure to visit her Barefoot Books store at www.barefootbooks101.com and take a look around (they have a great summer sale going on right now with books up to 80% off, but only through July 15th).  Then come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite product at Barefoot Books is!

Available to ship to US and Canadian addresses.  This contest will end on July 21st.

This contest has ended, thank you for your participation. For more great contests be sure to visit www.froggyreviews.com and click on the contest button above.

When Janet Nusbaum, owner of www.KidsandChores.net contacted me about her chore system for families I was intrigued.  When she offered to send me the book I was thrilled!  This isn’t your ordinary chore system!  Here’s what Janet told me about it:

With the purchase of one system, you receive the 133-page parent’s workbook and 1 ‘In My Family Everyone Works Together’ chore binder.  The system is designed for each child in the family age 5-18 to have their own ‘In My Family Everyone Works Together’ chore binder, which is a poly-construction mini-binder (that I had custom-made) containing the chore cards you have assigned to that child. 

Each binder includes a full set of 80+ chore cards, of different skill levels. Based on age-appropriate chore charts in the workbook, you the parent choose which chore cards go in each child’s binder based on their age.  As the child matures, you add or delete chore cards from their binder.

The beauty of the system is that the child takes ownership of their chore binder, which serves as their own instruction manual of how they contribute to their family.  Consistently, I see kids take pride in having their own chore binder, and thus they take pride in their contribution to their family – they feel special and needed.  This concept is a 100% improvement over a standard wall chore chart or similar.

Ok, I said before that this isn’t your ordinary chore setup. It is an entire home makeover in my opinion. I sat down and went through the workbook and was amazed at the approach. It is all about a complete restructuring of the way you view the work involved in getting and keeping the home clean and running smoothly. It also has some great overall parental helps like learning your children’s personality as well as an ENTIRE chart on what chores are apporpriate at what age!!!!

The organization and household help doesn’t stop there though!  In addition to the wonderful system Janet offers at www.KidsandChores.net, she also offers tons more for you and your family at www.SimplifiedSpaces.net where you can sign up for their free report and newsletter and the Simplified Home Store for all your organizing and simplifying needs!

Janet has offered all of you the opportunity to get a free second binder with any complete chore system purchase.  Just head over to www.KidsandChores.net to purchase a complete “Mom Can I Help Around the House?” system and be sure you mention in the comments as you check out that you heard about them at A Frog In My Soup!!  Hurry over though, this offer expires on July 23rd!

She has also offered one of you the opportunity to receive a complete “Mom Can I Help Around the House?” system!  Here’s what you need to do …

~ Visit www.KidsandChores.net and take a look around, you can also visit her other site Simplified Spaces and view the products there.

~Come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite product is and why you need it!

This contest is open for entries from the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe! You may enter through July 11th.

This week over at Froggy Reviews I am hosting a Week of Giveaways!  Be sure to visit every day (or sometimes even more than once per day) to enter for some great prizes all week long!!!  Just post the button on your blog and let your readers know about the event and you are eligible to enter every contest! 

Babycakes Art is a great mom-owned, mom-made shop offering a line of birth announcement prints and custom silhouettes! You can buy her wonderful creations at her etsy shop www.babcakesart.etsy.com.

Right now Babycakes Art is offering my readers a 15% discount. All you have to do to receive that discount is make a purchase by June 30, 2008 using the code A FROG IN MY SOUP. At checkout, enter that code in the ‘notes to seller’ and the email address where the revised invoice should be sent. Complete order but do NOT go to Paypal to pay. You will receive a revised invoice, and a link to complete payment, via email reflecting the discount.

They have also offered a great prize for one lucky commenter at Froggy Reviews. They are giving away a New Baby Set (not listed in their Etsy Shop) that includes: 1~ 5×7 print ready for framing, 8~ Personalized notecards/thank you notes, 8~ Personalized round stickers in a matching design.

CLICK HERE to hop over to the rest of the review and enter to win this great prize!

I’m thrilled to be sharing a fabulous boutique with all of you today that specializes in carrying quality natural and organic products for babies! Sweetie Pie Baby Boutique carries a wide variety of natural and organic baby products to include baby clothes, toys, skincare, slings and carriers, bedding, and more! Some of our featured designers are Speesees, LuLus American Baby, Mia Joie, Zoe and Sprout, and more.

Be sure to go shopping with them by July 6th to take advantage of a wonderful 20% off discount they have offered. Just use the code FROG20!

To read more about this great shop and enter a fabulous giveaway they have offered please be sure to CLICK HERE!

I’m excited to introduce you to a fun online jewelry boutique - Two Sisters Jewelry! Started in January 2007, this shop is owned and operated by twin sisters who design and make their entire line of FABULOUS jewelry!

Offering fun, chic and classy jewelry is what they’re all about.  I was so excited to receive a pair of their Jennifer Earrings!  They are simple and very fun to wear, but so elegant.  I received many compliments on them, and happily shared where they came from. 

Two Sisters Jewelry Boutique offers women jewelry that is not just beautiful!  You can also know that each and every piece is carefully created by hand.  Their most popular products are: Oval Sterling Silver Necklace, Patricia Mother’s Bracelet (pictured on the left), Jennifer Silver Earrings (pictured above) and the Emilia Gold Earrings.

Two Sisters Jewelry has offered my readers a generous 15% discount (no expiration!!!) at their boutique. All you have to do is use coupon code: FROG.

They are also offering one lucky commenter the opportunity to win their popular (and beautiful) Gold Eternity Necklace (a $35 value!). Here’s what you need to do to enter:

~ Visit Two Sisters Jewelry Boutique and look around.
~ Come back here and leave a comment telling us what your favorite product is!

It’s that simple! Be sure to enter by June 20th. This contest is only available for shipment to US shipping addresses.

My Mommy’s Bracelets is yet another great WAHM shop that was begun to facilitate a moms desire to stay home with her little ones. This great shop offers custom designed and personalized jewelry for Mothers, Grandmothers, Little Girls, Babies as well as special occasions, awareness, loss, remembrance and much more!

My Mommy’s Bracelets is offering my readers a 10% discount by using the code FROG …. but hurry, this is only good through June 13th The are also giving away a very cute bracelet! Click here to find out how to enter to win!