Dangers for your child: Violet the Singing Puppy

My daughter has purple singing dog named Violet. This toy is suppose to help learn to count, say your name, sing, dance, etc. Being an educational stuffed toy, I didn't think much about my daughter's companion.

...That was until I spent long hours, upon days, upon weeks listening to the little purple puppy sing....
I find this toy could be hazard to my child's well-being. How I let this go on so long and not see the obvious only shows how crafty and sneaky the toy companies are.

Let me give you a few examples...

This is the lyrics to the whole song, she sing about the morning.

In the morning I rise and shine.
I get out of bed and it breakfast time.
I hear the birds sing a morning tune.

Given the song is obvious about the morning, but in the first verse, one can only wonder what she means with, "I rise and shine." Sure children wake up, they "rise" or get out bed. But the word, "shine" is what can really be interesting point here. Is Violet simply enforcing the positive message of all children being special in their own way? Or does she truly think she can make my child believe and can "rise and shine" like the sun?
If the first, then my child is getting the extra self encouragement she needs as she is growing.
 If it is the second, I must say I am appalled that the toy company would make such deceitful toy!

Going based on the deceitfulness of the toy, she sings another song simalar to the morning song, but only its about the evening.

In the evening as the sun goes down
I brush my teeth and put my pj's on
I hear the birds sing an sleepy tune

First off, what puppy wears pjs!? And since when does a dog brush teeth! The liar is trying to make my child think that the dogs brush their teeth! And since dogs have stinky breath, they must be trying to teach my child that stinky breath is a sign of brushed teeth!!!!

.*gasp* But given the song is to get a child involved in the process of getting ready for bed and good brushing habits, we could look passed this lie. Maybe I have been around the singing pooch for so long I can show some grace. However the last line will be the real kicker.

Yes, scientific studies have shown dogs have keen hearing. Much better than human anyways, however, how does a dog know the birds are singing a sleepy tune? I am sure humans can hear bird as well
Once again we are caused great distress for the well being of my child's mental state. The canine teaches that birds sing sleepy tunes, and from the previous song morning tunes. But the dog fails to explain the difference! Will my daughter spend the rest of her life listening to birds in a deep depression trying to figure out what is a sleepy tune and a morning tune? Will she start think she can super animal mind reading powers that she knows when birds are singing sleepy tunes or happy ones? And is there any other kinds of birds singing tunes?!?! How can the toy company be so cruel to present such in-depth philosophical and psychological subject matter to toddlers!?!

Parents protect your children!!!! We can't stand for this!!!
Sadly there are so many chants and songs one blog post can not contain them all. All I can say with so many sang and chanted to my child, I bet the toy is trying to brainwash her into thinking she telepathic- pj wearing- rising sun- bird- reader!

I will have more to update on this later once I get a chance to leave my home. For now I must watch my daughter's toys carefully. One might try to get her to plot that cheerios are space saucers...

Until another day

Toodles


The culprit in all our troubles!!!

Handling my Geek :)

Next year I will be married to the most wonderful Hubby man for three years. Now three years is not whole lot of experience, but I learned a little thing or too, especially in the Nerd/Geek department.

Some of you may or may not know, my husband  is a nerdy, superhero loving, sonic screwdriver yielding,  know the whole movie by heart in one sitting, light saber master, and the one who wanted to dress  like the Bioshock videogame Big-Daddy and his daughter as a Little Girl,  geek. (If you can say that in one breath, I give you props!)

Being the middle sister of two big geeks themselves, I thought when I married my husband; I was pretty well versed in my Geekiense. But to my surprise, my husband came from this whole knew different order of Geekdom. (Somewhere in the Sanctum by the tower Doom, in section titled “Unmarked”, because they don’t exist according to MIB.)

*sigh* I remember when he swooped me off my feet with the lines “You’re the Princess Laya to my Han Solo!” on the night he purposed, right before he lost the ring in his pocket.  I should have known then I would spend the rest of my life with Back to the Future post in living room and painting Tardises for my artwork.   

There was just something about how giddy he got when he got to teach me the Killer Bunnies game and how his heart broke when Green Lantern Live film didn’t do too well in Theaters. And the special names he gives to his kids…our daughter will forever be his young “padiwon learner” after she learned to crawl because she was wanted to get the power cord to his laptop.

In my few years, I learned how to handle my geek.

One big thing is never question ceremonious rituals or routines. It doesn’t matter is you end up walking into a theater with your companion looking like Dr. Who and he addresses you as his “companion.” Don’t question it!!! EVER!!!! Unless you want the three hour long in-depth reasoning, just smile and accept your fate.

Another thing, and this is really good to boost your memory skills, is to know the difference between names and titles of things even if they sounds exactly the same. There is a huge difference between Batman Arkhem Asylum and Batman Arkhem City. And even though Batman lives in Gothem City, don’t question the Batman game title.

One of the benefits of being married to a geek, if that I learned how to really speak Geekiense. Sure, I knew it before. But I learned more than just what certain words stood for, I learn how to phrase them and properly pronounce them. So when my geek has his fellow geeks over in the deep debate over how the Justice League and The Avengers compare, you can pipe in how Iron man is just the cocky day time version of Batman and impress a few of your guests. J

But I have to say my favorite is when my husband brings home Ben and Jerry's Ice cream with gummy bears so we can watch the latest episodes of Dexter, Sherlock, and Dr. Who. With daughter sleeping peacefully to soft song about a mad scienctist falling in love, there is just nothing like ending the day like that. 

Between the Lightsaber battles at our wedding 

And loving our children while he games online

There is nothing like being married to my dorky Hubby man. :)
Love ya Honey.

Until another day.

Toodles!

NYC New York Color IndividualEyes Custom Compact

                        NYC Individual Eyes Custom Compact. That is mouthful to say :)
Anyways, helllo everyone, I was just wanting to share you another product I recieved from Influenster Voxbox last month. It was the NYC New York Color IndividualEyes Custom Compact!*breath!*
First one to send me a video of you saying this 10 times fast gets free box of organic poptarts!

I just wanted to share with you this pretty eye shadow pallete. Now I am not one for much eye shadows. I have few but I just find it take up extra time for me to do make-up. However, there are those days that I want to be all girlied up.  The NYC New York Color IndividualEyes Custom Compact, actually surprised me when it came to it colors. I wasn't one for dramatic eye, but I found a just little of theses pressed powders goes a long way. And with the greys it really brings out hazel and blue tones in the eyes. 
Sorry for my bad pictures. Today just didn't have good lighting. 

My compact came in the color combination Dark Shadows. These also have other colors with more crimson and berry tones and another one I say at the store the other day that has some soft browns, which I might try out.
The Dark Shadow compact though, I liked because it brought out the different colors of my hazel eyes.
You can view the colors below. :)

The lightest grey color, I used all over my lid and the second darkest I used in my crease. The lightest pressed powder in the creamy white I used on my brow bone.

If you can tell in the photo, I winged out the shadow a bit on my eye. I like to this to create depth to the eyes. I really don't do it with eye liner though. To me unless you have the real eye structure and shape for it, the thick black winged eye liner look can make someone look like they are ready to go out on stage or be a in the theater.

 I used the darkest charcoal shade, pictures above, only along my lash line and kept it real short. Lining the eyes to suppose to frame them. Bring them to life like a well framed picture. You don't want to go overboard and have large frame overwhelming a smalle picture.
For used Stila Mascara for my lashes.

My favorite part of the whole compact though is the primar. This goes on before the shadow to keep your color from creasing for fading to fast. The formula is soft and creamy and doesn't feel thick on the eyes. Nothing feels worse on the eye lids than thick eye primars, heavy shadows, or caky make-up. But  the NYC New York Color IndividualEyes Custom Compact, doesn't have heavy powder or thick formulas.

You can purchase your own compact on the website linked below. But I would just go target or walgreens when  they are on sale with a coupon to safe a few bucks. :)

http://newyorkcolor.com/ 

Anyways I hope you all enjoy this. When I review things, they are my honest reviews and I won't promote anything that I don't like. Nor am I paid for this at all. Just a mama finding time between naps. :)

Anywhoalls, Until another day

Toodles!
 

Mini Candle Scents!

Ahhh, the fresh scent of home made pie or fresh brewed apple spice latte. Or maybe the scent of crushed leaves or spices. Whatever scent floats your boat. :)
My only problem is its wet and cold outside when I want to have the fresh scent of leaves. And just the other day I ran out of sugar and and canned pumpkin to make some pumpkin dessert. And frankly there are those days I want the scent of something, without putting in all the work. (I mean how many pumpkin pies do you have to make up to keep up that intoxicaing smell?) *mouth drools for more pumpkin pie*
So the answer is candles! (Candles can also save your waist line if you love those baking and spiced scents.)
I love candle. I especially love tini tiny candle that can fit in little areas.  Not really tea candle, but these kind. The mini version of larger ones, like this one!

This one is mini version of Bath and Body works, larger candles. This is Black Pepper Bergamot from their fall collection.
And I got this one as well from the Bath and Body Works, website. No need to wash dishes or add to the waist line to get the lovely scent of apple crumble. Just light one of these little babies. :)

These candles are so tiny!And so cute. The larger ones go for about 20-30 bucks, but these little one are only 3.50. I really like them since I have tiny apartment and larger containter candles can take up what little precious table room I have!!!

EEP!!! See no table space. ( No, I don't actually burn my candles this close to paper and my husband's laptop. :P )

I usually keep my Black Pepper Bergamot on the kitchen table burning, while I do dishes or cooking at the stove.   For being so tiny, they sure last a little while. :)

After you burn all the way through, you have cute little trinket collector...Like I need another one, but still its cute!

Until another day.

Toodles!


Get your own mini candle from the website link here. :)
Bath and Body Works also just came out with their winter goliday collection. They also have deal going on for getting 2 mini candles for just 5 dollars. :)

The Circus and Fun with Fake Flowers

 You know how hard it is to take picture with one hand without having that awkwardly placed arm in a picture? :P Takes lots of shots before you a decent picture. Anyways, hello everyone! Just a breif update about life here. Baby Girl is getting bigger as you can see from the picture below. We were having to much fun with the fake flowers and lash glue we had to come outside and take pictures.

Here's an upclose shot of the flowers on my face. Its great last minite fairy costume for your Halloween events. :)

And if you have good friend, you can even stick candy to her forhead. No worries, she is still my friend...even after I glued starburst to her forhead. :P

Other than being goofy with last glue. On a Friday my mama took my sister, Baby Girl and I to the circus!!!
Where we saw this and our heads hurt for the rest of the night!

Um... yeah.. that's their hair! These two are incrediable brave or insane.

And the elephants! They are one of our favorites. This was Baby Girl's first time and she kept pointing saying, "What dat? What dat?" So cute. But the acrobats and gymnists she surprising didn't care to much for. I found impressive. Who would use a see-saw leap onto people's shoulders? Someone way more brave and atheletic than me!

The lion tamer was pretty awesome as well. Baby Girl got a kick out of the tigers and lions. I see a theme here with the animals...

I have a few videos but they are very grainy and you hardly make anything out. After about 2 hour show and overpriced stuff cat later, we left happy campers and happy baby ready for a nap. :)
Overall been great so far this October!
COming soon will be a post and myabe youtuve video about Apple Butter FEstival!!!

Check out my fake flower fairy goofy video. :)
Fiary costume tutorial

Until another day!

Toodles!

Influenster VoxBox: The Beauty Blogger

There is nothing like finding a good deal accept getting something completely free. And not just free coupons or samples, but full size products!
That is one of the big reasons I love Influenster Voxbox. Every so often you get this white box in the mail and it feels like Christmas!
A few months back I blogged about receiving the Mom Voxbox. This time, I got the Beauty Blogger Vox box. For those who don't know what Influesnter Voxboxes are, here is the basics of it. Influenster is a website that every few months sends out a box, entirely free, to certain qualifying people to try out other companies products. Companies that you know like Stash Tea, Ivory soap, Maybaline make-up, etc. These companies usually want you to try out new products or try out old products that they might want to improve or take off shelves, etc.
After you try out their products you go back to the Influenster Website and leave your honest opinion. What you liked about it, what you didn't like, what you think they could do to improve. They want your complete honesty! And for the products you love, share them with everyone! Tell them how much you love and send them to Influenster!
To qualify for these boxes of free stuff, you earn badges off the websites from your review and surveys you can take. The more and in depth you do, the more chances you get at receiving Voxboxes. There are more details through Influenster website link below.
Today! I want to share with you my curtain box. The Beauty Blogger box! I am not much of beauty guru, but I still love to get my hands on some good products to try out and makes ya feel perty!

First thing I pulled out was my eye shadow palette from NYC.  Its a pretty dark colors than I am used too, but I think its suppose to give that dramatic smoky eye effect. I love that is comes with it own primer and illuminator. I think it would great for the coming holidays. I will try to do a Halloween make up look to post here and on youtube. :) Probably try it out with these eyelashes that were the next thing to pull out of the box.

Forgive that the picture is sideways! LOL. Anyways, These are pretty dramatic eye lashes. I was not much one for fake eyelashes. I tried a few out back when, just to play around. I already have pretty long eye lashes, plus mine are dark brown. Black can sometimes over take me, but I think these would be well worth trying out for Halloween look. :) These are the starter kit from Ever Pro lashes.

The next thing I pulled out were the two things, Not Your Mother's Frizzy Hair Cream Control  and the Eboost daily health booster. The hair cream, I really want to try. I don't have super frizzy hair, but I do have my bad days. I also want my sissy to try it out. I think it would work great for her
The Eboost, I will try, but Hubbyman might be the one to try it out more. Being pregnant, I am not sure if I should try and energy booster. But I will try it out to see how it makes me feel.

The next product and by far my most favorite is the mini Bath and Body Works candle from their Autumn collection. It also came with coupon to get one of the bigger candle for only $10 bucks, which these candles are normally prices 25-30 bucks.  I love the mini candle scent. It smells like my Grandmother's house during the fall outside. I think though I will get Leaves or Pumpkin spice one when I go to get a bigger candle. I love fall scents. Every need to buy at least one or two Fall or Holiday candle to burn in their home.

The last product, which sadly I could not get a picture of was these hair Spin Pins. Basically a long pin that is twisted so when you spin it into your hair it holds your hair up. I actually tried them out and the hold fine wavy hair like mine, to heavy curly hair like my sisters. :)

Anyways, that is my Beauty Blogger Voxbox openning review! Check out the Influenster Website link below as well as my review video on youtube. Also watch for a coming Halloween make or costume videos!
Until another day!

Toodles!

www.influenster.com


Influenster VoxBox Openning

Christmas Button Card Craft :)

Hello everyone! Its that time of year to start thinking about Christmas. And for me, it time to break out the paper and glue and make Christmas cards. But if you are like me, my time is short and so I need to make cute Christmas cards without it taking up too much time. So as much I love the embellished, hidden pocket, flowered and ribbonfied cards, I have to settle for simpler and faster made cards that are still as cute. :)

The supplies you will need to make these cute button Christmas cards are

Supplies:

Double sided themed card stock

Buttons. Varies sizes and colors work and are more fun.

Twine or kitchen string

Glue

Scissors

Christmas message stamp or pretty hand writing :)

First measure your card to be 4 1/4x 5 1/2 inch cards. You can make them bigger, but I found this size to be much nicer and easier to work with. If you can tell on the left, I used ink to distress the edges to give the card more simplistic homemade look. :)

 Next place and glue your buttons down. I found it easier to use glue dots for the buttons. Also make sure you leave enough space for stamp to leave your holiday message on the front. You can stamp first if you like and then arrange the buttons around it. Its entirely up to you.

 Then measure and cut your string so it meets the top of your button and to the edge of your card at the fold. Leave a little extra for easier handling. You will cut that off later after the glue is dried

 Some of them I tied bows at one end. :)

 This part is the trickiest. Glue the string down. I just uses stick glue and rubbed it across the string then laid it down where is suppose to go. The buttons and strings should look like the picture above.

 As the glue is drying you can stamp or write your holiday message  in the empty space. I hand wrote "Merry Christmas" in because it added to the simplistic look.

 Once the glue is dry cut the extra off and there ya go. A cute and simple care for you to give to someone you love.

Here is another simple idea for Christmas card is to use Christmas themed or colored card stock and then using a ribbon to glue down an tie a bow in the center. It look like a little present. Here I used lace ribbon, which gives it an old time gift look.
I hope you enjoy these ideas and enjoy making them.

Craft away my friends and enjoy your day

Toodles