Deck the Home for the Holidays with Canvas Factory {Giveaway}

Christmas is just around the corner which means gift giving time for family and friends. Christmas means more than that to me but gift giving is something I love doing as it reminds me of the precious gift we were all given by the birth of our Savior. I know that I do a lot of entertaining over the holidays, too. How about you? I'm loving Canvas Factory because they make the most beautiful customized wall art and prints from your own submitted work.

These would truly make great gifts and a great way to decorate your home for the holidays. Check on the info below and enter their giveaway! Make sure to take advantage of this deal and get in all the free entries!

 What started as an Australian company has now branched out to Chicago. Canvas Factory's goal is to make it affordable and convenient for everyone to access online printing solutions. They produce canvases, but you can also customize metal wall art and acrylic photo prints with your photography or precious memories of your kids that you want to display throughout your home.

The quality of print is important to this company and their canvases reflect that. Canvas Factory canvases are light enough to hang with Command strips but sturdy enough to be a part of your room's decor for years to come. Turn your photography into artwork with the Canvas Factory.

Be sure to check out Canvas Factory on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.

One lucky reader will win a 16x20 canvas from Canvas Factory! This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on 11/25 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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Create Custom Apparel with No Minimums #MyLocker #mc #sponsored

Have you ever made your own custom apparel for sport teams, clubs, organizations,etc? There have been many times I have wanted to but never sure how to do it or where to do it. I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for MyLocker. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. With this review, I got to try out the MyLocker website to create and design my very own "mom of a TKD student". I loved doing it so much that I can't wait to design something else. 

Custom T-Shirts are so much fun to wear. Just last week I was at a youth conference where the volunteers had a specific shirt as well as the attendees. These days you do not have to limit your creative side to just make your own t-shirts. MyLocker allows you to design your own custom t-shirt, custom hoodies, golf polos, fleece, bags and other gear. Could you use some custom gear? If so, for what?

Overall I was loving the MyLocker website because of the huge selection of products, designs and color choices. I think it is great that they do not have a minimum order so you can get one or 100 of something and not charged more. I haven't received my two custom pieces but when I do I'll add the quality of the product to my post. This was my first time making a custom t-shirt so I do not have anything to compare it to. The website was a tad slow and for some reason the design I chose on a particular shirt wasn't an ordering option. I didn't know this until a few days after I ordered which slowed down my shipping. Besides that, I loved all of the design choices and wide variety of products. Customer services responded to my problem order with this, "It's been a few days since you placed your order and we want to let you know that we're busy jumping through ginormous flaming circus hoops to complete it. (Some of us do this more gracefully than others!)" which I thought was sweet and sincere. 

I would love to create some custom shirts for birthday parties and family holiday gifts. I love seeing photos of large families wearing the same shirt and can see me doing this for our family. One of the shirts that I did create was for TKD Mom. I love "mom" or "dad" shirts which support clubs and sport groups. My daughter has been in TKD for ages and this is my first "mom of shirt"!!! I can't wait to sport it at the next TKD event.

I also think that these type of custom products would be great for group fundraisers. The cost seemed reasonable and they can be resold so groups can make a profit. I know that our youth group could do something like this for their next conference. Can you see yourself creating custom products? Hop over to MyLocker and see for yourself all that they offer. You can also follow them on Twitter.

Style Your Home for The Holidays Giveaway {Agent Ace}

Tis the Season to get your home ready for the holidays. This is great if you have a new home because you can start fresh. If you don't have a new home, why not give it some style and create your new dream home looks? I'm so excited to share with you the below information on Agent Ace and the sponsored giveaway. Take advantage of the info below and get in all your giveaway entries so you can get that home showcase ready for the holidays!

Sponsored by: Agent Ace

Hosted by: Mom Powered Media

Agent Ace is the new way to find the best real estate agent. When you've thought about buying a home, how did you figure out who would help you with that? Did you find someone who you felt you could trust to get you what you wanted from it, whether that was a good price on a new home or the best sale of your old one? A lot of homeowners and potential buyers will just pick a random agent from a list online without a lot of background on what they're best at. It's like throwing a dart at the Yellowpages. With just a little information from you, Agent Ace can match you with the best agent to sell your home or buy a new one.

They're not a service who bases their list on whoever pays the most in your area either, so there's no worry about what goes on behind the scenes. For those of us in the market, Agent Ace a completely free service. Their innovative, patented technology — the Agent Connection Engine (ACE) — makes an unbiased evaluation of every agent who has bought or sold a home just like the one you’re trying to close on based on the information you've provided. They gather and analyze years of past home sales data from ALL the real estate agents in your state, not just a small network. Then they promise to recommend the single best agent for your needs — based on facts.

Agent Ace is free, easy to use, and there’s no obligation to use any of the agents they recommend. You're not locked into anything if you don't find someone you think fits or if maybe you decide you're not ready yet. They make up to 3 agent recommendations for buying and 3 for selling so you can choose the best fit for your needs and your style. Once they identify your best agent, the experienced Agent Specialists will screen them and confirm that they can fully commit to you. They do the initial contact and the sometimes awkward "Hey, can you take a new client right now?" questions for you. Once they’re sure it's a great fit, your recommended agent will give you a call within 24 hours (but usually sooner). It’s as easy as ordering take-out.

If you're even considering getting into the housing market for your dream home, whether to buy or sell, you can check out Agent Ace's amazing system from the comfort of your home (in your pajamas) at AgentAce.com.

Speaking of Dream Homes, Agent Ace wants to help you decorate yours. Two lucky winners are going to receive Crate & Barrel gift cards! The grand prize winner will receive a $250 gift card and a runner up will receive a $100 gift card. The sweepstakes is open to residents of the US through November 24, 2014. Enter using the form below and Good Luck!

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Disclaimer: The participating bloggers were not compensated for this post. No purchase is necessary to enter. One entrant per household, per address. Void where prohibited by law. Winner(s) will be contacted by email and have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. The sponsor(s) will be responsible for product shipment to winner(s) of this sweepstakes. This event is in no way administered, sponsored, or endorsed by, or associated with, Crate & Barrel, Facebook and/or Twitter, Google, Pinterest. Contact brookedoesitall@gmail.com if you have any additional questions or comments.

Get Smart with Whole House Smart Humidifier Giveaway

One essential household appliance for our home is the humidifier. We have one for the basement but know that we could use a few more in our home. It doesn't seem like the most exciting product but these days, it is. Holmes has a whole house smart humidifier which would benefit us because we would only need one vs. having one in every room. The other reason this product is so exciting is that it can be controlled with your smartphone! Yep! Even when you aren't home you can control this cool product. Get more info below and you can enter to win one right here on my blog. Take advantage of the entires and get all of them! Good luck.

Welcome to the Holmes Whole House Smart Humidifier Giveaway!

Sponsored by Holmes

Hosted by Game On Mom

Read Game On Mom's full Holmes Whole House Smart Humidifier review to find out why it's the best and easiest humidifier you can get. As the name suggests, it's a single humidifier that will keep your entire house comfortable. No more dealing with small humidifiers you have to move around constantly, or multiple ones to fill and maintain all over the house.

This one does the job all by itself; in fact, it covers a full 2,500 square foot range! The filters are easy to replace, and its water tanks are easy to fill. The best part, though, is the WeMo technology. You literally have this humidifier at your fingertips, no matter where you are. Even if you're at the supermarket, you can tell your humidifier what to do while you're gone. It's seriously fabulous.

Essentially, the humidifier has a form of wifi, and when you download the app on your phone, you can control everything with a touch of the screen. You can turn the power on or off, control the level of humidity in your home, set and edit a daily schedule, and even check the life remaining in your filters. You can also operate the humidifier from its easy-to-use control panel. I really don't think it could be easier to use a home appliance!

And just in time for winter, you have a chance to win your own Holmes Whole House Smart Humidifier! Enter via the Rafflecopter form below. Giveaway is open to US residents who are 18 and older. Ends 11/24/14 at 11:59 PM EST. Good luck!

Family Favorite Thanksgiving Foods

What are some of your food favorites for Thanksgiving? Quite a few of our family favorite recipes go all the way back 3 generations. No matter what foods we cook, the turkey is always the centerpiece! Do you cook a turkey? I'm so excited to bring you a Butterball Turkey giveaway with a group of bloggers. Enter today and good luck!

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away and Butterball was generous to offer 2 fabulous readers the chance to win a Butterball Turkey to feed their families this Thanksgiving.

Butterball turkeys are of the highest quality product and come with an easy to read instructional insert with step-by-step cooking instructions – from thawing to cooking times and temperatures they help guide you through the whole process, but don't fret. If you need some help cookin' up that Turkey Butterball is available by phone to answer all of your Turkey questions.

Butterball also has an easy to navigate website full of delicious recipes for all of your Holiday cooking needs!   The Denver Housewife has teamed up with Butterball and a few other bloggers to giveaway 2 $20 Butterball vouchers to use towards the purchase of your turkey!

Giveaway will run from 11/5 - 11/18/14 11:59 est. Good luck and gobble gobble!  

Take Control of your Parental Controls #VirginMobileMom #MC #sponsored

It seems like kids younger and younger are getting cell phones these days. It is amazing how fast technology is moving these days so that it is reaching all the way down to elementary school kids carrying phones. What are the ages of the kids in your home with cell phones? How do you decide who gets a phone and when they get it? Do you have any concerns?  I participated in an Influencer Activation Program on behalf of Influence-Central for Virgin Mobile. I received a sample device to facilitate my review and a thank you item for participating.

All of my girls have phones. The youngest is 15 and has had her own phone for at least 3 years. When she first got hers, I was worried about what parental features I could have and how easy it would be to access her phone. There is an ultra paranoid, ultra conservative "Mrs. Brady" in me that longs for the days where the home has just one phone line and the second one added is a pay phone. That way the kids use the phone at home and have to pay a dime to use it. 

I have just recently learned about Virgin Mobile and their custom mobile plans and top features which allows us to have the ability to build, share, control and manage our own mobile plans. Did you know about this? I never knew such plans existed.

As a parent, It is so important to give kids what is expected of them when using technology. Part of doing that is to give them some control so that they learn independence and depending on the age we need to make sure we have our parental controls in order. With the Virgin Mobile Custom website and plan you can control excessive mobile usage of their phone including texting, music streaming and more. Through the Virgin Mobile Custom app we can set our parental controls using our own iOS or Android device. How awesome is that? Virgin Mobile makes it easy for us parents. 

Virgin Mobile Custom prepaid plans allow us to determine our monthly bill based on our cell phone. They make it easy to stay within the family budget for everyone. Some of the features I like included:

• Freedom to build your own custom plan
• Be in control of your talk, text & data from your phone
• Choose what we need and want for talk & text for each phone line
• Share plan with up to 5 lines
• Easy to use parental features
• Ability to set curfew and allowances for any line
• Decide how much we want to pay and not allowing overages
• Easy to adjust monthly plan by allowing adding and removing services instantly from our phone
• Receive automatic alerts when lines approach limits
• No cell phone contract. I repeat, No. Cell Phone. Contract.
• Good phone selection including LG PULSE

Did you know that the Virgin Mobile Custom devices are available at select Walmart stores and at Walmart.com! Have you seen the devices in store? Have you played with them? Which one do you want to get? Find out more with the Virgin Mobile Custom YouTube video, on Facebook and Twitter.

Time some time to check out their plans and see if this works for you and your family. 

Mommy and Me Mani Pedi Tips and Jamberry Giveaway

Mommy daughter time with Jamberry! Just in time for all the fun holiday parties you both can get a fun manicure that won't bust the budget! Check out the cute review and easy to enter giveaway!

If you want Frozen inspired nails, Jamberry has some lovely wraps that can give that perfect look, including a junior line for tiny fingers and toes. Moms and their daughters or other little ladies in their lives will be stoked to try the Snow and Ice and Diamond Dust Sparkle. Spending the money to go get an expensive manicure from a nail salon can be hard on your wallet.

Jamberry Nail Wraps will be a nice, cost effective stocking stuffer from Santa. At just $15, you can choose from dozens of designs and it can get quite addicting! If you aren't familiar with Jamberry Nail Wraps, they can last up to two weeks on your fingers and four weeks on your toes. If you follow the directions you will get a lasting, adorable set of nails.

Join Kara's Deals & Steals for a party on Facebook through November 7th to receive deals, win contests and much much more! Be sure to join here.

Here are some tips from Jamberry consultant, Mary, on how to properly do your Jamberry nails for the Mommy and Me mani/pedi!

•  Be sure when applying the wraps, to make sure you clean the nails with alcohol to get any oil, dirt off and then air dry. 
• Also, since your wraps have sparkles, they need a little more heat than the plain ones. I use the video method from my Jamberry group. I think the extra heat from the rice bag really seals the deal. 
• I also make sure the kids aren't submerging their hands in water/bath for at least about 30 minutes. 

Don't miss this hot giveaway as well!
One lucky reader will win a sheet of diamond dust sparkle, a sheet of Juniors snow and ice, and a Jamberry application kit (valued at $42.50). 

This giveaway is open to U.S. residents and will end on 11/15 at 11:59 pm EST. Please enter on the Rafflecopter below. a Rafflecopter giveaway Disclosure: Participating bloggers are not responsible for prize fulfillment. Kara's Deals & Steals received a sample for facilitating this review. All opinions are my own. This blog complies with FTC advertising guidelines.