In Home Spa Treatment: Pamper Yourself

Me Time

Stress isn’t limited strictly to young families and moms with kids at home, believe me.  People have busy lives and are constantly dealing with stress. Whether you’re a WAHM, stay-at-home mom or corporate execute executive, all of us have important tasks to do on a daily basis and we’re always on the move. As long as we get to have a moment to relax and rejuvenate ourselves so we can start each day refreshed, it’s OK.

What can we do to relax and rejuvenate our minds and bodies? Soaking in a tub can do wonders for the mind and body. No time, you might ask?  Well then create the time! After the house is quiet at night, take at least 30-minutes for yourself, because you’re worth it!

There are all kinds of bath products available for you to pamper yourself with and some of my favorites are listed right here on this site that I’ve done product reviews on in the past. If you enjoy taking a bath, there are soaps, bath salts, bath bubbles, sugar scrubs, which come in variety of scents (my personal favorite is Citrus). Soak away your stress with the bath products of your choice – light a candle or two, turn out your bathroom light, have some soft relaxing music in the background, put your head on an orthopedic pillow and you are good to go. Close your eyes and enjoy the wonderful scent, let it take you to wherever you’d like to be. Try not to fall asleep!

Of course if you can afford a day spa on a regular basis, that’s great, but if you’re like me and most busy women I know,the do-it-yourself spa is just as good as the real one. Here are 3 big reasons why:

You can enjoy a luxurious bath from the comfort of your own home. So if you have little kids, there is no need to hire a baby sitter. Tell the kids or spouse it’s “Me Time” and you have all the time you need for your home spa treatment.

It’s affordable!  As much as we’d like, a visit to a day spa is nice, but it’s definitely not cheap.

If you’re not so much a bath person, then turn your shower into what I call “a relaxation staycation”.  A high pressure shower massage head does wonders and acts as a back pain treatment.

No need to make an appointment! You can set up your special bath time whenever you want.

Now that you’re thoroughly rejuvenated, curl up with a neck pain pillow, and read your favorite book or gossip magazine!

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Scentsy Candle Founding Consultant: Guest Post

Meet My Friend

Direct Selling Consultant

I’d like to introduce my readers to Meet My Friend, Jodi Albertini, whom I’ve met through blogging and  invited to Guest Post on Moomette’s Magnificents.

Jodi immediately wowed me as a work-at-home mom who is dedicated to helping other moms succeed in attaining their goals.  She has been a WAHM for the last 4 years; is a social worker by education; an interior decorator by business affiliation and a direct sales professional by choice.

Jodi has built a team of over 1,200 consultants in two years – which she is responsible for mentoring, and has achieved the highest title in this fabulous company.  Additionally, she has spoken at several Scentsy engagements and conventions, as well as participated in training and informational videos for Scentsy.  Jodi has also made several media appearances to speak to her success as a WAHM,  and has recently began writing as an author on www.buzzle.com

With 2 years experience in Direct Sales and a current team of 1,200 consultants, I am frequently asked the “secrets” to my success.   Of course, I could go on with what is required to build a business, elaborating on all the basic motions of growing a successful Direct Sales franchise.  However, I truly believe that there are not too many true “secrets” to building a strong team and a GREAT business.  Rather, I believe that success involves a series of personal choices that differentiate those GOOD consultants from the GREAT ones:

1. Catch a Vision – Develop a vision for your business.  Imagine what it will be like when you have achieved your goals, and then strive to make that vision a reality.  No business is built overnight and big business does not come easy.  However, having an internal perspective of where you want your business to land someday will drive your daily actions that will move you toward success.
2. Share Your Enthusiasm – If you LOVE what you do (and you should), then express your passion for your business on a regular basis.  Passion creates enthusiasm and enthusiasm is contagious.  When engaged in your business, people should see the joy on your face.  Soon those who are watching will want what you have!
3. Be Bold – We often pass up business opportunities due to our own fears or insecurities.  Achieving what we desire often requires taking a chance.  Being bold does not mean that you lack fear.  Rather, it means that you are making choices for the good of your business despite fear.

This list could go on and on.  My perspective is that GREATNESS is not developed completely by what you do, but rather how you do it.  What are some personal choices that you can make to move your business from GOOD to GREAT?

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Visit Jodi at: Safe Candle

Jodi Albertini is a SuperStar Director with the Direct Sales Company Scentsy – a wickless, smokeless, flameless and safe candle product (www.safecandle.net).  Jodi has developed a team of 1200 Scentsy consultants in just over two years. She is a Stay-at-Home-Mom, turned Work-at-Home-Mom, with 2 fabulous children and one incredible husband of almost 15 years. Jodi’s formal education is in Social Work and Counseling.  She has learned to take a Psychological approach to sales, recruiting, and mentoring.

If you have a topic of interest that you’d like to share and be a Guest Blogger on Moomette’s Magnificents, please contact me (see Contact tab above).

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Sleep Solutions to Look Younger and Feel Better

Healthy Lifestyle

You don’t have to go to a spa or under the knife for cosmetic surgery or spend money on botox treatments in order to look ten years younger. Instead, make a few lifestyle changes and start treating yourself with a little TLC and you will be amazed at the results. Things such as sleep, diet, exercise and more play a huge role in your appearance.

Being extra tired during the winter months is actually quite normal.  We desire to sleep more in winter because we get less light and serotonin and more melatonin.  Sleeping too much produces abnormal levels of melatonin.  The more we sleep, the more we want to sleep because of the increase in this neurotransmitter.

Getting the proper amount of comfortable sleep is a sure-fire way to not only look younger, but to feel great as well. While you sleep, cells go through a repair process and your body releases the hormone melatonin. This hormone has very positive effects on the skin. The result is radiant and youthful looking skin, fewer lines and less puffiness around the eyes.  Even when traveling, I often bring along some performance bedding, such as a travel pillow, so that I can rest comfortably on a long trip.

My husband and I, both baby boomers, have been married for over 30 years.  While I can’t turn back time and look like the young bride I once was, I at least try to dissuade time from taking it’s toll by taking care of myself.   This holiday season I’m looking into purchasing new eco friendly bedding which would include a new mattress and pillows.   I have a solid cherry Statton 4-poster bedroom set.  On each finial there’s a pineapple, which is the New England symbol of friendship.   Since we spend approximately 8 hours out of our days sleeping, of course, I’m also interested in all the amenities that would make my bedroom a special sanctuary. The hottest trend right now are designer bamboo bed sheets.

To find out more tips on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and sleep better visit Zia Sleep.

So do yourself a favor and get your zzz’s!

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WAHM Idea: Start Your Own Tutoring Business

Career Suggestions

Make Money With Your Knowledge And Skills

I’d like to pass on some career ideas for you to consider in this economy if you’re a stay-at-home mom looking to increase the family income.  My sister-in-law made a major career change in mid-life and recently went back to school and took the Alternative Route to Teacher Education.  She’s a Baby Boomer like myself, and really enjoys working with kids.  Presently she’s working as a tutor.

By Liz Folger, Work-at-Home Expert

Do you enjoy teaching others? Are you looking for the flexibility of owning your own business? Would you like to make on an average $25 or more an hour? Then the tutoring business might be the perfect home business for you to start.

Tutors Wanted!

The good news is that there is a growing demand for tutors. Being a tutor isn’t just about academics either. It can be sports, music, and the arts. And it’s just not the kids who are looking for tutors. With so many adults going back to school, adults are actively seeking tutors and coaches to better themselves.

Those who make great tutors are teachers, teacher’s aids, dads, moms, coaches, those who home school, and entrepreneurs. Anyone that has the desire and enjoys teaching will find this a great field to get into.

The nice thing about becoming a tutor is that all you need to say is, “I’m a tutor.” There is no state licensing or certifications, and you don’t need a college degree. While it’s a great selling point if you do have some qualifications, it’s not necessary. Just the fact that you’ve helped your own kids with their homework for many years can establish you as a tutor.

Here are just a few areas that you can choose to tutor:

This is just a partial list. There are so many areas that could require a tutor.

The Joy Of Owning Your Own Tutor Business

Think about the areas you would like to teach. Don’t be afraid to niche yourself. While at first it might seem like a good idea to tutor all subjects, you’ll find that being considered an expert in one area is the way to go. If down the road you’re tutoring someone in Math who needs additional help in English, and this is something you feel comfortable with, go for it, but finding your niche is always a good thing.

As the owner of your own tutoring business, you can decide the client base with which you’d like to work. If you want to work with kids, you can decide if they will be elementary, middle school, high school, junior college or college. If you find you get along better with middle aged children, then work with them. You no longer have to make money working with people you really don’t enjoy or jive with. That’s the beauty if self-employment.

What Makes You The Expert?

Whether you’re tutoring biology, flute, or soccer; what are your qualifications? Are you a teacher? Do you have a degree in music? Have you been working as a biologist for many years? Now’s the time to toot your horn. Even if you’re a mom or dad who loves a certain subject and has helped your own kids, you can easily say you’ve had this many years helping children in that particular area.

Where And When To Teach

The cost of starting your own tutor business really isn’t that much when compared to other businesses. Most of the time you’ll be teaching in your own home at your kitchen table. You don’t really need any books; your students will bring their own. Anything you need to buy like flyers and business cards, is a tax write off.

When school is in session you’ll find your busiest times will be Monday through Friday from 2:30 PM To 9:00 PM. You can decide the exact hours you want to offer, and if you want to teach on the weekends. You can decide if you want to work in the summer, since sometimes kids need to go to Summer school, or parents simply want their kids to have a jump-start on the next grade.

How much can you really make?

Depending on how much you tutor, in what part of the country you tutor, how in demand you are, and how many students you have all depends on what you’re going to make and what you can charge. Below is a chart based on making $25 an hour, which is about average for a tutor. However, it’s not unheard of for tutors to make as much as $60 an hour!

You Charge $25 An Hour…

Your Work 5 Hours A Week $500/month

…………. 10 Hours A Week $1000/month

…………. 20 Hours A Week $2000/month

…………. 40 Hours A Week $4000/month

Creating your own tutoring business can be fun, challenging, rewarding, and very profitable financially. Find an area you love, an age group you get along with and enjoy teaching, and the sky is the limit.

Liz Folger is the founder of Bizymoms. Bizymoms is the leading online resource for work-from-home ideas. The site offers home-based business start-up kits, online classes, e-books, chats and enthusiastic support for moms who want to have it all – a family and a career.

CLICK HERE! to get more information about starting your own tutoring business.

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11 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

Blogging Tips

Advice for New and Seasoned Bloggers

I belong to many forums, and one of the questions that keeps coming up consistently is how do I drive traffic to my blog?

Many work at home business artisans and mom bloggers pour their hearts and souls into blogging – night and day.  Now you’ve got a great blog going with several articles and killer content.  The trouble is, you don’t know if anyone is reading it besides your mom!

You feel like you’re writing to yourself most of the time and that’s not what you want.  You want to get people to comment on your posts, enter your Giveaways, perhaps sell an affiliate product or make money on ads or something!

Start taking steps now to drive traffic to your blog and soon you’ll have some blog comments being posted and products being sold.

Getting traffic to a blog follows the same steps as getting traffic to a website, with a few other possibilities thrown in.  Don’t concentrate on one method because traffic can, and should, come from all over.

• Pay Per Click (PPC) is a quick and easy way to get traffic to your blog.  It will cost you money, and if you’ve never used AdWords before, you should research how to do if effectively so you don’t lose your bloomers.

• Interview an expert and post that interview on your blog.  Most likely the person being interviewed will want to let his list know about the interview.  This is a win-win because this person’s reputation as an expert will be cemented, and you’ll gain new viewers to your blog.

• Put your blog link in your signature line when you post on forums.  Join forums that are in your niche and answer questions when you know the answer and can be really helpful.  You are establishing yourself as the “person in the know” and they may click on your blog link to see what else you know.

• Write quality articles and submit them to article directories. Really work on your bio and link at the bottom of your articles so that targeted people can’t help but click to your site.

• Post thoughtful comments on other blogs, preferably well-trafficked ones, and establish a relationship with them.  One time I did this and it lead to them asking me to be a contributing writer for their network of blogs.  Talk about exposure.  You can also get curious people clicking through on your link from the comments you left.

• Look for guest blogging opportunities. When you blog on someone else’s blog with lots of good information, their readers will visit your blog.  I like to give bloggers an opportunity to guest post here on Moomette’s Magnificents (check out my sidebar under Guest Posts – let me know if you’re interested!)

• Similarly, cross post with another blogger. Ask them a burning question on their blog, and they answer it on your blog and vice versa.  Readers will have to go to the other blog to find out the answer.  I participated in a Cross Blog Conversation with Christie – at Profitable Mommy Blogging read about it here.

• Business cards are never out of fashion in the offline world.  Hand them out whenever and wherever appropriate.  I’ve handed mine out at craft fairs where I’d be interested in doing product reviews – you never know what opportunities will arise!

• Press releases, online or off, give you and your blog attention.  Your local newspaper may be interested in the human interest aspect of your blog.

• Remember to feed the feeds. RSS, Atom, XML, Newsgator, Bloglines, MSN, AOL, etc. for syndication of your blog posts.

• MyBlogCatalog and MyBlogLog are also ways to get your posts in front of others.  Your post titles will show up in widgets on other blogs in your niche so make sure the titles are compelling enough for people to want to read them.

These are just a few of the ways to drive traffic to your blog.  After all, the point of your blog is not to write to yourself but to help others and possibly make some money.  When you start working on your traffic you should begin to see an ever-increasing flow of it to your blog.

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OfficeMax’s “Get Organized for Back-to-School” Blogcast with Peter Walsh

Back-To-School

OfficeMax’s “Get Organized for Back-to-School”

As a parent who has successfully processed two lively, challenging daughters all the way from pre-school through high school, and college, I’m well aware of the challenges and commitment it takes to launch the heirs apparent to what’s left of the family fortune after those college graduations.  You have to be one step ahead-of the-curve, all the way through those formative student school days and years.

OfficeMax was kind enough to share their kid-centric school supplies line, Schoolio-Von-Hoolio.

Appealing to the eye, the product line is certain to encourage any student to stay organized and on top of their game during the upcoming school semesters!

I recently had the privilege of being invited to participate in an exclusive webcast a/k/a “blogcast” for a special group of bloggers that was hosted by OfficeMax.  It featured the renowned organizational expert, Peter Walsh, Heather Wolpert-Gowron, and award-winning teacher, Ana Picazo, a well-known mom blogger, as well as two students.

Unfortunately, due to a prior commitment, I wasn’t able to attend the live presentation. Together, they discussed strategies, tips and advice from the real experts on how to organize and prepare students for back-to-school. Bloggers submitted questions and participated in a TweetChat with Peter, Ana and Heather.

I’d like to share with you a recap of Peter Walsh’s back-to-school organization tips that were discussed during the blogcast:

TIPS FOR ORGANIZING YOUR HOME
1) Find the Vision you Have for a Space
2) Make Organization a Family Value
3) Use the Right Tools for Great Organization

TIPS FOR ORGANIZING YOUR CHILD
1) Show that you Value Organization
2) Establish Clear Limits and Routines
3) Always ‘Finish the Cycle’ (Complete a Task)

TIPS FOR THE CLASSROOM
1) Establish Clear Routines
2) Involve Kids with Classroom Organization
3) Use Words, Pictures and Color to Help Organize

Feel free to connect with the blogcast host and panelists online:

• On Twitter: @Peter Walsh

• On Facebook: Peter’s Facebook Page

• On Twitter: @OfficeMax

• Heather Wolpert-Gawron: Tween Teacher blog

• Ana Picazo: Finding Bonggamom

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Sew Fierce – Meet My Friend Stephanie – WAHM Guest Post

Meet My Friend

Sew Fierce Couture Clothing

I’d like you to Meet My Friend – Stephanie, from Sew Fierce Couture Clothing I met Stephanie on twitter when I won a gorgeous prize that she had created.

Stephanie is one busy work-at-home mom, and always a pleasure to tweet with – quick to say hello in the morning and always at-the-ready with helpful chat and advice.  You’ll want to read how Steph became an online boutique mompreneur, blogger and manages to keep base camp running smoothly!

Stop by her Etsy boutique and also

Follow Stephanie on Twitter @SewFierce

In the past, I’ve touched on topics about tapping into your interests and hidden talent, and parlaying them into a career where you turn your interests into a business. Many readers or their families have become victims of the current recession, and are actively seeking gainful employment. Some, like me, are considering either retiring, or trying to determine a move to another career that will spark our interest – whether it be something entirely different from what we’ve been doing in the past, or entirely new venture.

Perhaps you are off-ramping from corporate life to take time out to raise your children.

I have been inviting bloggers and writers to Guest Blog on my Meet My Friend meme to share their ideas and experiences with my readers who are interested in becoming a mompreneur.

If you have a WAHM or Momepreneur topic of interest that you’d like to share and be a Guest Blogger on Moomette’s Magnificents, please contact me (see Contact tab above).

Hello everyone from Sunny San Diego. Thank you Cindi for asking me to do a guest post on your wonderful blog, it is an honor.  My name is Stephanie I am a mother to two amazing toddler girls and wife to a wonderful, supportive man whom serves our country in the United States Marine Corps.

Isn’t it funny how we cannot tell people who we are without stating we are a mother and or wife? Sometimes it’s like our former identity has disappeared and now all we are is a mother to someone and or a wife to someone else. As much as I love my family I am more and when days are hard we need to remind ourselves of this.

So while half of me is a wife and mother, my alter ego is an online shop owner and blogger. I have a infant and toddler boutique called Sew Fierce that I started a year ago.

I remember watching my mom when I was very young making clothes for my Barbie’s and matching outfits for myself. I loved every little outfit because it was something special she did just for me. While my sewing adventure started with hemming curtains for my room, I soon moved on to making my first queen size quilt when I realized I was going to need a hobby while on bed rest after my second knee surgery.

After recovery my life became busy and I stopped sewing. A few years later I married my now husband and after a few months of trying and failing, we were pregnant with our first baby girl. It wasn’t until my second pregnancy, also a baby girl, that I finally got back into sewing. I saw some adorable outfits my girlfriends where making for their daughters and decided to try my hand at clothing for my then two year old toddler. At the same time I was cloth diapering my newborn baby girl and thought making my own All In One diapers would be fun. I soon realized I was having so much fun making clothing for my toddler as well as bibs, burps and blankets for my infant that this was a great hobby.

With much encouragement from my close friends and family I decided to open an online shop.

My main focus was to offer my handmade products at a great price. I would see so many beautiful and awe inspiring outfits and accessories for infants and toddlers at boutiques both in town and online, but as a now stay at home mom and military wife it just was not in my budget to spend $100 on a one of a kind outfit. So I thought if I could offer similar products for a great price “that any mommy on any budget could afford”, I would be happy.

Soon after opening my store my girlfriend Sharon suggested I open a blog – Get my name out there and let people get to know me as a mother, wife and business owner. Meet the person behind the Sew Fierce name and feel good knowing that if you buy from me you get top quality and someone who prides themselves in only giving my customers the best of what I have to offer. My blog, A Pocket Full Of Buttons has turned out to be more than I ever would have thought. It has been great therapy for me and I have so many wonderful ladies and new friends like Cindi because of it.

While my online business started with making bibs, burps and crayon Rollie Pollies, I soon added the clothing line. I have to say the clothing is my biggest joy. Seeing each piece finished is a thrill and when someone buys an outfit or a dress and tells me how much they love it, I then know that this is what I am meant to do.

And how awesome is it that I can do this from home with my girls by my side!

Stephanie has generously offered Moomette’s Magnificents  to host a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a $25.00 Gift Certificate to Sew Fierce to be used on any products
custom or ready to ship.

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit Sew Fierce and leave a comment about one of their products you’d like to try and why.

This contest will run until August 20 at 11:00 pm. EDT

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

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To See Ourselves As Others See Us: Paint a New Picture of You

Self Image

I recently participated in the McKlinky blog hop tour on “Encouragement” and posted my favorite quote:

O would some Power

the giftie gie us

to see ourselves

as others see us.

Robert Burns, Poem “To a Louse” – Verse 8

Scottish national poet (1759-1796)

It’s not a mistake that we only see ourselves as a reflection in a mirror. Who we truly are comes from within and not from the outside. If you are feeling in need of a change, maybe today is the day to paint a new self-portrait.

How do most of us gauge our image? We look through the lenses of others. What they see shapes who we are. There is something wrong with that picture for sure.

Let’s think about this for a moment. Everything that we are originates inside of us. Our brain stores memories from our past. It also stores our learned behaviors like riding a bike or walking. An emotional tag is attached to each of these events. There’s no possible way that another human being could have access to those brain imprints.

With that being the case, how can they look at us from the outside and tell us what we should be all about? It’s impossible – what we project comes from who we perceive ourselves to be inside. If someone doesn’t like that then they’re rejecting us.

Rejection is painful, but it is not our pain to bear. The pain belongs to the other person. If they have a problem with what they see in us, there is a problem with their lens. We tend to criticize in others the very traits that we wish we had ourselves. That’s how the green-eyed monster works.

It’s true that sometimes we can have character traits that rub people the wrong way. If you’re too blunt or too indecisive, people may tend to shy away from you. Someone pointing this out will do so from a place of love not criticism. They want the best for you so they take the time to help. That is in sharp contrast to someone whose words cut deep when they are supposed to be “doing it for your own good.”

As humans, we were created to grow and evolve. Part of growth is realizing characteristics that we don’t need anymore and getting rid of them. It is okay to reinvent yourself as long as you’re doing it for the benefit of you and not someone else.

In life we meet very few genuine people. We are usually suspicious of them because we often hide behind a mask ourselves. It is refreshing to know people who are not afraid to be accepting of themselves, flaws and all. They could teach us a thing or two about painting our own self-portrait.

Related Reading:
Woodstock: Part 1 – Talking About My Generation

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eebee’s Adventures Childrens DVD – Review and Giveaway

eebes adventures

eebes adventures – make learning fun

This is the summer of … No summer.  We’ve been having so much rain – I really can’t remember anything like this.  Already in Connecticut we’re way above average in the amount of rain that has fallen this July.

For many on vacation at lakes or cottages at the beach, wet weather means that cabin fever is striking.

Whether you’re on vacation, or a stay-at-home mom with toddlers, keeping the kids entertained can pose a challenge.

I’ve recently had the opportunity to review three DVDs from eebes Adventures that provide educational and entertaining material to help you rise to the occasion.

eebee’s adventures are designed to engage you and your baby with rich play experiences that provide powerful lessons that memorizing letters, numbers, colors and shapes simply can and do not.

Watching and, importantly, “doing” eebee’s adventures will allow you and your baby to see and learn first-hand what happens when you explore a crinkly, crunchy, smooth and bumpy paper mountain or roll, bounce, bop, bang, slide and toss your way around a world of balls and ramps.

I received  Figuring Things Out which is just perfect for Slugger, who will be celebrating his First Birthday in August.

Now Slugger already is exhibiting tendencies that are quite different than what I’ve experienced with not only my own daughters, but my granddaughter.  He has new-found motor skills and a curiosity that won’t quit.  I liken him to a monster truck – he bulldozes over and through anything in his way.

When he uses a push toy – he’ll think nothing of picking it up in one hand to turn it around, whereas ‘Lil Moomette would stand there and pout until someone came along to help her.

The childrens dvd video FIGURING THINGS OUT will support his natural curiosity and interest in making things work and achieving goals on his own.

Here’s an interview from Parents TV with the Co-Founder and President Stephen Gass in which he discusses what eebee is all about:

Turning a light on and off, tracking a flashlight’s beam, and exploring the magic of playing with shadows are the focus of The Light Bulb Goes On adventure.

In the video, the Adventures include:

• The Lightbulb Goes On – cause and effect

• Blocks and Tackling Ideas – planning and building

And in On the Go – setting goals, evaluating

• All In a Day’s Play

• Laundry List

• Just You & Me

• Little Objects, Big Ideas

And Exploring Real Stuff:

• Brimming With Ideas

• Out Of the Box

• On A Roll

What I like about these DVDs is that each has been the Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award.

These would make terrific baby shower, new mom, birthday or holiday gifts, as well as an excellent edition to your personal DVD, daycare or homeschool collection.

For More Information Visit: ebees adventures

Moomette’s Magnificents  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of an eebes Adventures DVD.

Please include a way of contacting you. Should you be the contest winner, this information may be shared with the contest sponsor in order to send your prize.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Visit eebes Adventures and leave a comment about another fact that wasn’t mentioned in this post and why you’d like to win this product.

This contest will run until August 7, 2009  at 11:00 pm EDT.

For Additional Entries, check out my Contest Entry Rules.

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Social Networking Women

If you’re new to working from home or thinking of being a WAHM, you must be actively involved in Social Networking.  I’d like to share a great article with you referencing  some ideas and tips to help you work smarter while connecting and exchanging ideas. You’ll still be able to get your name out and recognized in the blogosphere while increasing your productivity and managing your time.

Social Networking Women
By Liz Lichti

If you are one of the many work at home social networking women then you know how time consuming it can be ‘tweeting’ to make potential business connections and keep up. I find too it’s hard to stay focused with all the interesting people on Twitter and links to cool sites. Fun, yes. Profitable? Not so much.

I often wonder how these people who have thousands of follows have the time to attract them let alone keep up with them. I know I have spent my share of late nights following new people, tweeting and direct messaging to feel too burned out for any kind of marketing the next day or to meet the demands of my family.

Have you noticed? It seems as though every other person on Twitter has a link in their message to increase your followers in one week, one month, 60 days, while you sleep,… and the list goes on.

Have you noticed? There are Twitter accounts that have actually generated tens of thousands of followers within an incredibly short time. They appear to be the large businesses with a staff doing the tweeting for them or celebrities who don’t even follow anyone yet have over 100,000 followers.

So, how does a smart entrepreneurial woman work from home and play in the big league without compromising her family obligations or bank account?

The solution? Good social networking software tools and by good I don’t mean those free viral, multilevel programs that everybody else is signing up for.

If you want something that works, do your research and be prepared to invest a little bit of money in a program that will not only increase your followers, but that will also teach you how to market to your new followers in a hands off, highly effective approach.

That way you can be a social networking mama and manage to do it all, make decent money and still have time for the most important things in life.

Start doing your research now, so you can start saving time. With the right program I believe you can be among the top most successful social networking women and get big league results on autopilot.

If you wish to skip the research part you can check out a product that I just happened to stumble on while, you guessed it – on Twitter!

It’s new and absolutely cutting edge and the proof is in the results. I was skeptical as always, but the people promoting it were real people like you and me doubling their followers (this is conservative) within one week and making money doing it.

Now, I’m not a die hard Twitterer, but I was impressed. I thought this information was worth my time to share it, but you be the judge. Click here to learn more.

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