Saturday, May 7, 2011

Spotlight Saturday Blog Hop

It's Spotlight Saturday Hosted By



Between the Lines



Welcome to our fun blog hop with a twist!  Every week swing by to link up your blog and one you want to spotlight!  Did you find a new blog you liked this week?  Is there one you visit on a daily basis?  Well, simply link up your Spotlighted blog right under yours.  We will Spotlight our favorite blogs of the week in spots 4, 5, and 6.  

This week is I'm Spotlighting blueviolet from A Nut in a Nutshell! 

How it Works

1) Link up your own blog.
2)Link up a blog you want to spotlight for the week.(ex. Spotlight: Roslyn's Closet)
3) Follow your three hosts.
4) Grab our button and post it on your sidebar or in a Spotlight Saturday Post.
5) Follow as many blogs from the list as you like and leave a comment so they know you stopped by.
6) Return the favor by following blogs that followed you.
(Be aware that URL's cannot be duplicated so please have a second spotlight choice in mind. If your blog's URL has already been spotlighted, just add one you'd like to spotlight. And don't forget to leave a comment with the blog you spotlighted so they can come and join the blog hopping fun! )




Friday, May 6, 2011

Don't Miss Spotlight Saturday!

Between the Lines

Don't forget tomorrow is Spotlight Saturday!  Hope you all come back in the morning to join us, along with Survey Junkie and Guest Host Miss Imperfect, for our fun little Blog Hop with a twist!!!  Link up your own blog and another that you would love to share with the rest of us!  Linky opens at midnight!

Relay For Life Sponsor: My Lip Stuff



For those of you who know me or are a veteran reader of Between the Lines, you know how much I love my lip glosses and lip balms. I have them in every room of the house, in my purse, in my diaper bag, and during the winter, in my car. Without lip balm, my lips would continuously crack and bleed. Therefore, I use it all the time. The most fun thing about lip balms are the many different flavors they come in. My Lip Stuff has more flavors than I have ever seen or heard of before. With over 500 flavors of natural lip balm, you will have no problem finding a few that suit you best.   Brea, from My Lip Stuff, has graciously agreed to support our Relay For Life Online Silent Auction by donating 6 random lip balms.  6 Lip balms retail for about $15.   

Don't miss out on opportunity to support a great cause and get some great products in return.   The Silent Auction begins May 20th, right here on Between the Lines!


Fun Label


“My Lip Stuff is Serious Skin Care With a Fun Flair.” The fun doesn’t stop at their flavors, although a Cosmo Lip balm sounds like a lot of fun to me. My Lip Stuff offers customized labels for their customers. You can personalize any lip balm with these fun labels. They make the perfect wedding or shower favor or even business promotional gift.


Lemon Drop Cookie


My Lip Stuff offers skin, earth, and animal friendly products. Their products are made from the finest ingredients and are all environmentally safe. They never use animal testing and even offer 100% vegan and natural lip balm choices. Their products are also not limited to lip balm. They offer body butter, bath salts, linen sprays, and so much more. I was lucky enough to have a chance to review three great lip balm flavors: Vanilla Ice Cream, Cinnamon Custard Swirl, and Lemon Drop Cookie. For those of you who visit my Recipe Corner,  you know how much I love lemon cookies. And this lip balm was no exception. It went on smooth and left my lips feeling moist and silky. I cannot tell you how hard it was for me to not lick my lips. The scent that was coming off my lips made my stomach growl. So yummy! My girls and I enjoyed the other flavors too (I didn’t share my Lemon Drop cookie one!:) I had to actually limit their use because they kept licking it off. My Lip Stuff is definitely a keeper!


Bundle Pack

Check out their store here and browse through the hundreds of different flavors. Most of them have very unique names, so make sure you click on them to find out the combo flavor they are. Buy a tube starting at $2.50 or buy multipacks to save.


Join My Lip Stuff and Our Other Fabulous sponsors in supporting Relay For Life!  Let's help the world Celebrate More Birthdays!  The Online Silent Auction will run from May 20th - May 26th.  All proceeds will go directly to the Relay For Life site and products will be shipped from our sponsors.  I HOPE to see you there!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Relay For Life Sponsor: Photacular

I love items that have a personalized touch.  It makes them unique and more special. Like most mothers, I am also addicted to taking pictures of my adorable children!   Photacular is a great online company that provides you the opportunity to combine ordinary products and your most important photographs to create unique and exceptional items.
At Photacular , you can turn those precious memories into tee shirts, mugs, calendars, jewelry, ornaments, and so much more.  Their website is easy to use and all products are custom-made and printed here in the U.S.    They also offer a 90 day guarantee.   If there is a problem with your product they guarantee to try to make it right.  If they can’t fix the problem, they will give you your money back.

Thanks to Darla, the founder of Photacular, I was able to explore and purchase an item from their site.  With so many choices, it took me a long time to choose.   I eventually settled on the premium tote bag with green straps.  I was actually surprised when it came in the mail.  For the price they are selling it for, I figured it would be a pretty flimsy tote bag.  But instead, it lived up to its premium name.  The tote is made out of very soft, but thick canvas material.   We have been using it all summer for trips to the library, visits to the pool, and as an activity bag for long car trips.   Even through all our abuse, the picture on the tote is still of the highest quality and without any scratches.

I would definitely encourage everyone to go explore their site.  With such a great variety of products, you are sure to find something you like.  The generous people from Photacular have graciously donated a Photo Keepsake Box, up to a $49.95, for our Relay For Life Online Silent Auction. 
Please join us from May 20th - May 26th to support Relay For Life.  There will be great items and all proceeds go directly to Relay For Life! 

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

We Have Winners!


Congratulations to Teressajoe!  You are the lucky winner of the HairCovering.com giveaway!  You won with comment #125, "Follow Between the Lines on Facebook."  Teressajoe has 48 hours to claim her prize or another winner will be selected with Random.org.  Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks to HairCovering.com for hosting a great giveaway.


Congratulations to Kolpin!  You are the lucky winner of the Mother's Day CoffeeCake.com giveaway!  You won with comment #432, "Twitter Follower."  Kolpin has 48 hours to claim her prize or another winner will be selected with Random.org.  Thanks to everyone who entered and a HUGE thanks to CoffeeCakes.com for hosting another great giveaway.

Relay For Life Sponsor: Eco-Friendly Lunch Boxes



Are you looking to save a little time and money on the numerous school lunches you pack every week? Thanks to Kelly Lester, an ingenious mom of three, you can! Kelly Lester is the creator and CEO of the Easy Lunch Box system. Easy Lunch Boxes are convenient, affordable, and eco-friendly. If you are looking to live a frugal, healthy green life style, you’ve found a great place to start.  And if you are looking to support a great cause like Kelly was, join us for our Relay For Life Online Silent Auction from May 20th - May 26th.
www.easylunchboxes.com


The Easy Lunch Box system contains two parts: a cooler bag and a storage container. The cooler bag comes in five great colors and is a great deal at only $7.95. The storage containers comes in sets of 4 and are only $13.95. “Supporting the waste-free lunch movement, EasyLunchBoxes.com offers a reusable, superior solution at a much lower price than other companies.”


Healthy Ideas from www.easylunchboxes.com

These Eco Friendly lunch boxes are not only good for the environment, but for our families as well. They are FDA approved and contain no BPA, phthalates, lead, vinyl, or PVC. They are also dishwasher and microwave safe. The company advises against washing the containers on the bottom rack of the dishwasher, but we wanted to test it out anyway. The product remained unharmed in any way. Of course, I’m not suggesting you do this, but I feel that this proves just how durable these containers truly are.
Kelly Lester from EasyLunchBoxes.com
My daughter loves taking her new lunch box to school. She no longer has to raise her hand in the cafeteria and wait for a teacher to come help her open little container that she can’t budge. With the Easy Lunch Box system, she can easily do it herself without spilling a drop. Although the company warns the containers are not leak proof, we have not had any spilling with yogurt or applesauce! I also love that the cooler bag is large enough to hold two containers. My children are very picky eaters and don’t like ordering food when we go out. With our new Easy Lunch Box system, I can pack them each a meal and carry only one lunch box. The three separate compartments make it so easy to pack, since our foods cannot touch each other!

Do you want your own Easy Lunch Box system? Go here to order today!

Please join us from May 20th - May 26th for our Relay For Life Silent Auction.  There will be great items and all proceeds go directly to Relay For Life!