Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category

  • Let’s talk about swimsuits

    Thursday, May 14th, 2009

    swimsuitHang on a second while I finish shuddering in horror at the thought of trying on a bathing suit in a store dressing room…*shudder*…okay, I’m good. People, Swimsuit season is upon us. Soon our children will be begging us to take them to community pools, lakes, beaches, oceans, and we will look down at their smiling faces, drop our Krispy Kreme donuts, and trudge off despairingly to the swimwear section of our local department store.

    I’ve got a website I want to tell you about that sells swimsuits in sizes 8 and up,  so consider this your heads-up of  WHAT KIND OF POST THIS IS. If you read through the end you’ll find an announcement about a very cool swimwear-related giveaway coming up, too :)

    You might also have catalogs arriving in the mail with covers showing long-legged Amazon women wearing scraps of cloth held together with dental floss, and find yourself muttering a few choice grown-up words before you toss the catalog in the recycling pile.  It’s okay, we all understand.

    Swimsuits For All sells  One Piece Swimsuits in sizes 8-16 and in Plus Sizes 16W-34W (the W stands for “Woman”, as in, I got me some Womanly hips and booty and need a fuller cut, thankyouverymuch). The thing about swimwear is, the size you are is not necessarily the same as the size you are in shirts or pants or dresses.  I don’t know why, but I am always one size bigger in a swimsuit than I am in other clothes (*sob*).

    Try to remember, it’s JUST A NUMBER.  You are beautiful no matter what size your swimsuit is!  Find a suit that really fits- if you have big boobs, get a suit with a built-in bra for support.  Don’t like the looks of your hips or butt? Buy a Swimdress.  Get a great-looking suit and try to remember that everyone at the pool/beach/gym is NOT looking at the cellulite on your thighs. And if they are, so what?  You just work what you got, baby.

    Coming up very soon on this here blog is a giveaway for a $100 Gift Card to use to buy swimwear from Lands End, so if you don’t already subscribe to my feed, you might want to do that so you don’t miss the giveaway! Links for either subscribing in a reader or by email are in the box in the header. And now, let us all hug each other and give each other the courage to march into badly-lit dressing rooms and try on swimsuits. Our poor water-deprived children are counting on us.

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  • How to Embarrass Your Kids in Three Easy Steps

    Thursday, April 16th, 2009

    Step One: While getting ready to go to Target, decide that since it’s a warm, sunny day, you’ll wear slip-on shoes with no socks. NEW slip-on shoes.

    Step Two: Realize after twenty minutes of walking around at Target that the backs of the slip-on shoes are sliding up and down against your bare heels and raising painful blisters on both of them. Decide to shuffle over to the shoe department and buy the first pair of comfortable shoes you can find.

    Step Three:     Find the PERFECT pair of Champion slides, with footbeds filled with some kind of gel and covered with satiny fabric, so that each step you take feels like having pillows strapped to your feet. Take off the evil slip-on blistermakers and put on the slides. Which are attached to each other with a piece of white elastic string. Which you can’t take off because you don’t have scissors in your purse.

    Step Three Continued: So you have to WALK THROUGH THE STORE with your shoes ATTACHED. Because there is no way you are putting the evil shoes of evil back on, and the slides are just so dang comfortable, and the elastic is long enough that you can walk normally. Except that Target employees keep walking by you and, well, LOOKING AT YOUR FEET.

    And yet when I got to the register and took the slides off so the cashier could scan them, then asked if she had scissors in her drawer so I could cut the elastic, she didn’t even blink.

    And also, these? Are the MOST COMFORTABLE SLIDES EVER.
    champion-slides
    And these?

    merona

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  • Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop

    Monday, January 5th, 2009

    I flipped by Sesame Street the other day, and Elmo was listening to these girls in a park doing the “Down Down Baby” hand clapping game, and ever since, I’ve had it stuck in my head. And then I found these website, through a link on PayPerPost, to the cool t shirts site LocalCelebrity.com, and look what they have!

    shimmy-shimmy-shirt

    If you’re looking for fresh t shirts for the New Year, with the coolest logos and sayings, you should check out LocalCelebrity. They carry shirts for Men, Women, and Kids, with designs showing everything from the 80s to right now. Have you always wanted a t shirt with Captain Planet on it? How about the Movie Review guys from “In Living Color” (HATED IT!)? Or, something newer like a Barack Obama shirt or “As Seen on MySpace”? LocalCelebrity can hook you up.

    They also have a selection of green t-shirts, like the Captain Planet “Global Warming Is Not Cool” shirt, perfect for the Earth-lover. Most of the shirts seem to be $28-$30 bucks, but check out the Daily Deal page, every day two t shirts are just $12. Great deal!

    And you can thank me now for getting “Down Down Baby” stuck in YOUR head. Need the whole thing?

    Down down baby, down by the roller coaster
    Sweet sweet baby, I’ll never let you go
    Shimmy shimmy coca pop shimmy shimmy pow
    Shimmy shimmy coco puff shimmy shimmy pow
    Grandma grandma sick in bed, she called the doctor and the doctor said:
    Let’s get the rhythm of the head, Ding Dong, get the rhythm of the head
    Ding Dong (move your head from left to right)
    Let’s get the rhythm of the hands, Let’s get the rhythm of the hands (clap twice)
    Let’s get the rhythm of the feet, Let’s get the rhythm of the feet (stomp twice)
    Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog, Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog
    Put it all together and what do you get (repeat the rhythms)

    You’re Welcome.

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  • The DeChristmasification Process Has Begun

    Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

    santaclause2_big Despite the fact that I STILL haven’t sent out the Christmas photo cards (which I blame on the fact that I don’t have enough money in the checking account to buy the stamps), the process of unChristmasing the house has sadly had to start. Our Fir tree stopped taking water over a week ago, and although the needles are still hanging on, it’s time to drag it out to the curb. I’ve delegated that task to the boys, while I sit here drinking coffee and blogging, because well, their job is to serve me, right? Come on boys, WORK.

    Speaking of work, yesterday we built the COOLEST PLAYHOUSE EVER, with our own two hands and the sweat of our collective brows, and although it’s now taking up almost half of our living room, it’s still really wicked awesome. The building set is by ZinkoTek, a multi-award winning Building System that we very generously received from KEH Communications. I’ll be writing a more detailed review on MomReviews, but I wanted to show you the finished product. Can you spot Kaitlyn?

    zinkotek-house1

    Having the boys home has also meant I finally get a chance to actually watch, without interruption, a whole bunch of great new release DVDs.  While the boys occupy Kaitlyn in the playroom with onDemand episodes of “Max and Ruby” and let her serve them plastic ice cream cones, I get to watch movies like the original “The Day The Earth Stood Still“.

    DANG, is that ever a good movie, too. I thought I wanted to see thedaytheearthstoodstill-dvd remake that just came out with Keanu Reeves, until I saw the original and read what critics are saying about the new one. I may change my mind when I see the remake on DVD, but the original? For a movie released in 1951, I was surprised at how it didn’t feel like a movie made in 1951. There’s so little action, yet it feels like an action movie because of the tension that builds between Patricia Neal’s and Michael Rennie’s characters. Both the Two-Disc Special Edition and the Blu-Ray disc are packed with bonus features, too. If you’ve never seen this classic movie, I recommend picking it up!

    So yeah. Chris had to go into work today to file his end-of-the month expense report, and I’m entertaining the thought of having a nice nap while Kaitlyn sleeps.  Later this evening, I’ll decide whether to watch The Duchess, American Teen, or a few episodes of Swingtown. Plus we’re having Chicken Cordon Bleu for dinner, which is always a fave. It’s a good day :)

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  • Eight Groovy Girls plus five Groovy Pets equals a whole lot of Grooviness

    Sunday, December 28th, 2008

    Are you familiar with Groovy Girls? They are a line of soft-bodied, yarn-haired, adorable dolls that are sold at Target as well as at bookstores and other retailers.  Lia from Exponent P.R.  sent Kaitlyn a collection of both the dolls and their Groovy Pets, in exchange for a mention here. Groovy Girls RSVP line of dolls and pets was developed by Manhattan Toy to provide a safe way for young girls to experience fun, fashion-filled doll play while promoting age-appropriate values and attitudes.The RSVP in the title stands for Respect, Self-Expression, Values, and Play.

    Each doll or pet comes with a code that can be used to access special activities on the Groovy Girls RSVP Web site, www.groovygirls.com. There’s even a special place for moms, too, at moms.groovygirls.com! On the site you can dress your doll, customize her mod pod and attend online parties, all while accumulating points towards a doll donation for a girl in need.

    It was extremely generous of Lia to send us eight dolls and five pets, and Kaitlyn is having fun playing with them:

    groovy-girls-pets

    Until I can find a place for them all to live in her room, the dolls and pets are hanging out in the box they came in, which conveniently has a handle for carrying.  I like how the dolls have different colored streaks in their hair, and are fashionably dressed but also DRESSED-bellies and booties are covered,  thank goodness.

    The dolls come in two sizes- 13 inches high is the size of most of the dolls you see in the photo. If you look right in the middle of the photo, there’s a smaller Groovy Girl with copper colored hair, she’s smaller than the rest and has a small pet attached, that’s Libbi and Louie, Libbi is 8 inches high.

    Each doll and pet come with a code that you enter at www.groovygirls.com. When you create an account, you only get one virtual girl for the site, but each additional code you enter gives you more points for unlocking clothes, accessories, furniture, and other fun things to do in the virtual groovy girl world. I can see girls ages, say, six and up really having fun playing with this website. I’ve been entering the codes from the dolls and the pets and I’m having fun playing on the site!

    If you need a birthday gift or gift for another occasion for a little girl, and you want to give them a fun doll that teaches Respect, Self-Expression, Values, and having fun while Playing, I hope you’ll consider getting a Groovy Girl!

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