This week's swag alerts

We’re absolutely coo-koo for these dresses and just HAD to let you know!!  Don’t let your little sweeties go another moment without their own totally twirly, completely comfy, superbly spinny, outrageoulsy organic, undoubtedly unique,  wonderfully washable sundress from none other than Bellaziza Favorite Juliette Sunshine!!!  Priced in the $50 range, they won’t break the bank either.

BFT Tip:  Buy a few sizes up and get a few years out of them too!!  We bought 3T and 6x for our 1.5 and a 4 year old princesses.  Maxi dress this year, and then through to more of a Shirley Temple look perhaps?  Who knows, but with the outrageous quality and timeless design, they’re something that you’ll want around for a few seasons for sure!

Visit http://www.JulietteSunshine.com for more info, or just Google them to see all of the great press they’ve been getting!  Fab. U. Lous!!!  You can also just call directly and ask them to send you Bellaziza’s Favorite Dress!  They’ll totally know which one;)!!

We LOVE Tasha, our mom of three boys, parenting expert, chef extrordinaire and quick witted twitter bug!!!  She has a wonderful blog of her own though that I love and know that you will too!!  Check her out at http://myhomemadehappiness.blogspot.com and send her your prayers and well-wishes as she and her family move to Vermont… FINALLY:)!!!!! 

Love ya Tash!!

Summer’s FINALLY here!!!  We’re so happy to finally be in shorts and sundresses!  Just HAD to tell you what we’re loving most this summer too!  It’s from our Favorite, Saurette whose dresses, tops and shorts are simply to-die-for-gorgeous… as usual!

For the dresses, think light and airy but with that classic Saurette silhouette that we come back for again and again.  The fabrics are so fine and the feel and fit are unmatched… AGAIN, as usual!  These dresses are perfect for the warmest days for your little princess.  Very light, very breathable, very very pretty.  Perfect!

Saurette also has some beautiful and unique shorts that really caught our attention this season!  The Paper Bag Shorts (shown above) are like nothing we’ve ever seen.  They are so very special!  Must have for the season.  No question.  The Balloon Shorts made of comfy knit cotton (shown below) are also divine and more appropriate for high-end play time, hehe!

Also don’t forget to check out the lovely as usual tops, and keep an eye out for this fall’s Paper Bag Pants!!!  (SO EXCITED HERE!!!)  See Saurette.net for more info, or MySaurette.net to SHOP:)!  Happy summer everyone:)!!

When we found Snowflake Gift Company it was love at first sight!  One of those “OOH!  What a GREAT IDEA!!!” kind of moments.  We were actually looking for baby announcements but found SO much more!

Do you have a special birthday party coming up?  A big event?  A wedding perhaps?  Will only something completely unique and custom-made do?  Snowflake Gift Company is the perfect fit for you then!  They custom design your card to perfectly fit your vision of your event whether it be welcoming your new baby into the world or inviting friends and loved ones to an important event.

Best thing beyond the excellent service and talented design?  These cards POP!  They all pop up just like a children’s pop-up book!  You choose how many layers, what images, colors, the text, and everything else.  It’s completely custom so it’s all up to you.  Don’t forget Snowflake for this year’s Holiday cards too!  They’re sure to catch everyone’s eye for sure!!  OH, AND THEY WON’T COST A FORTUNE EITHER!  Prices start from only a few dollars per card, and minimums are surprising low.  Call or email them for a free quote today and tell them we sent ya:)!

SWAG ALERT: One lucky reader will win their own set of custom designed cards from Snowflake Gift Company valued at up to $300!  Just tell us what you love about Snowflake Gift Company and we’ll enter you in for a chance to win!!!

You know how it works and what to do.  This SWAG ALERT will be open until we say so.  Good luck to all and have fun with our newest ways to gain EXTRA ENTRIES!!!

EXTRA ENTRIES for this SWAG ALERT:

• Become our NEW Fan on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter as a NEW follower
• Retweet this SWAG ALERT on Twitter (don’t forget the ‘#’ Hashtag!!!) Only once a week though, and you must have at least 100 Twitter followers for it to count.
• Favorite us on Technorati
• Get creative and help us promote your Favorite site BellazizasFavorites.com!!!  You tell US how you do it (blog, social media, MckLinky’s at relevant sites, etc!!)

Make sure to enter all EXTRAS as a comment on this post or include the #SWAGALERT hashtag so we can track on Twitter!!  We always want to make sure that we get all of your entries!

Disclosure: We received a gorgeous set of cards as a sampling of
Snowflake's unique process and product.

April showers bring May flowers!  Starting April 20th get this adorable and very well-made umbrella for FREE with purchase!!  Check out www.Corolle.com for more info!  Don’t you just LOVE Corolle?!?!

Happy Easter!  We hope you are enjoying the lovely Spring weather and indulging in one too many jelly beans!  The Easter Bunny is ready to make his big debut and we’re here to help him!

Our favorite fluffy Easter friend is from Steiff, a German company that’s been making stuffed animals since 1880!  There is no question that Steiff is the Best of the Best when it comes to making fluffy friends.  Each stuffed animal from Steiff is hand made which means they are all unique.  You know we just loooove unique!

And what’s not to love about the Dossy Rabbit from Steiff.  It will fill your little sweetie’s Easter basket with the softness most precious kind of squishy love!  Check out Steiff for yourself and find a fluffy friend of your own!

Enjoy the Easter holiday dear friends!

That’s a lot of B’s, I know… hehe!  Well, it REALLY is!  The Coco Lounger is the name… and style, quality and function is the game!  Bloom Baby’s Coco Lounger takes the cake in every way and is most definitely our very Favorite baby bouncer!

It’s look is what caught our eye first.  It’s simply gorgeous and qualifies as “baby’s first art piece” in our (humble!) opinion for sure;)!

Yes it has very clean lines, but does it CLEAN UP?  Absolutely!!!  The faux leather is super soft for your sweet one and also cleans up like new through anything without effort.  Big plus for any new momma!!

We used ours for well over six months as it’s a great place for any baby to enjoy a bottle or even nap.  Imagine a hammock and that gentle gliding motion.  It’s smooth and not a dramatic movement – a little bit bounce, a little bit rock.  Perfect in our books!  It also comes in a slew of tasteful colors and a choice of wood or Plexiglas to suit any decor.

The Coco Lounger is great but what’s better is the commitment that Bloom Baby has to providing parents with safe, beautiful and (VERY) eco-friendly options for their children!  This was one thing that I was SO impressed with when I had the opportunity to talk with Simon May, one of the founders of Bloom Baby and one of the “Four Dads” behind the brand.  We had a great talk about Bloom and their commitment to “safety, style and sustainability”.  Bloom really is a company that you can get behind and believe in, but not only because of the great products!  They really do walk the walk.  Take a look at the following that I pulled off of their website:

“Every bloom product exceeds all applicable safety standards and regulations.  we proactively minimize the use of harmful chemicals and processes in our products and manufacturing, our products are certified compliant with 2009 USA CPSIA requirements

All bloom products are independently tested and certified to be lead free, phthalate free, PVC free, heavy metal free, and AZO dye free.

We do not use polycarbonate in food access areas of products and use higher quality FDA-approved food-contact grade plastics on food contact surfaces.

Bloom wooden products are free of wood PCP and other toxic wood preservatives, fiberboard (MDF) free, use formaldehyde-free adhesive, low voc finishes and originate from certified sustainable beech and birch wood forests.

Bloom prohibits the use of wood from intact natural forests, high conservation value forests, protected areas, and high value tropical wood species.”

Love, love, love!  In this age of product recalls and shady manufacturing, etc, it’s so nice as a mom to see a company that cares.

Thanks Bloom!

Yours truly,

Isabella and Camilla’s Mommy.

Visit Bloom Baby online for more info on the Coco Lounger and their other innovative and chic products!

SWAG ALERT: Tell us what it means to you to know how conscious and responsible Bloom Baby is!!  It means the world to us.  What does it mean to you?

You know how it works and what to do.  This SWAG ALERT will be open until we say so.  Good luck to all and have fun with our newest ways to gain EXTRA ENTRIES!!!

EXTRA ENTRIES for this SWAG ALERT:

• Become our NEW Fan on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter as a NEW follower
• Retweet this SWAG ALERT on Twitter (don’t forget the ‘#SWAGALERT’ hashtag!!!) Only once a week though, and you must have at least 100 Twitter followers for it to count.
• Favorite us on Technorati
• Get creative and help us promote your Favorite site BellazizasFavorites.com!!!  You tell US how you do it (blog, social media, MckLinky’s at relevant sites, etc!!)

Make sure to enter all EXTRAS as a comment on this post or include the #SWAGALERT hashtag so we can track on Twitter!!  We always want to make sure that we get all of your entries!

Disclosure: We received a Coco Lounger to try out, loved it and then
found it a new home as we usually do.  Giving is the new black;)!!

We’ve all seen the photos, sent the text message donations and hoped and prayed for the people of Haiti and the tremendous loss that they’ve suffered.  The devastation is truly unimaginable, but if we all do what we can, the people of Haiti will be able to stabilize much faster and avoid an even greater loss of life.  Bellaziza Favorite Saurette has joined forces with Partners In Health to help raise much needed aid and awareness.  Not only are their clothes adorable, but Saurette has a heart too!

Please help Saurette to bring aid to the people of Haiti by donating to Partners In Health!
Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill.

–Excerpted from the Partners In Health Mission Statement

The scope the disaster is truly enormous, and a tremendous influx of immediate aid is needed to avert an even greater loss of life. Partners In Health has been working in Haiti for nearly 25 years. The local team is already working to ensure PIH’s coordinated relief efforts, leveraging the skills of more than 120 doctors and nearly 500 nurses and nursing assistants who work at established sites throughout Haiti.

CLICK HERE to help Saurette make sure that this skilled team has the resources it needs to address the crisis at hand.

It’s SURELY one of the best toys ever and we just love it here! It’s the Skwish from Manhattan Toy and your little one is SURE to love it… and dad may think it’s pretty darn cool too… OK, AND Mom!  Stop by Magic Beans for your magic Skwish if you live close to Beantown, or just order it online for a good post-yuletide goodie!

PS – I don’t see us ever packing this one away or finding a new home for it, etc.  Talk about ageless, right?  Too, TOO cool… for school.  Hehe!  Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Want the prettiest little baby dolls for the prettiest little baby doll?  Look no further than Corolle! You know they’ve been one of our Favorite Things for quite some time now, but we just wanted to show off a few great new additions to their lovely line, as well as some classic Favorites.  What Christmas would be perfect without a new doll for your little doll?  Yes, Corolle is here to help!

Check out www.Corolle.com for all of the dolls and accessories that you could ever imagine and also information on where to purchase.  Here’s a tip to try though… most independently owned toy stores carry Corolle dolls and are great places to support and shop, but if you hit it just right TJ Maxx is another place that I have seen a pretty nice selection of these wonderful toys!  You do have to hit it just right though:)!!

We just found the coziest blankets and had to share it with you, well, since it’s -20 degrees here!!!  Baby it’s COLD outside!  I personally love bamboo clothing and anything else made of bamboo, so I just knew I’d love Shi Shu Baby and Shi Shu Home’s gorgeous and luxurious collection of hand-woven blankets from the moment that we found them!  Bamboo is so very soft and completely safe for your little ones too!  Everything from the vegetable dyes used to the all natural cotton ribbon packaging is totally safe for even the most sensitive of skins.  Shi Shu has come up with not only a beautiful line of blankets for baby,  but for mommy and daddy too!  What’s more fun than to match?  Check out www.shishustyle.com for more info or to purchase these fabulous blankets for your most loved little one or for yourself!

SWAG ALERT: One lucky reader is going to take a gorgeous Shi Shu Blanket home!  Just tell us what you love about Shi Shu Baby or Shi Shu Home and we’ll enter you in for a chance to win whichever one you love most!!

You know how it works and what to do.  This SWAG ALERT will be open until we say so.  Good luck to all and have fun with our newest ways to gain EXTRA ENTRIES!!!

EXTRA ENTRIES for this SWAG ALERT:

• Become our NEW Fan on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter as a NEW follower
• Retweet this SWAG ALERT on Twitter (don’t forget the ‘#’ Hashtag!!!) Only once a week though, and you must have at least 100 Twitter followers for it to count.
• Favorite us on Technorati
• Get creative and help us promote your Favorite site BellazizasFavorites.com!!!  You tell US how you do it (blog, social media, MckLinky’s at relevant sites, etc!!)

Make sure to enter all EXTRAS as a comment on this post or include the #SWAGALERT hashtag so we can track on Twitter!!  We always want to make sure that we get all of your entries!

Disclosure: We received a lovely sampling of products for review from
Shi Shu and are absolutely enjoying them here in what feels like Siberia!

Well if you are then this is surely the gift for your little mover and shaker.  It’s our Favorite Walker and it’s by Italian toy and gear super company Chicco (pronounced “kee-ko”, by the way.)  It’s got a ton of fun activities on the front, has an extra wide stance to prevent topples and can be folded down for floor play quite easily.  It’s perfect in short!  Definitely a must-have this season for any little one ready to take that big first step into first steps!  There are lots of places to find it but we have ours coming any day now from our friends at Magic Beans .

Yes, you heard me right!  Santa will not be coming to the Lehman’s this year.  Actually, he never has had the privilege of shimmying down our fireplace.  In fact we don’t even have a fireplace.  So I guess it’s good that Santa has never landed on our rooftop!

No, we haven’t been that bad this year.  Or any other year for that matter.  We just don’t believe in Santa Claus at our house.  GASP, I know, right?!  My husband and I never really believed in Santa when we were kids so it’s never been a big deal to us.  And my husband’s philosophy is, “I worked stinkin’ hard for the money to buy those gifts, I’m taking the credit for it, not giving it to some fat guy!”  I can’t really argue with that, especially since I only work one or two days a week only making enough money to pay for what I spent that day while at the store.  And we can focus on the true meaning of Christmas, presents and cookies the birth of Jesus.

Then we had our first son.  He was all innocent and full of trust and wonder.  How dare we not take advantage of this and lie bold face to him about a jolly fat man bringing him gifts on a sleigh with flying reindeer in the middle of the night creeping around our house?  I mean, who do we think we are, anyway?  So I tried, much to my husband’s dismay.  But it didn’t really work.  Little did I know that I gave birth to the world’s smartest two year old.

Even at such a young age, I could not pull one over on that kid.  He was in kindergarten when he told me, “Mom, how could Santa possibly be real? There is no way that one man can bring gifts to every singe child in the world in one night.  And reindeer don’t even fly!  And how could they carry that big fat man on a metal sleigh?  It would be too heavy!”  (Don’t even get him started on the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.)

Then in first grade his teacher informed me that he announced to the entire class that Santa was, in fact, fake.  “Your parents are the ones who give you gifts, DUH!”  So then we had to have the “please don’t ruin the fun for everyone else” talk and he was all, “But MOM, we are right!!!”

Even when his friends and cousins tried very hard to convince him that Santa was real, he would end up making them doubt everything they’ve ever been told about Santa!  No, “Yes, peers, of course you must be right and I must agree with everything you say!”  Just, “Wake up people!  Quit living a lie!”  (I’m not lying, he actually said that…at seven years old.  God help me.)

But I have accepted my genius child and feel proud that he sticks up for what he believes in.  Even if that means getting a note from the teacher every year around this time.  So you can imagine my delight when my second born who is now in Kindergarten informed me last week, “Mom, I told the kids at school that Santa is not real and the elf that is sitting on the shelf watching to see who’s good and who’s bad is not real either and the teacher just told us that to make us listen.”  Oh goody, because the only thing better than one note from one unhappy teacher is TWO notes from TWO unhappy teachers.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Tasha

There is nothing that screams homemade Christmas like homemade gift wrapping!  I saw this quick little video on HGTV’s website and just loved this idea!  It’s a great way to make a special gift personalized and would even be a fun craft for the kiddos!

So head on over HERE and check out that and other homemade Christmas videos!

Then, top it off with a homemade gift tag from our favorite home maven, Martha Stewart!  Super simple and just the right touch!

Don’t you love the hand-made look… but without the look of home made?  Something really unique, made with lots of care, great design, and that eye-candy factor that we’re all so drawn to?  YES!  Hoosier Magnolia’s it and we wanted to show them off a little to those of you who still need some great ideas for the Holidays!!!  For more info, check them out at www.HoosierMagnolia.com where you will find their fabulous products as well as a list of stores in which you can find their products.  Also, feel free to give them a call personally!  Their charm is not limited to their products – owner and designer Michelle is such a sweetheart:)!

Cool fact: Michelle and I both went to MassArt!  Small world:)!  Take a look at the following images of her gorgeous quilts, mobiles, clothing and everything else and THEN go to HoosierMagnolia.com to see everything up close and personal:)!!  Order quickly for Christmas delivery too!!!

SWAG ALERT: One lucky reader is going to take a gorgeous Hoosier Magnolia quilt home!  Just tell us what you love about Hoosier Magnolia and we’ll enter you in for a chance to win one in your favorite quilt!!

You know how it works and what to do.  This SWAG ALERT will be open until we say so.  Good luck to all and have fun with our newest ways to gain EXTRA ENTRIES!!!

EXTRA ENTRIES for this SWAG ALERT:

• Become our NEW Fan on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter as a NEW follower
• Retweet this SWAG ALERT on Twitter (don’t forget the ‘#’ Hashtag!!!) Only once a week though, and you must have at least 100 Twitter followers for it to count.
• Favorite us on Technorati
• Get creative and help us promote your Favorite site BellazizasFavorites.com!!!  You tell US how you do it (blog, social media, MckLinky’s at relevant sites, etc!!)

Make sure to enter all EXTRAS as a comment on this post or include the #SWAGALERT hashtag so we can track on Twitter!!  We always want to make sure that we get all of your entries!

Disclosure: We received a lovely sampling of products for review from
Hoosier Magnolia and are absolutely enjoying them!