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Parker and Peyton love playing on our iPad and they love to see what new apps are available for kids. We found one that is perfect for girls and hours of fun. It’s the Cover Creator from Discovery Girls and they have been playing with it nonstop.
We easily downloaded Cover Creator from itunes to our iPad. This app allows the girls to create their own magazine cover and it’s so easy to use and I love that fact that it entertains both of my girls. Sometimes I find apps that are fun for my 8 year old but the 10 year old finds them too childish and then the ones the 10 yr old can play are too old and hard for my 8 yr old. This is not the case for the Cover Creator.
The girls have been running all over the place taking pictures and designing the perfect magazine covers.
This app allows the girls to take a picture or use one already on the iPad, then it lets you resize or rotate, next you choose a theme of the cover you want such as animals, friends or sports crazy, it also allows you to create your own. Once you choose a theme you can reposition or add your own headlines and bylines that would be on a magazine cover. Once they get it just the way they like they can save, share, reset or delete it.
The girls have been running all over the place taking pictures and designing the perfect magazine covers. No one is safe from getting their own magazine cover. For app details and more about Created By Girls, For Girls philosophy visit Discovery Girls for advice, chat and fun.
Enter to win a Discovery Girls magazine subscription and free access to the Cover Creator for your iPhone, iPad or iPhone. Let me know who you are entering for.
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Now that summer is here one would think that I should be living my life more like a lady of leisure. That is so far from the truth. My calendar is packed with appointments, blog posts due, events, lessons, volunteering and practice for the kids and work. Being organized is key but I can’t always expect everything around me to run on my time. This is where UPS My Choice comes in.
I can continue with my life and my task list and not worry about what’s being delivered and if I’m going to be home for it. UPS My Choice is a new way to ship, receive and manage your deliveries. We all know bloggers get lots of packages. There have been times I’ve come home from a day away and found things at my garage, on my front step, shoved under my door or even at my neighbors. That’s no way for me to handle my business. UPS My Choice lets me direct packages to be delivered at a more convenient time and/or location. Here is my Delivery Planner with my most recent orders from last week and this week. I’m able to make a note for my SHOES to be left at the door because I know I won’t be home during the delivery time frame.
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UPS My Choice is working with Poptent to put together these fun real life videos to give you an idea of how the service really works for real people. This one is perfect for my situation, if only Rob would order something so ridiculous so I can reroute it.
I was introduced to UPS My Choice a few weeks ago and signed up for my own account on the spot. Within 2 days I started seeing messages coming through to my phone and email about my packages coming in. I knew I made the right decision.
Zappos and UPS My Choice are bringing a fun giveaway for LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! readers. Enter to win (1 of 4) $25 Zappo’s Gift Cards. Sign up for UPS My Choice, IT’S FREE. Come back and tell me your login name. When you finally place your Zappos order you’ll see UPS My Choice in action when it updates your Delivery Planner with a shipment date and time frame.
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Father’s day is next Sunday and how cool would it be to give the gift of pictures and memories to that special guy in your life?
The Woven App along with a Kindle Fire is just what the man in your life needs for Father’s Day. Woven is a great “Dad’s app” whether they want to relive old memories with friends, look back at baby pictures or brag about their kids.
I was recently given the opportunity to analyse the Woven app along with a Kindle Fire and let me tell you this is one of the best photo apps that I have used in a very long time.
Melinda and I have been using the Woven App for about a week now and are impressed with what it can do and what it offers and are really enjoying the old memories that we have been discovering on Facebook.
Here is what Melinda thinks about the app so far:
Years of memories captured in snapshots all together in one place. In short that is what Woven The App is all about. At first I thought there wouldn’t really be a purpose for Woven. I couldn’t think of a reason I would need to see at a glance all of the photographs that I had scattered in the interwebs. I was wrong. In a couple quick clicks I had a digital scrapbook of my family and friends going back 4-5 years. I know I’ll go back further once I remember my Shutterfly password too.
Woven allowed me to watch my now 2 1/2 year old niece grow up right before my eyes while I swiped through all the Facebook uploads I’ve made. PhotoBucket has even more memories as that’s what I used to upload baby pictures of Shaun and Shae to be used on a parenting forum I used to belong to.
While the watching, remembering and reminiscing were fantastic I would love a share button. Overall the Woven app is fun extra to have especially if you have photos to show off such as kids, remodeling or vacations.
So far we are really enjoying the Woven App as well and enjoying reliving photos that we have posted on Facebook over the last two to three years. It is hard to remember what I have posted over the years but now I am able to sit back and discover all of the forgotten memories. Another thing that I love about Woven is that you do not need to be online for your picture to always be with you which I like because I can grab the Kindle Fire or iPad and take pictures with me when we go and visit family. Woven also works with pictures on Flickr and Picasa and can be used for free on the Kindle Fire, Nook, Android and iPhone and iPad so you have no excuse not to use Woven.
I am glad that I was given the opportunity to analyse Woven because without it those pictures would have just been forgotten memories.
In the spirit of Father’s Day we are giving one Look What Mom Found…and Dad too! reader the chance to win a Kindle Fire with the Woven App. All you need to do it tell us in a few words “A special moment about being a parent or a special moment about your parents”
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We kicked off summer with a Memorial Day bash at our friends house. She supplied the location and water slide we provided the Banana Boat sun care for all the families that joined the fun.
The weather was sunny and bright and warm, a great way to start off the summer. We arrived and the kids instantly wanted to go down that slide but I knew they needed to get protected first. I applied the Banana Boat Sunscreen for Kids Natural Reflect Tear-Free Sting-Free Lotion SPF 50. It went on smooth, scent free and didn’t cause itching or redness to my children’s faces. They sometimes suffer from sensitive skin and this didn’t seem to cause any issues.
They played in the sun and water and threw around a frisbee and kicked the soccer ball. When it came to popsicle time I checked their skin and saw no redness. Banana Boat Sunscreen for Kids passed the test for my family.
The party continued with lots of food and more water play and races down the slide and the gift bags were handed out. I gifted the large Banana Boat beach bag to the party host as well as some Banana Boat branded merchandise.
Banana Boat Natural Reflect Lotions uses naturally sourced suncreen actives that reflect UVA and UVB rays. The line is free of exybenzone and parabens, contains 100% naturally-sources mineral sunscreens Zinc Ozide and Titanium Dioxide and proveds proven protection against sunburn and helps prevent long-term skin damage.
Host a backyard bash of your own and use the Banana Boat 101 Days of Summer Play Activity Guide and be sure to Take the Pledge to spend time outdoors while keeping safe. Banana Boat wants to help a LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too stay safe in the sun this summer. Enter to win a Banana Boat Natural Reflect kit just by telling us what your summer plans are.
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“I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Banana Boat® Sun Care and received a party kit to facilitate my review, party kits to give to my guests, and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.”
Your entries must follow the rules or they won’t be eligible for prizes. This contest ends 11:59 pm, Friday, June 22, 2012. The winners will be emailed and will have 24 hours to claim their prize. This contest is open to Continental US residents only. For complete rules please read our blog contest rules page.
As a blogger I need to have the latest and grestest phone, gadgets and electronics and recently I received the Blackberry Playbook 64gb tablet to add to my arsenal of goodies. So far I am pretty impressed with the overall performance of the Playbook and I find new features daily.
Here is a quick overview of some of the features that I really like:
Since I have recieved the tablet a few things that I have used a lot and work very well are email, the web browser and documents to go. I have taken the Playbook with me when I have went places instead of my bulky laptop and it has worked awesome. The one thing I need to get over it that it only has Wifi for when I am on the go so you need to have a Wifi hotspot available in order to connect to the web or email but most of the time that doesn’t present a problem.
The Blackberry Playbook has a pretty good selcection of apps through Blackberry App World. I was able to find Facebook and Twitter and a few other apps that I was looking for. I am having a hard time finding games for the kids but I must admit I didn’t really spend more than 15 minutes searching so this part is still a work in progress.
The one thing that I don’t like about the Blackberry Playbook is there is no flash on the camera. I know most tablets do not offer this feature but I wish they did because this is something that I would love to have.
Overall, the Blackberry Playbook stacks up very nicely against other tablets as well as my laptop so if you are in the market for a new tablet take a look at the Blackberry Playbook.
Want to win a Blackberry Playbook 64GB tablet? If so you are in luck because one lucky Look What Mom Found…and Dad too! reader has a chance to win one. All you have to do is head over to Blackberry and tell me what you like most about the Blackberry Playbook Tablet.
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