• family

    Adorable Personalized Christmas Gifts: Stickygrams Review

    November 19, 2012 - By 

         Love Instagram? Love unique personalized gifts for Christmas? Then Stickygrams are for you.        Stickygram takes your Instagram photos and turns them into fridge magnets. I was an early fan of Instagram and enjoy shooting pictures on the iphone app. Instagram makes fancying up your photos easy. There are multiple filters you apply after the shot is taken and the simple process makes each photo different.     Now that Instagram has been bought by Facebook, it’s sure to be an even hotter little platform for photo stories. If you haven’t checked out Instagram yet, what are…

  • Parenting

    Are They Real Sisters? – National Adoption Day Bloghop

    November 17, 2012 - By 

    These are my girls, Ainsley and Payton. Sisters. Daughters. Great friends. They love and fight and play and hug and eat and drink and dance and dream and share part of our lives, our home and hearts.  They are the reason we wake up and breathe and do – pretty much everything. There was a time when we didn’t know if we could be parents. There was a time I didn’t even know if I wanted to be a parent, if I am being 100 % truthful. I wanted a career – writing was my passion – and many days…

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    Cutest Pets for Kids – #wordlesswednesday

    November 14, 2012 - By 

    This is Cupcake, one of the five guinea pigs we own. She is a sweetie, just not the brightest. One night we tried to train her to climb up a little log incline to get back in her cage. Her brother and sister did it in three seconds and she circled the cage 14 times before we picked her up and put her back in. She got the looks – the brains not so much. My kids laugh hysterically at how silly she is. Wordless Wednesday is a photo meme. I often link up over on Tara`s View of the…

  • parenting - special needs

    Caring Bridge: Free Website Resource for Caregivers and Families

    November 13, 2012 - By 

    In time for National Family Caregiver’s Month I am honoured to share Caring Bridge, a free website and caregiver resource. One of the hardest things about caring for my mother and my daughters, is that feeling of isolation and exhaustion. Reaching out to others is difficult when you have no more energy to spare after a day spent trying to juggle work, children, regular daily commitments and care-giving. In between all of that you can add to the mix, a daily need to research and educate others – otherwise known as advocacy. Resources can be hard to find, so this…

  • Food - Giveaways - parenting

    Dempster’s Farmhouse Country White Bread #Giveaway

    November 12, 2012 - By 

    What’s your favorite sandwich? I like mine toasted first on a great bread, something substantial, not flimsy or too grainy. The bread, for me, is like the canvas for a work of art. I need it to be well constructed so I can build it high with all the fixings. First I like a good Swiss cheese, then liverwurst, mayonnaise, mustard and salami, maybe a slice of ham too, if we have it. Then I warm the whole thing up for about 20 seconds. Perfection. Writing about it makes me hungry. You can see, with that amount of yummy stuff…

  • family

    Social Media Superstars Award – Chevrolet Canada #chevybliss

    November 10, 2012 - By 

    It’s time once again to hand out my Social Media Superstars Award. This time I am rewarding a car company for a job well done. This is us, my group of social media friends, ironically many of whom, are from London, Ontario, at the excursions part of BlissdomCA in October. For day two of our conference experience we test drove Chevrolet Canada cars, raced through the slalom course which is soaked with water for maximum effect, tasted some delicious gourmet food from a food truck catered by Gourmet Bitches and learned a whole lot about innovation and ways in which technology…

  • family

    Five Easy Steps to Personalize Your Twitter Header #DIY

    November 9, 2012 - By 

    It’s been a few weeks now since twitter changed up its design and some people are still asking how to change their twitter header design, so I thought I would give you a quick lesson. In the interest of prettying up my Twitter stream, here you go: 1. Call up your Twitter home screen. 2. Click on your name – above where it says – view on profile page. (Your name in the left corner of the screen. When you hover over it, the link should be highlighted.) Click on that. Up pops your screen. For some of you there…

  • family

    Santa Story DVD–Best Morning Ever Just Got Better #Giveaway

    November 7, 2012 - By 

    Your Santa Story arrived today and I ripped it open like a kid on Christmas morning. Your Santa Story personalized Christmas DVD will make you child’s Christmas morning 2012 even sweeter than ever before. A few weeks ago I replied to the email from the creator of Your Santa Story, a person I recalled meeting at Blogher in New York City in August. I volunteered to build My Santa Story to tell my readers about it and offer a giveaway. Your Santa Story isn’t just a cut and paste digitally created computer sleight of hand; it’s a well crafted, acted…

  • Giveaways

    Double Stroller #Giveaway

    November 7, 2012 - By 

    Welcome to the Canadian Double Stroller Giveaway!  An extra special giveaway just for our Canadian fans, shared by Canadian bloggers and sponsored by the ultimate online Canadian baby store! Hosted by Baby Giveaways Galore and sponsored by Canada’s Baby Store. {Canada’s Baby Store} Sells a huge selection of baby products: car seats, strollers, travel systems, playpens & yards, highchairs, swings & jumpers, nursery items, home safety, health products and toys. FREE shipping on ALL Canadian orders over $50.00  Only ships within Canada Online store is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Customer Care Experts available by toll-free…

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    BlissdomCA and Friends #WordlessWednesday

    November 6, 2012 - By 

    Wordless Wednesday is a photography meme I often take part in here at thriftymommastips.com. Sometimes we link up various photos and connect with various other sites and hop around leaving comments on each other’s sites. Today I want to say a word or two about friends. This picture is us – Margarita Ibbott and Paula Schuck at Blissdom Canada recently. Together, we are linked moms. Separately, we have our own blogs and handles and know a thing or two about social media. Margarita has a fabulous new design on her blog Downshifting: Your Home, Your Family, Your Life. You can…