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Back To School with Elmer’s Glue and Krazy Glue Sweepstakes

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Disclosure: No formal compensation was received. A product was provided for review. All opinions are my own.

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You can’t do Back To School without Elmer’s Glue. Elmer’s Products is the official sponsor for Back To School. To help parents and teachers get ready for back to school they have created Elmer’s First Day App and website.

Thefirstday.com helps parents and teachers document first day memories. On the app you can snap photos, create slide shows and albums, even add borders and music to your school photos.

Elmer’s is always our first choice for Back to School, our school even recommends it in the classroom. How do you know it’s Elmer’s Glue? Simple, they are the glue with the orange caps.
Not only with school, my kids love arts and crafts and use Elmer’s glue bottles and glue sticks constantly.

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Krazy Glue:

Krazy Glue has launched the Krazy Big Fix sweepstakes in March. Just take a photo of the item you fixed with Krazy Glue. You could win a monthly prize of a iPad, camera or more. Plus, you can qualify for the grand Prize of up to $40,000.

There are a few ways to enter to win.

Upload a photo or enter text at KrazyBigFix.com

Tweet a fix (text or photo) with the hashtag #KrazyBigFix

Take a photo of a fix using Instagram™ with the hashtag #KrazyBigFix

Text KRAZY to 74642 with brief details about the fix

What is your #1 Back to School product?

Back To School: Staples Introduces ARC Products

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Disclosure: No formal compensation was received for this post. Products were received for my review. All opinions are my own.

Staples has everything you need for back to school, from backpacks to erasers.

The Arc Customizable Notebook has a ultra flexible design allows you to add remove and rearrange pages and accessories.

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The Arc notebook can be accessorized with calendars, shopping lists and so much more. I have been using this as my To go notebook. I put my shopping lists on the small accessory paper. All my blogging info on the inside pages and add tons of the sticky notes to it for convienance.

Plus I love that it has a pen holder on the notebook, makes it so much easier. Instead of digging around a for a pen it’s right there in the holder.

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I love the that this notebook has so much that you can add to it. The dividers help keep things seperate from other work I am doing. the post it’s help me keep my place or are good reminders for things.

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You can check out the Src Notebook and accessories at Staples.com

Noodles and Company Opening In Garden City, NY

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Disclosure: I was invited to have a complimentary meal and share my review. All opinions are my own.

Noodles and Company is opening a new location at The Gallery at Westbury Plaza. It’s a new outdoor mall that is being built up.

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Noodles & Company offers the world’s favorite noodle dishes, sandwiches, salads and soups, all in one restaurant. Each dish is carefully hand made to our guests’ specifications, using only the freshest ingredients. It’s individually sautéed or prepared, placed on our signature stoneware and served tableside with stainless steel flatware. All for around $8 a dish. There’s never any tipping at Noodles.

We have never been to Noodles and Company so we didn’t know what to expect. It’s not like a sit and wait on restaurant. You stand in line, order your food and pay. When your food is ready they will bring it out to you.  You fill your own drinks and they even have the to go boxes available by the soda fountains.   No need to wait for your waiter to come around for anything!

There is a variety of food, but it’s mostly pasta dishes. They also cater to people with allergies and the health conscious.   There menu has a special section with vegan and vegetarian dishes.

We were able to preview the restaurant before it opened. We got off to a rocky start as the restaurant was over-booked for the preview. But we got it all sorted out and people took the food to go while others stayed.

We ordered some of the best dishes available.

Penne Rosa

Spicy tomato cream sauce, penne pasta, mushrooms, tomato, spinach and wine, parmesan or Feta.  $5.89

Add Parmesan crusted chicken. $2.69

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Wisconsin Mac and Cheese

A classic blend of cheddar and jack cheeses, cream, elbow macaroni $5.89

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Spaghetti and Meatballs

Five meatballs on spaghetti, crushed tomato marinara and parmesan. SM. $7.19 Reg. $8.59

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BBQ Pork sandwich:

Fresh ciabatta roll loaded with slow braised pork, colorful and barbecue drizzle. $7.49

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The food was very very delicious.  My daughter who received the Spaghetti and meatballs had noticed a macaroni noodle in her spaghetti. She said the funniest thing that had my table and the table next to us laughing. She said ” They need to get their noodles right”, it was a hilarious joke.   She still ate the macaroni noodles though. All the food was so good, it was the first time in a long time that my kids ate all their food at the restaurant.

I would definitely say that this restaurant is family friendly and very affordable. I could feed my family of 5 for under $50.

Noodles and Company has their grand opening July 31, 2013 at 11 A.M.

To view their menu or find a location near you please visit here.

Celebrate Summer With Crayola GiveawayCLosed

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Disclosure: Information and products were received for my review. A gift pack is being provided by Crayola. All opinions are my own.

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Summer is slowly winding down, and while we haven’t really left home that much, we are still having fun. My kids have been doing so much arts and crafts this summer I have ran out of room to put up pictures.

Some of their favorite products keeping them busy are:

Crayola Washable Sidewalk Chalk

  • First Sidewalk chalk that features 48 different colors
  • a new anti-roll shape helps keeping chalk from rolling away when not in use.
  • washes away from sidewalks and driveways with a spray of water

Color Wonder Mini Stow and Go:

  • easy to take on the road with you this summer
  • Comes in a hard case so your child has a board for a writing surface and easy storage.
  • Each pack includes 15 pages of coloring paper and 3 markers

 

Color Wonder Mess Free Glitter Paper and Markers:

  • Have all the fun with Glitter but without the mess, as the glitter fun is only on paper.
  • Create Master Pieces with Disney Princess or Fairies
  • Kids will love seeing hidden images appear on the glitter paper.

My kids have been having so much fun this summer with everything. The Sidewalk chalk has been lighting up mu back porch. My kids have been drawing a big sun and the sky around it.   The Glitter paper is a favorite for my daughter as we don’t have glitter in the house much.

The stow and go is perfect for our car trips.   The kids are always fighting in the car, so  we always try and have something in the car for them to do.

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One of my readers will win all the Crayola products mentioned above.

To win: Tell me your favorite arts and crafts project?

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Contest ends 8/20/13

Finding The Right Translation Service

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Disclosure: This is a sponsored post.

My husband is a scientist, earning his PHD in Structual Biology. I have learned that Science is a really challenging field, there are so many scientist all around the world. Papers are published daily, and though most of them are in english. There are a few that come in different languages or need to be translated.

Luckily for them there are students from all over the world. We have friends at Cold Spring Harbor lab from Israel, croatia, India and so many more. The ones that need to be translated can be difficult if you don’t know anyone from that country. Luckily there are international Translation services to help you.

I have also had pieces translated for me that my husband sent me from Iraq when he was in service overseas. Like money, newspapers and books written in arabic.

The Rosetta Translation Agency is a quality company that has been helping companies worldwide translate documents, for legal, financial and science companies. There are 150 languages that can be translated at affordable prices.

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve received a document and haven’t been able to read it because of the language barrier?

Congrats Catherine and William on Your Little Prince

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People have been talking for months about the next royal heir. Experts have been saying they think she is carrying a girl and the rules were changed in case it was a girl.

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WELL………..

They had a boy, His Royal Highness The Prince Of Cambridge!

 

Now I am American but this is a very big deal for my family. As we are Scottish and have ancestors and extended family still in England and Scotland.

 

Congrats and enjoy every moment of you can privately with your new bundle of joy.

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