Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway! - CLOSED

Shabby Apple is a hip boutique offering dresses perfect for everything from work to play and everything in between. The shop was created in order to make dressing simple again--offering dresses that cover with the addition of camisoles, tanks, or cardigans. These stylish designs are classic with a twist of modern, and you are sure to find something you absolutely love!

Shabby Apple also promotes the welfare of women worldwide by offering a percentage of their proceeds to help microfinance opportunities for women and their families throughout Africa and Asia. With each purchase, the customer also have the opportunity to donate an additional $5 that will provide opportunities for those in developing countries. In fact, for every $100 donated, approximately 20 women are provided with opportunities that will help them defeat poverty for themselves and their families. Each dress purchased come with a tag noting a success story like the ones Shabby Apple and its customers contribute to.

You can shop their dresses and accessories with the help of their look books, and style guides. You can even shop by body style!

In addition to their expansive and chic line for adults, they also carry lines for preteens and children that will have others asking where you got their adorable clothes!

Just check out some of these awesome selections they have for us (click on any to go to the website page with more details about each selection).





WIN IT:
Shabby Apple is giving one reader their choice of the dresses pictured above!

To Enter:
MANDATORY:
You MUST do this entry FIRST or your entries will not count. ONE comment only.

Visit Shabby Apple and browse around. Comment with your favorite item on the entire website.

OPTIONAL EXTRAS:
For 1 extra entry per item below
(please leave a NEW, separate comment for each one):
-If you follow Girly Girl Giveaways blog publicly, Google Friend Connect (right sidebar)
-If you follow @girlygiveaways on Twitter
-If you are a Girly Girl Giveaways fan on Facebook
-If you have the Girly Girl Giveaways button on your blog
-If you subscribe to Shabby Apple via RSS
-If you follow Shabby Apple via Twitter


OPEN to 48 contiguous states.
MUST be 18 or older to qualify and receive prize if selected to win.


It will end at 11:59 pm on 2/14/2011
A winner will be chosen using random.org and will have 48 hours to respond.
Please make sure you have a way for me to contact you (email in profile or in comments).

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No items were reviewed in person for this post.

Super Quick Eco-Frugal Tip

Make homemade cream cheese icing for your kids birthday cake. Make sure to make it our of organic ingredients. It's so tasty people will eat it before it even hits the cake.

Rumba Time Watch Review and Giveaway

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Winner - #89 Kari V.

 

Generally I am not that into wearing jewelery and accessories but when I saw RumbaTime watches I just had to have one. These weightless silicone watches come in a variety of colors and styles.They are unisex and water-resistant and I absolutely adore them! The founders of RumbaTime had one mission in mind- to create fun, stylish and affordable watches that can be worn during any occasion. With over 100 styles and combinations, everything from bright solids to glitter and metallic to 2 tone and even tie dye, you are sure to find the perfect watch to fit your style. Sizes range from extra small which will fit a child 6 and under through large which will fit men with a little larger wrist. And they come in the coolest plastic capsule container!

I received a watch from the Lafayette collection in Big Apple for review and I thought it was the cutest thing.

I love the color and size small fit my thin wrists perfectly. Besides these watches being super affordable and the assortment of colors they come in, one of the other things I love about them is that they are a cinch to put on. The fact that they stretch makes them easy to slip right over your hand and fit snug to your wrist. They are extremely comfortable even for this non jewelry wearing person. I seriously love my new watch and am already looking at other colors and styles to purchase. RumbaTime watches are available for online purchase through their website http://www.rumbatime.com/ as well as several retail stores. You can find a store near you here, but wait there's more...

RumbaTime would like to give two Girly Girl readers a chance to win a RumbaTime watch of their choice with the exception of the Mercer and Broadway Collection.

To enter: Check out the entire RumbaTime collection and leave me a comment telling me which watch you would choose. You can get extra entries for following us through GFC, Subscribing via email, liking us on Facebook and following via Twitter.

Deadline: This giveaway end on February 7, 2011. I will choose the two winners using Random.org. Please leave a valid email address if it is not visible in your profile. US and Canada entries only.

***Monica***

The featured product{s} in this post were provided to me free of charge by the manufacturer or pr company representing the company. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by anyone.

Giveaway - ToodleBugz

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Winner - #44 ColleenMarie82

I was recently contacted by a lovely lady at Crunchy Angel to review a pair of ToodleBugz arm-leg warmers! Arm and leg warmers are perfect for babies, children, teens and adults alike. For the cheerleader out on a cold football field to the toddling potty-trainer who doesn't yet know how to pull down their pants to use the potty to the crawler whose soft knees need protecting - you can find a purpose for a ToodleBugz for anyone in the family! Add them to your arms for instant long sleeves, add them under a skirt on a cool fall day or add a pair under your little ballerina's tutu for an adorable fashion statement!

My oldest daughter wears uniforms to school so we always jazz up her outfits to add a little personality. The Flights of Fancy ToodleBugz we chose were just perfect for her little navy dresses to keep her legs warm in this fall and winter months of school!

We have owned many leg warmers before but what I love most about ToodleBugz are the thickness and the variability in size. They're heavy-duty for my little kindergartner who is on her knees at circle time or running around at recess and falling on her knees all day. They're also very soft and well stitched! We've used ours many times and there's not a single hole yet.

At Crunchy Angel you can find more than just arm and leg warmers! You can find everything from cloth menstrual pads to cloth diapers. I personally love the cloth nursing pads as I used them in the early months of breastfeeding my youngest baby.


WIN IT:
Crunchy Angel is giving one reader their choice in leg/arm warmers from their line, ToodleBugz!


To Enter:
MANDATORY:
You MUST do this entry FIRST or your entries will not count. ONE comment only.

Visit Crunchy Angel and browse around. Come back here to leave me a comment about which ToodleBugz leg warmer pair you'd choose if you won!
 
OPTIONAL EXTRAS:
For 1 extra entry per item below 
(please leave a NEW, separate comment for each one):
-If you follow Girly Girl Giveaways blog publicly, Google Friend Connect (right sidebar)
-If you follow @girlygiveaways on Twitter
-If you are a Girly Girl Giveaways fan on Facebook
-If you have my Girly Girl Giveaways button on your blog
-Become a fan of Crunchy Angel on Facebook


OPEN to USA & Canada ONLY

MUST be 18 or older to qualify and receive prize if selected to win.

It will end at 2/2/2011

A winner will be chosen at random and will have 48 hours to respond.

Please make sure you have a way for me to contact you (email in profile or in comments).

The opinions expressed in this review are based on my personal experience with the products described. I am an honest person and have provided an honest account of my findings. 

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Joy is a stay-at-home-mom to three daughters. She is the wife of a worship leader & youth pastor. She runs her own Etsy shop selling handmade, hand-stamped sterling jewelry. Joy has taken courses in journalism, play writing, poetry, was in Honors English throughout school and has had small publications made of her work (mostly poetry).

Super Quick Eco-frugal Tip

Turn to freecycle for free crafting supplies. There are many people who want to start craft projects, but never do or complete projects and have left over crafts supplies to give away. Post a want ad for left over craft supplies.

Robby Wash Review and Giveaway

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WINNER #52 Gale CONGRATULATIONS!

Being the thrifty stay at home mom that I am I am always looking for ways to save my family  money. When I heard about a laundry ball that claims to be able to last, on average, a year of washing, and save my family up to $100 well I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Could one little ball actually save my family that much money on laundry alone?

Robby Wash, a laundry detergent ball was designed by Oransi to do just that. While standard laundry detergents can cost you up to $1.00 a load, the high efficient Robby laundry ball is less then $0.25 a load. If you ask me that's a load of savings worth investigating. So how exactly does this laundry ball work? In Oransi's words "The Robby Wash ball uses a unique and patented worldwide technology to clean your laundry even better than the powder laundry detergents it was independently tested against.  Its activated macromolecules are gradually released through the wash, dissolving dried-in stains by generating ions which activate the water molecules.  This increase in the pH enables the activated molecules to penetrate deep into the fabrics and attach themselves to the stains. As the motion of the drum agitates the clothes, the stains come away easily from the fabric and dissolve in the water." In my words, you throw the little ball into your front or top loading washing machine and leave it there. Each time you do a wash the ball works it's magic and gets those dirty clothes clean. Can laundry get any simpler?

Robby Wash laundry ball comes in both a blue and pink laundry ball, no the ball is not gender specific. The blue ball is designed to be used in both cold and hot water while the pink ball is formulated for color loads and cooler temperatures. I received the blue Robby Wash for review and was very eager to try it out. Laundry for this stay at home momma suddenly got exciting.

Each Robby Wash pack includes a washing ball, a stain stick and three extra packets of macro-molecule pellets. Refills are also available but you don't have to worry about them for awhile... So what's my opinion of this laundry ball? First of all the ball already comes pre-filled so I wasn't lying when I said you just throw it in with your wash. Quick and easy, love it so far. Second my clothes not only looked clean but smelled clean as well. And finally while I obviously haven't been using it for a year and can't really say anything on that I will say that after using it for 3 washes my Robby ball doesn't seem to have lost any of its "soap pellets". I have to admit I am no longer skeptical about its claims. But most importantly my absolute favorite feature of the Robby Wash laundry ball is it is totally hypoallergenic and a great choice for people with sensitive skin. I have two of those in my family so this is just an added plus in my book.

You can purchase your very own Robby Wash for just $32.95 by visiting Oransi online.

Oransi would also like to offer one of our readers a chance to win a Robby Wash of their own. Cha-ching!

To Enter: Visit Oransi and leave a comment letting me know what feature you like best about the Robby Wash. You can get extra entries for following us through GFC, Subscribing via email, liking us on Facebook and following via Twitter.

Deadline: This giveaway will end on February 3, 2011. I will choose the winner using Random.org. Please leave a valid email address if it is not visible in your profile. US entries only.

***Monica***

The featured product{s} in this post were provided to me free of charge by the manufacturer or pr company representing the company. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by anyone.