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Canvas4Life.com will print your photos (or other digital images) on canvas, enabling you to create beautiful wall art from your own images. It’s so easy! You simply upload your image into their system and voila! What took me the longest was deciding what image to use for the canvas. Beautiful canvas print wall art. You can even choose from many special effects, such as; Andy Warhol, sepia, swirl and many more.

This is a perfect gift to give during the holidays! Not only is it a way to display a favorite picture – it’s a wonderful way to decorate a living area.

Headbands for Hope. These trendy, chic headbands would be a great addition to a young girl’s stocking or holiday outfit, most are under $20 – plus they also help kids with cancer!

Entrepreneur, fashion designer, philanthropist and college senior Jessica Ekstrom, 22, has created a line of vibrantly colored headbands to help young girls with cancer. After an inspirational internship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and meeting several young girls with cancer, Jessica saw firsthand how much losing their hair during chemotherapy treatments affected the girls’ self-esteem and confidence.

It’s hard to believe that it’s that time of the year again! But it is, and today marks the start of a number of weeks of Holiday Entertaining and product features (some with giveaways!), to get the holiday season started.

Holiday Entertaining will consist of dishes, recipes, cleaning tips and more! Product features range from books and DVDs to stocking stuffers and the unique.

In 2010 I moved my blog from Blogger to my current platform SquareSpace – which is an all in one platform and hosting solution.  I chose it over WordPress which a lot of my blogging friends use, and I’ve been very happy with the ease of use, and the ability to change things up on my blog with little coding knowledge. I’ve also been happy with the load times (when my blog loads slowly it’s due to the ads I run that help pay for my hosting) and the unlimited storage and bandwidth I get with my account.

I wanted to fill you in on an incredible project that vitaminwater® has taken on that I think may be of interest to you all, especially as the holiday season is approaching.

As a parent, I know how important it is that my child is properly nourished in order to thrive. It’s that reason exactly that vitaminwater® <3s Vitamin Angels, a charity dedicated to providing essential nutrients to undernourished children around the world. 

Halloween is tomorrow! Kids everywhere are putting the finishing touches on their costumes and getting ready to trick-or-treat. As the spooky holiday approaches, there are plenty of opportunities for parents to engage their little monsters in math in fun and tasty ways, says Laura Overdeck, mother of three and founder of the popular Bedtime Math national online community.

Several of Laura’s best Halloween math tips are below.

Kraft Foods recently debuted their new gum for teens, iD Gum. It’s kinda more than gum. Kinda Amazing. iD Gum offers up a delicious twist to the flavors you love – Peppermint, BerryMelon, and Spearmint – and is packaged in a sleek, innovative, folding pack featuring a new and unexpected magnetic closure. iD Gum is delivered in a semi-transparent cellophane wrapper that hints at what’s inside the pack.

Planning a party can be stressful at the best of times, but even the most complex regular party planning will seem like a vacation when compared to how difficult throwing a surprise party can be. Thankfully, if you follow this checklist, you can be sure to cover all your bases without too much extra trouble.

* Pick a date. You need to know for sure that the guest of honor will be available that day. Remember that changing the date of a surprise party is much more difficult than changing the date of a regular party, so ensure you get this important first step correct.

Oral-B is encouraging consumers to power up this fall, and is giving lucky fans the chance to win a trip to attend a taping of “The Dr. Oz Show.”

Enter to Win a Trip to New York City to See “The Dr. Oz Show”
• Visit https://apps.facebook.com/powerupsweepstakes to enter the sweepstakes. There you will be asked to complete the on-screen registration form and submit a 500-character or less essay (“Essay Entry”) about why you power up with Oral-B Power Brushes.

Young people 8-18 years can travel time to learn about the past and send a message into the future. Enter the Legacy Project’s annual Listen to a Life Essay Contest – Grand Prize is a Lenovo ThinkCentre computer!

STUDENTS TRAVEL TIME TO LEARN FROM THE PAST AND SEND A MESSAGE INTO THE FUTURE

The Legacy Project and their annual Listen to a Life Essay Contest help your children travel time and change lives.