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Free Pair of Heart Gloves from Kidorable!

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Happy last day of January, friends! If your Pinterest board hasn’t already been bleeding pink and red for the last few weeks like mine has, then get ready because it’s about to! Valentine’s Day is right around the corner!

Kidorable, makers of all things adorable for kids including their famous umbrellas, just reached out to me as an affiliate to let me know about an awesome promotion that starts today. Now through 2/14, you can get a FREE pair of  adorable Heart Gloves (worth $11.50) with any purchase of $20 or more on the site.

Maybe you want the matching hats and scarves? Or perhaps it’s time to plan ahead for spring showers and get a new raincoat?

Just use coupon code LOVEYOU at checkout, and put the heart gloves in your cart before checking out. The coupon code will deduct their price.

Hugs and kisses to you all! Now go get those free gloves!

March Into Spring Giveaway Hop (Kidorable Giveaway!)

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March Into Spring

Welcome to the March Into Spring Giveaway Hop

This event is hosted by The Review Wire. Each blog participating has a prize that is at least $25 and related to spring in some way. Make sure to stop by The Review Wire because they are sponsoring The Grand Prize, a $200 Objects With Purpose Candle Gift Basket! After you enter my giveaway, Flutter by the other blogs to see what “Spring has in Store” for you in the giveaway department!

My giveaway: Kidorable backpack and umbrella!!!

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Kidorable is THE place to get a child’s umbrella (we have 4 at our house…just sayin’). Their designs are second to none. They have something for everyone, for sure! And did you know that they also offer a whole host of items that coordinate with their fabulous umbrellas? Rain jackets, rain boots, backpacks and even cool wooden hangers.

Here’s your chance to win a coordinating umbrella and backpack in your choice of design from Kidorable!

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No compensation or product was received in exchange for hosting this giveaway. All opinions expressed here are strictly my own. Here are the other fantastic giveaways in the hop!

Free Umbrella Offer at Kidorable!!!

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I just heard about this fantastic promotion Kidorable is running this month, and wanted to make sure you all know about it!

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From January 10-28, Kidorable is teaming up with the Garden of Dreams Foundation. This foundation works tirelessly to bring joy and happiness to kids facing a wide variety of obstacles (such as poverty, foster care issues, a tragedy, homelessness or illness). Kidorable is donating 10% of purchases to this great cause. And as part of the promotion, when you make a minimum $20 purchase on the Kidorable site, you will get a FREE Kidorable umbrella!

So if you shop during this promotion, you get a fantastic deal and a foundation gets a donation. Win-win!

Simply use code DREAM33 at checkout to get your free umbrella (be sure to have the umbrella already in your cart when you enter the coupon code!).

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Let me know what you get!!!

No compensation or product was provided for this post. Just sharing a great deal! 

 

Dora and SpongeBob Partner with Kidorable for Rainy Day Fun

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Do you have a SpongeBob or Dora the Explorer fan in your house? Darah happens to love both characters. I enjoy watching Dora with her from time to time, and drawing maps together so that we can be explorers just like her.

SpongeBob, I must say, continues to confuse me. He reminds me a bit of Ren and Stimpy, though less crass and more suited for a younger audience. I find him to be an odd bird, but Darah thinks he is hilarious. She is especially fond of his pet snail, Gary, who in every way mimics the mannerisms of a cat.

Told you it was strange.

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But if your kids are fans of either character or of both, then you’ll be excited to hear that Kidorable now has rain gear products (rain boots, rain jackets and umbrellas) with Dora and SpongeBob on them.

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I recently picked up a Dora the Explorer rain jacket for Darah to wear next fall (she already has a rain jacket for this season). I was really impressed with the level of detail on the jacket. Licensed character merchandise is rarely my favorite thing, but the Kidorable products have the same attention to details as everything else in their line. Well done, Kidorable!

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I am looking forward to the adventures we will have out exploring with Dora this fall, rain or shine! The rain jacket we reviewed retails for $45 and comes in sizes 12-18m through 6x.

I received a complimentary product for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own. 

Kidorable Helps Make Picking Up Clothes More Fun: Coupon Code!

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About twice each week, Darah and I spend some time with each other cleaning up her room. Darah focuses on putting away the toys, and I am tasked with putting her clean clothes away. We hope to make some changes to her closet in the near future so that Darah will be able to put her clothes away all by herself (currently the closet rod is much too high for her).

Once we make her closet more toddler-friendly in terms of access, I also want to make it more toddler-friendly in terms of the aesthetic. I will be adding a few extra special hangers that will delight Darah, and also help her learn how to keep her clothes separated by type. She has a few costumes that will be available to play with, but they need to be kept seperated from her everyday attire. Kidorable is going to help Darah learn how to keep her dress up clothes in their own grouping, all thanks to their fantastic wooden hangers. These aren’t just any wooden hangers, though! They have wonderful designs that coordinate with other Kidorable products.

Darah is going to get the mermaid hangers because she is currently obsessed with mermaids. She also happens to have a mermaid costume, and what better to hang it up with than a mermaid hanger?! The quality of these hangers is awesome; they are hand carved and hand painted! A set is just $20 for the smaller size, and $22.50 for the larger size. These are definitely a fun way to help bring some fun design elements to your child’s closet, and to help them turn the chore of putting away clothes into something much more fun.

From June 11-18 Kidorable is offering a 20% discount on their hanger sets! Simply enter code CLEANUP2 at checkout to get your discount!

Disclosure: I received complimentary products for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own. 

 

Kidorable Dragon Knight Collection and AWESOME COUPON CODE!!!

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Kidorable, the makers of those too-cute-for-words children’s umbrellas (among other things) have just launched the Dragon Knight collection. All of you parents of dragon slayers and brave knights listen up! From December 5-11, you can use the coupon code DRAGON7 to receive a FREE Dragon Knight umbrella with any order over $20 (be sure to add the umbrella to your cart before using the code so that it works). Um, yeah, that’s an AWESOME deal, and just in time for the holiday crunch…see, last minute gifts can be AMAZING and bargain-priced!

Now that I’ve told you about the awesome deal, let me tell you more about the Dragon Knight collection. We received the rain jacket to review. I’m saving this to give to my nephew when he is big enough for it. I’ve let Darah try it on to see how it looks and it is simply smashing! The hood is my favorite, as it looks like a medieval helmet! I almost can’t stand the cuteness, people. This coat is also made of a new material called PU (polyurethane). It’s softer and lighter than PVC, which is what is typically used for rain coats.

The Dragon Knight collection has a variety of super cute pieces. While the rain jacket is my personal favorite, the umbrella, with its dragon horns and wings sticking out, comes in a close second. 

Slay those outstanding items on your Christmas list right now with help from Kidorable, or get stocked up for birthdays in 2012 with this deal!

Disclosure: I received a complimentary product for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are strictly my own.

 

(NEW POST!) Kidorable Makes Kid Towels To Grow With Your Child! (GIVEAWAY!!!)

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When Darah was a baby, she had the CUTEST collection of towels. Lots of adorable hooded and super soft things; it was so much fun to wrap her in all that cuteness.

Unfortunately, it seems that whoever makes most of the baby towels in this world borrowed notes from the people who make most of the swaddling blankets, and that means that they are WAY TOO SMALL. Darah never was a big baby, but she still outgrew her towels by the time she was just over a year old. RIDICULOUS!

Kidorable, the makers of those insanely cute umbrellas, rain jackets and rain boots, also has a line of kid towels, only they sized them right! You can purchase a small which they will tell you up front will last you until about age 2 (that’s an improvement over most other small towels!), or you can go with a toddler size, which should get you from 3-6.

We checked out the Lucky Cat towel, and it is AWESOME! I can tell now that it will last for several years, both because of its size, and also because of the overall quality of the towel. Yes, the price is higher than what you might pay for a kid’s towel at a big box store, but you are going to get something that will last longer and be twice as cute.

Kidorable towels also come packaged beautifully, in a cute plastic container that only needs to be plopped in a gift bag in order to be ready to go for a birthday party! I love when companies go the distance with every detail, because it makes me much more likely to turn to them for gift-giving occasions. I despise wrapping gifts, and I have a bit of a complex about my packages always looking so unfortunate (and they really do…I almost couldn’t be worse at wrapping). Kidorable makes it easy for your present to shine! 🙂

I also love that the Kidorable website will show you every other product they offer in the same theme that you are considering. For example, the Lucky Cat theme can also be found on an umbrella, jacket, boots, backpack and hangers. It’s easy to put together a really fun collection for someone over time!

Buy it!: Kidorable towels are available in 10 fabulous styles (don’t miss the fireman! SOOO cute!) for $33.00.

Win it!: Oh goody! I get to host a giveaway for the product that put Kidorable on the map….their umbrellas!!!!

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