Winners for 3 Contests Announced

Contest Winners Announced!

It is time to announce the winners to three different contests! I really had fun reading about everyones toy/art and hair experiences. Thank you everyone for participating. If you are the winner please email me at journeytocrunchville@gmail.com and in the subject line please put what contest you won.

Here are the winners!

Michiko Kids Toy Giveaway: Erin!

Down to Earth Toys Rattle Giveaway: Jenn Burns!

Reuben Christopher: Robin!

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Help!! Regarding Giveaways

Okay everyone, I don’t usually do this but I need your help. Lots of you are looking at the giveaways and not participating. A couple of you have told me that you are intimidated by answering the questions or you don’t figure you’ll win anyhow.

First of all, what you comment about doesn’t matter. For all I care you can say, “bippity boppity boo” or “I see dead people” or “my name is Bob and I am a recovering mulletholic. I don’t care what you say. The questions are there to add a bit of spice to the giveaways and to keep them from being too boring or redundant. You can even just put your name and the city your from. Whatever floats your boat. Remember that the winner is not picked based on their comment. It is a completely random drawing but the only way you can enter is by *leaving* a comment. So please don’t worry about what you say. It doesn’t have to be cute or funny or witty. Don’t spend 15 minutes of your time staring at the monitor trying to think of something to say. If you don’t want to answer the question, don’t!

As far as assuming you won’t win anyway…well you most definitely will not win if you don’t participate. You might be pleasantly surprised. Just comment and see what happens.

Remember there is no cost to you and no hidden fees or anything like that. You win and we ship it to you. You don’t go on some secret mailing list where we’ll bombard you with junk mail or anything. I’m just a regular mom and I hardly have enough time for sleeping and showering let alone mass producing junk mail, licking an envelope and then attaching a stamp only to drive down to a local post office and stand in line for hours just trying to find a parking spot. Not gonna happen.

You are also not obligated to keep the product. You may use it, gift it, donate it, sell it. It’s yours. Do what you will with it.

If people don’t start participating in the giveaways we won’t be able to do them anymore and that would be sad, well it would certainly make me sad. I love being able to help others out and free is fun. It is the highlight of my week, don’t take that away from me. Kidding! Well, sort of.

So what do we get out of it? The chance to give these moms and their products some extra exposure. That’s all. They are trying to make a living like the rest of us and their products are their attempt at helping to provide for their families. By giving away something free we are generating exposure and excitement over their products.

For a limited time (to help up the exposure) I am offering additional entries into the contests for linking to the contests from blogs, websites, chat forums, etc. You will receive one additional entry for each website that you link to. You just need to post a comment with the websites you put a link at. There is no limit currently. So if you post the contest to 10 different sites you get 10 different entries into the contest. Email forums are also fine. Just email me a copy of the email and the group/individuals it was sent to. One entry per group (not per person).

Please spread the word. Please?

Here are links to our current giveaways. You will also find them on the top right side in the toolbar.

Michiko Kids

Down to Earth Toys

Reuben Christopher

Baubles and Bums

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Reuben Christopher – Hair Clip Giveaway!

PLEASE READ, A NOTE FROM ME ABOUT GIVEAWAYS: CLICK HERE

Jennifer from Reuben Christopher is giving away 3 fun hair clips to one lucky winner! The one pictured above is just an example. The 3 clips for the giveaway will be a fun surprise. To read about our experience with hair clips and other products from Reuben Christopher please read our review HERE.

Share this giveaway on your own blog or other site that you frequent (make sure it is allowed first) and receive an extra entry for each website you post it on. Simply include the link to where you posted the giveaway within your comment. If you need to leave an extra comment with the links you posted it to, that is fine. The giveaway address is:

http://journeytocrunchville.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/reuben-christopher-hair-clip-giveaway/

To enter the contest simply answer the question below in the comments section. Remember, there is no right or wrong answers and it does not matter if your answer is fancy or a few words:

“What is the grossest/funniest thing you have ever gotten in your hair?” or “What is the grossest/funniest thing your child has ever gotten in their hair?” or “Do you have hair?” LOL

I have hair and too much of it. I’d have to say the grossest thing I’ve ever gotten in my hair would be baby puke. Not too unique. However, I do have a funny story. I used to nanny for a newborn baby and one day I took him to his mommy’s work on her lunch break so that she could nurse him. Afterwards she was playing with him and they were being very cute together. She held him up over her head and then WHAM! He spit up in her mouth and all over her. It was hysterical. We both agreed it was a good thing that mommies loved their babies.

Contest ends Sunday December 14th at 11:59 pm. Winner will be announced Monday December 15th.

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Reuben Christopher – Leg Warmers & Hair Clips

Reuben Christopher

- Hair Clips & Leg Warmers -

Reuben Christopher is a company that is run by a husband/wife team, Kurt and Jennifer. Their store is named after their son, Reuben Christopher. Jennifer makes all of the felt items and does the cutting and pinning and Kurt does all of the sewing. They offer a wide variety of items including: hair clips, leg warmers, burp cloths, felt food, wipes, scarfletts, has, etc.

The Scoop

We reviewed a  pair of toddler leg warmers and three hair clips.

Toddler leg warmers are a homemade version of “babylegs” a type of multi-use leg warmer that can be used in many different fashions. They are used for crawling babies to protect little knees, on girls under skirts and dresses to keep legs warm and even on older children as arm warmers and fashion statements. The leg warmers are made out of high quality knee socks that are then converted to leg warmers. These leg warmers are the same length as a standard pair of babylegs. The only difference is that the cuff widths are wider so that they fit larger thighs or chunky babies better than babylegs do.

The hair clips are hand made clips made out of felt, ribbon and other items.

The Crunchville Experience

Camden, being a very “girly girl” type of girl was extremely excited to see the colorful rainbow leg warmers and assorted hair clips. She couldn’t wait to put them on. She decided she wanted to wear them to her cousins Birthday with one of her skirts. Here are picture of her with them on before the party. She got lots of compliments on them at the party and another little girl liked them very much. I forgot to bring my camera with me to the party.

After putting on the leg warmers Camden couldn’t wait to put on the hair clips. She loved the flower clips and chose the blue flower to wear to the party.

Here she is ready to go to the party with both the leg warmers and her hair clip (she also found a necklace that matched – she likes to match).

On another occasion she wanted two of the flower clips in her hair at the same time…she also refused a serious picture. :)

Mikayla loved the leg warmers too. She wanted to use them on her arms which is another way that these style of warmers can be used and are becoming quite the fashion accessory in many schools for little girls. Here are pictures of Mikayla wearing one of the flower clips and the rainbow warmers.

Both girls absolutely adore the hair clips and the rainbow leg warmers. I loved that the clips were simple enough and easy for the girls to do by themselves. They have been sturdy enough for constant use by my three year old who loves to reposition them every few minutes or so.

-Washing & Care -

The leg warmers can be washed with your regular laundry and dried in the dryer. To avoid color bleeding they should be washed on cold or with like colors if washed on hot.

The hair clips can be spot cleaned, if necessary.

-Other Products Offered by Reuben Christopher-

Here are just a few of the many other items that are available on their website.

Soap Sack (shown with soap next to it to show size)

Soap Sack (with soap inside)

Burp Cloths

Cloth Wipes

Felt Books

Wrapping it Up

-Suggestions, Observations & Wishes-

- I noticed that when I was putting the review together that there was a small hole in the leg warmer along the seam. It appears that the stitching either came undone or that it missed part of the seam. We hadn’t noticed the hole until that moment. I contacted Jennifer about the defect and she was very quick to apologize and sweetly offered to replace it. I think what I love most about dealing with small businesses is the level of customer service and care that is given when a problem does arise. I can assuredly say that despite the flaw with the leg warmers that I would buy products from Reuben Christopher any day because I know that if a problem did arise that it would be taken care of quickly.

-I think it would be fun to see some gift sets that had leg warmers with matching/compatible hair clips. We loved how the hair clips that we received went very well with the rainbow leg warmers. I do think the hair clips should still be available for individual purchase but it would be fun to see some pre-matched sets as well.

-I’m not sure how HyenaCart works exactly but I found the site to be somewhat cumbersome to navigate. I would prefer to be able to look at all of the items offered by Reuben Christopher to be grouped together by category (all the clips together, all the leg warmers together, etc). Not that big of a deal but still a little distracting.

-Overall-

We’ve really enjoyed testing the leg warmers and hair clips. My daughter has loved all the compliments and loves talking about her “rainbow legs”. She has also fallen in love with the hair clips and they have given birth to a whole new obsession for Camden who wants to wear a hair clip everyday now. They were definitely winning items in our home.

-The Basics-

Company Name: Reuben Christopher

Product Name: Leg Warmers and Hair Clips

Price: Leg Warmers $6.00 ea  and Hair Clips $1.50-$3.00 ea

Where to Buy: Reuben Christopher on the Aardvarks in Argyle Congo located on Hyena Cart. Located here:

http://hyenacart.com/onestore.php?vid=1379&category=15

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