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Disney iOS App and Magazine Subscription Sale! | @Disneydigibooks

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Like most little girls, my daughter loves everything to do with Disney princesses and fairies.   While we were at Barnes & Noble not too long ago, she spotted a Disney Fairies magazine and insisted that it would occupy her for hours if I bought it for her.  Well, you know the rest of the story.  Yes, and yes.  She got the magazine and sure enough, collectively, she has occupied herself for at least two hours with the magazine.

Check out the great sales on Disney apps and subscription magazines going on now!

The holidays are here – and to celebrate, Disney Publishing is offering a special price for all of its Storybook Deluxe apps in iTunes from December 21 through January 2.

From an underwater journey with Nemo to a high-octane Cars adventure, these apps are top-rated and are great gifts for friends and family to send via email or add as a print out within a holiday card.

  • Finding Nemo Disney Storybook ios appTangled: Storybook Deluxe for $2.99 (orig. $6.99) – From mischievous thugs to dazzling festivals, Rapunzel and her friend Flynn quickly learn there is much more to life outside the tower!
  • Brave: Storybook Deluxe for $2.99 (orig. $6.99) – Merida, the Princess of DunBroch, adds her tale of courage and determination to the ancient lore  of the Scottish Highlands as she sets out to defy an age-old tradition and forge her own destiny.
  • Finding Nemo: Storybook Deluxe for $2.99 (orig. $6.99) – Join Nemo, Dory, and all your favorite characters in this fantastic retelling of the Disney-Pixar film with cinematic animation and word-for-word narration with the voices from the film.
  • Cars 2: Storybook Deluxe for $2.99 (orig. $6.99) – Experience the action-packed story of Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 with vibrant art, professional narration, exciting music and sound effects, plus A-list celebrity voices from the film.

 

This holiday sale comes just in time for stocking stuffers, family travel, and Christmas day and New Year’s fun.  You can also find all of Disney Publishing’s digital book apps here: http://disneybookapps.com/

Print magazines just $15!

If you’re looking for print magazine gifts, check out the popular Disney magazines below – each annual subscription is $15 for a limited time only!

Disney children's magazine subscriptions

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Celebrate the Holidays & Make Gifting Fun with California Wine Club | @CAWineClub

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The California Wine ClubCalifornia Wine Club did it again for my husband and I.   I’m afraid we are wine-spoiled.  California Wine Club recently delivered a 2nd month’s supply of wine to our door and did we ever enjoy it.  The last few months have been hectic here at the Hagan house and just sitting down to enjoy a glass of wine together is a really nice break for us.

When we receive a shipment of wine from California Wine Club, we know that we are in for a treat.  We usually read Uncorked, their fabulous newsletter, first, then we sit down to enjoy the wine.

The owners of California Wine Club look for the best of the undiscovered, family owned, vineyards, those that you may not find at your local store.  Having the opportunity to try wines that I wouldn’t normally find at my local store has been great! I have learned more about wine than I ever thought I would through California Wine Club, without taking a wine class or attending wine tastings.

California Wine Club’s Premier Club is their most popular wine gift, featuring monthly shipments of two bottles of award-winning wine from California’s best “mom & pop” wineries and their entertaining and very educational 12-page, full-color newsletter, Uncorked®. Wine gifts start at just $36.95*.

Gifting Wine

Besides your kids, wine is a great gift for just about everyone on your list.  Friends, family, and co-workers.  Gift them a month of California Wine Club’s Premier Monthly Wine Club and I’m sure they will continue the service.  You can gift 1 month, 2 months, 6 months, or as long as you’d like!  The membership can be canceled anytime.

Not sure which wine(s) to order?

The California Wine Company encourages mixed case orders in increments of 6 or 12.  Creating and mixed case order will allow you to order at least 6 wines that your friends and family (over 21 of course) are sure to find a suitable wine for themselves to enjoy.

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Enter to win prizes from The California Wine Club!

At the end of November CWC will draw 52 winners and then at the end of December they will draw another 52 winners.
Prizes include:

1) One of four, Three Month Wine Club memberships (A $150 value you can give as a gift, or keep for yourself)
2) One of 50 handy Two Bottle Wine Totes ($25 value)
3) One of 50 Red Tulip Music wine country CD’s ($15 value)

This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media. All thoughts are my own.  I received a 2 month Membership to the California Wine Club for the purpose of this review.

 

Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun #Giveaway – #bb4Me @DaisyOutdoor

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My son is going to be a happy boy this Christmas.  He’s the best boy I could ever dream of having.   That being said, when Sebastian was young, it didn’t occur to me that he’d grow up to love multi-tools, camping, and bb guns.   I don’t know what I expected.  Nothing compares to the good ole’ outdoors to Sebastian.  My Grandfather passed away when Sebastian was about 7 years old but he still remembers his Daisy BB Gun.  My Grandfather had a great big garden with vegetables that he worked hard to grow and would talk of threatening the mischievous garden rabbits with (the sound of) his bb gun, although he never followed through with even the slightest threat when we were around.  His Daisy BB Gun was kept in a gun cabinet behind his recliner in the living room right by the back door, but he never took it out in front of the kids.  He was a very smart man.

Sebastian is a Boy Scout and loves to be outside, go hiking, camping, relax in his hammock, and build campfires.  The only thing that will make his backyard adventures even more exciting is when he opens his brand new Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun, bb pellets, and goggles this Christmas.  We won’t see him for the rest of the day or the day after, I’m sure.

Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun

During our shopping trip to buy the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun, I was pretty excited.  I actually looked like I knew what I was doing in the sporting goods section at Walmart because it was so easy to find what I was looking for!   The Daisy section at our Walmart is considerable and I recognized the Daisy logo upon entering the section and found the Red Ryder BB Gun quickly.  Gathering accessories to go along with the bb gun was fun too!  I bought safety goggles and a HUGE container of BB pellets for Sebastian to enjoy with his new bb gun.

Daisy Red Ryder Carbine bb gun

We are super excited about holiday gifting especially when it comes to our kids, this year.  Every November I get a bit anxious about what the kids will possibly want for Christmas, then it never fails that by the end of the first week of December they both supply us with a list of at least two dozen gift ideas.  My son’s wish list is made up of 80% outdoor products and 20% iPhone accessories and I think between my husband and I and relatives, he will get 100% of the outdoorsy items on his wish list this Christmas.

Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun

Before he’s allowed out the door with his new bb gun, he will have to understand a few gun safety tips:

  1. Check your target and beyond your target.
  2. Only load or cock a gun when you are shooting.  He is NEVER allowed to have pellets in his air soft gun in the house and he is NEVER allowed to cock it in the house.
  3. Anyone shooting or near a shooter should wear shooting glasses.  Do not take chances!
  4. Avoid ricochet. Never shoot at a flat hard surface or at the surface of water. Ammunition can ricochet off of water just like a skipped rock.
Find more gun safety rules on Daisy’s Website.
A Christmas Story movie - Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun

My husband and I already have our safety speech prepared.  Don’t shoot at anything except a target,

A Christmas Story

always wear protective eyewear, and don’t shoot anywhere near icicles!   I think you know why.  At least if you’ve seen the iconic Christmas movie, A Christmas Story, you know why.  The Daisy Red Ryder BB gun was available beginning in 1938 and is a well known bb gun as featured in A Christmas Story.  My husband loves that my son will have a Daisy Red Ryder almost exactly like the one Ralphie has in the movie.
You’ll find Daisy Outdoor products at stores including Walmart, Bass Pro Shops, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Kmart to name a few.

Learn more about Daisy Outdoor Products:

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Daisy has offered one of our readers a prize pack that would make a perfect gift for a (10 year old or older) child.

Required entry: Visit Daisy’s website then come back here and tell us which Daisy Brand product you like best.
Entries accepted through 12am EST 12/17/12.

 

Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This content has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Daisy. #CBias #SocialFabric. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.

Pants on the Head.. a New Winter Trend?

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I’m pretty certain that my son will pursue a career such as with the Coast Guard or being a naturalist but I’m not quite sure down what career path my daughter might head.  She is only 6 so I’m not reading into her future career path too much.  However, I can’t help but think with as much as she plays with fashion designing apps on the iPad and dresses her large plastic horse in her old dresses, and wears pants on her head with all seriousness, she just might do something with fashion design.

Pants on the head winter trend

In all seriousness, she put the pants on her head so she wouldn’t forget to take them to my mom’s house so she could repair a hole in the leg.

It was just hilarious that she kept the pants on her head for the entire car drive to my mom’s house and up into my mom’s house.  This is the girl who has to change out of her ballet leotard before entering my mom’s house because she gets embarrassed.

Honestly, I couldn’t be happier than to see my daughter with pants on her head… she’s usually shy and not so willing to step out of the box.

If only I was brave enough to wear pants on my head.  But I’m still too shy.