Giveaway Win $100 USD towards a Jord Watch

Hi to you all and so sorry that it's so very long since I've blogged. It's remiss of me especially considering I have a great giveaway running on Instagram since 2 weeks and I ought to have shared it with you.

I have been reviewing this Jord Watch and it's helping me keep track of time (I haven't worn a watch in over 10 years and now I have it on daily and love it). It's great as I no longer need to keep looking at my phone for the time. Now I'm a fully paid up member of the Soccer Mum club I can keep an eye on the clock. Must say though I'm not looking forward to the evenings drawing in. I noticed last night it was nearly dark at 19:30hrs and football is 1800 to 1900 tonight. Thank God it's a warm dry day but we do have Storm Ali skirting passed us and it's just knocked down my washing line with 3 loads on. Anyway I digress back to the watch.

The details of the giveaway are in this post: Jord Watch NewMumOnline Instagram Post

Which can also for your ease be found below:

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[Ad] On the sidelines Soccer Mum. Me last night. As my⌚ @jordwatches ⌚so beautifully displays it is 18:50 🥅⚽️and Lottie & I have managed to get through a match without her creating too much mischief. I would say the weather hasn't turned yet but as we were walking to the car there was a downpour 🌊☔and because the boys carried on playing for over 30 minutes it was DARK when we got in. Thank God our first LEAGUE football match is Saturday MORNING at 10:30 am. In my future I see us all requiring thermals. The footie we did thus far for 4 years was inside apart from June and July and didn't have a team/matches. We're hard-core now 🥇🏆⚽️ Anyway I digress I have a #JordWatch #Giveaway for you. Click on the link in my profile link: https://www.jordwatches.com/g/newmumonline The contest will end on Oct 7, 2018 at 11:59pm. All entrants will have a chance to win a $100 gift code to use on the JORD site! One lucky person will win, but everyone will receive a consolation code worth 10% off once the contest is over! All other entrants will also be emailed a consolation 10% off code as well. Once the contest closes, Jord's system will randomly select a winner and email them immediately with their winning code. All you have to do is fill out name and email on the link in my profile. To put it in perspective my watch pictured retails at $199USD so $100 goes a long way to covering a perfect ⌚xmas present for someone 🎄 #SoccerMum #FootballLeague #Offside #SideLines #MeAndMyGirl #WinterIsDrawingIn #ClockWatching #MyTimePiece #MyHappyCapture #OutdoorsAndHappy #WinAwatchVoucher #Ad #GiftedToMe #FootBallMum #SaturdaySoccer #LifeCloseUp #My2YearOld #FootballMad #PBUKad #WoodenWatch

A post shared by Parenting Blogger Liska (@newmumonline) on Sep 7, 2018 at 5:27am PDT

To enter the giveaway you can go directly to:

https://www.woodwatches.com/g/newmumonline

But please note the following:

The contest will end on Oct 7, 2018 at 11:59pm.

You have a chance to win one $100 gift code to use on the JORD site!

One lucky person will win, but everyone will receive a consolation code worth 10% off once the contest is over!

All other entrants will also be emailed a consolation 10% off code as well.

Once the contest closes, Jord's system will randomly select a winner and email them with their winning code.

All you have to do is fill out name and email on the link in my Instagram profile.  The link is also above.
To put it in perspective my watch pictured retails at $199USD so $100 goes a long way to covering a perfect ⌚xmas present for someone 🎄

What is unique about this watch is that it is WOODEN, hence the wooden packaging you see above, which celebrates this quality of the watch. It means it is a real delight and pleasure to wear. It doesn't feel like an alien bit of plastic or metal on my arm. Technically I could see it as a dress watch for special occasions but in reality I am wearing it every day.

Good luck!

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Celebrate 15 Years of photobox with this Fab Giveaway

I've been with photobox for 11 of their 15 years and have always been satisfied with the quality of my prints and photo creations. Here's just a few of them here:

The best thing EVER though, is the luxurious best ever photobook I have just created. Received delivery of it yesterday (popped to the sorting office as it arrived whilst I was away at #BritMumsLive).

One thing parents always say, is "I am going to make a photobook of each year of his/her life" - we start with the best intentions. Some people even do it. This book, which records Aaron's fifth year is the first one I have done, of this nature. Because I didn't already have the "best of" for each month of pics, which is something I'd recommend you do as the year progresses, it took me many hours of pouring over photos to choose the ones to put in. Many months in my book have 4 pages with 9 pics on each page. Yep it is a thick book! ;-)

My book is 46 pages and yes, it is quite literally bursting at the seams with my favourite pics of Aaron from June 2014 to June 2015. 

Starting with Aaron's 4th birthday pics; ending with his 5th birthday "Spiderman" party pics.

Details

Product: A4 Lay Flat Photobook

Created: 1 Jun 2015

Last updated: 16 Jun 2015

Pages: 46

Price: £59.79

To celebrate photobox turning 15 years of age, I got my book on "review" but as you can see above, that is how much it would have costed. However, NOW, photobox is busy celebrating their anniversary they are doing up to 60% off photobooks. NOW you can get:

up to 60% OFF

A4 Lay Flat Book

50 pages: £69.25 £34.62

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70 pages: £89.05 £44.52

which is just exceptional value...

So head over to their 15 years' birthday book sale which is only on for another 2 days, or read on, to enter my great giveaway.

Summer is just full of photos, so why not use them for the best photo creations ever.

I have  few canvas prints around my home, and they really make you smile. As bloggers we take phenomenal photos but they so often live in files on our computer or at best in blog posts. Seeing my pics come alive in Aaron's photobook has blown me away - can't wait to show it to Daddy.

They're are all sorts of creative things you can do with your pics though:

I've never ever made a cushion, but really must, they look great:

So if this post has inspired you to create some photo creations of your own, to get your pics out of the computer and into your home, then enter this giveaway. 

Please note each and every entry option is mandatory:

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If you win, you can spend the 150 GBP however you choose but it could include
- a photo book
- a photo journal
- a canvas or two
- photo mugs
- and so on...

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The options are endless, have a look at photobox.co.uk for inspiration.

Last year, August was tinged with sadness regarding Aaron starting school in September. Now the photobook has made me all nostalgic about that period of time. I love archiving and capturing memories:

Good luck with the competition.

Liska xxx

Disclosure: this post forms part of a collaboration with Photobox, for the 15 year anniversary celebrations. I am a genuine loyal customer who has been with them for 11 of those 15 years and all words and opinions are my own.

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Are You Vegetarian? Fancy a Weekend in Brighton for VegFestUK? Win Pair of Tickets Here

Have you heard of VegfestUK? It's a massive family festival taking place at the Brighton Centre in March 2015. I have a pair of weekend tickets worth £16 to VegfestUK Brighton up for grabs in this giveaway!

Taking place for the 7th year running on the nation's famous Brighton seaside, on March 28th 29th 2015 at the Brighton Centre, VegfestUK features a colourful array of over 150 stalls and caterers serving 100% vegan food, plus cookery demos, information from health experts and chefs. 

Families will no doubt wish to tuck into the huge collection of free samples and discounts on their favourite health snack bars, dairy-free milks and cheeses, hemp seed oils and other health produce. 

On top of these there's a full range of activities which will inspire parents and kids to eat healthily...

Pirate Captain, James Tea Cook (pictured below) headlines the kid’s cookery classes. Capt JTC is passionate about healthy eating and will be running two full days of exhilarating demonstrations and kitchen experiments, including pancake tossing, discovering electricity in bananas, talk on how to get your 5-a-day easily, rainbow fridge art and salt play.

Andrews Leisure are bringing their Last Man Standing dance mat and Disco Dome inflatable dance floor and children can come and pedal their own fruit smoothies on two smoothie bikes. There's several magic shows, a range of sing-and-dance sessions followed by a treasure trail to discover your essential plant-based sources of protein.

Children under 16 can enter the event for free! Adult tickets are £5 a day and £8 for the whole weekend in advance 

www.brighton.vegfest.co.uk/admission 

Advance tickets are available on buy one get one free until February 28th

Followed by buy one get one half price till March 21st.

Here's the comp:

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Perfect Christmas Present for an Early Reader Under 40 Pounds - Magical Book Reader Review

Well let me tell you about the Sparkup Magical Book Reader.

After all, it's that time of year when you start to worry about Christmas presents, even if you haven't yet started buying them. There's the child who has EVERYTHING, and you know you want to get them something educational but you don't know what.

Aaron had seen lots of adverts for this amazing product on TV and kept saying "Mummy I want that". He's always been an avid reader, but even more so now that he started school a few weeks ago. Imagine my excitement when I received an email about the Magical Book Reader and HIS when it actually arrived. Luckily I captured that excitement, the pure joy, on camera:

We have several electronic readers already, but this is by far the best, way superior. So far we have the Thomas Me Reader that comes with 8 hard back books and the Read with Me Scout Teddy that comes with 5 hard back books. They are both much loved, but at 4 years old, the Magical Book Reader is definitely the next step in Aaron's learning and development. You don't have to press a button each time you turn a page (unless you are recording the book) and the book plays, like an audio book, in the voice of whichever family member recorded it. We have yet to pin Daddy down but we will!

Getting it out of the packet was relatively quick and easy, once you allow for cutting all of those security strings at the back of the packaging. I loved that I didn't have to put batteries in. The only problem was there was paper around the beautiful hard back starter book and our speed trying to get it off almost ripped a page so be careful there.

Aaron understood the concept immediately and read that starter book about 40 times in three days. It was great as that book enables the child to completely grasp and understand (via a story) what it's all about while the adult reads the User's Guide. 

Reading the User's Guide made me want to get on and record a book, but given that Aaron had been playing with the Magical Book Reader while I had been reading the instructions, he was very unwilling and reluctant to part with it. I didn't want to let him record a book, until I'd tried to myself, so that I could see if it was something I could do, let alone him. That did cause us to lock horns for a few minutes but we did eventually BOTH get to have a play ;-)

I would say, that recording a book TOGETHER, is a great thing to do, as you can hear both your voices when you play it back. These are the ones we treasure listening to the most if I'm honest.

The thing is, it picks everything up, so make sure you are composed and sitting comfortably ready to begin.

Recording is simple. You attach the reader to the back of the book. Turn the reader on. Record the cover. Then press a button to record each page, pressing the round button to stop, while you turn to the next page.

We have by now recorded books in many different sizes and thicknesses - I am VERY impressed.

Once you have several books stored in it (which you can download and back-up) your child, as Aaron, can then grab any book that's stored, and sit down to read independently as below. Magical Book Reader with its little camera, recognises each and every page (if recorded) and knows when the child turns the page, meaning if they skip a page the reader does too.

One problem I have had, is I am so anxious to stop recording after reading a page (so that it doesn't record the noise of me turning the page) that I am quite guilty of cutting the final word of a page in half, so when you play it back, if the final word on a page is garden, I may have only recorded "gar". So make sure you are composed, and ready to record, relaxed, when you sit down to do it. Experiment! It doesn't have to be perfect first time.

Your child's reaction to hearing it read back is MAGICAL. The two readers I mentioned earlier in this review both come already loaded with the narrator. THIS product, where it is you, or your child's voice, is where the magic comes in. Like I have said above, it is REALLY magical to record a story TOGETHER as it is a joy to listen back to, especially if you are reading the book once again while listening. We did this with our favourite book: Driving My Tractor :-) and we also did so with Old Mother Hubbard.

The Sparkup Magical Book Reader is currently on offer at Tesco for only £29.99 the purchase of which will accrue you 29 Clubcard points! It's a great offer, as when we first received ours everyone was selling them for 40 pounds.

Hey, guess what, 

you can win one here:

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Enjoy the Great Outdoors. Autumn is Delayed. This Weather is a Giveaway!

Sorry I couldn't resist the pun. This weather is a GIFT and this blog post is a GIVEAWAY!

I've been narked by all of the mentions of Autumn across social media, as it is not Autumn in our house. Quite frankly I don't want Summer to end.

Yes there was a day or two in August where I needed to put the heating on, but not so in September.

It's been glorious. The month progressing didn't put a stop to it either.

Yesterday was the 28th and still, great weather; in fact, 23 degrees!

So, Aaron was straight outside in his pyjamas. 

With the current weather, it's a great time for playing in the garden. We've even brought some indoor toys out, like our Mega Bloks cars.

The skittles above are PERFECT for outdoors, and were sent to us by Pizza Hut UK. We enjoyed a meal there recently: Saturday night with a 4 year old at Pizza Hut. I particularly enjoy them as I was on the ten pin bowling team at University. Daddy says it takes too long to stand them up for one second's fun, but I just get Aaron to pass them all to me, so I only have to configure them, which I have taught Aaron to do too. He knows it's 4, then 3, then 2, then 1, and that they together make a triangle. Bless!

I've even taught him how to shout STRIKE if he gets them all down:

Yes, I know, he's *ouch* a little LOUD..................

In fact, September has been so glorious, I've eaten quite a few salads - perfect place for THAT if you are out and about is Pizza Hut with their unlimited Salad Bar!

So, what's in it for YOU, dear READER?

Well, if you, like me, would rather get outdoors than sit crafting with crunchy leaves (which we have none of in our garden by the way), then win yourself this Hopscotch Puzzle, which, if you keep it clean, I am sure you can play with indoors toooooooooo. But fret ye not, the weather Gods are saying it will stay warm till November. Ha ha!

The things you need to do to enter are listed in Rafflecopter below. Please note the comment is mandatory and must state your favourite crust and topping.

Please complete the mandatory entry points to qualify.

Good luck, and get outside :-)

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Open to UK residents only.

Disclosure: this prize was provided by Pizza Hut UK and is a follow up post to my restaurant review for which we were provided a voucher.

Liska

@NewMumOnline

xxx

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