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DIY Hair Tutorial: Using the Infiniti PRO Conair Curl Secret

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Let’s talk hair today.

I tend to straighten my hair when I’m going out in public I want to look put together.

I don’t immediately reach for my conventional curling iron to curl my hair instead, and that’s for a few reasons. For one, it doesn’t always create the type of curls I want, and secondly, it gets insanely hot, and I often have little ones in the vicinity when I’m fixing my hair in the morning. I don’t want them to reach for a hot curling iron. And finally, it just plain takes too long to curl my hair with a regular curling iron.

A New Way of Curling Your Hair
It’s 2013, right? And that means that things have changed when it comes to curling irons — a lot. I’ve found a revolutionary new curling iron that has changed my perspective on curling my hair. This new iron is the Infiniti PRO Conair Curl Secret…and it’s amazing.

For these reasons:

    • It literally does the work for you.
    • It’s a time-saver and easy to use.
    • It creates long-lasting curls.
    • It doesn’t burn you! Even young teenage girls can use it on their own.

Conair Curl Secret Hair Tutorial #ConairCurl #shop
DIY Hair Tutorial
I created a video tutorial to show you just how easy it is to use the Curl Secret to create a simple, yet elegant hairstyle. (Side note: When you’re watching the video, you’ll notice a long streak of gray in my hair. Sometimes I forget that gray streak is there, but I hardly ever dye my hair anymore, so it’s here to stay. ;))

Here’s another shorter video that shows you how to use the Curl Secret:

Where to buy the Curl Secret
If you’ve just watched the videos and are wondering where you can find the Curl Secret, you can purchase it at Walmart for $99, which is a deal compared to what you’d pay if you purchased it online for $150.

Do you curl your hair on a regular basis? What’s your favorite way to style your hair?

Connect with Conair
You can find even more hairstyle inspiration when you follow Conair on Pinterest. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter for their latest updates.


Sleep Tips for Babies, a Pampers Overnight Diaper, a Twitter Party, AND a Giveaway!

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This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Pampers. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine.

Sleep Tips for Babies

I love the one day of the year when I truly get an extra hour in my day.

It makes such a difference when I’ve stayed awake until 3:00am the night before desperately trying to finish a blog post before the deadline.

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. 😉

But while I benefit from the end of daylight savings time, my baby girl can get thrown off when it comes to her sleep schedule. Maybe you have the same problem with your little ones.

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If so, you’re not alone. Over half of moms (52%) feel that their baby’s sleep patterns are thrown off when the clocks fall back and daylight savings time ends.

Pampers, a popular diaper brand, wants to help.

An Infographic Inspired by Moms
Pampers actually interviewed over 9,000 moms about what was important for their baby and found that over and over moms mentioned that they needed a diaper that allowed their baby to sleep through the night by providing exceptional overnight protection.

This infographic explains how a dry diaper helps baby sleep through the night, which, in turn, means mom can sleep through the night.

That’s always good.

PAMPERS Infographic

Pampers realized that when daylight savings time ends and sleep schedules go out the window, moms need one less problem to deal with, so they designed a diaper that offers up to 12 hours of overnight protection.

This means that pretty much no matter what time baby falls asleep, her pj’s should be dry in the morning.

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A Few Sleep Tips

Here are 3 tips to help make the transition even easier:

  1. Make sure that your children know when it’s time to sleep; rely on your normal bedtime routine.
  2. If you have a child who starts getting up before 6:00am, make sure that you respond to the early risings quickly and consistently.
  3. Make sure that you watch your baby for sleepy cues carefully, and be sure to change your baby’s diaper right before a nap or bedtime.

And now for the Giveaway!
ONE very excited reader will win a Pack of Pampers Baby Dry Diapers and a pair of Children’s Place PJ’s. The winner will be able to select their preferred diaper size (2-5) and the gender and size of the Children’s Place PJ’s. 🙂

How to Enter the Giveaway

Simply enter this giveaway using the Rafflecopter below. I’ve included options for extra entries, too!

This giveaway will run from now until – November 14th at 12:00am. The giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above. The winner will be randomly chosen. I will promptly send the winner an email notifying them that they’ve won, and the winner must respond within 48hrs. of the giveaway’s end, otherwise I will have to draw a new winner.

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A #PampersSleepChat Twitter Party!
I love Twitter parties, and Pampers is going to be throwing a fun party tomorrow, November 7th, at 9:00pm EST.

We’ll be chatting about how the end of Daylight Savings Time can affect sleep patterns and The Sleep Lady, Kim West, will be sharing tips on easing the transition.

You can join in the fun and RSVP here.

Twitter Party Prizes include:

  • $50 AMEX Gift Card, $25 Children’s Place Gift Card, Pampers product and book by Kim West.
  • $100 AMEX Gift Card, Pampers Product, series of books by Kim West
  • Grand Prize: $500 AMEX Card to purchase sleep items such as a new crib, video monitor, etc.

To participate, follow your hosts @DoubleDutyDivas, @BridgetteLA, @CeceliaMecca @AngieKcom @WhatMommiesNeed @RamblingChick, sleep expert @TheSleepLady and our sponsor @Pampers.

 Do your kids transition well when the time changes? As a mom, do you look forward to the time change or dread it?


The Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle – $1000 Value for ONLY $29.97

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I’m very excited to share an amazing sale going on this week, and my ebook is included! 🙂

The Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle is TRULY AMAZING! And it’s not your typical ebook bundle because when you purchase it, you also get a membership to “Coffee Table Conversations” and a series of interactive online conferences – of which I’m blessed to be a panelist. I’ll be talking about how you can make your household more green. I’m looking forward to it!

And now for what’s included in the sale:

Providing you with fabulously useful eBook resources is what we, the team behind Ultimate Bundles, are all about. This year we decided to throw caution to the wind and make the package more of a no-brainer than ever before.

What’s in the Bundle?

Get Educated

We took 86 eBooks (plus 1 eCourse) by popular bloggers on topics like real food & recipes, green living, natural cleaning and beauty, mental and emotional health, fitness, herbal remedies and more.

Get Mentored

Then we added the brand new “Coffee Table Conversations,” a 12-week series of author mentorship through interactive online conference calls and private support groups.

Get Equipped

We finished it off with 9 bonus sponsors offering you $150+ of incredible products and services to help you along your way. This includes bonuses like $25.98 of FREE eco-friendly laundry detergent from Dizolve (because we all need clean clothes). This bonus nearly makes up for the entire cost of the bundle!

How Much Does the Bundle Cost?

Ultimate: Maximum; decisive; conclusive. The best or most extreme of its kind.

We wouldn’t call it the “ultimate” bundle if it wasn’t true.

As our hard-working team pulled together the Ultimate Healthy Living 2013 Bundle Sale, we had 3 basic goals: to put a comprehensive health library at your fingertips, to offer something for everyone, and to provide so much value for an itty-bitty price that it would be irresistible.

In a nutshell? This bundle is brimming with more than 80 ebook and ecourse resources, from authors and bloggers known as authorities in their fields.

For less than $30, you can pick up your own bundle complete with more than $800 of ebooks, $67 of interactive “coffee table conversations” with their authors, and $158 of products and services to help you on your way toward healthier living. That’s over a $1,000 value!

But you don’t want to wait! This bundle is available for only 6 days, from 8 a.m. (EST) on Monday, November 4th to 11:59pm (EST) on Saturday, November 9th.

Get yours now for just $29.97!

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What’s Included in the eBook Library? ($800+ value)

Real Food Cookbooks

Allergy-Friendly/Special Diets

Menu Planning/Meal Prep

Natural Skincare

Natural Health

Healthy Lifestyle

Fitness

Gardening/Sustainability

Green Living

Special Health Concerns

Healthy Kids & Babies

Learning About Real/Whole Foods

What are Coffee Table Conversations? ($67 value)


For 12 weeks starting in January 2014, we’ll offer a series of weekly one-hour live conference calls, where you can join in and ask your questions on relevant and timely healthy living topics to a panel of eBook authors.

We’ll look at issues like allergy-friendly cooking, fighting fatigue (and finding energy!), eating well on a tight budget, an introduction to alternative health and herbal remedies, and tips and tricks for making real food in less time. You’ll be able to listen to authors converse with each other on any (or all) of the 12 calls that you choose to take part in, and get answers to your questions in real time!

We’ll also provide a private Facebook group, where that week’s “mentors” will pop in as often as they can and chat with you on the topics at hand. Talk about up-close and personal learning!

What are the Healthy Living Bonus Offers? ($150+ value)

  1. Dizolve—A FREE 128 Load Twin-Pack of Dizolve Natural Laundry Detergent. Dizolve laundry detergent strips are an innovative, phosphate-free way to clean your clothes. ($25.98 Value. Standard shipping rates apply. Limited to the first 5,000.)
  2. Bulk Herb Store—An instant download of their instructional video Making Herbs Simple Volume 1 for only 1 cent. ($14.95 Value. No shipping restrictions.)
  3. Wise Choice Market—A FREE $15 store credit to be used at Wise Choice Market on the Finest Real Food around, including traditionally-made bone broths, organic fermented vegetables, wild salmon, sprouted breads, and many more. ($15.00 Value. Standard shipping rates and restrictions apply.)
  4. Fit2Be Studio—A FREE Two-Month Membership to Fit2B Studio (for new members) where their wholesome workouts for the whole family are TummySafe™and particularly target Diastasis Recti. Current members may apply the coupon code for $20 off a 1-year membership. ($19.98 value. No shipping restrictions.)
  5. Jenuinely Pure—A $15 discount off of any $30 order to be used at Jenuinely Pure on the beautifully-crafted natural skincare products. Make the switch to natural skincare with Jenuinely Pure. ($15.00 Value. Standard shipping rates apply.)
  6. Plan To Eat—A FREE 4-Month www.plantoeat.com subscription. Plan to Eat is an online menu planner that uses your recipes scheduled when you want them — and they make your grocery list! ($19.80 value. No shipping restrictions. New accounts only. Offer expires Dec.15)
  7. TrilLight Health—FREE $15 store credit to be used toward Trilight Health‘s Fast-Acting, Great Tasting Liquid Herbal Formulas, or anything else in their store. ($15.00 Value. Standard shipping rates apply.)
  8. List Planit—Your choice of 3 FREE ePlanners OR a 3-Month FREE Trial Membership to ListPlanIt, where you can organize your life with hundreds of lists that you can create and manage at home or on the go. ($15.00 value. No shipping restrictions.)
  9. Cultures for Health—A FREE sourdough or kombucha starter from Cultures For Health PLUS a $5 credit to put toward anything else in store. (up to a $17.95 Value. Both the starter and the $5 credit can be used in the same order! Standard shipping rates apply.)

Buy Now

Important stuff you might want to know

  • Read the fine print. The details matter!
  • Check out our Frequently Asked Question page, particularly to learn about file types, how downloading works, transferring to eReader devices, redeeming bonus offers, and all that good stuff.
  • Remember, this bundle is available for only 6 days, from 8 a.m. (EST) on Monday, November 4th to 11:59pm (EST) on Saturday, November 9th.
  • Affiliate disclaimer: This post contains my affiliate links.

10 Goals for the Week

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10 Goals to Tackle This Week

I think keeping my goals for last week simple and doable helped me to be able to cross nearly all of them off my list. That, and I wrote down them down in my planner, which kept them at the forefront of my mind.

Here’s how I did with last week’s goals:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Go on a family outing to the Chicago Field Museum. We’ve been waiting to visit until David gets a much needed blood transfusion. He’ll get a transfusion on Monday. Then while we’re at the museum, he’ll wear a mask to protect himself from germs.

2. Read to the little ones 5 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Juice 1x this week

4. Walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes

5. Create a new Bible reading plan for myself

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through Elisabeth’s clothes and take out the ones that no longer fit

7. Wipe down door handles with disinfectant wipes

Business Goals:

8. Get caught up on work – (almost there!)

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

Here are my goals for this week:

Family/Mothering Goals:

1. Go shopping for winter clothes/jackets/shoes for some of my children. We have one child who is still wearing sandals and shorts and two kids who don’t have winter jackets, so I really need to make this happen.

2. Read to the little ones 4 times this week

Personal Goals:

3. Juice 2x this week

4. Walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes

5. Follow my Bible reading plan

Home Management Goals:

6. Go through David’s clothes and take out the ones that no longer fit

7. Wipe down sofas with disinfectant wipes

Business Goals:

8. Work on client project

9. Return emails

10. Write 4 blog posts

What are your goals for this week?