Tresemme' Fresh Start Dry Shampoo

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TRESemmé for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. 

Being a mom of 2 young kids (3 and under) leaves me little time for showering and washing my hair!  Keeping busy hands out of trouble and spending time with my little cuties trumps being clean any day! So, I wear A LOT or pony tails and braids.   Did you know that you are not supposed to wash your hair everyday anyway?!  I just found that out!  Your hair will be LESS greasy if you don't wash your hair as often!  It is true! 

But there is a new way to wash your hair... with NO WATER! TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo lets you rock your hair without the time it takes to wash it with traditional shampoo and water.

Watch this quick video on how to use TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo:

Julia Allison is giving away a $500 gift card to target so check out the video and enter to win!

Here are some quick tips on how to use TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo and get the best results:

1. Shake the can vigorously before use and in between spray bursts for best results.

2. Lift sections of dry hair and spray lightly at roots.  Make sure you spray in short bursts, holding 8-12 inches from head. Don’t spray it like hair spray (all over and continuously)

3.  Leave in for 1-2 minutes.  Then use your fingertips or a brush to distribute product evenly

***If clogging occurs, remove nozzle and rinse the nozzle under warm water, then reattach. ***

Here is a little more information about the TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo:

It includes complete line of dry shampoos that revive your style’s look and feel on days you skip a shampoo (just what a mom needs!).  It is uniquely formulated to absorb excess oil and remove odor, the full line of dry shampoos rejuvenates hair without a drop of water. It has renewing burst of citrus extracts infused into every product, it leaves hair with a clean, fresh scent (look and smell clean!).

The Full line includes:

o Strengthening Dry Shampoo: The formula, with B12 vitamins and keratin, helps strengthen hair and leaves it full of healthy body.

o Volumizing Dry Shampoo: The formula, with mineral clay and citrus, removes oil while injecting hair with salon-gorgeous volume.

o Smoothing Dry Shampoo: The formula, with Vitamin H & Silk Proteins, refreshes your straight style by removing excess oil, impurities and odor to ensure your smooth look lasts.

o Moisturizing Waterless Foam Shampoo: The formula, with Witch Hazel, Citrus, and Aloe Vera, refreshes your hair by removing excess oil, impurities and odor while moisturizing hair.

Have great hair and spend less time getting it with TRESemmé Fresh Start Dry Shampoo!

Show Off Your Stuff Party # 94

Hello and Welcome to the Show Off Your Stuff Party!

The place where we all get together and SHOW OFF OUR STUFF

Don't forget to vote for your favorite Iron Crafter: Mirrors project!

The Top 5 are posted here!

Wanna make some money blogging?

  One site that I have found helpful in finding sponsors is Social Spark

They match bloggers with advertisers. You get to choose who you promote and how you promote it! It really is a win-win! 

Here is the run down:

1. Pay attention! There are 3 categories to link up:

Crafts and Sewing

DIY and Home Decor

Recipes

pick one and go with it!

{If you pick the wrong one... you can delete your own and add it to the right one! :) }

2. Add a link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

3. Please do not link up to something that you are just trying to sell.

4. Link to this party from your post so everyone can get in on the fun. You can just grab my button!

<a href="http://firefliesandjellybeans.blogspot.com/search/label/Show%20Off%20Your%20Stuff%20Party" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="blank"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fvxHkFmRuww/TjYS_3oztzI/AAAAAAAAAjA/H6n_MRE4xhs/s200/Show+off+your+Stuff+party+button.JPG" width="125" /></a>

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Upromise Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a 10,000 giveaway!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of UPromise for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

We all have dreams for our children... BIG dreams....HUGE dreams!  We dream to normal stuff- we want them to be happy and healthy and we also have specific dreams for our kids... maybe we want our daughter to be a dancer or our son to be a Doctor.  We want our kids to reach for the stars!   

Upromise is celebrating our dreams with a giveaway!   To celebrate their 10th Anniversary Upromise is giving away 1,000 to 10 winners and a grandprize of 10,000 to 1 lucky winner!  You must be a Upromise user to win.  To enter your dream for your child visit www.upromisetodream.com.  Here are the dream wall official rules.  You can also check out other paretns dreams for their kids!  Lets start a spark to fuel our kids to dream big!

Upromise is a program created by Sallie Mae to help parents save for their children college.   Upromise is an innovative service that helps its members get money back for college from their everyday spending.  You get money back for grocery shopping, dining and shopping online!  Upromise members have received more than $600 million in college savings through their rewards program, and it wants to celebrate all of the ways it has helped to fuel those sparks that made children into the people they are today and the adults they will become tomorrow.

Who couldn't use a little help saving for college?!  What kind of dreams do you have for your kids?  Please share with us!

Preval's vFan Portable Airbrush System

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Preval for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Here is a cool tool that any DIY-er would want to have... a portable paint spray system.  Preval has come up with a portable airbrush system using eco-friendly aerosol technology to get professional results!  

 

This portable airbrush system is perfect for touching up paint on walls, automotive, moldings, anything that you want to paint!   It turns any kind of paint into spray paint! 

 

Preval's vFan Portable Airbrush System also comes with multiple tip attachments that can be swapped out to make many different spay effects!  You can do SUPER detailed hairlines like in the video below...

... or make more broad lines (up to 3 inches tall!) as you see in this video!

The Preval's vFan Airbrush system is small and compact so it is easy to use anywhere you need it!   It is also light weight so, working in tight spaces is easy too!   The vFan Airbrush sprays clear coats, latex, water-based, solvent-based paints, specialty coatings, dyes and stains.

Preval's airbursh system is based off of their spray gun... which is also pretty sweet!   It can turn any paint into a spray paint can... with not compressor attached.   The spray gun has nice controllable mist that comes out to give all your project that professional look!

Iron Crafter: Mirrors Top 5

The Iron Crafter is Back! And I am so excited with the entries for our Mirror Challenge!

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I was the guest judge this week! Surprise! : )   It was hard to pick my favorites from all the amazing project! Click HERE to see them all!

The Semi-finalists will be chosen based on:

Appearance

Originality

Use of the secret ingredient.

The winner will win some hand crafted goodness from me! 
I haven't decided what it is yet... but it will be AWESOME! :)

Here are the top 5 in no particular order!

Vote for the project that you like the best.
To cast your vote simply click on the star under the picture! You can check out all the projects by clicking on the pictures {This does not count as a vote...you need to click to star to cast a vote}!

Voting is open until Friday Sept 30th at Midnight

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Sunday Spotlight- SOYS # 93 Favorites

Here are some favorites from this week's Show Off Your Stuff Party! 

Stain Glass leaves with Mom on Timeout

Cute Giraffe Ears with The Letter 4

Fun yarn ball light with Red Ted Art Blog

Bead Board Pennant Banner with The Ivy Cottage

Melted Crayon art with Summerstead

Free Mighty to Save Printable from Taidye Original

Fall Argyle Wreath with For Mamas

Coffee table to bench transformation with Second Chances

Candy Corn Carmel Apples with The Lady Behind the Curtain

Cucumber train with The Generous Earth

And the most popular link last week was:
Test Tube Treats with The Autocrat

Feel free to grab our Featured Button if we featured you today!

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Carbonite: Protect photos, music and more with unlimited online backup

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carbonite for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Last month my sister's computer crashed... I mean major melt down.   It had a ton of pictures saved onto it... and she lost them all... gone... never to be seen again!   That made me think that I needed to back up my photos, because it is too often that I hear the tail of a crashed computer!  And it is no jokeing matter when it comes to picutes of my kids!  But where should you back it up to? 

Here is a great computer backup option for you to check out!

Carbonite unlimited online backup works while you are on the computer in the background as long as you are on the internet!  It backs up your files automatically!  {I love it when people do thing without me telling them to do it!}  You can also use your Smartphone to IPad to access you files with the FREE Carbonit app!  So, you can get to your photos or files where ever you are! 

You don't have to worry with Carbonite , because it works automatically and securely, safely tucking away your photos and files to one of Carbonite’s highly secure, state-of-the-art data centers, and you have unlimited space! 

Founded in 2005, Carbonite has safely recover over 7 billion files that otherwise might have been lost forever! It’s easy, fast, and hassle-free to get your backed up files back.

Unlimited online backup for your PC or Mac, with anytime-anywhere-access is only $59 a year. Try it free for 15 days, no credit card required, and then get two free months if you decide to buy- just use the code: BLOGAD

The fine print: Carbonite backs up a user’s irreplaceable files – things like documents, pictures, music and email. Carbonite doesn’t back up software programs like Microsoft Office, anti-virus software, or files saved on external hard drives. In addition, Carbonite does not automatically back up video

Sweet Girl's Pennant banner for the DIY club

Check out this sweet Pennant banner I made for my Daughter over at the DIY club!

Supplies:

 Canvas Mini Triangles (from Canvas Corp)

Twine (From Canvas Corp)

So Soft DecoArt fabric paint

 Stencil from DecoArt

Scrap Material

Find the FULL TUTORIAL HERE!

Show Off Your Stuff Party # 93

Hello and Welcome to the Show Off Your Stuff Party!

The place where we all get together and SHOW OFF OUR STUFF

The Iron Crafter is going on RIGHT now!

The secret ingredient is Mirrors!  Be sure to link up your Mirror Crafts!

Wanna make some money blogging?

  One site that I have found helpful in finding sponsors is Social Spark

They match bloggers with advertisers. You get to choose who you promote and how you promote it! It really is a win-win! 

Here is the run down:

1. Pay attention! There are 3 categories to link up:

Crafts and Sewing

DIY and Home Decor

Recipes

pick one and go with it!

{If you pick the wrong one... you can delete your own and add it to the right one! :) }

2. Add a link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.

3. Please do not link up to something that you are just trying to sell.

4. Link to this party from your post so everyone can get in on the fun. You can just grab my button!

<a href="http://firefliesandjellybeans.blogspot.com/search/label/Show%20Off%20Your%20Stuff%20Party" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="blank"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fvxHkFmRuww/TjYS_3oztzI/AAAAAAAAAjA/H6n_MRE4xhs/s200/Show+off+your+Stuff+party+button.JPG" width="125" /></a>

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10 easy gift wrap ideas

Looking forward to Christmas... I love to wrap gifts and make them look pretty.

I love the brown paper packages look for gift wrap. Here are some fun ideas add to the brown wrapping to personalize the gift!

Ric-rac and buttons

Cake Ribbon

Pom-poms

Trader Joes Bags for Gift wrap

Monogram Packages

Stamped Names

Popsicle Sticks

Printable gift tags with ribbon and lace.

Bunting and poms gift wrap

Fabric Flowers

Hope this inspires you with some fun gift wrap ideas!