Travel Mugs are an excellent advertisement tool. All you have to do is provide a few to some key team members and you can be assured that the mugs will be used time and time again. The good news is that the insulated mugs will get used on the job and off. And the more places the travel mugs go the more places they will be seen. It’s almost like having an entire advertising team working for you without pay. In fact, your team members will be happy to do this easy marketing for you because they don’t have to do anything except drink from a very nice mug.

If you decide to ‘go big’ and provide Travel Mugs for all your staff or as a give-away item during a special campaign or promotion you will have even more free marketing happening for you and your business. This is not the kind of promotional give away item that gets tossed in the can as your potential customers walk out the door. They will use their mug regularly and just as your own employees have become an unpaid advertising team, so will they.

Promotional mugs can help you feel better in another way too. We’ve all heard about global warming and the problems our environment is facing. Are you doing your part to ‘go green’? Customized promotional mugs help save the environment by decreasing the need for paper, plastic, and Styrofoam cups. Plus, the insulated mugs help keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold. This not only means the drinks are kept at an ideal temperature, but because the ice lasts longer, we use less. Once again, we are being kinder to the environment.

When you consider promotional items it is sometimes difficult to come up with an item that is appreciated by the masses. But whether it’s coffee, tea, water, soda, or something else, we all drink something several times a day. A customized insulated mug makes the ideal promotional tool.

The travel mugs are available in various materials and many even allow for full-color, photo realistic images. Quality Logo Products offers a wide selection of insulated mugs. Check the site out for details.

• Frankfurts
• 2 tins baked beans
• 1 Onion
• 2 tomatos

1. dice onions and tomatos, slice frankfurts
2. fry onions
3. add tomatos
4. add frankfurts
5. stir in baked beans
6. enjoy!

Hope you enjoy this recipe!

Jen

A holiday treasure box is a great momento of your holiday for your children.  It will keep them occupied and involved in your trip or holiday.  Any sort of box can be used, we found plastic boxes with compartments in them, but a cardboard box could also be used.  Encourage your child to collect ‘treasures’ along your trip such as:

• beach shells
• rocks
• tickets
• feathers
• brochures
• sand

The type of holiday you have will determine the items in the treasure box, but what every your child wants to collect should be encouraged.  He / she can enjoy sorting through their treasures on the trip and then back at home after.

For other fun toddler activies visit baby-patch

Jen

You better hurry for this great holiday offer, $500 to spend at ToysRUs.  Just click here to get your gift card.  I am not sure how long this offer will be avaliable so you better hurry!  (for US Residents Only)

Jen

• A child friendly map of the trip that our 3 year old could place a sticker on each destination once we reached it
• A bag of small gifts for both children that could be pulled out and given to them to play with in the car (these were rationed to last the whole trip)
• “tickets” for each long trip, for a 500km trip the kids got 5 tickets stappled together - once we completed 100km they exchanged a ticket for a lolly and could count the number of tickets left giving them a sense of how much longer we had to go.  This worked really well.
• Lots of music and audio books
• General car games like ‘Spotto” and 20 questions

Our kids loved sleeping in a tent, once the novelty wore off they went to sleep without a problem and we all managed to have a great trip.

Jen

If you are looking to make an income from home via an online business you definately need to check this one out! There are NO SETUP FEES - you get immediate access to your own online store, complete with popular kids products in a variety of categories. Some of the products include the popular brand Cars and Nintendo Wii.

All you do is follow the step by step marketing guide supplied in the kit to begin getting customers to your store. The suppliers warehouse and ship everything for you - so your house does not become a toy store! To easy!

Click Here to get full details and your free start up kit ($1.97 postage) to see if this business is the one for you. For US Residents only.

Let me know how you go!

Jen

Check out www.monkeymuffs.com

Jen

What you need
- Corn Chips
- Grated cheese
- Can of baked beans
- Avocado
- Tomato
- Cucumber
- Sour cream

What you Do
- In an over proof dish put a layer of corn chips, followed by a sprinkle of cheese, followed by half the baked beans. Now add another layer of corn chips, followed by the rest of the baked beans followed by cheese.
- Bake in the oven for 5 - 10 mins until cheese melts
- Meanwhile, cut up the avocado, tomato and cucumber to make a small salad
- Serve nachos topped with salad and sour cream.

For other great recipes for toddlers and kids visit baby-patch

Jen

I can not recommend Baby Sign Language highly enough. I have been teaching Emily Baby Sign Language since she was about 9 months old, it is extremely easy to teach. At 10 months she learnt the sign for milk and it was incredible to communicate with her at such a young age. But it was really between 11 and 12 months that Emily’s signing really took off, at this age babies seem to absorb so much and learn so quickly. Once she comprehended that actions could communicate what she wanted she seemed to want to learn more and more signs.

Now at 12 months she has a vocabulary of 12 signs, some of which she also says the word (or the beginning of the word). Her signs include More, Milk, Eat, Sleep, Diaper, Ball, Dog, Finish, Drink, Duck, Bath and Head. These words have helped so much, if Emily is crying and clinging and I do not know what is wrong I ask her to show me with her hands and she will show me that she wants to eat or needs her diaper changed.

The best thing is that any baby can be taught baby sign language, it is simple and easy. It does take a bit of persistence on the part of the parent at the beginning, but once your child gets his or hers first sign all that effort is worth it 10 fold.

You can download an ebook for Baby Sign Language and start signing with your baby now!

For more information on Baby Sign Language visit Baby-Patch

See ya

Jen

We came up with a great idea for 1st birthday gifts. Instead of each of us buying something for all 10 other 1 year olds we followed the tradition of Secret Santa / Chris Kringle and were given the name of one other child to buy a gift for. This has been great because as each birthday happens the birthday boy or girl gets a lovely gift from ‘the group’ and individual mums do not feel the pressure to be constantly buying gifts.

For other 1st birthday gift ideas visit baby-patch

Jen
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