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I don’t know about you, but I prefer to make photo books online with my photos! One reason is because  I’m able to share my family memories in a fun creative way without having to spend extra money on scrap-booking supplies to beautify my collection. And another reason is that I can not only make myself a book but I can easily purchase more copies to share with family and friends as gifts even if not immediate, I can save my projects to purchase again later.

Have you heard about Mixbook? After having a large collection of books from numerous places, I was surprised that I hadn’t already. I am very happy that I was given the opportunity to review a complimentary 20 page 11×8.5 hardcover photo book to enjoy and share my thoughts on. I couldn’t be happier with my experience with using Mixbook and the quality of the book I have received.

So to get started, you’ll be able to pick what type of book you’d like to create either one of their templates or completely blank! There’s no download of a book editor necessary which just takes up time and extra space on your computer. The next option given has where you can pull photos from your computer and/or popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Picassa, and more! I couldn’t believe how fast the transfer process was to bring my collection of photos to use in my book was!

I choose one of the premade themes from Mixbook called “Spring” to use to create my book. I was impressed to find that everything in the book was completely 100% customizable from the background, frames, text, stickers, and more! I loved I could easily drag and drop my photos from page to page and the great custom features offered to me! For instance there’s Photo Zoom, Rotations, Custom Frames, Custom Color Matching, and more!

After ordering, the processing of my book and shipping was very quick! The book was well packaged to ensure it got to me safely without any wear or tear. I love the feel of this book and am happy that Mixbook uses archival-quality silk paper to ensure that my sentimental snapshots have a glossy look and feel! The quality beyond met my expectations! I’m very happy with my photo book and will be using Mixbook again for my photo books needs!

Buy It: Photo books start at just $5.24 for mini albums and range in price up to $37.49! Mixbook also has other products available which include holiday cards and customizable photo calendar.

Coupon Code: You can receive 20% off your first photo book by using code: TOMOSON20! Hurry on over and create a beautiful photo book you’ll cherish for a lifetime.

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Just the other day my husband and I were discussing digital photo products such as the those nifty frames that you can either hang on your wall or display nicely on a table. We were discussing the pros and cons  and also how they make the perfect gift on such occasions like Mother’s Day which is coming up this weekend in fact!

If you don’t have the means to purchase one of those fancy digital photo frames there are other options such as keychains! I was given the opportunity to review a Digital Photo keychain from Whole Sale Keychains and I must say that I am quite impressed with the quality.

I recieved a pink digital photo keychain with an added engraving to make the gift a little more personal to me to review. I choose to have two of my favorite Bible verses added which are Proverbs 31 and Psalms 127:3. The engraving in my opinion looks very professional and of high quality.

The keychain isn’t that big as it’s only 1.5 inch featuring a 128×128 LCD display. It’s just the right size to add to your keyring, purse, backpack, or wherever you find it most convenient to place it. Mine is going to be residing on my keyring where I can easily pull it out to share with others and to look through my photos when I so feel the urge.

The keychain comes with a USB cord and an instruction manual which basically runs you through how everything works. This product is pretty no brainer! Once you plug your keychain in to the usb cord into your computer to charge you are also brought to photo view software in which you can easily add photos as well as zoom, resize, and adjust being able to save them in numerous graphic formats to fit your needs. I was please to see that this product can hold well over 150 photos with it’s 4.8 mb of internal memory!

The quality of your photos on the key chain look pretty decent for the price. I tried to take a picture to show you but to no avail. It’s really hard to take a good quality photo of a screen! I’ve found that the battery life of this keychain goes by pretty quick if you leave it on the slide show view but if you just use the option where you can rotate through photo yourself the key chain is know to last a whole month before you have to charge it again with the included USB cord. You don’t always have to display your photos either, you can also leave your key chain on the clock or calendar mode.

I’m very happy with this product! It’s real steal in my opinion for just 9.99  and with the added engraving for only 5.99 more! They come in multiple colors and styles! Father’s Day is coming up soon and how surprised Dad would be if you loaded pictures of the kids on one beforehand and surprised him with it! Oh, and it’s not to late to get one for mom either!

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Make bath time is breeze with Bath Luve, a product created by a mom just like you and me whom hated to see her child quiver and cry because he was cold during his baths! This mom set out to do something about this well known issue and thus the Bath Luve was created!

The Bath Luve is a 100% percent cotton character drape that you put into the water and then place over your baby’s shoulders and the rest of their body. This keeps your baby warm, calm, and happy during bath time! Plus it makes for some pretty adorable bath photos without exposing your little one to the world.

There are a few  different character designs to choose from. I like the variety of designs as you could easily choose one specific to your bathroom theme!  I was able to review the blue fish Bath Luve and the Bath Luve Buddy Fish for my three month old baby boy.

The Bath Luve Fish design that I am using with my little boy is wonderful! It truly does keep him warm and happy during baths! And it also keeps me dry from unwanted accidents which sometime occur when bathing a little boy, if you know what I mean!

The Bath Luve Buddy Fish is also a fun little pal! It’s a great for soaking up warm water to squeeze on the Bath Luve. It’s the perfect washcloth and a fun toy! We are totally thinking about investing in the other Bath Luve designs so we’ll always have one on the ready during bath time!

I’m going to recommend this to all new mom’s who may not know about the Bath Luve because I just think it’s incredibly ingenious and would make bath time more enjoyable for them and their babies.

You can purchase the Bath Luve in three different designs a yellow duck, green frog, and either a blue or pink fish . The Bath Luve products retails for $6-14.99 and are available at Kohl’s, Wal-Mart, Amazon, as well as the One Step Ahead catalog. They are also currently available online from their website too. I have no doubt that this would also be a pretty creative and well received baby shower gift!

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Bath Luve is offering one of my readers the opportunity to win one of these wonderful bath towels for themselves!

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