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Disney On Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic | Disney on Ice Shows Discount Tickets Hartford CT | Review

Moomettes — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:30:24 +0000

Kid Friendly Events

Disney On Ice 100 Years of Magic is performing at the XL Center In Hartford, CT now through January 16, 2012. New England and Connecticut moms and dads, grandmom and grandpa can receive a $5 promotional discount offer on tickets! This is one event you don’t want the kids or grandkids to miss!

Connecticut was treated to Opening Night on Thursday of the Disney On Ice show at the XL Center in Hartford, CT and it truly was magical to watch the grandchildren enjoy the excitement of watching their favorite Disney characters come to life before their eyes!

This year, Disney celebrates with 65 unforgettable characters from 18 beloved stories as they come to life in Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic! Join the one and only Mickey Mouse, the irresistible Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio, and all the Disney Princesses in a skating spectacular you’ll remember forever.

Disney On Ice presents 100 Years of Magic!

I’m fortunate that my grandchildren live close by. We enjoy spending family time together and this time last year I had the opportunity to attend the Disney on Ice Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey with my oldest daughter, charming son-in-law and my two grandchildren; my grandson Slugger and granddaughter ‘Lil Moomette. While the grandkids enjoyed last year’s show, what a difference a year makes in their attention span!

Family Memories

Slugger is now 3 and in preschool and ‘Lil Moomette is 5 and is in Kindergarten. Before the show started she recognized that one of her friends from school was at the same event, and they chatted up about how excited they were to be there.

The kids recognized many of the beloved Disney characters – Mickey, Minnie, Ariel from the Little Mermaid, Pinnochio, Pocahantas, Snow White, Lilo and Stich, Toy Story, Beauty and the Beast as well as The Lion King.

The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut was the perfect venue for this kid-friendly performance. While last year our seats were slightly to the left of center stage, and provided excellent viewing, this year they were even better! We were right “on the ice.” I was speaking before the show with one of the seating attendants who’d been with the XL Center for about nine years. He told me that the Disney performances are set up to accommodate crowds of about 3,000 to make it a more “intimate” experience.

Prior to the commencement of the event, an announcement was made that there would be theatrical smoke, however it was safe and not hazardous to anyone’s health. The audience was encouraged to take photographs to preserve family memories.

The average age group of the child attendees ranged from approximately 3 to 8 years of age. The performance thoroughly engaged the crowded XL Center and lasted approximately 2 hours, with about a short 20 minute intermission. There was just enough time to hit the restrooms and get a beverage, popcorn and cotton candy to keep the little ones happy. Many of the little girls in the audience were dressed in Disney Princess costumes and tiaras!

Costumes were colorful and the action was non-stop! I didn’t hear any crying babies or see any fidgety kids!

Before the show started, I treated the grandkids to some souveniers – Slugger opted for a Buzz Lightyear toy, while ‘Lil Moomette came home with an Ariel the Little Mermaid doll. The enthusiastic crowd marched along with the skaters and the kids were treated to some pyrotechnics fireworks displays in front of the Magic Castle during the Finale for effect.

Memories of a lifetime for kids of all ages – the young, and the young at heart!

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Kid Friendly Events

Playing the XL Center in Hartford, CT now through January 16, 2012!!!

Show times:

Fri, Jan 13 2012 7:00PM

Sat, Jan 14 2012 11:00AM

Sat, Jan 14 2012 3:00PM

Sat, Jan 14 2012 7:00PM

Sun, Jan 15 2012 1:00PM

Sun, Jan 15 2012 4:30PM

Mon, Jan 16 2012 1:00PM

Disney On Ice Discounts

How to Buy Tickets at $5 off*:

1. Log on to Ticketmaster

2. Go to the month of January and Select a Performance either the Fri. 7 PM or Sat. 7 PM for the $5 off discount at the XL Center:

Discount offer:

Save $5

Code: MOM5

Valid on the following performances: Fri. 7PM & Sat. 7PM

Rules: No double discounts, not valid on premium seats

Enter number of tickets, price point and Promo Code MOMS5 in the Advance or Promotion Ticket Selection option.

© 2012 Moomettes Magnificents

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New Year’s Resolution for Small Businesses | Internet Marketing Help | Chrome Google Web Browser

Moomettes — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:29:00 +0000

Google Chrome helped this small business in Vermont go global. What can Google Chrome do for your future?

Take Small Business to the Next Level

Since I’m from New England, normally I travel up north to Vermont a few times a year, and visiting the King Arthur Flour company store or taking their baking classes is on my bucket list. My friend from New Hampshire keeps saying she’s going to take me there one of these days.

Supporting small businesses, especially a local small business, has always been a priority of mine. Just recently I participated in Small Business Saturday on Facebook. My mother-in-law was a local small business owner of a cheese and gourmet shop back in the 70s, although the most she tried to expand her reach was to open a second brick-and-mortar store in an adjacent town.

As a Tastefully Simple independent consultant small business owner, I have a website where I sell specialty beer bread mixes, dips and sauces. Since I’m a mompreneur, I rely on social media networking communities such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to help with the web sales and internet marketing end of my mom-owned small business.

On the internet marketplace Bonanza, I’m also a small business owner and have a boutique website where I sell and offer vintage sewing and craft patterns and other home items for families.

Like King Arthur Flour, as a small business owner I’m trying to expand my reach via social networks, gain name recognition and develop a national customer base.

To attain my goals, I recently switched to using the Google Chrome web browser as my primary internet browser. After experiencing multiple browser crashes when using Firefox, I’ve found Google Chrome to be much more reliable than any of the other browsers I’d been using.

If you’re a small business owner, make it a New Year’s resolution to let Google Chrome help take your business to the next level.

This post is sponsored by Google Chrome

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5 Simple Techniques to Work at Home Forever Guide

Moomettes — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:00:50 +0000

As many of you know, I’m dedicated to trying to retire from my day FT job to work from home full time and also to try to take care of the grandkiddos.

When my children were young, I used to have a part-time job where I would type at home for a law office. I worked about 30 hours per week at night after the kids went to bed. It brought in a nice supplemental income.

Since I recently received a layoff notice from my employer, I’m going to start implementing the tips and techniques that are in this how-to guide that I would like to share with you.

5 Simple Techniques to Work at Home Forever

If you’ve spent any time online, you will already know that there are lots of scams out there! You might have even begun to doubt that there are any work-at-home positions available for serious jobseekers. If this sounds like you, you aren’t alone!

Believe me, there are real home based jobs, but what most of the work at home sites omit in their information packages is that it takes work to get work. Finding a telecommuting job can be a full time job in itself, but if you don’t have all the facts, you will be spinning your wheels trying to get somewhere or you will probably give up within a few weeks. That would be a shame, because there aren’t enough high quality telecommuters as it is!

Look, I know you’re skeptical. So was I, a few short years ago. That was before I started implementing some very unique strategies that allowed me to generate so much work from my small home office, that I needed to hire extra staff just to keep up with it all!

The strategies I used are actually very simple, and you can duplicate these ideas to become a very successful telecommuter. In fact, I want you to copy my techniques, even if it means I create my own competition! Why? Because every time a new person starts to work from home more successfully and efficiently, that means one more employer is happy with the concept of hiring homeworkers! That means everyone gets more jobs, and more opportunities to do what we all love to do…working at home in our pyjamas!

So, let’s cover the top 5 simple techniques you can use to work at home forever, shall we?

1. Never pay for any job! There is never a good reason to pay for work, and I am amazed at how many jobseekers waste precious time and money chasing after schemes that will never pay. It wastes a lot of time you could better spend targeting your jobsearch to legitimate and valid work.

2. Get your materials ready! You are going to need to be ready before you start looking for work. You will need a specialized telecommuter’s resume, an excellent cover letter template, and an online portfolio that showcases samples of your work. Without these things in place ahead of time, you will not be ready for rapid response when an employer needs to see your stuff.

3. Make sure you have all the equipment and software you’re going to need! Depending on your skill set, you’re probably going to need special software and equipment to do your job right. Don’t expect an employer to pay for these things. A prospective employer is more likely to hire the next person who is properly equipped, rather than hire you if you expect the employer to pay for what you need to do your job.

4. Know what you do for a living! This is an absolute necessity if you want to work from home. You may think that you want to do “typing at home”, but if that’s all you can think of, then you’re wasting time. Think about how your typing skills will be useful to your employer, come up with creative applications of that skill, set up samples to show what your service looks like, and plan ahead on how much you will charge for that service. Be willing to tell prospective employers exactly what you do and how much you charge for it.

5. Change your strategy! Instead of looking for jobs that have already been posted online, and have already been taken, look for companies that are well suited for your talents. Create your own work by contacting companies that have not yet posted jobs online, and eliminate the competition. But, make sure you know exactly what service you plan to offer that company, and why it is useful to them. Don’t bother contacting companies by sending vague resumes. That technique never works! Contact targeted companies with specific services in mind, and let them know you are open to alternate suggestions.

These techniques work extremely well, and using them allowed me to build my home based service company from scratch, without spending a dime on advertising. I was broke when I started working from home, and I didn’t have a computer. Using these techniques, I was able to slowly build my business and develop a client base that has consistently earned me more money than if I was working onsite. You can do it too!

This article is excerpted from “You Can Work in Your PJs”, a real world guide to telecommuting. Sylvie Charrier works from home full time and wrote this book to share her unique techniques with others.

You can download your copy of “You Can Work in Your PJs” by visiting Work In Your PJs

Photo Credit: Rochelle, just rochelle

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Win an iPad – Stay Current with The Collection App Contest

Moomettes — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:56:35 +0000

This post brought to you by Ogilvy Interactive. All opinions are 100% mine.

A brand new iPad App just launched April 12th. The new app – which will be published under the name the collection – will be a monthly “appazine” exploring globally relevant topics which will excite and challenge top-tier audiences. The appazine will be the first to be published simultaneously in English, German and Chinese.

The media rich appazine will use ground-breaking innovation in highly inter-active design which will ensure a uniquely compelling and entertaining user experience like you have not seen before. Besides first-class articles, audio, photos and videos, inter-active elements will include panoramic photography, 3D digital animation, creative morphing, rubbing, X-Ray lens and much much more.

The technology will allow for a very dynamic and intuitive navigation within the app. The experience will guarantee surprises at every swipe, tap or rub of the tablet screen.

If you’re a computer tech geek like I am, this will be a magnificent application to have at-the-ready when you’re on the go to multi-task and use on your iPad tablet whether waiting for your car to be repaired, sitting in the salon getting your hair done or waiting for a doctor’s appointment!

Awesome news: IZEA is also holding a contest to win an iPad! – and YOU could win! The contest ends on May 15th and the official rules where you can enter to win can be found here. Only entries made through Twitter will count. All you need to do to enter is send a tweet with the following message:

Stay up-to-date with current events by using #thecollection iPad App

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Famous Footwear Grand Opening Event Tanger Outlets Westbrook Connecticut

Moomettes — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:05:26 +0000

Famous Footwear is opening up a new store at the Tanger Outlets in Westbrook, Connecticut on Saturday, April 23, 2011. They have some exciting VIP promotions that your family will be certain to love!

Famous Footwear

Shoppers can download an exclusive discount coupon to bring with you to the Grand Opening Event online at Famous Footwear. The first 100 shoppers to present this coupon in the store will also receive a handbag that’s stuffed with fun goodies. There will also be tons of fun activities on-site for moms and kids alike, including live music, and multiple chances to win prizes – including FREE SHOES and GIFT CARDS!

Famous Footwear Grand Opening

What: Famous Footwear Grand Opening

When: Saturday, April 23, 2011

Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm

Where: Tanger Outlets Westbrook – 314 Flat Rock Place D-145 – Westbrook, CT 06496

Hope to see you at the event!

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Life Better Served: Hormel Compleats Contest

Moomettes — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:34:04 +0000

This post brought to you by Zooppa. All opinions are 100% mine.

Hormel Compleats are meal solutions that allow modern moms to have a satisfying lunchtime meal with quality meats and vegetables, in minutes. Quality single serve meals that don’t need to be frozen or refrigerated, Hormel Compleats go from a working mom’s desk drawer to delicious in 90 seconds. Since Hormel Compleats never need to be refrigerated, she can slip an entire delicious roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy lunch into her purse for the car ride (or subway!) to work.

The “contemporary modern mom” has always been overstretched in a multitude of different directions. She’s been coping with that since the feminist movement of the 60’s.

I should know – I was part of that generation and still am a 9 to 5 working girl today. I’ve worn many hats – young wife; young mom; caregiver to an elderly grandmom who lived to be 101; mom of adult children and now, grandmother.

But in the wired world of today, the sandwich generation mom has many ways of balancing extended family, her career, and her own needs for personal fulfillment. She’s a maven of social media, a multimedia siren, and a warrior of the workforce. She’s an accomplished woman. She gets gratification from her from her influence, her friends and supporters, and her own individual pursuits. And she takes pride in attending to her family. When they’re happy, she’s blissful. She knows that meals are a large part of assuring that her family content, but she doesn’t always have the time to cook something fancy. This modern multitasking marvel can’t allow meals be a source of tension and stress.

She knows where to find the proper recipe from the internet, how to snag the right ingredients on the way home, and how to put together a nutritious, choice meal while texting and recording her favorite show for her allotted leisure time. And when it concerns grabbing lunch at the office or home office, she holds herself to the same high standards for nutrition and quality.

Hormel Compleats

Right now Hormel is having a Life Better Served contest promoting Hormel Compleats. In general, there are 3 ways to win :

1) Submit a video, have your video chosen by Hormel as one of the best

2) Submit a video, get the greatest amount of votes from the Zooppa community

3) Share a contest video, or share the contest brief (by clicking “share” in the toolbar on the Zooppa site) with at least 5 people, and you’re eligible for a $3,000 sweepstakes drawing.

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Super Bowl Party Food With TABASCO® Original Red Is “So Much More Than Hot”

Moomettes — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:04:03 +0000

This post brought to you by TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.

TABASCO® Original Red isn’t just about heat for heat’s sake. It’s virtually what heat does to the seasoning of food. The ultimate combination of salt, red pepper, and vinegar are honed in a 3-year aging process that creates a hot sauce with the uncanny power to bring the best out of your food. Other hot sauces add their own particular flavor to food, while TABASCO® Original Red merely enhances the flavor of food.

First ushered in by the McIlhenny family back in 1868, Original Red remains to be their most popular sauce of 6 total sauces.

Original Red can be used on a multitude of foods. Try it and see how it enhances the flavor of pizza, fritattas, salad dressing, mac and cheese, or good old-fashion eggs and hash! The possibilities are endless!

A popular recipe of ours is crockpot South of the Border Chicken Corn Tortillas. Since it’s football season and the Super Bowl is right around the corner, make a double batch in the crockpot and use TABASCO® Original Red to also make homemade Chicken Pizza which will become a game day tradition!

TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.” TABASCO® Original Red unlocks or enhances the flavor of food so you can get the best of every bite.

Super Bowl Party Food

TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.” TABASCO® Original Red unlocks or enhances the flavor of food so you can get the best of every bite.

South of the Border Chicken Corn Tortillas

What You Need:

3 T canola oil
4 lg. chicken breast
1 (19 oz) can of enchilada sauce
2 (11 oz) cans cream of chicken soup
1 (4.25 oz) can black olives, sliced
2 dozen corn tortillas
1 lg. onion, chopped
1 (8 oz) pkg. taco style cheese
2 T TABASCO® Original Red

How to Make It:

Place a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil.
Once the oil is heated add the chicken.
Cook about 5 minutes per side.
Remove and allow to cool.
Once the chicken has cooled it can be shredded.
Cut the tortillas into 8 wedges per tortilla.
In a large mixing bowl combine the soup, olives and onions.
Begin layering in the crock pot with the enchilada sauce on the bottom.
Then add the tortillas, soup, chicken and the cheese in that order.
Continue layering in that order to the top being sure to end with the cheese.
Cover and cook on low temperature 7 hours.

Tip: This is best served in a bowl and topped with sour cream or guacamole.

Be sure to check out the Game-Day Party Menu for some simple ideas & recipes for food everyone loves!

For more Super Bowl Party Pizza ideas visit the Pizza Perfected TABASCO® Original Red page.

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Holiday Gift Guide: Aflac Holiday Duck 2010 Helps To Support Pediatric Cancer Research

Moomettes — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:43:15 +0000

Holiday Gift Guide

For the past decade, the Aflac Holiday Duck program has raised more than $2.5 million for pediatric cancer research and treatment. 100% of the proceeds of this cute collectible item are donated to participating pediatric cancer hospitals in the region in which sales are made.

Here’s a Holiday Gift Idea that not only will benefit a great health cause – the research and treatment of pediatric cancer, it’s sure to put a smile on the face of the gift recipient!

This year’s Aflac Holiday Duck 2010 is dressed in light blue winter attire and decorated with snowflakes. This collectible plush duck comes in both a 6-inch and 10-inch versions, and when squeezed, makes his famous sound, “Aflaaac!”

The Aflac Holiday Duck is sold in participating Macy’s, and can be found online at Aflac Holiday Duck

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Exergen “Spot The Scanner” on Grey’s Anatomy Contest and Giveaway

Moomettes — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:46:01 +0000

Exergen, the manufacturer of the popular TemporalScanner forehead thermometer, is bringing you the chance to win one for your home!

Temporal Artery Thermometer

The hospital model of the Temporal Scanner has been seen on the hit TV show Grey’s Anatomy* this season. If you can be one of the first people to “Spot the Scanner” in this week’s episode and email your name, address, time and the specific doctor who was using it, you could win!

Don’t worry if the scanner doesn’t appear in every new episode, the contest runs throughout the rest of the season!

Email: SpotTheScanner@Exergen.com

For official contest rules please visit: Exergen Spot The Scanner

*this contest is not affiliated with or sponsored by ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy

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Bobbie Brooks Affordable Fashion Jeans That Look Like Designer Jeans: From Dollar General

Moomettes — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:32:54 +0000

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Dollar General. All opinions are 100% mine.

High Fashion Style – Easy on the Budget Jeans

Did you know that Dollar General, which is the nation’s low cost small box retailer also sells jeans? They carry an assortment of popular brands at low everyday prices in convenient locations around the country. Currently, they’re launching a new line of low cost women’s jeans fashion clothes called bobbie brooks at Dollar General.

Most gals have been wearing jeans from the time they were tots. Most women I know have multiple pairs of jeans for every occasion – we have designer jeans for special occasions; casual jeans for running errands around town; our sexiest jeans for intimate get-togthers; loose-fitting jeans for cleaning the house and gardening.

Get the picture?

Designer jeans are cut for and often are worn worn skin-tight. Typically they feature visibly prominate designer names or logos on the back pockets and on the right front coin-pocket. In the late 1980s, ladies fashion designer jeans became less popular, but made a fashion come-back in the early 2000s, with such specialty brand names as Dolce & Gabbana, Versace Jeans, Armani Jeans, Diesel Jeans, Rock and Republic, Seven for All Mankind, and True Religion.

With the frugal fashionista in mind, Dollar General will be re-launching Bobbie Brooks®, its exclusive line of women’s apparel, this fall. All of the clothing is affordable, under $16 and fashionable, designed to complement every woman, every day. The new clothing line includes women’s stretch denim jeans that are priced as low as $12 a pair.

I had the opportunity to try out a pair of the Bobbie Brooks jeans and was pleasantly surprised at how comfortable they fit! I recently lost 40 lbs. and am pleased to say that the size 6 I received now fits perfectly! I am petite, and the size 6 was a little long for me, but nothing a needle and thread couldn’t take care of. Washing before wearing is recommended.

In my opinion, these jeans are so affordable, yet fashionable that even the fashion police – my 20-something fashionista daughters will approve because they don’t look like “mommy jeans.”

Try out a pair for yourself and let me know what you think? With the money you save on Bobbie Brooks jeans, available only at Dollar General – go out and treat yourself to a manicure!

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