The Shopping Duck

I have finally fluffed up my feathers and uploaded my new blog look. I am still working on organizing the sidebars and pages though. I like my new look and hope you do too!

Here are my favorite contests for the week:
Bloggy Giveaways - Mozzee Design High Chair - This high chair is worth $575!! (ends May 31, 2008)
Bloggy Giveaways - Taste Book - create your own personal cook book, three winners (ends May 30, 2008)
Earsucker - Fretlight Guitar plus other cool prizes! (ends June 18, 2008)
My Mom [...]

For all of you who don’t live on the East Coast, you are missing one of our favorite things about summer - Rita’s Gelatis! A Rita’s Gelati is Italian Ice layered with vanilla custard (or chocolate). I know that you must be thinking that this does not sound appealing, but trust me, it [...]

Do you have a daughter, granddaughter or niece that loves to wear hairbows? I found a perfect gift to hold all of these hairbows - TuTu Hairbow Holders from Bambina Ballerina. Each large hairbow holder is made to look like a ballet outfit complete with tutu. There are ribbons on the tutu [...]

Even with the large sizes of hard drives these days, we tend to run out of hard disk space very quickly. The reason, programs are space hungry! The solution, buy an external hard drive. An external hard drive is a great way to increase the your data space without investing in a [...]

We always give our family the best gift ever! We attend Joseph and The Technicolor Dream Coat at the New Jersey State Theater every year. This year, it was as good as ever, with Billy Piscopo playing Joseph. We went out to dinner first and then to the show. This is [...]

When it starts to get cold, this duck thinks about flying south for the winter. Florida sounds good as does North Carolina. I think I might have to look at some Wilmington NC real estate and see if I can get a good Winter home!
Of course, California and Arizona are both looking mighty [...]

With all the problems with lead in toys and loose magnets, here is a site where you can check for toy recalls. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission lists all toys that have been recalled since 1975. The most recent recalls include AquaDots - it can cause kids to become unconscious after swallowing, [...]

Now that Halloween is fast approaching, I need to check my landscape lighting to make sure that it is all working correctly. We have some solar lights around our landscaping and sometimes they don’t work correctly. I like to have the walkway lit so that the kids do not trip on their way [...]

Have you ever thrown a party and wished you had a popcorn machine? Now that the movie theater that we go to only gives us the bagged popcorn, I long for the old popcorn machines that would pop the popcorn fresh. If you like to have fresh popcorn and love to throw parties, [...]