Welcome to “Tuesday Tours: What’s Happening on the Web” where I serve as your tour guide and showcase the best contests, freebies, deals, and reads for moms on the web…all in one convenient location.
Contests
GoodyBlog is hosting some seriously cool Mother’s Day Giveaways. Enter before May 8.
I need a new swimsuit and I’ve heard that the ones from Land’s End are among the best. Goodies for Mom is giving away a $100 gift certificate right now. Deadline: May 11.
Dreyer’s is going to give one lucky person $100,000 to spend a day dishing up ice cream this summer! Submit your essay to the Taste of Recovery website before May 27.
JVC Everio presents the “Send Me to BlogHer ’09″ Sweepstakes. Four winners will receive: BlogHer ’09 conference registration, roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations, food allowance, and a JVC Everio camcorder. That’s one sa-weet package! Enter before May 29.
Announcements
Jenny Nash {Mama Nash & Company} welcomed a baby into the world on April 24th…little Lucy Jean. You can read the beautiful birth story here and see photos here (Jenny looks ridiculously gorgeous for just giving birth, don’t you think?). Go say Congrats and wish her well!
Registration for Disney’s Princess Half Marathon Weekend is now open. The event, which will take place between March 5-7 2010, “brings women of all ages together to participate in a magical event designed just for them.”
Do you live in NY or LA? Are you interested in beauty and blogging? A Mom In Red High Heels is looking for correspondents to attend beauty/fashion events and then post about them. No salary is being offered, but I’m sure there will be plenty of opportunities for networking and free swag!
Blogger Terri Fisher and her husband are in the process of adopting a little girl from Taiwan…and are currently raising funds to help offset the expenses of the adoption. If you’d like to help, you can purchase a cookbook – Forever Family – for $15.
Good Reads
“A new study finds that bigger monitors make people more productive…The study concluded that someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours a day.” Read Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity {via the Wall Street Journal, 3-10-2008}.
Wondering where other bloggers get all of their cool images for blog posts? Read Jo-Lynne’s very helpful post, entitled “How To Find Images Online.”
Joeprah writes an insightful post about the fact that Dads Deal with Miscarriage Too. If you know a couple who has recently experienced a miscarriage, you might want to read this.
Photojojo shares, “11 Ways to Make Your Mom Really Happy This Mother’s Day.” I particularly like the “Shoot Your Mom” idea…it’s not what you think.
And along those same lines…Find some fantastic last-minute Mother’s Day gift ideas over at Giver’s Log.
Want to know How to Make Your Legs Look Longer? Read some fab tips @ fabcrush.
Miscellany
Mama Speaks just introduced me to a new site: Walk Score. Essentially, you type in your address and it provides a score ranging from 0 (car dependent) to 100 (walker’s paradise). My neighborhood scored a “6.” Yeah…we need to move. And I am totally using Walk Score when we do.
I’m up late and my tummy is rumbling. These Brownie Bottom Ice Cream Cupcakes would hit the spot, I think. {via Joy the Baker}
I could go for a glass of Icy Fresh “Squeezed” Orange Juice right about now too. It sounds positively refreshing. {via Flipflops and Applesauce}
Do you know anyone who is engaged? You have to forward this link to them. Don’t you just love that white dress with the rainbow tulle peaking out from underneath? {via green wedding shoes}
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*** If you have a contest or an announcement that you think might be a good fit for Tuesday Tours, e-mail me at stephanie@metropolitanmama.net.
Our neighborhood scored a 35 but that seems a little high to me – not because things aren’t close, but because we have to walk along or cross a 2 lane highway with no sidewalks to get anywhere except the park! I like the Walk Score idea though and have bookmarked it for future use!
Thanks for the shoutout, Stephanie. You’re so sweet!
Found a lot of gems in this post. Thanks so much for Tuesday Tours. I especially was happy to find the Blog Her sweeps, How to find images online and all the fun giveaways to enter. WOW!
Oh and we scored an 11 UGH. I would love to live somewhere we could bike or walk all over. That would be wonderful.
Yay for Tuesday Tours! I probably mess your stats up on Tuesdays cuz’ I’m constantly refreshing until you put it up. And then sometimes things get crazy around here and I have to wait until Wed.
Anyway, thanks for the great links. And FYI, my neighborhood only scored a 3 – and they told me I’m car dependent. They’re right. :)
Thanks for sharing our cookbook information, Stephanie! We greatly appreciate it!
our neighborhood scored a 31 (car dependent). and some of the places close to my house aren’t places i ever go to. i would LOVE to live where i could walk/bike to the store, park, school, and other places. BUT one of the things about walking and riding a bike places is that i want to be able to do it safely… especially since i would have my kids with me. the streets i would have to walk/bike on are two lane, 40mph streets… and people definitley drive faster than that. we do walk to the park, but i can get there by going through the neighborhood. i run around where we live and many people (in cars) just don’t pay attention to pedestrians. so even though i have a grocery store .78 miles away, i probably won’t be walking there anytime soon.
I live in the middle of the country, and my Walk Score is a 3!! I’m surprised it wasn’t a zero, actually! My dream home scored a 68. We’re in the process of trying to buy this house (fingers crossed), so maybe my walkability will improve soon! :)
Thanks for sharing my search for NY & LA moms bloggers! I currently have one on each coast but would love to have at least 2 more on each to get more coverage without stressing anyone’s mommy schedule! :)
I would buy Chino Crop pants in every color!
i never knew Disney did a marathon like the one you mentioned here. i think that’s awesome. trying to convince to my husband that we should plan a vacation around those dates and sign up.
would be so cool!