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
Submit a 1-3 minute video about cloth diapering for your chance to win a $1,000 gift certificate to to bynature.ca. The contest is open to residents of the US & Canada. Deadline: May 28.
How do you give back to your community through food-related activities? Tell Momtrends for your chance to win $500. Deadline: May 31.
Local Love
Pima Connects is a new project in Pima County that is seeking to identify “great thinkers, innovators, and doers” who reside in or around Tucson. Nominate the leaders and connectors in your life before May 31st.
Good Reads
Steph {Adventures in Babywearing} reminds her boys of a profound and beautiful way of daily living…that applies to us all.
Danielle {whitehot truth} shares 15 tips for public speaking that apply to shining at work, and just about everywhere else.
Leigh {Marvelous Kiddo} shares her stance on Sonograms.
As Facebook’s lax privacy policies come under scrutiny, are you considering deleting your account? Read ‘Quit Facebook Day’ Wants Users to Leave (The Huffington Post) and Corporate Users: Are You Rethinking Facebook? (Forbes.com).
Sarah {Emerging Mummy} yearns for the opportunity to “discuss more than pop culture or the price of gas” with friends. So do I.
Michelle tells us why she trashed every issue of her Glamour Magazine subscription (and I applaud): Not in My House.
Miscellany
This is a fun way to share the baby gender announcement with family & friends {via ten thousand to none}.
Thanks to Vanessa {I Never Grew Up} for sharing this super simple craft: Wooden Spoon Dollies.
A visual tutorial: Make Your Own Pirate Hat.
Need a smile? You MUST watch Jessica’s Daily Affirmation.
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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.







