Not Too Late to Send Easter Cards

If you want to surprise someone with a nice Easter card it’s not too late. Just click on over to Cross Cards and choose from among hundreds of religious cards and send them via email. We received one yesterday from family and it touched us.

Cross Cards

The Writing Mamas Salon

Dawn Yun and a small group of moms in the San Francisco Bay area formed a writing “club” for moms back in 2004 and it continues to inspire moms who want to write, as well as, moms who read what they write . Writing Mamas Salon has grown popular and new local chapters have begun springing up in other parts of the country. What a wonderful idea! Not only a way to share motherhood stories with other moms, but a way to put the more meaningful experiences and events into writing to be shared with moms all over.

For more information visit their site here: Writing Mamas Salon

For information on starting a local chapter: Writing Mamas Salon Chapters

Write on Dawn!!

Mamabliss

Ran across Mamabliss’ blogs and was impressed with her apparent ability to get a lot done online everyday on top of her homeschooling and typical motherhood tasks.

Her handmade crafts blog is an excellent source for very affordable crafts you and the kids can do together at home instead of the TV (unless, of course, it’s Moms TV!)  or other mind numbing waste of time. Check it out at: Lil Handmades at Mamabliss.

She also has two other blogs including one especially for homeschoolers called ‘homeschooling fun’, and another about her life as the mother of her children, Mamabliss.

Handmade light switch plates

Darcee, the WAHM behind VioletGumDrop.com, creates each unique light switch plate with care and love making it a great holiday gift that will be remembered every time the lights go on or off.

Each light switch plate is handmade with love. She has select styles but loves to match them to children’s bedding so as long as she has a swatch letting her match it just about any theme.

These are great gifts for baby or for the older sibling to help them feel included when a new baby comes home. These personalized light switch plates come in two styles depending on what type of light switch you have, and many color choices. Darcee was kind enough to extend a 15% off offer to momz.com visitors simply use this link for a special Momz offer of 15% off of your entire order http://www.violetgumdrop.com?code=Momz.

Merry Christmas

The YouTube Nonprofit Program

The YouTube Nonprofit Program offers nonprofits an opportunity to use the power of video to create more awareness and support for their charities. If you have a favorite cause please make them aware of this great program. The program is available for nonprofit organizations in the U.S. with 501(c)(3) tax status.

Some of the nonprofits already on board and taking advantage of this great opportunity are:

Autism Speaks - Youth Noise - March of Dimes - American Cancer Society

Right To Learn Video

Looking for Special Gifts?

With the end of the year approaching faster then your next class reunion it’s time to make some progress on that gift list. We’ve got the perfect idea for you!

Visit WAHM Shopping Mall to find hundreds of mom owned businesses to patronize this holiday season. You’ll find stores offering everything from baby clothes to handbags. Best of all they’re all owned by moms so your patronage will be appreciated far more then it would be by the Walmart’s and Toys-R-Us’ of the world.

Nearly every internet retail analyst is expecting online ordering to be stronger then ever this holiday season benefiting the usual large guys like Amazon.com. Granted Amazon.com is a great place to buy your electronics gifts, but there are thousands of work at home moms (WAHMs) out there that will not only appreciate your patronage far more then a large retailer, but they offer gifts that simply can’t be found at the large department stores or online mega-stores.

Take Joyce Miranda’s shop for example. She offers unique high quality skin care products and make-up that you just can’t find in a department store. Combine the uniqueness of the gifts with the satisfaction of knowing you’re patronizing a work at home mom and you’re destined to have the best holiday season ever.

Some of our other favorites are:

Personalized Christmas Cards
Holiday Classics offers personalized Christmas cards and other Christmas greeting cards including business Christmas cards, business holiday cards, and personalized calendars.

The Cottage Boutique
Vanessa’s Cottage Boutique offers men’s clothing, women’s boots, pumps and other items that aren’t available in the big stores.

Lolapop Boutique
Diane specializes in fun and fabulous custom designed character, made to match, and name bracelets, necklaces and earrings for infants, children, and adults.

Swanky Designers
Great source for chic boutique and accessories.

QT Sunglasses
Shannon of QT offers a fabulous selection of mens and womens designer style sunglasses at awesome prices. Styles include oversized, wrap around, aviator and square frame sunglasses.

Sassy Bags and More
Ciera Mowbray offers Sassy handbags, wallets, accessories, home decor and other great gift items.

Cool Steals and Deals
Michele, who recently became a widow, blogs about online shopping bargains. So let her do the deal digging and find the best bargains and freebies available for you.

Kids Place For Toys
Michele Stahl owns an online toy store offering moms a wide variety of safe, new and hard to find children’s toys for children of all ages. They carry and are ready to ship the popular Aquadoodles and Webkinz brand toys!

Jewelry Store for Mom
Samantha’s shop offers beautifully engraved sterling silver jewelry and gifts celebrating life’s special moments! Including jewelry for women, new mother gift jewelry, and jewelry especially for grandmother.

There are so many more we’d like to bring to your attention, but we don’t want to overload you all at one time. Please visit the Moms shopping directory for dozens of other fine stores offering unique gift items: Moms Shopping Directory.

Happy shopping!