Monday, May 3, 2010

A review... and a giveaway too!

Update: Congrats to lucky number 15 - Lady Mama - you are the winner of the Melissa and Doug wooden fruit cutting toy!

I recently received a very awesome tent for my children from CSN Stores. CSN Stores carries so many high quality items for children, I literally spent over an hour browsing through everything they sell - from outdoor play structures, to educational toys and children's furniture.




Not only does CSN have thousands of items for children (literally anything you can imagine) but they also have amazing products for the home, too - from bedroom furniture to funky wine glasses.

My husband set up the tent before my boys came home the day it arrived, and they were both so excited when they saw the tent set up in our living room! They both 'moved in' right away, and requested I bring them snacks and juice to enjoy in their new 'home'.

The tent has since made it's way outside, to our backyard, where my children continue to have a lot of fun in it, playing together... which is a bonus for me, too!

CSN is generously giving you something awesome, too - enter below for your chance to win this Melissa and Doug Play Food Cutting Food Crate. My boys love the Melissa and Doug fruit cutting sets!



To enter, just leave me a comment telling me what you loved to play with when you were a child!


The contest is open to both US and Canadian residents. I'll randomly pick a winner on May 11th, 2010.

Good Luck!




23 comments:

  1. Awesome new blog and best of luck with it! I play with Star Wars figures! I mean, I used to, as a kid. Ok, fine I still do. Good thing I have an 8 year old to serve as my excuse...

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  2. I'm with BusyDad - Star Wars figures rocked! My fave was R2D2. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!

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  3. My favourite toys when I was a kid would have to have been my barbies. Loved dressing them up and taking them with me everywhere.

    Great new blog by the way :)

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  4. My favourite toy when I was a kid was playing with my Barbies. I would get together with my cousin and we would play dress-up for hours.
    Awesome new blog!!

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  5. I loved my stuffed animals as a kid - but also loved doing craft kids as I got older. I even had a wood burning kit!!

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  6. I loved my barbies too. I even made their clothes and had fantastic stories that I wrote about them.

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  7. Love the tent especially now that it is spring for the children

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  8. I loved playing with barbies :) had tons and tons of them lol!!

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  9. Big Trak! Anyone else remember it? It was "programmable" tank that couldn't do much but I loved it!

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  10. Lego lego lego! My brother and I had piles of it, and played with it for days on end.

    Great new site!

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  11. Congrats on the review site, Loukia! As for toys, we played with Lego, My Little Ponies, Charmkins (remember those??), Barbies, Rainbow Brite (my younger sister still has all of them... ALL. OF. THEM.), GI Joes. Toys in the 80s were awesome.

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  12. We had a Wendy house (essentially an indoor cloth playhouse) and we wore it out. We (I had 3 younger sisters) eventually moved on to Barbies and at the demand of my youngest sister - He-Man & She-Ra!

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  13. Thanks for the giveaway Loukia! I went through a phase where all I played with were My Little Pony and my cabbage patch dolls :)

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  14. I had a doll's house my Dad made for me, that I loved. I also remember a yellow teapot house I loved. There were many! Love the fruit set!

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  15. I loved playing house with my doll. Her name was Rachel!

    reallyareyouserious at gmail dot com

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  16. This makes me think of my doll named Cathy and the snoopy snow cone machine :)

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  17. Playing dinkies was one of my favorite things. There's nothing quite like building roads in the dirt. jrnewhook at hotmail

    www.canadianfriendly.blogspot.com

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  18. ooh I loved playing with my easy bake oven and punky bruster doll!

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  19. Oh my - Barbies were my absolute favorite. The best is seeing my 3.5yo niece Jayda playing with MY old barbies! Her favorite is "Totally Hair Barbie" which I begged for forever...hair down to her feet! I

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  20. I was always a know-it-all & I loved to play school. My parents bought me a Cabbage Patch play school set. It had lesson plans, report cards, a mini chalk board & chalk. I LOVED IT!!

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  21. Loved my Strawberry Shortcake doll, Rainbow Brite doll and Jem doll. Loved loved loved Jem's light up earrings. Man, those things were cool.
    julie at julieyoungphoto dot com

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  22. There were so many toys I loved playing with as a kid but I think Lego was a favourite.

    alotofloves@gmail.com

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  23. I LOVED playing with dolls, I had so many clothes and babies :) I actually played with my babies until I was about 12 :) Now I'm a Mom of 5 great kiddos, I still get to play with dolls :)

    Tanya


    ron_tanya@bell.net

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