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Foot Petals: Your One-Stop Online Shop For Everything Shoe Care!

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Shoes, along with diamonds and shopping, are a girl’s best friend, you can never find a girl with less than 5 pairs or more. In fact the more pairs one own, the better! Some women would have one for every special and not-so-special occasion that they’d end up having a closet full of them long before they were even aware of it. Some others would find sheer joy at the sight of high-heeled, peep-toe patent pumps and some would find their hearts skip a beat at a sight of a brown suede boots with fur.They can never really have too many!  There is a pair for work, for socializing, for sports, for practically just about anything they do.

Of course, one of the concerns that come with having a lot of shoes, especially the expensive ones, is how to properly care for them to make sure they last a longer time. You might have to shell out a considerable amount of money on shoe maintenance products in order to keep your lovely pairs in tip top shape. Sometimes you even have to deviate from your schedule for the day just to rush to the mall to buy these items and for busy working mums, it can really be quite an ordeal!

Good thing there are sites like Foot Petals! This online shop carries a wide range of fab shoe cushions, as well as a number of new and innovative women’s shoe care items like Perfect Polish, that makes scuffs and scratches disappear instantly! Now you can simply browse online for everything on shoe care and shop for the products you fancy with just a click of a button, 100% convenient and definitely hassle-free. And their site is easy enough even for the non-internet savvy to explore. All the products are divided into clearly-visible drop-down menus, you won’t spend more than a minute locating the ones you like. Shopping for shoe care products has never been this easy!

For more information about their site and their product line, go ahead and subscribe to the Foot Petals newsletter now!

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Our Disney on Ice Experience

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One of the highlights of our 2012 will have to be the Disney on Ice: Princesses and Heroes show that we watched on 26 December at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Apart from being such a lovely experience, it was also momentous as it was the first time that the little man get to watch a show like this and his first time inside the Araneta, too. I’ve been there numerous times in the past as I’ve watched a couple of my favorite bands concerts.

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For a first timer, I’d say my little man aced it! He was all eyes on the characters dancing on ice and would do as the rest of the audience do when it is time to give a round of applause for one enthralling performance. And what he actually enjoyed the best will have to be the time Mickey and Minnie went out to the stage to introduce the princesses and their princes. The endearing mouse is, after all, one of Jared’s all-time favorite characters and if only for that, I would say the money spent on buying tickets for this show is money well-spent.

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I am fully aware that Disney on Ice runs every Christmas at the Big Dome and it was actually rather untimely that we get to watch the show now that it is  featuring the princesses {I believe that little girls would’ve enjoyed this one better}. But, nevertheless, the little man still had a wonderful time watching the characters that mum grew up with and used to watch as a little girl, even when his own favorite characters were nowhere to be found. He was particularly enamored with the seven dwarfs and would blurt into “hi, ho, hi, ho, it’s off to work we go..” even now.

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It was such a great show and we simply love the choreography, the colorful costumes {imagine Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Genie from Aladdin coming to life}. They even had a little fireworks display towards the end of the show and I find the grand finale quite magical, with that golden chariot to boot! Oh well, I bet you can tell that I enjoyed it much more than my little one!

I will make sure that we watch this show again next Christmas and I will cross my fingers that Lightning McQueen, Buzz Lightyear and Agent Oso will be present this time around! 🙂

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Mentoring Minds: An Effective Tool to Raise Critical Thinkers

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It ought to be one of goals to raise critical thinkers who will be part of solutions in the future, instead of the problem. Children who will be forerunners of change and growth when it is their time ~ luminaries and trailblaizers. Critical thinking, after all, plays a signifacant role in one’s success may that be in school, at work, or in life in general. Raising our children to be such is no easy feat, in fact, we needed all the help we can get. With the dawn of technology and the birth of gadgets, short attention span and people’s tendencies for instant gratification,  this task will actually be no walk in the park.

It was a good thing, that because of the very same technology, materials and tools to propagate critical thinking among young children is also at the tip of fingers. With MentoringMinds.com, we gain access to valuable tools and instructions on how we can raise our children to be forward thinkers  with one click of a button.  Get guidelines on bullying prevention, behavior strategies or on ADD/ADHD. The Mentoring Minds team developed that yield real results in real classrooms, by utilizing decades of academical experience. These proves beneficial to both teachers in the classroom and for parents who educate their children at home. Choose from a wide array of products for Reading and Math and get the help you need in raising your children and your students to be critical thinkers.

To know more about their products, request a catalog now. You can even choose between a Texas K-12 Fall 2012 Catalog and National K-12 Fall 2012 Catalog.

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