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I came across this cute range of "Love Your Breed" products and was happy to be given the opportunity to review some of the gorgeous looking items! I love cute and cuddly animals, when I was in my teenage years, I used to have up to 24 guinea pigs! After I got married in 2007, we have a Labrador but due to personal reasons, we have to give the dog away few years later. Being able to review these items brings back sweet memories and make me feels good as I am still able to at least have some items which reminds me of our doggy.

Description from the product page:
"Pet Lovers get to enjoy the fun and exciting collection from FouFou Dog with a new brand called “LOVE YOUR BREED”! This full line of breed specific products will feature your favorite characters: including My Pet Pocket collectables, Luggage Tags, Rhinestone Stickers, Plush Toys, Acrylic Key Chains, Key Covers and Pens. Already creating a buzz in both the pet and gifting industries, this collection is a must-have for all pet owners, pet lovers, and other pet friendly people.

Pets may come in many shapes and sizes, but each has a personality all its own. Nothing shows you care more than giving your fellow pet lovers a thoughtful gift to remind them of their pride and joy."

First item of my review is the Acrylic Key chain of a cute little brown and white bulldog. I love that the size is not too big and it is not heavy at all! I also love that there are 2 key rings provided (one is the round ring and the other is the clasp hook) I can assure you this acrylic keychain is durable and scratch-free as my 10 months old girl happily munch and drop it on the floor few times (she is in the investigate and drop stuff onto floor phase right now...), so yeah, I am happy that the keychain is not scratched or damaged in any way!

Second item of my review is the Luggage Tag with another cute little French bulldog neatly sewn on the leather-like tag! I love the design and its cool shade of grey and this luggage tag comes with a cute little buckle strap, perfect to hook onto your luggage! There is also a small little note at the back of the tag which you can write down your name, address and phone number. Love love love this!

Next up is the Rhinestone Sticker, sorry I can only show you how it looks from the front, back, peeled off just a tiny wee bit as I decided not to use it... yet... It looks so cute and gorgeous and I don't want to just simply stick it to something for the sake of this review, so I am going to keep it a wee bit longer until I decided where I should place this rhinestone sticker on. What I can feedback on this item is the lovely design and choice of colors used, it is not too flashy and the pastel color is really pleasing to the eyes and I also love that the stickers is not thick at all (I hate stickers which are few millimeters thick!)

The following item for my review is the key cover which I have saved the best for last... I have been dreaming on putting my car key in this cute looking blue cover... until I tried doing so... and found out my car key is too big for it! Arghhhh!! Try and try as I may, I just can't force my car key into this cover... sigh... I am going to wait until my hubby duplicate another set of our house key (he lost his and took mine!) and then I will try again with this cover on our house key. Nevertheless, I love the soft elastic feel of the cover and it also came with a round key ring that you can hook it to the cover once you slot in your key. Awesome!

You can find out more at http://www.loveyourbreed.com/  and http://www.foufoudog.com/

I am so excited to be able to hold this giveaway for my lucky blog followers and readers! ONE of you lucky people are going to win not one, not two, but THREE cute items from "Love Your Breed"!

Giveaway prizes are: Rhinestone sticker, key cover and the luggage tag (designs depend on your availability) Yay!!! Now, let's read below for the giveaway terms and conditions OK?

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 I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Almost a month ago, I received a pitch from Justin, the CEO of Fake Food Japan asking whether I would be interested in reviewing his products, the sort that makes awesome gifts that certainly no one has. His products are made in Japan, in fact, handmade fake food with themed items such as business card cases, cell phone accessories, keychains, magnets, and more. I received 2 items from him for my review. So here goes my review for the "Shrimp Tempura (small) Keychain" and "Taiyaki (small) USB Flash Drive (4GB)":

About the sponsor:
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OK, need to interrupt you guys with some cute pictures of my 10 months old girl checking out the products that I got for my review.

Alright back to my review now, as mentioned earlier, I received 2 items for my review which are the "Shrimp Tempura (small) Keychain" and "Taiyaki (small) USB Flash Drive (4GB)". I like that the items are packaged neatly and they came with warning note at the bottom which says "This fake food is not consumable!"

Now the reason I requested the "Taiyaki (small) USB Flash Drive (4GB)" as one of the items to review is because my hubby lost his USB drive a while ago and I am so happy I get to give this to him! Hahaha! He chose the design himself (he loves fish!).

His feedback on the USB drive is that it is life-like and easy to notice because of its size (meaning not so easy for him to lose it!) although he did mentioned that there might be a problem when using it on notebooks or media players due to its size. Luckily our media player is high enough and the USB drive is shorter than our media players' height so that is not a problem for us. So far, the USB drive works perfectly for him!

Next item, the "Shrimp Tempura (small) Keychain"! My girl was so quick, she grabbed the keychain before I could snap some close-up shots of it! I do notice a strong plastic-ky smell from the keychain but after a few days of airing it, there's no more trace of the smell anymore.

I was surprised at its size, almost the size of my palm actually! And yes, it does look life-like! I chose it because I love eating tempura! Every time we eat out at some sushi restaurants, without fail I would be ordering tempura dishes! So yes, getting this keychain for my review is awesome as I am reminded of one of my favorite food! Hahahah!

Check out the pictures below for more details. I also love the key ring, it is so easy to hook into my keys!

You can check out the many designs at http://fakefoodjapan.com/

I am so excited to be able to hold this giveaway for my lucky blog followers and readers! ONE of you lucky people are going to win this awesome product! Winner get to choose any one item valued at less than US$55! Now, let's read below for the giveaway terms and conditions OK?

To enter the giveaway, kindly read and follow the instructions as stated in the Rafflecopter form below.

• You can enter either via login through your Facebook account or just key in your name and your valid email address.
  
• Please also leave your valid email address in the post comment so that I can contact you if you win this giveaway.

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products by Fake Food Japan in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

I came across this awesome website which offers subscriptions for its digital and printed magazines and was on the verge of subscribing to them when I decided to pose some questions I have and I received a prompt reply from them saying they are on the verge of revamping their website.

I then asked them whether there are any options to print out the activity pages etc in the digital version of the magazine subscription and also mentioned that I am a mummy blogger on the look out for more fresh ideas to try out with my 3 year old boy as part of our learning lessons.

To my surprise, I was offered the opportunity to review some of their recent digital editions in exchange for my honest feedback and review! Yay! So here goes my review for the "Creative Steps magazines":

Description from the product page:
"Creative Steps is a fabulous quarterly magazine aimed at everyone with or caring for young children and is packed with dozens of fun crafting activities designed to encourage learning whilst having fun. "

I was given an authorised and confidential website link to access the current and a few past digital editions of the magazine.

With the digital edition of the magazine, you can easily navigate to and fro, add and manage your bookmarks, create a clipping and email out the clipping, print and lots more options to play around with! I immediately browsed through the editions available and happily take notes on which crafts ideas I will try later with my kids.

I love the DIY crafts as there are mostly easily made with materials found around the house. I also enjoy the cooking/baking recipes and some of them can be tried out with children too!

Just  look at the screenshot below on one of the example of crafts you can do with your kids! I think this mini aquarium idea is very good, in fact, I almost tried to make it for hubby's Father's Day gift this year but home stuff caught up with me and being a SAHM with 2 kids (3 years old boy and a 10 months old girl), I will have to take a raincheck on this awesome idea!

One of the craft ideas that we did get to try out was the 'Walk the Plank!' where we draws 'planks' on a pavement or path with chalks and then pretend there are water all around the 'planks' and we have to walk on the 'planks' and not fall over.

To be honest, I was about to draw some 'planks' on the floor of our balcony when we heard the fire engine siren zoomed past us (FYI, my house is directly facing the highway and there is a fire station at the end of our housing row) and at the last minute, I ended up drawing a fire engine on the floor as my boy got all excited with the fire engine sound (he is nuts about fire engine related stuff!)

Just in case you can't see the picture above clearly, I actually drew the fire engine from the top view, you can see my boy squatting (or sitting) on the fire engine seat, steering the fire engine to help put out the fire somewhere, and I also drew the ladder, water pipe and tyres around the fire engine as well. Not bad right? Granted, I may not been copying the 'Walk the Planks' idea, but I apply the same chalk drawing method and we ended up having a good time as well!

I would definitely agree that this digital magazine is chock full of creative ideas to do with your kids! You really ought to give this magazine a try, be it the digital or printed version!

You can go to http://creativesteps.co.uk/subscribe/ to find out more on the subscription options.

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Subscription offer - The sponsor created a promo code BMRSC25, which will enable you guys to save 25% on the annual printed edition subscription. Prices vary globally, due to postage to your respective country. The direct link for this is: https://creativesteps.subscribeonline.co.uk/creative-steps-magazine/creative-steps?offer=bmrsc25 or you can just go to their website and use the promo code BMRSC25.

The sponsor also offers a 25% discount on the annual online edition, reducing this to just US$13.50 per year. You will need to send payment to paypal@creativesteps.co.uk and quote code IFTM25.

The above awesome offers does not have expiry codes, but that does not mean you should delay and wait! Go subscribe now!

Not only you guys get to enjoy the discount offers above, I am also excited to be able to hold this giveaway for my lucky blog followers and readers! TWO of you lucky people are going to win the online annual subscriptions (worth US$18 each)! Now, let's read below for the giveaway terms and conditions OK?

To enter the giveaway, kindly read and follow the instructions as stated in the Rafflecopter form below.

• You can enter either via login through your Facebook account or just key in your name and your valid email address.
  
• Please also leave your valid email address in the post comment so that I can contact you if you win this giveaway.

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the authorised link to the online editions by Creative Steps in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.