[CLOSED} Brilliant Screen Cleaning Wipe Review and Giveaway

When the opportunity came to me to review Brilliant Screen Cleaning Wipes I jumped on it. A few months back I reviewed their eye glass cleaner and I was amazed at how well it cleaned our eye glass lenses. I wasn't disappointed with this product either.

Product Description 

Brilliant screen cleaning wipes with SR-8 provides gentle, superior  cleaning to any electronic screen and removes dust, dirt, finger prints and makeup while imparting an invisible, durable barrier that protects screens 50x more form scratching. Helps protect against re-soiling to keep your screen brilliantly clean!

As soon as I had the product in my hands the first thing I did was clean my computer monitor. It did a great job of removing the  sticky little finger prints my granddaughter loves to leave on my screen.

The Brilliant Screen Cleaning Wipe passed my first test with flying colors. Now I wanted to see how this screen cleaner  would do with my daughters Nook. We love the Nook Color but one of the things I noticed right from the first day that we used it was that the screen seems to really pick up smudges. 

Obviously any touch screen is going to get smudge marks with normal use but the Nook really seems to attract and hold the oils from our finger tips. 


I opened up one of the individually packaged wipes and wiped the Nook screen. It took a little elbow grease but the screen hadn't been cleaned since we bought it at Christmas time the month before. 


These screen cleaning wipes also add a layer of 50X Scratch resistance. So it is important to let the screen air dry before you touch it. It may look like the screen is smeared but once it dries it dries smudge free and clear.


I am very happy with this product! I've used it on my cell phone also with the same happy results.


Would you like to win a package of Brilliant Screen Cleaning Wipes?


Giveaway Rules


Ends March 15th, 2011 at 11:59 pm est

Open to residents of USA only

The winner must provide email contact and address to ship excluding a p.o. box.

The Rules 

REQUIRED: You must include your email address in the comment form. I will need it to contact you should you win. If you do not leave an email address with at least one of your entries I will be deleting all of your entries.

MANDATORY entry. 

All other entries will be deleted if you do not do this first.

LIKE Brilliant Lenses on Facebook

Or

Follow Brilliant Lenses on Twitter @BrilliantLenses

Come back here and leave me a comment letting me know which you have done. Leave your twitter name or facebook name in the comment.

If you have done both. Leave me two comments and you will earn an entry for each one.

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 2)  Blog about my giveaway and earn five extra entries. Leave five comments with an email address and the link to your blog post.

 
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Good Luck!

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Sponsored by Tomoson.com

Old El Paso Giveaway

 Family taco night is something that happens around my house about every two weeks. Taco's are a hit with everyone in this picky eater family. I think it's because unlike most other meals each person can make their own taco, putting whatever toppings they want.

Check out the Old El Paso website were you can find coupons and information about El Tacodor the only taco night dinner game out there.

Click on the following link and check out the El Tacodor game.  Print out the game and play with your family on your next family taco night.

Giveaway

Win an Old El Paso Taco Prize Pack

The Old El Paso family taco night prize pack which includes a packet of original Old El Paso Taco Seasoning, a Cactus Chip and Dip Serving dish, a set of 3 Fiesta Chili Pepper serving dishes and a $10 gift card to purchase your taco fixings.

 Giveaway Ends: January 16th, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST

Mandatory Entry: Tell me what your favorite taco toppings  are. Or answer this question. Do you like your taco's hot and spicy?

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5) Blog about this giveaway with a link back to my blog earns you 5 extra entries.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck !

Disclosure: O the coupon, information, and prize package for giveaway were all provided by Old El Paso through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are my own.ld El Paso provided me with the products, information, and giveaway through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are my own

CLOSED: $50 Cards Direct Giveaway

$50  Cards Direct Giveaway

I don't know about you but I love cards. I love Christmas Cards, I love Holiday Cards, I love Photo Cards. I especially love Photo Cards when they have pictures of my grand children on them.

I love sending cards and I love receiving them. Don't you?

The great folks over at Cards Direct have offered one of my readers a $50 code to be used to purchase some of their wonderful cards. Now I know its the end of November already and some of you may have already bought and written out your Holiday Cards. But if your like me and you put off buying and writing out your Christmas cards till the last minute now you have a chance to get them for free.

And even if you have already picked out your Holiday cards for this year Cards Direct has a huge selection of Birthday Invitations, Baby Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements.

I have been looking through the cards they offer and I have found a few that I would like myself. Since I live in Florida the  tropical Christmas cards really caught my eye.

If your not looking for holiday cards at all then you can order any of the other cards they offer. 

Or you can upload a piece of your own art work or your blog logo and have it put on a Custom Card.  I am sure my winner will have no problem at all finding something to spend their $50 on.

About Cards Direct

CardsDirect offers the very best in personalized greeting cards for business or personal use.  Over 2,000 card designs are available in categories that include holiday cards, birthday cards, thank you cards, photo cards, baby shower invitations, birth announcements and many more!  With free personalization and custom imprinted verse, CardsDirect offers an easy online ordering process and top quality cards with the best selection, customer service and pricing found anywhere.

Giveaway Prize

Open to US only 

One lucky winner will receive a $50 code to redeem for twenty-five cards up to a $50 value at Cards Direct.

Giveaway ends Sunday December 5th, 2010 at 11:59 pm est

Mandatory Entry

Visit Cards Direct, check out their large selection of cards and leave me a comment telling me if you win what will you be using your prize to purchase....... holiday cards or something else.

Do you want more chances to win?

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5) Blog about this giveaway with a link back to my blog earns you 5 extra entries.

 Good Luck!

Disclosure: I was provided with two $50 codes by Cards Direct for writing this blog post. One is for one of my readers and the other is for me.

Pillsbury Love The Pie Review and Giveaway

 Tell me do you love the pie? I love the pie that's for sure. I love eating the pie and I love making the pie. And making a pie with Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts makes baking a pie so much easier then rolling out your own pie crust. Something I have never been very good at.

This is apple season as most of you probably know. And I am very envious of those of you who live in a area where you can go visit an apple orchard, pick your own apples and then go home and bake a pie with the fresh apples. 

Here in Florida there are no apple orchards to be found. If you do live in apple country Taste of Home and Pillsbury have a great site where you can look for a local orchard event near your home. Go check out the map to find an event, plan a day of apple picking with your family and make some memories.

Take some pictures of you and your family making memories of picking the apples and then baking a pie and share it on the Love The Pie Facebook page.

 This past weekend I made some pie baking memories myself using Pillsbury Pie Crusts and I have to say my apple pie turned out awesome. I have an awesome collection of pie recipes but I decided to make the Perfect Apple pie recipe on the Pillsbury pie crust box.

Wow I was not disappointed. The pie turned out better then any other apple pie I have ever baked and my Pillsbury crust was a lovely golden brown.

I was a bit worried because I was out of aluminum foil and didn't figure that out until I was about to put the pie in the oven. Usually the edges of my pie crust get dark or even burn unless I wrap a band of aluminum foil around it as it bakes but take a look at this picture and tell me what you think..........

BEFORE

AFTER

So what do you think?? It looks purdy! and I didn't even have aluminum on it! WOW!

Now I have a couple of pie baking tips I want to share with you. First you know that little bit of lemon juice you always find in an apple pie recipe? Well when you are slicing up your apples pour the juice over the very first slices and toss. As you add more apple slices to the bowl toss the apples around. The lemon juice is what keeps your apples from turning brown. 

My second tip is use an egg wash on your pie crust and sprinkle with sugar all over the crust before you put it in the oven. That tiny bit of sweetness really makes the flavor of your pie crust come out and shine. Try it just once and I promise you will never back another pie with out adding that light dusting of sugar to the crust again.

Giveaway


Do you want to win a 

Pillsbury “Love the Pie” prize pack which includes a VIP coupon for a free sample of Pillsbury® Refrigerated Pie Crusts, a pie dish, and apple themed kitchen items. 

  Rules


Giveaway Open to US residents

Ends November 17th, 2010 11"59 PM eastern


Mandatory Entry

All other entries will be deleted if you do not do this first.


Tell me what your favorite flavor of pie is. It doesn't have to be apple.

Please leave an email address with at least your first comment! I have no way to contact you if you win. I will pick another winner at my own discretion if there is no email address left.

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7) Enter my Wanchai Macaroni Grill Giveaway earn 1 more entry

 

Disclosure: Pillsbury provided me with the products, information, and giveaway through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are my own.

Wanchai Ferry Macaroni Grill Date Night Giveaway

Wanchai Ferry Macaroni Grill  Date Night  Party Pack Giveaway  Do you remember your first date with your husband? I'm sad to say I don't remember my first date with my husband. I really can't say that we had a date per say.  We were both very young. Not more then teenagers if you want to know the truth. We've been together almost thirty years so needless to say the old memory isn't what it used to be.  So when I had a chance to  try out these two great meals I thought it would be great to have a date night.  Well I had everything all planned out, cooked and ready to go but my husband had to work late and I was hungry. He wouldn't be home for hours and I didn't want dinner to dry out and get yucky. So what was I to do with all this food I made? I couldn't eat it all by myself! Well what I did do was invite my daughter and her husband over for dinner. And even though it didn't turn out to be a date night for my husband and I it did turn out to be a very nice dinner with some very good food. Oh and guess what? In all the confusion I forgot to take any pictures. It's too bad too. Both meals were very good. I didn't know for sure if I would like the Macaroni Grill Creamy Basil Parmesan Chicken & Pasta Meal because I am not a big basil fan so I was surprised that I loved it. As much as I loved that meal I have to tell you that I LOVED LOVED the Wanchai Ferry Orange Chicken Meal.  And I have to tell you that my daughter was a bit leary of it because just a few nights earlier she had tried one of the big chain restaurants frozen meals for two in the same flavor and she did not like it at all. After tasting the Wanchai Ferry Orange Chicken she couldn't believe how good it tasted and said it blew the other companies meal out the window and down the road.  So I am going to print out this coupon for $2.25 off any two packages of any flavor of Romanos Macaroni Grill OR Wanchai Ferry Dinner Kits and check out one of their other flavors. Company Product Information  Enjoy an Asian escape with Wanchai Ferry restaurant-inspired dishes by simply adding your own protein to delicious entrees like Cashew Chicken, Spicy Garlic Chicken, Orange Chicken, and Kung Pao Chicken. Or bring the romance of Italian cuisine to your kitchen with Macaroni Grill favorites such as Chicken Piccata and Angel Hair Pasta, Creamy Basil Parmesan Chicken & Pasta, Chicken Alfredo with Linguine, Garlic & Herb Chicken Penne, and Chicken Marsala with Linguine. So stay in and go all out!® Make your meal an experience by perhaps adding some ambiance with candles and flowers. For more information and dinner tips, visit WanchaiFerryAtHome.com and MacaroniGrillAtHome.com. And be sure to follow Macaroni Grill on Twitter and “Like” the Facebook page to keep up with all of the latest news on your Macaroni Grill favorites!  Giveaway Details Win a Wanchai Ferry Macaroni Grill Date Night Prize Pack The Date Night Prize Pack includes One Wanchai Ferry Dinner Kit One Macaroni Grill Dinner Kit and  a  $25 Visa Gift Card to help make your date night special. Open to US residents only Giveaway Ends: Sunday November 14th, 2010 at 11:59 pm, Eastern Mandatory Entry All other entries will be deleted if you do not do this first. 1) Go to the Wanchai Ferry website and come back here and tell me one of the other flavors you would like to try. Leave me a comment with an email address! Extra Entries                                                                 Would you like more chances to win? 2) Follow my Times Are Tuff Blog on Google Friend Connect and leave me a comment letting me know. Two Extra entries. (Leave two comments) 3) Blog about my giveaway with a link back to my blog post earns you 5 extra entries. Leave 5 comments. 4) Follow Timesrrtuff on Twitter and tweet my giveaway. Leave me a comment with the link to your tweet. 2 extra entires 5) Daily tweets earn one extra entry each day. Come back each day and leave a comment with the link to your tweet. 6) Sign up for email updates to my blog earns you 3 entries. You must confirm your email subscription for this to count! 7) Like my Times Are Tuff Facebook pages earns you 5 extra entries. Come leave me a comment with your facebook account name. Disclosure: Wanchai Ferry and Macaroni Grill supplied me with a free product, product information and a prize pack to share with my readers through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are my own.

Brilliant Lenses Cleaner and Optical Microfiber Cloth Review and Giveaway

When the opportunity came around for me to review Brilliant Lenses Cleaner and optical microfiber cloth I jumped right on it for two reasons. One we are a family of eye glass wearers. Four of us wear perscription glasses and my husband wears readers.

My thirteen year old daughter and my 4 year old granddaughter wear glasses. And if you ever had a child that wore glasses you know how hard it is to keep the lenses dirt and smudge free.

The second reason and the one that really had me jump was that my 13 year old loves to use my shirt to clean her glasses. And she prefers the one I am wearing. It didn't matter what material it was made of ........she swore my shirt cleaned her glasses better then anything. 

I can't tell you how many times I have been in stride and she was hanging onto the hem of my shirt rubbing away at the smudges on her eye glasses. It was a big pain in the you know what!

She doesn't do that anymore! The day the package arrived with my sample she snatched it out of my hands and tore it apart. 

She immediately  spritzed the cleaner on her eye glass lenses and buffed them dry with the micro-fiber cloth that comes with the kit. Her glasses were so dirty she actually did it twice to get rid of the built up gunk that was on her glasses. I barely had a chance to clean my own glasses when she stuffed one of the two bottles into the carrying bag and took off.

This is the sad story of my life sometimes lol.

About  Black Diamond Brilliant Lenses

Product Description
Brilliant Lenses Cleaner and optical microfiber cloth. A premium eyeglass cleaner with SR-8 that adds a protective barrier to lenses to resist scratches and soiling from water, sweat, dust and dirt. For ALL types of lenses.

Cleans glass and plastic lenses

Adds scratch resistance to lenses

Contains no Alcohol or ammonia

Great for phones also

Finally a lens cleaner that is Alcohol and ammonia free! Brilliant Idea! When you add in our SR8 scratch resistant coating you now can offer the most advanced cleaner/protector for ALL types of glass or plastic lenses. Double Pack: Two bottles (7ml ea) Brilliant Lenses Cleaner and optical microfiber cloth and carrying bag.

• Cleans Glass & Plastic Lenses
• No Alcohol or Ammonia
• Added scratch resistance with SR-8
• Comes with a Micro Fiber Cleaning Pad
• Also works on Phones, Monitors, and MP3 players!

Brilliant Lenses^TM with SR-8^TM  provides gentle superior cleaning while imparting an invisible durable barrier that resists scratches, soiling and water spots.
Treat Your Lenses with the protection of SR-8

• SR-8 is a Polimer Additive that reduces surface tension making cleaning easier each time it is used.
• SR-8 Coats the lens leaving a protective barrier
• SR-8 Improves scratch resistance
• SR-8 Will not dry out protective coatings

My Thoughts

I love this product! It cleans eye glass lenses squeaky clean. I will have to take their word on it that it prevents scratches. So far we have been very lucky with our glasses and haven't had any accidents that may leave a scratch.

I've also used it on my cheapo sunglasses and it is amazing how clean it gets them after they had been on the bottom of my purse.

The Giveaway

Prize: One lucky reader will win a double pack that comes with two 7ml pump bottles of cleaner, a micro-fiber cloth and carrying bag.

 

Deadline to Enter: October 24th 2010 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

Open to residents of USA only

The winner must provide email contact and address to ship excluding a p.o. box.

The Rules 

REQUIRED: You must include your email address in the comment form. I will need it to contact you should you win. If you do not leave an email address with at least one of your entries I will be deleting all of your entries.

MANDATORY entry. 

All other entries will be deleted if you do not do this first.

LIKE Brilliant Lenses on Facebook

Or

Follow Brilliant Lenses on Twitter @BrilliantLenses

Come back here and leave me a comment letting me know which you have done. Leave your twitter name or facebook name in the comment.

If you have done both. Leave me two comments and you will earn an entry for each one.

EXTRA ENTRIES

Would you like more chances to win?

 
1)  Follow my blog and leave me a comment letting me know for one extra entry

 
2)  Blog about my giveaway and earn five extra entries. Leave five comments with an email address and the link to your blog post.

 
3) Follow me on Twitter and Tweet my giveaway. Leave a  comment with the link one extra entry. You can do this once a day.

4) Sign up for email updates from Times R Tuff earns you 3 more entries. Leave one comment for each.

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5) Like my facebook page earns you 4 more entries. Make sure you leave a comment for all four entries.

Disclosure

I was not compensated for this review other then a free product to try out and one to share with my readers. 

The products was provided free of charge to facilitate my review.  

This Product Was a Free Giveaway

Sponsored by Tomoson.com

Yoplait Go-Gurt Review and Back To School Giveaway

 First I am happy to report that my Tommee Tippee giveaway is an Editors Pick at Prizey.com


Click on the button below to check it out!

This year, going back to school will be cooler than ever with Yoplait Go-Gurt! 

Simply throw a tube of Go-Gurt in the freezer at night and add it to your child’s lunch bag before heading out in the morning.

There is no ice pack needed - Go-Gurt (and Simply… Go-Gurt too!) is specially made to freeze and thaw, keeping the yogurt, and the rest of lunch, cool until lunch time.

With Go-Gurt yogurt in your child’s lunch box, you can feel confident that there will be no snack trading at lunch time since Go-Gurt has a taste and texture that kids love! Moms can feel good about packing Go-Gurt each morning since each portable tube contains a good source of calcium and vitamin D, providing a wholesome addition to a well-balanced lunch. Available in a variety of cool, fun flavors like Strawberry Splash and Chill-Out Cherry, Go-Gurt will quickly become a refreshing classroom favorite.

Ever since Yoplait came out with Go-Gurt they have been a part of our family. My 13 year old daughter loves them and so does my 4 year old grand daughter. And I know they are suppose to be for the kids...but I am guilty of sneaking one or two for myself. Shhh!......Don't tell the kids!

I don't know when everyone starting freezing them but I thought WOW what a great idea. So of course with the sweltering heat here in Florida every time we buy a box I just throw them in the freezer.

I had a chance, thanks to Yoplait and Blogspark to try a out a box of Yoplait Go-Gurt this summer for free. They were also nice enough to send me a great "Keeping Cool in School" prize pack. And offer up a box of Go-Gurt and a Keeping Cool in School proze pack for one of my readers!

The grand daughter who started pre kindergarten lost out on the prize pack. My 13 yr old daughters favorite color is green so she got to take it to school.

I wondered if the frozen yogurt would be enough to keep the lunch cold with the high temps we are having here in Florida. Yes it is still in the 90's here!  My daughter assured me that her Go-Gurt was still cold at lunch and her lunch was fine. 

She is a real stickler when it comes to her lunch. She will not eat it if it gets hot.

Now for the giveaway details. 

Prize: One lucky reader will win a 

 “Keeping Cool in School” Go-Gurt prize pack that includes an insulated lunch tote, mini water bottle, sandwich keeper, cool breeze pen fan, and some fun school supplies for the new school year. 

 Deadline to enter: Sunday September 19th at 11:59 pm

Open to residents of the USA only

RULES

REQUIRED: You must include your email address in the comment form. I will need it to contact you should you win. If you do not leave an email address with at least one of your entries I will be deleting all of your entries.

MANDATORY entry. 

All other entries will be deleted if you do not do this first.

1) Leave a comment telling me which is your childs favorite flavor of Go-Gurt. Never tried Yoplait Go-Gurt? Tell me which of these two flavors your child would like.

Strawberry Splash and Chill-Out Cherry

EXTRA ENTRIES

Would you like more chances to win?

 
2)  Follow my blog and leave me a comment letting me know for one extra entry

 
3)  Blog about my giveaway and earn five extra entries. Leave five comments with an email address and the link to your blog post.

 
4) Follow me on Twitter and Tweet my giveaway. Leave a  comment with the link one extra entry 

5) Sign up for email updates from Times R Tuff earns you 5 more entries. Leave one comment for each. 

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Already a subscriber just say so in the comment!

6)  "Like"  Yoplait on Facebook for one extra entry.

7) Follow Yoplait on Twitter for another entry.

8) If you Stumble, Digg, post a link to your Facebook page or share a link to my giveaway on any social network you get three other entries. Come back to my blog and leave me a comment telling me where you posted the giveaway.

9) Enter my Tommee Tippee giveaway and get two more entities!

Disclosure:  

I was not compensated for this review other then a free product to try out and one to share with my readers. 

The products was provided free of charge to facilitate my review.    

The Yoplait Go-Gurt, prize pack, information and additional prize pack to give away were all given to me by Yoplait through MyBlogSpark.

Good luck!

What a Month!

First off I have been having a good and a bad month. One I won a great CSN giveaway. Two I have been packing to move.

Today is moving day and the thunder is rumbling and the sky is black. Not looking good when you are using an open trailer to move all your belongings.

The good is that it has felt like Christmas around here this week. UPS, Fedex and the USPS have been working their butts off delivering packages to my house this week.

I got almost all of my CSN delivery that I ordered with the gift certificate I won last week weekend. Wow delivery was fast!

Woo Hoo for all the new stuff  but I can't even play with all my cooking goodies that I ordered because of the move.

Today I also received my Boboli Beat The BBQ Boredom Party Pack from House Party.

My party will be on the 14th as we celebrate one of my grand daughters birthdays that day.

Keep an eye out because as soon as I am half way unpacked at the new house I have some great giveaways to put up. So sign up for email updates if you haven't already so you know when the giveaways are up and running!