Green Your Mom Giveaway Hop

It's time for the 2nd Annual Green Your Mom Giveaway Hop, hosted by Happy Mothering and Green Moms Network! I'm so happy to be a member of GMN and be able to bring this to you! 

Many blogs are participating and all have prizes valued at $25+ to help you "Green Your Mom" (or yourself) this Mother's Day!

Mama Making Changes has partnered with two sponsors for Green Your Mom for a total of approximately $75 in prizes!

Ethical Consumer Magazine is available in print and online. For full access to their website, including pdf versions of current and past issues of the print magazine and other wonderful features, you must be a paid subscriber at www.ethicalconsumer.org. However, for the Green Your Mom Giveaway Hop, Ethical Consumer is giving one lucky winner a one year subscription for FREE! Read my full review of ethicalconsumer.org by clicking here.

GAC Filters are reusable filters for water bottles. Each carbon filter is about the size of a tea bag and is reusable for up to 50 liters of water. When it's time for a new one, the old one is compostable! GAC Filters is giving our lucky giveaway winner a $25 gift certificate to www.gacfilters.com! Click here to read my full review of the GAC Filter.

Use the Rafflecopter below to enter to win both of these prizes for your mom or for yourself this Mother's Day! 

After entering my giveaway, be sure to visit the other blogs listed under the Rafflecopter form form for your chance to win more green mom giveaways.

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Green Your Mom Giveaway Hop Returns

Mama Making Changes just joined the 2nd Annual Green Your Mom Giveaway Hop! 

This event starts May 1, 2013, and MMC is working with EthicalConsumer.org to bring you a prize valued at nearly $50!

If you're a blogger, just click the button in this post or the button in the sidebar at right to go sign up. It's easy! Just add your blog to the linky and post the button. Promoting is optional, but the more we promote the bigger the event will be!

Bamboo Comforter Giveaway

Your child spends about 3,650 hours sleeping in their bed each year. Conventional fabrics used to make comforters and blankets contain all kinds of chemicals, pesticides, and even highly toxic fire retardants. It is so important to invest in natural, non-toxic bedding for their well being when possible. Wouldn't you agree it is more important than the latest toys, gadgets, or entertainment? That's why the generous folks at Cozy Earth are giving one of you a chance to win this twin size bamboo comforter!

The Cozy Earth Bamboo comforter is hand-crafted with the utmost care and attention to detail. It naturally regulates temperature and is perfect for hot and cold sleepers. The shell and the filling naturally wick away moisture from the body, reducing humidity that causes you to be hot or cold. Made from Eco-friendly bamboo, it is a healthy alternative to down, polyester, or conventionally grown cotton. You can read the full review of the Cozy Earth Bamboo Comforter over at Eco-Babyz and see some photos!

Our Favorite Features: 

• Naturally anti-microbial, anti-fungal
• Inhospitable to bed bugs and dust mites
• Fabric stays white and doesn't 'yellow' or 'grey' over time
• Regulates temperature
• Made of Eco-friendly bamboo
• Luxurious, sleek, and silky feel

Purchase: The Cozy Earth Bamboo Twin Comforter retails for $319.99, you can purchase it on the Cozy Earth website. Every purchase supports a charity!

Win One! Cozy Earth is blessing one of you with a Twin Bamboo Comforter for you or your child.

Mama Making Changes would like to send out a special thanks to Eco-Babyz and So Easy Being Green for hosting this giveaway. Huge thanks to all participating bloggers as well! Giveaway ends December 13th at 12:01 am, open worldwide, ages 18+. To enter please use the Rafflecopter form below. Thank you!

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Disclaimer: I received no compensation for this publication. Eco-Babyz, So Easy Being Green, and Cozy Earth Bamboo Twin Comforter Giveaway Event bloggers are not responsible for sponsor prize shipment. 

Model Ship Giveaway

Now that November is here, people across the world have holiday shopping on their minds. If you’re looking for a unique holiday gift idea for the man or boy in your life, you’ll love this giveaway! I’ve teamed up with Happy Mothering, Model-Ships.co.uk and an SEO company in India to offer you a chance to win a $200 gift voucher so you can order the realistic model ship of your choice! Model-Ships.co.uk, one the leading ship manufacturing companies in the UK, offers more than 600 models to choose from! Their model ship selection includes

Winter Wonderland Giveaway Hop

Announcing The Winter Wonderland Blog Hop...

I am excited to announce the team up of Andersons Angels and Joy of Momma Joyner once again to bring you another FUN blog hop called Winter Wonderland! This event will run from 12:01am EST Saturday December 1, 2012 through 11:59pm EST Saturday December 15, 2012. It's super easy to join in on all the fun of getting ready for the Winter Season!



Sign-ups are open now, so head on over to add your blog to the Linky. Be sure to tell them that Mama Making Changes sent you!

Mama Making Changes will have a two great prizes for this giveaway: one sponsored by BeeAlive and another sponsored by Sprout San Francisco for a total of more than $100 in prizes! 

Fall Into Books Giveaway Hop

Mama Making Changes is excited to announce participation in the Fall Into Books Giveaway Hop! This hop, hosted by Literary Addicts,  will run from September 17 to September 30, 2012. It's a bibliophile's dream! Each book-themed giveaway will have a minimum value of $10. 

If you've never participated in a giveaway hop, it's easy and fun! After you enter here to win my giveaway, click on one of the links at the bottom of this post to go to the next giveaway. Each giveaway will have the same list, so you can keep hopping from blog to blog till you enter them all! 

Mama Making Changes is happy to be able to partner with Ellis Jones, PhD, author of The Better World Shopping Guide, for this giveaway hop.  We will be giving away 9 copies of the 3rd edition of this useful pocket guide to the best and worst companies. The report card style grades that he gives them are based on five areas of responsibility: environmental sustainability, animal protection, human rights, community involvement, and social justice. For more information on The Better World Shopping Guide, check out the Sponsor Spotlight post. 

Each of our 9 winners will receive one copy of The Better World Shopping Guide and a bookmark. Giveaway is open to residents of the US only. 

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Too Cool for School Giveaway and Sponsor Spotlight: Glass Dharma

Welcome to the Too Cool For School Giveaway Hop hosted by BloggerPR! Summer has come to an end, which means it is time to send the kids back to school. Parents are scrambling to replenish their school supplies collection and get all of the requirements on those supplies lists, so BloggerPR decided to host a giveaway hop to help everyone win some of those back to school necessities!  This event will run from September 1st through 9th, which gives you plenty of time to hop down the linky list below! Each blogger is giving away prizes valued $20 or more, so you don’t want to miss out! Good luck and have a great school year!

I first learned about Glass Dharma on another blog and fell in love with the idea of glass straws immediately. Glass Dharma is changing the planet, one straw at a time! I was so excited that this company wanted to work with Mama Making Changes and they sent me 4 straws to review and keep. Here they are:

Let me tell you a little about the "what" and "why" behind Glass Dharma.

Plastic, which is often made from petroleum, releases harmful chemicals into the atmosphere when it is produced and when it is recycled. Much plastic is never recycled at all, meaning it sits in landfills, where it can take hundreds of years to decay. As it decays, most plastics leach chemicals into the ground, which contaminates ground water and soil. Some never decay because of conditions in the landfills. 

Most straws are not even recyclable! And most are made from petroleum, which is a finite resource as we all know from watching the prices at the gas pump! According to Ecocycle, Americans use an average of 1.6 straws per person per day. That adds up to more than 500 million straws per year in America alone! Nearly every one of those straws goes in the garbage!

Decorative Dots on Glass Dharma Straws

Glass Dharma has a beautiful, affordable, and eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws! Their gorgeous glass straws come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. I received four to review and I loved them all. My favorite is the bent straw! You can also choose whether you want short or long, wide or narrow. Glass Dharma also offers decorated straws, that have colorful dots, also made of glass, attached at the upper end of the straw, just so you can show off a little!  

Worried that your straws will break? Afraid to let the kids use them? All of the straws have a lifetime guarantee against breakage, so no need to worry about that! And if you want to take it with you so that you don't use plastic straws on the go, Glass Dharma sells 100% hemp bags in assorted colors that will keep your straw clean while it travels in your purse, pocket, or anywhere else!

Cleaning brushes come in two sizes.

For washing your straw, Glass Dharma sells a special cleaning brush that you can add to your order. The brush is made of stainless steel with medical grade nylon bristles, so one $5 brush will last through years of cleaning your glass straws. 

Glass Dharma also does fundraisers. What a great way to spread awareness. Talk to your organization about selling glass straws to raise money and you can educate people at the same time. Let's put a dent in that 500 million.

Happy to test the smoothie straw!

Can you sense my excitement? I am crazy about these straws! And the best part is yet to come! Glass Dharma is giving one lucky reader a $25 gift certificate to use for anything on their site! Can we say "YAY!" ? 

Check back September 1- 9 to enter the giveaway, which is part of the Too Cool For School Giveaway Hop, sponsored by Blogger PR. In the meantime, take a look at the Glass Dharma website and tell me what you think. Are you as excited as me about having a glass straw to take with you everywhere you go?

Disclaimer: I received products to keep in exchange for an honest review of the products on this site. I have not received money for this review and all of the opinions expressed are my own. 

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Spa for Ma 2012

I am so excited to announce that Mama Making Changes has joined the 2nd annual Spa for Ma event, which will be open from August 17 to August 31, 2012! Spa for Ma is a blog hop giveaway event sponsored by MeasuringFlower, featuring a prize of $50 or more in value on each participating blog, each prize designed to help moms relax as the kids head back to school! 

There is also going to be a grand prize giveaway! The first grand prize is $105 cash, sponsored by Spring Coin. 

The second grand prize is a Kindle Fire, complete with a cover of your choice and a $50 Amazon giftcard! Covers can be up to $50 and may be chosen at Amazon.com. 

To enter the Grand Prize Giveaways, just click here or use the first link on the list of participating blogs at the end of this post. 



I'm looking forward to this event. Here at Mama Making Changes, our prize is a sun protective  Colleen jacket from Mott 50, with a retail value of $110!!!! Click here to read the review I wrote after receiving one to try. It's beautiful and soft and you'll love it for relaxing by the pool or anywhere else! 

After you enter my giveaway, be sure to hop over to some of the other participating blogs and enter to win even more relaxing prizes. The links to the participating blogs are below the Rafflecopter.
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Disclaimer: Facebook is in no way associated with this event. Measuring Flower and its writers are not responsible for sponsors who do not deliver their prizes.