My husband thinks he needs a new watch every year. Christmas rolls around and I can bank on a comment of “A really nice watch would be nice this year.” I guess he forgets about all the other nice watches he has. Which, he got every other year for either Valentine’s Day, Christmas, his birthday. Come on, how many watches does a man need? Apparently it’s like shoes for woman for some men. I guess everybody has their thing, right?

The Watchery sells luxury watches like this beautiful Harry Winston at a HUGE discounted price. I’ve spent some time looking around on their website and I’ve completely fallen head over heels a lot of what they’re offering. One aspect that I LOVE is that if you purchase a watch from them they will give you a free watch! You could get 2 Christmas, birthday, father’s day… whatever holiday it is presents for the price of 1! Father’s Day is right around the corner, and you know your dad and husband would love a luxury watch! If you don’t like any of the watches they offer for free you can say – No thanks to those and take 80% off of a large selection of other watches. They even have Ebel watches at a price I’ve never seen before. My husband would LOVE this!

Then you definitely need to step away from the store bought Brithday Cards that you send out every year and listen to what I have to say. Cards Direct is a website that allows you to customize birthday cards to say anything that you want it to.
I absolutely LOVE the way this card looks. Being able to personalize it into what I want it to say and the fact that it’s half the price that store cards would be ROCKS!! They sell these cards in bulk and I kinda like that. I like how I will be able to have a custom birthday card that I will send out to everyone on their birthdays throughout the year. Plus, you won’t have to worry about putting your return address on the envelopes provided, because they will do it for you!

The process is so incredibly easy! You go through, pick out the card you like and then personalize it to say what YOU want it to say. You could even add your company logo and order in bulk if it’s the “company” birthday card that you give to everyone.

They have so many more things to offer including picture cards, which you could do some cool invitations with. Go check it out and be the talk of your social circle, because you have better, customized cards and they don’t!

I started this blog last year to start making a record of our family history. I wanted one solid, concrete place to keep everything that is important to me. After I started my blog it became a place that my friends and family from California could go to see pictures and videos of the kids. From there my blog turned into a place where I began to meet other bloggers and I found this community that is different from any that I’ve ever experienced. The advice that I’ve received from these bloggin’ mamas has been a major asset to my life.

Like I announced before I’ve started to use my blog to also start making money. I’m going to be paid to advertise on my blog and some might think that what I’m doing is wrong. I’m exposing my children more and I’m taking what was supposed to be a blog for my family and turning it into a cha ching site. That’s okay with me. I thought long and hard before I made this decision and I found more pros than cons. This is a way that I will be making extra money for my family. I most definitely will still be blogging about my family, my faith & everything else I was blogging about before I started advertising on my blog. There’s nothing wrong with doing things that will help out your family financially.

I have found a community for advertisers and bloggers that I am excited to have come across. It’s called SocialSpark. They have opportunities that they post that you can write about certain products and get paid for them. The owners of Payperpost (IZEA) have made this community and it is the best place to be able to make a direct connection with advertisers out there. I joined this community yesterday and have had a great time going around and viewing other people’s profiles and seeing how they go about advertising on their blogs.

The only flaw that I have found is that it takes a while for your blog to get verified. I’m hoping that my blog verification is approved soon so I can start taking advantage of the opportunities that I’ve seen on there.

To see what the profiles look like CLICK HERE. That’s my profile and if you browse around you might actually like it and want to take advantage of this cool community that I’ve found. Think about the things you could do with the extra money you make. My plan is for the money to go straight into savings and put some towards family vacations and some towards the kids college funds. Maybe you have something you would like to advertise. Then go there and you can get people all over the blog world to advertise what it is that you want everyone to know about… even if it’s your website.

so why not get paid right? I’ve joined up with an amazing company called PayPerPost, which I’ve spent a couple of days reading about. It’s a site based on blog marketing and I just got my approval email and I’m SO EXCITED to get started!! I’m always using all different types of things and love to share my opinions on them for all of my readers/lurkers/friends – heck you’re all the same thing – The best part about it is now I’m going to get some fun cash for talking about these things. Cash that can be put aside into a savings account for the kids, or for a family vacation.

Look on my sidebar and you’ll see a lovely blue button and if you have something that you want me to write about click on that, fill out the form and I’ll write about it! It’s a great way to advertise anything you’re selling – I have a wide variety of readers, so if you have a small business what a great way to get the word out. If you have a large business then, heck, MY BLOG is still a great way to get the word out. If you don’t have a business or a product or an opinion you’d like me to share, then I’m sure you have a friend that does!! Stay tuned for my first review…..