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I stumbled upon a Tweet message by the awesome people who made "Olly the Little White Van" looking for bloggers to review their latest series. My 3 years old boy enjoys watching shows like Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder, Postman Pat and after checking out "Olly the Little White Van", I replied them asking whether they are OK with international bloggers, and my oh my, they are happy to provide a copy of their latest DVD season 3 for my review!

Via our private messages, I honestly told them that we've never watched any of the episodes before and hope that they will not mind us reviewing their series and wow, they even sent me the first 2 seasons DVDs for us together! WoohOoOoOo!

Description from the product page:
"Olly the Little White Van is a 52-part series of 5-minute episodes aimed at preschoolers around the world.

Season 1 launched on ITV and CITV  in June 2011, with Season 2 (Another 13 episodes) first airing in January 2012.  Season 3 launched a further 13 in May 2012, and Season4 is due to break after the summer. Award-winning writers, animators and composers are working together in top-end, privately-funded UK facilities to create the series, which was conceived and is being driven by Henry Becket."

More clips and info can be found at: http://www.ollythelittlewhitevan.co.uk/

It's not often I get to see my 3 years old boy getting all excited and engrossed watching something! I love that there are other vehicles in this series, Ben loves watching Royston the fire engine! So there is no surprise that Ben keep on watching some of the episodes with Royston in it, such as the 'Bird Watching' in season 1 and 'Olly the Little Red Fire-van' in season 3. 

Of course, my boy loves watching Olly as well and from time to time, I caught my boy singing the theme song of this series! Cute! And yes, I will end up singing along with him as well!

I love that each episodes is just 5 minutes long, enough to keep the attention span of an active child like mine and I also enjoy the music and song in each episodes.

I also use the opportunity when watching the series to explain to my 3 years old boy the lessons to be learned such as to be helpful, neat and polite among many of the good habits to cultivate.

Look at the picture below! Both my 3 years old boy and 10 months old girl enjoy watching "Olly the Little White Van"! Wonderful!

You can get this DVD and many more products at http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/corgi-toys/olly-the-little-white-van/

Yes! There is an app for "Olly the Little White Van" and it is free! I do want to share my feedback that the app sometimes hangs and I'm not sure why, the app just does not seem to detect our touch responses on the screen.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the DVDs 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 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.

Description from the product page:
"Unotelly is a DNS-based system that allows to its customers to watch their favorite TV channels wherever they are, with any device they have, without restrictions. With few words, it's an online TV service that bypass geographic limitation.

Unotelly works with all the devices. PC, Mac, linux,PS3, XBOX360, Wii, iphone, ipad, itouch, androids, playbook, WD TV Live, Roku, boxee box, OpenElec, XBMC, Apple TV, Google TV, LG smart TV, Sony TV and players, Panasonic VIERA, Samsung TV and players and all rooters including DD- WRT.

Unotelly Provides to its customers more than 25 channels. Some of them are Netflix, HuluPlus, CWTV, Amazon, BBC and MTV. You can see our entire list of channels in this address: http://www.unotelly.com/unodns/channels. What is most important it is very simple to set up. Even a novice at Internet can easily set up it and watch his/her favorite TV channels."

When I received the email asking me to review this product, I researched further and was intrigued, I mean, to be able to watch so many channels and no need to worry about my geographic location? That sounds intriguing and of course, I decided to give it a try. Now, I am not that IT savvy when it comes to hardware (yes, I used to be in IT line but I'm an ex-programmer not hardware or techie person) or gadgets stuff so I have to rely on my hubby to set up the necessary for me.

Firstly, the instructions to set up Unotelly are fairly simple but I prefer to leave it in the hands of my hubby hahahaha... Anyway, it took him just a few seconds to run through the instructions and a few minutes to install and run the system.

As parents, the first channel we go to is kids related channels such as Discovery Channel and Cartoon Network (we are not a fan of Disney channel actually and only watch this channel when we are on holidays since the hotel we stayed in normally has this channel).

Based on hubby's observation after playing around and checking out some channels, our feedback on this system are:

* It is easy to setup the system.

* There are various channels available which can be viewed online regardless our locations.

* Although we can go to other channels, we still have to set up or register accounts with the respective channels in order to view those channels. My hubby expressed his disappointment in this area as our initial expectations on this system is we are able to immediately watch the channels instead of still needing to go to the respective channels' website and needing to create an account in order to watch the channels.

* However, my hubby did mentioned that the good thing with this system is we can watch HuluPlus channel (http://www.hulu.com) as being in Malaysia, we get this message "Sorry, currently our video library can only be watched from within the United States" when we try to access the website.

To sum up my feedback, Unotelly is a wonderful system which provides us to many channels available overseas.

You can find out more from www.unotelly.com

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the Gold membership account by Unotelly 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.