Product Review & Giveaway - Love Your Breed

~ Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 11:40 AM ~

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.

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Love Your Breed

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."

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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!

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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!

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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!)

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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!

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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?

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 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.

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Product Review - Unotelly

~ Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 7:47 AM ~

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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."

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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.

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You can find out more from www.unotelly.com

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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.

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Product Review & Giveaway - Fake Food Japan

~ Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 11:50 AM ~

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)":

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About the sponsor:
"Fake Food Japan prides itself in bringing you true works of art. Our handmade fake food are carefully designed and crafted from the most skilled in the industry right here in Osaka, Japan, where the fake food industry got its start in 1932. Starting our operations in 2012, our mission is to give people spanning the globe the opportunity to own and enjoy for themselves this Japanese time-honored craft of producing the most authentic looking fake food known to man.

So by all means, take a look through our web site to see all that is possible. And if you can't find what you are looking for, please let us know. We can take customized orders to create for you specialized one-of-a-kind items that you won't find anywhere else! And for our Japan-based customers, you can visit our sister Japanese site from this link: http://www.fakefoodjapan.net/ "

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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!

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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.

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