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Guaranteed Consumer Funding - Get the Electronics You Want while Repairing Your Credit!

In these challenging economic times, many people have taken a financial hit and it has taken a toll on their good credit. But you still must be able to conduct business, enjoy life and have the tools available to do that. You can, with Guaranteed Consumer Funding.
Guaranteed Consumer Funding is one of the leading consumer products [...]

The Walk-O-Long - The Mother of Inventions

Christmas Gift Ideas for Parents!
Seeing a product that solves a basic need always brings an "ah-ha" moment, followed by, "why didn’t I think of this type of product". When Jeff Zinger, the creator of Walk-o-Long could not bend over after having surgery on his back he thought as a first time dad that he should [...]

Declare Your Independent Style with Boot Hugs® Boot Accessories

Love your Ugg™, Emu and similar boots but want a different look? Create your own style? Express yourself? Now you can have your boots and individuality, too. Boot Hugs are a new fashion accessory designed to spruce up your existing boots and add your own unique touch.

Designed to embellish Ugg, Emu and  other [...]

Make Summer Last with Sunny New Products by Sun Sauce

This summer Sun Sauce has developed a new way  for everyone to moisturize and gain a safe and healthy tan with their new Mild Herbal Body Wash with Hemp and Moisturizing Sunless Lotion with Hemp.
Sunny Day The sun has met its match with Sun Sauce Mild Herbal Body Wash with Hemp and Sun [...]

Gadget Fashion: Indigo Dream’s Hand-Painted Bluetooths

Indigo Dreams, a customized accessories and graphic design company based out of Long Beach, CA, has come up with a bold and novel new creation specifically designed with today’s modern, gadget-loving fashionista in mind.  Their amazingly cute, “Customized Hand-Painted Bluetooths” offers a fashionable alternative to the common, plain, and simple bluetooths that just about everyone [...]

New Year’s Eve 2008 Celebrations in L.A.

If you’ve been wondering where to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2008, LA’s The Place has a few suggestions for anyone wanting to party the night away in style and countdown to the New Year. Happy New Year and may 2008 be more than great!
Please be sure not to drink and drive. To help keep New Year’s [...]

RSVP Mediterranean Odyssey Day Three: Messina, Sicily

DAY 3: Messina, Sicily
In Messina we left the ship around 11:00 am.? The first thing we did was to try a gelato since people rave about how great the ice cream is in Italy.? I have to admit that after trying several different flavors of gelato throughout the trip, I’m not sure what the hype [...]

Pawparazzi Pets

Pawparazzi Pets is the newest "it" toy for kids. Making a splash at the 2007 Toy Fair, these interactive dolls are the latest rage.
Each "pet" comes with their own interactive celebrity life.  With individualized personalities, every toy’s adventures can be chronicled on the Pawparazzi website.  Here kids can follow the escapades of their celebrity pet [...]

SAMPAR Skin Care Products Help Fight The Aging Process

No matter how well you take care of your skin, the environment is always one step ahead of you counteracting all your hard work.?Through pollutants in the? air, toxins attack your face, which leaves your skin stripped of moisture, causing the dreadful aging process to accelerate. With their Urban Active Complex, SAMPAR’s skin care products [...]

XUB’Z Functional Neckwear - A Place to Put Everything!

Hate having to manage bulky jackets or purses when traveling, but love the pocket space they afford? Well thanks to international entrepreneur Bernt Kuhlmann there is now a practical and stylish solution to this dilemma. Enter XUB’Z, functional neckwear fitted with pockets to accommodate travel necessities such as passports, credit cards, keys, cell phones and [...]

iHome Presents A Better Way To Wake Up With The iH8 And iH4

Imagine waking up to one of your favorite songs instead of the inane chatter of local dj’s.  As you have thousands of songs that you love on your iPod, why not let one of those tunes start your morning?  iHome, the #1brand in iPod accessories has now made that a possibility.  With their latest additions [...]

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Is The Latest Technology For Movie Makers Of All Kinds

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0, the newest version of the #1 selling consumer video-editing software has been unleashed.? Allowing users to bring home videos to life, Elements 3.0 offers a quick and easy way to create and share each and every masterpiece.
Whether burning footage to a DVD or rearranging clips is required, this software does it [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Provides Mac Users With More Creativity and Control

Targeted at the everyman photographer, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 has made it possible for Mac users to get in on the new and improved editing features. With it’s power and simplicity, users will be able to effortlessly enhance photos, manipulating the new tools which promise to make specific adjustments fast and easy.
Kicking off the [...]

Magellan GPS Navigation Systems: Making Travel Easy

With everything you have to deal with on a daily basis?dropping the kids off at school, deadlines at work, getting the family fed?the last thing you want to think about is how to get from point A to point B. With the advent of personal GPS Navigation systems, the stress has been lifted. Like calculators [...]

Crum Creek Mills Satisfies with Soy Snacks and More

If you think soy has to be a bland, colorless mass of processed vegetable matter, Crum Creek Mills wants you to think again. The company has a whole line of delicious soy snacks, pastas, and pancake and muffin mixes that are ready to enjoy or can be whipped up quickly to satisfy your taste buds [...]

Local Celebrity: Say It Loud, Wear It Proud

Say it with a shirt - a Local Celebrity T-shirt, that is. This line of hip and witty shirts can be seen on celebrities such as Hayden Panettiere, Tori Spelling, Dane Cook, Sean Paul, and Shane West, and it’s been featured in elite magazines such as Nylon, Cosmpolitan, and FHM. Starting in February, Local Celebrity [...]

Plum Organics: Healthy Food for Your Baby

Many mothers know that healthy eating habits start at a very early age.? However, there are currently very few options when it comes to preparing a healthy meal for your young child, aside from spending hours chopping, mashing, and pureeing your own baby food.? Now, mothers all over finally have another option thanks to Gigi [...]

Paging Hair Dr. Spela: It’s a Hair Emergency!

Go back to your roots for healthy hair with Hair Dr. Spela, the total hair clinic. No, we don’t meant cutting off your colorist or saying hasta to your highlights. All you have to change are your habits and your outlook, treating your scalp with the respect it deserves in order to build a strong [...]

MenScience Launches New Antioxidant Supplements For Your Health

MenScience has released a new line in their ?Advanced? nutritional supplement series that will aid in the body?s overall health and well-being.? The first available will be Advanced Antioxidants, which helps support the body?s defense against free radicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis.? Free radicals are known to damage cells in [...]

Milkscreen Offers Nursing Mothers Peace of Mind

You no longer have to worry if with glass of wine you had with dinner last night is being feed to your baby for breakfast the next morning. The ingenious Milkscreen is the first ever at-home breast milk test that analyzes for the presence of alcohol. In less than two-minutes, the test provides mothers with [...]

Stock Up on Stylish Lingerie with In the Mood Intimates, Every Month and Every Day

Underwear has come out of the closet, so to speak, thanks to celebrities and models who are proud to show off their lacy underthings and the red-hot assets contained (barely, sometimes) within. Still, this doesn’t make it any easier for some of us to put aside our shyness and buy these undergarments, especially for other [...]

DYG, DYG - Flawless skin, It’s For Me!

DYG Mineral makeup, can it be real? Pom poms aside, that’s the question I thought as I examined the flawless texture and glow that was my skin.? Finally! A makeup that is beautiful and improves the quality of my skin.? Brilliant.
Of course, what else would you expect from the husband and wife team that brought [...]

Kodak EasyShare Z612 Zoom’s in on the World

Eastman Kodak Company has once again launched an affordable high-quality camera for the amateur photographer as well as for the pros. The new EasyShare Z612 comes with a 12X Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon optical zoom lens with built-in image stabilization. This high level camera offers the user long range perfection as well as crystal clear videos. This [...]

Dermalogica Home Spa Body Therapy Kit

When you can’t get to the spa, bring the spa home with you. Here is everything you’ll need to do-it-yourself in the privacy and comfort of your own home.
Spa Body Therapy Kit
Conditioning Body Wash cleanses and purifies the entire body, leaving skin feeling invigorated.
How it works:
?? Conditioning Body Wash (2.5oz) ?? [...]

Express Your Love With Speaking Roses

With a unique, patented embossing technology, Speaking Roses makes it easy to say “I Love You”, without even saying a word. Their cutting edge technology allows customers to create a personalized gift for any occasion, by sending roses embossed with special messages and images. Every order is personalized to fit that special someone, from the [...]

Personalize Your Chocolate With Translucent Chocolates

Do something different this year and customize your chocolate. Translucent Chocolates offers colorful chocolate or toffee covered nuts, fruits and seeds, all packaged in personalized clear sleek boxes. Colors and nut mixes can be customized to match the flavor of the event or season.
If she loves fashion and chocolate, then these chocolates will [...]

The Right BodyTools for Valentines Day

Well, its that time of the year again, the time for guys to get ready to do everything in their power to woo their loved ones. Valentines Day is less than a month off, and for many guys, the hunt for gifts and goodies for their significant others has already begun.
But amidst the armies [...]

KarmaThreads: Good Karma’s New Clothes

Would you like to dream, hope, laugh often and love more?
Of course you would.  And with inspiring thoughts like these, who could resist wearing those words up front by slipping into the new hip t-shirts from KarmaThreads, a positive messaging apparel company with a mission to give back across the globe.
Fusing vintage flair with [...]

It’s Only Natural: The Aniise Skin Care Line

For some time, the Aniise Skin Care line has been a treasured secret among famous beauties such as Charlize Theron, Lindsay Lohan, and Bahar Soomekh, as well as making its way to Kelly Ripa’s birthday gift bag. But only now is the general public getting a crack at these products, which employ simple, gentle ingredients [...]

Give Your Feet an Ergonomic Treat with Tsubo Shoes

Footwear generally falls into one of two categories- stylish and painful or comfortable and ugly.  There are but a few exceptions and Tsubo rates high among them. Their trendy styles come in hip colors and have oval bubble lined soles that align with various pressure points along the foot for your ergonomic delight. These bubbles [...]

Hollywood?s Leading Ladies and their Latest Indulgence - Caviar Skincare by Elizabeth Grant

The ultimate luxury in skincare - Caviar Rejuvenating Ampoules are launched at the Style Lounge in honor of the Golden Globes.
Some of the biggest names in Hollywood are pampering themselves with the latest product by Elizabeth Grant Skincare - Caviar Rejuvenating Ampoules.? Just in time for the Golden Globes and coming awards season, the luxury [...]

elizabethW Savors the Sweet Smell of Success

Though it’s the least tangible of the senses, smell is oddly powerful. You can’t touch or taste it, but your nose knows, and a wafting scent can bring you back to a treasured memory and of a certain place or time. Such is the inspiration for elizabethW, the perfumery started by Albert Nichols and Michael [...]

Sweetees: Celebrity Style from a Globe-Trotting Californian

Melody Kulp has the Midas touch when it comes to creating fun, flirty styles and trends. Sweetees, her collection of sassy, sexy t-shirts, dresses, tops, and skirts, would win her enough bragging rights for any young entrepreneur, especially when they’re worn by celebrities such as Beyonce, Kate Hudson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Drew Barrymore, to name [...]

The Pashmina Store Equals Affordability, Quality, and Style

Much more than a fad, Pashminas have become a mainstay of every fashionable woman’s wardrobe, and since 2003, The Pashmina Store has been the go-to source for the best-quality pashmina and pashmina-blend scarves, wraps, shawls, and blankets. In addition to providing the finest examples of pashminas available, The Pashmina Store also comes through with fair [...]

J.R. Watkins Brings Affordable, 100% Organic Spices to Store Shelves

Going organic is on everyone’s mind, but it’s not always easy or affordable to track down every tiny ingredient in its organic form. In the past, organic goods have been the domain of the privileged and the gourmet, but J. R. Watkins wants to change that. The company’s Gourmet Pantry products are the first nationally [...]

Kansas City Steaks: Steak House Quality in Your Own Home

Savory and succulent are two words to describe Kansas City Steak Company steaks. Mouthwatering and absolutely delicious are a few more. Maybe its because they use only the finest Western Kansas corn-fed beef. It could also be because the steaks are naturally aged a minimum of 14 days and hand trimmed. Whatever the reason, these [...]

Day Timers - The Secret To Many People’s Success

In this hectic day and age (especially during the holidays), we need every advantage possible to keep us on track and organized, which is exactly what Day Timers has provided for 60 years. Satisfied customers have long been familiar with the company’s planners and paper goods, but Day Timers also features a range of other [...]

The Kyocera Wide Julienne Slicer Mandolin Makes Kitchen Prep Easy

The Kyocera Wide Julienne Slicer Mandolin is the kitchen implement for the rest of us, the ones who didn’t attend cooking school and don’t boast ninja-like knife skills, as hard as we try. True to its name, the Kyocera mandolin can help you get those perfect thin or matchstick-size vegetable slices that seem to magically [...]

Nutrisoda - Sparkling Health in a Can

Look at the soda in your hand - what is it doing for you and your body? If you’re holding a typical soft drink, it’s filling you with empty calories, supplying a false boost of energy, and doesn’t even taste that good. Worse yet, you’re missing out an alternative beverage that can satisfy your thirst, [...]

CocoaBella: An International Chocolate Boutique

CocoaBella Chocolates positions itself as a “chocolate lifestyle” store, offering hot chocolate, toffee, bonbons, baking chocolate, fondue sets, chocolate books, and everything in between - as long as it’s related to the enjoyment and consumption of chocolate. But the store is not only for people in it’s immediate vicinity. CocoaBella has an online store where [...]

Quik Pod Makes Taking Self-Portraits Easy!

The Quik Pod is revolutionizing the way we take pictures. As the first extendable hand-held tripod in the world, it is fast becoming the number one camera and camcorder accessory on the market. Created from the mind of modern-day inventor Wayne Fromm, the ingenious Quick Pod can be best described as an “extendable hand-held tripod” [...]

Cross Pens - A Time-Tested Tradition

You can take your email, text messages, and IMs, but Cross Pens prove that old-fashioned means of communication are still the most stylish. The company has helped Americans send each other words of love and cheer for 160 years, and this holiday season, you can choose from more varieties of affordable and luxurious gifts from [...]

Sumo Lounge - For the Ultimate in Lounging

Nothing beats a good beanbag chair, and Sumo has created the perfect one. Call it a crash mat, lounge chair, loveseat or floor pillow, the one thing everyone agrees upon is that Sumo Lounge beanbag chairs provide the ultimate in cool lounging comfort.
Sleek and stylish, Sumo beanbags are made from space age rip-proof nylon [...]

Brazilian Slim: Support Those New Year’s Resolutions!

We’ve all been there: lounging in lethargic bliss after more than a month of turkey, ham, cookies, pies and pastries. The Holidays can wreak havoc on our waistlines and diets quicker than a Thanksgiving dinner with the in-laws can turn awkward! Fear not, for the timeless tradition of the New Year’s Resolution bring hope for [...]

Discover Ageless Beauty with Isomers Laboratories

Isomers Laboratories is Canada?s most successful line of cutting?edge skin care, cosmetics, and nutritional products. So it comes as no surprise that they should develop two of the greatest beauty breakthroughs: Accelerated Recovery System and Lip Shaper.
Accelerated Recovery Serum is a 14-day age management system designed to reverse the visible signs of aging. Depending on [...]

Penelope Bags - Functionality Never Looked So Good

Penelope Manasco faced the same problem as millions of women in today’s mobile workforce: She couldn’t find a stylish, practical bag that could hold all her belongings yet not weigh her down or make her look dowdy. This physician, pharmaceutical executive, and genetic scientist had had enough, and she did what many of us have [...]

Innovative Beauty Products: TweezLight

It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul, but any self-respecting beauty expert will tell you that the eyebrows truly open up the face. Thanks to the influence of fashion magazines and glamorous celebrities, eyebrows are enjoying their time in the spotlight. But you don’t need to book an appointment at [...]

Kena Kai Functional Bandanas

In a new twist on the classic bandana. Kena Kai has created not only fun & stylish bandanas, but functional ones as well. In a category that has seen virtually no innovation since its birth, they have launched bandanas in two grades of ?Microfiber? in five different designs. Microfiber is a technical fabric that is [...]

Innovative Mother’s Helpers - The Miracle Blanket

Miracle Blanket for Newborns
Baby blankets sure are cute, with their baby animal designs and colorful fabrics, but not many of them can truly meet the needs of vulnerable newborns and their equally overwhelmed parents. Enter the Miracle Blanket, a true swaddling blanket that secures and comforts your baby to help it (and you) sleep at [...]

Innovative Beauty Products: 95 and Sunny Crystal Glass Manicure Files

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Long ignored, nails and nail decorations have emerged as another way to tell the world that you care and take pride in the way you present yourself. Nail salons are essential stops on the beauty trail, as you let the specialists pamper and take care of you. But how do you know that your nail [...]

Title Boxing Equipment at TitleBoxing.com

Boxing is no longer a sport for guys with Brooklyn accents and smashed noses. It has become as trendy as pilates and a great way to stay in shape. Having a boxing membership at your neighborhood boxing gym competes with the yoga studio down the street. Men, women?even kids are taking part.

And with the increase [...]

Get Your Glow on With glominerals Skin-Nurturing Makeup

Now you can have as much cake as you want without gaining a pound, and no, I?m not talking about the next miracle diet drug. And this cake will leave you with a vibrant glow, not the need for a gym membership. Were talking about glominerals, the hottest mineral makeup line, and its uniquely formulated [...]

The New Adobe Elements 5.0: Most User-Friendly With the Best Features Yet

For more years than most people can remember, Adobe Photoshop has ruled the land as the top image editing program on the market, but its hefty price tag - and its steep learning curve - has kept it almost exclusively in the realm of professionals. Fortunately, Adobe offers a simpler version of the app. Adobe [...]

A “Spruce Goose” of a Pillow

Going to bed with the finest of Hungarian goose down is the closest you will ever get to having Mother Goose read you a bedtime story. But, the only story you will hear will be the sound of your ear sinking into the finest, softest and lightest down - the secret ingredient to Three Sheets [...]

Soda Club - Glass of Bubbly, Anyone?

Even if you’re too young to remember the golden age of the soda fountain, you’re probably familiar with its charms and its legend. Back then, you could take a stool at the counter and order up a tall, fizzy soda. The fresh and refreshing drink bubbled up on your tongue, and because it was custom [...]

Cameron Hughes Wine: Affordable Fine Wine

It’s based out of a condo in San Francisco, it delivers delicious wine at amazing prices, it’s won loads of critical acclaim, it’s a brilliant idea that no one else has thought of, and it doesn’t own a single vineyard or ferment a drop of wine - which part of the Cameron Hughes Wine story [...]

Blue Man Group Instruments: Bring Home the Kid-Friendly Fun

Music is one of the most powerful, yet mysterious forms of art. Nearly everyone enjoys it in one form or another, but few artists can make it both unique and accessible, especially on a mass scale, which is why the worldwide success of the Blue Man Group seems all the more improbable. When the trio [...]

Me! Bath Home Spa Delights

Me! Bath?s bath Ice Cream is a big scoop of the yummiest combination of super fizzling bath salts, heavenly delicious natural scents and all natural essential oils. This overabundant scoop of ?ice cream? turns your bath into an aromatic delicious spa experience. Filled with essenital oils, minerals, scents and flowers, Bath Ice Cream fizzes [...]



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