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Wear Your Music: Guitar String Bracelets: Review & Giveaway

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I love Rock & Roll. I also love cool jewelry. When you combine the two? BAM! Super awesome!!

I recently heard about wear your music.org from fellow Rhody Blogger, Hannah Garrison and I knew, immediately, that I wanted to check it out!

Wear your music.org was founded by Steve Bernstein (Zenbu Media, LLC) and Hannah Garrison (Garrison Design, LLC) The two met through a craigslist ad that Steve posted, and the rest is history (You can read more about that HERE)

The company was built on the four pillars of Music, Sustainability, Fashion & Charity. The company has three main collections:

The Strings Collection features one-size-fits-all guitar and bass string bracelets guitar string rings and keychains. They come in a variety of colors!

The Rock Recycled Collection features guitar string bracelets and earrings made from recycled strings collected from earth-conscious students and budding musicians around the globe.

The Famous Artists Collection is made from strings donated by famous artists like Eric Clapton, Ani Defranco, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Frampton and many more incredibly awesome musicians. Oh!  And 100% of net profits go to the artists’ chosen charity!

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I’m IN LOVE with my wear your music.org bracelets! My favorite colors are Totally Teal, Punk Pink and Groovy Green.

I also love the “classic” Simply Silver, Backstage Black and Guitar Gold! They go with everything!

Wear Your Music bracelects come in many colors including traditional black, gold and silver

The bracelets are unisex and even my total “man’s man” of a husband thinks they are cool! He likes the Backstage Black Bass String Bracelet the best, but would totally rock the Simply Silver, too. (He draws the line at Punk Pink…hey, can’t win ’em all!)

Wear Your Music bracelets are unisex

Oh, and remember that whole “one-size fits all” thing?  It’s true!  Even Avery can wear them while composing the next great symphony…or something.

Even kids love Wear Your Music bracelets!

Learn more about wear your music.org by visiting their WEBSITE, FACEBOOK, and TWITTER!

And now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the GIVEAWAY!!!

Four..that’s right!  FOUR lucky readers will win their very own bracelet from the Strings Collection!

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Sing Into Spring with Disney Junior!

I was sent a complimentary collection of Disney Music CDs as part of Entertainment New Media Network. All opinions are my own! 
Sing Into Spring with Disney music!If you  ever pulled up along side of me at an intersection I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll see me rocking out. Odds are pretty good that I’m rocking out to music from Disney Junior. Avery will probably be in the car with me, but…I may be alone…

Seriously.

I LOVE the music, I can’t help it, it’s just THAT good!

With Easter rapidly approaching, I know many parents are looking for items to fill Easter baskets that don’t include mass amounts of sugar! I’m one of those parents, and often it can be difficult!  You don’t want to buy junky toys that you’ll just end up throwing out by May, you don’t want another stuffed animal..so what do you buy?

This year I’m getting Avery books and music! The Disney Junior soundtracks are PERFECT!

Spring into Spring with Disney Junior musicWe love them, and Avery isn’t shy about shouting out which CD (thank goodness for the 6 CD changer) and what song (Hooray steering wheel controls!)

“JAKE MOMMA!!!!!  NOOOO!!! NOT THIS ONE!!  YO HO SONG!!  NO! DJ SHUFFLE!! I WANT CLOVER SONG!! BOO WIBBON BUNNY!!! DOC SONGS!! LAMBIE!!! STUFFY!!!!”

Even Dave enjoys them! He really does! Our family sings along to all our favorites! And Dave and I *may* sing in the characters voices…we *might* just think we’re absolutely hilarious.
Doc McStuffins The Doc Is In CD from Disney! Sing into Spring!

Tracks Include:

Doc McStuffins Theme Song
Time for Your Check Up
Everyone Gets Hurt Sometimes
I Feel Better
A Lambie Like You
Nobody Wants a Broken Toy
Wash Your Hands
Do What the Doctor Says
When You Need a Friend
Made in the Shade
Water Water
Eat Good Food
Take Care
You’re Gonna Grow
Because You’re You
Loud Loud Louie
Bop, Bop, Bop
Look Great in Glasses
Be Good to Your Tummy
Let’s Play Outside
Brush Your Teeth
Get Your Sleep On
Dinosaur Stomp
Stars Stars
Everybody in the Pool
Close Your Eyes

Jake and the Neverland Pirates Yo Ho Matey CD music from Disney Junior! Sing into Spring!Tracks Include:
Lead the Way Jake
Pirate Rock Recipe
Gold Doubloons
Pirate Island Hideout
Bubbly Blue
The Codfish Reel
Hook’s Hooks
Belay
Never Bugs
Rattle Yer Bones
Bootbuckle
X
Tiki Tree Limbo
Starfish Serenade
Buccaneer Bike Ride
Pirate Pogo
Sea Legs
Yo Ho Mateys (Ship Hop) Away
Goodbye Crew
Disney Junior DJ Shuffle CD Sing IntoSpring!

Tracks Include:

 DJ Shuffle (Parry Gripp)
Sofia the First Main Title Theme (Sofia the First)
Blue Ribbon Bunny (Sofia the First)
Friendship Is the Formula (Sofia the First)
Hoppin’ Out With You (Sofia the First)
Jake and the Never Land Pirates (Swashbucklin’ Version) (Jake and the Never Land Pirates)
Roll Up the Map (Jake and the Never Land Pirates)
Bubbly Blue (Jake and the Never Land Pirates)
Swamp Stomp (Jake and the Never Land Pirates)
Time for Your Check Up (Doc McStuffins)
Ready for Action (Doc McStuffins)
Picture You (Doc McStuffins)
Stuffy the Great (Doc McStuffins)
Hot Dog! (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse)
Choo Choo Boogie (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse)
Minnie’s Bowtique (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse)
Henry Hugglemonster Main Title (Henry Hugglemonster)
I’ve Got Pizzazz (Henry Hugglemonster)
To Monsterschool (Henry Hugglemonster)
The Hugglemonster Way (Henry Hugglemonster)
Heromonsters Woohoo! (Henry Hugglemonster)
Sheriff Callie’s Wild West Theme Song (Sheriff Callie’s Wild West)
Picture Perfect (Sheriff Callie’s Wild West)
Amazing Lucky Scarf (Sheriff Callie’s Wild West)
Ask for Help (Sheriff Callie’s Wild West)
DJ Shuffle (Instrumental)
Blue Ribbon Bunny (Instrumental)
Jake and the Never Land Pirates (Swashbucklin’ Version) (Instrumental)
Time for Your Checkup (Instrumental)

Disney's FROZEN Soundtrack! Sing into Spring!

Tracks Include:

Frozen Heart
Do You Want To Build a Snowman
For the First Time in Forever
Love is An Open Door
Let it Go performed by Idina Menzel
Reindeer are Better Than People
In Summer
For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)
Fixer Upper
Let it Go – End Title performed by Demi Lovato
Score

If you have older kids, Disney has CDs that may be more up their alley!  Austin & Ally: Turn It Up Soundtrack, DC Play it Loud and of course, the Teen Beach Movie Soundtrack!

What CD are you, err, I mean, YOUR KIDS, most interested in?

 

Check back next week for a fun Disney Giveaway!

 

Rockin’ Out to the Disney Classics CD Collection

disney classics cd collection

I love Disney. I love it so much. I love the parks, I love the movies, I love the TV shows and boy, oh boy do I LOVE the music!!

Over the years Ive purchased movie soundtracks and smaller collection CDs here and there. I’ve searched itunes for park music, I’ve asked friends to share some of their mp3s. But I never felt like I had “everything” so many songs were missing. I wished for and dreamed of a CD or playlist that included everything from Park music to TV shows and everything in between.

Well, Disney read my mind, and they released the Disney Classics CD box set on November 12th!  The 4 CD set has it ALL!  The collection gives you 94 original recordings from Disney and Disney-Pixar movies, television shows and theme parks celebrating nearly 90 years of Disney musical magic.

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The Theme Park Classics CD includes treasures like “Grim Ginning Ghosts,” “Golden Dream,” and “One Little Spark.” Television Classics has everything from “Mickey Mouse March” to “Duck Tails Theme” and one of Avery’s favorites “Hot Dog” from Mickey Mouse Club House!  If you love the music from the older Disney films, you’ll absolutely adore the Timeless Classics CD with favorites like “Little April Shower” from Bambi and “When I See an Elephant Fly” from Dumbo. And the 4th CD is the set, Modern Classics, with get you signing along with “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” and “Under The Sea”

Our family absolutely LOVES this CD set!  It’s wonderful to have music that we can all enjoy, and sing along to, on all our long road trips (and the short trips too!) If you love all things Disney, then I suggest you run (or dance) over to your favorite retailer and pick up this box set for yourself, you definitely wont regret it!

For more information on the box set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOhG0dtZtKI   For more information on Walt Disney Records’ releases, please visit Disney.com/music, become a fan at Facebook.com/disneymusic or follow on Twitter.com/disneymusic.

 

Disney Modern Classics

1. Under the Sea – The Little Mermaid

2. Be Our Guest – Beauty and The Beast

3. Seize the Day – Newsies

4. A Whole New World – Aladdin

5. What’s This? – Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

6. Circle of Life – The Lion King

7. Colors of the Wind – Pocohontas

8. You’ve Got a Friend in Me – Toy Story

9. Out There – The Hunchback of Notre Dame

10. I Won’t Say (I’m in Love) – Hercules

12. The Time of Your Life – A Bug’s Life

13. Strangers Like Me – Tarzan (Phil Collins)

14. When She Loved Me – Toy Story 2

15. Whopp-de-Dooper Bounce – The Tigger Movie

16. If I Didn’t Have You – Monsters, Inc.

17. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride – Lilo & Stitch

18. Look Through My Eye – Brother Bear

19. One Little Slip – Chicken Little

20. Happy Working Song – Enchanted

21. Dig a Little Deeper – The Princess and The Frog

22. I See the Light – Tangled (Mandy Moore)

23. We Belong Together – Toy Story 3

Disney Theme Park Classics

1. The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room – Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room

2. Swisskapolka – Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse

3. Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me) – Pirates of the Caribbean

4. Splash Mountain Medley – Splash Mountain

5. The Bear Serenade – Country Bear Jamboree

6. Grim Grinning Ghost – Haunted Mansion

7. It’s a Small World – it’s a small world

8. There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow – Carousel of Progress

9. The Great Outdoors – Country Bear Vacation Hoedown

10. Space Mountain – Space Mountain

11. Soarin’ – Soarin’ Over California

12. It’s Tough to Be a Bug – It’s Tough to Be a Bug!

13. California Screamin’ – California Screamin’

14. The Best Time of Your Life – Carousel of Progress

15. Space Mountain – Space Mountain (2005)

16. Universe of Energy – Universe of Energy

17. Kitchen Kabaret Medley – Food Rocks

18. One Little Spark – Journey Into Imagination

19. Canada (You’re a Lifetime Journey) – O Canada!

20. Golden Dream – The American Adventure

21. Finale – Fantasmic!

Disney Timeless Classics

1. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf – Three Little Pigs

2. Whistle While You Work – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

3. When You Wish Upon a Star – Pinocchio

4. When I See an Elephant Fly – Dumbo

5. Little April Shower – Bambi

6. The Three Caballeros – The Three Caballeros

7. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Song of the South

8. Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) – So Dear to My Heart

9. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes – Cinderella

10. All in the Golden Afternoon – Alice in Wonderland

11. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! – Peter Pan

12. What a Dog/He’s a Tramp – Lady and The Tramp

13. Once Upon a Dream – Sleeping Beauty

14. Cruella De Vil – 101 Dalmatians

15. Let’s Get Together – The Parent Trap

16. The Ugly Bug Ball – Summer Magic

17. A Spoonful of Sugar – Mary Poppins

18. The Monkey’s Uncle – The Monkey’s Uncle

19. Fortuosity – The Happiest Millionaire

20. The Bare Necessities – The Jungle Book

21. Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat – The Aristocats

22. Whistle Stop – Robin Hood

23. Someone’s Waiting for You – The Rescuers

24. It’s Not Easy – Pete’s Dragon

25. Best of Friends – The Fox and The Hound

Disney Television Classics

1. Mickey Mouse March – The Mickey Mouse Club

2. The Ballad of Davy Crockett – Davy Crockett – King of the Wild Frontier

3. The Triple R Song (Yippi-A, Yippi-I, Yippi-O) – The Adventures of Spin

4. Theme of Zorro – Zorro

5. Scarecrow – The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

6. Winnie the Pooh – Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

7. Minnie’s Yoo Hoo – The Mouse Factory

8. Who, What, Why, Where, When and How Day – The New Mickey Mouse

9. Gummi Bears Theme – The Adventures of the Gummi Bears

10. Duck Tales Theme – Duck Tales

11. Chip ‘n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers Theme Song – Chip ‘n’ Dale’s Rescue

12. Darkwing Duck Theme – Darkwing Duck

13. Theme to Lizzie McGuire (Extended Supa Mix) – Lizzie McGuire

14. Rockin’ at the House of Mouse (Extended Version) – House of Mouse

15. The Naked Mole Rap – Kim Possible

16. Cheetah Sisters – The Cheetah Girls

17. Aloha, E Komo Mai – Lilo & Stitch: The Series

18. Hot Dog! – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

19. Get’cha Head in the Game – High School Musical

20. Nobody’s Perfect – Hannah Montana 2

21. Gitchee Gitchee Goo – Phineas and Ferb

22. This Is Me – Camp Rock

23. What Time Is It – High School Musical 2

24. Everything Is Not as It Seems – Wizards of Waverly Place

25. Mickey Mouse Club Alma Mater – The Mickey Mouse Club

 

**Disclosure** I received this CD Set in exchange for my review. As always, all opinions are my own.**

NKOTB OMG!

I remember sitting in my friend Leigh’s kitchen, it was 1990, and we were 8 years old.  My dad was trying to convince her mother that he could totally handle taking us to the New Kids On The Block concert in Saratoga.  We sat, anxiously awaiting her response.  Decked out in New Kids t-shirts, hats, massive Donnie Wahlberg buttons….   Sadly, her mom thought we were too young, and that was that.  I was heartbroken (I still hold a grudge against her) but I’m still impressed that my dad was willing to take us.

I carried this sadness with me for nearly twenty years. (OK, I’m exaggerating a little.  I got over it after about ten years…but I will never forget!!!) I brought my New kids sleeping bag to every sleepover party, brought my lunch to school in my neon orange New Kids lunch box.  Read every single New Kids book, and watched every VHS available, over and over again. I wore out the cassette tapes, rewinding and replaying “Cover Girl” and “Hangin’ Tough” I stood by “my” Donnie as he fell through stages, burned down hotel rooms and got arrested. Always wishing and hoping, that some day, I’d get to see the boys from bean town, live on stage.

Fast forward to 2009.  The New Kids are back in Saratoga, and this time, I was old enough to go without my parents!!  As soon as those tickets went on sale, my best friend friend, Kate, bought our seats. We were NOT going to miss what we THOUGHT would be the ONLY chance we’d ever have to see our childhood loves.

nkotb saratoga

“Full Service Tour” June 16, 2009 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York

Imagine our JOY when we found out that this was not to be their last tour.  Oh no, in 2010 they would be touring again.  This time we travelled to NEW YORK CITY to see them!  This tour started our new tradition. I made our first, custom, NKOTB shirts!  Tie Dye, of course, because…well…tie dye is cool! and I ironed on some “bling” letters to spell out “NKOTB”

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“Casi-NO Tour” June 18, 2010 Radio City Music Hall New York, New York

OK, so this MUST be the last tour.  Right??  WRONG!!  We got to go see them AGAIN!!!!  We headed down to Long Island.  But this concert would be even more incredible. You see, it wasn’t just NKOTB, oh no, this time there would be even more letters.  This time it would be NKOTBSB!  The Backstreet Boys were part of the tour and we were thrilled to see them again (We may have seen them a few times in high school….)

This time our shirts featured glow in the dark fabric paint and cassette tape iron ons.

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“NKOTBSB” July 31, 2011 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY

(Side Note–I was also about 3 weeks pregnant here, and told Kate just before the concert started.  This was Avery’s very first concert!)

So this would definitely be the last time we’d see them.  I mean, no way could they continue to ride this wave of fame in to another tour.  No way…

YES WAY!

I headed to Albany to see the guys again!  (This time they were touring with 98* and Boyz II Men!  Talk about a blast from the past!)

I think these shirts were by far the best I’ve done!  Bleach and iron on and awesomeness!!  (Tutorial to come!)

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“The Package Tour” Aug 1, 2013 Times Union Center, Albany, NY


I think this show may have been the most fun.  It was a huge girls night out, and I desperately needed it (since Avery has been acting like an angsty teenager, lately) We had pretty incredible seats, and it was at “home” It was just such a fabulous night.

I’m so glad that Ive been able to see The New (now much older) Kids on tour (So. Many. Times.) While it doesn’t make up for missing that first show, it definitely takes a little bit of the sting out of it.

Fingers crossed that they tour again next year, and maybe, just maybe, Avery will get to see them (again)

 

I wonder if Leigh ever got to see them…..