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By Aimee, November 23, 2009 10:15 am

Every year my family and I adopt an “Angel” from the Angel Tree. It’s a family tradition that we love and have been doing for as long as I can remember. So I was pretty excited to learn that The Salvation Army and JCPenney launched a new Angel Giving Tree Online program! Now you can easily adopt an angel and shop for them online.

We have done angel tree gifts for children, and even seniors before. If you haven’t done it before, all you have to do is pick your angel, then you get some basic information about what they need and want (and their sizes for clothing and shoes), then you just shop for them and drop the gifts back at the tree. You don’t even have to wrap them! It’s a lot of fun to shop in person for your angel, but of course if you are already really busy during the holiday season, doing it online is a great option.

To learn more about the program and to adopt an angel yourself head here: http://jcp.com/angel

Also, for the holiday shopping season, JCPenney’s Facebook page just launched a Gift Giving application that might come in handy when shopping for those hard to buy relatives.  The Facebook gifting application allows you to share stories, post comments and get shopping advice.

Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/JCPenney

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By Aimee, September 12, 2009 8:30 am

Did you know that September is ovarian cancer awareness month? I didn’t either. That is, until Michelle of Bleeding Espresso started hosting a month of giveaways and other fun blog events to help spread the word.

I am also very happy, because my “little piggies” will soon be wearing some gorgeous teal nail polish thanks to winning the Teal Toes giveaway Michelle hosted recently!

Michelle isn’t the only one doing something to help raise awareness for this hard to detect cancer. Kelly Ripa has teamed up with Electrolux for a few great things. First of all, if you register on the site, Kelly Confidential, you can enter to win a front load washer and dryer, in a color inspired by the ovarian cancer ribbon (of course)!

They are also offering an easy way to make a donation to OCRF, just by sending a text message. And if you can’t wait to win the washer/dryer, they are even donating $200 for each set purchased. But I really love the shirts that they have too. Kelly designed them, and they have a butterfly in teal, which I think looks great. Pretty sure I am going to have to buy one of them!

I would encourage every woman to visit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund website to learn more about this cancer. Especially, take a look at the symptoms since it is so hard to detect. Also, be sure to visit Michelle’s blog all month for more awareness raising goodness!