Apparently, this “little blog” of mine has gotten to the point where I am being contacted by various companies asking for product reviews and things. This is very flattering for me, but it also puts me in a tricky spot. I don’t want to be “that blog”. You know the one – The Sell Out Blog. The blog that I drop because they have become a marketing tool and I can’t trust their advice anymore. icky icky. Also, it stresses me out to read advice from “The Really Big Bloggers” about how you need to get fair compensation for working with companies, because when you don’t you are hurting other bloggers. Then there is some legal dispute over how to run a “sweepstakes”.  sigh. It is one big murky mess.

So, I am embarking on this very first full-fledged review post (plus giveaway) with some trepidation. I would value your feedback (send me an email!) about how you feel about reviews and giveaways popping up on this blog. I will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS disclose my relationships with companies. (It’s the law after all.) If this doesn’t work out and you hate it, you won’t see this kind of thing again. deal? 

here goes… 

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Disclosure: I was given a set of Rubbermaid Bento storage boxes for review. I was not compensated for the content of this review or for hosting this giveaway. All thoughts, writing and opinion in the post are my own. But hey, they gave me free bins. So, I guess you should take this with grain of salt.

Last month, I talked about making time to sew and the importance of gathering your supplies together in preparation for those sacred sewing moments. In that post, I showed you a peak at a lovely bin holding all of the supplies for a  Mommy’s Poppins bag.

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