The Miss Elaine-ous Life

random acts of life, family and photos

  • Home
  • About Me
  • My Writing
  • Old School Blogging
  • Photography
  • Blogroll
  • Contact/PR
  • Cookie Policy (US)

Canvas Press – Review & (Awesome) Giveaway!

February 9, 2011 by Elaine

I have family photos of my kids, our wedding, our extended family sprinkled all over the house.  I love to frame and display photos almost as much as I love to take them (okay, maybe as much or more…).  These photos bring smiles to my face as I walk down the hallway to deliver laundry…

Read More »

Filed Under: Canvas Press, Giveaways, Photography, reviews

Potty Tots – Review & Giveaway

September 21, 2010 by Elaine

I’m not really a fan of potty training. It did not go “swimmingly” the first time around (really, no kind of pun intended) and I was having small convulsions thinking about round two. While on twitter one day I connected with Jill @pottytots and she offered to help in any way she could (this was…

Read More »

Filed Under: Giveaways, Little G, Parenting, reviews

Sarah McLachlan “Laws of Illusion” Review & Giveaway

June 18, 2010 by Elaine

**** GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATS TO Heather of the EO WHO WON! :)**** I love Sarah McLachlan. I have for YEARS. (I surely hope you know who I am talking about. If you don’t, get thee to iTunes or Amazon NOW!) She’s so very talented and her music is tied to SO many memories…

Read More »

Filed Under: Giveaways, Music, reviews

Initials Inc. – Review & Giveaway

May 18, 2010 by Elaine

I like bags. And no, I don’t mean the ones under my eyes. I mean cute ones that I can strap over my shoulder and function well for me. Initials, Inc. makes sassy, cute bags of all kinds and they personalize them with just about any monogram you want for free! It goes without saying…

Read More »

Filed Under: Fashion, Giveaways, reviews

Organically Grown – A Review

May 4, 2010 by Elaine

Sometimes you just have to hang out in the nice spring weather while your brothers play on their bike and four-wheeler in the driveway. And when you get bored with the toys Mommy brought outside for you, it’s time to try to grab all the grass and weeds that your little hand can grasp. Wearing…

Read More »

Filed Under: Baby K, reviews

Hubby’s Corner: Football Guys!

October 22, 2009 by Elaine

Hello all, Hubby here hijacking the blog again for a very important message. See, as you probably know, Elaine gets products and other items sent to her to review on her blog. A while back she was sent the Football Guys one of the Sports Action Figures from Kaskey Kids. Now, first off, I don’t…

Read More »

Filed Under: boys, fun stuff, reviews, Tim

A Giveaway – Darling Children’s Books!

September 15, 2009 by Elaine

We love books around here, especially books for babies and children (at least at this phase in our lives!). Tim is from a family of avid readers, book sellers, and his mother recently retired from her career as a children’ librarian. We’ve been lucky to be able to borrow many books from her and been…

Read More »

Filed Under: Giveaways, Kids, reviews

Simple Shoes – A Review & Something For You!

July 9, 2009 by Elaine

In the midst of the big move I was contacted by Simple Shoes to review a pair of shoes from their new Toddler Collection that launches today! Nothing could have cheered me up more. We know I’ve been a little obsessed with baby/kid shoes lately so this was just about the most perfect thing that…

Read More »

Filed Under: Little G, reviews, Simple Shoes

« Previous Page
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Miss Elaine-ous Me

Hi! I'm Elaine, a transplanted Texan who has spent almost 15 years living in Cajun country. I am re-married to Brandon and we have five kids: together, ages 19, 16, 16, 14 and 14 and crazy but lovely dog, Charlie. I am also an office manager, occasional writer, prayer, and lover of life! Find me on Instagram (misselaine0375) and contact me at misselaineous0375 (at) gmail (dot) com.

Miss Elaine-ous Search

Won’t You Like Me?

Subscribe via email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Old School Blogging

I was a BlogHer 2016 VOTY Honoree

TODAY.com Parenting Team Parenting Contributor

Miss Elaine-ous Old Stuff

I’m Published Places!

Featured on tentotwenty.com
Good Mother Project

© 2025 · The Miss Elaine-ous Life · Designed by Krizzy Designs

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Preferences
{title} {title} {title}