Softlips ~ Review

Have you tried Softlips products yet? Softlips Cube are one of the different lipcare products available.

They are a 5-in-1 Lip care with Lip Perfecting Technology.
They contain Shea Butter which helps to hydrate & restore moisture. They have Vitamins A,C &E which help to replenish. Rich emollients leave your lips soft & silky. It protects your lips from dryness & also adds shine.


They come in a sleek cube shaped container which is great, I mean I don't know if most women are like me, but I have batteries (for flashlights) and other lipsticks & I am constantly pulling out an assortment of products from my purse in order to find one of the 3 tubes of lipgloss in the bottom. The cubed container makes it easier to identify using your sense of touch.



Go to their WEBSITE or the SOFTLIPS Facebook Page for more information.

Do you want a chance to win your very own Softlips Cube?
Go to our Christmas Cheer 2014 post & enter

OXY Emergency Acne Vanishing Treatment wipes ~ Review

Pimples, acne, zits. There are many different names for the little heads that erupt from your skin. Almost as many reasons for getting them. Some people thing it's from eating too much junk food. Some because they don't wash their face enough. About the only thing everyone can agree on about them is that they are a pain in the backside.

I was pretty lucky. I had pretty good skin growing up & rarely had pimples. My daughter on the other hand has always had bad luck with them. Until that is, I won a sample pack of the OXY Emergency Acne Vanishing Treatment wipes about a year ago.I of course gave them to my teenage daughter in hopes that I wouldn't have to listen to how she couldn't go to school because of the enormous zit on her face. 

I honestly didn't expect much because she had tried so many products in the past & none really seemed to work. It seems she was unlucky enough to  inherit her father's oily skin.

Imagine my (& her) surprise when shortly after receiving the wipes, her face started clearing up. Maybe it was coincidence though right? Nope, when we ran out of the wipes, all of a sudden she had break out after break out. The only thing that really helped was the Oxy wipes.

OXY Emergency Acne Vanishing Treatment wipes are the only medicated wipe on the market with the acne fighting ingredient Benzoyl Peroxide. It's clinically proven to kill acne bacteria on contact & heal blemishes fast.

It relieves redness, reduces the size of pimples, controls oil & works to fight breakouts through out the day. It's been dermatologist tested & comes in a resealable package for handy on the go convenience. 

If you need more information, please go to the following links. 

OXY WEBSITE           OXY FaceBook Page

Check out our Christmas Cheer 2014 post for information on how to win a couple of OXY Emergency Acne Vanishing Treatment wipes packs!

I Want That ~ Contest

Enter to win up to $2500 in prizes or 1 of 3 XBOX One Gaming systems!

HOW TO PLAY:

1. Read the hint above each gift.
2. Select the one you want to “open”.
3. If you want that gift, add it to your prize pack. If not, select again.
4. Repeat 3 times.
5. Enter for the chance to win your prize pack!

PRIZES:

One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded: The potential gift box prize combination chosen by the winner in the entry process, as described above. Each potential combination of gift box prizes has a potential approximate value of between $479 and $2,300.

3 (Three) Additional Prizes will be awarded for those entrants who opted in to receive email communications from The Source: Prize consists of 3 Xbox One gaming systems valued at $399.99 each.

DEC 22 at 3:00 PM

Christmas Cheer 2014 ~ Contest

I don't know about the rest of you, but for me 2014 started out super slow. Once we hit September however,  it just seemed to speed up. I can't believe it's already the end of November & that Christmas is just a couple short weeks away!

We love helping to make Christmas time a little more special for people, so we donate to places like the infant food bank, regular food banks, toy drives...pretty much anything we can afford to. However we also like to try to do a little something extra special for our followers and that's why we teamed up with some great companies to hold a contest so that you have a chance to win some amazing prizes.

Below is a list of all of the companies & the fabulous prize each has donated.

Starfrit is donating a 10 piece Heritage The Rock cookware set (1 winner)

• They have also generously offered a promotion code of CCF25 for everyone to get a 25% discount on any order you place on their website.  It cannot be combined with any other offer & is only available from January 1, 2015 to January 31, 2015. It can only be used at www.starfrit.com. 

Baby Butz has donated 2 large jars of Baby Butz Cream (1 winner)

Libre Tea has donated 1 Tea Glass (1 winner)

Andrea's Pacifier Clips & More has donated 1 pair of mitten Clips (1 winner)

Oxy & Softlips have teamed up to offer an awesome prize pack! (1 winner)

• Softlips has offered 1 Softlips CUBE  lip moisturizer Berry Bliss, 1 Softlips CUBE lip moisturizer Vanilla Bean 
• OXY has offered 2 packs of the OXY Emergency Acne Vanishing Treatment wipes based.  offered a prize pack 

Kiss Naturals has donated a DIY Hair Chalk Kit (1 winner)

Alokozay Tea has donated an Ice Tea set (1 winner)

Custom Comfort Scarborough has donated a $50 interact e-transfer (1 winner)

Ddrops has donated a prize pack (1 winner)

Paw Su-creme Foot Pad Creme has donated a prize pack containing 1 cologne, 1 tin & 1 stick (1 Winner) 

• In addition to that though, if you sign up for the newsletter, you will get a slim lip tube size sample. Write SAMPLE and make sure you leave your address in the note. **Please note, sample is limited to ONE (1) per mailing address.

Beauty Lash - Younique by Charissa has donated 1 Black or Brown Liner (1 winner) & Also 1 Lipgloss of winners choice (1 winner)

Letters From Santa has donated Magical Letters from Santa Packages. (9 winners)

Baby Gourmet has donated a Sample Pack of their food. The sample Pack will have the following flavors : Juicy Pear & Garden Greens, Root Veggies & Beef and Veggie Beef Bolognese & Pasta Stars. (2 Winners)

Have you kept count? That's a total of 23 prizes for 23 WINNERS!!!! Can you believe it?

Our giveaway will run from November 28th at 12:00 AM until December 12th at 11:59 PM.
The winners will be drawn randomly & emailed at the address they signed in with. 
We are not permitted to require you to "like" all  of the facebook pages, but we have made it mandatory that you will visit the page & we sincerely hope that you like it on your own if you have not already.

There are a number of optional entries that you can do to increase your chances. Following the companies on twitter, posting a twitter comment, commenting on a blog post, commenting on the sponsors facebook page or just answering a question & of course sharing the giveaway.

Entry-Form

Please read the Rules on the entry form.

Libre Original Glass'n Poly Tea Glass ~ Review

Libre sent me an Original Glass'n Poly Tea Glass. I will be honest with you, at first, I had no idea what a tea glass was. It wasn't until I received it & started reading up on it that I found out. It is BPA free, has a glass interior & a durable Poly Tritan exterior. You use it for loose leaf tea. 

I have to take a moment and comment on how absolutely beautiful the cap is. It has a copper/gold colored image in it that is spectacular to look at. It also has a design engraved around the cap which is very pretty as well. All in all, the designs make it look very elegant.

The Libre glass'n poly model can be used 2 ways:

1. You can add the loose leaf tea in the bottom of the glass & add your boiling water. Then when it has steeped enough (about 3-4 minutes) you unscrew the filter cap & drink from there. The filter will strain the tea as you drink so that you do not get leaves in your mouth.

2.  You can add the loose leaf on top of the filter, add the boiling water & then slowly to ensure you have a good seal, turn your glass upside down for 3-4 minutes for a time restrained steep. Then you turn it right side up & remove both caps at once and can drink your tea.

One of the most impressive things I have found about the Tea Glass, is that even with the boiling hot water in the glass, the outside of it merely stayed warm (a definite perk for cold winter days like today, you can use it as a hand warmer) The caps, while warmer than the glass, were just slightly warmer & I was still able to touch it easily. The tea stays hot for quite sometime as well!

I didn't really believe that it was "leak resistant" I mean, how many thermos's have you bought for your kids & next thing you know, their bags are soaked? The Libre Tea Glass really IS leak resistant though! I turned it upside down and once I saw it didn't leak I gave it a few shakes. Not one drop! 

Now you should remember that when you are steeping your tea, either way listed above, that sometimes the steam can build up. So when you are ready to drink, slowly twist whichever cap just a little. If there is no steam escaping, go ahead & open it the rest of the way.

Think how often you could use this. At work, school functions, shopping. This way you can have your favorite tea whenever you want & not have to worry about if certain places carry it or settle for a different brand.

Visit them on FACEBOOK or TWITTER or even head over to their WEBSITE for more information.

Libre Tea has donated a Original Glass'n Poly Tea Glass for 1 (one) lucky winner in our upcoming giveaway that is set to start on November 28th. Keep watching to see how you can be entered.

Letters From Santa ~ Review

Christmas is such a special time. I know that it's meant to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but even to those who are not religious it is a beautiful, magical time & most families prepare for Santa Claus to visit. They make cookies, decorate the tree & buy presents for their loved ones. There is also one more tradition that most families practice. The annual letter writing to Santa.

Sure you can mail a letter to Santa, but sometimes life gets in the way & maybe it gets misplaced. Then your only alternative is to leave a letter out along with the cookies, milk & carrots. 

Letters from Santa, provides parents a simple way to create beautiful, personalized letters from Santa that can be printed instantly. Available in both a free and low-cost Magical Package version ($3.99). 

Imagine now, how great it would be for your little one(s) to get a special letter back that's been customized to them? Can you just see the joy & delight in their faces? Their eyes would sparkle brighter than the moon off the snow. I can hear the shrieks of delight now!

Letters From Santa is a great way to bring that joy to your children. They have magical packages that are customizable to your child. There are 16 Magical Package Designs to choose from & 14 Magical Messages that you can select from. There is something for every circumstance by the looks of it. From moving, to gift requests, missing military loved one or child worried about not having a chimney.

In addition to these very special Letters from Santa, when you purchase a Magical Letter from Santa, it comes as part of a package which includes 2 envelopes, a lovely personalized printable Official Nice List Certificate (spectacular when printed out on heavy paper), a beautiful printable autographed photo from old St. Nick himself, and a 27-page printable Coloring & Activity Book! You also get a set of 16 adorable printable Christmas Lunchbox Jokes! Just think, you can put one in your child's lunch every day leading up to the school break. What a great way to count down!

They also have a BOGO offer that you can use so that you can give a letter to a 2nd child for free...all you need to do is sign up for their newsletter on their website homepage, and you will get a free coupon code for the second Magical Letter from Santa Package!

Once you have received the coupon code via email, all you need to do is enter the code into the coupon code space before you pay for the first Magical Letter from Santa Package. Then, after the first purchase, make a new letter using the same email address, and enter the code into the coupon code space once again, and voila! The second Magical Letter from Santa Package is provided free of charge. REMEMBER that need to enter the BOGO code for the first letter as well as the second.

To make the letters, just go in and make your Magical Letter from Santa, then enter the code when prompted. You will see that the links to download your Letter and goodies are available on the website right away. I would encourage you to download them directly off the site, as there is the rare occasion that the email is delayed, and that is no fun! In addition, people have very robust security systems these days, and they are sometimes blocked as spam and not delivered! 

To sweeten the deal, they even have extra freebies on their website...from jokes and entertaining videos, to printable gift tags and labels, to coloring pages, as well as an awesome Free printable Official Letter to Santa! 

Click the links below to check them out on your favourite platform. 
WEBSITE    PINTEREST    FACEBOOK    TWITTER

As a special treat for you, they have generously sponsored 9 Magical Letter from Santa Packages for our followers in our upcoming giveaway that is set to start on November 28th at 12:00AM. So keep watching & get ready for your chance to win!

Mitten Clips & Hair Clip ~ Review

I was given the chance to do a review for Andrea's Pacifier Clips & More for a pair of mitten clips & a non-slip hair clip.

Anyone that has children or has taken care of children knows how often they lose their things. This is especially true during winter time when it's cold & their little fingers run the risk of getting frozen quite fast.

I can't count how many pairs of mittens my daughter has lost. Not just of her own either, I've given her mine after she lost hers & next time I turn around, one of mine is gone too. It happened so often that even now, I carry at least 2 pairs of gloves with me at all times & I even keep an extra pair in the glovebox. It's aptly named after all LOL.

I have to say that I was pleasantly shocked by the quality of the clips. They have little "teeth" that will clamp down on the material of the child's clothing as well as the mitten itself. There is a nice sturdy silver top that is stiff enough that little fingers will have a difficult time opening it, but it's very easy for adults.

The material that is between the clips is also of good quality & from what I have seen on her website, there are lots of patterns you can choose from, over 100 of them actually. The material is perfect length so that the mittens are never far from the child's hand.

The Non-Slip Hair Clip is great! I didn't think it would hold in hair as well as it does & it doesn't catch hair when you remove it. So no little screams of pain & loose hairs to remove from it. It has material covering it too so it can be customized when you order it. The clip is strong enough to stay in hair, but not too strong to pinch & hurt little fingers if they happen to decide to play with them.


Andrea sells more than just mitten clips & non-slip hair clips though. She also sells:

Toy Clips, Sippy Cup Clips, Sophie the Giraffe Leashes, Nursing/Bib Clips, Belt Clips, Snap Hair Clips, Crochet Beanie Hats with Flower Embellishments & Headbands.

Click the following links to check out her amazing work & to get more information or to make an order.

FACEBOOK

WEBPAGE

I have a special surprise as well. Andrea has donated a pair of mitten clips for our giveaway set to start on November 28th at Midnight! The winner will be able to choose the pattern they want from her website!