Start Your Christmas Shopping!

Another quick review, and then a project to share! I promise! As I mentioned before, Christmas is coming FAST. If you haven't started your shopping yet, you should! I have been picking things up since January, but I still have plenty more to get. So I was pretty excited when I found out about Become.com. If you've never heard of it, it's a price comparison site. You type in what you are looking for, and it brings up online retailers that have your product, along with the price. It even has coupons! For example, I decided to search for wooden blocks. The results were 930 different choices! But you can break it down by store, reviews, brand, price, color and more.

Or if you arent ready to Christmas shop, what about sports gear? Looking for Easton products? They can find them. Nike? Reebook? All there. Does your little ball player need a tee ball bat? Become can find you the best price. Do you have a catcher? Find him some youth catchers gear. And of course, you can't play baseball without some Nike baseball cleats. Seriously, if you are looking for something online, Become can help you find it and at the best price. So get to shopping! :)

An Upcoming CSN Review

Once again, the fabulous people over at CSN Stores have offered me the opportunity to review one of their many, MANY products! If you aren't familiar with CSN Stores, you should be. They have EVERYTHING. You could literally spend all day looking through all of their 200+ shops! I am not 100% sure yet what I'm going to review yet, but I am thinking something for my living room. Possibly an ottoman coffee table? Throw pillows? A warm, comfy throw? Whatever I choose, I know the product and the service will be awesome. So if you haven't browsed, get to it!

ps- Don't forget to enter the Carmex giveaway if you haven't yet! It will be ending soon!

Crafty Goodness Alert!

I think we all know how fast Christmas is coming, right? The Christmas commercials & ads have started, stores are full of Christmas... It's coming fast, whether you're ready or not! Thankfully, the awesome people over at Meyer Imports are ready to help you with your holiday crafting. Every order placed during the month of November gets a free sample of their spun cotton and plaster mushrooms! AND, if you blog, you could get a free sample just for blogging! So get your crafting on and check it out!

ps - Don't forget to enter the Carmex giveaway!

CLOSED Carmex® Skin Care Review & a Giveaway!

Are you a Carmex fan? I certainly am. Imagine my excitement when I saw they were looking for a Blog Squad awhile back. I didn't think I'd get chosen, but I applied anyway. And guess what? I got picked! My first opportunity with them was to review a couple of their new products. Check out this awesome package I received!



And what was inside? LOTS!

Did you know that Carmex makes more than lip balm? That's right! They have a new Healing Lotion and a Healing Cream. I have been using both products for a few weeks now, and I really like them. Both of them are nice & thick like I like them. I can't stand runny, thin lotion. They have a mild, pleasant scent. They leave my skin very moisturized, but not greasy. I would definitely reccomend both the Healing Lotion and the Healing Cream.

With winter coming fast (how is it November already?!), how would you like the chance to win the exact gift set I have shown above? YES! Carmex is giving one of my readers the same awesome gift set that I received! As you can see it's packed FULL of fabulous Carmex products.

TO ENTER:

Mandatory: Visit the Carmex website, then come back letting me know either your favorite product, OR something you would like to try!

For a 2nd Chance: Blog about it or share on Facebook! (seperate comment)

If you are a follower, leave me another comment letting me know!

Giveaway will be open until November 12th! (Make sure you leave a seperate comment for each entry)

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!

Halloween Wrap Up

Since I hadnt gotten around to sharing hardly any Halloween pictures, I'm going to go ahead and do it all in one. So there are a lot of pictures! I'll start with some of our decorations this year. I got this owl painting for $1.00 awhile back and decided to hang it in the hallway. I added some cheesecloth & a snake.


This is on top of our dresser in the hallway. I made the apothecary sign a couple years ago, and the witch fingers & eyeballs I got from a lady I used to work with.



This hangs above the mirror in the hallway, I made it last year.




In the living room, I replaced our candles with pumpkins.

I found these little guys at Michaels two years ago I think. I love their vintage look!

On top of the tv. It's a little blurry, sorry about that.

A jar full of clay acorns we made a few years ago & a vintage card.

Love the chicken nugget! Vintage McDonalds, lol.

Some old cabinet cards, my favorite ceramic crow (that I dropped right before I took this! I guess I'll have to use a Sharpie on the chip) and some glittered pumpkins.

Halloween bottle brush trees from a few years ago.

A big, hair spider in the hallway. Layla asked why I had to hang it above her door!

I stuck a couple more "13" cards in the mirrors in the hallway.

Another HUGE hairy spider over the front door we don't use.

This cute glittered bat took the place of one of my vintage utensils.

And the kitty took up a safe spot high away from Morgan's hands.

Now for outside. I put a faux pumpkin on top of each of our milk cans. I didn't want to show a picture of both together because our dog has this area pretty dirty right now. We don't use this door anyway.

A couple scarecrows, a headstone and a pumpkin my father in law made.

And a pile of Lil Pump-K-Mons from our patch.

We had a very busy weekend. Saturday, Blake had a playoff game for football at 11. They were playing for a spot in the Superbowl, but sadly, they lost. It was really hard to watch all the boys come off the field in tears. But they had a really awesome season. They were 9-1 in their regular season. So football is officially over until January. After that we went Trunk-or-Treating at a couple churches and Trick-or-Treating at Publix. And after that, a Halloween Festival! But Sunday we made time for pumpkin carving.

This was the first time the kids EVER wanted to help gut the pumpkins! Finally, someone besides me can do it!

Morgan was very happy to help!

And finally, the costumes. Layla was a Senorita. And Morgan was a Baterina. But she wouldnt wear the ears and the wings were a pain. So she looks more like a witch.

But a really cute one!

I accepted the fact that I would not be able to get any good group shots with Morgan in them. So I have to be happy with the pictures I do have. Blake & his cousin decided to be football players. At least we already had the "costumes"!

I hope you had a good Halloween!!

Halloween Banner Swap

While I missed out on the Sweet & Sinister Swap this year, Shara at Monkeybox hosted a banner swap! Everyone was assigned a different letter. I got the letter H. And this is what I came up with.




I used those cheap plastic spider rings. I cut the ring part off and then glittered them with some Martha Stewart glitter. I used orange...

And black ones.

Originally I thought I'd use a crackle finish. I have two different types of crackle mediums. One is supposed to be "one step" but it doesnt work that well. Which I forgot when I used it on these. So in my attempt to try & hurry it along, I stuck them in the microwave. And the result was this weird texture.

Kind of reminds me of spider webbing, so I think it worked out!

I have been holding on to this textured paper since I started scrapbooking 10 years ago. I hardly ever use it, but for some reason I havent gotten rid of it yet, so I thought I'd try with this. For the letters I copied a stencil.

And now for the rest of the banner. Shara did the O.

Diane did the first L.

Laura did the second L.

Shara did the O.

Aimee Suzanne did the W.

Michele did an E.

Lyn did the other E.

And Dorothy did the N. Funny how the first & last letters are pretty similar, huh?

Thanks for hosting, Shara! It was fun!