Monday, June 30, 2014

Adovia Mineral Eye Gel Review #adovia

**I received the product featured free of charge in order to give an honest review. No other product or compensation was received. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**

A little about Adovia Mineral Eye Gel

Adovia Promise: Your Eyes will Look 10 Years Younger or Your Money Back! - Reduce Puffiness Under and Around The Eyes - Makes Eyes Appear Years Younger and Radiant!

Gets Rid of Dark Circles Under Eyes - Your Eyes Will Look More Youthful and Refreshed!

Formulated Specifically for The Gentle Area Around the Eyes - this Light Eye Gel Absorbs Quickly into Skin for Deep Hydration

Dead Sea Salt Delivers an Immediate Infusion of Dead Sea Minerals - Essential for Proper Skin Health and Beauty

Contains Vitamin C which Delivers Powerful Antioxidants Deep Into Skin Cells

My Review:

Adovia Mineral Eye Gel with Dead Sea Salt & Minerals, Vitamin C and Vitamin A Retinol is a GREAT product for your eyes. I love this eye gel!! After just one use I felt like my eyes had less dark circles underneath and they felt very fresh. I love the way this made my eyes feel. I also found that using this it is actually helping the small wrinkles under my eyes. It has also helped with the redness I get with my puffiness when I wake up in the morning. This eye cream is great for any skin type. It doesn't feel too heavy like some of the competing eye creams. I loved the light fresh feeling of this cream. I really like the feeling when my eyes don't feel heavy and they feel a little more well rested. I felt like this cream helped with that for me personally as well. This Adovia Eye Gel is great for reducing eye puffiness, dark circles, wrinkles and fine lines around eyes. If you are looking to try a new eye cream I suggest you check out this great Adovia Mineral Eye Gel!!

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FulcrumGallery.com Western Art Review

A little about FulcromGallery.com

FulcrumGallery.com is the inevitable outcome of a seemingly coincidental series of events which started in its founders, years before we ever met and started a business. Over time, a friendship, an interest in art and decorating, and a strong software development background led to the FulcrumGallery.com that we have become. FulcrumGallery.com exists today because of the continued investment of its founders and employees. It is very much a work of blood, sweat, and tears...and of course, a love of great art.

Just a couple samples I also liked out of the hundreds offered.....
Cowboy Puppy Art

FulcrumGallery.com offers a huge variety of art or home decor photos. I love their selection!! I was so excited to have the opportunity to do a review for FulcromGallery.com

My Review:

Honestly, I wish I was better with decorating my own home. My home is not overly decorated like many of the people I know. I really wish it was. Websites like FulcruGallery.com with these kind of products really help me!! I just have a hard time deciding on something I like and if you asked my husband he would give you the same answer. I had a hard time narrowing down my selection to just one because there were so many pieces of art that I liked. I narrowed it down to what I liked and of course then asked my husband his opinion like I always do. I ended up going with a western art piece. I love the selection from FulcrumGallery.com!! I love how you can either search or just click a category that you are looking for to find a nice piece of art for your home. I had a lot of fun trying to pick out what I wanted. I was really impressed with how easy the ordering process was. It is very easy to navigate the site and it is very user friendly. The ordering process was great because once you picked your piece of art you would then choose how you wanted it, either on canvas or framed. If you chose a frame then you would also choose a frame and a mat color to go with your frame. I picked this darker brown frame with a little hint of red because I thought it went perfect with the color of the photo inside the frame and brought out certain colors.

The frames offered as choices are custom and are of the best quality. I especially liked that each frame has a signature on back of who framed it and also a signature of the person that inspected the quality of workmanship. I felt like they went the extra mile and took the extra steps to help be more satisfactory to the consumer. I will definitely go to FulcrumGallery.com when I am looking for more art to decorate my home. They more than met my expectations and I am very excited about the product I received.

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Northcott Patriotic Fabric & AWESOME Giveaway!!

**I was provided with the product featured free of charge in order to give an honest review. No other product or compensation was received. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**

Anyone who knows me and how much I love to sew and quilt knows that I LOVE Northcott Fabrics!! I was so excited to have the opportunity to make another great project using Northcott Fabrics. This project was especially fun because it was something I adapted an idea I had and ended up with something amazing.

I have been making so many quilts lately that I was really in the mood to do something a little different. I saw a patriotic dress in a store that I thought was sorta cute but still really plain. I decided I wanted to make some really cute matching patriotic dresses for my daughter and cute little niece. I have to say I am so pleased and excited with how these cute dresses turned out.

My daughter was so excited about the dress. She also loves it when she gets to match my niece. She was especially excited that I made a matching dresses for them. She is still at the fun age where she thinks that matching is a pretty cool thing. I love that about my little girl!!

It was also a lot of fun to accessorize these dresses and make them a little more fun. I had a lot of fun making these projects. I hadn't sewn for a very long time and this was one of the projects that has helped me get out of my little "funk" as I call it.

Here in Utah were I live we get to leave our patriotic decorations out all of July. We have the 4th of July to celebrate for our country, but we also celebrate the 24th of July for I guess what I have always grown up knowing as Pioneer Day. Since I decided not to make a whole entire quilt I had the panel left that I of course wasn't going to use for the dresses so I decided to make a nice wall hanging with. I don't have any patriotic decorations for my home so this will be my first one.

I am really excited to quilt this one myself. I have it all basted and ready to quilt. I will probably quilt it tonight or tomorrow because I want to have it done before the 4th of July.......Well at least that is my goal. I love all the deep saturated colors that Northcott Fabrics uses. So I am just as excited about these projects as I am with anything I make with their fabric.

This panel would make a great center to a quilt!!! I just didn't decide to use it that way this time around. It will look great once it is finished. After quilting panels like this......many times they look like a quilt you actually pieced together. It is a really cool feature with panels like these. That is my goal with this panel. I am confident it will turn out great and can't wait for the finished product.

Who doesn't like getting new fabric?? Of course who doesn't like a GIVEAWAY!?!?!?!?

GIVEAWAY: Win One (1) Northcott Fabric Patriotic Fabric Bundle

Ends 7/19 US

This fabric bundle includes fabric to make a quilt including a center panel like the one featured above and 7 coordinating fabric cuts. (All Pictured Below)

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Techno Gears Marble Mania Extreme 3.0 Review #marblemania

**I received the product featured free of charge in order to give an honest review. No other products or compensation were received. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**

Techno Gears Marble Mania Extreme 3.0 has over 200 pieces that can be used to create a marble run that will automatically take your marbles and move them through the run. The set includes multiple channels, 3-D connectors and structures, a power lifter and much more – everything necessary to build and “Power Up” hundreds of marble run designs. Requires one “AA” battery (not included). Ages 6+ years.

What kid doesn't like new interactive toys?!?!?!

My kiddos are no exception, they love new toys and are especially excited about interactive toys. We were so excited to be able to have the opportunity to review this great toy!!

This Techno Gears Marble Mania Extreme 3.0 was a great challenge for my children. My kids really enjoy playing with Legos and love toys that they can construct themselves. My son is especially into this process and loves to try and build it all by himself unless he gets stuck. I really liked that the box was not flimsy and it was a well constructed box so we were able to take it apart and put it back into the box to be able to store it instead of having to find a new box or place to put it.

There are over 200 pieces in this set to play with. They come in several bags splitting up all the individual pieces. Of course with the way my children are they just opened all the bags at once and had them all out on the table. These kids are pretty good at figuring out what pieces are what and where they go.

They worked on this project together but of course the big brother wants to do it his way so he did much of the building by himself.

It took him a few hours to build this on his own. That is fine with me because that meant it kept him busy for quite a while.

My Review:

This is a GREAT interactive toy. It says for ages 6+. My husband did end up helping my kids at the end of construction. We found that if one piece was put on just barely wrong then the marble wouldn't roll or something wouldn't work right. It was a great experience for my children to be able to try and build this toy all by themselves. My son is 10 and did most of the building by himself. My daughter tried to help and she is 7, but she had a little harder time. I would personally recommend it for ages 8+. After hours of my son putting it together we found it didn't work properly so my husband spent some time trying to figure out what was wrong. We ended up finding that one thing was out of place and that is the reason the whole thing wasn't working as it should. After we had everything in the right place it worked great and the kids had so much fun playing with it. My kids spent a couple hours playing with it after it was all put together. This is a great toy and great for kids who like a challenge when they play. I would recommend for an adult to just supervise the construction or just to check it over after if it isn't working properly because it is usually human error. This was the perfect kind of toy for my 10 year old son. If your kids love interactive toys and love a challenge I highly recommend you check out this toy!!

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Winner of Luvs Coupon Giveaway

Thank you for your entries to this giveaway!! I am excited to announce that our newest winner for the Luvs Coupon Giveaway has been chosen. The winner was chosen at random by rafflecopter.

And the WINNER is:

#402 Donna P.

Congratulations!! The winner has been emailed and has 24 hours to respond or sadly a new winner will be chosen. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to check out my blog. Don't forget to enter all of my other current giveaways. Good Luck!!

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Winner of Snickers Prize Pack Giveaway

Thank you for your entries to this giveaway!! I am excited to announce that our newest winner for the Snickers Prize Pack Giveaway has been chosen. The winner was chosen at random by rafflecopter.

And the WINNER is:

#446 Deb J.

The Lego Movie Giveaway And Awesome Blog App #TheLEGOMovie

**The information in this post was provided to me. No product or compensation was received. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion. The information was provided to me from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.**

The LEGO® Movie, the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO® adventure, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller is an original 3D computer animated story that follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

Chris Pratt (Moneyball) stars as the voice of Emmet. Will Ferrell (The Campaign) stars as the voice of his primary adversary, President Business, an erudite, anal-retentive CEO who has a hard time balancing world domination with micro-managing his own life; while Liam Neeson (Taken) voices the president's powerful henchman, known as Bad Cop, who will stop at nothing to catch Emmet.

Starring as Emmet's fellow travelers are Oscar® winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), as Vitruvius, an old mystic; Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, Emmy nominee for 30 Rock), as tough-as-nails Lucy, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest; Will Arnett (Emmy nominee, 30 Rock), as the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure with whom Lucy shares a history; Nick Offerman (NBC's Parks and Recreation) as a craggy, swaggering pirate, obsessed with revenge on President Business; and Alison Brie (Community) as a sweet, loveable member of the team, with a powerful secret.

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The LEGO Movie App

Move your mouse across the GIFs to control the action and play "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME" at the same time to really get crazy with it!
• Press the "record" button and make a mini 6 second LEGO GIF video that can be shared to Twitter and Facebook. Videos instantly get posted to YouTube for everybody to enjoy!

YouTube Channel:
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• Best LEGO video creation wins! Create a mini 6 second LEGO GIF video and comment with the YouTube link to your video as a giveaway entry.
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• Tweet using the #TheLEGOMovie hashtag for a contest entry.

GIVEAWAY: WIN THE LEGO MOVIE ON blu-ray

Ends 6/30 US

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Bet on your Baby Luvs Coupon Giveaway

**I received no product or compensation for this blog post. All the information provided in this post was provided to me. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion. This post was sponsored by Luvs.**

All parents think they know their baby well, but are they willing to bet on it? Find out when actress/comedienne and working mom Melissa Peterman, star of ABC Family's Baby Daddy hosts this adorable, hilarious and surprisingly suspenseful game show. Parents try to predict their toddler's next move in an effort to win money for their child's future education.

Airs Saturdays at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC starting May 31st.

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Three Pack of Coupons for Luvs Jumbo Pack of Diapers
Ends 6/18 US

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Vote for the NEW Snickers Bar + Giveaway!!

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VOTE FOR THE NEW SNICKERS BAR!!

A delicious new SNICKERS® Bar is coming. It has more peanuts, more caramel, and more chocolate. It has more of everything people love most about SNICKERS – except nougat and a name. Mars Chocolate North America has announced that for the first time consumers will have the opportunity to help name the newest product from SNICKERS!

The as-of-now unnamed bar includes a single delicious layer of crunchy roasted peanuts and smooth caramel perfectly blended and enrobed in milk chocolate. And fans get to name it!! Consumers can visit the SNICKERS Facebook page (www.facebook.com/snickers), through June 13, 2014, to choose from one of five possible names:

SNICKERS Go Nuts
SNICKERS Xtreme
SNICKERS #MoreNuts
SNICKERS Nuts Galore
SNICKERS Nuts!

The new bar will be out in stores in 2015!

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VOTE ON THE NEW SNICKERS HERE!!!

Snickers Prize Pack Includes

Snickers Voting Prize Pack includes: a SNICKERS bar, A SNICKERS BITES pack, a SNICKERS Almond bar, a SNICKERS Peanut Butter Squared bar, a SNICKERS Rockin’ Nut Road Bar, and a pair of movie tickets!!

GIVEAWAY: Win One (1) Snickers Prize Pack

Ends 6/17 US

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Friday, June 6, 2014

Heart Zipper Etsy Shop

This is my current quilt I am working on that will be going into my Etsy shop. This quilt is 100% cotton like all the quilts I hand make. I also use quality designer quilting fabric in all my designs. This quilt I am making using the Sweet Serenade Fabric Line by Basic Grey for Moda. It will have a cream sashing, turquoise boarder, medium brown textured back, and the same brown fabric for the binding. This quilt is going to turn out gorgeous!!! I am excited at how well it is coming along. Once this quilt is finished it will be listed in my Etsy shop unless I get a request for a sale before I put it up in the shop.

Many of you may have not noticed that I have an Etsy Shop. There has been a tab at the top of my blog for quite a while I just haven't had a chance to write about it until now. This tab is linked for your convenience of being able to find my Heart Zipper Etsy Shop. I am still in the process of adding more handmade items to my Etsy shop. I have many more ideas to come and many projects in process. For now I just wanted to share with you what I currently have for sale in my shop.

Above: Twister Quilt made using "Flirt" line by Moda. A very fun quilt!! It features hearts, birds, and gorgeous vibrant colors.

Above: Jungle Quilt featuring Jungle Jive fabric by Benartex. This quilt is so fun for the little child in your life. It is the perfect size for a juvenile or toddler bed.

Beautiful Blue, Grey, Yellow, and White Triangle Modern Baby Quilt

Above: One of my own modern designs. This quilt is great for a crib or toddler bed. Gorgeous quilt!!

Gorgeous Hand Made Baby Girl Quilt with butterflies, dragonflies, snails and lady bugs. Green, yellow, purple, blue, and white colors.

Above: Baby Girl Quilt. This quilt would make a great gift!!

Grey and Mulit-Color Lap Quilt For Your Car Lover or The Boy in Your Life

Above: Car Quilt using "Rev em Up" line by Adornit. This quilt would be great for any boy or for the car lover in your life.

For more information on these quilts or more pictures visit my HeartZipper Etsy Shop!!

Keep your eye out for many more handmade gifts to come!!! I enjoy sewing and love to share my talent with all of you. Watch for upcoming handmade gifts including quilts and many other handmade items.

Leave me a comment and tell me what you would like to see in my Etsy shop!! Or just leave a comment telling me what you think or what you love that you have seen.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Mommy Group Beech-Nut Baby Food Sampling

**I received the product featured free of charge in order to give an honest review. No other compensation was received. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**

This is not baby food. This is real food for babies.

Beech-Nut Values
Real food is real.

Real food is honest.

Real food is bold.

Real food is delicious.

Real food is wild.

Real food is for everyone.

this is not baby food.

this is real food for babies.
- See more at: http://beechnut.com/our-values/#sthash.DqV7asEB.dpuf

this is not baby food.

this is real food for babies.
- See more at: http://beechnut.com/our-values/#sthash.DqV7asEB.dpuf

this is not baby food.

this is real food for babies.
- See more at: http://beechnut.com/our-values/#sthash.DqV7asEB.dpuf

this is not baby food.

this is real food for babies.
- See more at: http://beechnut.com/our-values/#sthash.DqV7asEB.dpufTh

I was so excited to have the opportunity to review Beech-Nut baby food with my mommy group. Beech-Nut is a well known brand. They have many varieties of baby foods to choose from. I have always loved their selection. I also really like the size of their baby food jars. It is seems a little larger than some of the other brands. Beech-Nut has great appearance and packaging. It is very appealing on the shelf and more enticing to buy than some of the other brands. The packaging we received them in was so much fun and each was a surprise.

We had a lot of fun letting each of the babies try the baby food. Even my kids wanted to get in on the action and feed the babies as well. It was like a game to them and something fun. All of the babies seemed to really enjoy the food they tried.

They each ate a whole jar of baby food and one of the babies even ate 2 because she loved it so much. I am very impressed with the new flavors of baby food that Beech-Nut puts out. As moms many of us taste the baby food to see what our child is eating. Out of the baby foods we received to taste all the adults that tasted them said they were delicious. So why would a baby not like them?!?!

As always I decided to make it a girls night out as well so I made dinner for all the adults. I made one of my homemade stew recipes and my famous homemade rolls. It all tasted delicious and it was so fun to hang out with the girls!!

We had a lot of fun and had a great time letting the babies try some great baby food. I look forward to more mommy group tastings to come. :) Can't wait to see the new babies arrive of the pregnant moms in our group.

If you have a baby or are going to have a baby I highly recommend you try out Beech-Nut baby food!!

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WooBamboo Kid's Eco Toothbrush Review + Giveaway

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

About WooBamboo:

“We’re not a toothbrush company. At WooBamboo, we’re in the inspiration business.”.
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IN THE BEGINNING:

WooBamboo started because we wanted to create an innovative product that was universal, simple to use, and required little to no change of daily routine. We wanted something that would inspire people to continue to make small, eco-friendly steps in the right direction. We decided on a toothbrush. That way, every morning and every night you’d be reminded that you made a good decision for the planet, and that you have the power to make more.

That’s what it’s about. Small changes towards a much greater good. WOOBAMBOO: Innovate. Inspire. Change the world.

The Bamboo "Sprout" from WooBamboo is an eco-friendly bamboo-handled children's toothbrush. We believe that big changes can be made with small, innovative steps. Using a WooBamboo toothbrush (we have adult versions, as well) is a fantastic way to make a small difference every day, and helps inspire people to continue to make eco-friendly changes. :)

Innovate. Inspire. Change the world.
WOOBAMBOO

I don't know if it is just my children or not but they do not particularly enjoy brushing their teeth. It helps if they have a tooth brush that they actually want to use. My kids although aren't excited to brush their teeth everyday they were excited for some new toothbrushes.

My son is usually the one that fights the teeth brushing more than my daughter. I want to teach my children how important it is to have good personal hygiene. I personally brush my teeth 3 times a day since I was a teen and had braces. I have always given my kids much encouragement to brush their teeth to prevent cavities and have better personal hygiene. No cavities so far!! :)

My Review:

WooBamboo makes great Eco-friendly toothbrushes. I don't buy "Green products" all the time just because I can't always afford to pay the extra just for the the extra Eco-friendly benefit. I do like to be as "Green" as I can when I can afford it. I was really excited about finding "Green" toothbrushes. They don't offer them at local stores by my house but they do offer them online here at some of these online stores. I really liked the structure of these toothbrushes. I thought they wouldn't be as good of a quality as a plastic toothbrush but they were just as good if not possibly better. These toothbrushes have great construction and I really like that they are more easily biodegradable than a plastic toothbrush. My daughter also said she thought this toothbrush was softer than the other toothbrush she was using before. This was a feature that we really enjoyed because my children complain a lot about the toothbrush hurting their mouth. Many of our dentists have recommended soft toothbrushes compared to hard toothbrushes to prevent gum damage. WooBamboo toothbrushes are very soft. These toothbrushes are great and cleaned just as well as a competing toothbrush. WooBamboo kids toothbrushes are the perfect size for kids. I would love to try them out in the adult size for myself. This specific "green" product isn't too expensive. It is a little more than the cheapest brand you could buy at your local supermarket, but being green it is much better for the earth. These kids toothbrushes are about $4.95 for a set of 2.

Check here to find WooBamboo toothbrushes!!

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