Healthy old-fashioned products Lavender Bath Salts (Wanna save 15%?)

Time to review another product. How awesome is that? I love free stuff, especially when it's GOOD!

I haven't been feeling well, and a bath sounds really good. I'm a shower girl, but there are those times when you just feel like taking a bath. Today is one of those times.

So, I will be trying out Lavender Bath Salts.

Be back in about 30 minutes or so..........................................

Aw how sweet, you waited for me. Well let me tell you I haven't felt that relaxed in a long time. Of course as soon as I got in the tub there were 3 knocks on the door. I let the knocker know that I needed some time to relax. I could have easily fallen asleep in there. It was very nice. I probably should have put a little more of the salts in since I filled the water so high. But still, it was a relaxing, calming experience that was well needed.

Afterwards, my skin felt slightly hydrated and I noticed the light lavender scent had stuck to me. Yay! I'm sure my husband will appreciate the fact that I don't "smell" like I'm sick.

2 thumbs up! 

I was contacted by Healthy Options of Days Gone By to review some of their products. This is actually my first review that is not for a book. Hooray for new and exciting things!

I chose the Vanilla Body Powder and the Chocolate Lovers Body Soap.

I received my goodie box January 26, 2011.

 In it was the products I had chosen as well as

Lavender Dryer Sachet, Bath Salts w Dead Sea Minerals Longing for Lavender, Lavender Bath Soap, Achy muscle rub, Vanilla Comfort Bath Soap, Double Mint Chocolate Bath Soap.

The packaging is absolutely lovely and old-fashioned. Their customer service matches that.

I look forward to trying each and every one of these. I will comment on them individually since I can't really try them all at once. 

Please stop by their Etsy shop Healthy Options of Days Gone By and their blog http://www.healthyoptionsofdaysgoneby.blogspot.com


If you do stop by their Etsy shop and see something you like, you can save 15% off your order. Use this code: (PRREVIEW15) 

Books and skates

This started out on FB, but I had so much to say, I figured it was better classified as a blog post, where it would soon after be published on FB. Win win, right?

I felt really cool yesterday as I looked around Deseret Book and recognized some of my author friends. (books) I then had to show off to my husband- I know her and her and her..... I've heard a lot about this book, etc. Remember, I won a copy of this book? I beamed and beamed.

I was not impressed that the lady that worked there didn't think they sold Richard Paul Evans' latest book. She asked if it was a Christmas book. I said I don't think so.. I'm pretty sure it came out before Christmas. She told me that it may be in the back with the Christmas books, although it was not on sale with the other Christmas merchandise. She then found it "put away" in the Christmas section. Needless to say, the only book I bought was a really cool book (on clearance) about Utah that I will be adding to our homeschool Library. (Titled Utah Featuring the Art Of Eric Dowdle Text By William Kurtis) It's a HUGE book that just LOOKS so dang awesome. The original price reads $34.95! I got it for $7.99.    :)
I found it last minute after I told my husband that I could get these books a lot cheaper somewhere else.

I really don't care for Deseret Book. Or at least not that one in particular. Not much selection unless you're strictly looking for LDS or inspirational. I was looking for books on writing and there were none. I also didn't care for their prices. (except of course for the great deal I got and they do have good clearance, just not always what I'm looking for) It did smell good in there though.

I came home and got on Amazon and can get 3 of the books I wanted for the price of 1- WITH free shipping.

Yesterday we also got to have some good old fashioned FUN! It  was a birthday party for 2 of my nieces. We went to my sisters house for pizza, cake and ice cream. Then we went rollerskating. Yes, we as in I participated. Holy crap was I rusty. (and there are no photos or video, hee hee hee) But I did get better as the day went on. Wore me out though. I've been off and on sick and today I am taking the day to recuperate.

Healthy old-fashioned products Vanilla Body Powder (Wanna save 15%?)

*I'm such a dork. Somehow I posted this to my other blog yesterday. (http://surrogacybooks.blogspot.com)

Luckily I saw it over there today and thought how the heck did that happen? So here it is....

(I will be taking it off my other blog)

I was contacted by Healthy Options of Days Gone By to review some of their products. This is actually my first review that is not for a book. Hooray for new and exciting things!

I chose the Vanilla Body Powder and the Chocolate Lovers Body Soap.

I received my goodie box today (January 26, 2011)

 In it was the products I had chosen as well as

Lavender Dryer Sachet, Bath Salts w Dead Sea Minerals Longing for Lavender, Lavender Bath Soap, Achy muscle rub, Vanilla Comfort Bath Soap, Double Mint Chocolate Bath Soap.

The packaging is absolutely lovely and old-fashioned. Their customer service matches that.

I look forward to trying each and every one of these. I will comment on them individually since I can't really try them all at once. 

For today, I'll let you know about the Vanilla Body Powder.  I was excited to use this natural product after reading this article: http://healthyoptionsofdaysgoneby.blogspot.com/2011/01/to-talc-or-not-to-talc.html.

It has a nice silky smooth feel with a pleasant light scent. I only wished it smelled more like vanilla. *Update- the more you use it, the more you can smell it and it does smell like vanilla. It just didn't at first I'm guessing because it was packed so full.
:)

Please stop by their Etsy shop Healthy Options of Days Gone By and their blog http://www.healthyoptionsofdaysgoneby.blogspot.com


If you do stop by their Etsy shop and see something you like, you can save 15% off your order. Use this code: (PRREVIEW15) 

Flowers in the Attic

I believe my brother gave me the book Flowers in the Attic when I was around 10 or 11. I remember reading it and loving it.

YEARS later (2 weeks ago), I picked up the movie at the library. Yesterday I watched it with my children. Wow. What a crazy 80's movie. My kids didn't really like it, but they watched the whole thing with me I don't remember how true to the book it was. (I just looked it up and it was pretty close, it hinted to some things that I'm glad it didn't show in more detail. Reading about it, I'm quite surprised that I read it and liked it at such a young age. It seems like it would be for an older audience, but then again I was quite mature for my age.  It also makes me wonder why my brother gave me the book.)  The movie was quite interesting in a very weird way. I don't dare give anything away, but here's the description on Netflix:

This haunting suspense thriller is based on the acclaimed novel by V.C. Andrews. After a tragic accident leaves them fatherless, four children return to their mother's mysterious family mansion in hopes of an inheritance. Instead, they are imprisoned and abandoned by their evil grandmother, leaving them to survive a nightmare of cruelty, forbidden passion and a final shocking discovery that will shatter their innocence forever.




Update- I am such a dork!!! It was not Flowers in the Attic that I read, it was Behind the Attic Wall about dolls in the attic. Now I need to find it and read it with my kids.

Fun with Frogs

We got 2 new Fire Bellied Toads this week. We learned that we are herpers. I wanted to get some variety of food besides crickets, so I had read that you could feed Fire Bellies little guppy fish. Well we found some feeder fish and couldn't wait to see what happened. They are fast little swimmers and I figured the frogs would be all over it.

Meet our frogs and find out what happened: