Product Review – Gloves in a Bottle

I got a chance to do my first product review and I jumped at it.  For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using Gloves In a Bottle.  I have tried tons and tons of lotions over the years and found some good ones here and there but mostly, I’ve just found “so-so” ones. 

Well, this is a good one.  Once you put the lotion on your hands, you really do feel like you are spreading a protective layer on your skin.  It is soft, not greasy at all.  There are no perfumes or strong smells that jump out at you.  This product is hypoallergenic, which is great for those of us with really sensitive skin, and fragrance and colorant free. 

The lotion soaks right into your skin.  It doesn’t make you feel like you have lotion slathered all over your hands.  Another neat thing about the lotion and I’m not even sure if it is a benefit that the manufacturer knows about or not, but after using the lotion and then washing your hands, the lotion seems to “re-activate” itself and you can feel it as you are drying your hands.  Hard to explain, I know, but it’s like you are getting a “second wearing” of these Gloves in a Bottle! 

If you check out the website (http://www.glovesinabottle.com), you will see that this product is highly recommended by many doctors, nurses, dentists, etc.  The lotion has helped people with extreme dry skin, cracked skin, eczema, and psoriasis.  The lotion even helps people who are allergic to latex by covering the hands and trapping in natural oils and keeping out the latex allergens. 

One 8oz bottle is good for approx. 120 uses.  I highly recommend Gloves in a Bottle.  You can purchase it online or at local Krogers and Walgreens.

Check out Ecobrain!

After reading another blog today, EcoBrain was mentioned.  This is a site that you can join for free and purchase ecofriendly books that you read online.  It’s like a digital reader or online book reader.  It is free to join and set up an account.  They do offer some free books, too.  Their prices on other books are up to 30% cheaper than prices for actual printed books. 

If you use this service, you can save money and save the environment, and learn other ways to become more ecofriendly.  Check them out. 

 

My Colorful Treasures bracelet giveaway!

I recently ordered a medical ID bracelet from Lisa at My Colorful Treasures.  I wanted something “girlie” and pretty and not just the standard medical bracelet.  Lisa helped me design a bracelet that I would want to wear everyday.  I love my bracelet and I love Lisa’s other designs, too. 

Lisa is having a Fourth of July bracelet giveaway on her site, My Colorful Treasures.  Please stop by her site and enter the giveaway and while you are there, check out her other designs.  She has really cute items at really great prices.  And she will work with you to design exactly what you’re looking for.  Here is a picture of the bracelet she is giving away.

http://www.mycolorfultreasures.com/enter_contest.html

On Father’s Day, I’ll miss my own Daddy

My Dad has been gone for several years now but I still miss him daily.  I was always “Daddy’s Little Girl”.  My Dad could do no wrong.  I look like my Dad.  Well, my features are more like his.  I have his blue eyes, his coloring – hair, skin tone, and nose.  He was my hero and always will be.

One great memory I have of my Daddy is the one and only time my Mom left him to babysit me while she went somewhere with my Granny.  Daddy and I were in the house most of the day.  He was watching TV and I was playing with my dolls.  He fell asleep in his recliner and I decided that one of my dolls needed a haircut.  So off to find the scissors, I went.  I was probably 6 or 7 then.  Not really old enough to use my Mom’s “good scissors” by myself.  But that fact wasn’t gonna stop me.  All I knew was that Sabrina, my doll, needed a haircut and I was gonna give her one.

So I drug a kitchen chair over to the buffet that we had in the kitchen and where my Mom kept the scissors and dug them out of the top drawer.  Since my Daddy was asleep in his chair, I didn’t want to bother him with having to get them for me.  I took the scissors and Sabrina and sat in the living room floor behind my Daddy’s chair.  I used to sit in the same place and play for hours.  I liked sitting there because I was close to my Daddy and I was next to the bookshelf where I had all my books and some toys. 

So I cut off Sabrina’s long beautiful blonde hair and made her look soooo bu-ti-ful!!!!  When I was done with my masterpiece of a haircut, Sabrina looked like Dorothy Hamil or Mary Lou Retton.  She was so cute and let me tell you…for a 6 year old to be doing the cutting, the girl looked FIERCE!!!!

I had finished the haircut and just sat there playing with Sabrina and some other toys and telling Sabrina over and over how pretty she looked.  I was gonna ask my Daddy if he thought so, too, but he was still asleep.  I heard my Mom come in the door and walk in the living room.  Then I heard “Junior!  What happened here???” really loudly, like only a mother can do.  My poor Dad was still asleep in the chair and jumped up asking her what she was talking about.

She had come home to find blonde hair strewn all over the floor behind my Daddy’s chair and then, as she got closer, she saw me sitting in the middle of it with her good scissors right next to me.  I remember looking up at both of them and saying “Look, doesn’t Sabrina look pretty???  She needed a haircut and I did it all by myself.”    I said, “Mommy, I even layered it.” 

After my Mom got through with me, she set her sights on my Dad.  I really think my Dad got the worst of it that day.  And from then on out, he was never asked to watch me again.  Poor Daddy.

Happy Father’s Day to my Husband.

Well, this year will be my husband’s first Father’s Day!  (That we know of…he he he)  How are we celebrating?  Well, he’s working.  Poor baby.  But we will try to do our Father’s Day celebrating on Saturday instead.  I am still working on his present and hopefully will have it done next week.  Hopefully he will like it. 

I have seen my husband really blossom as a father over the past couple of weeks.  Granted, he has been a great daddy since Bean was born.  I had to have an emergency c-section and was pretty much out of it for the first 24 hours of her life, so Daddy jumped right in and took great care of her, fed her, changed her diapers, and watched over her.  I was actually a little jealous of the bond they seemed to have formed while we were all in the hospital.  But then, after we came home and got back to “real life”, it seemed that he wasn’t really excited about being a Dad.  He didn’t really have a lot to do with our baby.  I will say that I probably didn’t help because I thought that I had to be SuperMom and do everything or that it all had to be done my way.  So I might have unknowingly pushed him out of the way during those days.  And when I asked him about his lack of interest, he would tell me that he never really had much to do with any babies (and he’d been around plenty) until they got a little bigger and would interact with him more.

But for the past couple of weeks, he’s surprised me on more than one occassion.  He has swooped her up and taken care of her while I did other things, (he would always do this but it would usually only last for about 5 minutes), he has introduced her to the Georgia Bulldogs Womens Softball and Mens Baseball teams, and he has actually gotten her to sleep on his own several nights while I stayed up. 

He is coming into his own with our little baby and I am very proud of him.  I think he’s gonna make a great daddy and I’m glad I get to watch the whole thing.

Happy Father’s Day, Baby!  AILY

Best Deal Magazine offers for June 16-22

Here are the weekly magazine specials with Best Deal Magazines.  Email me if you are interested in purchasing. 

Best Deal Magazines Weekly Offers for June 16-22.

6/16	Working Mother	1 Year	$3.29
6/17	Yoga Journal	1 Year	$4.95
6/18	Motorcycling	1 Year	$3.69
6/19	Men’s Journal	1 Year	$4.95
6/20	Hallmark	1 Year	$4.95
6/21	Guideposts	1 Year	$3.89
6/22	Fast Company	1 Year	$3.79
Deal of the Day valid only on date specified through Midnight EST.

New coupons and great deals! Circuit City, Joanne’s, etc…

Here are some new coupons and great deals that I thought I’d pass along to everyone.  Hope some of them come in handy!

Circuit City -

Free shipping on orders over $24: http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000014143694&pubid=21000000000152965

Monday only!  Nintendo Wii Bundles are back!  Limited quanities though.: http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000024736378&pubid=21000000000152965

Joannes.com

Firefly Frenzy Sale
Jo-Ann’s Firefly Frenzy Sale in mid-June offers shoppers special savings on a host of popular products including fabric, notions, sewing and quilting cutting tools, yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks and select jewelry-making supplies as well as strung beads. Firefly Frenzy runs from Sun., June 15 to Sat., June 21.

Free shipping on Joanne.com orders over $35.

Free Shipping at Joann.com on orders of $35 or more (Code: JUNFSA835)

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Let me tell you about…Just Tarts!

Let me tell you about…Just Tarts!

 

http://www.momurl.com/AprilTarts/

Just Tarts is just that – a company that specializes in tarts only. Just Tarts offers highly scented tarts that really are some of the best I have tried. They are made with 100% soy wax and are all white to a very pale pastel. They do not add color to the tarts in order to keep the cost of the tarts as low as possible and to go with any decor out there. Each tart comes in a small lidded cup to keep the fragrances fresh. You can request special scents if we don’t already offer what you are looking for. Our shipping is a low $3.00 per order.

 

Another great thing about Just Tarts is that it is owned and operated by a work-at-home mom. Jessica was an affiliate of other companies but decided to open Just Tarts because she wanted to be able to offer a great product at a great price and to give other moms a chance to earn some extra money themselves. Just Tarts started off with only 25 affiliates. Word of mouth took spread and those spots went fast and Jessica has just opened up registration for another 25 reps. If you are interested in joining Just Tarts to either build a business of your own or to just get a discount on your own personal orders, please click on Affiliate Program on the left-hand side of the Just Tarts page and enter my name, April Griffin, into the fax line when you sign up.

I recently ordered some tarts to create a sampler pack so that everyone could smell the different scents. I was really amazed at the scents themselves. One of the scents in my package was called Campfire. When I opened the cup, I truly could smell a campfire going. Granted, it’s not one of my favorite scents nor is it one that I’d probably burn at home, but it was amazing to smell something that really made you feel as though you were sitting next to a campfire.

Check out Just Tarts and let me know what you think if you place an order.

http://www.momurl.com/AprilTarts/

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Bean’s New Trick!

Bean’s New Trick!

Little Bean is learning so much so fast!  I can’t believe she is already 4 1/2 months old!  Pretty soon we’ll be planning that first birthday trip to Chuck E. Cheese.  NOT!!!!

But I thought I’d pass along a Bean update.  She has learned a new trick!  She is now sticking out her tongue and doing raspberries.   She thinks she is the coolest Bean of all now and she can entertain herself with this trick.  I will try to update with a picture of her sticking her tongue out.  By the way, if you meet Bean and she smiles and sticks her tongue out, remember…she’s not trying to be fresh, this is her way of saying “I think you might be cool.”   She doesn’t know how to shake hands yet so this is her way of saying ‘hi’.  And she loves it if you stick your tongue back out at her.

I don’t get it but whatever tickles her pickle!