Product Review: Liquid Chalkers 8 pack

 

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I recently had the opportunity to review an 8 pack of Liquid Chalkers. I was super excited to try these, as I had never heard of them before. As soon as I got them in the mail, I opened them and the kids and I went to town on the windows and mirrors.

We all had fun drawing on the kids' mirror.

When you first open them, you have to get the liquid flowing in the markers. You just press the tip against a paper or something for about thirty seconds or so, until the liquid chalk has totally saturated the tip of the marker. Then they are good to go. You must be careful on what surfaces you use these markers. They only easily wipe off of nonporous surfaces like glass and the chalkboards that are made using nonporous backings.

We left notes for each other on mirrors and appliances.

We tested my chalkboard, but it was porous, so we stuck with our windows and mirrors. We had such fun! These are so easy to use and the clean up is a cinch. The smell is a little weird to me, but is not over powering or headache inducing. The colors are very pretty and the liquid flows smoothly. I give this product two thumbs up. I would like to use these for decorating my windows for every holiday. I found it to be a lot more fun than just putting up decorations bought from a store. The children really enjoy it too. I leave the markers in their bathroom for them usually, as they have a huge mirror to draw on and have fun with.

We decorated the windows for Halloween and even decorated the fish's bowl!

I really enjoyed using these liquid chalkers and feel like they will be a part of our home for quite some time. I can see us keeping these stocked for the kids to use, as well as for us to surprise each other with little notes here and there on the mirrors and such. I really loved the birthday message my husband left me last week. He had to work on my birthday and wanted the message to be the first thing I saw upon awakening. Isn't he a sweetheart!

For a limited time, you can get a 15% discount when purchasing these liquid chalkers through the link HERE by using the code EXCLUSIVE15. Hurry though, for this discount ends November 30, 2013!

Disclaimer: I received the product mentioned above for free in hopes for a review on my blog. All opinions are my own and were in no way influenced by how I received the product. This post contains affiliate links.

Book Tour: The Howling Heart by April Bostic

The Howling Heart Cosmic Blast

Book Review: Broken Bridges by Roy Kindelberger

Card.com Visa Debit Card Review

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Resolution (The Talan Revolt #2) by John Blackport Review

Resolution (The Talan Revolt, #2)

Acupress Product Review

First off, the disclaimer! I received this product for free for reviewing purposes. Even though I received it for free, I was under no pressure to give a positive review for the company. All opinions below are my own honest feelings that I had while trying out the product. I would like to thank my daughter for helping me try out this product. She always makes things a lot funner!

Review: Immuno-Viva Core Capsules Dietary Supplement

I just finished up a one month supply of Immuno-Viva Core Capsules Dietary Supplement. I usually do not take dietary supplements, but I received these for free for reviewing purposes. The opinions in this review are my own and in no way influenced by the company or the fact that I got them for free.

Review: Greeting Card from Send Out Cards

My mother's birthday is coming up in a few weeks. She is going to be 89 this birthday! I wanted to get a nice card to send to her, since I am not going to be able to drive the 750 miles to spend the day with her. The thing is this. Who really has the time to drive to a store, spend forever trying to pick out the perfect card, have to settle for one that is just 'ok', and then stand in line for another eternity to pay for it. Then I probably would forget that I am out of stamps, have to make another trip to town to get a stamp, finally get it mailed off hopefully in time for her to get it two days late. Well, this is what usually happens anyway!

Not this time! I received the opportunity to try out Send Out Cards for review purposes. I jumped at the chance to both create a special greeting card for Mother, and be able to write a review for a site for you all to try out.

Review and Giveaway: Purex UltraPacks Plus OXI and Zout Stain Remover

As a Purex Insider, I received this product free to try and review. Even though I received this free, all opinions are my own and were not influenced by the company. So here goes!

Book Tour: Did I Say That Out Loud? by Kelly McDermott Harman

Book Review: Cenicienta - Cinderella

Once again I got to try out a wonderful pyp book by Suzy Liebermann. This one was the book titled CINDERELLA - CENICIENTA (Happy Language Kids - English and Spanish for Kids)

Review: Younique Natural Mineral Make Up and Giveaway

  

I recently received the opportunity to try out some of the eye pigments and primer from Younique for review. As you will see, I am not a makeup artist! My daughter and I had a lot of fun playing around with the make up and I took a lot of pictures. I tried to put the best of them in this post so that you might get an idea of how great this make up is.

First of all about the company. Younique is a newer company. It is less than a year old. It was founded by brother-sister team Derek Maxfield and Melanie Huscroft. It's mission is to validate, empower, uplift, and help build self esteem in women around the world. It is the first direct-sales company to market mainly through social media.

Younique offers several wonderful collections, or you can buy
each product separately. Colorful eye shadows, blushes, concealers, lip glosses, as well as moisturizers, brushes, rose water and 3D eyelashes are some of the terrific products that are available to purchase from Younique. 

Now for my review. First, let me tell you that I really like this make up and definitely recommend it.  I only tried a few of the Younique products, but would love to try them all.

First off I applied the primer, which is 100% natural, free of parabens, oils, synthetic fragrances, and cheap fillers,  to my daughters eyelids. Then, of course she applied it to mine. It went on silky smooth and left no greasy feeling behind. My eyelids felt so smooth that I was tempted to do my whole face. I refrained, because I was only testing eye shadow and it seemed a waste of primer!

  I had several shades of pigment to choose from for our eyes. The pigment is 100% natural, chemical-free, mineral-based pigment powders, free of talc, oils, preservatives, perfumes, synthetic dyes, and parabens. On Serenity I used two different pigments. Innocent, which is a creamy off white color, and Flirty which is a light purple color.

Unfortunately the colors don't show up well in the pictures I took with my phone. The colors in person are so much more vibrant and lovely! They look pale in the pictures. The colors really brought out her beautiful eyes, in my opinion. She loved them! She wants to try out all the different colors of pigment now.

She tried doing my makeup for me, but it didn't turn out so well. She is not used to using a brush and still doesn't quite know where to apply make up. So I kind of looked clownish. So those pictures are not on here. I did reapply it and those pics are on here.

On me we used three colors. Innocent as the base, with Flirty and the darker Awestruck. It turned out pretty good. Then I tried using a damp brush and it turned out even better! I was amazed at how dramatic it looked when using the damp brush. You can have two different looks using the same pigment! One for day, and one for evening wear, if you'd like. The colors are absolutely amazing and vivid. I cannot wait to try out the other colors I have on hand.

The pictures of me below are all after I used the damp brush. The sparkles all over my face were leftover from Serenity's attempt at doing my make up. As I said, I am no makeup artist, so don't expect anything spectacular! Other than the wonderful                colors of the Younique products. Please feel free to contact me if you would be interested in purchasing some of these wonderful products!

Here is the link to the Giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win a set of the 3D Green Tea Fiber Lashes or a product of equivalent value from Younique! 

we called this the sparkle fairy look, it's not showing up great in this photo, but she has the Flirty pigment in her bangs also

Not drunk! Just had the flash in my eyes :)

a day in the tangled skeins of my life received free samples of the products mentions in this review. Although I received them for free, the opinions of these products are all my own. I received no compensation to post this review and did not have to post a favorable review in order to receive the free samples.
The giveaway is hosted by Younique Independent Presenter Lynne. a day in the tangled skeins of my life is not responsible for prize fulfillment.

Book Review: Lace One-Skein Wonders

Judith Durant brings us yet another wonderful One-Skein Wonders book. This time it is for Lace.

 

Book Review: Maps-Mapas a Happy Language Kids bilingual book

 

 MAPS - MAPAS (HAPPY LANGUAGE KIDS - a bilingual book series for elementary school (English/ Spanish)) by Suzy Liebermann is the second pyp book in the Happy Language Kids series that I have read with my child. My daughter said that she liked the book and that the pictures really helped her know what words were being taught. She is looking forward  to learning more of this language. . This one is a little harder for her than the first one we read, La Familia, but still not too difficult for her to grasp. I really appreciate that they take the time to animate and voice the books on their website. It is a huge help in learning the proper

Blucy and Mary Had A Sleepy Sheep book reviews and Giveaway!

I got the wonderful opportunity to review two books written by Julia Dweck. My daughter and I emailed back and forth with Julia during the last few days talking about the books she sent us to read. We think she is a very sweet person and really enjoyed the chance to talk with her a bit. 

Here is a quick bio on Julia:

Julia's background in elementary education affords her the opportunity to be in touch with what children want to read and what makes them giggle. She's collaborated with leading artists in the world of children's literature to produce over 20 Amazon eBooks. Her titles have garnered placement on Amazon's bestsellers in children's color picture books multiple times. PIE-RITS: A PIRATE ADVENTURE was selected by Amazon Editors for the prestigious "Kindle Daily Deal." Many of Julia's titles have earned placement on Amazon's top ranked lists based on customer review. In her spare time, Julia is a designer of educational adjuncts for children's literature, and has worked with such notable publishing houses as Penguin Young Readers. She presented at the 2011 National Center for Family Literacy for her creative use of technology in the classroom. 

Book Review: La Familia - The Family (A Happy Language Kids bilingual children's book)

I received an opportunity to read and review the pyp book THE FAMILY - LA FAMILIA (HAPPY LANGUAGE KIDS - a bilingual book series for children) by Suzy Liebermann recently. It is the first in a series of bilingual children's books that help English speaking children to learn Spanish. They also help Spanish speaking children learn English.

Bango Review

 

I got the opportunity to try out the Bango for a review. It was given to me for free in order to write this review. Even though it was given to me, the opinions in this review are mine and were not influenced by anyone.  

Scott Zavoda's Morning Commute Book Review

I recently received the opportunity to read and review the short story Morning Commute by Scott Zavoda.

Let me start off by saying this, if you want something quick and highly entertaining, you should read this short story! It was hilarious! I wasn't sure at first if I was going to enjoy it. The writing style is not my favorite. It is present tense in the first person POV. A lot of times, when I come across books written this way, I just can't get into them. This story, however, really held my attention.

It is very short, coming in at around eleven pages, and I blew through it in no time. I thought it was very satisfying for a short story. The setting of this story is very familiar to a lot of us. I found that the main character is very amusing and relatable in her thoughts and actions. Her day starts of poorly and goes downhill very quickly in an altogether hilarious way. The ending, which I must admit I kind of assumed was going to happen, was just as funny as the rest of the story. It was a very satisfying ending. I really want to tell you all about it, but I don't want to ruin the story for anyone.

Suffice it to say, I loved it. I found myself alternately laughing out loud and groaning aloud as the story progressed. As I said earlier, I kind of figured out how it would end, but that didn't detract from it in the least. If anything it made it even funnier to me. Of course, I kind of have a twisted sense of humor.

The story does use coarse language, so is not a good option for younger readers. You can tell it was meant for adults. I would let my teen son read it but not my preteen daughter. The subject matter is not appropriate, in my opinion, for younger readers. But, if you are an adult or older teen and want something that will tickle your funny bone, I highly recommend this story. I hope to see more from this writer in the future.



I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Who made a button? I made a button!

A couple of weeks ago, I could not even manage to edit my HTML to make my comments work correctly. I had to get rid of my custom theme and go with a regular blogger theme. I was kind of sad about that, but hey, it's all okay.

Then, over the last few days especially, I started signing up for a lot of blogger opps. The problem was that half the time the HTML they used for their announcement posts didn't go with my color scheme. The links would be invisible or the words would be unreadable. So I started changing my color schemes repeatedly, trying to find a good compromise. My husband looks at me one night and says, why don't you just edit the HTML code and make the colors different on the posts, not on your theme. Hmmm said I. Actually it was more of a whine about how I didn't know how to do that, and that it was too hard. Then I started really reading the codes. Line by line. Figuring out what color hex code thingamajig went with what words and what backgrounds.

I am slowly starting to understand the HTML code stuff. I don't know it well enough to write anything myself, but I am starting to be able to edit for background colors and word colors and font pretty easily. Now if only I could figure out where to put that darn Alexa code! It is still in the wrong spot and my specs aren't showing on my dashboard.

So, here I am rambling on and on, and you are probably wondering what any of this has to do with buttons. Well. you know those grab my button things on the sides of people's blogs? I have one now! I made it! I used a tutorial on another blogger's site. You can find it HERE if you want to learn how to make one yourself. It is actually pretty easy. I had problems at first. I was doing something wrong but couldn't figure out what. Then I figured out that I was forgetting to change the " in the code. After I changed those it was fine. That is explained in the tutorial as well. I just didn't read all of it at first.
(They teach you in school to read all instructions before you start something. I guess I just forgot that lesson!)

I know it is silly to be this excited over something like a button, but I can't help myself. I love to learn new things. I feel that I am learning this HTML stuff slowly. Who knows, one day maybe I'll be designing my own themes or websites or who knows what!

You can find my button on the right side of this post if you want it. It says Grab My Button and then there is the picture followed by the code. I didn't know what picture to use on my button, so I used a picture of some of my yarn. I love the picture and miss the yarn that I used to have. I have either used, or lost in the move to Texas, most of the yarn in the picture.

OK so I am done rambling on about all of this. I hope you all have been enjoying my recipes, sweepstakes, and giveaways that I have been posting about. I haven't been doing much knitting and no gardening (it all died except for two plants that aren't producing anything), and very little of anything other than finding awesome giveaways to post about.

Until next time my ever faithful tanglers.... Happy Crafting!

Look! Here's my button and it's code! :)

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