I am in love with this subscription box. My class loved the coloring poster and my babysitting charges a soon to be 3 year old and 5 year old loved the Thanksgiving crafts.
The box had so many great ideas and I hope to use them in the future. Grab some pinecones, cut them in half, keep all packaging popcorn and let my kids at it.
Ethel’s began with their Original Pecan Pie Bar, the Pecan Dandy. Inspired by Grandma Ethel and pecan pie, it starts with a sweet, buttery, flaky shortbread crust. That’s topped with real, handmade caramel, made using real butter, brown cane sugar, pure vanilla, and clover honey. Plus whole pecans!
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I have ordered 2 boxes since this review and 2 for gifts. These bars are so good and I share every edible review with my daughter but honestly this one I ate two by myself. THEY ARE RIDICULOUSLY DELICIOUS!
You can tell they are made with the best ingredients. They taste homemade, and if you were to put a pretty plate with these unwrapped someone would think you were baking all day!
Each flavor was good, I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be the BLONDIE.
They are gluten free and I am craving them right now!
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We all have troubles, stress, situations or just things we need to let go of so that we can continue living our best life. Sometimes these situations take longer to fix and sometimes it just requires us to think on it and let it go, move forward without the baggage. Right before we headed out on vacation last month we received Buddha Board, an artistic way to create and then let go without!
Buddha Boards for relaxing doodling that disappears!
It comes in 3 very affordable sizes that give a minimalist, artsy look to your coffee table, shelf, or anywhere. No reason to keep this in a closet. Have it available all the time so when the mood strikes you to create, make some swirls, write, even just to keep your hands busy while watching TV so you don't snack, Buddha Board has your back!
We used a soy sauce plate for our water, it just felt right!
Light a candle, grab some water, a paint brush and Buddha Board. While you paint, breathe and think about nothing. Just let your creativity flow.
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I found it very relaxing! My artist daughter was stressed. She complained that it dries too fast for her creation. She loves art and drawing but had a difficult time with the fact that before she could even finish her art, it was disappearing. I am not an artist so my hand is heavier, my strokes, deeper, I simply used more water and less strokes because well, NOT a sketch artist.
Here is her cat drawing she was doing of our Jinxy while he slept as we used Buddha Board. She hates it, It was after she decided to just sketch a larger piece so she could have something for my review. Can you see it? He is lying with his back to us, on a cushion! This was after she decided she couldn't do it because it disappears to fast.
After this will people be having the same argument they have over Die Hard Being A Christmas Movie? I guess time will tell.
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The movie has a solid start. Traveling between parallel timelines or universes sounds fun but what if you are trying to escape someone trying to hurt you?
Nolan is a teenager trying to enter a mirror in order to escape something apparently evil and dangerous. When he finally goes through he is in his room but now has an older sister Mae, he never had before. She knows who he is but she has never been in his prior universes?
Could his sister Mae be the key to stop running?
I enjoyed it. A bit hokey with the siblings talking through shards of glass to communication but it was sweet too with quirky uncle getting ready for Y2K, mom who just wants her family together, Mae going through some teen situation and Nolan trying to keep everyone safe.
Worth a watch.
April 15 - I received dad's ashes. It was not expected and shocked me. I was happy to have him with me.
April 16 - Playing with reflections and shadows. It was early and the road was beautiful
April 17 - My Goddess' best friend made her a birthday cake. It was a lovely gesture and so yummy!
April 18 - Dropping my daughter and her bestie off at their volunteer gig at the animal shelter. I love that they do this together
April 19 - Sage is a cute girl but she is afraid of her own shadow.
April 20 NOTHING
April 21 - Looks like Spring is here!
April 22 - Nothing
April 23 - My gorgeous girl who thinks everything is wrong with her.
April 24 - The deck is getting ready
April 25 - My Fluffy Luna
April 26 Nothing
April 27 Waiting in the car for the kids to come out school is the only time I am alone ever.
April 28 - Jinxy BOY!
April 29 We have blooms
April 30 - Selfie with app help
Every professional and successful business owner and manager knows, respects and fully understands the importance of showing your appreciation and gratitude to your employees, especially over the last two years with the disruption the pandemic caused.
This holiday season, why not treat your employees to a special Christmas gift, just a small token to show you care yet that is simultaneously still relatively affordable and entirely environmentally friendly?
Here, for your information and reading pleasure, are seven of the best eco-friendly Christmas gifts for your employees.
Presented in equally as aesthetically pleasing bamboo boxes, buying a bamboo toothbrush wholesale for your valued workforce this Christmas will be no doubt gratefully received and appreciated. For even more emotional impact and overall sentiment, you could even have a toothbrush or box engraved with each employee’s nickname in the office; just keep it clean (just like their teeth will be from now on)!
Entirely natural and simply made from wheatgrass, a refillable and sustainable pen, perhaps with various inspirational and positive quotes engraved on the side, is a brilliant and thoughtful gift for each and every member of your workforce.
A wheatgrass pen will also show your employees both your own and your company's commitment to lowering the carbon footprint of your business and may also make them consider other wheatgrass products in the future.
Candles are one of the most pleasurable and heart-warming and quite literally warming gifts you could possibly bestow on your employees this holiday season.
There is a multitude of benefits to choosing soy wax over other types, especially the fact that soy wax is entirely biodegradable and is a renewable and wholly natural resource. Additionally, as soy wax candles have a considerably lower melting point than wax made from paraffin, they burn longer and much slower.
Not only does vegan chocolate ensure the sourcing of products from responsible farming, it also contains generally substantially more cocoa butter and a much higher content of cocoa, making it delicious as well as entirely eco-friendly. It's a lot more nutrious.
Essentially, there are two different main types of vegan chocolate; dark chocolate, which is naturally vegan as no animal products are used in its creation and milk chocolate used with dairy milk alternatives.
Slightly more expensive than other items on the lists, yet still relatively affordable, are beautiful, recycled and wholly environmentally friendly journals, made from recycled papers from front to back.
Not only would such a product make a beautiful and thoughtful gift to your employees, but you would also be contributing to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing throughout your workforce.
The benefits of journaling are numerous and include affording the writer a place to reflect, to organize thoughts and document feelings, to improve one’s writing skills and to decide upon goals and working out how to achieve them.
Here are some photos from our first night in Epcot. We walked over 11 miles from 3 :40 pm to 10 pm. I hope I can keep up the activity level when I get home.
We loved the ceiling in China and the snacks in Japan but my daughter ended up getting some snotty looking stuff on her sleeve when she leaned on the bridge railing. It was disgusting. Thank God her dad had kept some cleaning wipes in his pocket because I don’t know how we would have handled it. Whoever globbed all over. I hope you are okay.
