Office or Traveler Gift: T-Tech Retro Clock and MP3 Speaker

**I received the below mentioned product in order to complete an honest review. No other compensation has been received. Any opinions expressed are my own**

What do you get for dad, your teenage son, the work-a-holic, or the traveler. Oh! I have the answer to this one, how about the T-Tech Retro Clock and MP3 player! This sleek, functional, and versatile device is available on GoInStyle.com.

When I first opened this little device I thought it looked very clean and sleek. I could proudly put this on a desk or anywhere really. It’s not understated. Doesn’t take up a lot of room. It’s light weight and stylish.

It’s an analog clock as you can see from the picture. It charges with a USB cable that comes with the device. It also comes with a wire that plugs into the back of the clock and connects to your phone or mp3 player. You need to charge the clock by connecting it to your computer or a USB plug adapter. It require 1 AAA battery (not included) to keep the clock running. It has a beautiful wood finish that frames the clock.

The T-Tech by TUMI from GoinStyle.com is clock, alarm clock, and mp3 speaker. I made a video to try to show all the feature of the T-Tech by TUMI

The sound that comes out of the speaker is really nice. It can actually go pretty loud if you want it to by adjusting the volume on the T-Tech and on your phone/mp3 player. The alarm is fairly loud. I love that it has a snooze button because I sure use the heck out of a snooze button (way more than I should). This is $44 available on GoInStyle.com They have lots gift ideas for the traveler and the stylish man or woman in your life.

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GoInStyle.com also offer free shipping to the US.

Enter to Win a Nature’s Sleep Mattress and More #NSXmas

I had to move Luv SavingMoney’s giveaway to a seperate post because it wasn’t allowing the main giveaway form to show up for the mattress you can find My giveaway for the Nature’s Sleep event here: https://luvsavingmoney.com/2013/11/luv-saving-money-natures-sleep-event-giveaway.html

Nature’s Sleep carries a variety of products to help you get a blissful night’s sleep from memory foam pillows to memory foam mattresses. You can wake up to a whole new you. Say goodnight to aches and pains while you sleep in sublime comfort and awake feeling refreshed. One lucky continental US winner will be chosen to receive a memory foam mattress from Nature’s Sleep at a max value of $4000 by entering the code word from the blog they entered the sweepstakes on in the Giveaway Tools form below.

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You’ll Want to Get This Perfume: Eau Flirt by Harvey Prince

**I received the below mentioned product in order to complete a review. No other compensation has been received. Any opinions expressed are my own**

Before receiving Eau Flirt by Harvey Prince perfume to review I had not heard of it. I decided to do some research on it. I wanted to see what others were saying about it, kind of prepare myself . I’m kinda picky about my perfumes. I want the scent to last but I don’t want it to be overpowering. I prefer light, fresh, and sweet scents. I don’t like anything too musky or spicy. I came across this clip from the show The Doctors .

Eau Flirt has notes of pumpkin and lavender. Lavender is definitely a scent I like but I wasn’t sure about how I’d feel about a pumpkin lavender combo. When I opened up the box I got, what seemed to me, like a strong citrus type scent. I like citrus scents too but I still wasn’t sure. You know that perfumes can smell different on different people.

I sprayed a little on, that’s when I could actually smell the pumpkin notes and the lavender. This scent was amazing. It lasted for hours too. This is a perfect perfume for me. It gently lets you know it’s there it’s not in your face and overpowering. I had sprayed some on and was holding my baby girl . I set her down and my son’s friend picked up my daughter and said “oh she smells good!” After he was done holding her I picked her up and realized some of my perfume was on her clothes.

The bottle I received is a 3/4 oz spray bottle. Very generous sized perfume. I’ve worn it every day since I received it. If you are looking for a perfume to wear for the holidays or to give as a gift, this one is definitely a winner. The New York Times said it’s “The olfactory equivalent of a little red dress”. I thought that was an accurate description.

You can find Harvey Prince on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarveyPrince and on Twitter: @harveyprince

Eau Flirt is available on the Harvey Prince website: http://www.harveyprince.com for $55 for a 3.4 oz bottle.

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a 3.4 oz bottle of Eau Flirt by Harvey Prince

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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.

Sugar Free Baking for the Holidays (But They Won’t Know)

**I received a variety of products from NuNaturals to try. I was under no obligation to do a review. Any opinions expressed are my own**

It’s that time of year. The time of year where we have treats, feasts, and confections everywhere. Most of us will indulge a little (or maybe a lot) and regret it later. Yet for me, it just doesn’t seem like Christmas if there isn’t holiday cookies in the oven, or the kids aren’t helping me bake. This year we’re trying something different. No we’re not giving up the cookies, we’re giving up the sugar. I know what you’re thinking, what’s the point of cookies without sugar? Well we’re using a great sugar substitute for NuNaturals.

NuNaturals has everything you need to make your holiday baking sugar free and healthier with things like fiber and yummy flavors. I received a plethora of product from NuNaturals to try. For me to review everything I received in one post, I just didn’t think it would do it justice. There were so many things with so many different ideas. NuNaturals also has lots of recipes to try on their site if you’re not quite sure how to use the products or you just want ideas.

Some of the products I received included oat fiber and NuStevia baking blend.

I’m already a fan of the NuStevia MoreFiber Sweetener Baking Blend but had never tried the NuNaturals NuGrains Oat Fiber. The Oat Fiber lets you add fiber to any of your holiday baking from cookies, to cakes, to rolls. Simply add in 3 tablespoons of oat fiber for every 8 servings. So if your recipe makes 24 cookies and a serving size is 3 cookies then you need 3 tablespoons of oat fiber. The NuStevia baking blend is a great substitute for the sugar in your recipes.

I tried the Chocolate Chip Pan Cookies recipe on the NuNaturals site. I’ll be honest, to me the recipe seemed like it was missing something like maybe milk or water because the bars turned out very dry and crumbly. BUT, they still tasted good. My 4 year old just loved these. Every day he’d say “mommy can I have a cookie” and I’d give him a little bar with some milk. Even my oldest son who is a bit picky had a couple of these bars.

I used holiday chocolate chips. Even if this recipe just isn’t your cup of tea, there’s lots of other recipes on the site for cookies, pies, cakes, breads, and more for your holiday spread.

NuNaturals ships free to the continental US with orders of $35 or more. I’ll have more NuNaturals ideas throughout the holiday guide so stop by again.

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Cheap, Free, and Last Minute Gift Wrap Ideas

I love to wrap gifts. It’s so exciting to see the packages piled up and think about the excitement of the recipient. Some wrapping paper can be expensive, especially when you consider most of it just gets ripped to shreds and thrown away or recycled anyway. Here is some fun free and cheap ideas of gift wrap this year.

1. Save gift bags and reuse them. This is one of my favorite ways to save on wrapping paper. I even save the tissue paper if it’s not too wrinkled up or torn. This is a quick and eye appealing way to wrap a gift. I save them from birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, etc. The plain white and brown ones are nice too because you can have the kids decorate them or even decorate them yourself.

2. News Paper. Seriously. Add a red bow and your all set. If you don’t think it’s festive enough, after you wrap your gift run a glue stick over it and sprinkle some festive glitter over top. Or use festive washi tape or even duct tape if you’re creative enough to add some touches. Another cute idea, save your comics every week and use those or save holiday inserts.

3. Brown paper from sources like paper bags, department store bags, or kraft paper rolls. This is great to make it look like a shipped gift or an old fashion twist. Tie it up with some twine or again add your own touches with things like glitter, washi tape, curling ribbon, Christmas Stickers, ink stamps, and more. I bet the grandparents would love their paper decorated by the grand kids.

4. Don’t turn your nose up at promotional bags like these:

You can easily cover the logo with a number of different ideas. Have the kids draw a festive picture on a piece of construction paper or cardstock and glue it over the logo. Also I save holiday cards. Put them up with my Christmas decorations when I pack them away. The front of Christmas cards are perfect to cut off and glue over the front. If you’re desperate enough you can even take one of these bags apart carefully and put the logo on the inside and wrap a small gift in them and again….decorate as you please.

5. Old scraps of fabric. For a small gift like jewelry for instance you can take a round or square scrap of fabric set it in the middle, pull it up like a little sack and tie it with a bow. You can use larger scraps if you like for larger gifts. You can safety pin it or use fabric glue to glue it together. With glue though, just remember it might take a little while to set!

6. Disposable table clothes. Seriously, I bought a roll of the thin plastic table cloth when I did my sister’s bridal shower over the summer. I have a bunch left and was trying to think of uses for it. Other than using if for future parties at our house it would also work great as wrapping paper. The paper ones would work well too.

7. Use part of your gift as wrapping paper. Giving a gift for baby? Wrap it in a receiving blanket or crib comforter. Attach with safety pins. Cooking gift? How about wrapping it in dish towels, table runner, fabric placemats, etc. A relaxation gift how about a pillow case or lap blanket.

8. I also save nice baskets. You can always grab a basket and make up a gift basket for the holidays.