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The Children’s Place is having their Monster Sale too.  I know I posted about it a few days ago but it looks like they added a few things to the sale and reduced prices even more on a few other things.  I had put in an order a couple days ago for my daughter and got her 2 sweaters and a cardigan for only $13.92 shipped.  I went back today and bought her 2 pairs of fleecet pants, 2 fleece hoodies, and a pair of leggings and paid only $16.98 shipped!!  Plus getting 5% cash back from BeFrugal.

When you go to the site there is a coupon code for an additional 20% off and FREE shipping: T5H4HP20

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The holidays are over, the weather is getting even colder and the days are short.  I know next week the forecast for my area of PA is calling for a high of 6 degrees.  Not really weather I like to let my kids out in to play for any extended period of time.  My boys are usually content to play video games, watch tv, or watch a movie but I try to limit that.  For me, January and February are a challenge in keeping cabin fever away from my kids without them being sedentary.

I love GLEE Gum Make Your Own Candy Kits.  There are lots of reasons for this:

1.  The kits use natural ingredients.

2.  Each one lets them know where the main ingredients of each candy kit come from.  It give them a little education on where those ingredients are from and how they are obtained.  Even gives some history on the candy. You can also find educational info on their site

3.  The kids come with all the ingredients you need (aside from maybe a cup of water)

4.  It’s a great hands on family activity that also allows room for creativity

I’ve had the opportunity to try all the GLEE Make Your Own Candy Kits thanks to several reviews in the past and now this one.  This time we got to try the Make Your Own Gummies kit.

 

I honestly thought this one would be more complicated for some reason.  I don’t know why.  It was was actually quite easy.  It has info about what make the gummies turn to gel, how families in the phillipines make a living through seaweed farming, and even has a small piece of seaweed in the kit.  There is a part where they need to place that seaweed in water and it explains to them what they are seeing when the use the seaweed and more.

There were steps that everyone in the family could complete.  My youngest son loves to mix so he’s usually assigned the dumping and mixing jobs, while the older ones get to do the measuring and set up.  They all get to do their own creative things though.

 

You can complete this kit with either a stove top or microwave.  We chose to use the microwave to save a few dirty dishes and so it was a little safer for my little guy.  The kit comes with a molding starch.  This is where the creativity comes in.  They could use objects around their house or even draw their own designs in the molding starch to make the shape of their gummies.  The kid suggests some things that can be used.  We use some of those plastic decorative pics from cupcakes (football helmest we had) letter magnets, some gingerbread men candy molds, and even tried drawing a few designs.  To be quite honest they didn’t turn out quite the way we had hoped but we did get some pretty cool designs.  As I told my kids, in the end no matter what shape they are they’ll all taste the same.

 

We spooned our mixture into the “mold”  You let it set in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to set and that’s really all it took.  We took them out of the mold wiped them a bit with a clean damp cloth to get the molding powder off of them  We them put them in a sandwich bag with the provided sour sugar coating and shook them up and they were ready to go.

These were really quite tasty.  A lot of flavor to them.  My youngest son was the first to taste test.  After eating one he asked me for more.  I tried a couple my self and so did my older boys.  They got a thumbs up from everyone.

 

If gummies aren’t your thing they also have a Make Your Own Chocolate Kit and a Make Your Own Gum kit.  With this review we have now tried all three.  Each one of them gave a different experience.  It’s hard to pick a favorite because they were all lots of fun and tasty.  GLEE actually has a candy combo kit on their site where you can get all 3 kits for $37.67 right now.  You could get the combo kit and pull one out when the kids are saying “i’m bored” over the winter.  They would also make really cool and unique birthday gifts.

Also they have lots of flavors of their natural, GLEE Gum available on their site with the newest flavor, watermelon available.  I will also be reviewing coming up this month.  You can use the GLEE store locator to see if there are any stores near you that sell the gum or candy kits.  You can also order them on their website http://gleegum.com/order.htm

You can also find GLEE Gum on the following social media sites:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GleeGum?sk=app_190322544333196

Twitter: @gleeguy

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/gleegum/

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their choice of one of the GLEE Make Your Own Candy Kits

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I’m someone who loves to wear some type of fragrance every day.  I like to have a variety of perfumes on hand depending on my mood and to complete my look.  Even with having several fragrances on hand at any given time, I’m choosy about which ones I wear. I like light scents.  I tend to gravitate toward fresh/clean, citrus, or light floral scents.  I’m personally not a fan of anything to heavy or spicy for myself.

After reading the descriptions of the new fragrances available from Mia Mariu I was willing to give it a try.  The hardest part for me was to choose if I wanted to review the women’s for myself or get one of the men’s fragrances for my hubby. (I love it when he wears fragrances too).

 

I decided to try the women’s fragrance called mm magia.  It came in a 1.7 fl oz glass bottle.  It has your typical spritz pump to dispense the perfume.  This is a gorgeous scent.  The description provided by Mia Mariu reads:

“enchanting, flirty, sensual…deliciously unforgettable” 

This deliciously flirtatious fragrance invigorates the senses, creates a mood and sets the scene for unforgettable fun, romance and pleasure. With a medley of juicy strawberry, mandarin, peach and pear that play sweetly atop dewy blooms of jasmine, plum, magnolia and flirty frangipani; makes the perfect playmate and ideal soul mate for smooth and sensual base notes of rich vanilla, musk, tonka bean and warm and enchanting golden amber.

Of course I’m no perfume expert.  When I smell it I definitely pick up the jasmine, peach, a hint of strawberry, and I can definitely pick up the citrus notes.  There is just a touch of warm that blends it together smoothly.  This fragrance wears well on me, or at least I think so.  It’s noticeable but not overpowering.  I’ve worn the fragrance on a few different days.  It seems to last about 3-4 hours at a time.

The other 2 new fragrances available are men’s fragrances. And the desciptions provided by Mia Mariu read:

mm caoba EDT 1.7 oz for Men
“sophisticated, passionate, romantic….real sexy confidence”

This rugged, refreshing, strong and sensual fragrance has top notes of citron tonic, violet leaf, dew grass; middle notes are red saffron, crushed nutmeg and fresh vetiver; base notes are creamy sandalwood, vanilla absolute and vintage suede. Caoba’s modern smooth scent creates mystery and sexy confidence.

AND

mm acqua EDT 1.7 oz for Men
“rebellious, irresistible, seductive…pure masculinity” 

This clean, cool and refreshing fragrance offers a sophisticated scent with its unique blend of exotic ingredients. Acqua leaves skin aromatically scented with top notes of sliced ginger, star ruby grapefruit and white pepper, middle notes of warm nutmeg, Egyptian jasmine and skin musk while balancing perfectly with bottom notes of Texas white cedar, Haitian vetiver and Bois de Encens. Acqua embodies the essence of masculinity.

For me, I think I’d like to have my husband try the mm caoba scent.  It sounds like something we’d both like.  My husband wears fragrance often too.  I’m so glad because I definitely love some of the men’s cologne’s available.

You can find Mia Mariu on the following social media site:

Mia Mariu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/miamariu

Mia Mariu Twitter: @Mia_Mariu

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/miamariu/

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1 Luv Saving Money reader will win

their choice of one of the 3 new Mia Mariu fragrances (men or women)

US ONLY

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