Dearest♥Rhonda

Thursday, February 10, 2011

OMG Yoplait Gift Set Review and Giveaway......

Yoplait Gift Set Review and Giveaway

Yoplait yogurt is a great way to get your calcium in. I have eaten Yoplait since I was very young. They sell many different flavors and even sell Greek yogurt now. It is an inexpensive snack and also goes along great with a meal

For this review, I was sent a jump rope, a duffel bag, a mini towel, a coupon for a free yogurt, and an awesome Yoplait water bottle. I really like the water bottle and will be able to use it everyday. My husband already claimed the duffel!!

Giveaway

The giveaway will be for the Yoplait set pictured above. The giveaway is open until Midnight on Tuesday February 15th. Winner will be chosen on Wednesday February 16th using Random.org.

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Teatulia Review and Giveaway over at....

Teatulia is a line of 9 different organic teas. The teas come in pretty little see through pyramid teabags.For a box of 16 teabags, it costs $9.22 and can be purchased on the company's website.

***If you sign up for the company's newsletter (located on the bottom of this page), you can get 20% off of your first order!
So if you like giveaways head on over to

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and enter today ends on 2/15

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Free Yoplait....

https://yoplait.com/get-your-free-cup

Rainbow Fruit Sticks....

Rainbow Fruit Sticks
All you need is a collection of colourful fruit and some skewers! This is a great recipe to work on with your kids! They can help with washing the fruit, cutting the fruit (if they have some knife skills!) and putting the fruit on the skewers! We put ours on in a rainbow pattern so that makes it fun to follow the pattern! We like to use: Raspberries, Cantaloupe, Pineapple, Honeydew Melon & Blackberries to give the skewers a nice rainbow effect!
1. Wash your fruit and let dry a little so that they are easy to work with.
2. Arrange your fruit and skewer them in the same order.
3. Display your Rainbow Fruit Sticks on a platter and get ready for the compliments!

This week we also had the huge honour of guest blogging on the Dani Spies site (which is one of my favorites sites go check it out and I know it will become one of your favorites too!) http://www.danispies.com/ we made a colourful Eggplant Tomato Zucchini Gratin (thanks to our friend Marina for coming over and joining us in the kitchen)! Dani has a section on her site called Kidbites that has lots of great recipes that everyone in your family will enjoy.
Happy Healthy Eating!

What an Adore Calendar Idea...

Instructions and Item list:

24 mini muffin pan (Wal-Mart, painted Red.)

red spray paint (Wal-Mart)

magnet strips (magnets are strong enough)

The Following Stamping up Products were use;

#119847 xlg ornament punch (24 were punched)

#118874 2-3/8" xlg scallop circle punch (24 were punched make sure the circle is big enough to cover the entire muffin hole)

#102482 real red card stock (Red Cardstock)

#102584 garden green card stock (Green Cardstock)

#120809 candy cane Christmas DSP (holiday mini or any Christmas pattern pp)

#115618 old olive 1 1/4" striped ribbon

#119873 3/4" circle punch (For the numbers)

The numbers were printed on a pc & then punched out.

After gluing the scalloped circle, ornament and numbers together you can glue the magnet strips on the back of the scalloped card stock and then place it over the muffin cup.

Once it is all done, Pat is putting chocolate, & coins in the cups & each day her granddaughters will be able to find the goodies inside the cup.

Make a Starburst Mirror...

Make a Starburst Mirror

I'm a fan of retro-styled starburst mirrors, and I just knew I could make one on a dollar store budget! I've seen these all over the place, from design magazines and blogs to my grandma's house, and the starburst is a motif I definitely respond to. Pottery Barn has one for sale right now that is $449.
I got styrofoam discs (6 for $1 - in the floral section) and bamboo skewers at my dollar store. I had to get a few things at other stores. I picked up metallic spray paint for about $3 at a local big-box store, and four packages of round mirrors at my local craft store. The mirrors were less than $1 a package, and I got three sizes: .75 inch (2 packs), 1 inch, (1 pack), and 2 inch (1 pack). You can also pick up a convex mirror (find it in the auto parts section, sold as a blind-spot mirror) if you like the look, for the center of the starburst.
Project Estimate:

Styrofoam disc, 6 for $1
Bamboo skewers, $1
Metallic spray paint, $3
Round mirrors, 4 packages at $.99 each
Pretty coordinating cardstock, on hand
Craft glue, on hand (I used Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue)
Duct tape, optional

Total: $8.95

Pottery Barn currently has a starburst-style mirror for sale for $449. It's much larger and a bit more ornate than my version, but you could definitely go this route if you wanted to! Just increase the number of skewers you use and overlap the mirrors more. I would also get some scrapbooking paper and cut out little circles to frame the mirrors. (I wanted to do that for my project, but I don't have large round craft punches, and I'm not precise enough to cut good circles out by hand!)
To Make:

Gather desired number of skewers and divide in half. Take half of them and trim about 2" off.
Push skewers into round edge of styrofoam disc, alternating between longer and shorter skewers.
Spray paint skewers with metallic paint (try to avoid spraying styrofoam as it can be damaged/melted by spray paint).
If you are framing the little mirrors with scrapbook paper, cut out circles and glue to mirrors while paint is drying.
When paint is dry, glue mirrors onto skewers using craft glue.
(Optional) Once the glue starts to take hold, you can turn starburst over and tape the backs of the mirrors onto the skewers to make them more secure. This is for the "oh ye of little faith" crafters--I'm in this group!
Cut out a large circle of cardstock for the center of the starburst. I traced mine with a tuna can. You can use any round thing to trace, just make sure it's larger than your center mirror (and your styrofoam disc--you want to cover that up).
Glue larger mirror to cardstock, then glue to styrofoam.

To hang, you can just put a small nail in the wall and push the styrofoam into the nail.