Bzz Agent Glade Expressions

I am a Bzz Agent on BzzAgent . I get free stuff to try out and share my opinions on. This glade spray was free. I could choose my scent I opted for Cotton & Italian mandarin. It's a refillable spray bottle. You simply unscrew the bottom and replace the inside instead of buying a whole new bottle. It looks like this...

Then you take the outside wrapper off and it's pretty home decor. It looks like this...

It smells so good. Fresh and clean and not heavy at all yet the scent still lingers.

Scentsy

My friend Tammy sells Scentsy. I'm not sure if you have heard of it. If you have you most likely already love it and you need no convincing to how good it is. If you haven't one sniff and you could be hooked like the rest of us. Either way here's a link to the lady you want to be buying from... https://tamarademers.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Home 

She asked if I would review these and write a blog about what I thought. She gave me a choice of the different design plug-ins I could pick  and told to me choose any scent I wanted.


Here's what she gave me: A plug-in warmer, bar of wax, small piece of wax, catalogs and a magnet with her info on it.

I chose a Lacewing plug in warmer

and a tray of Honey, Do! wax.

I took everything out of the box and got ready to assemble.

All I needed was a small screwdriver to secure the plug to the ceramic holder. It has a 15 watt blub and an on-off switch. The directions say to use one or two pieces of the bar so I started with one. It smelled so good. It's not small like say a glade plug in is. It costs a bit more, but you do get what you pay for. It's much better than any wax melt warmer I've used and the wax is better too. It makes the whole house smell good instead of just one small space or room. Plus it's much prettier, there are more designs and there are 80(!) scents to choose from.

Tammy also gave me a small sample of a scent called Luna. It smells good! No wonder it's her favorite.

Thanks to Tammy for the opportunity to try this. Hope you get lots of sales from this blog.
Now go buy some Scentsy!

Cooking & other things...

I think I cooked enough food last week to feed about 40 people over the course of 5 or 6 meals....Thank God for my freezer. I was busy with other projects too...some are hits and some are misses.

Here are some of the good ones....with pictures....


                                                 Chicken pot pie "hot pockets"

                                                           Jolly Rancher Vodka Step one:

                                                                   Jolly Rancher Vodka
                                                                      Step 2: let soak:

                                                                  Jolly Rancher Vodka
                                             Step 3: stir a bit then enjoy...I mix mine with Sprite.

                                                                 Breakfast Burritos

                                                                         Cupcakes

                                     
                                                       Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings.

                                                   Sweet & Sour Chicken with fried rice.

                                                               Bird Seed Wreaths.
                                                        (setting over night in the fridge)

                                                 Practice run at Pastel Deviled Eggs for Easter.

                                                           Greek yogurt, frozen blueberries
                                                            and a bit of honey popsicles

                                                                  Crispy Baked Kale

                                                          Cupcakes in ice cream cones

                                                                      spicy beef stew
                                                (serve over rice, mashed potatoes or noodles)

                                                          Homemade mozzarella sticks

                                                               Crab Mac & Cheese

                                                            skillet chocolate chip cookie

Tattoos

I love tattoos, full sleeves (and more) on men...a few here and there on a woman. My husband, not a fan. He doesn't care who has them and  he doesn't judge, they just aren't for him, but on his wife I can understand that being a different story. That being said I want about 7-9 more tattoos. I only have 3 now.
My next one will be this (It's our wedding date in roman numerals) :


XI V MMIV

probably bigger depending on where I put it. 

Then I want a ladybug, an angel, an owl, interlocking hearts, a saying up my spine( ripple in still water ), a music note and let it be (on my wrist)...that's all I know for sure. Each having a special meaning. (luck, my grammy, my great-grammy, love, joe's favorite song, music=love, and remind myself to relax a bit)


What tattoos do you have or want?

the bitch is back in town

Well I have been drinking and yet ignoring my blog. bad, bad girl lol ...things like pinterest and life...mostly, pinterest have gotten in the way. I have however been thinking about starting a food(ie) blog. I have been cooking, canning and creating up a storm.... here are some examples.


                                                                   Gryo's with bbq chips

                                                                    Strawberry cake

                                                                        Doggie Treats

                                                         Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Jalapenos

                                                                   Blue Moon Cupcakes

                                                Lemon Sugar Scrub(for super soft hands)

                                                                Cheesy Taco Pasta

                                                                       Strawberry Jam

                                                                Crock-pot Apple Butter

                                                                     Bird seed wreath

The End?

I haven't been blogging because I've been drinking mainly Sangria. (see last blog)

However I am going on a diet and this means...gasp! No wine. No wine means- No wine blog.
An average bottle of red wine has 550 calories. Cutting that out should be easy. That along with exercise and hopefully I can lose 20 pounds by September for our Tennessee vacation.

Sangria! Sangria!

A local winery, Cherry Valley Vineyards, is having Sangria Sunday every Sunday until October. We went last Sunday, and I want to go back as often as I can. You can buy a cheese plate and a pitcher of sangria for $18. There is also, of course, wine tasting. There is live music inside and outside. You hang out on the vineyard grounds. There are tables, chairs, benches and a pavilion. It's like a big backyard. I enjoyed the sangria so much I got the recipe online and make my own, with some tweaks. They had red and white, I made the red.

I used a semi sweet red wine, Franzia chillable red in a box (only $12 for 5 liters). wash, cut up and add 2 apples. same with 2 oranges and 1 lemon (1 lime too, if you want) but squeeze the citrus juices into the wine before cutting and adding the citrus fruit. Simple and delicious! They add whiskey at the winery but I don't. I'm not sure if it's actually considered sangria or if it's just wine with fruit...but I like it.