18 Years Blogging! Happy Blogaversary To Me!

 

It's my blogaversary!

It's hard to believe that 18 years ago I started this blog. I had no idea what to write about at first, sometimes I still don't. I'm just glad that my readers seem to still enjoy reading my posts. 

A lot of things have changed in the last 18 years. My daughter is all grown up and now I have an 10 year old grandson. I used to have hamsters, rats and gerbils and now have a very energetic Jack Russell Terrier/Chihuahua named Falcor who turned 9 years old this month.

My blog has changed as I've changed over the years. I've met a lot of really wonderful people and made quite a few friends along the way.  I've ranted, reviewed, shared my thoughts and advice. I don't think I ever really thought that I would still be blogging 18 years later or that anyone would read what I had to say, but many of you do and I thank you for sticking with me through so many years.

So for all of you followers that have been here a long time and for those of you that are fairly new I just want to say thank you for visiting, commenting and enjoying what I've been posting over the years. I hope we'll all be around and blogging for many years to come.

Book Review: Taken By The Dragon King by Amelia Shaw

 

Book Description

Stavrok won’t let anything stand between him and his mate.

There’s a beast inside of me, and there will be a time when I can’t control him. That’s what my father told me happens when my dragon finds his mate. He will claim them. He will not be gentle. He will not be sweet. My dragon will do whatever it takes to ensure his mate doesn’t leave, no matter the cost.

Lucy thinks soulmates are only for her dreams.

When a stranger breaks into my home and comes after me, I recognize his face. He’s the man from my dreams—the one I’m destined to fall in love with. But I don’t believe in soulmates. That’s why I try to flee.

Stavrok takes Lucy to the snowy mountains, hellbent on proving she’s his mate.

But then his kingdom is attacked, and Lucy is stolen away from the Dragon King. Now her only hope lies in knowing Stavrok will turn the world to ash and brimstone looking for her...and his dragon babies.

My Review

Lucy has been having dreams of a man she doesn't know, so when he comes into her home, kidnaps her and she spends the night with him...she thinks it's all a dream. When she wakes up the next morning and finds herself in a strange bed and the man from her dreams is there, she's not sure what to think except that she needs to get home. When Stavrok tells her that she's his soulmate and wants her to stay there with him, she just wants to get a way. So he makes a deal with her, stay for a few days and if after that time if she still wants to leave, he'll take her home. He's just hoping that in that time he can convince her that they are soulmates and she'll stay with him because he's not sure he can ever let her go. 

Stavrok is a dragon shifter from a different realm where he is the King. He never wanted to be like his ancestors where they had stolen their mates and brought them back but when he finds Lucy, his dragon takes over and doesn't give him a choice. Now he understands how they felt and why they kidnapped their mates. But he is going to give Lucy a choice if he can and make a deal with her so she can get to know him and his people. 

They are making great strides to get to know each other and she even knows that she's falling for him but when she is kidnapped by a neighboring King to barter her in exchange for some land, Stavrok is enraged beyond belief and he goes after the King to save his mate. 

Oh this was a good one. I wasn't sure if I was going to like the whole kidnap aspect of this book but it ended up being a great story and I liked how nice Stavrok was to Lucy and how be became the alpha dragon king once she was stolen from him. If I had a dragon shifter who was a King, telling me I was his soulmate who looked like the guy on the cover, I'd probably stay too. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Apartment Life #368

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 25 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post.

I have good news about my neighbor from last week. She was having sciatica pain in her back and that's why she went to the hospital. She said she called her daughter to come help her because she couldn't even get off the couch and the daughter told her to go to the ER. They gave her some muscle relaxers and after a few days she was fine. I've had nerve pain, it's painful. But at least she's ok now. 

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Wednesday afternoon I heard a dog yelping in my courtyard and looked out to see my neighbors dog (Chop) being taken away by Animal Control. 

I talked to my neighbor who had been outside while that was going on and she said Chop did not like the wife because she beats on him all the time, So when Chop growled at her she called Animal Control to come pick the dog up. The dog only growled at her, didn't hurt the child, didn't scratch anybody, didn't try to bite anybody, it just growled at her because it didn't like her because she hits the dog. I never saw her hit the dog but my neighbor said she saw her do it. I guess my neighbor yelled at the wife when Animal Control was here and the woman shut the door in her face face. 

Update: The very next day the husband went down to the shelter and got his dog back. Not sure that was a good idea since it's obvious the wife doesn't like the dog.

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I don't know if you can see it very well but there is a fist sized hold in each pane of glass. One in the upper right hand side and one right where the while board is. This is drug dealers bedroom window and one week after the broken window was fixed, I spotted two fist sized holes in the window again.

I don't know if you can see the holes any better in this picture.

Right next door to drug dealer lives a very quiet guy who has a homeless drug addict brother who goes to drug dealer's apartment all the time. The homeless brother busted out his brothers living room window when he wouldn't give him $20 for drugs. That's what the brother who lives there told me. He covered his window with trash bags until it could be fixed. This is not the first time the homeless brother has done this.

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On Friday afternoon, Swat, police and this ambulance was on my street. I went outside to get better pictures but I was yelled at to go back inside. So all I got was this ambulance and the black car (undercover cop car) that is parked beside it. The black car had it's lights flashing which is why I knew it was a cop car even before the police got out of the car. I heard a flash bang grenade go off while I was going back to my apartment. The police broke someone's bedroom window and threw the flash bang inside. It was just 2 buildings down in my apartment complex. I have no idea what was going on. 

The high this week was 95F/35C

The low this week was 66F/18C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Favorite Song of the Week!

 

The HU - Black Thunder ft Serj Tankian & DL of Bad Wolves

I heard this as I was scrolling through Youtube and really liked this. The different voices from the different singers was nice too. I hope you enjoy.

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

Falcor received a free pack of Beneful wet food from Fur Buddies. 

He liked his wet food and is always happy to get mail. He likes to sniff my mail when I get something too. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Low Carb Recipe: Spring Rolls

 

So after getting the Spring Roll Wrappers last week, you just know I had to try making a few different things with them. I've never had Spring Rolls nor have I ever made them, so this was interesting. The first lunch I made was a crab and cilantro spring roll. My rolling technique left something to be desired but they were good. I served mine with a side of guacamole for dipping. 

Ingredients: 

1/2 cup of crab

1TBSP mayonnaise

1 tsp. Sriracha Mayo

2 TBSP diced Cilantro

Squeeze of lemon

All I did was submerge the spring roll wrapper into a bowl of cold water for a couple of seconds and then added a little of the crab mixture to the wrapper and rolled it up. It was simple but good.

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The second day I made another Spring Roll for lunch, it had chicken breast, cilantro, sliced radishes, mushrooms, avocado and tomato. I dipped this in a Sriracha Mayo that my daughter bought. It's spicy but good. 

I don't know if there's certain things that usually go into a spring roll but I just put into what I liked and it was good.

Net Carbs for two Spring Rolls =26

2 Spring Roll Wrappers- 14 Grams of carbs

1 Medium Tomato- 5 Grams Carbs. 

1/2 Avocado - 7 Grams carbs

Do you like Spring Rolls?

Book Discussion: Alien Romance

 

You might have noticed that I've been reading a lot of alien romances this year. I know some of my blogger friends also like alien romance books so I thought it would be interesting to list a few reasons why I/we (if you'd like to play along) like alien romance.

Alien Planets/World Building

Just look at the picture above that I selected for this discussion. You're not going to see anything like that on Earth but you might on an alien planet. Sometimes the author will describe something so alien (see what I did there?) that it takes a wild imagination to picture it in your head. Good thing I have a wild imagination, eh? You never know what you might find on an alien planet. Live volcanoes? Sentient rocks? Plant people? An atmosphere that isn't breathable for humans? Animals that can communicate with you? Several moons that are super close or other planets that you can take an alien space ship to in a matter of minutes? You never know what you might find on an alien planet. And that's the fun part because an author can add whatever elements they want, it doesn't have to be believable. 

The Aliens Themselves

With the description of some of these tall, sexy aliens...I'm almost hoping that aliens visit us in my lifetime. As long as it's the friendly aliens and not the evil aliens that I've seen described. Some of the evil ones are described as spider-like, or balls of mud that smell like year old trash. Yeah, I'll pass on those. But some 7 foot tall, muscle bound, blue guy with long black, sentient hair and horns. Or a tail that you might need an XXX rated mind to realize the reason we ladies (or men) might be very intrigued by. *Eyebrow/waggle* And the fact that he will do anything for his mate once he finds the one. *Sigh* Yes please. 

New Languages and Technology

More often than not the aliens have their own languages and we humans have to be implanted with a universal translator in order to understand them. But if the human in question if found by their mate out in the alien wilderness because they escaped the evil aliens and are on the run and just happen to run across a friendly alien who is their mate...they might not have the universal translator tech with them so they have to find a way to communicate with each other until the alien can get them safely back to their village and be implanted with one. 

While the alien might have a universal translator implanted to they can understand everything the human is saying and hilarity ensues because of it. I love those funny moments in scenarios like that. But having the heroine in danger and the alien save her and be her hero even if she can't understand him, is one of my favorite scenarios. It's such an adventure for them and if they have to fight through some evil aliens or alien wild animals/plants in order to get to safety, all the better. 

So if you read alien romance, why do you like it?

Book Review: Submitted by Leann Ryans

 

Book Description

Ka'vin was a rare omega male. Held in a pleasure house for twelve years, would anyone want him when he was finally rescued?

Scarlett had committed her life to her career, but when the thing she never thought she could have is thrust into her life, can she accept it's okay to take what she wants?

This is set in the world of the Omega Market series but features an alpha female with an omega male instead of the usual MF.

My Review

After spotting that beautiful cover, I really wanted to read this one and I'm glad I did. Ka'vin has lived many years in a pleasure house being treated badly and used like no one should be. When he's finally rescued he thinks things will be different but in this world him being a rare Omega male just means that he's going to be sold off at the Omega Market to an Alpha female if one will even have him after where he's been. 

Scarlett is out with her friends but she doesn't realize they planned to bring her to the Omega Market so she can bid on an Omega Male. Scarlett is an Alpha female which isn't as common as an Alpha male and she's not sure that she wants the commitment of an Omega male since she works and travels a lot for work. 

Ka'vin is hoping that he finds a permanent home with an Alpha female who will treat him better than he's been treated in the past but he's not holding out hope for that. He is in a cage with the other Omega's so the Alpha's can come take a look at what they might be bidding on later. He feels a pull to her and she feels something for him as well but she's not sure that she's going to bid on him, so her friends buy him for her as a present. 

I really liked the female Alpha dynamic instead of the male being the Alpha. Scarlett isn't sure she's what Ka'vin needs or that she'll be enough to keep him happy but he really wants Scarlett to claim him as hers. This was a short, sweet novella and I was happy to see Ka'vin find happiness after being a slave in the pleasure house for such a long time. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

The lady who makes the meme's that I share has 5 new baby rats. I'll be sharing their meme's in the coming weeks. Here is Baxter, Fish, Waffles, Reuben and Barry. 

*All pictures this week compliments of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #367

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 25 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post. 

There were several police in the Cal Ranch parking lot right behind the alley for my apartment building on Tuesday evening. You can't see the police cars very well but you can see the lights from their cars. 

You can see the lights from the police car plus you can see how when I saw Cal Ranch and Marianas Mexican Market is right next door I mean they are right next door, just on the other side of the alley to my apartment complex. Hey, at least there's the backdrop of mountains you can see. lol 

I enlarged the last picture so you can see the police cars a little better. I'm not sure what happened but I'm thinking Cal Ranch was robbed since there were at least 5 police cars out there and the police helicopter was flying over head. 

You remember those flags that were installed last week? Well someone already broke one over the weekend. They came out and fixed it the next day but it's just a matter of time before something else happens to them. 

I saw the ambulance had shown up and went to my elderly neighbors apartment. She had been complaining about her back hurting the day before, even came and got an ice pack from me. She hasn't been home for the past few days so I think she went to the hospital. Hopefully she isn't hurt too bad.

My brother was here on Friday and he and my daughter saw the police searching this truck when they were outside. I don't know if the police found anything.

The high this week was 98F/36C

The low this week was 72F/22C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Favorite Song of the Week!

 

Disturbed- Bad Man

I've said before how much I love Disturbed. I love David Draiman's voice to much. Here's another good song from the band. I hope you enjoy. 

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received: 

A sample of Zyfe hand soap. 

Philosophy Dose of Wisdom skin serum

Nantucket Footprint laundry detergent sheets

Several perfume samples

Again the perfume samples smelled really nice. Most are ones that I have received in the past. The Zyfe soap smelled like roses which I loved. I reviewed the laundry sheets a couple of days ago and really liked them. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Low Carb Recipe: Spring Roll Bites

 

I heard that you could fry Spring Roll Wrappers so I decided to try this. 

What you'll need:

You will need 1 spring roll wrapper - cut into bite size pieces. 

1/2 cup Oil for frying

1TBSP butter

1/2 bell pepper- diced

1/4 cup fresh corn

3 mushrooms- sliced

What To Do: 

Melt butter in a small pan, all vegetables and sauté for 7 minutes. Set aside. 

Cut your spring roll wrapper into small bite size pieces. *Do Not Wet With Water First* You want the dry spring roll wrappers right out of the package. About the size of a cracker. They are easy to cut with scissors. 

Next, heat oil in a small pan. Get oil hot before adding in spring roll wrappers. Cut a small piece of the spring roll wrapper as a test piece and add it to the oil. If it immediately puffs up, the oil is hot enough. If it doesn't the oil is not hot enough. 

When your oil is hot enough, add one piece of wrapper to the oil at a time because they will immediately puff up and you have to remove them immediately. Then add the next piece until you have as many as you want. Top with your sautéed vegetables. 

My first try I made the pieces too big but I cut them in half on my second try. You want them to be just small enough to pop the whole thing in your mouth because the wrappers are very fragile and will just fall apart if you try to bite it in half. But they have such a great crunch and are only 14 grams of carbs for 2 spring roll wrappers. Which would make quite a few little bite size snacks. I only used one spring roll wrapper and it made several one bite portions. You can substitute any vegetables you like for this. 

Would you try this?

Product Review: Nantucket Footprint Laundry Detergent Sheets from Try Products

 

I was sent a sample of these Nantucket Footprint Laundry Detergent Strips, Chamomile scent from TryProducts, which is a sister site of Daily Goodie Box and Healthy Snack Box. 

I tried these laundry detergent strips in the washing machine as well as hand washing some delicates and in both instances they work as well as any other laundry detergent that I've used. But they are more lightweight, contain no added water and are easy to use. They are very thin and easy to store, and they contain no added fragrances or dyes as they are only scented with essential oils. 

They are easy to use, you just add one to your washing machine as you would detergent or a laundry pod. It fully dissolves into the water within a few seconds of the water touching it. Even when I hand washed my pajamas the laundry sheet dissolved very fast and didn't leave any white residue after rinsing them out. It left a slight, pleasant scent on my clothes that I liked. I found nothing at all to dislike about these laundry sheets. 

The easiest way to get free products from Try Products is to follow their Twitter page because they give away hundreds of free product samples each day on Twitter. All you have to do for a chance to get a free product is leave a comment on their Tweets. It's really that simple. 

Disclosure: I was given a sample of this product in exchange for an honest review. 

Book Review: Slammer: Most Wanted Alien Brides #1 by Candice Gilmer

 

Book Description

Leaving the Terran Empire's POW camp, they thought they found their way home.

Home, however, is taking a different route than these cyborgs expect.

Most Wanted Alien Brides Book 1

When the Intergalactic Dating Agency mistakes a prison ship for their new clients looking for mates, cyborg Kolvin jumps at the opportunity. A new life, with the bonus of a ready-made wife? How can this go badly?

But when Kolvin meets his mate, she winds up not being what he expects.

She drives him crazy. She's not even from his dimension. His Craving, however, wants what it wants, and he finds himself at the mercy of it.

Tina Craige, an astronomer from Earth, is pretty sure she's dead. After all, one does not walk through an excavated arch and wind up in another dimension. Especially not in one where a giant cyborg humanoid wants her as a mate.

When she discovers that he's traumatized from being held prisoner of war, she can't bring herself to abandon him. Not yet.

She has thirty days to accept this giant cyborg as her mate, PTSD and all, or return to her dimension and Earth, as if she'd never left. And never see, or remember, him again.

Will she be able to give up everything for her cyborg mate?

My Review

A bunch of cyborgs were held in a POW camp for some time and they were treated badly to the point where some of them are suffering from PTSD. When they are released and think they are on their way home, the ship ends up being mistaken for clients for the Intergalactic Dating Agency, Kolvin decides to just go for it until he meets his mate and she's not what he expected her to be. 

Tina finds a strange arch in a cave and after walking though it she finds herself on an alien planet where they think she's a client looking for an alien mate. When they tell her she has to stay for 30 days and they hope she gives her potential mate a chance, she thinks it's all crazy but she decides to give it a chance. 

These two seem like complete opposites but they find a way to get to know one another and even find they have feelings for each other after a while. The only thing really keeping Tina from giving it a real chance was the thought of leaving her parents alone. 

I liked the world building and the beginning of the book explaining how the portal gets lost so Tina is able to find it when she does. Though you would think they would have had a better way of finding and retrieving a portal they lost. I really liked the secondary characters and am looking forward to reading more of this series now. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Amazon

Happy Raturday!

 

*All pictures this week are courtesy of www.martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #366

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 25 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 25 years here in a weekly blog post. 

On Tuesday my daughter was on her way to work and she saw some woman passed out by the bus stop she waits for the bus at. She checked on her to make sure she wasn't dead and she wasn't. Just did too many drugs. This is quite normal to see in my neighborhood.

The police showed up this week one night and went to my elderly neighbors door. I thought maybe she called police on drug dealer because I spoke too soon and he's not gone yet!!! He told me that he doesn't have to be out until the end of the month. They have all their stuff moved out and his wife is at their new apartment but he's sticking around to deal drugs and have all the druggies over to his empty apartment until they change the locks. 

Anyway, I found out the next morning from my elderly neighbor that her daughter came over to her apartment after a fight with her husband so she went to her moms apartment and called the police on him. No one was arrested. She was mad at her daughter for doing that though. She said she should have called from her own apartment, she only lives 2 buildings away and they (The daughter and her husband) fight all the time. She said her daughter has been in jail 5 times for fights she's had with her husband. I don't know how many times the husband has been in jail but it's been a few.

So in an effort to prettify the front of my apartment complex , the three maintenance guys spent the entire day digging holes, pouring concrete, so that they can install these flags. There's also new leasing posters up on the office wall trying to get new tenants in here since we have so many vacant apartments.

It would only take a prospective tenant about 10 minutes of walking the grounds to see the graffiti, at least one of the trash cans full of bullet holes, drug addicts sitting all over the property, some days there are spent needles on the sidewalk, not to mention the gunshots that we hear at least once a week in the neighborhood.

But sure, put up a few flags and a new leasing poster and hope that we get a few new tenants that will Overlook all of the other stuff. If anybody is interested in living here, I can definitely put in a good word for you. 😜

Speaking of spent, dirty needles, of course I found one near drug dealers apartment this week. I will be so glad when he's finally gone at the end of the month.

So I watched a drug deal go down right in front of my bedroom window. This guy in the white truck pulled up waited for a few seconds, and a guy that we know as long-haired guy, come running over to his truck. The guy in the truck gave him something, probably money, and then I watched long hair guy run back to drug dealers apartment was only in there for not even 20 seconds, and then ran back out to the guy in the white truck. Long haired guy gave the guy in the truck something, he checked it, gave long haired guy something, probably drugs, long haired guy checked it and then they parted ways. The entire drug deal took less than two minutes. So drug dealer is still at it, probably will be doing this until the end of the month. 

I had a video of it but for some reason blogger won't post it so I just removed it. 

The high this week was 95F/35C

The low this week was 57F/13C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Favorite Song of the Week!

 

Seether - Leech

I've told you before that I really like Seether. I think I have ever since he did that song with Amy Lee from Evanescence. I hope you enjoy.

Freebie Friday!

 

Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

I was sent...

A set of 4 stoneware dinner bowls from Walmart Spark Reviewer for free in exchange for an honest review.

I love these. I've been using them since I got them. I think I like dinner bowls more than plates for dinner now.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Low Carb Recipe: Artichoke

 

I've always loved artichokes. But if you've never made one yourself, you might not realize how easy it is to have a low carb snack, just 13 grams of carbs for one artichoke. Now if you do know how to make them and have your own way of cooking and seasoning them, that's fine, this is just my way. 

So the first thing I do is cut about 1-2 inches off the top and cut the stem down to about an inch. The stem is stringy so I don't eat it. The top cutting just makes it easier to cook it all the way through and since you don't eat the top of the leaves, this doesn't waste anything. 

Then just put it in a pot with enough water to almost cover it, salt the water really well and cover it. Boil for around 30 minutes or until you can stick a form into the side of the stem really easily, like checking if a potato is done when boiling them for mashed potatoes. Turn off the heat and let sit for 10 minutes. To be sure the middle gets done too. Use a slotted spoon to remove from the water and let sit in a colander with the cut side down for 3 minutes to get most of the water run out.

This is what it looks like when done.

Now you can start taking the leaves off. Now you see the white part of the leaf? That's the part you eat plus just a little of the green part right above it. You just drag your teeth across it and bite that part of the leaf off. I make a melted butter sauce with a little salt and dip each leaf into it before I bite it. 

After all the leaves are gone, it starts to look like this. You can still eat the white part of the leaves until they get too small to eat. 

At that point you are left with this. You take a spoon and carefully scoop out those inedible thorny leaves. 

It usually comes out really easily and you are left with the artichoke heart. The best part! Dip it in some melted butter and enjoy. Have you made artichokes before? Will you try it now?

Product Review: Walmart Beauty Box- Spring

 

The Walmart Beauty box is a subscription box that comes out 4 times a year. You sign up for it and it comes automatically every 3 months. They did increase the price of the box a little bit. So instead of $5 it's just a couple of dollars more. These boxes are free and you just pay for tax for shipping, mine came to $7.48.

What was in the box?

Marc Anthony Repair Bond Leave in Treatment for hair. 

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Cleanser. 

Covergirl Skincare, Included Color correcting serum, primer and moisturizer. 

EOS Shea Butter Shave Cream. 

CeraVe Cream to Foam facial cleanser. 

AF94 Faux Lashes. 

Sweet Tooth by Sabrina Carpenter perfume sample. 

I've tried the CeraVe and Neutrogena cleansers before and really liked them both so I was happy to get them again. 

I really liked the Sweet Tooth perfume sample. It smells so nice, very sweet. 

The shave cream works great and left my skin feeling soft. I love the leave in conditioner, it made it easy to brush through my hair when it was wet and soft and shiny when it dried. 

I haven't tried the fake lashes yet. I don't normally wear them so one of these days I will try them on or at least try to get them on. lol I enjoyed this box. 

Do you get these boxes?