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.

It's been a while since I've done a Freebie Friday post because I hadn't received any freebies in a while but this week I got a couple of things. 

This week I received: 

A Salonpas Flex Patch pain patch. 

A Builders Protein Mini bar. It was chocolate mint. 

I've used Salonpas pain patches before when I hurt my back and they do help a little. 

The mint chocolate protein bar was good. I don't usually like protein bars but this one was actually good. 

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Favorite Picture of the Week

 

This sunset was so pretty. This picture doesn't do it justice but the clouds were nice. 

Another day with some really dark clouds. I absolutely love days like this. The sunny, warm days depress me. Seriously. It's so crazy. I'm much more likely to be out for longer walks in weather like this. 

I stopped by one of the metal tree benches again. For those of you that are newish to my blog, I'll post more pictures of the metal trees and benches from my neighborhood. 

When my city enlarged the I95 freeway that's situated right behind the 18 foot tall wall you see here, they decided to do a beautification project as well. And they decided on metal trees and metal benches. It gets to 120F/48C at times in the summer here so sitting on a metal bench isn't happening in the Summer. Real smart. 

All of these metal trees and benches are right in my neighborhood but they are all over the place in Las Vegas. And yes as you can see people do mark them up with graffiti but city workers come by every once in a while and just spray paint over it with the green paint to cover it up. 

A metal tree and a metal bench. 

A better look at one of the metal trees. They still make me laugh. I don't know what idiot thought this was a great idea. They're so weird but I'm used to them now. Thought I would post these pictures for the new readers who might not have seen them yet and for older readers who want another good laugh. 

Merry Scary Christmas

 

I made some more AI characters using Instagram. I have to use a laptop to make them, you can't use a phone, at least not that I know of. Santa pictures are usually all jolly, fun and merry. So how about some scary Santa pictures. The rat Santa ones are my favorite. LOL Enjoy!

Seeing a sign that "Santa Claws is coming for you" Has a whole new meaning when he looks at you like this. 

Have you been good? You better hope so...

Or he'll send his evil, rat santa minions after you. 

I kinda want to cuddle him. He's so fluffy. You think he has a candy cane for me?

Merry Christmas Month! 😜

Gingerbread Houses

 

Have you ever made a small gingerbread house?

I think they're cute.

What about those gingerbread house kits? 

I think those are fun. I've made a few but mine never looked very good.

They are fun to put together though. 

I would recommend buying extra candy for them though because they never seem to come with enough candy.

I'm thinking of buying one of those kits this year.

Happy Raturday!

 

Seeing how today is Raturday, how about a few rodents themed Christmas pictures. 

Apartment Life #346

 

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 have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I'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.  

Unbelievably it was quiet this week. 

I walked by this manhole cover that the guy fell down last week and saw the homeless people had removed the cover again after the fire department had covered the hole after rescuing the man at the bottom of the hole. They are still climbing in and out of it. 

Since nothing happened around my neighborhood this week. Here are some pictures from my walks. 

Falcor frolicking in the falling leaves. He stopped to stare at the dog across the street. 

I spotted some Christmas decorations. An inflatable Santa, Snowman and Christmas tree. 

I took this picture because I liked the way this corner looked. I don't know why.

One of the two trees on my street that lose their leaves. The wind was slightly blowing and leaves were falling on the sidewalk. 

We had one day where there were some seriously dark clouds and rain over the mountains but we didn't get rain where I live. 

That cloud was huge and very dark. 

Spotted some Christmas decorations.

Me and my daughter on Thanksgiving. 

The high this week was 65F/18C

The low this week was 42F/5C

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

Christmas Candy?

 

Hello, My name is Mary and I might be a candyholic. Do I have candy all over my apartment? Maybe. I don't eat as much as it as I used to but my grandson loves my obsession. I just like the way candy looks in bowls and jars. I like the bright colors and yes I like the taste of candy too. But I don't eat as much of it anymore. 

I think I started doing this for Christmas because of my grandma. She always had bowls of different kinds of candy out all the time but especially around Christmas time. 

Buttermints and an assortment of candies. 

The Jelly Beans were replaced with gumballs because I like the scent of those more. LOL 

A couple of glass jars with some Christmas candy.

Chocolate Truffles in one bowl and toffee in another.

Salt water taffy.

A few years ago I did this. I mixed a bowl with Skittles, Reeses Pieces and M&M's in the bowl. For those who haven't had these candies, they look the same but taste different. One is chocolate, one is peanut butter and one is fruity. Mixing them together was funny because anyone who takes a little handful is thinking it's all M&M's and it's not. LOL Surprise!

Do you like candy? Do you have a favorite Christmas candy? Do you put out candy bowls around Christmas time?

Christmas Decorations Around My Apartment

 

The tree is up. (Click on any pictures to make them larger)

The corner shelf. All those tiny Christmas Tree's I made out of pine cones.

Here's a couple of closer pictures. I painted the pine cones, hot glued them to tiny terra cotta vases, put some beads, glitter and ribbon on them and I think they came out cute. 

My daughter made this. She bought the vase, lights and all the little things inside it and put it together. I think it came out cute.

The shelf between the kitchen and living room.

My desk.

Lights on the shelf.

The living room window.

The door. My daughter made this wreath.

Falcor the elf.

The holly berry wreath above the door.

The stockings.

The wreath had been on the inside door but you couldn't really see it so my daughter hung it on the outside door with some garland around it. 

We hung garland around the hall entry and a stocking in the hall. 

The bookshelf has some garland around it and Christmas tree and reindeer statues on top.

And my Christmas puppies in baskets. 

There you have it. We're all ready for Christmas now.