Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, 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:

Samples of pads and tampons from U by Kotex
2 Truvia Nectar samples
$5 Amazon gift card from Crowdtap

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Favorite Picture of the Week

About a month ago one of my older brother's and his wife went to see our dad. They hadn't seen each other in a while so my dad was excited. 

Recipe: Fried Flour Tortillas

I wanted something sweet and didn't want to spend a lot of time making something so I made this. It's fried flour tortillas tossed in a cinnamon sugar mixture. 

Cut your flour tortillas to a chip size. 

Mix together 1 ts. ground cinnamon and 2 TBSP. sugar and set aside.

Heat oil in a pan and add a few of the flour tortillas pieces. Fry for about 20 seconds on each side. They go very quickly. 

Toss in the cinnamon sugar mixture and enjoy. 

It took about 5 minutes. 

Because sometimes you need a fast, sweet treat. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Favorite Video of the Week

I love this because this guy dives and looks on the the river bed for lost treasures. He's found GoPro's, Knives, fishing equipment, jewelry and even a gun. He's reunited people with their lost phones, GoPro's and handed the gun over to the police. But what I really loved is that he will help wildlife that have fishing lines, lures, hooks ect caught on them and then sets them free.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, 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 is what I received this week:
A sample of Persil Laundry Detergent
Clinique Acne Gel

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Favorite Picture of the Week

This is my brother's rabbit and dog. They are buddies and love to lay next to each other. My brother will lay a sheet on the floor for the rabbit and as soon as the dog sees my brother put the sheet down the dog will go lay on it and wait for the rabbit to come sit next to him. 

Review: Wolf At The Door by N.J. Walters

Book Description

When this wolf comes knocking, there’s no turning him away

Salvation Pack, Book 1

When Gwendolyn Jones inherits a Tennessee cabin from a great aunt she never knew, she quits her job and follows her dream to write full time. Meeting a stranger in a local cemetery isn’t a risk she normally takes, but she needs the information on his flash drive for an article she’s writing on werewolves. Later that night, when two honest-to-God werewolves come knocking on her cabin door, they’re definitely not Photoshopped.

Jacque LaForge is on a mission to retrieve a flash drive before it endangers his pack. He never thought he’d find a mate, but the chemistry between him and Gwen is unmistakably off the charts. Now to convince her he’s only trying to protect her from his vengeful former pack—led by his own father.

Gwen’s first instinct to flee only gets her a smashed car and a concussion. She wakes up in a dangerous new world she never thought existed—and in the arms of the one man who stands between her and certain death.

Warning: Contains a sexy werewolf and his small pack of friends, a paranormal writer who really didn’t believe such things existed—until now—and a completely dysfunctional family who are out to kill them both.

My Review

Gwen has been interviewing people for the paranormal type articles she's been writing. So when someone asks to meet her in a cemetery and tells her he has proof that werewolves exist, she reluctantly meets him and gets handed a flash drive. Unfortunately the werewolves can't allow her to keep the flash drive and that's when interesting things start happening. 

Louis and Jacque LaForge are brothers and werewolves. Jacque is the alpha of the pack that split off from their father's pack and he's been keeping their secret from the humans. But now he and his brother must get a flash drive that was given to a human female that proves werewolves really do exist. 

From the very start these two brothers did things wrong and they scared Gwen to death in the process. If they had snuck into her house and  stolen the flash drive from her, things would have been so much simpler. Instead they confronted her, scared her, caused her to wreck her car and then kidnapped her. If that wasn't enough for them to handle it turns out that Jacque realizes that she is his mate and also a possible mate for his brother Louis, which makes things really awkward for a while. 

Things are going pretty good until their evil father comes with a bunch of minions from his own pack to try and kill Gwen because she's human and their father is just plain mean as hell, which is one of the reasons they split from his pack. 

There's some great action, bloody fight scenes and a few emotional tear jerking scenes where I needed to take a minute just to let it all sink in. The sex was hot, erotic and just what this story needed to make it even better than it already was. 

This is the first book I've read from this author but it won't be the last. 

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Favorite Video of the Week

Ok, so some of you might not like spiders but this is just fascinating.
Oh and that Net Casting spider needs to be in a horror movie, seriously. Just look at that face!

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, 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:

From Generation Good... Wipes and Lotion.
From PinchMe...Olay body Wash, Hunts Tomato Paste, Bella Dog Food, Coupon for a free Barilla Pesto Sauce and Buy one Get one free dog food.
From ChatterBox...a full size Dove Deodorant.
On InboxDollars I won $16.10 for getting the highest score in a game.

Did you get any freebies this week?

Review: Target Beauty Box- February

I ordered another Target Beauty Box this month. It was $10 and to me well worth it because I was able to try a few products that I'd not tried before. 

Here's a list of what was in my box: 

Masque Bar Hydrating Peel Off Mask

Raw Sugar Raw Coconut and Mango Body Wash

Soap and Glory Face Soap and Clarity Face Wash

Gliss Ultimate Repair Shampoo

Gliss Ultimate Repair Conditioner

Sun Bum Sunless Self-Tanning Towelette

W3LL PEOPLE Expressionist Pro Mascara

3 samples of L’Oréal Paris Pure-Clay Mask

Everything in this box was new to me, while I might have tried some of the Brands, I haven't tried any of these actual products. Anything that I don't want, I give to my daughter so she loves that. For just $10 there were quite a few products and samples in this box. 

Have you tried the Target Beauty Boxes yet? They come out each month but they only have so many boxes and when they're gone they're gone. They usually go pretty fast to so I try to post a link to them on my fb wall. 

Favorite Picture of the Week

One of my older brother's who's mother is the bride in this picture of my dad's first wedding sent this picture over when he visited my younger brother. I'd never seen this picture before but loved it because not only did it have a picture of my dad where he's really young but on the left side are my grandfather, grandmother, aunt and uncle. The people on the right are family of my dad's first wife. I don't have many pictures of my aunt and uncle since my aunt passed away from cancer before I was born and my uncle also passed away from cancer while I was very young. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

*Picture courtesy of Storm's Rat Pack*

Review: Daily Goodie Box

What was in this months Daily Goodie Box: 

Nellie's All-Natural - Laundry Soda Packs - I'm always up to try a new laundry detergent and this worked as well as any other I've tried. 

JustChill - Stress Relief Drinks - Not a bad flavor and I even got Ken to try it and he said it was fine. Not a great flavor and unless it has cups of sugar and artificial flavors in it they hardly ever are, but it was definitely drinkable. 

Vermont Smoke Cure  - Cracked Pepper Beef & Pork Sticks - This was one of my favorite things in this box. I've made a note of the website because I will definitely be ordering more of this. 

Nature's Bakery - Raspberry Fig Bars - I wasn't sure about this but dang it was good. I sliced off a piece to let Ken try and and he liked it too. 

Jack N' Jill -  Natural Toothpaste - I'm always up for trying something new and since I'd never tried this before I was happy that it didn't have a bad taste to it. It works and tasted slightly like Raspberries. I think kids would really like this. Win win. 

Dream Water - Sleep Powder - I've tried this before and while it doesn't help me sleep *I blame menopause* it might help others sleep. 

Coffee Blocks - Butter Coffee - this is the last thing I tried because I was really not sure about this at all. You squeeze the packet a few times, squeeze it into your cup and add hot water. It is instant coffee with butter, egg yolk, vanilla and coconut oil. I don't drink much coffee but I did make it and try it and then Ken drank the rest of the cup. Both of us were surprised that it was quite tasty. 

Aloha - Daily Good Greens - I have to say that I'm not a fan. I mixed some in a cup of yogurt and wasn't a fan. Maybe if they were mixed in a drink they would be better but I didn't care for it.

XyliChew - Spearmint - I'm already a fan of spearmint so this was a nice flavored gum to chew. They have other flavors and I'm going to try some of them as well. 

Gorilly Goods - Organic Snacks - This is the product I was most looking forward to when I saw the picture of it. It was nuts and fruit but had a sweet curry flavoring on it and I didn't care for the flavorng. I love this type of snack and nuts and fruit like this are good for people like myself with diabetes.

This is my second Daily Goodie Box and more and more people seem to be getting these. I've now seen several of my FB friends get them and love them. They are completely free even the shipping is free and all you have to do is sign up and log in to the site each day to see if you've been given one. It's a nice box of freebies to try for a free box. Then just review the products in the box to be eligible for another one. Oh and one more thing, if you visit their FB Page, they give away Goodie Boxes to people who interact with their posts. So if you've tried before and weren't able to get a Goodie Box, there's even more ways to get one now. 

I'm a fan of subscription boxes and love trying new products for free so this was a huge hit with me. New products+free box = Fabulous!

Have you signed up? Have you received one of these boxes?

Disclosure: I received this box in exchange for an honest review.

Favorite Video of the Week

Warning** these guys cuss, so if that bothers you don't watch.

Here's a great game for your next party!  Put on headphones and try to lip read what the other person is saying.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples, gift cards 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 a lot of great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received a coupon for a free disposable razor up to $12.00

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Favorite Picture of the Week

My Grandson came over and spent the day with us right before Christmas. He fell asleep while watching cartoons. He turned 4 on January 31st. 

Review: DegustaBox - February

DegustaBox is a monthly subscription box filled with food and drink products. The price for the box is $19.99 a month.  

You do not get to pick any of the products you get, it's a surprise each month. But they say each box contains 10-15 items and each box is worth at least $30. I like trying boxes like this because they usually contain products that I've never tried or haven't seen before. 

In the February box was...

2 Bags of Popchips Ridges

Grace Foods Coco Chips

Walkers Shortbread Cookies

Nando's Peri Peri Sauce

Slendier Fettuccine Noodles

Ricola Herbal Cough Drops

PR Protein Bar

Jones Soda Cream and Orange flavor

Green and Black's Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt Chocolate bar

2 Bandar Spicy Mango Chili Sauce Packets

Welch's Fruit and Yogurt Snacks

Jiffy Pop Popcorn

That's quite a lot in a box for $19.99 and most of this stuff I hadn't tried before. I keep finding things in these boxes that I wasn't sure I would like but end up being so darn good, like the Coco Chips. They are crispy coconut chips. 

I don't like sea salt mixed with my chocolate so that wasn't a hit but everything else was really good. They only thing I haven't tried yet are the fettuccine noodles. 

Now here's a treat for you. If this box looks like something you'd like, you can use code MARYK-ACB and get your first box half off. That's a big box of food for only $10! and you can cancel anytime. So if you're interested, go to the DegustaBox site and sign up and don't forget to use my code to get your first box for just $10. 

Happy Raturday!

*Picture courtesy of Rambling Ratz*

"You don't have to stand on my tail." 

*Picture courtesy of Rat Logic.*

*Picture courtesy of Storm's Rat Pack "Paula Siviter"*

"Yes, I plan on eating the entire other cookie too."