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Product Review: Bake Shop Butters!!!

Well I'm back again with another great product review that I am SO excited to be blogging about y'all!!! Let me first start off by saying that I was not paid for my review nor am I in any way affiliated with this company. =) So let's begin...about maybe the middle of November a fellow Youtube vlogger *NUREKAD* asked folks if she should sale her homemade body butters that she makes herself. Of course her response from people on YT were, HECK YEA!!! LOL I didn't respond because I KNEW that it was gonna happen. ;) So she launched her website on November 30, 2012 and she sold out super fast of her favorite scent, which is "lemon cake". With that being the scent that I wanted, I had to wait a couple days for her to make more to add to her website. I had no problem waiting because after seeing the reviews on YT about how great the body butters wer, I knew I getting something of quality! Her butters are made with organic products which in my opinion is great since it will be going on the skin.

Fast forward to today.....and the excitment I had when the mailwoman dropped my package off!!! I felt like a kid waiting in line at Disney to get on a ride =) I ordered the Lemon Cake 8oz. size and received a sample of the Vanilla Buttercream. Before I could even get the sealed package open all the way, I got a whiff of something sweet that reminded me of my Lemon Pound Cake and my mouth began to water like a baby that is teething :-D I had to close up the container because I was so tempted to taste it!!! The smell is right on point about being Lemon Cake and the consistency is like a thick, but soft butter that melts and absorbs into the skin and leaves your skin soft and moisturized.

She says that her Lemon Cake brings all the boys to the yard, so I must see if that is true! hahaha ;-)

My package came with with a personalized note which made me feel even more special. I love when people go the extra mile for their customers and make them feel special, because you never know who's day you may change. :) And for that very reason I will always buy from her. Her website information is http://bakeshopbutters.storenvy.com

She offers 6 different body butters. Snickerdoodle, Lemon Cake, So Fresh & Clean, Vanilla Buttercream, Coconut Vanilla Cupcake & Key Lime Pie. And 3 different sizes. 4oz for $7, 8oz for $12, and 16oz for $20. The prices are not considered high seeing that she makes it herself and uses organic ingredients. The shipping is a flat rate of $7, but if your order is over $45 the shipping is free.


Please visit her store/website and make a purchase of some of the 6 scents that she has, your skin will thank you. Until next time, stay blessed!!

Worldwide Culture Mini-Swap for the holidays

A week ago we signed up to take part in the Worldwide Culture Mini-Swap for the holdays. This will be our first mini-swap since we did our big swap last month with Canada, England, Australia & Texas. For this swap we were paired with a family from South Africa which is really awesome because we have studied South Africa in homeschool recently. So my son was thrilled when I told him what country we were paired up with. :-) If you are a little lost as to what a mini-swap or a regular swap is, then head over to worldwidecultureswap.com to sign up. In a brief description it is a swap where 5 families are paired up to swap packages amongst themselves. Two of the five families will be from the US and the other three from different countires. You choose how ever many items describing what it is like to live in your state/country. It can be whatever items you want to choose that would represent your state/country well. I don't remember much of what we included in our swap and I forgot to take pictures before packing them up. So hopefully when one of the families receive a package they will post the pic so I can upload it here.
So for our mini-swap for the holidays here is a picture of what we sent. It was supposed to be between 3-5 items showing how your family celebrates Christmas, but with Christmas being our favorite family holiday, we added a little more than what was asked. ;-)

This is what we included in our swap!!
1. Letter from the family

2. The Christmas Story

3. Family favorite Christmas songs

4. Holiday kitchen towel

5. Mini snow globe

6. Mini candle

7. Jumbo holiday ink pen

8. Christmas pencils

9. A light-up snowflake

10. Christmas candy - holiday peppermint wreath, pop rocks, legend of the candy cane poem & Christmas tree-shaped krabby patties

11. 2 homemade Christmas ornaments by little one. It's a reindeer & snowman :) & 1 mini nativity ornament

12. Santa & snowman bendable figurines

13. 2 hot cocoa packs - family favorite is the peppermint hot cocoa

14. bell-shaped cookie cutter

These swaps are really fun to be a part of and I hope you sign up too. Until next time, Be Blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wordless Wednesday

Image from www.christart.com

How to re-fill spice bottle on the cheap

So being Jamaican we cook with lots of thyme and I am always running out. Well the last time I purchased thyme in the glass jar at my local Sweetbay, it was well over $4.00. I even tried the fresh thyme, but it would go bad before I got to use the whole bunch. So last month while I was in Sweetbay picking up a few items, I happened to walk by a small "spice island" and saw that they had thyme and alot of other spices/seasonings for really cheap. So I got 2 bags of thyme just to try them out, and you could never taste the difference in brands. Here are the pictures of how I re-fill my spice/seasoning containers on the cheap.

This is the empty jar of McCormick Thyme priced well over $4.00!!

This is the bag of Thyme cost $0.69

This is my jar filled half-way with the Badia Thyme. I think a bag and a half will fill it completely up.

This is the jar and the extra bag of Thyme. So for $1.38 I got a jar and a half of Thyme :-) Until next time, Be Blessed!!

November 2012 CurlBox and why I canceled

Hello readers!! How is fall in you neck of the woods? Well I can say living in Florida has it perks this time of the year. We get the cooler nights in the high 60's to the low 50's and the days in the high 70's to low 80's, which is perfect weather for us!! But on another note, today I received my CurlBox in the mail and was a little dissapointed with this month. I know you guys are probably saying, "wow she was so excited about last month!" Yea but I have had a change of heart after reading some of the negative/nasty comments that the owner of CurlBox has been leaving in response to others comments about the CurlBox. I feel that if you are an owner of a company, any feedback that is coming in to you weather it be positive or negative should be responded to in a profesional way, because you never know who may be watching or reading how you respond. I won't post what was said, but I will not be spending my hard earned money on a company who is not considerate of it's clientele. I have since took my business to CurlKit and hoping for a much better outcome. So here is the picture of what was in my box this month

As you can see from both pictures, I received 5 samples and 2 full-sized products. Out of everything in this month's box, I will only use the Palmer's protein pack, the Hawaiian Silky Argan Oil - which I plan on mixing in with a deep conditioner and using, and maybe the nuNaat Treatment - I may give this away to my niece since she has naturally curly hair. The rest of the stuff I gave to my mom, who felt that for $20 this box was not worth it. I so agree with her, so till next month.....stay natural and Be Blessed!!!

Product Review: Curl Care Nourishing Conditioner

So as some may have read that I received my first Curlbox last week Friday in the mail. Well one product that I received in my box was the Curl Care by:Dr. Miracles Nourishing Conditioner which was a full size item. I was excited to get this in my box and even more excited to co-wash my hair with it. So Monday came and I decided to do a henna gloss(not the one in this month's box)before using the conditioner. I applied the henna and rinsed it out after like 30 minutes till the water ran clear, then I rinsed with a cheapy conditioner. I then applied the Curl Care conditioner and my head felt so cool and tingly from the menthol in the product! =) I then put on a plastic shower cap and let it sit for a few hours before rinsing it out. The smell is very minty and might be too strong for some, but it didn't bother me. After rinsing the conditioner out my hair felt soft and very moisturized and smelled great. My scalp even felt clean! I really can't say much about it holding your curls for 12 hours because I blow-dryed my hair(I know bad me) lol, but I did notice some curls on my new growth after I rinsed out the conditioner. I would reccomend this product to others who are natural, transitioning, and also with relaxed hair. It contains no sulfates, parabens, sodium & phthalate. And I just recently found out that there is a leave-in-conditioner by the same brand that I can't wait to try. Until next time, Be Blessed!!!!

Curlbox October 2012

Well guess what came in the mail today?? My Curlbox!!! I'm so EXCITED!!!!! I signed up for Curlbox last month when the list opened up. Curlbox which is a monthly subscription you pay $20 to receive a box with 5-7 hair care roducts. This is a great program for "product junkies" so that you can be able to try out different products every month. When the list for new subscriptions opens up, it is like ants on a piece of candy! lol the website crashed a few times last monthe on the 22nd from what I read, but I was lucky enough get my curlbox in 3 minutes, some had to wait for for over 30 minutes. The best way to ensure that you will get one is to log onto curlbox.com create an account, and get on their email list that way when the list opens up, you will be one of the first to know about it. So lets get to our box: This month the theme was "For Colored Girls....when boring hair is enough". I was kinda dissapointed this month not with the products, but because I would have thought the packaging would have been pink in honor of breast cancer awarness month(the tissue inside is pink).

The products I received in my box were:

Reshma Femme Henna Hair Color Natural Highlights-HK 6A 2.12oz.
Curl Care by:Dr Miracles Nourishing Conditioner 12oz.
African Pride Shea Butter Miracle Bouncy Curls Pudding 15oz.
4 Twists 'n Locs Shea Butter Organic Leave-in Conditioner .5oz each
Lustrasilk Moisture Max Keratin Amino Acid Leave-in Creme Conditioner 1.75oz.
Eden Body Works Jojoba Monoi All Natural Hair Milk 2oz.
I also received a pack of Bodycology Body Cream in the scent wild poppy .25oz. my mom already claimed that pack lol

I'm so excited about the suspense of next month to see what is in the November Curlbox

I'm a henna-head!!

Since I decided to go natural, I have been researching my little fingers and mind off!! lol I have come across some of every kind of thing or heard about some kind of product. I have been watching youtube videos and noticed that alot of people who are natural/transitioning use henna. So I decided to look a little deeper into what henna was and the side effects of it.


From Wikipedia.org "Henna (Lawsonia inermis, also called henna tree[1]) is a flowering plant used since antiquity to dye skin, hair, fingernails, leather and wool." Henna has been used as a cosmetic hair dye for 6,000 years. In Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra and Nefertiti were known to have used it. It was commonly used for many centuries in areas of India, the Middle East, and Africa. Henna is known to be dangerous to people with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD deficiency), which is more common in males than females. Infants and children of particular ethnic groups are especially vulnerable."


I heard great things about the cassia, and was tempted to buy it. But decided to go with the henna, knowing that it would change the color of my hair, but I was okay with that. So wash day came this past Monday and I washed my hair with the Shea Moisture Moisture Retention Shampoo(will do a review on this soon, and conditioned my hair with Proclaim Olive Glossing Conditioner because I needed to use it up. I then towel dried my hair and divided my hair in 2 sections and applied the henna in small parts by finger-parting my hair. I left it on for 3 hours and rinsed for like 20 minutes until it was rinsing clear. I then checked my hair to make sure it was all out before applying my deep conditioner(Herbal Essences Hello Hydration). I let the DC sit for an hour(will let it sit longer next time), and rinsed and applied the Shea Moisture Conditioner. I noticed that my hair has just a small amount of red and that my gray hairs were coppery orange. I styled my hair with flexi-rods and flat rope twist, and put on my silk cap then went to sleep. The next morning I took out the rods and my hair was so soft! I even noticed that it loosened my curl pattern, but not by much, it just made it easier to comb. As the days went on, I noticed that the red is showing up more. This is something I will most likely do every other month. The brand of henna I used was the Godrej Nupur 100% Natural Mehendi with the goodness of 9 herbs that I purchased from Amazon.com for like $4.00 a pack.