Got clutter? Tidy Living organizers can help
in #AD, clutter, decor, help, home, homemaking, organizers, spring cleaning, storage, by Linda A Kinsman, Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Have you ever taken a step back and looked at your home the way a stranger might view it for the first time? What do you see? Do you see a warm, clean and organized home- you know, the type of home we all strive for? Or, do you see a home that needs a bit of help with clutter control?
The days are slowly getting longer and warmer. It won't be long until we're enjoying sunny days poolside, or playing in the sprinklers. Can you imagine all the fun your kids (and you!) could have with a waterproof camera? I'm happy to be teaming up with a great group of bloggers to bring you this giveaway today.

Welcome to the Hamswan F60 Waterproof HD Action Camera Giveaway!
Sponsored by: Hamswan
Hosted by: Southern Mom Loves
Co-Hosted by: Ann Again and Again Reviews & MyStyleSpot
Sponsored by: Hamswan
Hosted by: Southern Mom Loves
Co-Hosted by: Ann Again and Again Reviews & MyStyleSpot
Learn about the Hamswan F60 Waterproof HD Camera Here:
Hi! Holly from Southern Mom Loves recently got the chance to try out the Hamswan F60 HD Action Camera; A wifi-enabled video and still camera with a huge range of accessories, like a waterproof case and a wide range of mounts. She put it through its paces and she wants to give one of our readers the chance to win one for themselves! Check out her review here, then enter below and good luck!
One winner will receive a Hamswan F60 Waterproof HD Action Camera!
I love that this camera is wifi-enabled. Perfect for when you or your kids capture a great moment and want to share a photo or video to their favorite social channels.
Terms:
Giveaway begins on 3/6/17 at 1:00 am CST and ends on 4/6/17 at 11:59 pm CST. Must be 18 years or older, open to entrants in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan (void where prohibited.) Once winners are confirmed, they will be added to the Winner's List here.
Good Luck!
Disclaimer: The participating bloggers were not compensated for this post. No purchase is necessary to enter. One entrant per household, per IP address. All entries will be verified. Void where prohibited by law. Winner will be contacted by email; Please add southernmomloves@gmail.com to your whitelist. Southern Mom Loves/Save-A-Lot will be responsible for prize delivery to the winner. This giveaway is in no way administered, sponsored, endorsed by, or associated with Facebook and/or Twitter, Google, Pinterest, or any other social media platform.
Contact Holly at southernmomloves@gmail.com if you have any additional questions or comments, or would like Southern Mom Loves to organize your next giveaway.
Contact Holly at southernmomloves@gmail.com if you have any additional questions or comments, or would like Southern Mom Loves to organize your next giveaway.
3 Free gardening apps to try this spring
in bees, butterflies, flowers, Garden, gardening app, growing season, hummingbirds, spring, vegetables, by Linda A Kinsman, Friday, March 03, 2017
I am counting down the days until spring officially arrives
later this month. I know I’m not alone in this count- down to March 20th. My friends and I are watching for and taking
note of all the markers that spring is on its way. Here in the south, there is a riot of
beautiful Daffodils in yards everywhere, the Tulip trees are blooming and the
Bradford Pear trees are budding. Since
we gardeners are in a bit of a holding pattern for now, I thought I’d share 3
free (and fun!) gardening apps I’m going to try out this spring to help us pass
the time until we can really get out there and garden!
1. My first app choice will help all of us who have ever walked
through a park or lovely garden setting and thought what is that flower? Aptly
named- What’s that flower, this app
will help you identify flowers by color, habitat, and even number of petals.
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What’s that flower app will narrow down your options to a
couple dozen, and then you just scroll through that list until you find the
right flower. Once your flower is found,
you can read about it and see if it will work in your garden space/home. Android users can download app here. This app isn’t available on IOS yet, so I
suggest trying Garden Answers app. It looks like it has similar features. Download
here.
2. My second app just may add a
serious amount of phone time to my schedule because it covers so many topics I
find interesting. The DIY Gardening Tips app helps you find great gardening and
DIY tips that you can easily use. Plus
it has tons of useful information for vegetable gardens, something I want to
explore more this year. There’s tips on flowers and herbs and even garden
design! This app is available for
Android here and IOS here.
3. My third choice is Bee Smart App. In a time when our bee populations are
dwindling at an alarming rate, I know all gardeners share my concern and
passion to help aide the bee by planting flowers and shrubs they like. What
attracted me (pun intended) to this app was their mission statement: The
BeeSmart™ Pollinator Gardener is your comprehensive guide to selecting plants
for pollinators specific to your area. Never get caught wondering what plants
to buy again! I like the sound of that and it looks so easy to
use. Just plug in your zip code and hit enter! If you want to get bees, hummingbirds
and butterflies in your garden this spring, download Bee Smart here for Android
and here for IOS.
I hope you'll give at least one of 3 free gardening apps a try this spring. If you do, please come back here and let me know your thoughts in comments and be sure to share a gardening app you like in comments too!
Which app do you think you are mostly likely to try and why?
Hello from rainy Nashville. I don’t know about you, but I am more than a little ready to welcome in March and spring weather! Before we say goodbye to February, the month of love, I thought I’d show my pet loving friends some love and host a pet food giveaway sponsored by Nature’s Logic®. While I did receive complimentary product and compensation for my time, I only share information that I feel will help my readers. All opinions are 100% my own and that of my cats.
Anytime we receive a package, my kitties need to investigate it. Most of the time I have to gently tell them they can’t play with the contents of these packages because I have to take photos of the products; so imagine their surprise and delight when I said they could check out this package because it was for them. I love how Dottie opted to get in the box and let her little sister figure out how to open the bags and cans. I’ll work on getting an unboxing video next time, because these two are just too cute!
Nature’s Logic® chicken meal feast dry kibble past the smell test with my kitties during their unboxing, and I’m sure it will with your fur babies too. I’d never tried this brand, so I was thrilled to learn some amazing things about this brand like:
- Their food is 100% All Natural Whole Food Ingredients.
- NO man-made, chemically synthesized vitamins, minerals or amino acids.
- NO chemical preservatives, artificial flavorings or colorings
- NO corn, wheat, soy, rice, potato, tapioca or peas
I was also happy to read that Nature’s Logic® is committed to providing the highest quality and safest nutrition for the furry members of your family. I appreciate that they understand that our pets are our family too!
They explain on their website that they have created the first and only full-line kibble, canned, and raw frozen pet food in the world with no chemically-synthesized ingredients. Nature’s Logic is the pioneer in developing truly 100% natural pet foods derived from nature…not chemistry! Now that is amazing! Check out the key benefits of feeding your pets Nature’s Logic®.
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Taste Text Time:
As most parents can attest, it doesn’t matter if you are feeding little humans, or fur-babies, if the food doesn’t taste good, it won’t get eaten, no matter how much we explain how good for them it is!
As I suspected it might be, the chicken meal feast dry kibble was a hit! All three of my cats (2 indoor princesses, and one garage/outdoor sweetie) love the taste and gobble it up when I serve it to them. There are several flavors available including Chicken, Duck/Salmon, Turkey, Sardine and Rabbit.
Wet food was a miss with one cat!
Next we tried the chicken feast wet food, which received two out of three paws up. The consistency of this wet food is actually on the dry side, almost dense, so only two of my kitties liked it.
I wasn’t really surprised that my Fiona didn’t eat this wet food because she has always preferred a more moist food, so please keep this in mind when making your purchases. Their wet food comes in the same flavors as the dry food. I offered each variety to Fiona and each time, she declined eating. She was happy to play with the cans and help me take photos for this post.
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Learn More:
I invite you to learn more about Nature’s Logic® and their mission to provide our pets with essential and complete nutrition using only 100% natural ingredients by visiting their website where you can see a full list of ingredients, find feeding charts for both cats and dogs and use their handy store locator, which also lists online retailers like Chewy.com that offer their full line of products. Be sure to follow them on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. They love seeing (and sharing!) your pet pics.
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- One 3.3lb bag of feline kibble in chicken flavor
- Four 2oz sample bags of feline kibble (one chicken, one sardine, one rabbit, and one turkey flavor)
- One of each feline can: chicken, duck/salmon, rabbit, beef, turkey and sardine flavor
Terms:
No purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Must be 18+ or older to enter. Must use a valid email address to enter. Sorry, we can't ship to P.O. Boxes. One winner per household only. My WAHM Plan is not responsible for prize fulfillment. Winners will be notified by email used on entry form and have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.
What flavor of food are you sure your cat(s) will eat from the Nature's Logic line?
Disclosure:
This giveaway is not associated with nor endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or any other social channel. My WAHM Plan was compensated/and or received promotional products to share this information.
Recently I was invited to join a new insiders viewing group with Level 33 Entertainment and I jumped at the chance because we are a movie loving family and I know you, my readers,are too. Thanks to Level 33 Entertainment in association with Tethergroup, I received a complimentary screener copy of 1 Night for today's post and giveaway. If you are a fan of Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect movies, or Justin Chatwin from Shameless, you are going to adore this movie as much as I did.
1 Night Movie: Romance-Drama-Independent-Comedy that is in English with a run time of 80 minutes. Rated TV-14.
Starring:
ANNA CAMP | JUSTIN CHATWIN | ISABELLE FUHRMAN | KYLE ALLEN
KELLI BERGLUND | ROSHON FEGAN | EVAN HOFER
Written and Directed By: MINHAL BAIG
Produced By: KERRY BARDEN, HAN
S CANOSA, & MARIUS A. MARKEVICIUS
Movie Synopsis:
"Thirty-something Elizabeth (Anna Camp) must decide whether to salvage her relationship with Drew (Justin Chatwin) after much personal disappointment. Meanwhile, Bea (Isabelle Fuhrman), a worrisome teenager, reconnects with her introverted childhood friend, Andy (Kyle Allen) to overcome their difference in high school status following their prom. Past and present collide as two couples explore love over the course of one night at a hotel."
My Thoughts:
I agreed to view this movie based on my love of Anna Camp's acting in the Pitch Perfect movies. As for the other actors, I only had facial recognition for Justin Chatwin and zero knowledge of Isabelle Fuhrman and Kyle Allen prior to this movie. After watching 1 Night, I'll be on the look out for them in future roles because they all did wonderful jobs portraying their individual characters in this film.
This is an independent film that has so many good moments that when you put them all together you come away with a solid movie worth watching. The movie takes place at at hotel on prom night, so I found myself drawn to the teen characters because my teen daughter will be going to prom soon. I thought the writer/director did a great job of showcasing the events that might take place on prom night.
It took me a moment to figure out why Elizabeth and Drew were there on prom night. At first they seemed out of place. Out of step. Were they chaperones? Were they in town for the evening and just happened to pick that hotel? A few minutes more into the movie and you figure out that they are in fact out of step and struggling. Below is the official movie trailer for you!
Movie Preview:
At times I did feel the story line and pace was very methodical and that some story lines could have been developed more- but for an Indy film of its length, I would watch it again! Plus, it has a surprise ending which left me smiling! It's definitely a feel good romantic movie that shows that yes, love can happen at any time.
"1 Night is about rekindling that passion and love as well as finding it for the first time, by following two couples at different stages of their romance."
My Takeaway:
I'm glad I got the opportunity to watch this film with these fine actors and do recommend you see it too. Digital release was February 10th. Learn more about the movie by checking out 1 Night Movie on Facebook and Twitter.
Win It:
Thanks to Level 33 Entertainment, one lucky reader will receive a hard copy of 1 Night movie or a digital download voucher- winners choice! Entering is easy!
Terms:
Must be 18+ or older to enter. Must use a valid email address to enter. Sorry, we can't ship to P.O. Boxes. One winner per household only.
Disclosure:
No purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter form below. My WAHM Plan is not responsible for prize fulfillment. Winners will be notified by email used on entry form and have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not associated with nor endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or any other social channel.
Enter: a Rafflecopter giveaway
Good luck!
Please share in comments: What was the name of the last Independent movie you watched?
Win It:
Thanks to Level 33 Entertainment, one lucky reader will receive a hard copy of 1 Night movie or a digital download voucher- winners choice! Entering is easy!
Terms:
Must be 18+ or older to enter. Must use a valid email address to enter. Sorry, we can't ship to P.O. Boxes. One winner per household only.
Disclosure:
No purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter form below. My WAHM Plan is not responsible for prize fulfillment. Winners will be notified by email used on entry form and have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not associated with nor endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or any other social channel.
Enter: a Rafflecopter giveaway
Good luck!
Please share in comments: What was the name of the last Independent movie you watched?
Wordless Wednesday: natural beauty
in Garden, nature, new leafs, plants, trees, winter skies, Wordless Wednesday: natural beauty, by Linda A Kinsman, Wednesday, February 22, 2017