DAVIDsTEA 2016 Advent Calendar Days 7-12

DavidsTea 2016 Advent Calendar Days 7-12

Another week of teas (well, 6 days) and some great teas included in the DAVIDsTEA Advent calendar this week along with some that I know I don’t particularly love. DAVIDsTEA 2016 Advent Calendar Day 7 – Nutty & Spice I am not a huge fan of nut teas, even the beautiful pink of Forever Nuts […]

The Body Shop Vanilla Chai Tin of Delights

The Body Shop Vanilla Chai Gift Tin Set Holiday 2016 Review

A mixture of tea and beauty, what suits me more?  The Body Shop Vanilla Chai Tin of Delights includes full sized foaming bath gel, shower gel, lip balm and body butter.  It comes in a beautiful hat box style tin that you can reuse and sells for $45 and is eligible for special offers.  As […]

KBShimmer Mani Shot & Winter Nail and Cuticle Maintenance

KBShimmer Mani Shot Peppermint - Winter Manicure - Cuticle Care Review

I am all about the mani bombs and recently picked up some KBShimmer Mani Shots from Harlow & Co.  They are an easy add-on when I want to get to the free shipping threshold on a small order. I find that cuticle removers work better on dry cuticles so I start with that if mine […]

DavidsTea Candy Cane Crush vs Teavana White Chocolate Peppermint

davidstea candy cane crush vs teavana white chocolate peppermint teas

Teavana’s White Chocolate Peppermint tea has been a Christmas fave of mine for a few years, but now that DAVIDsTEA Candy Cane Crush is available, how do they stack up?  Here is my comparison of the two teas (and why I will be buying more of both). While both are white chocolate peppermint teas, the […]

Hard Candy Jingle Nails Swatches – Pinks, Reds & Purples

Hard Candy Jingle Nails Set - All Polishes - Available Walmart 19.97

I already shared some of the nail polishes from the 2016 Hard Candy Jingle Nails set, here are the rest.  My first post covered the basics, neutrals and blues, today I have the other 10 shades.  They range from a light pink to a dark red with purples, pinks and everything in between. The Hard […]

DAVIDsTEA 2016 Advent Calendar Days 1-6

DavidsTea 2016 Advent Calendar Days 1-6

Oh Advent Calendar time!  After getting several last year, I only picked up the DAVIDsTEA one this year.  It was hard to keep up with blogging them last year.  Plus, I felt I had a lot of the beauty samples included in the calendars anyway. DAVIDsTEA 2016 Advent Calendar Day 1 – Snow Day I […]

Ocean Blue Skin Care Christmas Soaps

Ocean Blue Skincare Peppermint Candy Cane Soap and Christmas Soaps Review

Another day of local/indie shopping posts.  Today, I have Peppermint Candy Cane soap along with some mini Christmas themed soaps from Ocean Blue Skincare. Ocean Blue Skin Care is a GTA based (Hamilton and Toronto) mother and daughter team focusing on handmade skin care.  They make a variety of soaps, special facial soaps including Tea […]

Monarch Tea Co Holiday Blend

Monarch Tea Co Holiday Blend 2016 Review - Loose Tea with infuser and Perfect Spoon

This is not my first time trying Monarch Tea Co and I am quite surprised I have never mentioned them before.  Their holiday blend on local and indie week seems to be the perfect time to do so!  Monarch Tea Co is local to me, based out of Hamilton, Ontario so sold in local stores […]

Joy & Polish Co. Merry Grinchy Christmas

Joy and Polish Co Merry Grinchy Christmas Nail Polish Review and Swatches

Christmas is all about the Christmas movies for me.  I may have squealed a little when I saw that Elf would be on soon because it means the start of so many Christmas movies.  So when Stephanie mentioned her upcoming Merry Grinchy Christmas polish when I tried out Spiced Plum and Goldschlacquer a while back I […]