Here are my
favorites for this week. Things and products I love, cool things to do, places
to visit, etc. Let me know what you think!
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Superbowl
Sunday is only a few days away. I’m not a football fan in the least but I’m
always SUPER excited for the Superbowl food! My two MUST HAVE dips for
Superbowl Sunday are Buffalo Chicken dip served with tortilla chips, celery
& carrots and the Chipped Beef Dill dip served in a rye bread bowl. Always
big crowd pleasers and easy to make. My favorite Buffalo dip can be found at Skinny Taste.
I love Gina’s recipes and don’t let the low cal tagline fool you. These recipes
are all amazing and even my whole milk drinking, full fat mayo & fatty rib
eye eating husband enjoys every recipe that I find on Gina’s website. She
actually has an entire section of football recipes if you’re looking for ideas
for Sunday. The dill dip can be found at All Recipes.
Not a low cal recipe but you can use low fat mayo and sour cream if you want
to. I’ll be bringing these two dips to the party we’re attending and I can’t
wait to see what else people bring!
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My
favorite splurge for this week is the Country Mega Ticket that SPAC is offering
for this summer! There are two price points, one for inside and one for lawn.
The Mega Ticket will get you in to 4 different Country shows this summer at
SPAC (my fave summer entertainment venue!) including Brad Paisley, Rascal
Flatts, Jason Aldean & Luke Bryan. I’m excited that SPAC & Live Nation
will be offering this awesome package and I think I know what I’ll be
surprising my husband with for Valentine’s Day!
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I’m
looking forward to Friday night at the local “Paint & Sip”. A bunch of
girlfriends are going for a Birthday party for a few of my friends and I’m
really looking forward to a girl’s night out! An artist will instruct us
step-by-step on how to paint the piece “Pink Heels”, a painting of pink cowboy
boots! Wine & Beer are available for purchase and I know I’ll be ready for
a couple glasses of wine tomorrow night after coming off of the crazy full moon
week we just had.
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Saturday
is my favorite winter event in the area where I live~ Chowderfest! Local restaurants
& caterers offer different chowder samplings, which are voted on. This
turns into a really fun day out which includes stopping for a hot toddy,
ducking into local boutiques and filling up on different types of chowder.
Usually we do this sans child but this year we’ll be bringing the little guy
with us now that he's a little older and the temps aren't supposed to be sub-zero. One of my favorite local mom bloggers (mamatoga) has put together
a family guide to Chowderfest, which will be super helpful in navigating this
normally crowded event.
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This
weather has been CRAZY lately. Below zero temps, then 50 degrees and raining
and now back down in the 20’s. All this crazy weather does a number on my dry
skin. My absolute MUST-HAVE products which are fantastic for dry skin include
Josie Maran Argan cleansing oil & Argan oil moisturizer. And for my body I’m loving
the Barlean’s organic coconut oil (I originally bought to put in my smoothies
and cook with!), which I’m slathering all over my dry skin (and so are my husband
and son!)
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My
favorite new product that I’ve recently tried is the Dr. Jart Water Fuse Smart
Gel BB Cream. I had been dying to try a bb cream after hearing so much hype
about the product. But first of all, I needed to find out what the heck a bb
cream was?! I stopped off to Sephora (to replenish my Josie Maran supply) and
asked for some help in understanding this mysterious product that has been all
over the place lately. According to allure.com, bb creams are “like tinted moisturizers on steroids. In addition to
hydrating and evening out skin tones, BB creams also treat the skin with
antioxidants or other anti-aging ingredients, plus offer broad-spectrum SPF “. In a nutshell, I love this product!
I normally have dry skin and use Argan oil with a tinted moisturizer on top for
light coverage. The Dr. Jart is like a one stop shop. I use it over my Argan
oil (after the oil has been absorbed) and it makes my skin hydrated and
luminous. I don’t like the look of heavy foundations but this just evens things
out slightly more than a tinted moisturizer. It seems to fill in wrinkles and
the best part is that it contains a broad spectrum SPF 30. One of my friends
even asked me what I was doing differently and said I looked younger! Bonus!
That’s all
for this week’s favorite things but I’ll be posting more each week. Make a new
bloggers day and leave a comment. I would love to know what you think.
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