Dryel Helps Me Save Time and Gives Me Freedom

 This is a sponsored post on behalf of Dryel.

This past year has proven to me that we can get work done in our pajamas!  If you have sat at a Zoom meeting with pajama bottoms on and a dressy top, you are my people!  You now have the freedom NOT to have to wear office attire all day long.  Just pop on that Zoom for an hour and you are good to go for the day!

I like to be able to work in my loungewear, don't you?  And when I am ready to put on that dressy top and MAYBE add a blazer, I know that it will be fresh and clean because I keep my Dryel kit with all my laundry products.  I don't have time to actually go to the dry cleaners to take and pick up dry cleaning.  Why should I, I have Dryel at home.

Now that I am working from home, I have the freedom to wear what I want.  I can dress to the nines or I can put on my favorite sweatpants.  The choice is mine.  I like having the freedom to wear what I want when I want.  This has been very liberating to me.

I have rotated about ten pieces of my business attire for the past six months.  Having Dryel at home has saved me so much time. Once a month, I just launder them according to the instructions and I am good to go.  I was constantly having to either do laundry or take my clothing to the dry cleaners.  Now, I know I don't have to do that any longer.  I have time to do the things that I want to do.

I love to garden and living in a warmer climate affords me the opportunity to do it year-round.  Having the time and the freedom to do so has become so very important to me.  I can easily change from work clothes to my gardening clothes.

Dryel has helped me save time and given me the freedom to wear what I want when I want to.

A Week Away on Netflix beginning March 26

 This is a sponsored post on behalf of Review Wire Media for Netflix.

I am always on the lookout for new movies to watch on Netflix.  Have you heard all the buzz about  A Week Away?  I am always looking for movies my family can watch on movie night and this one does not disappoint.  I am so excited about this new musical.  I cannot wait for March 26th to arrive, so I can put this in my movie queue.

A Week Away is Netflix’s first musical film of its kind, releasing March 26th Troubled teen Will Hawkins (Kevin Quinn) has a choice to make - go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. While at camp, and with the help of his music, new friends, and love interest (Bailee Madison), he learns the healing powers of kindness, forgiveness, and faith can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Check out the trailer below!  

Make sure to mark your calendars and let me know your thoughts once you have watched this on Netflix.

Easter Treat Boxes from Contessa The Bakery

 Easter is coming, Easter is coming!  We all know what that means!  Lots of candy and treats.  Let your mouth water over these gourmet treats from our friends at Contessa The Bakery.

One of our lucky readers is going to win this Easter Treat Box valued at $145! We included Contessa the Bakery in our Holiday Gift Guide. Her treas were almost too pretty to eat! Make sure to enter via the Rafflecopter below.





Easter Treat Gift Boxes Include:

4 Cakesicles

One lemon cakesicle
One strawberry cakesicle
Two chocolate cakesickles

Each cakesicle decorated in coordinating pastel colors and then decorated with a candy Easter egg and festive embellishments.

 
2 Mini Cakesickles

Filled with marshmallow and caramel, and then dipped in chocolate and decorated with Easter sprinkles.

4 Macarons

Two Carrot cake macarons – filled with fresh carrot cake and cream cheese frosting.
Two Egg-shaped macaroons – filled with raspberry buttercream.

3 Bunny-shapes marshmallows

Shaped like adorable fluffy white bunnies and then hand-decorated.

3 Chocolate Bunnies

Every Easter gift basket needs a chocolate bunny, so this treat box includes three dark chocolate bunny candies.

4 Mini Eclairs

Filled with vanilla bean custard and then dipped in chocolate. Finally, each eclair is decorated with Easter sprinkles and real edible gold leaf.

Make sure to check out our Easter Gift Guide.

Winner is:  Chris W.

Make Your Refreshing Cocktails with Reed's Ginger Ale

Thanks to Reed's Real Ginger Ale for providing samples to us.  This is my favorite brand.   Now, check out the drink recipes below.

Reed’s REAL Ginger Ale is made with 2,000 mg of real ginger and nothing artificial. Available for purchase on Amazon in two crisp, clean, varieties – Original & Zero-Sugar – Reed’s Real Ginger Ale is perfect for enjoying on its own or to incorporate into a refreshing cocktail!

Reed’s Berry Ginger Sangria

Ingredients:

• Sliced Lemons, oranges, strawberries and blueberries to taste
• 1 Bottle white wine of choice
• 2-4 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 Shots white rum
• 2 Cups Reed’s Real Ginger Ale

Instructions:

• Start with the freshly sliced lemons and oranges in a large pitcher
• Pour the bottle of wine into the pitcher
• Add in two to four tablespoons sugar, depending on how sweet you like your sangria
• Add two shots of white rum
• Muddle the fruit, rum, and wine with a big spoon
• Add two cups of Reed’s Real Ginger Ale
• Pour into a glass with ice, add in strawberries and blueberries and enjoy!

Reed’s Watermelon Ginger Frozen Margarita
Ingredients:

• 4 cups of cubed watermelon, frozen
• 3 ounces lime juice
• 3 ounces tequila
• 1 Can of Reed’s Real Zero Sugar Ginger Ale
• Lime slices, for garnish
• Ice (optional)

Instructions:

• In a blender, add watermelon, lime juice, tequila and half a can of ginger ale
• Blend until watermelon is incorporated
• Add remaining ginger beer and blend until smooth
• Pour and serve!
• Optional: garnish with a watermelon wedge

 

Reed’s Strawberry Ginger Spritzer
Ingredients:

• 24 oz. Soda Water
• 1 Can Reed’s Real Ginger Ale
• 2 cups of Dry White Wine
• 1/4 cup of roughly chopped fresh basil leaves
• 5 whole strawberries halved

Instructions:

• In a pitcher, combine the soda water, ginger ale and (if used) white wine and stir
• Add in the strawberries and fresh basil
• Chill for 30 minutes to infuse the strawberry and basil flavor

Recipe Notes:
If wanting to drink right away, you can muddle a few of the strawberries and basil at the bottom of the pitcher before adding the liquid to infuse the flavor quicker

THE UNDOING: AN HBO LIMITED SERIES

You can own your own copy of THE UNDOING: AN HBO LIMITED SERIES.   The plot is full of twists and turns and an ending you will not see coming.  Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant team up for this must-see suspenseful drama.  Thanks to Warner Bros. for providing us with a copy. Unravel the Mystery on Blu-ray^TM and DVD March 23, 2021.

THE UNDOING: AN HBO LIMITED SERIES follows Grace (Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.


The limited series’ incredible cast includes Emmy® and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Nicole Kidman (HBO’s “Big Little Lies”) and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”), Edgar Ramirez (Emmy® nominee for “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace” and “Carlos”), Noah Jupe (“Honey Boy,” “A Quiet Place 2”), Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”), Noma Dumezweni (“Black Earth Rising”), Sofie Gråbøl (HBO’s “Gentleman Jack,” “Fortitude”), Matilda De Angelis, Ismael Cruz Córdova (“Berlin Station”), and Donald Sutherland (Emmy® winner for “Citizen X”).

THE UNDOING: AN HBO LIMITED SERIES is directed by Susanne Bier and is created and written for television by David E. Kelley, who also serves as showrunner; executive produced by Susanne Bier, David E. Kelley through David E. Kelley Productions, Nicole Kidman and Per Saari through Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea through Made Up Stories, Stephen Garrett and Celia Costas. The limited series is based on the 2014 novel, “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz.



6 ONE-HOUR EPISODES


The Undoing
The Missing
Do No Harm
See No Evil
Trial by Fury
The Bloody Truth