Review and Giveaway: Charm Factory Bracelet

Charm Factory was gracious enough  to send me a custom bracelet to me to review, and to give one away too!  I was allowed to pick out up to 8 charms of my choosing.  The Charm Factory would then put the braclet together for me.  I actually only picked out 6 charms (I didn't want the bracelet to be too full!) 

My bracelet is so beautiful!  Take a look:

 From left to right (------>) I will tell you which charms are on my bracelet.  1. Renesmee's Locket (Twilight inspired)  2.  Moon and Star Charm  3. Swarovski Crystal Heart Charm  4.  April Birthstone Heart Charm  5.   Alexandrite Swarovski Crystal Heart Charm   and 6.   Aquamarine Swarovski Crystal Heart Charm

I love this bracelet!  It is very cute and stylish.  My wrist is actually pretty small, but there is plently of extra room if you have a bigger wrist.  I did not pick out the chain the Charm Factory sent me, but  I think it is also very cute.  I like simple things when it comes to jewelry.  The chain isn't too big, too wide, or too bulky.  Just the same, it is not overly dainty where  I have to continuously worry I will accidently break it.  I also like the fact that my charms looked exactly like they did in the pictures on the Charm Factory website.

There are tons of charms you can choose from with this company!  They have a great varitey to choose from.  The charms range in style and can suit a younge child's tastes or an adult's.  I am very happy with this company.

 Giveaway!!

Charm Factory was nice enough to also allow one (1) of my readers to get their very own custom bracelet!  The winner will be able to choose up to 8 charms of their choosing!

Rules:

US only (sorry!)

leave an email address so I can contact you

be a follower of K & K's

Entries:

Mandatory- tell me a Charm or 2 that you would choose to be on your bracelet if you won.

+1 follow Sexy Women Read

+1 be a Facebook Fan

+1 per each social networking post (Twitter, Facebook, Book Blogs, etc)- leave link!

+2 follow me on Twitter- leave your twitter name or entry doesn't count!

+1 per each other contest of mine you enter- tell me which ones!

+1 grab my button- tell me where you put it

+10 blog about this giveaway include some links- tell me where post is

+10 become a new SwagBucks follower using my link

LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY!

(example: if it says +2 but two separate entries)

 
 

Giveaway ends March 29th

**I was not financially compensated for this giveaway. I was given a bracelet to review in order to procure a real and honest review**

WINNERS

Selling In Tough Times winner:

Tenny Kusuma

3 Day Cleanse winners:

Bingo

Jamie (already responded)

~J (already responded)

Undervalued Self winner:

Misusedinnocence  (already responded)

Thanks for entering guys.  I have emailed you and am still awaiting a responces from a few of you.  You have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.  New giveaways to come soon.

Giveaways- Update

Morning everyone.  Yesterday there was a death in my family, and so, I shall be out of commission for a bit.  Because of this, I am ending a few giveaways early.  Winners have been notified and I shall post their names in a bit. 

Review: The MindBody FX Lifestyle

 The MindBody FX Lifestyle is by Melonie Dodaro. 

  This is a book for anyone who wants to live a healthier lifestyle.  The book isn't just about loosing weight, it is about keeping the pounds off for good, and in a healthy way too!
   The book is slow paced, which I like.  Anyone who has every dieted knows that it takes time to shed the unwanted pounds, so a slower paced book might just be the key to keep your confidence up.  (If a book is going faster than the pounds are dropping, you might get discouraged.)
      MindBody does not only tell you to exercise.  It starts will positive thoughts.  Preparing yourself mentally for this challenge is the first step.  Then you will want to focus on what weight you would like to be and create a new mindset that can fit that weight goal.  Vitamines, water, support, postive thinking and a lot of sweat is the idea of this book.
    Everyone knows that weight loss pills are not a good idea, and even the surgeries they offer now have their own downsides.  Losing weight naturally is a healthier way to a healthier lifestyle.  This is the only way I will personally ever go about losing weight, the natural way.  It might take longer, but it is a lot healthier.  I am very excited to see my results from dieting with this book.  I think the positive thoughts they make you give out will be extreamly helpful to my progress.

The author of this book, Melonie Dodaro, is the CEO and founder of MindBody FX Weight Management Company Inc.  She has 10 years of experience as the owner of many weight loss centers.  With a family history of obesity, Dodaro is personally familiar with the struggles and success of weight loss. 

To learn more, go to http://www.mindbodyfx.com/

The MindBody FX Lifestyle: Mastering the Mind-Body Connection for Permanent Weight Loss
Author- Melonie Dodaro
Genre- Weight Loss/Deit
ISBN- 978-1600377272
Publication Date- February 2010
Pages- 200
Price- $19.95
Publisher- Morgan James Publishing

**I recieved a free copy of The MindBody FX Lifestyle from AME in order to post a real and honest review**

Review: At Home With Laurie Ann

     At Home With Laurie Ann is a big book.  I was seriously amazed, when I recieved my copy to review in the mail, over how heavy the book is!  With 224 pages, and 204 beautiful pictures, it is an impressively put together book over how to decorate your home.

    I have not had my mother read this book yet, but I will make her!  She has a lot of ideas on how she wants to put her house together, but her ideas are much like a puzzle.. She hasn't put them together yet.  I think this will be a great book for anyone who needs a bit of help making their living space both cozy yet sophisticated.
    Laurie Ann's book let's you start out with the pieces you already own. This is great for those on a budget! Shifting your furniture around can really make a difference. Laurie talks about adding unexpected colors and using pieces that, while looking expensive, are actually thrifty!

    At Home With Laurie Ann has some great tips on how to balance the furniture and accessories in a room, what colors to use, and many more great tips on how to make your house look like a home. For example, Laurie says that if you cannot afford to buy new furniture, or Reupholster, then adding a slip cover to can give your furniture a facelift.
   The book works around the house, room by room. Great ideas are jam packed into this book. There is even a page on how to decorate your Christmas tree! And, I love the rustic feel to a lot of the pieces she showcases in her photographs.


   Laurie's book comes as a hardcover and is $29.95 but you can always order it through amazon.com for a lower price.  (As of today, you can buy it for $15.)


**I recieved a free copy of At Home With Laurie Ann from AME in order to post a real and honest review**

The Art of Choosing WINNERS

Sorry for the delay in choosing the winners.  I wasn't feeling well for a few days and then once I was, I was being swamped with school.  Without further delay, the winners for The Art Of Choosing giveaway are:

Tenny Kusuma

Suburban Prep

Deb

Bethie

Simply Stacie

Congrats guys!!  I will be sending out an email to you momentarily.  If you do not recieve an email and you won, please feel free to contact me via the contact form.  If you did not win, do not worry, there will be more giveaways popping up in the month of March!  Thanks to everyone who entered and to Hachette who allowed for the giveaway!

Blog Splash! Thaw by Fiona Robyn

Ruth's diary is the new novel by Fiona Robyn, called Thaw. She has decided to blog the novel in its entirety over the next few months, so you can read it for free.
Ruth's first entry is below, and you can continue reading tomorrow here.
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These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. She was so frail that her grand-daughter had to carry her onto the set to take this photo. It's a close-up. Her emaciated arms emerge from the top corners of the photo and the background is black, maybe velvet, as if we're being protected from seeing the strings. One wrist rests on the other, and her fingers hang loose, close together, a pair of folded wings. And you can see her insides.
The bones of her knuckles bulge out of the skin, which sags like plastic that has melted in the sun and is dripping off her, wrinkling and folding. Her veins look as though they're stuck to the outside of her hands. They're a colour that's difficult to describe: blue, but also silver, green; her blood runs through them, close to the surface. The book says she died shortly after they took this picture. Did she even get to see it? Maybe it was the last beautiful thing she left in the world.
I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to carry on living. I'm giving myself three months of this journal to decide. You might think that sounds melodramatic, but I don't think I'm alone in wondering whether it's all worth it. I've seen the look in people's eyes. Stiff suits travelling to work, morning after morning, on the cramped and humid tube. Tarted-up girls and gangs of boys reeking of aftershave, reeling on the pavements on a Friday night, trying to mop up the dreariness of their week with one desperate, fake-happy night. I've heard the weary grief in my dad's voice.
So where do I start with all this? What do you want to know about me? I'm Ruth White, thirty-two years old, going on a hundred. I live alone with no boyfriend and no cat in a tiny flat in central London. In fact, I had a non-relationship with a man at work, Dan, for seven years. I'm sitting in my bedroom-cum-living room right now, looking up every so often at the thin rain slanting across a flat grey sky. I work in a city hospital lab as a microbiologist. My dad is an accountant and lives with his sensible second wife Julie, in a sensible second home. Mother finished dying when I was fourteen, three years after her first diagnosis. What else? What else is there?
Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. I looked at her hands for twelve minutes. It was odd describing what I was seeing in words. Usually the picture just sits inside my head and I swish it around like tasting wine. I have huge books all over my flat; books you have to take in both hands to lift. I've had the photo habit for years. Mother bought me my first book, black and white landscapes by Ansel Adams. When she got really ill, I used to take it to bed with me and look at it for hours, concentrating on the huge trees, the still water, the never-ending skies. I suppose it helped me think about something other than what was happening. I learned to focus on one photo at a time rather than flicking from scene to scene in search of something to hold me. If I concentrate, then everything stands still. Although I use them to escape the world, I also think they bring me closer to it. I've still got that book. When I take it out, I handle the pages as though they might flake into dust.
Mother used to write a journal. When I was small, I sat by her bed in the early mornings on a hard chair and looked at her face as her pen spat out sentences in short bursts. I imagined what she might have been writing about; princesses dressed in star-patterned silk, talking horses, adventures with pirates. More likely she was writing about what she was going to cook for dinner and how irritating Dad's snoring was.
I've always wanted to write my own journal, and this is my chance. Maybe my last chance. The idea is that every night for three months, I'll take one of these heavy sheets of pure white paper, rough under my fingertips, and fill it up on both sides. If my suicide note is nearly a hundred pages long, then no-one can accuse me of not thinking it through. No-one can say; 'It makes no sense; she was a polite, cheerful girl, had everything to live for', before adding that I did keep myself to myself. It'll all be here. I'm using a silver fountain pen with purple ink. A bit flamboyant for me, I know. I need these idiosyncratic rituals; they hold things in place. Like the way I make tea, squeezing the tea-bag three times, the exact amount of milk, seven stirs. My writing is small and neat; I'm striping the paper. I'm near the bottom of the page now. Only ninety-one more days to go before I'm allowed to make my decision. That's it for today. It's begun.
Continue reading tomorrow here...