Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 2 AND Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge, Review!

Here is another couple of games you're going to love to give this Christmas!!

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 2 is here and we have been testing this one out, along with Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge both published by Activision, this year!

These games are right up our 10 yr old's alley and he was EXCITED to see them and to get them going on his DS!

Rated E, for Everyone, Cloudy/2 is a great little game, which has been released for the DS and 3DS and is a fun-filled single-player game, that will give you hours of fun, immersed in the world you've come to love from the movies and previous outings!

A recent press release calls Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 2: "The tastiest treat to ever hit Nintendo's handheld consoles:" and I agree!!

Search out and collect parts/blueprints for Flint's inventions, while puzzle solving, jumping and jiving through the game and throwing in a lot of energy as you travel through this  fast-paced fun-filled universe of fat-free-food-fun!

Great for all the family, you can rack up high scores and stave off hours of boredom with this game - not a dull moment and totally engaging, big fat YES to this from all of us!!

Likewise, Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge, brings a lot of well-loved-character fun straight up from under the sea in the latest from Bikini Bottom and our beloved Spongebob!

Rated E10, for everyone 10 and up, this game is available on platforms from the DS to the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, among others, and will keep you entertained with hours of creative, interactive gaming as you pick up with one of 5 favorite characters, including:

• Spongebob 
• Patrick
• Squidward
• Sandy 
• Mr. Krabs

You can switch between each character as many times as you like, which makes for even more fun and you never have to tire of the game-play as you figure out how to defeat Plankton and his Robot Army!

To make this even more fun, you can interact with other players up to a total of 4 (5 on the Wii-U) and "drop-in" [and out] of the game whenever you like!

This is a real crowd-pleaser in our house! Everyone wanted to play and nobody wanted to hand it back to the next person! My 10 year old was so thrilled to see Spongebob back on the screen as he has a previous game and can't get enough - I mean, who doesn't love a little Spongebob Squarepants!?

We have the regular DS version, but it is worth noting that if you get this for the 3DS then you can gain extra Sprockets  for unlocking/upgrading Gizmos with StreetPass - something to think about!

This game is out now and would make a wonderful Christmas present for just about everyone old enough to play and makes it into our Holiday Gift Guide, with EASE!

Both of these games retail for less than $30 each and can be found on Amazon or other gaming outlets! Check them out for further information and to pick up a copy, today!!

Stuff those stockings, folks!!!

ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I was given products in order to complete this review. Opinions are my own and yours may differ, thank you! 

California Delicious Review and $100 Gift Card Giveaway!

Review Brought to you by BHDD: 

Beauty and quality are two things I relish! I also love to give gifts that reflect this. Sometime getting everything togather..well it just doesn't come together as easily as I would like it too! We have kids, grand-kids, pets, jobs and daily life...the usual hectic pace of the world as we all know.

 This is why I LOVE California Delicious! They take all the guess-work out of the equation! The Golden Delights Gourmet Gift really is a perfect example! Fist let say kudos To California Delicious for their KILLER packing skills! Our new Fed Ex driver literally THREW the boxes from the back of the truck into the front when he was delivering our packages. I cringed. We get a lot of fragile things delivered because of the sites. While a few things in other boxes did break, not one thing in the California Delicious package was damaged! This leads me to believe that the California Delicious basket makers must have super hero packing powers of some sort!...This alone sets them apart!! Anyhow, when we opened up the box the package was almost to pretty to break into! Everything was perfectly placed - BEAUTIFUL!

The Golden Delights Gourmet Gift basket was a great choice! It has a bit of everything! This gift sets the gold standard. A beautifully woven basket is filled to the brim with a bevy of treats, cheese straws, biscotti, Ghirardelli milk and caramel squares, chocolate truffle hot cocoa mix, cheese, flatbread crisps, chocolate truffles, chocolate chip cookies, nuts, Amaretti cookies, butter toffee pretzels, French chocolate truffles, Monterey jack cheese, a wood handled cheese knife, and chocolate crackle cookies. And we are not talking about tiny lil packs of miniature taste. This really is packed!! 

We have a fairly good-sized family and it was so much that everyone got plenty!! A few of the favorite items where the truffles...litteraly melt in your mouth good! And the baby loved the cheese straws.....Sadly I too loved the cheese straws. I almost feel badly about eating most of them...but in my defense it was needed to write an accurate review. Ok I have to order more! ...Yes I ate the baby's Cheese Straws .....and they where divine too! I did let her keep the basket! It is a very well made and nice basket!! She loves putting thing in it. So huge bonus...9 month old Bellamie gets a snazzy toy tote!! I do not know if California Delicious weaves the baskets on site or now, But I have to mention that even the basket was a high quality item!!

California Delicious does not send stale, bland and unappealing items! Everything taste as great as it looks! And everything arrived looking better than it did online. I know how many places can you say that about right?! Their products are something I would be thrilled to receive and am happy to send anyone! There is something for all occasions from the California Delicious catalogs. California Wine and Gourmet Picnic Gift Basket, Gourmet Cheese and Meat Gift, Golden Star Gift Tower of Chocolates Premium are just a few of the seemingly endless choices! Even better...you can overnight your gift if needed! Just found our uncle Stan is showing up fr the family holiday dinner...Forgot to get your brothers new wife a gift....? California Delicious has got you covered! From baby showers to wedding gifts and everything in between, let California Delicious take the guess-work out of gift giving! You can enjoy your day knowing that they have got you covered!

Because of Quality, Value, Presentation and all over fantastic service California Delicious is a shoo-in for BHDD's 2013 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE! 

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Disclaimer: all views that of the original writer, who was compensated with products for this review. your views may differ, thank you!

hbl Review and Giveaway! $67.90 value! Ends 12/17/13

More great products jumping out at you this afternoon and this time they come from our good old friends in hair care products: hbl!

The hbl range is free of any sulfates, allergens and gluten for hair that looks and feels natural and remains healthy. With added goodness to maintain your hairs health, such as: Proteins and amino acids and less of the "bad stuff" such ad parabens, which have been replaced with a healthier option!!

I had my hair cut a couple of weeks ago, as you may well recall, and of course shorter hair is always harder to maintain than longer hair for some crazy reason and so these products are absolutely essential for me right now and working wonders!

I have hbl's Spray Mousse, Texture and Styling Cream and a Thermal Styling Spray!

I absolutely love to straighten out my hair and now that it is choppy and short it needs it even more! The Thermal Styling Spray REALLY helps with that and it doesn't take a lot, either! Just spray while slightly damp still and style as usual and I find it works great and leaves my hair soft and silky as apposed to sticky, which is what I get with a lot of other sprays that shall remain nameless!

I, too, loved the Texture and Styling cream, which adds a little chop to my cut if I want it to look sharp OR it helps me blend it together when I want a smoothed out, sleek look!

Lastly there is the Spray Styling Mousse and, I have to admit, I had never seen a mousse spray before! I always think of mousse in one of those cans with a nozzle on top that comes out like you're about to frost a cake or spray a little whipped cream into the palm of your hand and so this was a surprise to me! I love, love, LOVE it and can't get enough of it! It really works well at getting into the roots and giving a little volume and the spray makes it easy to dispense into the hair without having to spray it into your hands and then fiddle about with it to get perfection - just spray, tousle [OR style] as you like and GO! Fabulous!

These 3 products can be found HERE and retail for $67.90 the entire set right now as you can pick up the Texture and Styling Cream for FREE when you purchase the Mousse and the Spray! (Accurate when going to publish 12/3/13). You also have a 120 day money-back guarantee!

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Any questions, just ask! And, with all that said...GOOD LUCK!!

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Doodle Jump Journey - Out Now, Get Playing!!

Jump to it! 

Let's get gaming with Doodle Jump Journey!!

My kids love to play on the DS and this week the talk of the house has been Doodle Jump Journey from GameMill entertainment!!

The popular "Jump 'em up" game has been around for a while and has finally made it to the DS and 3DS as Doodle Jump Adventures and Doodle Jump Journey, respectively!

This fun little game keeps the kids entertained for HOURS on end as you move your character around in his little world of fun, laughing along the ways as you go, making him jump higher and higher up the levels warding off the enemies as you go!!

Rated "E" for Everyone, I found that the game wasn't as interesting to my 17 year old as it was our 10 and 2 year olds, but I certainly thought it was fun and kept me entertained for a little while! I think if you like a good, old-school style game, with a cute character and many levels to jump through then you're going to be in LOVE with this one!

It is, as it says on the back "addictive" to play!! I couldn't put it down once I got going and the children certainly wanted to be the next to have a go!

Fun for the whole family, this makes a FABULOUS, FUN stocking stuffer and is available NOW at all good retailers of DS and 3DS games, such as Amazon, for as little as $19.99 (at time of writing this), HERE!

I can't wait to see who has this already - I hear it is available as an app already, but I completely missed this one! I am very late to the party!! I love it! It is of course making its way on over to our Holiday Gift Guide for 2013!

Keep on jumping!!

- MGB xx

Disclaimer: I was given a copy of Doddle Jump Journey to test at home, in return for this review. All opinions are my own and your views may differ! No affiliate links are contained in this post. Thank you! 

Yves Rocher Holiday and Winter Collections, Just in Time for Christmas!

Sometimes the cover does denote the contents of the book and, this Christmas, Yves Rocher are at it again, with some magical fragrances and gifts that you know you're going to love...

Limited Editions, making the holidays special! 

Their Cacao line this Christmas is AMAZING and I personally love the smell of Cacao and Pistachio, which I have in a body wash, hand wash and a scented candle - nothing like a hint of nutty chocolate to bring a little sweet delight to the cold, dank winter!

The wash is gentle and smooth and doesn't leave a sticky residue, which is delightful, as always and the hand wash just the same! I love to leave the soaps in the kitchen to give it that little sweet zing to the air after baking or washing dishes instead of the soapy dishwashing-liquidy-lemon smell we all have come to love when just reaching for the dish soap!

I pop a candle or two up in my living room each year and use them a lot more in the winter, which makes these seasonal gifts so much more relevant in my household than ever before - I just can't get enough of these and I love to point them out to people when they stop by!!

I would absolutely love to recommend anything from the Cacao line for gifts this Christmas and you won't be disappointed, at all! There are several fragrances to choose from such as:

• Cacao and Raspberry
• Cacao and Orange
• Cacao and Pistachio

All scents come with a selection of goodies to choose from such as body wash, hand soap, scented candles, sprays and even a lip balm and lotion!

Alongside the Cacao collection you also have the Vanille Collection, which presents notes of vanilla via a body wash, candle, Eau De Toillette, body lotion and a bath cube - you can buy these one piece at a time or put them together to make a delightful gift basket!

As ever, Yves Rocher also have a seasonal make up collection to keep you on your toes and looking your best through the holidays and I had the pleasure of trying out a couple of their Winter "Romantic Heroine" collection lip sticks, a double ended kohl pencil and a mascara!

I love the soft colors offered such as peacock blue/stormy blue double liners and the range of red, blue, mauve and green this season! I really would have loved to have tried more, and really do hope that I get a chance to pick some up before the season is out! I can't resist a smokey eye and a soft, shimmery blue!

These lipsticks are smooth, delicate and colorful, true to the swatch on the cap and long lasting! Available in several shades, I love the reds - big and bold this year for Christmas!

You can check out the entire Winter line HERE for more details AND to discover shimmer water, which I am quite excited to pick up, myself! It leaves shimmery particles on your skin, which is fabulous for special occasions and I can't wait to try it!

I love just about everything Yves Rocher comes out with and it really seems as though they can do no wrong in my eyes! Their prices are phenomenally reasonable, too and so you can get a good look with a small cash-flow! Great for you or as a gift this season, which is of course why Yves Rocher also makes it into our Holiday Gift Guide for 2013!

I hope you head on over to Yves Rocher and check out their full line of goodies and let me know if you get to try any! I love hearing from you!

Enjoy!!

Disclaimer: I was provided items in return for this review. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone and your views may differ! Thank you! 

Doctor Who, 50th Anniversary Special!

The 50th Anniversary Special of Dr. Who aired this past weekend and I have to say that I was a little bit disappointed with it!

I know it was great to see Billie Piper and David Tennant and I do love Hurt, but the story [to me] felt too predictable and old, even though we've never seen all of these characters interacting with one another quite like this before and so I should have been thrilled.

Something lacked, though. It was almost like they knew what the public wanted and gave them every single cliche they could ever want and over-killed it! How many mentions of "Timey-Whimey" or "Alons-y" do they need to cram into one episode and why keep harping back to the Queen of England! It has been DONE BEFORE!

I, of course, didn't like that Billie Piper and David Tennant had no interaction and I didn't like that the war doctor all of a sudden wasn't a bad guy after all, so apparently now the Dr can do no wrong in the past or present, he always seems to be this eternal do-gooder, which is fine and all, but everyone needs a little darkness in them to even them out and so I didn't really enjoy where that went.

Also, Gallifrey isn't gone, huh? OK. I guess now we see the Dr. isn't the only one of his kind out there necessarily but that, again, seems to take away something fundamental to the Dr. That he was alone.

I can't help but feel like there are a lot of long-lived loose ends being tied up in this episode as well as far too much crowd-pleasing.

Don't get me wrong, though. I did like the episode, but I just felt like it could have been so much more!

I am looking forward to the Christmas special!

Thanksgiving!

Good morning! I hope you all has a restful day yesterday if you had a day off or celebrated for Thanksgiving!

Growing up in England, we didn't have Thanksgiving and so it isn't that big of a holiday for me, even now, but I do go to my mother in laws for dinner and this year was no exception!

The weather held out and I can't complain, at all! My mother in law cooked up a delicious meal and her sweet potatoes this year were the most amazing sweet potatoes I've ever tasted, with pecans in them - I love pecans!!!

We all ate and chatted and then ate some more - home made cheesecakes were on offer for dessert, alongside pumpkin pie, and everything was, again, delicious!

My daughter learned what spray cream was for the very first time, but for some reason she is calling it "ice cream salt" and I think that's hilarious - especially as she never uses actual salt either and so none of it makes any sense!!

My youngest had his first Thanksgiving but he is still quite boring at this age and was happy to cat nap through it!

My hair did look a little crazy today as I had to rush it to get out the door in time, but I like it!!

Heres to the next big day, Christmas! Not long to go now!!

Enjoy!