Family Organizer's by Amy Knapp - Review and Giveaways!! *Closed*

Amy Knapp has developed these three different Family Organizers or Planners. Even though we are a little late in the year it is never too late to start a new habit and find a new way to organizer your day!!
Each page has a week at a view calendar with plenty of space to write your activities for the day. Then on the left side if the page you have a "To Do" section. On the right sidebar you have "Menu" detachable section. On the left sidebar you have a detachable "Grocery" list!! Great!!!
She has designed this so that on the grocery list and "To Do" list there is a small diamond shape that you either check off that the task was done or you put in an arrow to move it to tomorrows list "To Do".

There are 3 different planners
1) Family Organizing
2) Christian Family Organizing - Same set up but also with a Bible verse at the top of the left page and also a section on the left page for prayer and praise.
3) Expecting Planner - On the left page there is a "Moments & Miracles" section. On the daily calendar there is a check grid that you can check off either a square or circle to keep track of many things. You can keep track of how much water you drink, your vitamin for the day, how many times the baby moves, braxton hicks - it is your choice.

Amy sent several of these planners to Ellen from Thrifty and Chic Mom. Ellen also is having a giveaway but gave me some to pass onto my readers.
So I am going to be giving away 6 planners to 6 lucky winners!!
There will be 2 Family Organizers, 2 Christian Family Organizers, and 2 Expecting Family Organizers given away.

To Buy: Go to The Family Organizer Web site and purchase one. They are normally $14.99, but now they are only $5.00 each!!


To Win:
1) Go to The Family Organizer and check out their site. Tell me which planner you would choose if you won. (This needs to be on here to be elible to win.) You can also get a really good view of the inside of each one. Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your
e-mail address.

For Extra Chances To Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow me on twitter. Come back here and add your twitter name.

4) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (organizing and review site) you can earn an extra chance. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

5) Add any of my 3 buttons (Organize with Sandy, Review, Pouchee) to your sidebar and earn an entry for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.

This contest is open to US mailing address only.
Only one person from mailing address eligible to win.
(will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or I will pick another winner.)


This contest will run until Wednesday May 6th @ 8:00 pm EST

TasteCasting - The Suisse Shop

Social Media can be used in many ways. Dan Harris had a vision to help local restaurants get some attention to help their business and for us to get to sample some real goodies and to make some new friends.

Everything looked so wonderful!! It smelled great. The Suisse Shop is known for their Tortes and pastries. They normally sell them by the full torte. But for this week (and only one other during the year) they have their special, "Torte by the Slice". It gives us all a chance to taste any of the over 30 tortes they make. They only cost $3.50 per slice! And only $2.75 for the cheesecake. If you think what you would pay for this wonderful piece of dessert if you were in sit down restaurant you would probably be paying about $8.50 a slice.


The Suisse Shop has been in business for 26 years and is owned by a Swiss baker, Therese Whitfield. She and her family run the shop. They are are opened from 9am-7pm Tuesday through Friday. Mondays are from 9am-4pm and they are closed on Sundays.

They make fantastic wedding cakes and have made over 1500 in central Ohio.



Look at the plate I sampled!! I tried Black Forest torte, Buckeye cheesecake, Lemon torte, yellow torte, chocolate torte, german chocolate torte, coconut torte. They were all really good. I have to say that I did have a couple of favorites. I really liked the yellow, lemon and chocolate tortes. They had a very light buttery frosting. These were not "heavy" at all to me. I think the peanut butter cheesecake was the richest I tasted. Fantastic, but I wouldn't be able to eat more than one piece.


They use the same ingredients when they make their cupcakes. They looked really good too. They also have mini torte cakes. There are 5" tortes, 8" and 10" tortes.




Doesn't everything look great? Guess what...it was!!

Rubik's World Wii Game Review and Giveaway *Closed*

Who doesn't love a good puzzle? Who can forget the Rubik's Cube?
This game takes you inside the Rubik'Cube to discover interactive Rubik's themed puzzles that are designed to challenge kids and adults of all ages.
There are 8 games that have increasing difficulty puzzles and activities including the classic cube solving game.

My 15 and 16 year old have spent many an hour playing!! The colors are bright and fun, there is a music puzzle game...lots of fun.


To Buy: Go to The Game Factory and check out this game along with many others for the Wii, and other game systems.

To Win:

1) Go to The Game Factory and check out their site. Tell me how many players this game is for on the Wii. Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your
e-mail address.

For Extra Chances To Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow me on twitter. Come back here and add your twitter name.

4) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (organizing and review site) you can earn an extra chance. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

5) Add any of my 3 buttons (Organize with Sandy, Review, Pouchee) to your sidebar and earn an entry for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.

This contest is open to US mailing address only.
Only one person from mailing address eligible to win.
I will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or I will pick another winner.


This contest will run until April 29th, 2009 @ 8:00 pm EST

Soy Candles from Glade! The Frangrance Collection

These candles smell wonderful!! I opened the package and took off the plastic lids and couldn't believe how great they smelled.
Each candle contains over 90% natural ingredients, including palm wax and soy. They have a lead-free wick and no metal and the fragrances are infused with essential oils.
I had to light them right away. I do have to say that the one I was the most surprised at was the Macintosh Apple. You pull off that lid and if you had your eyes closed you would think someone just cut a fresh apple and stuck it under your nose!
I have one in my bathroom now and without even burning it, the smell is great.They sold me...love them!

Tastecasting - Espresso Yourself Music Cafe

Last night I got to go to the cutest coffee house in Powell, OH. It was opened in an old church. There are bands that play and entertain you as you get to drink your coffee. They have a listing of bands and a menu at the web site Espresso Yourself Music Cafe
The art work is all done by different artist and is for sale and changes regularly.






We were treated to a sample of a few different sandwiches. These were fantastic! I never really thought of a coffee house as having some really good food, but this one does! Eric who owns this coffee house and his daughter run it. He is very conscious of healthy food. His wife passed away 2 years ago of lung cancer and before she died they learned how to eat really healthy.
The smoothies have real fruit and antioxidants. I had the peach and it was wonderful!!! They also treated us to some (not as healthy..but hey, some of us still eat junk right?) warm chocolate chip cookies.
Thanks! I will for sure be back.

List Plan It Review and Giveaway *Closed*

As Jennifer says who created List Plan it, "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who love list and those who love the IDEA of lists."
I think that can be very true. If you are a list maker, it is just a very second nature way of keeping track of things and following a routine. If you are not a list maker, chances are you may be just a bit disorganized anyway and wish that you had a better system for keeping track of daily chores, groceries etc.
This is a site that you can join for as little as a 3 month time frame and use the lists she has prepared. Her lists are very simple and easy to use.
Straight from her site to mine...


350+ Printable Lists and Planning Pages
Find Grocery Lists and Menu Planning in Meal Planning,
Holiday and Party Planning in Holidays & Special Occasions,
Find Calendars and To Do Lists in Time Management
Back to School Planner and Homework Schedules in Student
Everything you need in one convenient location!
Browse each category in the List of Lists
to discover all that ListPlanIt.com has to offer!
Or decide which of our 16 ePlanners is right for you!!

To Buy: Go to List Plan It and buy a membership for either 3 months at $9.95 or 12 months at $29.95.


To Win: Jennifer has offered a quarterly membership for you to win!!

1) Go to List Plan it and check out their site. Tell me which list you think you would use the most.

Then come back here and comment on it. Please be sure to leave me your
e-mail address.

For Extra Chances To Win!!

1) Twitter about this contest! Come back here and tell me you did.

2) Blog about this contest! Come back here and add the link to your blog.

3) Follow me on twitter. Come back here and add your twitter name.

4) Follow my blogs (add yourself to right sidebar to follow). For each one of my blogs you follow (organizing and review site) you can earn an extra chance. Tell me about each one you followed when you come back here to comment.

5) Add any of my 3 buttons (Organize with Sandy, Review, Pouchee) to your sidebar and earn an entry for each one you add. Come back here with the link to your site where you added them.


I will send out an e-mail to the winner and you will have 48 hours to respond back to me or there will be another winner choosen.)


This contest will run until Saturday April 18th 8:00 pm EST

Taste Casting - The Culinary Table

I was able to go to my first Taste Casting event tonight. It took place at The Culinary Table in Grandview, OH. This is a combination of three businesses that come together to create pure magic when it comes to social events, corporate events, wedding parties, receptions, cooking classes or catering. Wine and beer tastings are also on the upcoming venue. It is a "One Stop Shop for Everything" as Emily of Bellisari's catering said. It was a large room (can seat up to 60), but not too large and it felt very comfortable. The decorations were beautiful and done by Natural Designs, which design beautiful and original floral design and decorating. They were featured at The Decorator Show House.







It all tasted as good as it looked! If you live in the central Ohio area and are planning a graduation party, wedding reception or if you want to have a luncheon for business..you need to think about The Culinary Table.