Vitafusion Adult Gummy Vitamins

Through Smiley360, I received Vitafusion Adult Gummy Vitamins for free in exchange for my review. Opinions are definitely mine.

I tried the Beauty Sleep ones first since it was bedtime when I finally opened my box. They tasted like Cherry-Vanilla, exactly like the bottle says. It contains 3mg of melatonin to support sleep. Definitely take them before bed, because they will make you sleepy within the 30-60 minutes. I don't remember when I fell asleep, but it was a little faster than normal. I do remember still tossing and turning though. So, no, you're not going to sleep like a log.

The Hair, Skin and Nails gummies taste like raspberry. We'll see if they help keep my nails from chipping and the rest looking better than usual. 

I decided not to try the Relaxed Mood vitamins that contain L-Theanine, to avoid a possible drug interaction with my blood pressure medication. Always check drug interactions with what you take for health; both doctor prescribed medications and over-the-counter medications and supplements. 

Edit 4/30/16

So, I only take the Beauty Sleep vitamins when my brain won't shut off before bed, and I'm thinking of a million things that definitely can wait 'til morning. It's the perfect thing to help shut the thinking off. Any other time, I'm good and fall asleep like normal with out them.

The Hair, Skin & Nails gummies are just a multi-vitamin with extra Vitamin A, C and Biotin that supports above features. I can't tell if they're supporting anything extra, because my hair, skin and nails always start to look better in the spring after we get out of the dry winter around here in Utah. After a while I just forget to take them. 

I did find that the Hair, Skin and Nails gummies have this odd texture with little pieces of gelatin that didn't seem to get fully dissolved. Sometimes like the chewier skin that forms on Jello. It could be something in the multi-vitamin formula that doesn't make the solution as smooth. But hey, if you think you're not getting enough vitamins everyday and your hair, skin and nails look horrible year round, give them a try. They're better than some giant horse pill vitamins.

Update 6/5/19 I revisited the Vitafusion Hair Skin & Nails gummies in a new post here.

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt 2016

It's bunny boxes for Easter! I didn't buy anything new for this project. I used what I had. I saw many projects on Pintrest using the Stampin' Up! Curvy Keepsakes Box die and turning it into a bunch of creature for the season. So why not bunnies?

I used the mini heart punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack for the adorable little bunny nose. Drew on the face with a black pigma pen and used A Heartfelt Creations stamp and die set that are long retired. They were individual lily petals that I thought looks like the inside of an ear.

Not shown is the back where I cut a cotton ball in half and glued it on for the fluffy little cotton tail. Of course we filled them with lots of yummy chocolate treats.

These boxes hold a lot of treats inside. They're bigger than you think they are. The fun part was making 65 of them for the egg hunt. I enlisted my husband's family to help assemble them. I think they appreciate all the effort it takes to make a large orders of crafts.

We hung them from our fruit trees with colorful bakers twine. It looks like a curtain of cute bunny fruit.

The kids came around and pointed at which bunny they wanted and we cut them down to land in their Easter baskets. Moms thought they were adorable and made sure they told their visiting family that we make the treat containers every year.

Relief Society Birthday Gift Bags -- Year 2

Yeah, my ward Relief Society asked me to help make the birthday gifts, again. Here we have these adorable fabric mini totes!

The pattern for these fabric bags is from All People Quilt designed by Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie. You can get 4 bags from two fabric fat quarters and a couple yards of 3/8" ribbon.

I had a good time making these bags, and I'm still not finished. I had to cut fabric for 140 bags. Quilters cotton is best, but almost any cotton is best. Don't make the same mistake I did and cut 2 sets of fabric the wrong width and have to dive into my own stash and see what I could salvage. Auuggghhh!

You will need to press the horizontal seams, just like in quilting. After that, pressing doesn't much matter. I didn't hand stitch the inside seam closed as the instructions suggest, I just did a narrow top stitch to close up the end on my machine. It's on the inside, no one looks that close.

The Relief Society essentials that went in the bag were, a travel-pack of tissues, lip balm and mints. My birthday isn't until May, so I don't have mine, yet.