Monthly Archives: March 2013

Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

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Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

By: Erin

Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® and Bigelow Tea #cbias #SocialFabric #AmericasTea All thoughts and opinions are my own, and I enjoy a great cup of tea! 🙂

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It’s springtime! When I think of spring, I think of garden tea parties, sitting out in the backyard with the roses in full bloom, sipping some delicious Bigelow Tea with some good friends.  When I think of tea parties, scenes from Alice in Wonderland, elegant Victorian decor and ladies with their pinky fingers stuck up in the air come to mind.  I have some very old, yet amazingly beautiful tea cups and tea pots that I’ve just been itching to use to have a tea party with as they’ve just been sitting around in the china cabinet, collecting dust for quite a while now. These cups and pots hold a lot of family history as I imagine they have been through many tea parties before. Some of them can even be traced back to 1910 when my great-great grandmother Carlson owned them. As spring has been approaching us, I’ve been getting more and more excited to finally host a tea party with these beauties! I gathered up a few friends who I know enjoy tea and tea parties as much as I do, and we started to plan our afternoon tea party to celebrate spring with Bigelow Tea! This led to a trip to Wal-Mart to go buy some of my favorite tea, Bigelow Tea, as well as some other much needed items, which you can see the full shopping trip here, in my Google+ Album!

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Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience #JT2020

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Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience

By Erin

Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias®  and #JT2020  #cbias #SocialFabric All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.

OMG! Can you believe it?? After a  6 1/2 year wait from his last album, Justin is back in full force with his latest gem, JT The 20/20 Experience. Have you heard the EVEN BETTER news? Well, if you haven’t it’s that his CD dropped at your local Walmart on Tuesday, March 19th, and can be YOURS for only $7 if you hurry on up and grab one (or two, or three for your fellow JT loving friends) before March 25th! Or you can click HERE and ORDER your copy from Walmart NOW

I have been a Justin Timberlake fan since his Mickey Mouse Club and N’SYNC days. So when I found out about his new CD coming out, I was extremely giddy and it brought me back to my teenage years when my girlfriends and I would listen to his CD’s and sing along at the top of our lungs while ogling at the magazines covered with pictures of JT and his fellow boy band members. Later I would go on to attend a couple of  their amazing concerts.

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Here’s one of those pictures. Back in April 1999, my senior year in high school during spring break, out at the river! Two of my good friends are pictured here (I was the one who took the pic) Can you see who’s on the cover? It’s none other than JT of course! I remember this trip vividly. We listened to N’SYNC on the E-N-T-I-R-E way out to the river (it’s about a 4 1/2 hour trip) singing at the top of our lungs…

Fast forward back to now, it was exciting to know that the day of  the CD release had arrived, and I could finally get what I had been waiting years for! Off I went, first thing in the morning to get my copy (check out my shopping trip here, in my Google + Album)

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Cavalia’s Odysseo: Galloping into our Hearts!

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Cavalia’s Odysseo: Galloping into our Hearts!

By Erin

Disclosure: I received media tickets to attend the VIP tweet night in Burbank. I was not compensated for this post, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

D you know anyone who loves or admires the beauty and free-spirit of the horse? If  you are as horse crazy and love horses as much as I do, then you’ll want to go and see anything Cavalia does. Artistic director and creator Normand Latourelle has created another masterpiece with a dreamlike setting that mixes inspiring acrobatics and high-tech theatrical effects. Cavalia’s “Odysseo” is an odyssey to different enchanting lands. It’s like a Disney Movie, but even more magical with all the colors and dancing ponies that prance into your heart. The show opened in Burbank, on  February 27th,  2013 and runs until March 31st, 2013. I was ever so lucky to be invited out to their VIT (Very Important Tweep) Night on March 13th, 2013. You can bet I was beyond ecstatic to find out that after only dreaming of being able to go see this show, it was now becoming a reality, AND I was getting to go as a VIP? A week later, it still only seems like a dream! Lucky for me, I have many pictures (500ish)  from this magical night to show that indeed this most special night DID happen. 😉

Here is a mini version of our night, and what you can expect as a Rendez-Vous VIP with Cavalia!

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The 10-story, 110 foot tall White Big Top as seen from the 5 freeway in Burbank. We were so excited to see this, that we even missed our exit! Opps…

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