Costume Supercenter: Who Do You Want to Be?  Review and Give-a-way!

I love costumes...I really do!  I love to pretend that I am someone else every now and then and having the right outfit really helps me to do just that!  No longer only for Halloween, costumes are used year round for parties, performances, and even weddings!  Yep...my cousin Kim actually had her wedding on Halloween eve and not only did she and her hubby have on costumes, she asked for her guests to come in costumes as well ( true story!)

I was excited when I was presented with an opportunity to pick out a costume to review for you, my dear readers.  I chose to be Fifi - my French Maid alter ego!  As I am somewhat "well endowed" I chose the French Maid Plus Size Version to make sure that it would fit...and fit it did!  Just ask my boyfriend, who loved watching Fifi clean up around the house.  TMI...yeah, I know! 

What a great site!  The choices seem endless, even in the Plus Size Costume category....which is really great to see!  Want to be Cleopatra for a while?  No problem here!  How about a princess?  Just as easy!

The CostumeSuperCenter.com website also runs another site called The Wholesale Costume Club and they are giving me the chance to give away to you two free one year memberships.  This membership allows you to get the wholesale price on the costumes you want.  What a great excuse to play! 

If you want to win one of these two memberships, here's what you have to do:

(1) Follow my blog on Google Friend Connect ( this will be verified)

AND

(2) Tell me who you want to pretend to be when you buy your costume from The Wholesale Costume Club!

BOTH (1) and (2) MUST be done for your initial entry! Leave me ONE comment stating that both items were completed



If you already subscribe to my blog please just let me know in that mandatory first comment as well.

If you want additional entries:

(3) Follow me on Twitter

(4) Tweet about this giveaway ( leave one comment with a link to your tweet)

(5) Blog about this giveaway and leave me a comment with a link to your post and link back to this give-a-way post as well!


Give-a-way to run until 11:59 pm EST on June 25th, 2010. Winner will be chosen via Random.org. Email will be sent to winner with a response needed within 72 hours of winning email with shipping information. If winner does not respond to email, an alternate winner will be chosen. Good only within the continental USA. Make sure you leave a contact email within your post or check to make sure that I can email you via your blogger profile.






Disclaimer: CostumeSuperCenter.com provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.

Sarah McLachlan Does It Again! 'Laws of Illusion" is a Winner!

I have been a fan of Sarah McLachlan for a long time and have been waiting ( too long) for her to release something new.

I am so happy to let you know that the wait is over with her release of " Laws of Illusion".  She has really hit it dead on with the songs, sung only as Sarah can!


TRACKLISTING


1. AWAKENINGS

2. ILLUSIONS OF BLISS

3. LOVING YOU IS EASY

4. CHANGES

5. FORGIVENESS

6. RIVERS OF LOVE

7. LOVE COME

8. OUT OF TUNE

9. HEARTBREAK

10. DON’T GIVE UP ON US

11. U WANT ME 2

12. BRING ON THE WONDER

Also want to let you know that she is back on the road yet again with her Lilith Tour!  I went to the very last one and I already have tickets for the August 1st date in Hartford.  Check out the stops:


LILITH FAIR TOUR DATES



Jun 27 Calgary, AB McMahon Stadium

Jun 28 Edmonton, AB Northlands Spectrum

Jul 1 Vancouver, BC, Canada Pitt Meadows Airport

Jul 2 Portland, OR Sleep Country Amphitheatre

Jul 3 Seattle/George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre

Jul 5 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View

Jul 7 San Diego, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

Jul 8 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion

Jul 9 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center

Jul 10 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Jul 12 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre

Jul 13 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre

Jul 15 Kansas City, MO Capitol Federal Park @ Sandstone

Jul 16 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Jul 17 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

Jul 18 Minneapolis, MN Canterbury Park

Jul 20 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis

Jul 21 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre

Jul 23 Montreal, QC Parc Jean Drapaeu

Jul 24 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

Jul 27 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center

Jul 28 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center

Jul 30 Boston, MA Comcast Center

Jul 31 New York, NY PNC Bank Arts Center

Aug 1 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre

Aug 3 Washington, DC TBA

Aug 4 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek

Aug 6 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte

Aug 7 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena

Aug 8 Atlanta, GA Aarons Amphitheatre at Lakewood

Aug 10 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre

Aug 11 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre

Aug 12 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Music Center

Aug 14 Austin, TX TBA

Aug 15 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Aug 16 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center

Anyone going to any of these dates?

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You can go to the above link to see a really cool video!

Touch'd by Rachel: Lovin' the Way It Makes Me Feel!
A Review and Give-a-way!

Have you heard about Touch'd Bath and Body Products by Rachel Ferrucci yet?  Well get ready....Touch'd is getting about to become your favorite bath and body product!!!

Here is some background on Rachel from her website:

Rachel Ferrucci is a former hair dresser-turned-entrepreneur, with a passion for beauty and fashion, and is an overall product enthusiast.


Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been obsessed with beauty products. I would beg my mother to draw me a bubble bath from as young as I could remember and I was always stealing her lotions. I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go to cosmetology school. I spent 15 years as a hairstylist, but gave it up to work a corporate job. That was the biggest mistake of my life. Now that I’m back in the field I love, I’m more inspired than ever. Touch’d is my passion, my quest, and a lifelong dream come true.

She put all her creative energy into bringing the best bath and body products to discriminating women everywhere. She spent eight years researching body scrubs, moisturizing lotions, salt baths, and other products before concocting the winning formulas in her home bathtub. The idea for Rachel’s products and company was the result of years trying to find a product line that met ALL the needs of her family


I often needed a soothing salt soak after a long day of work. My hard-working husband needed to smooth out his rough hands and dry cracked heels. And, my two teenaged daughters sought out deliciously smelling moisturizing lotions. So when I couldn’t find a line of products that suited my entire family, I finally decided to start a line of my own: Touch’d.

The first Touch’d product was the Organic Sugar Scrub, a perfect natural blend of white cane sugar, healing oils, and scents. Its purpose is to exfoliate dead skin cells while hydrating the skin and leaving it feeling silky, smooth, and sexy. Touch’d Organic Sugar Scrubs come in a variety of scents, including Tropical Paradise, Dream, Warm Vanilla and Cherry Bomb.


Cherry Bomb was created specifically for the launch party of the rock chick girl guide, Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend, and to Living Life Like a Rock Star by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna for Simon & Schuster.

Other signature items in the Touch’d women’s product line include Bath Butter, Moisture Myst, and the Foaming Salt Soak, which is derived from the Dead Sea. The men’s line (inspired by her husband of 13 years) includes the scrubs Outlaw and Captain.

The LOGO

Lots of thought was put into the logo. I didn’t want my company to be like all the other bath and body companies. They’ll all a little too foofy for me. I’m more of an edgy woman, who still loves to be sexy and sophisticated. Family is very important to me and I was told by my mom to “seal everything with a kiss”. My mom signs every single card with a lipstick print of her lips. So I asked mom to get the lipstick on good and thick and start kissing pieces of paper until we found the perfect set of lips……….Touch’d was now sealed with a kiss!

Pretty cool, huh?

What's even cooler is that I was sent a sample of the Sugar Scrub in Tropical Paradise scent. 

What a great product!  It smells delicious and made my skin feel really, really nice.  I love the way that the sugar acts as a natural exfoliant and makes my skin feel so soft and silky!  It also comes in other scents such as Cucumber Melon, Dream, and Warm Vanilla.

Even better until July 15th, 2010 if you enter the code "PurpleWorld" at checkout you will receive 25% of of all of your purchases!

Rachel also has generously agreed to sponsor a giveaway of her Foaming Salt Soak

Here's what she has to say about this product:

Our Foaming Salt Soak is made with 100% Dead Sea Salt and essential oils which allows you a traditional soak with a frothy layer that will relieve sore muscles, alleviate stress, and rejuvenate your body and mind.



Note: Dead Sea Bath Salts are clinically proven to provide relief from Psoriasis when utilized in a recommended six week regimen (2.2 baths, 20 minute per bath, 3 baths per week, for 6 weeks).

If you want to win, here's what you have to do:
 
(1) You MUST be a Google Friend Connect follower of my blog ( this will be verified)


AND

(2) You MUST subscribe to the Touch'd email Sales Newsletter via this link!


BOTH (1) and (2) MUST be done for your initial entry! Leave me ONE comment stating that both items were completed and make sure the email address that you subscribed to the newsletter with is provided within your comment.

If you already subscribe to either/or/both please just let me know in that mandatory first comment as well.

If you want additional entries:

(3) Follow me on Twitter

(4) Tweet about this giveaway ( leave one comment with a link to your tweet)

(5) Go to the Touch'd website and tell me what scent in the Foaming Salt Soak sounds yummy to you!
(6) Blog about this giveaway and leave me a comment with a link to your post and link back to this give-a-way post as well!

(7) Like Touch'd on Facebook and leave a comment that you are there from Purple World!


Give-a-way to run until 11:59 pm EST on June 21st, 2010. Winner will be chosen via Random.org. Email will be sent to winner with a response needed within 72 hours of winning email with shipping information. If winner does not respond to email, an alternate winner will be chosen. Good only within the continental USA. Make sure you leave a contact email within your post or check to make sure that I can email you via your blogger profile.




Disclaimer: Touch'd provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.