Eat Better & Feel Better with Tropical Smoothie Cafe in 2016 [+ a Giveaway]

Big Thanks to Tropical Smoothie Cafe for sponsoring today's discussion & giveaway, regardless all opinions expressed below are my own.

Eating better means you feel better, plain and simple... I just forget this little fact sometimes and I often indulge in foods that are quick and easy to prepare. While those foods tend to be tasty, they usually aren't good for you.

With fast food being my only option sometimes, I knew I had to find a healthy fix to getting food quick and that's when I started frequenting Tropical Smoothie Cafe!

Tropical Smoothie Cafe offers so many options, from delicious wraps to over-the-top smoothies! I'm always able to find something crave-worthy on their menu and I never have to worry about the ingredients throwing off my diet! I think most of us will be watching how we eat in 2016 & choosing Tropical Smoothie Cafe is an obvious answer to your cravings for something sweet without feeling guilty!

Plus, with their upcoming line of "Live Better" smoothies that will include a detox smoothie as well as Chia Banana Blasts & Immune Blasts, I'll be able to indulge in all kinds of tasty smoothies while also cleansing my system and providing it with vital nutrients! That's why I love Tropical Smoothie Cafe so much, they offer the items I want with great flavor & nutritional content while still allowing me to head off to my next errand!

With over 16 years in the smoothie business and a spirit of health & giving back to the community, Tropical Smoothie Cafe provides the local, down-home vibe in a franchise setting - something most companies just can't compete with! Have you visited your local Tropical Smoothie Cafe? Do you want to try one of their delicious smoothies or a fantastic wrap in 2016 ? Enter to win a $20 gift card with the giveaway tools form below:

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Now that I've shared why I love Tropical Smoothie Cafe so much AND an awesome giveaway for you to win some goodies, I'd love to hear which menu item you want to try first in the comments below!

Tis The #Giving Season: $50 Gift Card Giveaway Hop - This or That Giveaway Hop

With Thanksgiving on Thursday, Small Business Saturday, a very peaceful Sunday, and a very busy Cyber Monday, you could say it's a busy week. From people staying up long hours and doing crazy things so they can buy presents to families gathering together from all across the country to give thanks, I'm sure we've all had a busy last couple of days and the season is just beginning!

While I'll be sharing all kinds of items in my holiday gift guide this year, today is strictly about giving. I've teamed up with a great group of bloggers to offer you an amazing giveaway hop! This isn't just a regular hop though, every single prize is either a gift card valued at $25 or more OR a $100 prize pack! That means you have the chance to win all kinds of amazing prizes and plenty of gift cards to stock up on gifts for everyone on your list in the This or That giveaway hop hosted by The Mommy Island, The Kids Did it, and The Review Wire. 

"Tis the season" as they say, so I want to reward one lucky reader with a $50 Visa Gift Card! Use the giveaway tools form below to enter to win:

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Now that you've entered to win some moo-lah, go ahead and increase your odds of winning something by entering all of the giveaways listed below:

Monroe & Main Holiday Outfit of The Day & a Giveaway!

 This is a Fashionista Event Opportunity, and is hosted by Still Blonde after all these YEARS and Modly Chic.

The holidays are officially here and that means the colder weather has finally hit Florida. While I'm excited to be spending more time cuddled up under blankets, I'm also pretty excited about all the fashion options cold weather opens up for me. From old sweaters to new fringe dusters, I'm all about rocking new fashions to keep me warm!

I'm super excited to share one of my favorite new outfits that I plan on rocking all season long! With such a fun and funky, vintage vibe - I love every single little detail about my Monroe & Main outfit.The cozy pants are the perfect fit and provide just enough winter warmth, the jacket is super fun and makes me feel a little flirty, and the top has a polished looked to it that I absolutely adore!

With stunning attention to detail in all the garments, specifically all the intricate details on the shirt and the beaded leggings, it's hard not to fall in love with this outfit. I can't wait to show this look off while running errands, spending time with family, or maybe even a dinner date with the hubs! It's also the perfect look to rock on Thanksgiving so you better believe this is what I'll be wearing!

Enough about me though, do you want to get your hands on something from Monroe & Main? Look no further...There are giveaways involved!

Do you want to spoil yourself with something from Monroe & Main as well? Don't miss your chance to win an adorable purse from one of my favorite stores! Use the giveaway tools form below:

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Still Blonde after all these Years, Modly Chic, and Fashionista Events bloggers are not responsible if prize is not delivered.  We will make every attempt to help you claim your prize.

You've learned why I love my new outfit so much and how you can add a new accessory to your closet, now I can't wait to hear all about which item from the Monroe & Main holiday collection you love the most - don't forget to leave me a comment below! Plus, enter all 25 of the awesome giveaways from the bloggers listed below as well as enter to win the main prize, a $250 shopping spree!

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Revealing My Adore Me Secret + a $500 Gift Card Giveaway!

This post was sponsored by Adore Me as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. I received complimentary products to facilitate my review.

I'm a bit of subscription box fanatic; with so many amazing companies offering such a wide variety of products via mail, it's easy to see why I love getting these boxes full of goodies each month. I have a subscription box for clothing, jewelry, food, and even beauty products, but I was missing a subscription box for one really important thing, one kind of secret thing... until recently.

Adore Me is my newest box I've added to my collection of subscriptions and since I'm loving the box so much, I've decided to share all the details about something I usually keep a secret... Adore Me is the perfect way to treat myself to pretty "unmentionables" and since they make a variety of sizes, I guarantee you'll fall in love with the service too! Plus, with over 500 styles of beautiful lingerie to choose from, I think I'll be a fan of this box for a very, very long time! After signing up, I also learned they add pieces to a new collection each and every month, providing access to the newest fashions in lingerie and sleepwear to their VIP members only! Hello gorgeous new undergarments, all the time!

If you're new to the subscription box thing or haven't heard about Adore Me yet, I bet you are wondering "how does Adore Me work exactly"? It's simple, for $39.95 a month, you will become a VIP & you'll receive the opportunity to pick a matching set from Adore Me’s new collection! That means you get the choice of what is sent to you, from a wide variety of classic styles and those super fashionable new items that come in each month! The membership is flexible though, so you can simply skip a month if you decide you don't need or want anything or you can just save your credit for a future month when you really want to spoil yourself - the choice is yours!

Want some good news? If you decide to become a VIP member between now and November 30th, you'll receive your first set for just $19.95 using the code "GETGLAM19"!

That's not all the benefits you'll reap by signing up to become a VIP though; I'm super excited to share that VIP Adore Me members also receive $10 off any style, any time, a free set (every 6th set is on the house), free shipping and exchanges, and exclusive access to VIP only sales and sets.

That means there's a handful of benefits waiting for you, as well as an adorable (or seductive) new lingerie set - made in your size & your style, shipped directly to your front door... We all know having a matching set of undies makes a girl feel pretty, even if it's just her little secret...

While you're trying to decide which Adore Me set you want to invest in first, I highly recommend you take the time to enter the giveaway for 1 of 2 $500 Adore Me store credits using the giveaway form below! Plus, don't forget to share the giveaway with your friends... you know we all love the chance to win items that make us feel pretty!

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Whether you are looking for a gift for yourself, your best friend, or you're looking for your girlfriend - Adore Me is the perfect way to spoil a girl that loves getting girly!

Holiday Traditions & Hickory Farms Gifts

Thanks to Hickory Farms for sponsoring today's discussion.

It's obvious that I love the holidays, with the joy that's spread through out the season and the loving times I get to spend with family - what's not to love? While hubby and I are celebrating our 7th Christmas married this year, we're still working on building traditions of our own but we both have traditions we follow with our families and those traditions truly matter to us!

This year we're going to try to make new traditions while traveling, with having to make so many stops along our journey in the midwest to see all of our family it should be an adventure. One new tradition that I'm super excited about is our little off-the-beaten-path vacation we're plotting and hopefully going to take. We'll be driving all the way home so we want to stop a few beautiful places along the way and hopefully we'll make a random stop a tradition each year. With that said, another new tradition that I love to partake in around the holidays includes giving (and receiving) food as gifts and now it includes tea parties! What better way to any person's heart than through their tummies & taste buds?!

Receiving a fancy tea party package in the mail from Hickory Farms recently was an amazing experience! With two wonderful tea selections, Belgian truffles, Pretzels, Fruit Spread, and Biscuits - I felt like I had stepped into a regal tea party the second I laid eyes on my new collection!

While I was enjoying my "biscuits" and tea, I suddenly realized I knew just the right person to surprise with a Hickory Farms box first. I decided to check out the variety of gift baskets I could send and realized I could check almost every one off of my list!

Are you a foodie wanting to celebrate the upcoming holiday the right way? I bet you are wondering where can you buy Hickory Farms for your family? Hickory Farms' food gifts are available at Holiday market locations, on HickoryFarms.com, and at most big box retailers!

Not only can you buy Hickory Farms at those locations, you can win an awesome Hickory Farms giveaway here on the blog! Simply fill out the giveaway tools form below & leave a comment completing one simple sentence, "Traditions matter because..." - I may include your quote in an upcoming post as well!

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Disclaimer: Compensation and products for review were provided by Hickory Farms via MomTrends. I received a free sample of the product for the purpose of this review and to facilitate a giveaway.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Hickory Farms. Must be 18+ to enter to win, US residents only. Lauren Paints | a beautiful life is not responsible for sponsors who do not fulfill prizes, all information submitted via the form is only submitted to LaurenPaints.com. 

Well, now that you've had your chance to enter to win an awesome giveaway and I've shared one of my favorite ways to treat others (and myself), I suppose it's time for you to treat yourself as well!

"I and Love and You" Pet Food Giveaway

Thanks to I and love and you for providing samples for my pooches & for providing one lucky winner with a prize,
all opinions expressed below are my own.

Choosing the right food to feed my pups has been an experience, to say the least, with so many brands and so many ingredients in every brand - I feel overwhelmed a lot of times. Trying to decipher labels and decide what they really need in their food has been a learning process but I think we may have finally landed on a food that we all can agree on. I love my dogs a lot and they love me a lot, so "I and love and you" is the food I choose to make sure they are healthy, happy, and satiated.

With a picky and particular little poodle and a muscular mix of a dog that seems to have an aversion to most dog foods, we are constantly trying to convince them that dog food is actually made for them. Luckily we found "I and love and you". We all love it so much because it's a wholesome pet food formulated by holistic veterinarians with the highest standards and made with quality food ingredients, found right in the grocery store with our food!

Our particular poodle seems to have warmed up to I and Love and You and will nudge the bag when he's hungry and our little muscular mix scarfs her food down every time we fill up her bowl, so I think it's safe to say we have found the food for our pups.

I&L&Y's ingredients include the things I look for when choosing food for myself: grain-free, real meat as the first ingredient, prebiotics, probiotics, no artificial preservatives, flavors or colors... I choose to buy food like this to promote optimum health for my dogs and I've noticed they really seem to love the flavor! Plus with a formula made to make their tummy happy &to help them look more beautiful, what more could I ask for in a dog food?

Do you want to let your dog sample I and love and you? Maybe your little feline friend would like a taste of their cat food line? Enter to win a giveaway for an awesome sampler pack with the giveaway form below:

One lucky winner has the choice
between a dog box or a cat box!


Dog Box
(approx. $150 value) includes:
5lb Kibble - Red Meat Medley
1.5lb In the Raw - Raw Raw Beef Boom Ba
Nice Jerky - Venison + Lamb Jerky Bites
$100 in coupons (5 coupons with $20 value each)


Cat Box
(approx. $125 value) includes:
5lb Kibble - Poultry A Plenty     
2 cans - Chicken Lickin'
2 cans - Oh My Cod!
2 cans - Puurky Turkey
$100 in coupons (5 coupons with $20 value each)

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Now that I've shared our new doggie food and how much we love it, I'd love to hear all about your dogs (or cats) and why you think I & Love & You would be a good fit for your little furry friend!