Tasty Tuesdays: Giveaway of The Southern Living Party Cookbook

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January 15, 2019 By Tammy Doiel 4 Comments

I love looking at new recipe books. I sometimes receive a new cookbook to review, and I always ask if I can offer one as a giveaway as well. I try to put the cookbooks giveaways up on Tasty Tuesdays, as you are my “foodie” followers.

This last cookbook, The Southern Living Party Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Gathering, was a very interesting cookbook for me to look at is it was very informational for hosting different kind of parties.

The author, Elizabeth Heiskell who is a best-selling author and a TODAY show food contributor, updated the top selling Southern Living cookbook of all time, 1972’s Southern Living Party Cookbook so that it fits today’s modern lifestyle.

Not only are there many recipes with amazing photographs, but there are party ideas for occasions such as a Bridal Tea, a Garden Club Luncheon, for Summer Night Parties, Tailgate Parties, Picnic on the Lawn festivities, a Fall Dinner Party, and 24 more gatherings.

Sometimes I am not for sure what protocol to use for invitations, thank you notes, and table settings. This book helped give direction for many of these functions. You can tell by the following picture some of the gems that you can find in this cookbook! I couldn’t show you everything; this is just a small sampling of this 368 page hardcover cookbook!

The Southern Living Party Cookbook contains delicious dishes from the original book, popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living magazine, sure-to-become classics from Elizabeth’s own treasured recipe box, and menus for any occasion! Check it out HERE or buy it from Amazon HERE.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Celebrate Breakfast with Sticky Toffee Cinnamon Rolls

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December 18, 2018 By Tammy Doiel 10 Comments

Often I get asked if I will review different items on this blog. I haven’t done it as much recently as I haven’t been offered items I’m interested in reviewing.

I did just receive a cookbook called Breakfast: The Most Important Book About the Most Important Best Meal of the Day.

I get to look it over, give my honest review, and offer one as a giveaway on Creative K Kids. I received no compensation for this review.

I have not made any of the recipes yet included in this book. I thought the book would be a normal cookbook full of breakfast recipes, which is my favorite meal of the day. I don’t usually eat breakfast, but I will eat breakfast foods for lunch and dinner often. Although this book does include recipes, it also includes why we make breakfast foods a certain way and the best way to cook the main foods that we consider “breakfast foods”.

It has topics such as:

What’s the difference between brown & white eggs?
5 easy ways to make the best scrambled eggs of your life
Four ways to upgrade your fried eggs
How to make candied bacon
How to make crispy potatoes every time
How to make cold brew concentrate at home . . . and much more!

It has recipes for breakfast foods and for alcoholic drinks. That was not a plus for me as I do not drink alcohol. It also contained at least one swear word that I saw as I was flipping through the book. That did not make me happy as my kids will look at my cookbooks. The recipes and information presented in this book is very interesting and informative.

One recipe I can share with you is called Sticky Toffee Cinnamon Rolls. I absolutely love Cinnamon Rolls and Toffee, so I will have to give these a try.

5 from 2 votes

Sticky Toffee Cinnamon Rolls

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cinnamon rolls

Ingredients

For the dough:

1 1/2 cups warm water (100° to 110°F)
1 tbsp granulated sugar
2 packets active dry yeast (1/4 ounce)
4 cups all purpose flour + more flour for work surface
2 tsp kosher salt

For the topping:

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
4 tbsp butter
2 tbsp maple syrup
1/2 cup chopped pecans, almonds, or walnuts (or a combination)

For the filling:

8 tbsp unsalted butter
8 ounces Medjool dates, pitted and chopped
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 tsp kosher salt
4 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

Prepare the dough:

Combine warm water and sugar in a medium bowl.
Sprinkle yeast over top and set aside until foamy, about 5 minutes.
Add 4 cups flour and salt, stir with a wooden spoon until a shaggy dough forms.
Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until dough comes together, about 10 times.
Lightly oil a medium-size bowl. Add dough and turn to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled in size, about 90 minutes.

Meanwhile, Prepare the topping:

Combine brown sugar, butter, and maple syrup in a 10-inch skillet, preferably cast iron. (If you don't have a 10 inch skillet, you can do this in whatever skillet you have, and then swiftly transfer the toffee mixture to a 10-inch cake pan.)
Cook, stirring often, until sugar dissolves and mixture is evenly bubbling across the surface, 2-3 minutes.
Let cool slightly, then sprinkle with nuts. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 350°F.

Prepare the filling:

Combine butter, dates, brown sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan and place over medium-high. Cook, stirring often, until butter melts.
Continue to cook, stirring and mashing to help break up dates, until mixture comes to a boil and dates are broken down, about 4 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.

Assemble the rolls:

Once the dough has doubled in size, turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
Divide dough in half (this will make it easier to work with).
Working with one at a time, roll each piece into a 12- x 16-inch rectangle.
Divide date mixture between the two pieces of dough, spreading all the way to the edges. Sprinkle each piece with 2 teaspoons cinnamon.
Starting from the long end, roll up dough and place seam-side down.
Cut dough crosswise into 2-inch spirals. Transfer rolls, cut sides down, to prepared skillet or cake pan, arranging snugly to fit.
Bake until golden and risen, 30-35 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes before inverting onto a rack. Let cool slightly before eating.

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Chocolate Streusel Bars + Christmas Cash Giveaway

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November 8, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

Every year, I participate in this Christmas Cash Giveaway. It’s a lot of fun to team up with other bloggers and offer this giveaway just in time for Black Friday.

This year, I wanted to share another one of our family’s favorite desserts, Chocolate Streusel Bars. This recipe would be perfect for one of your Christmas parties. I will many times make a recipe that has red or green candies in it, but this chocolate dessert with its creamy white layer would look gorgeous on a red platter or against a red backdrop.

I also like this dessert as it has a cheesecake layer without going to all the work of making homemade cheesecake! It cuts nice, stacks nice, and tastes great. Try it this Christmas or any of these other Christmas desserts.

Here’s how you make Chocolate Streusel Bars:

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Chocolate Streusel Bars

These Chocolate Streusel Bars are a perfect dessert for any time of the year with its creamy cheesecake layer surrounded by a chocolate bottom and top layer.

Ingredients

1 3/4 c. flour
1 1/2 c. confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
1 c. butter, cold
1 pkg. cream cheese, softened 8 oz. package
1 can sweet condensed milk 14 oz. can
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. chopped walnuts optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, and cocoa.
Cut in margarine until crumbly. Mixture will be dry.
Reserving 2 cups of the crumb mixture, press remainder on bottom of an 13" x 9" baking pan.
Bake 15 minutes. While baking, prepare the next layer.
In a large mixer bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy.
Gradually beat in condensed milk until smooth.
Add egg and vanilla, mix well.
Pour over prepared crust (after it has baked for 15 minutes).
Combine nuts with reserved crumb mixture (if desired). Sprinkle mixture evenly over cheese mixture.
Bake for 25 minutes or until bubbly.
Cool. Chill. Cut into bars. Store covered in the refrigerator.

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Three Craft Books for Kids + A Giveaway

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August 8, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

I received three craft books to review this summer — and I just got around to looking at them. I received no compensation for reviewing these books.

The three books are all by Suzanne McNeill and published by Fox Chapel Publishing:

I looked through the books, and here is my opinion of them:

Vacation Crafting has a lot of neat projects. Many of them would be for upper grade school girls. Some like the foam crafts and the fusible beads, younger kids could do as well. I would even like to do some of these crafts!
Foam Crafts for Kids had a lot more crafts that younger children could do. We did start making a couple of crafts; we just ran out of time to finish them. We will finish them this week! There were a few crafts that were more advanced and perfect for tweens.
Totally Awesome Tie-Dye I am definitely saving this for reference. I have tried doing tie-dye t-shirts a couple of times with not great success although I had kits. The pictures in this book are amazing, so I am going to have to set aside some time to read the book, figure out what we have done wrong in the past, and try again.

The couple of crafts we started on were pencil holders out of middle size Pringle cans for the kids desks at school. They get to decorate their area, so they thought they would like those. They got the painting of their can done, but still have to do the foam part. They also cut out foam letters to decorate so they can put their name on the wall over their area. They still have to decorate the letters. They had a blast!

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HubMini Portable Charger Review and Giveaway

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June 30, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

Smartphones and devices are a way of life for almost everyone today.

I have my phone everywhere I go. Now that it is two years old, the battery does not keep charge as long as it used to keep charge. Last week, I worked in our church’s rummage sale, and I had to bring my charger with me as I was there all day long.

My daughter would try to remember to charge her emergency phone up before her basketball games, but sometimes she did not get her phone completely charged up. I did not want her going on road trips without a way for her to reach me.

So what do we do when our phone is dying and we do not have a way to charge it?

We use a portable charger!

Portable chargers have been around forever. We have a couple of them that I make sure are charged and ready for road trips — and in hurricane season! Last September, before we knew we had to evacuate because of Hurricane Irma, I had my portable chargers ready in case we were without electricity. And we would have used them if we hadn’t evacuated as our house was without electricity for several days. My Florida natural disasters may be different than yours, but no one is exempt from potentially being without electricity whether its a storm, blizzard, tornado, or some freak incident.

However, not all portable chargers are created equal, which is why I was excited to review the HubMini Portable Charger by myCharge. They sent me one in exchange for my honest review. I received no monetary compensation.

Here you can see what the HubMini looks like.

In the first row, you can see what the HubMini looks like. It has the two integrated cables plus a USB cord to recharge your HubMini.

In the second row, you can see how the integrated cables tuck into the HubMini.

In the 3rd row, you can see how it is charging my iPhone plus my husband’s Samsung at the same time. Then you see the picture where it is charging just my iPhone.

In the last row, you can see how it is recharging from my computer. When I opened the HubMini, there wasn’t much charge left in it, so I had to recharge it before I could charge my phone fully. When it is fully charged, all four circles will be lit. (last picture).

Here are some features I noticed right away and liked about the HubMini Portable Charger:

It comes to you ready to use. I was able to take it out of the package and plug it in to my phone right away. It was not fully charged though.
It has two integrated charging cables: one micro-USB cable and an Apple® Lightning™ cable so I can charge my iPhone and my husband’s Samsung at the same time (or a Kindle that belongs to one one of my daughters.)
It is small — I can put it in my pocket and carry it with me — or put it in my purse.
It charges quickly.

Here are some of the technology features that I copied from their website:

TECHNOLOGY:

Smart-sense: ensures complete device compatibility
Hyper-charge: ultra-fast charging of your devices; up to 65% faster than competitors
Power-stay: maintains battery power for up to 1 year
Max-power: maximum power transfer from powerbank to device
High-density battery: the smallest and lightest powerbank
Safe-cell: provides the highest level of battery safety
Rapid-recharge: powerbank recharges up to 50% faster than competitors
Pass Through Charging: will charge the powerbank and connected device simultaneously

I like how I can send this with my daughters and they can charge their phone when they are traveling with their sport’s team. They can always get hold of me.

I don’t have to worry about my phone dying if I have this charger in my purse. If you have never bought a portable charger, I encourage you to give this one a try!

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Thoughtful Thursdays: Easy Encouraging Cards Kids Can Make

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June 21, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

If you have read any of my posts this past week, then you know I have a lot of reviews and giveaways I have to get done.

I was not going to do this review as part of my Thoughtful Thursdays post, but it just worked out. I agreed to give my honest review this product called Kwik Stix which are Solid Tempera Paints in marker-like containers. Since I teach and I have five children, I knew I could definitely put them to use. I did not receive any compensation for this product.

I received them in the mail, and I knew automatically that I was going to love these Kwik Stix. I was supposed to include them in a Back to School post — and I still will — but since I teach the Wednesday night kids group at our church, and I am getting together the crafts for VBS, I knew I had a winner for all kids’ crafts — not just for school crafts.

As I started studying my lesson for Wednesday night kids’ group, I realized automatically how I could put the Kwik Stix to use. I was teaching on Moses and how he encouraged the Hebrews to have faith in God. We looked at Exodus 14, and how Moses told them to trust in God when they were discouraged. Exodus 14:13-14 says,

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

We then applied this concept of encouragement to their lives by talking about how they needed to be a good friend to encourage their friends to do what is right, to be the Proverbs 17:17 friend: “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”

We also talked about how they can encourage others that are hurting by praying for them and telling them they are praying for them. For those who have helped them or done nice things for them, they can thank them. They can let others who have been sick know that they have not forgotten them and that they are praying for them.

After we were done with our lesson, we had a craft time where the kids made a praying for you card or a thank you card to someone they wanted to encourage this week. Thank you cards are not a new concept, and it might have been a boring craft except for the fact that I had the new product Kwik Stix with me!

The kids all loved using the paint markers. They had never used anything like it. The four year old was able to use them with no problem, and I heard a sixth grade boy saying, “I really like these!” The girls loved them, but I knew they would! They spent 20 minutes making their cards and had a great time — just because they had a new product. It was the easiest craft I think I have ever done. No stickers or stencils — just some white cardstock, Kwik Stix, and I had some colored pencils and markers that the kids could use for smaller writing.

I also love the vibrant colors of the Kwik Stix paints. It is paint without the mess, and they dry in no time! The box says within 90 seconds the paints are dry, but I felt like it was dry almost immediately. Anyway, I am so glad I had them for our encouraging card craft as the kids loved making the cards with these paints. Want to get your kids excited about doing some thank you cards? Get a fun product like these Kwik Stix for them to use!

How can you encourage someone today?

You can watch this video to see more how Kwik Stix work. You can buy them at Walgreens, Michaels, Target, and Amazon. They are also available on their website, The Pencil Grip.

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Scratch & Draw Enchanted Animals Review and Giveaway

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June 20, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

I was given a Scratch and Draw Enchanted Animals book from The Quarto Group to give my honest review and to offer to my readers as a giveaway. No compensation was received.

I originally thought all my children would love having this book, but once I got it, I realized only my tweens and teens would be the ones to really enjoy this book. On the right hand page, there would be a drawing, and on the left hand page there would be a page with the scratch off dark metallic coating. The basic idea is that you can scratch off the coating with the included stylus trying to follow the drawing that is on the left hand side or you can make your own personalized scratch art drawing if desired. I feel like this book would be too difficult for my younger kids. This book is targeted to adults who would like to do this kind of art for a period of relaxation.

I found a drawing that was not extremely hard and tried my hand at it. I actually was able to create a reasonable likeness to the original drawing in a short amount of time. I am not much of a drawer, but I could see how it would be a relaxing, fun activity to help someone unwind after a busy day. I stopped when I got to all the flowers — I don’t know if I could do that!

The included stylus had two ends: one end was tapered to scratch off larger areas, and the other end was pointed to scratch off smaller details. The bold lines above were done with the tapered edge end.

Another nice feature of the book is that all of the pages are perforated, so the pages can be torn out to make it easier to draw on the pages or they could be torn out to display the drawings when they are done.

This book had 20 different illustrations. Here are a few of them:

Rabbits and dandelions
Woodland raccoons
Elegant owls,
Foxes
Bears
A whole forest worth of other enchanting wildlife.

I really liked this adult approach to Scratch and Draw art. It packs easily for long trips, and it can be worked on in a person’s free moments. There are many other options for these type of books that can be found HERE and HERE.

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Use Mean Green Cleaner Outside!

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June 18, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

Many of you have seen my first post this year that shared with my readers the power of Mean Green in every day cleaning. This year, I am an ambassador for Mean Green where I publish sponsored posts such as this one as well as receive free products for my honest opinion.

We have truly loved having this product at our disposal. I have it under every sink, and I used the Mildew Destroyer in my bathroom. It did a fantastic job on my shower and shower curtain! I’ll show you pictures in a future post.

However, not only can you use Mean Green cleaners inside the house, you can use them outside the house as well.

Look at all the different cleaners Mean Green makes for outside cleaning use:

I was given the Auto & Garage cleaner in a spray bottle to review. Here is what Mean Green says about this product:

Mean Green® Auto & Garage is a concentrated, multi-purpose cleaner and degreaser. Proven to beat other brands on tough grease and grime. Specially formulated to remove and dissolve petroleum based grease, grime, and oil from engines, tools, and concrete, to outdoor furniture, grills, painted surfaces, and more. Mean Green is the #1 Heavy Duty cleaner!

I used the Auto & Garage cleaner on my headlights and front grill of my minivan, and it did take off the grime and dirt very easily! It’s hard to tell in the photos, but my rag definitely was dirty and the car was definitely cleaner! I would like to try it on the oil that has dripped from my car on our cement driveway to see how it works.

The other cleaner I used outside was the regular Mean Green Super Strength Cleaner & Degreaser on the outside of our front door.

Many houses in Florida do not have screen doors. Since we have no screen door, our front door gets very dirty as well as a place for spiders to congregate as it sheltered under an overhang. We sprayed the front door with the Mean Green Super Strength Cleaner & Degreaser and wiped it down with a rag. It made a big difference, and the front door looked great!

Look at all the ways you can use the Super Strength Cleaner & Degreaser outside:

It’s so easy to use it! Here are the directions for outside use:

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Tasty Tuesdays: Apple, Nut Butter, and Granola Sandwiches

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May 1, 2018 By Tammy Doiel

I was given a copy of Siriously Delicious by Siri Daly for my honest review. This cookbook has 100 nutritious (and a few not-so-nutritious) simple recipes.

My daughter has started to make many of the recipes for our Tasty Tuesday’s parties. She looked through the book and found a recipe for Apple, Nut Butter, and Granola Sandwiches. She thought they looked good and easy, so she made them!

She modified the recipe a little as we used regular peanut butter. (You can use any kind of nut butter.) We also used the granola we already had from Aldi, and she did not add raisins as we are not fond of raisins.

You can slice the apples any way you choose to slice them, but since we have the Kitchenaid slicer attachment, that is what we used to slice our apples.

My daughter was not wowed by the taste, but she did have fun making these Apple Sandwiches!

You can see the video she put together showing how to make these Apple Sandwiches:

Apple, Nut Butter, and Granola Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 ?3 cup creamy almond butter or other nut butter We used peanut butter.
1 large Granny Smith apple cored and sliced crosswise into 8 rings (We used our Kitchenaid slicer attachment that came with our spiralizer/slicer kit.)
1 ?4 cup granola We used granola from Aldi.
2 tablespoons golden raisins We did not include as we do not like raisins.

Instructions

Spread about 3?4 tablespoon of almond butter onto 4 of the apple rings.
Sprinkle each with 1 tablespoon granola and about 1?2 tablespoon raisins.
Top with the remaining 4 apple rings; press gently to form sandwiches.

Recipe Notes

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This last cookbook, The Southern Living Party Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Gathering, was a very interesting cookbook for me to look at is it was very informational for hosting different kind of parties.

You can enter the following giveaway to win one of these cookbooks!

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I did just receive a cookbook called Breakfast: The Most Important Book About the Most Important Best Meal of the Day.

It has topics such as:

One recipe I can share with you is called Sticky Toffee Cinnamon Rolls. I absolutely love Cinnamon Rolls and Toffee, so I will have to give these a try.

If you live in the United States, enter the giveaway below to receive one of these books!

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**There will be no Tasty Tuesday’s party next week. Have a Merry Christmas!**

Every year, I participate in this Christmas Cash Giveaway. It’s a lot of fun to team up with other bloggers and offer this giveaway just in time for Black Friday.

Here’s how you make Chocolate Streusel Bars:

It’s time for a Christmas giveaway! Are you getting geared up for the shopping season? Do you need extra cash for Christmas?? Don’t we all!

We are so excited to be giving away $360 (It’s now $370!) in cash prizes for you to use starting this Thanksgiving weekend.

Now its time to meet our wonderful co-hosts who have made this giveaway possible.

The three books are all by Suzanne McNeill and published by Fox Chapel Publishing:

I looked through the books, and here is my opinion of them:

One of my readers has the opportunity to win the Totally Awesome Tie-Dye book! Please enter the giveaway below. Winner must live in the United States.

Smartphones and devices are a way of life for almost everyone today.

So what do we do when our phone is dying and we do not have a way to charge it?

We use a portable charger!

Here you can see what the HubMini looks like.

Here are some features I noticed right away and liked about the HubMini Portable Charger:

Here are some of the technology features that I copied from their website:

You can enter the giveaway to win one of your own!

If you have read any of my posts this past week, then you know I have a lot of reviews and giveaways I have to get done.

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

How can you encourage someone today?

The thoughtful topics for your posts could be related to but not limited to the following topics:

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I was given a Scratch and Draw Enchanted Animals book from The Quarto Group to give my honest review and to offer to my readers as a giveaway. No compensation was received.

Enter the following giveaway to receive your own copy of Scratch & Draw Enchanted Animals. Winner must reside in the United States.

However, not only can you use Mean Green cleaners inside the house, you can use them outside the house as well.

I was given the Auto & Garage cleaner in a spray bottle to review. Here is what Mean Green says about this product:

The other cleaner I used outside was the regular Mean Green Super Strength Cleaner & Degreaser on the outside of our front door.

Look at all the ways you can use the Super Strength Cleaner & Degreaser outside:

It’s so easy to use it! Here are the directions for outside use:

Enter these two giveaways as well!

I was given a copy of Siriously Delicious by Siri Daly for my honest review. This cookbook has 100 nutritious (and a few not-so-nutritious) simple recipes.

You can see the video she put together showing how to make these Apple Sandwiches:

Time Inc. Books has agreed to let one of my readers win a copy of Siriously Delicious!

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There will be no Tasty Tuesday’s party next week. Have a Merry Christmas!

Enter the following giveaway to receive your own copy of Scratch & Draw Enchanted Animals.

Winner must reside in the United States.