Indeed all that: One Smart Cookie Cutters

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Indeed all that: One Smart Cookie Cutters

I recently found a drop sugar cookie recipe (no chilling and no rolling) provided me with delicious round treats which would just have to be my go-to sugar cookie. I had simply given up on eating—and offering to my grandkids—holiday shaped sugar cookies.

Until I was contacted by PR folks requesting I review One Smart Cookie cookie cutters. “Fast, easy and no mess” the packaging boasted, while producing “perfect cookie shapes.” Tag line: “the cookie cutter game changer.”

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Therafit Willow Indoor/Outdoor Slippers: Footwear befitting the season

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Therafit Willow Indoor/Outdoor Slippers: Footwear befitting the season

Indoor/outdoor slippers? Yes, please!

Due to the weather and winter season (and, I just gotta say, Covid restrictions) I spend much of my time indoors. In comfy clothes. Doing mundane, I mean, leisurely things of primarily sedentary sorts.

Every once in a while, I step outside and putter about. Or grab delivery packages …

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ChordBuddy Guitar Learning System: Fantastic, fast, fun method for picking and playing

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ChordBuddy Guitar Learning System: Fantastic, fast, fun method for picking and playing

When I receive a product for review, I don’t typically run out and purchase a duplicate of the product before I’ve even written the review. In fact, I’ve never done that with an item I’m reviewing. Until ChordBuddy.

See, I was immediately impressed by the ChordBuddy Guitar Learning System and was compelled to purchase a second one to share with a faraway family member. Before I had even shared my thoughts here with my readers.

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Stocking Stuffer Suggestion: KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location

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Stocking Stuffer Suggestion: KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location

Looking for a smart way to help friends and family slim down this holiday season? Slim down their key chains, that is. If so, read on, as the KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location is the key — pun intended, naturally — to stuffing their stockings with a gift sure to be appreciated and used.

The KeySmart folks sent me a KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location free for review, and I gotta say, it’s one of the more useful products to come my way.

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Click, flip, change: The Infantino 2-in-1 Bouncer & Activity Seat (review)

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Click, flip, change: The Infantino 2-in-1 Bouncer & Activity Seat (review)

Having a baby in the house means having lots of stuff. Not just stuff like bottles and diapers but big stuff, too. I’m talking basinettes and bouncers and baby seats of all sorts, gear befitting kiddos from infant to beyond.

Whether you’re a parent or a grandparent, if you’ve got a baby, you’ve got too much baby stuff.

Thankfully Infantino has come up with a remedy for at least a portion of baby equipment overload. Introducing the all-new—as in, launched just last month—Infantino 2-in-1 Bouncer & Activity Seat, available exclusively at Target.

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Squelch mosquitoes with portable repellent devices from Thermacell

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Squelch mosquitoes with portable repellent devices from Thermacell

Ah, Labor Day Weekend. The BBQs. The picnics, The camping. The outdoor gatherings celebrating summer's end.

Ugh, the mosquitoes! Those pesky pests not only ruin outdoor fun and frivolity, they carry the risk of diseases such as Lyme, West Nile, and Triple E virus.

Sounds more scary than summery, doesn't it? Thermacell Repellent Inc. has created nifty little devices that assuage mosquito concerns—without having to slather guests (and grandkids) with goopy gunk again and again during festive outdoor occasions. Thermacell sent me two such devices, Thermacell Patio Shield Mosquito Protection and Thermacell Radius Zone Mosquito Protection, free for review.

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DOZZI Natural White Noise Machine by WITTI a doozy of a baby shower gift

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DOZZI Natural White Noise Machine by WITTI a doozy of a baby shower gift

My newest grandson will soon arrive, and the baby shower for his mama — my eldest daughter — is on the calendar. With Brianna's shower scheduled, all things baby have been on my brain lately. She'll receive a nursery glider from her dad and me (not a secret, so no spoiler here) but I plan to present her with a few other little goodies, too, as grandmas do.

Yet as I peruse the possibilities, everything seems so, well, generic, typical, common. All that's on Brianna's registry is adorable, yes, but I'm looking for something a little different, useful gifts versus

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Gramma in a Box: Fun food activities for faraway grandkids

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Gramma in a Box: Fun food activities for faraway grandkids

Grandma Terry Chamberlin has come up with a pretty sweet subscription service for serving up grandma-style food activities from faraway. When three of Terry's grandchildren moved away from her, she began sending them boxes of cookies and treats to go along with their Skype sessions. She soon realized other grandmas just may want to do the same, and the Gramma in a Box subscription service—tagline Gramma does all the work. You have all the fun!—was born. 

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