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Release + Excerpt | SANCTUM by Hannah McBride

Release + Excerpt | SANCTUM by Hannah McBride

We’re celebrating the release of Hannah McBride’s SANCTUM, today! Check out the teaser excerpt below. Excerpt from SANCTUM

He shifted towards me. “This is all new to me, too, Skye.”

A sobering thought crossed my mind. The one that had been plaguing me since the woods. “Do you want this, Remy?”

The corner of his mouth hitched up for a second as he looked at me. Slowly, he raised a hand,…

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Essential Oils: The Basics & How I Got Started

Essential Oils: The Basics & How I Got Started

What are essential oils anyways? I used to think they were just meant to make things smell nice. When I started going green and swapping out toxic cleaners in our home way back in 2008, I used them in DIYs… but honestly, I didn’t know if they did anything I just thought they mainly added scent. Back then, I was an aerospace engineer and overall skeptic.

It wasn’t until I started reallydigging…

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10 Uses for Lavender Essential Oil

10 Uses for Lavender Essential Oil

Today, I’m spotlighting Lavender essential oil! Lavender is called the “Swiss Army Knife” of essential oils because it is so versatile and has so many uses!

Lavender essential oil is steam distilled from the flowering tops of the plant, and did you know that it takes approximately 27 square feet of lavender plants to create one 15-ml bottle of essential oil?!

Lavender is one of the most popular…

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How to Use the Roller Fitment from Young Living

How to Use the Roller Fitment from Young Living

Wondering how to install and remove the AromaGlide Roller Fitment from Young Living?! Don’t worry, you’re not alone… I was stumped when I got my first one in my Premium Starter Kit!

The roller fitment is quick and easy to use on any 5 ml or 15 ml YL essential oil bottle once you know how it works! Also, did you know that YL sells them in packs of ten?! YES! So save those empty bottles and reuse…

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DIY Foaming Hand Soap for Home and Travel {with video tutorial}

DIY Foaming Hand Soap for Home and Travel {video tutorial}

Did you know that you can easily make a homemade, natural foaming hand soap for at home and on-the-go?! It’s quick and easy to do, the scent options with essential oils are endless, and it’s CHEAP.

Store bought hand soap (even those that say natural, it’s called “greenwashing”) can be full of toxins that build up in your body over time. That hot-pink mystery soap in public bathrooms?! Yeah, NO.…

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How to Choose the Right Savvy Minerals Foundation Color

How to Choose the Right Savvy Minerals Foundation Color

Pssst… want to learn about the toxins lurking in your makeup drawer and kick them to the curb?! Join us for a free online class! For more details, click here.

OK, so choosing the right foundation color is hard enough, but it can be even more intimidating online. I hear you! But no worries, I got your back! I’ll admit I was nervous about picking the right color at first but I have used the tips…

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Savvy Minerals #Makeup | Online Class

Savvy Minerals #Makeup | Online Class

Did you know that just 26 seconds after exposure, chemicals are found in measurable amounts in the human body? The average woman applies 300 chemicals to her body a day… and 80 of those before breakfast!

I don’t know about you, but my makeup ingredients were the last thing that I examined and finally swapped out in my home when I started ditching chemicals… Do you know that toxins are lurking in…

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Favorite Essential Oils For Restful Sleep

Favorite Essential Oils For Restful Sleep

Today I’m sharing my favorite essential oils that promote restful sleep! I love using my diffuser at bedtime and generally rotate through four diffuser recipes. I explain them in the video below, but scroll down for more in-depth details, and more ideas! {grin}

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Essential oils that are personal favorites for…

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10 Uses for Thieves Essential Oil Blend

10 Uses for Thieves Essential Oil Blend

Looking for ways to clean your home and support a healthy immune system, naturally?! Today, I’m spotlighting Thieves essential oil blend and how you can use it to keep your family healthy this season. It has many, many uses for wellness and nontoxic cleaning, and it pretty much smells like Christmas in a bottle!

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Class | Using Essential Oils With Dogs

Class | Using Essential Oils With Dogs

Do you have a doggie best friend? Would you like to support your dog’s wellness, naturally? Join me to learn how to safely use Young Living Essential Oils with your dog(s) for all aspects of wellness. This class will also cover how to support their health with YL supplements, along with DIY recipes!

This class will stay up for a week to read through if you’re not able to make it to the live class!

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Hope - A Lyme Story

Today, I have hope. #LymeDontKillMyVibe #LymeWarrior

Today, I have hope.

When I was a kid, I loved riding my bike. I remember when I turned five and my parents were getting divorced, that my Dad gave me a big girl bike with streamers and helped me ride it before my mom and I moved away… (those memories have always been tied together)

When I lived with my grandparents for a year, I used a borrowed bike but I remember riding their neighborhood…

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Review: DRIVE by @Stephanie4net #romance #NAlit

Review: DRIVE by @Stephanie4net #romance #NAlit

I have loved everything I’ve read from Stephanie Fournet, and DRIVE did not disappoint! As usual, Fournet delivered great characters and an immersing, heart-wrenching romance. There’s so much to love, that I decided to make the list below. Ten Things I Loved About DRIVE (no particular order): Characterizations – I quickly connected with Jacques and Rainey The way Pal would wake up Jacques each…

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Tour + Giveaway | GUARDIAN OF SECRETS by @BrendaDrake @EntangledTeen #yalit

Tour + Giveaway | GUARDIAN OF SECRETS by @BrendaDrake @EntangledTeen #yalit

Today, I have a treat for you as part of Brenda Drake’s Blog Tour for GUARDIAN OF SECRETS… an interview of Gia Kearns by Arik Baine! Check out the Library Jumpers series below, the interview, and be sure to enter the giveaway! GUARDIAN OF SECRETS (Library Jumpers #2) by Brenda Drake Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: Entangled Teen Goodreads |  Amazon | B&N | iBooks Being a Sentinel…

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Release+Giveaway | Guardian of Secrets by @BrendaDrake @EntangledTeen #YAlit

Release+Giveaway | Guardian of Secrets by @BrendaDrake @EntangledTeen #YAlit

We’re celebrating the release of Brenda Drake’s GUARDIAN OF SECRETS (Library Jumpers #2), today! Check out the teaser excerpt, and be sure to enter the giveaway via Rafflecopter below! GUARDIAN OF SECRETS (Library Jumpers #2) by Brenda Drake Publisher: Entangled Teen Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Being a Sentinel isn’t all fairytales and secret gardens. Sure, jumping through books into the…

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THE 100 | Book/TV Show Blitz #YAlit @kassmorganbooks @TheNovl

  I am so excited that THE 100 returns to TV tonight! And to help celebrate the show’s return Little Brown Books For Young Readers and Rockstar Book Tours are giving away 5 Boxed Sets of the Complete series! So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.   About The Book Title: THE 100 Box Set (Books 1-4) Author: Kass Morgan Pub. Date: January 3, 2016…

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Release+Giveaway | LONG WAY HOME by @KatieMcGarry @HarlequinTeen #YAlit

Release+Giveaway | LONG WAY HOME by @KatieMcGarry @HarlequinTeen #YAlit

The highly anticipated third book in Katie McGarry’s Thunder Road Series is being released today! LONG WAY HOME is a Young Adult Contemporary Romance being published by Harlequin Teen! Grab your copy of the next book in this emotionally charged series, and don’t miss Violet and Chevy’s story! LONG WAY HOME Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys…

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Release Blitz | SOME KIND OF MAGIC by @MaryAnnMarlowe #contemporaryromance #giveaway

This week we’re celebrating the release of Mary Ann Marlowe’s debut, SOME KIND OF MAGIC! Thank you to all of the wonderful readers and bloggers that are participating in the Release Blitz! Check out the book’s details, and be sure to enter the giveaway below.

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Excerpt from SOME KIND OF MAGIC

I scanned the rest of the room. I wasn’t surprised to see he had a turntable. Micah…

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