TOS Review - Beeyoutiful

Beeyoutiful is a company that offers products for healthy living. This company has so much available that I don't know where to start. Let me back up and give you a little background about my family and how we ended up reviewing these products. Two years ago my family started down a path of trying to live a more simply, healthy lifestyle. Are we there yet? Not by a long shot! But this is a marathon, not a sprint. We have all been raised to think a certain way and our bodies, behaviors, and habits show it. I have read and researched a lot about treating our bodies better and what to use to make that happen. So now that I got that out of the way - let's talk about this review.

Beeyoutiful is all about the individual taking control of their own health. They obviously recognize the need for doctors in society, but also recognize the need for the products they sale. I was offered through TOS Review Crew a Beeyoutiful product set that included Berry Well, Miracle, Ow-Ease, Lip Balm, and an informational dvd. All together the products would total $53.00 but you would purchase them separately. So let's get down to the knitty gritty and talk about the products.

Berry Well

 Berry Well is an elderberry syrup plus other ingredients used for allergies, flus, and colds. Berry Well can be used once you get sick to shorten the days of the illness or if someone in your family is sick to keep you from getting it too. Four days after receiving this in the mail both my 22 year old son and 13 year old daughter woke up sick. This was a golden opportunity to try the product in a controlled situation. My son was all about using it and took the recommended dosage every 3 hours. My daughter who hates all medicine refused to take it. The next day my son's symptoms were already 50 - 75 percent gone while my daughters were the same. My husband had an opportunity to use it in the past couple of weeks for his allergies and noticed improvement too. This product retails for $19.75 and I believe it is worth every penny.

Miracle Skin Salve

    Miracle Skin Salve is used to treat cuts, abrasions, bites, stings, diaper rash, minor burns, cold sores and so much more. So far I have used this for minor burns from cooking and it worked like a charm. The ingredients of this product include: coconut and olive oil, beeswax, plantain, comfrey root, propolis, lavender essential oil, and rosemary essential oi. Doesn't that sound like a lot of good for YOU stuff. Some of my readers may remember my recent experience with banana juice burns - I really wish I would of had the miracle salve around to help. Miracle Skin Salve 2 oz. retails for $15.00

Ow-Ease Stick

    Ow-Ease Stick is to be used on bumps, bruises, and sprains. I jokingly told my husband that I needed to use this product for something so if he felt the need to get a bump, bruise or sprain, I was ready. After a bruise occurs, use ow-ease and it will cut in half the recovery time. Ow-Ease ingredients include a blend of beeswax, olive and coconut oil, along with herbs and essential oils. Ow-Ease Stick retails for $15.00

All Natural Lip Balm

   One beauty item I cannot live without is lip balm. I easily apply it 5-10 times a day. When I received Beautiful All Natural Lip Balm I had just ran out of my current tube. It arrived in the nick of time. The ingredients included are grape seed oil, shea butter, beeswax, and essential oils. All natural, all soothing. The lip balm comes in two flavors, peppermint and orange, and retails for $3.00. I would have to say this was my personal favorite. I never leave home without it.


Beeyoutiful Views Dvd

    Beeyoutiful Views is a dvd that explains how many of their products are to be used. Stephanie Tallent discusses how her family uses the products and how they have benefited her family. The dvd would be a good place to start with a low cost of $3.00.


I really enjoyed reviewing all the natural products in the set. I recommend them very highly. Please be sure and stop by Beeyoutiful and check out all their wonderful products.

To view what everyone else on the review crew thought visit the TOS Review Crew .

Disclaimer:  As a member of the TOS Review Crew, I received this product at no cost to me in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are mine.

The World of Anime

Grace's passion in life is anime. Not so much reading and watching it but mostly drawing it. She spends hours every day drawing her own characters. Six months ago she learned that anime con would be held in Atlanta. She has been waiting not so patiently to go. Today that day finally arrived. Because of my crazy busy week I decided to stay home and catch up on some work. Grace and hubby went without me. Traffic was awful, but they arrived safely and had a great time.

As you can see everyone dresses up, it is called cosplaying. She even got asked with two other girls that were also dressed as pikachu to be filmed in the video for the convention.

Currently Grace is all about the hipster glasses.

Books!!!!!!

Every year our community holds a children's sale at the local fair grounds. Many of the items that are for sale we have grown out of, like baby items. clothing, games, etc. One item that we do enjoy going to look at is books and home school materials. This year we lucked up on quite a few good books and some khaki pants to wear during Acts of Faith performances. All the books above in the pictures were either .50 or 1.00 a piece with a total of 22 books purchased. 

TOS Review - Box of Ideas

Box of Ideas (Ideally Dynamic Enrichment Activities) is a company that has engaging topics of study that come in a box with multiple activities. For the purposes of this review we received The Salt Box as a pdf.



Each box is designed as a supplement to your curriculum or a stand alone topic to study. The website states that their product "can also be used for homeschool group activity, summertime learning, and as a break from the normal routine". Every box of ideas contains at least 10 modules of learning for the topic chosen and is recommended for students 9 - 16 years of age. Currently available topics include:

• Pigs
• World War II
• World War II Pearl Harbor 
• Eleven
• Salt
• Quilting
• Laundry

Topics that are coming soon include:

• Mystery
• World War II Kitchen
• World War II Innovations
• Olives
• Pine
• Cemeteries

I would say these are some pretty eclectic and interesting topics to study.

As I mentioned earlier, The Salt Box was sent to us as a pdf for review. Salt is something that children see or taste every day in their lives, but probably know very little about where it comes from, how it nourishes our body, and the history of it for trade. The modules included for The Salt Box are: 

1. The History of Salt
2. The Science of Salt
3. The Salt March
4. The Salt of the Earth
5. Need for Salt
6. Preserving with Salt
7. The Wall that Salt Built
8. Where Salt Lives
9. The Language of Salt

As you can see from the above modules, each academic subject is touched on with the chosen topic. Each module will have a quote, a few paragraphs of information specific to the topic and module, extension activities to learn more, weblinks, questions, and activities. Most activities in our unit were games and matching items. "If all the printing, cutting, and assembling is not your idea of fun, you can order our complete, ready to use Salt Box of Ideas", for $79.00. I want to reiterate that we reviewed the pdf format, not the physical box. The pdf download sells for $49.00.

How We Used It and What We Thought
We choose to use two modules a week. I thought that all the materials were researched well and laid out for easy understanding. Our favorite modules were Need for Salt, Preserving with Salt, Too Much Salt, Where Salt Lives, and The Language of Salt. I didn't mind cutting, pasting and assembling all the cards for the different games. Our favorite game was the salt trivia game found in the preserving module. I had extra dice and player pieces around without having to purchase anything extra. All graphics in the study are of high quality, and I found the pictures of Salt lakes to be quite beautiful. I feel this product is high quality and would recommend it. The random topics of each box are topics that are really not found elsewhere. The only con I really have might be the price. For a pdf I would personally be a little hesitant in spending $49.00. On that same note the pdf is very full of information, activities, and graphics (almost an inch of paper was included).

Graphics of salt lakes that I cut and made into cards are included

To see what other TOS reviewers thought about this product, go to TOS Review Crew.

Disclaimer: As  member of the TOS Review Crew, I received this product at no cost to me in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are mine.

This Week So Far

Wow, this week has been a whopper. Very busy with lots of activities going on. Here is the breakdown:

• Monday - School work and a visit to the library during the day. Three hours of prison ministry training at the state prison during the evening. Let me just say that my socks were knocked with that meeting. The warden spoke to us for about an hour and then two chaplains. These women were awesome. They love what they do and the programs, classes, etc. that are available to women in prison for rehabilitation is incredible. But so much more can be done. Looking so forward to getting all our volunteer paperwork settled so we can start.
• Tuesday - School work in the morning and dropped the car off to have a tire replaced (did I mention that I rode over a hammer in the road). Taught and assisted at the cooperative 3:00 - 6:00.
• Wednesday - Took my mom to Atlanta (1 12 hours away) for her doctor appointment to get results. God is so good!!! Tumors are still stable and not growing so we get 4 more months until another scan. After the appt mom took me to Kohls and bought me and Grace some clothes. Rushed home and got dressed to go to a birthday party for a friend that had moved away. Their house is still for sell here so they came back for a couple of days so their daughter could invite all her friends over for a party. Lots of fun. Brought two girls home from the party to spend the night so they could attend Acts of Faith practice on Thursday (they live one hour away).
• Thursday - This leads us up to today. All the girls are doing some school work this morning. We will head out at 12:00 to get a bite of lunch then drop Grace off at her writing class. The two extra girls will go with me to Acts of Faith leaders house to do some more school work then Grace will head over there also to practice music for Acts of Faith until time to head out to cooperative at 3:00. I will teach puppetry arts today and Grace will attend choir. Then Grace will go with the Acts of Faith group until 8:30 for practice and dinner. I will go home to eat with the rest of the family and walk. I haven't walked in three days because of the heavy schedule and I really need it.
• Still to do - Friday will have more school work and anime club meeting. I have to finish Grace's cosplay costume for the Anime convention she will attend on Saturday with her dad. 

I am bowing out of going to the convention because I am bone weary tired. Also the house is in a shambles and I need grocery shop as well as pay bills. Can't wait to sleep in tomorrow. 

Random Monday

One of my all time favorite bloggers, Deb over at Not Inadequate, has started a Random Monday link up. If you are not reading her blog you need to go and check it out. This lady is funny!!! So here is my go at a Random Monday link up:

• Tonight I go to a three hour volunteer training meeting at the state prison in our area. I am part of a prison ministry team that will hopefully be going in one Saturday a month to help in the child care center where mothers get to visit their children twice a month. We would be responsible for activities and lunch during a 6 hours shift.
• Did you ever meet a person that just knocked your socks off with encouragement and you were so impressed with them and their accomplishments you wanted to get off your bum and  do whatever you could for those less fortunate. Well, that is what happened to me this week. I had another meeting this last Friday with a woman that heads up a huge prison ministry through the local detention center. She has her hands in all aspects of ministering to women in prison, addiction recovery, and after they get out. I really want to work with this organization.
• This week is going to be a crazy one. Every single day is full of something. Praying I keep it all together.
• Wednesday I take my mom to an appointment to find out test results, praying they are good. Also get to visit with a friend that moved away.
• One of our younger Buff Orpingtons crowed for the first time this morning. He sounded sick. Definitely needs improvement. 
• Working on our next semester schedule for the cooperative I run with a friend. Lots of great classes will take place. 
• I am reviewing a tax school program for TOS and it is kicking my tail. I WILL persevere and finish the whole program.  

So Excited...Look What We Got From the Library Today

   

Currently Grace has started the Harry Potter Series and I just finished the 5th book in the Mortal Instruments Series. As I have mentioned earlier I have taken a break from reading adult fiction and started reading youth fiction. We have waited almost a year for the 2nd book in the Michael Vey series to be released. Luckily our local library purchased a copy and we were able to get one yesterday.