Sea Band Giveaway

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Sea-Band acupressure wristbands have been providing nausea relief to millions of people for over 20 years. They work fast and effectively for all types of nausea including travel and morning sickness. 

·         Sea-Bands work using the principles of Acupressure.

·         Sea-Bands are non invasive and drug free.

·         The plastic stud on Sea-Bands applies a continuous pressure on each wrist relieving the feeling of nausea.

·         Sea-Bands can be used for Motion Sickness, Morning Sickness (Pregnancy Nausea and Vomiting), Chemotherapy related Nausea and Post-Operative Nausea.

I was sent some sea bands to try out as both Chick and I get a little travel sick and I must admit that at first I was a little sceptical, but they really do work!!!  I’ve worn them on a couple of trips as a passenger and it was so nice not to be nauseous in the car. I really wish that I would’ve known about them years ago when I was pregnant as I was sick for six months!

Mine came in a lovely shade of grey but there are different coloured choices if you should be fussy about the colour! Chick was also less impressed with her camouflage set but the kids version also come in Pink or Blue.

I have two pairs of Sea Bands to give away one for adults and one for children. Just leave me a comment here telling me which pair you’d like and why. You don’t have to follow my blog or me on Facebook but if you would like too then that would be lovely J


Closing date is Friday, 5^th November at 5pm.


Sea Bands are available to buy from Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys and Lloyds Pharmacy in the UK and retail at £7.99 


In the US they are available at Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and RiteAid.

Magic Fabric Creation Studio

Description: Use this great Creation Studio to make six magical puffy characters, a gift card and a picture frame.

 Create your own design on the plates, wind it through the Creation Studio and wow! Your very own puffy characters from flat to a 3D in a flash.

Decorate your characters with the eyelets and danglers to bring them to life, then hang them off your bag, pencil case and more!

Recipe

Step 1: Take one character design

Step 2: Layer and add the foam centrepiece:

Step 3: Add top layer and features to your character:

Step 4: Line up plates and insert into machine:

Step 5: Your character is now ready:

Repeat steps 1-4 to make the other characters:

For additional cuteness send them to everyone you know as presents and then drive your Mum crazy until she buys you the refill sets ;-)

Available from Toys R Us at £24.99

Reviewed as part of the Toys R Us Toyologist Programme.

Disgusting Science

This set was so cool that we had to make two videos of the various experiments:

Disclaimer - This is actually quite disgusting so probably best not to watch it whilst eating!!!!

We had so much fun with this and we all give it a huge thumbs up. The only downside (which probably won't apply to most people!!) is that you need a microwave for most of the experiments and our holiday cottage didn't have one and I'm guessing some other people may not so you may need to take that into account!

Available from Toys R Us and costs £12.99.

Blendy Pens - Review

For this review I thought I'd pinch the idea of a slideshow from the lovely Glenda over at Precious Memories as she did it so well with her amazing 'Magic Science' review!!!

As you can see from the pictures we all had a turn with the blendy pens, me included! Chick and the Punk thought they were great fun and we've already used all the pictures that were included. To make different colours you jut choose two pens, click them together, twist the pens for 5 seconds, let the mixing chamber work its magic and hey presto you are done!

The pictures that were included are great in the fact that as you colour them in, different shapes and patterns appear and add to the general awesomeness of the colouring! The downside of the pictures is that the girls didn't want to colour the train and the planes as 'they are for boys'! Instead they argued over the animal pictures!!!

The girls both give them a 10 out of 10 and 'lurve them'.

I'd give them a 9 out of 10. They kept the kids amused for a long time, with only a point deducted for the generic pictures themselves! At £9.99 I think they are good value for money and I would definitely buy them for Chick or as a present for her friends.

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Fur Real Friends - Furry Frenzies Review

Furry Frenzies - Flurry in a Hurry

Chick gives this a 10 out of 10 and a big thumbs up!

I'd give it 9 out of 10 with bonus points for working on the carpet and managing to do wheelies!!! I feel that it's pretty good value for money. The only downside being that Chick would like the Scoot & Scurry City Playset to go with it ;-)

Available from Toys R Us for £7.99. You can follow them on Facebook for news and giveaways as well as all the other reviews.

Silver Spoon Cakecraft - Scary Halloween Cupcakes

The lovely people from Silver Spoon sent me these to review and use for decorating some scary Halloween cupcakes:

I mentioned a few weeks ago over on Adventures of an English Mum that I am trying to cook and bake with Chick so this lot came in very handy. The cupcakes were a pretty straightforward recipe that you can find here along with some fabulous ideas for decorations. The decorating was absolutely the most fun!!! We made some lovely coloured icing:

The black was my favourite and I'm very tempted to make a huge black spider cake just because I can!!! Obviously mine aren't quite as good as the beautifully prepared ones over at Silver Spoon and I won't be giving up the day job any time soon but ours worked out pretty well:

We made a devil and a monster:

Also a gravestone:

The one that I was most impressed with was this Spider web:

At this point Chick went off to eat them all and I was left with this:

Was a brilliant way to spend an afternoon with the kids though! 

The Silver Spoon range is available from the baking aisles at Morrisons, Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda. Prices start from 52p for the food colouring. Check out the Silver Spoon website for more details on the range of goodies and some yummy recipes!

Winner of Toyologist Giveaway Carnival.....

.......was comment number 16 from Monkeying Around!!

If you could e-mail me at adventuresofanenglishmum@gmail.com with your address and I'll get it sent to you as soon as possible.  Thanks to everyone who entered!