Minifigure Family from LEGO

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of LEGO. All opinions are 100% mine.

Hello everyone! Are you getting ready for the holidays? One thing you may like doing is making holiday cards. And I would like to share with you a fun way to do that.

There is a really cool website where you can create a  LEGO Minifigure Family. If you or your kids are fans of LEGO, then you will really love this website.  You can customize your own holiday card. And make your own Minfigure Family.

Take a look at the card I just created on the website:

Isn't this so cute? That's my husband, two kids, me and I even included - our cat Pepper. Everything is totally customizable. You can add up to 13 family members - even including your pets! And you can change them to individual facial expressions, different clothes. You can also change the skin tones. You can add everyone's names too like I did in the picture above. Or you can decide to leave the names blank. 

Once you add and customize your family members to your liking you then get to pick from different scenes. There you can also arrange the family members how you would like to place them in the scene. And there is also various messages to choose from. I went with Merry Christmas, but you could have Seasons Greetings or about 10 other messages that they have. 

There is also a bunch of cool scenes to choose from. I have picked this cute fireplace scene. But there is one with an igloo, a beach and even on another planet! There is about 12 different settings you could have. This is so cute and once you are done creating your card, you will be able to share them with your family and friends.

You can download it to your own computer. Or share on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or email too! This was fun to do and very easy. Check it out for yourself to make your own Minifigure Family!

Truvia® Sharing a Sweet Future

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Truvia® Natural Sweetener  for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Hi guys - I'm sure you have heard of the brand Truvia® ? Well they are having a charitable initiative. it is called "Sharing a Sweet Future." This initiative is to help the people of Bolivia. I will breifly try to inform you about this, but I really encourage you to click to Learn even more about the Truvia® brand’s initiative here.

Did  you know that everyday over 40 percent of Bolivian families struggle to support their children's most basic food needs? Two thirds of the Bolivian population are below the poverty line and the majority of the countries children are not getting the daily caloric minimum required. And many are suffering from nutritional deficiencies. 

Another widespread problem is many families in the community are using primitive cooking stoves. This has led to harmful smoke exposure and has resulted in other health issues for these families. That is why with the help of World Food Program USA, Truvia® is committed to helping these families to a sweeter future. 

Thanks to the Truvia® charitable initiative 34,705 Bolivian school children have already received more nutritionally balanced school meals. They have also provided locals with 68 fuel efficient stoves, which has allowed over 3 thousand more school children to receive meals in a safer environment.  

Truvia® has created a video series to showcase the hardships of Bolivian families. Now they are asking if everyone could  Share the Truvia® brand’s video to support their Sharing a Sweet Future initiative. $1 feeds 4 kids. 

You can Share the Truvia® brand’s video on Facebook to support their Sharing a Sweet Future initiative. $1 feeds 4 kids. You can also share on Twitter too. Please use this #SweetFuture in your shares, to help show your support for this campaign. And encourage your friends to do the same. You can also Follow Truvia on Twitter and find out more information about this. 

You can also learn more about "Share a Sweet Future" by visiting the Truvia® Sustainability page. Also please visit the Sharing a Sweet Future Facebook App. 

Watch this video also:

 

Thank you for taking the time to read this & I hope that you will consider sharing these videos on your social media outlets. Thank you.

#NoShaveNovember

Right at the end of October I happened to mention to my husband about "NoShaveNovember," he had actually never heard of it. But I told him you don't shave for the whole month of November - & it's to raise awareness for men's health (in particular prostate cancer? I think.)

So for some reason he decided to do it. Here is various pictures of him.

If you recall the pic of him on Oct. 31st: (he always has a mustache)

this is a little over half way through the month

then here is Dec. 1st 

He also shaved it in stages a goatee and a fu manchu he said:

maybe yes to this

no way to this

He shaved it off down to his regular mustache. Maybe he'll grow it back and do a goatee. He said a bunch of other guys at his work did the NoshaveNovember too. It would be cool if his work donated some money to cancer research.