Rainbow Colored Glasses #BlogWithFriends

Welcome to March's Blog with Friends Round-up. Each month, a group of bloggers chooses a topic, and then creates blog posts based on that theme. The posts can include anything, from poetry and recipes, to short stories and informative essays, and often crafts or DIY projects. This month's chosen theme is rainbows.

I decided to do a round-up of awesome rainbow finds, that are reasonably priced, and an easy way for your to add more rainbows into your life. I personally love rainbows, and actually enjoy adding them into my life whenever possible. I especially like adding them into Gigi's wardrobe. My inspiration for the title of this post, were a pair of glasses I bought her. Rose colored glasses are cool, but rainbow colored is such a better view! Unless of course you love black, and then I am sorry.

I will be posting links to where you can find the items to buy. However, I encourage you to shop around, and see if you are able to find any better deals. I also want you to know, this is not a sponsored post, and I do not profit if you buy anything. I am not sharing these items to earn money off your purchases, I genuinely just like these things, and thought you may like them as well.

Without further delay... Here are some rainbow items I have found, that I love, and hopefully you will love them also! :)

1. Rainbow Projector and Night Light. This thing is awesome. It is the night light you need, with the awesome benefit of being a rainbow projector. It comes in blue, pink, or yellow (prices vary by color. I have featured blue.)

$12.99 on Amazon

2. Chandelier Crystals Rainbow Suncatcher. This is so pretty. We love wind-chimes and Suncatchers. This will fit in nicely!! 

$7.99 on Amazon

3. Funko Pop Animation Rainbow Bright and Twink. This adorable collectible is available for pre-order. Their release will be June 1, 2018.

$10.99 Pre-order on Amazon

4. Rainbow Unicorn Horn. How awesome is this?! You can use this to make yourself into a unicorn!! You should always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn or Batman. Multiple colors are available, but I'm obsessed with the rainbow one!! 

$1.85 from frogfeathers on etsy

5. Rainbow Poop Mini Pillow. I bought this for Gigi, and she LOVES it. I have had great experiences with ordering from Wish. 

$2.00 from Wish

6. Emoji Rainbow Poop Coin Bank. This entry is Gigi's fault. She saw this bank, and insisted on buying it for me. Of course, it's really her bank. I just get to help provide the money she is collecting in it. It is her Disney trip fund. She is only four, and she is already better with money, than I have ever been. 

$14.77 on Amazon

7. Rainbow Swirl Lollipops. We love gum and lollipops. Fruit Stripes gum would definitely put some color in your world. These lollipops are delightfully colorful. The package contains 38 lollipops. 

$9.99 on Amazon

8. Stainless Steel Rainbow Flower Spoons. These are eight of the cutest spoons, you will ever use. Coffee time, tea time, dessert... It will just feel more magical. I love these so very much. 

$10.99 on Amazon

9. White Knee High Socks with Rainbow Stripes. So, if there is one thing that can be said about me, it is that I am full of contradictions. If I told you that I hate wearing anything on my feet, and prefer to be barefoot, it would be the truth. If I told you I have an obsession with socks, and love them, it would be the truth. I don't know. I cannot explain myself. I do love being barefoot. I do love socks. I even love wearing socks. Oh, to be fully transparent, I am not the biggest fan of being barefoot outside of my home though. It is partially a germ thing, partially a I hate dirty feet thing, and partially a dislike of wounds of any type on my feet thing. So, I love socks. All kinds of socks. When I am wearing shoes, I tend to go for no show, small as possible socks. When I am walking around in just socks, I like long socks and socks with awesome designs. Despite having fat legs and calves, I also love knee high socks. This is possibly a carry over from years of wearing them with my school uniform. Anyway, so I LOVE these knee highs with rainbow stripes. They are awesome!! They would be a great way to add some rainbow to your life.

$12.00 on Amazon

10. Rainbow Door Mat. So, tell me, do you like to have awesome door mats, are do you just not really care?! It is so weird, because when I found out I was pregnant with Gigi, I sort of panicked. Suddenly, I was terrified. How would be childproof all the things?! We lived in an apartment. How would we add baby things to an already full house?! Our baby, her safety, and her stuff had to be priority. So, I just gave everything away. All our home decor stuff went bye bye. I did not want to have to try to child proof any of it, and I really did not want to have to add baby stuff to an already full home. Well, now Gigi is four, nearly five, and the babyproofing stage is over. We live in a house now, albeit a small house, with probably less room than that apartment had. Yet, I have not really add much home decor stuff back into our home. Her toys and stuff basically decorate every room. LOL So, it is maybe weird that I actually care about our welcome mats, and choose our new ones carefully. So, I would actually LOVE this rainbow door mat!! What a simple way to add some color into our world. I honestly think I will get it, to use this Spring and Summer. Plus, the bonus will be that Gigi will probably LOVE it! 

$24.49 on Amazon

So, there you have it! A few things you could buy, to add some more rainbows into your life. I hope you enjoyed them, as much as I enjoyed finding them for us. Do you have any favorite rainbow items?! Feel free to share them with me!! 

I wanted to include a few pics of Gigi in her beloved rainbow colored glasses, my inspiration behind the name of this post! She saw them at Target, and just HAD to have them. 

Now, be sure to go see what inspiration my fellow bloggers drew from rainbows!! They have some awesome, colorful, things in store for you this month!! I will meet you there, as soon as I get a refill!!

Tamara of Part-time working Hockey Mom

Rainbow Sheet Cake

Karen of Baking In A Tornado

Shamrock Breakfast Treats

Dawn of Spatulas On Parade

Rainbow filled treats

Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments

Color your world

Lydia of Cluttered Genius

Finding the Gold

Bunnies and Rainbows and Stuff #UseYourWords April 2015

Today’s post is a monthly writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

My words are:

eggs ~ spring ~ bunnies ~ babies ~ pastel ~ rainbows

They were submitted by: Spatulas on Parade    (Thank you for the amazing words! So perfect for this time of the year! <3)


Growing up, I really did not celebrate holidays. My dad just was not into it. We didn't decorate or have parties or anything of the like. We would visit family, which I loved. I did not mind not celebrating. Now, I am a mom. I definitely think having babies changes things. All the things. Now, I mind not celebrating. Now, I want to make every holiday fun for Gigi (formerly known as Weewee) and Embee.

If I am being honest, since Embee came into my life, I have been pretty good at the whole holidays thing. Lately, I have slacked off. If I am completely honest, it is because of my health. Most days, I celebrate being able to get out of bed, and then I push myself to take care of Gigi and her needs. I do it happily. She makes me happy. Every struggle and pain pales in comparison to my love for her. 

Now, here it is, Spring again! Such a wonderful time of year. I usually decorate for Spring and Easter. I haven't this year. Usually my house and windows are full of bunnies and eggs and flowers in beautiful pastel shades of every color of the rainbow. Heck, there may even be rainbows and fluffy clouds on my windows. Not this year. 

Part of me forgives myself. I know what struggles I am working through. Part of me hates myself for not being a perfect mom. Gigi deserves to live in a house that is decorated for every holiday. I am falling sadly short of my expectations for myself. It has to stop. I need to step up my mom game. I need to be better. 

So, I was hoping you guys could help me! Could you flood the comments with your traditions and what you do to help your kids celebrate and enjoy this time of year?! Please. What crafts do you make? How do you decorate? Any fun foods you make? Tell me. I am all ears. I have decided to create a binder of holiday ideas. I want to make sure to have plenty of ideas for each holiday, so I am never short of things to do. I want to make sure Gigi enjoys every holiday. I want them to be special for her.

When she looks around our house and yard, I want it to be obvious to her what holiday is coming up. Let's face it, decorating is fun. Arts and crafts are fun. I want so badly to be a fun mom. I don't want her to be twenty-five and looking back on her childhood traditions, and thinking we never really celebrated but that was because my mom was sick. I want her to look back and think, my mom was sick but she always made holidays special. 

I am very new to this whole mommy thing, and to celebrating holidays. My dad wasn't a celebrator. That is fine. I am content with it. I want more for Gigi though. Maybe it is because she is my miracle, but I just think she deserves the best of everything. 

So, if you don't mind... please give me some ideas (you don't mind me using) in the comments and then go visit my friend's. See what words they received and how the used them! I hope you have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend!

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

                Baking In A Tornado                 

Spatulas on Parade 
The Momisodes
Southern Belle Charm   
Confessions of a part-time working mom   
Someone Else's Genius 
Stacy Sews and Schools    
Searching for Sanity
Sparkly Poetic Weirdo  
Climaxed  
Eileen's Perpetually Busy   
Juicebox Confession 
Battered Hope 

A sad side note: I wrote this blog during two different sittings. I read my words, and knew what I would write. In between my writing sessions, tragedy struck my family. My beloved cousin died unexpectedly. He was only 26. It has hit myself and my family very hard. I would like to note, that in the beginning of this post, I mentioned I celebrated holidays with family. That sent me down memory lane. Remember back to celebrating with my family. Two days after I wrote that, my cousin died. Going down memory lane made me want to reach out to my cousins. Tell them all hello and see how they were. I did not get around to messaging MattMatt before he died. I am so upset that I didn't reach out to him that very day. Never miss the chance to seize the moment and reach out to your loved ones. As cliche' as it is, life truly is short.
I love you, MattMatt. I love you so much.