Love it #2 -- & A GIVEAWAY!!

GIVEAWAY COMMENTS NOW CLOSED!  WINNER ANNOUNCED SOMETIME TOMORROW!

FREEBIE GIVEAWAY:  Enter to win one tube o' goo (as featured below) in your choice of colors:  Metha Lip Shine (no color), Violet Mint, or Pink Mint.

HOW TO ENTER:  Leave a comment at the bottom of the post telling me what your favorite Like It, Love It, Gotta Have It item is -- something you are diggin' right now.

EARN AN EXTRA CHANCE TO WIN:  If you become a follower of the blog, you will be given an extra "name in the hat" chance to win.  After you've become a follower, just post that in the comments so I can count you twice!

Depending on the number of entries, I will either use a random number generator or have one of the kiddos pick a number out of a hat.  I'll let you know if you've won!!

GIVEAWAY will end at 9pm CST on Monday, September 6th!

And back to the newsroom:

I do not intend for the title of this post to be misleading.

Yes, this is a post in my Like It, Love It, Gotta Have It (LI, LI, GHI) series. (Really, is this going to be a series?  Or just a few random posts?  No decision has been made on that quite yet.  We'll see how the masses take to these first few posts.)

Uh, yeah.  Go off on tangents much?

Where was I?

Where was I?

Oh yes.

I am not attempting to mislead you.  Like I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by the voices in my head, this is one of the LI, LI, GHI posts -- this is actually post #2.  HOWEVER, this is the first "Love it."  So, should it have been titled Love It #1?  Then I could just number each item under each rating?  For example:  "Love It #1"  and "Gotta Have It #1"  Or should I just leave it?

Does anybody really care?

Back to a new-ish Love It item...

I found this little tube o' lip goo when I was shopping with one of my Cackalacky buddies.  We had stepped into the over-scented, olfactory overloading (yet really fun and ultimately irresistible) Bath and Body Works.

Let me set the scene here a bit:  I really like B&BW.  I used to love it.  Matter of fact, before Dave Ramsey came into the picture, I spent a lot of time and money there.  Oh, there I go again on a tangent...

Blah, blah, blah.... Used to love B&BW... Oh yeah!  Then they had the audacity to come out with so many different scents that just walking into the place made my nose, which was apparently designed for a Blood Hound, go crazy.  I mean, seriously, all you have to do is walk past the joint and you're bombarded with floral-y, fruit-y, outdoors-y, tree huggin' redolence.   This drives my doggy nose crazy.  Alas I have not done much shopping at B&BW.

But, my Cackalacy girl headed that way and I followed.  I wandered straight to the sale tables and promptly filled my arms with pump soaps that were going for $3 each.  (Dave would have liked that -- on sale AND in the budget!)  While my friend was sniffing every container she could get her hands on, I walked to the front to check out.  And there... there is where I found this little tub o' goo...

It's called Mentha Lip Tint and though B&BW carries it, it is by C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries.  (I love that word:  Apothecaries.  Apothecaries.  Fun!)  I believe that there were about 4 different colors to choose from.  I chose Violet Mint. 

The gloss has a minty smell to delight your nose, a tingly feeling to delight your lips, and a sheer shiny finish to delight your eye.

The tag on my tube says $7.50, but I believe I paid something more like $5 for it.  I'm not really a lipstick kinda girl (it makes my throat hurt -- yeah, figure that one out) and though I LOVE Carmex chap sticks (can you call another brand of lip stuff "chap stick" even if it isn't the Chap Stick brand?) this little beauty not only slicks my lips, but also gives a sheer hint of color.  And, as you only need a tiny bit to cover your lips, it will last a long time.  I've already had mine about 3 months and the tube feels as full as it did when I bought it.

Could I do without this?  Yes.

Do I want to do without it?  No.

I love this stuff.  Love It!

Now maybe I should see if the Apothecary carries anything to make my close-one-eye-while-taking-a-self-portrait-of-shiny-lips wrinkly eye squint lines less apparent...

Go pick you up some the next time you's hangin' at the mall.  Y'ant to? 

(B&BW and C.O. Bigelow do not know who I am and have not paid me for this shameless plug for their tubes of lip goo.  However, if they were to shower me with lots of tubes of this stuff, I , of course, would share with all of you!)

(Oooh, oooh, oooh!  I just went to the B&BW website and these little tubes of goo are on sale:  Buy two at $7.50 each and get the 3rd free.  There are about 15 different tubes to choose from.  Some colored, some not.  Go forth and shop!)

(And sorry for all the parenthesis this evening.  The voices in my head were on overdrive, I guess!)