Dial Antibacterial Foaming Hand Wash

Good morning everyone, and Happy Holidays! We are having a great little time here ourselves and the house is decorated for the holidays- right down to the bathrooms! Yep, you heard me, the holiday spirit is in my bathroom. A few weeks ago I received two full-size samples of Dial Holiday Liquid Foaming Hand Wash with cute festive designs on them. I was super excited to be able to use these soaps and review them on SaMiE Designs.

The Festive Designs

  I am a busy working mother, and lately I have felt lucky to even remember getting the tree, presents, and stockings ready. Household decor was certainly not my prime worry. Don't get me wrong- I'd love to be the type that always has the halls decking- but that's just not in the cards in this moment in time. So what a neat idea to be able to purchase a household necessity and have a festive design on it. It makes you feel like the ultimate mom, party host, and superwoman. It's one step away from saying, "It's a good thing." 

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Enough about the aesthetics, how well does it work? Just like any Dial product that you already use and trust.  #1 Doctor recommended antibacterial foaming wash, this hand soap kills 99.99% of germs encountered, with a fresh scent and leaves your hands feeling silky smooth. 

Kids love it too! If they are the type who you have to constantly remind to wash their hands, grab a foaming hand wash! They'll love washing their hands! They also love the designs! Not into Christmas designs? They also have Hello Kitty designs, and there will probably be more designs in the future. From 1 to 92, I guarantee you all will enjoy this great product. For more information, visit dialsoap.com or visit them on Facebook. Tell 'em SaMiE sent ya!

Thanksgiving Planning in a Day (And on a budget)

Throughout my life, I've been told once or twice that I put things off to the last minute. I would say, in some circumstances, this statement is fairly accurate. Halloween is a big exception to this, as I usually start thinking and planning it on November 1st of the previous year. Thanksgiving, however, definitely falls into the "oh crap, that's tomorrow" category.

I have rarely hosted my own Thanksgiving day, so I am not into the habit of thinking about it. However, I now live across the country from my own family so it's necessary that I become a host, if even only to my own little ones. The day before Thanksgiving I started searching for crafts, recipes, etc... Here is what happened:

The first thing I came across on Pinterest was Oreo Turkey and Pilgrim Hat namecards which I found here. Of course I HAD to make them, and they turned out swell -

I had to make pilgrim and native american hats, just like I wore in the second grade! Here's my little star in the making,  showing off her pilgrim's hat. It took FOREVER to find all of the designs. Here's the links- Boys Pilgrim, Girls Pilgrim Bonnet, and Native American Headdress (seperate website with ALL of the hat designs).

I thought this was such a neato idea, little pie tins filled with treats and toys, and below that I put a few coloring pages and activities. This kept the kids busy the ENTIRE day! Definitely worth it! For filling the pie tins you can go to your local dollar store and grab party favors. In fact, party favors from the dollar store are so reusable I used to have a tote filled with all those little toys from dollar stores and Oriental Trading because they are ALWAYS handy!

This was a great game idea - Turkey Bowling - and was easy to make. I printed out the templates on cardstock and used a hot glue gun to secure. Look at those guys, they look scared!

I printed out 6 of these (one for each of us) on 60lb cardstock paper. The kids helped cut and glue and the stuff they came out with was great! Here's the link to do it yourself.

No kidding, I picked up these placemats and napkins up at the dollar store and printed one sheet of these napkin holders on plain paper, and they held up well!

Coloring Activity Sheets kept the kids entertained! Here is a link to one I used. Here's another.

For six people we had LOTS of food. A few recipes were family recipes, but I will share one I found for pumpkin fudge, which was great and easy.

The kids had a great Thanksgiving! Here is a link to the Give Thanks banner (we also got some games from this site too), which you can attach to string but I just taped on the wall. Here is a link to the other cut outs.

As you can see, it all turned out well, even with no prior planning. Be inspired. This didn't take lots of money or time and the kids (as well as everyone else) enjoyed this Thanksgiving the best so far. (No offense to prior hosts and celebrations)

And now it's December 15th....I guess I better start planning Christmas soon!