What if there was a dollar store that had amazing makeup, jewelery, and accessories and you could shop for all of it from your couch? What if they offered free shipping on orders over $30 and had good customer service too?
I found this amazing site called ShopMissA.com and I love it!! I have placed 3 orders so far and I have been able to get a wide variety of their products and feel like I can tell you what to look for and give you tips on it all.
The biggest thing to watch out for is lead in their jewelry. This is my only disappointment with this store. I love the jewelry that I got from them, but several of the pieces had warning labels that stated "not intended for children," "for ages 14 and older," etc. I believe one even had the "this product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause.." label. Some of their jewelry items do say "lead free" on the website but not all do. In the future I will only be ordering items that state "lead free" on the website.
My only other warning is that you need to check your package and everything in it thoroughly right when you get it. If anything is broken or defective or you just want to return or exchange something, you only have 3 business days from when your package arrived to you. I had 3 out of my 40 something items that were broken/defective in my first order and 1 in my second order and 3 in the third.
With the 1st order I contacted them about 2 weeks later and at first they just told me their policy and that I had missed their cutoff. They did give me store credit when I complained that their cutoff date was not a normal amount of days for a return and that it was only listed on the site under the returns tab (which you wouldn't check until you were already trying to do a return and you might already be too late without even knowing it at that point).
The only other con is that stuff sells out quickly. They get some really amazing things for $1 but usually the best colors and options are sold out when I look at the site. They have an email subscription that alerts you when they add inventory and I would highly recommend joining it if you love the site.
Thanks for reading!! Have you ever tried this site? Leave me a comment below with your thoughts!
Last week when I was writing about our corn maze experience I knew we wanted to also go to Gibson's Green Acres Dairy's corn maze. I contacted Andrea Gibson to ask for their Facebook page to include in my last post's link and she was so sweet and gave us free tickets even though I told her we were already planning on coming out to her corn maze anyways. So we had an amazing night and we are planning on going back again because we had so much fun!!
Gibson's Green Acres is a family dairy farm and Andrea talked about how they decided to diversify and do the corn maze and pumpkin patch in order to adapt to growth in the community and to benefit both the farm and the community. They had a tractor tour of the whole farm where Andrea taught us all about the cows and the milk and the farm. It was so fun!
They had so much stuff for kids to do with Spool Racing, Duck Racing, the Huge Corn Pit, the Big Slide and the Little Slide, a Petting Zoo, the Hay Maze and the Pumpkin Patch. They also had a fire pit to warm up by! The corn maze was also unique because the corn was soooo tall and they had different options once you got in the maze. We did the quick maze because we had Jackson and it was getting cold. It was perfect! We got to wander around and find our way out pretty easily but it was still fun.
The corn maze was actually planted by GPS and is the first precision planted maze in Utah. Andrea designed the maze and was able to program it into their corn planter so the maze grew exactly where they wanted it to! Their corn is so tall that you feel like you are in your own isolated world in the maze and it is so nice to not be tripping over broken off corn stalks or stubble from removed corn stalks like in some other mazes.
The pumpkin patch was another amazing part of the farm that I could do a whole post on. They planted several varities so there are huge orange pumpkins, rounder deep orange pumpkins, super warty pumpkins, and even teal pumpkins. Did I mention they are as cheap or cheaper than grocery store pumpkins!? That's right you can take your kids out to the best pumpkin patch I have ever seen, let them wander around and pick the pumpkin they want and it is an amazing deal too! We are definitely getting our pumpkins from them!!
They have extended hours for UEA weekend this weekend so if you haven't made it out yet you should definitely go. :)
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Do you need expensive brushes?? My answer is a definite, "No!" I mean if you want beautiful, spendy brushes then go get 'em! But if you are wanting to improve your makeup application by adding brushes or you need to replace old brushes, etc. You can find some A-mazing brushes that are super affordable.
Personally I love e.l.f. studio brushes and EcoTools brushes but I have also recently ventured into buying cheap brushes from Amazon after researching reviews and I have been quite happy with those purchases too.
Brushes I recommend: e.l.f. studio line, e.l.f. professional eye shadow brushes (these are super cheap and are also good as long as you just stick with the eyeshadow brushes, the face brushes in this line are not good), any EcoTools brushes, and Amazon brushes with great reviews. Link to my black set here and similar to my gold set here (the set I purchased is no longer available but this is from the same seller and looks identical).
I could make this a humongous post with a review of all of my brushes and which brushes I think are most essential, but I am trying not to do crazy, long, and hard to organize posts anymore. Trust me, this is so much easier to read!
Here's a link to a great post/infographic that has basic brush types/uses.
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Temperatures have dropped, leaves are turning, pumpkin spice everything is everywhere and Halloween is just around the corner!
We were able to go to this amazing corn maze and pumpkin patch this year and last year. I absolutely love all of the fun things there for our whole family! Jackson has loved playing in the big tub of corn both years and of course riding the barrel train and wandering through the pumpkin patch.
I love just being there and seeing all of the fun things!! They have lots of little fall photo opp set-ups all around and have a light show after dark and all sorts of fun things and yet it has a small, homemade feel to all of it.
Here's a list with some other fun corn mazes and pumpkin patches here in Utah. Happy Fall!
