🍁FALL FAVORITES & DUPES 2019

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is all about my fall favorites, all the fun things that I've been loving this fall, which is going to be some recipes, some products, and there's one specific product line that I'm really excited to show you guys. So today's video is actually sponsored by Govee and this is just one sneak peek of what one of those products is going to be that I'm going to be showing you guys. So stay tuned for the end because this is where I will be walking you through step-by-step how to use this product as well as a few other products in their product line. Okay, first of all, you guys know I love to save money and if I can ever find something that I already love but a cheaper version, I'm all about that. So we're going to start today with a couple of dupes. If you don't know, now you know, I am obsessed with the leave scent from Bath & Body Works, okay? However, these candles are $24.99 unless you go and get them on sale and that's every so often they'll do them like half off, okay? So you're still paying about $12.50 a candle. Now, I typically, no, in fact, every year I stock up on about 20 of these candles so that I have them all year because I love them that much. This year I was introduced to the Walmart version of leaves, okay? And it smells pretty dang similar. Like you, if you smelt this, then you smelt this, you probably wouldn't smell a difference. That's how much it smells like it. This one from Walmart is called Warm Fall Leaves and you guys, it smells the same, okay? When you light it in your house, it smells the same. The only difference I would say between the two is this one is just a little bit stronger. However, this is so close that people would not know a difference and your nostrils probably won't know a difference either. So if you want to save a lot of money, stock up on these this year at Walmart. These were $4 something, $4.50 or $4.90, I can't remember, for this big old candle, okay? Four bucks instead of $24.99. I would say some more dupes from Bath & Body Works. Getting them at Walmart would be these cute little soaps. Smell-wise, I'm not comparing the smell to anything. I just think the look of the bottles, this looks just like what you would pick up at Bath & Body Works and these are $2 at Walmart. So I purchased these just for the looks and how cute they are. I also love the smell. This is their Pumpkin Harvest scent and it's a really, really good pumpkin smell. Yeah, it's like a pumpkin spice and it really does smell good. I've smelled a few pumpkin spices that I'm not too fond of and these are definitely worth the $2. While we're talking about soaps and smells, you guys know I love Mrs. Meyers. In fact, I will tell you this, Mrs. Meyers' pumpkin spice smell is not the best. I don't love their pumpkin spice scent and in fact it doesn't have the best reviews online either, but I did find these two smells this year. They are the best fall soap smell I have ever smelt in my life. Okay, so starting with the Acorn Spice scent. Holy crap, you guys, this is amazing. Anyone that has used this at my house is like, what is this smell? I have never smelled this before. So the Mrs. Meyers Acorn Spice, I will have this linked below, you guys. If you purchase this through Grove Collaborative, if you've never used their website before, you'll actually get a huge pack of freebies. Now, the hand lotion, I didn't see this in the hand lotion and I don't like when they do that. I think they should, if they're going to come out with a soap, they should come out with a lotion. But this one, I thought, well the look of it was fall, but it's the oat blossom and this one smells amazing too. So I like the mixture of the two and I have this next to my sink. If you watched my last video, then you probably saw that already. But these two smells are freaking amazing. I also picked up some Acorn Spice scent for my dish soap and then for my all-purpose cleaner, I picked up the Apple Cider scent and this smells really, really good as well. I would say my favorite smells this fall would be the Acorn Spice would definitely be number one. I wanted to try the Apple Cider just in something else. Okay, now switching gears, I get asked all the time my lip color and this is a very affordable lipstick, especially compared to like, you know, some lipsticks can be upwards of 25-50 bucks and this is just a couple dollars. This is the, what brand is this? This is the Maybelline Touch of Spice and the number is 660. So this is like their matte colors. I wear this one a lot but especially in the fall and winter months. Another thing I get asked all the time is where I got this beanie. I purchased this years ago. I've worn it in so many of my videos. So I don't even remember where I got it and in the tag it doesn't say. So I will find something similar and I'll have that linked below as well. And then I wanted to also show you guys a couple of my favorite sweaters this year. This one being one of them, I will show this on but this is a blue knitted sweater and I purchased this from Smith's Marketplace. It's the Dip brand. I already have some paint on it. I think I have paint on almost everything because I never think to put some paint clothes on when I paint. If you've noticed in any of my videos, I'm always painting in my clothes and I regret that every single time. This striped one is actually from Walmart and it was on clearance for $11. I think the original price is $11.44 so you're gonna save 44 cents but I love the way this fits. I think I got this one in an extra large. Oh this is just a large but I like my sweaters to be really baggy and loose-fitting. So they had this in a million different colors but I thought this one was really really nice. The last sweater I wanted to show you was actually purchased from Amazon. I've been asked a few times because I have worn this in I think for sure one video maybe two. But I think this is really fun. This probably isn't going to be for everybody but I really love this rainbow sweater. So this again was from Amazon. I think it was $24 and they have this in a couple different shades so it's like you don't have to get one that's bright. They have some lighter colors of it but I will also have this one linked below. Okay for this next portion of this video I wanted to show you guys two of my favorite must-make recipes during the fall months. So the first one is this delicious hot chocolate. It's a very very rich and creamy hot chocolate and I will have all of the ingredients as well as the recipe listed beneath. This specific recipe is something you would want to take to an event. It's not something that you probably would have just for yourself because it makes so much. My little boy would not stop bugging me. He wanted some so bad so as it got a little bit warm I poured him just a little bit and he loved it. He would not put it down. Okay this next one is just with these three ingredients and this is the yummiest treat I have ever had in my life and I've been making this for the past about 10 years. So these are my famous homemade butterfingers and if you don't like butterfingers that's okay they are so good. People that hate butterfingers still love this. So the first step here is taking a 16 ounce bag of candy corn and you just pop it in the microwave for one minute stir it around and then put it back in for 30 seconds stir it around again and keep doing this for 30 seconds until you get the consistency you're looking for. This took me two minutes so I did one minute then 30 seconds stirred it and then 30 seconds again until it got the consistency that I needed it. Then you are just going to take the peanut butter of your choice make sure that it's a smooth peanut butter a 16 ounce can and you are going to mix it straight from the bottle into this mixture and I usually do it in two different sections so I'll do about half of it and mix it around. It does get a little bit hard to mix but this is what you want it to look like before you put it into a cookie sheet. So all I'm doing here is scraping it out and using a spoon to flatten most of it and then I will go in with a rolling pin and you'll want to just spread this out as much as you want. The thickness is really up to you I like mine pretty thin so you'll see about how much coverage you know this should fill up the pan. Now while this is still hot you want to take a knife and make your squares now. I learned this the hard way I think the first two years I made this I stuck it in the refrigerator as is and then I cut them after and I would like break my hand every single time so do yourself a favor make the cuts right now and again this is just your preference you can make them as big as you want as small as you want but this makes about 65 squares if you do it the same size that I did. Typically you will not need to be scraping this up with a knife I was just trying to do this quick so I only let it sit in the fridge for about 20 minutes where typically I'll let it sit in the fridge for about an hour and that really does make a difference. Now taking some milk chocolate candy melts make sure that they're milk chocolate you are going to melt this in a microwave and I did again one minute and then stir it around and then 30 seconds and stir it around and I'm pretty sure it only took a minute and 30 seconds once it looks like this just keep stirring and stirring because if you cook it too long it'll burn. The next thing you're going to do is just dip all of your squares into the chocolate and let them get hard and that is it. It takes about two minutes for these to get hard and then you can just store them all on one plate but you'll see as they're still melted I use several plates until I can stick them on top of each other like this. If you guys end up making this recipe I would love to see them so please share it on Instagram or Facebook and tag me I would love to see everybody making these different recipes and I'd love to hear how you guys love them. All right guys this is the moment I have been waiting for I have been wanting this strip of lights for the longest time and I was so excited when Gobi reached out to me and offered to do a giveaway for my viewers so they are going to be giving away one of these strips of lights as well as a door sensor so I will be showing you guys these products right now. So these strip of lights they are just sticky on one side and you can stick them anywhere you want. Some people put them underneath their cabinets you really can put them anywhere that you want. I decided to put them behind our TV and I've been wanting some lights like this for a long time and the reason I wanted to show this in my fall video is because with all the holidays coming up it's awesome that you can have this one strip of lights and you can change the colors to a million different colors. So for fall and Halloween I'm thinking I want you know the yellow and orange look. They also have tons of different modes you can have them flash different colors there's a dance mode so I'm going to be showing you guys that right here. So the first thing you're going to do when you get your lights is download the Govee Home app. This allows you to control the lights from your phone which makes it super easy you don't need to worry about a remote but just by clicking on the colors or the different modes you can also turn the brightness down. Honestly you can be as creative as you guys want with these lights and they are so fun. I'm going to show you guys a few things that these lights can do so just watch. Okay so we're going to do Isn't that cool? Orange, yellow, green, blue all the colors you can also like that's kind of like a pink purple there's literally a million different colors you can choose. You can also choose the brightness so this is that this is it at 13 percent that's at 100. He's telling all the colors. This is like a party mode that you can do that's really cool. Okay so this one is the candlelight mode look how fun it's like flickering. This one is snowflake. The next product I want to highlight from their collection is this wireless door alarm. So our little boy Ezra loves to sneak out the back door the sliding door. This is going to be a huge lifesaver so all you do is stick this on the door and there will be a little doorbell alarm that will sound anytime this moves. So we have a few of these we have one stuck up on our sliding door upstairs and then one on our downstairs as well. This next one is a water leak detector and it has wi-fi built into it so you will actually get notified on your phone if there is a leak and this comes with three different water detectors so you can put them anywhere that you want. We decided to put it in front of our water heater just to be sure that there's never any issues with that. Okay guys well that's everything for this video. 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