Appetizers, Food + Drink, Side Dishes

Easy Bruschetta Recipe – The BEST + So Addicting

Easy Bruschetta Recipe - The BEST + So Addicting: Whether you're serving this on a slice of bread, or on top of chicken, you'll find this one of the best bruschetta recipes there is! I have a "go-to" appetizer when I'm having guests over, and you're lookin' at it.Easy Bruschetta Recipe Bruschetta is one of the quickest & easiest appetizers to throw together, when we are having people over, and if you're having people over, don't forget to download my free party planning checklist, to make sure you don't forget the most important things!Whether a small dinner party, or a large...

The Before: “Business Home”

My husband and I recently closed on a second home with a couple of our business partners, and I couldn't WAIT to show you the "Before." Often times, the majority of business meetings are held within minutes of this location, and it became a no-brainer when the talk of possibly purchasing a "business home," in the area, came up.You see, the home will be occupied by men most of the time, with occasional meetings and small business client "get-togethers." {But there IS a Nordstrom Rack next door, so keeping the wives out of the home from time to time, may be a...

Entertaining, Food + Drink, Main Dishes

Weeknight Dinner Party with Summer Grill Recipes

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone, PROMISE! #FlavorYourSummer #CollectiveBias Hey, all of you sweet thangs! I couldn't be more excited to share with you the Summer Grill Recipes that I came up with this week, using Nestle products! I may have had a little fun creating a tablescape for our little weeknight dinner party, while I was at it too.Weeknight Dinner Party Summer is right around the corner, and it's my FAVE-O-RITE time of year. We socialize more, entertain more, cook more, and GRILL more!!! (My hubby does most of...

$300 Blogger Spring Fling Cash Giveaway

Do you feel that? The ground shaking? Yeah, that's just me, Jessica, over here doing back flips because I'm ecstatic that I'm hosting & launching this Blogger Spring Fling CASH Giveaway, featuring a TON of fantabulous bloggers! What does this mean? This means that we have some serious cash to giveaway, and there are sooo many easy ways for you to enter, and hopefully win! quick tidbit: If this is your first time here... SHUT THE FRONT DOOR... Let me tell you how THRILLED that I am that you've stopped by. If you take a peek at my "about," page, you'll see...

7 Easy Steps on How to Get Beach Waves

How to Get Beach Waves: A quick 7 easy steps on how I get beach waves with a curling wand, and the hair products that I use!I couldn't be more than excited to share with you, How I get beach waves in my hair! I've had so many people ask recently if I'd do a tutorial, and since I'm FAR from a hair stylist, I was like, "Whaaaat!? But I don't know what I'm doing!" But then I realized you may want to see someone do their hair, that's not a professional, so you can relate! :)How to Get Beach Waves I've provided...

Parenting, Real Life

4 Takeaways to be a Better Mom

You all. I'm the luckiest ever. But yet I'm so stupid. I rarely talk about my sisters on here, and that could quite possibly be the stupidest thing I have ever done. (Well, I did post a picture of three of us at my sons 3rd birthday party here, but that's all I've managed to accomplish. Insert "shame" emoji here.) There are no words to describe, so today I found the PERFECT opportunity to show you just how genuine and fabulous, one of the two fantabulous sissy's I have... really is. Today I received a notification on my phone that my sister...

Hair, Makeup + Beauty, Review, Style

A FANTABULOUS Find…My Hair and Makeup “New Love!”

I'm all about good finds. Ok ok... fantabulous finds. There's nothing better than finding something that you can no longer live without, and being able to share it with the world. Besides... what would be fun about keeping it to yourself?It all started when I was scrolling through my Facebook Newsfeed, and I saw a post from a photographer that I follow... showing GORGEOUS gals, with "flawless," looks. I was immediately on a mission. I had to find out how to make myself that beautiful, like... right. now. It didn't take long until I got my answer, and I...

Adult Themes, Christmas, Entertaining, Girls Night, Holiday

Favorite Things Party: How to Host & Gift Exchange Ideas

Favorite Things Party: How to Host & Gift Exchange Ideas. It was a party that turned out to be so much fun, that's it's now an annual tradition! After planning my son's "Woodland Friends Birthday Party," I immediately started thinking about planning another, and the Favorite Things Party was born. ------> Stop right here if you need a free party planning checklist, and download it HERE! Then come back and check out how I host a Favorite Things shindig... I gotta say, that I went in to planning my first "Favorite Things Party," empty handed. I googled… •"Favorite Things Party Ideas," •"How To...

Christmas, Holiday

How I MADE Money Christmas Shopping!

How I Made Money Christmas Shopping: I thought it was a scam, or too good to be true. Until I found out how it worked and it makes sense! If you follow me on Facebook, this may be "old news," to you... but some of you may be here for the first time, by finding me on Pinterest! Well if so... WELCOME... and you should totally head on over to my Facebook page where you can get updates and goodies like this one I'm about ready to tell you... ALL OF THE TIME! I'm not going to "beat around the bush." ...

Entertaining, Kids

Woodland Friends First Birthday Party

We had our sons, "Woodland Friends," first birthday party, and it was a real "hoot." {No pun intended. Ok, maybe a little.}Considering this was my second kiddo's first birthday, I wanted to make sure that we did the same type of celebration for him, that we did for our oldest sons, first birthday. {See that party here: Airplane First Birthday Party}So that meant inviting friends and family, extra sweets, and fun little "extras," to make it super special. {That you'll see below} Woodland Friends Party When I decided on the Woodland Friends party theme, I knew that I better start off contacting someone...

Christmas, Holiday, Review

I “Minted” to Tell you THIS…

Words cannot express how ecstatic I am to have found this. When planning my parties, I've always went to the same 'ole sources for party décor, but now... I've found another source. A good source. A FANTABULOUS source.Have you been to Minted.com? Yeah... I hadn't either, and now, it's totally on my "favorites," bar.Party Banners Art Christmas Cards Invitations Stickers Party Favors omg... the list goes on...Every Christmas, we get an influx of Christmas cards in the mail, and I ADORE, looking at all of them... the photos, the sweet messages, the "love," behind each one. So when...

Food + Drink, Review

How to Keep Avocados Fresh

This was a sponsored post by Yahoo Food and all of the opinions are my own.How to Keep Avocados Fresh: A few simple tips and tricks to keeping these tasty little pesky things fresh for cooking, eating, or garnishing.I totally feel like I've hit the AVOCADO jackpot...Don't even try... Back a few years ago, anytime that I would see a recipe call for an avocado, I'd skip it, and move on to the next. Now wait... not because I didn't like the taste of them, but because I thought there was too much to an avocado. First, I'd pick one up at...

My Style, Style

Did YOU Know you could Shop Online at this Store???

Ok... how did I NOT know that you could shop online at Charming Charlie!? Have you been to this store in the mall? If you haven't, you're totally missing out. From walking through the doors, being totally directed throughout with color coordinated areas, this is a gals DREAM store. AFFORDABLE ADORABLE ORGANIZED Purses, Clothing, Jewelry, and this list goes on... I ventured to the mall the other day with my two little ones. Lucky me, they both fell asleep in the stroller, and I was able to browse Charming Charlie in PEACE! I found the cutest dresses. Would you believe they were only $24.99 a piece! ...

Stitch Fix, Style

NEW Personal Shopper Update! My 2nd Shipment…

So you want to win the lottery and hire a personal shopper for your wardrobe. Right? Yeah me too. But let's be real... that probably AIN'T gonna happen. So what's the next best thing? Well I spilled the beans the other day on how you can make it happen===> My Personal ShopperWell, now that you have read that post, I want to share a little bit of info on my second Stitch Fix shipment. If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen my post on how I said this time around was a BIG "no," to everything in that little precious...

5 Bloggers to Follow Today!

5 Bloggers to Follow: Fabulous sources for creative ideas, delicious recipes, down to earth & relatable stories, and so much more! You know I love you all for following me on my crazy adventures, right? Well, I do. It BLOWS my mind when I run in to someone and they say, "I follow you on your blog and I love (fill in the blank.)" Or when someone new signs up to receive new posts by email, I get all giddy inside with flattery. 5 Bloggers to Follow I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if you follow me, I can...

Adult Themes, Entertaining, Kids

Crawfish Boil 3rd Birthday Party

Crawfish Boil Party IdeasWell it's here and gone. Just like that. You spend months planning, and in just a few short hours its over. But I must say it was a fantabulous few short hours. The crawfish boil birthday party was an absolute blast, and I couldn't wait to share it all with you.Click on the link or photo below to see all of the photos from my sons big third birthday crawfish boil bash! Crawfish Boil Birthday Party

$1000 Summer Cash Giveaway

Remember the last cash giveaway I participated in? Well, I received such fantabulous feedback from it, that I decided to do it again. If this is your first time visiting Fantabulosity, I'm SUPER excited that you're here, and if you want to hang out a while, I think you just may find some other things that you'll love.First... I love giving away "freebies," so you'll want to sign up for "new posts," to make sure you're one of the first to know when they're available. You can do that here: Subscribe to FantabulosityTwo... if you have kiddos at home, I've found that I talk...

Decorating, Home Tour, House + Home

Home Tour Part 10 – The Office and Craft Room

Welcome to Part 10 of our home tour, The Office and Craft Room! {AKA, "My Hiding Place"} If you're just joining me, feel free to go back to Part 1 of the home tour and catch up! For the rest of you: Let's roll on... Welcome to my office! Come on in... I'll let you look around a while, and then I'll break down the bits and pieces and let you know where I got everything! My Office & Craft Room{Why can't they make "white" printers? Or heck, maybe they do, and I just don't know it. Boy that black...

Decorating, Home Tour, House + Home

Home Tour Part 9 – Baby Nursery

I'm SO excited that I'm finally getting around to continuing the home tour. Life kinda happened, and I took a short pause in decorating the rooms. The nursery however, REALLY didn't take up too much of my time. I kept it very simple, (some may say "bare,") but that's ok with me. Less is more, right? Let's get started...I sinned.Yep. Go ahead, roll your eyes at me... tell me I'm a horrible mommy...What did I do? I re-used the nursery décor from my first baby to decorate my new baby's room. Eeeeek! Well heck, let me tell you why. One, I...

DIY & Crafts, Drinks, Food + Drink

Growing Wheatgrass for our Green Juice Recipes

We've been on a green juice recipe "kick," lately, and I'm hoping it becomes permanent. I've had a Jack LaLanne Juicer for YEARS, and it's always sat in storage, since it wasn't a priority to have in the kitchen all of the times that we have moved. With this last move, I knew we'd be here a while, so I kept the juicer out.I FINALLY wiped the dust off, and started juicing about a month ago. ALMOST every morning, I whip up green juice recipes, and send my husband out the door with one, and give the remainder to my kiddos. ...

Eyeshadow… I’m in Love!

If you've been checking up on me in the "about me," section, you've seen that I LOVE sharing good deals and fantabulous finds. I always promise to be truthful with what I think about products, and I believe all of you amazing followers can find comfort in the fact that I will try my best not to waste your time and/or money. As you can see on my homepage, there's a tab that says, "advertise." Of course anyone can contact me about advertising and product reviews, at anytime. Do they? Heck yes. Do I always accept and share a product with you...

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