If you have ever played the popular game, Bananagrams, you know how much fun word games can be.

Now they bring you two new games. Pairs in Pears and Appletters.

My daughter, who is 9, had a blast playing the games with me. Pairs in Pears is somewhat like a popular app game on smartphones and Facebook. You create words and see who can do it the fastest with the random letters you get. I admit, even I found it a bit challenging.

Appletters is similar except you create word ‘worms’.

Both games are awesome because they teach spelling, reading and even the alphabet to young ones. You can tailor both games for easy to advanced play. This makes it an ideal family game for young and old alike. I love how this game can grow with your child as they become better readers and spellers!

I like how both came in their own fun pouches and take up very little space, unlike traditional board games. Appleletters comes in a red shaped apple pouch and Pairs in Pears comes in (you guessed it) a pear. To me, this makes it an idea game to slip in your luggage when doing some holiday traveling soon!

The games retail for $16.95 and come with instructions for the various ways to play the games.

Bananagrams Inc. has generously offered to give readers of Saved By Grace a chance to win both games! Just enter to win on the new PromoSimple form below! Game ends 12/5

I wish I knew how to crochet. My mother has tried to teach me on a couple occasions and it just doesn’t make sense to me. My mother, however, used to make me all sorts of stuff and she has recently picked it back up again. Since I don’t know how to crochet, and I can’t be asking my mom to make me everything my heart desires, I was so ecstatic to find Brumby’s Yarns, a handmade cat toys maker!

Brumby’s Yarns makes cute stuff for our four legged kitty friends, including collars, toys and mats.

I was given the opportunity to test out some catnip toys from Brumby’s Yarns. Let me tell you, my cat knew it was for him before I even opened the box. He was eagerly sniffing my mail that day and then started pawing at it. I had a feeling it was the handmade cat toys by the way he was acting. Inside, I found 3 very adorable toys! A ball, an acorn and my favorite-an oreo!

Each Brumby’s Yarn toy is lovingly handcrafted and contains organic catnip and Valerian root. My cat enjoyed his so much I had to “cut him off” after a while because he would get so wild he would start running around the house running into stuff like an idiot! I was afraid he would break something Oh well, I am happy to let him play with them because he is usually a very lazy cat!

Brumby’s Yarns has a wide selection of handmade cat toys to choose from for gift giving this holiday season. You can’t forget your little furry friend’s stockings! My favorite was the cupcakes.

As you can see by the hair on it, I had to wrestle the oreo away from my wild beast in order to take a picture:

Brumby’s Yarns has generously offered to do a giveaway for a handmade cat toys prize pack! To enter, just do so on the Rafflecopter below! Starts 11/19 and ends 11/26

This review was so much fun to do! I worked with Princopia to bring you this awesome product spotlight and I absolutely love their products. I have nothing negative to say about this company!

Part of what made this review so much fun was that I was given an excuse to go get some professional photos taken just for this. The pictures turned out [Read more...]