Chinese Lantern Festival Coming This Week!

Hi Foxy Friends! Don't forget to get your tickets to see the Chinese Lantern Festival. It starts this Thursday and runs until January 6th! I can't wait to share this experience with my family this week! Thank you for sending my family Hanart Culture Chinese Lantern Festival!

What is the Chinese Lantern Festival? This is how it's described:

The outdoor evening skies will become ablaze with the color and light with more than 1,000 beautifully handcrafted lanterns. The lanterns range in size from 12 – 23 feet tall, and combines art, tradition, and culture. This year’s theme, “The Wild,” features five different locations – America, Oceania, Asia, Antarctica and Africa, with lanterns representing wild animals from each region, including Cheetahs, panda bears, jellyfish, majestic cranes, lions, and even dinosaurs. The festival will also feature food, Kung Fu shows, animatronic dinosaur rides, demonstrations, and

shadow play for the kids. Enjoy Asian and American cuisine, while shopping the craft marketplace

where authentic Chinese jewelry, artifacts, dough figurines, as well as Chinese embroidery art,

sugar art, paper-cut and fabric art will be available for purchase.

For more detailed information click here. But here are the quick details you need to know.

When:

Open Thursdays – Sundays from November 15, 2018 to January 6, 2019 – Including Holidays 5:30pm-10:00pm

Where:

Fairplex at Pomona -

1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, CA 91768

Cost: 

Tickets $13-$21

Follow along on their social media to see pictures and more.

Insta: @ChineseLanternFest

Facebook: Facebook.com/ChineseLanternFestival

Twitter: @LanternFests

Go get your tickets now, it's going to be so much fun!

Hug Your Loved Ones A Little Tighter

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! Usually this is where I updated you on what's been going on and what I've found around the web that interests me...but today...I couldn't not mention this. Back where I grew up was a mass shooting this week. It's shocking, it's considered one of the safest cities in the United States...

The place that the shooting was at? A place I hung out at as a high school student and college student. It was where we went to go line dancing. It wasn't a huge place but it was fun and had free cookies, and it was where we all hung out. Crazy to think, we were talking about going there last weekend, when I was home with my friends.

It does make my heart happy that the people in the Conejo Valley are rallying and coming together. Looks at the line to donate blood. There was a need and the people came. The place that is holding the blood drive, the place my sister went to high school. It's all so crazy.

Please pray for the victims and families during this incredibly awful time right now. Where to go from that? I don't normally post about current event things, but I couldn't ignore my home town, a place where many of my family still lives, they are all safe and accounted for. Hug your little ones a little tighter and even when they are annoying the heck out of you, remember it's the small things added up that makes up the bigger picture. Okay I'm starting to ramble.

Now it seems strange to go on...so I won't, I'll end it here and catch you all up later.

Many blessings to you and yours.

2019 Plum Planner First Impression And Review

Hi Foxy Friends! If you have been here a while, you might know I'm obsessed with paper planners. I've been using a Franklin Covey, before planner were even a huge thing. Okay maybe not, but I've been using the Franklin for about 22 years...that's a LOT of years! This year though...I've decided to step outside of that box of mine and spread my wings and try something else. I almost feel like I am cheating on Franklin...strange I know. But it wasn't working for me any more. So I set out to find something new.

I Googled Best Paper Planners, and came across the Plum Planner. I liked the look, the price was even better and I could customize it! Yes please! I made a video, so for those that have 9 minutes and 39 seconds, watch away. For those that like to look at pictures...see below.

Alright let's get to it.

This is what it looks like. There were so many designs to choose from, but I choose Pineapples, cause they're cute.

It also lets you pick if you want a horizontal layout or a vertical layout. So many choices to pick from, they are bound to have something that you like.

I picked this one the Horizontal Layout -> Notes and Days

You could even customize those green rectangles if you knew how you wanted to use the columns. since this was my first time, I didn't know, but I could have added "Things To Do" Or "Shopping List". The blank square at the top was customizable too, you could have different things in there, quotes, Verse, Weekly Priority...etc.

I really liked the month layout too. The Franklin had lines in the squares and I don't like them telling me how big or little I can write, I want to be free.

The next part is really cool. So for all of the above it comes out to $33. Not bad right? But you can then add sections onto the back of your planner. I chose, Brain Storming (in hind sight not a good one to pick, but we'll roll with it). Cost: $4.50 extra per section (1 section is 10 pages)

Lists, cause who doesn't like a good list (I added two of these sections, one section is 10 pages), the cost to add one section was $1.25, 2 sections is $2.

And graphs, cause I am an engineer and like graph paper. I have no idea how I will use it, but I will! This was $2 for 12 pages.

So far I'm really liking it. The pages are thick, so I don't feel like I am going to rip it, and the sections added on the back are cool. There are proably 40+ things you can pick from, social media planning, budgeting, gratitude...pretty much anything you could think of is back there to help you out. And the extra cost isn't too bad either. You can add up to 80 pages. 

I'm so excited to try out my new planner next year! I've already started filling it out. If you want to know how I organize and color code my planner take a look at this post.

I got two planners, this one is for family life, the other one I am so excited about and it has a feature that I've NEVER had in a planner before, so stay tuned for that next week!

Have you bought your planner yet? Do you even use a planner?

Meet 5 Bloggers You Should Know.

Hi Foxy Friends! I know two posts one day, crazy right? But when I was asked to be a part of sharing in the world of blogging, and helping to spread the love of fellow bloggers, which isn't that what we do on Friday's over on The Blended Blog? I had to say yes! So meet some other bloggers and find some new people to stalk follow.

6 Inspired, Fabulous Bloggers & Their Favorite Posts

LoveLifeLaughMotherhood

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Jasmine is a SAHM to one boy, and wife to a former member of the USMC. When she isn't blogging about parenting, relationships, beauty, or her lifestyle - she's curled up with her cat watching HBO and planning her next move.

Jasmine's favorite posts from LoveLifeLaughMotherhood

1. Simplest Way to Make Money From Your Blog
2. Why People Think Moms Need Wine to Cope with Parenting
3. It's Totally OK to Feel Frustrated About Motherhood
4. 5 Ways to Show Your Husband You Love Him
5. This is Why I Can't Support Your Multi-Level Marketing Business

Dreams + Coffee

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Brittany is the face behind Dreams + Coffee, a Tennessee lifestyle blog focused on family, fitness, healthy living and style. With a passion for staying fit, eating healthy, and pretending to know a thing or two about fashion, she enjoys sharing her favorite tips and finds with her blog community and inspiring them to always strive for a healthy balance in life. As a wife and stay at home mom to two girls, Brittany is living out her passion for writing and editing through her blog as well as through her career as a freelance writer.

Brittany's favorite posts from Dreams + Coffee

1. Three Nifty Ways to Earn Extra Cash
2. Favorite Healthy Costco Purchases
3. Seven Things I Do Daily to Stay Healthy
4. Five Things I Do Each Night for a Smoother Morning
5. How I Create a Healthy Meal Plan for the Week

Foxy's Domestic Side

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Sarah is a wife of 13 years, mom to two kids (age 7 and 5), and an engineer, who uses her blog, Foxy's Domestic Side, to document her creative side. She loves planning parties, crafting and all things beauty, fashion and hair. The engineer side of her likes to create super detail tutorials on how to do projects, so that anyone can make it too. When she's not creating, she likes going to the beach and spending as much time as possible with her family and friends.

Sarah's favorite posts from Foxy's Domestic Side

1. 5 Tips for Picking Family Photo Shoot Outfits
2. 4 Tips to Raising Polite, Confident Kids
3. How to French Braid Your Own Hair Tutorial
4. Choose to Love Your Spouse
5. 5 Tips for Moms to Take Care of Themselves

 Your Green Grass Project

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Phoebe has been freelancing while living in Colombia for the past three years. After getting herself out of a bad relationship when she was 19, she promised to herself that she would only life for herself even if that meant not copying what everyone else was doing. Phoebe wants to inspire other millennials to live a life authentic to them. Whatever that may be!

Phoebe's favorite posts from Your Green Grass Project

1. I don't know what to do with life and that's OK
2. You're ruining your life by caring what others think
3. 5 Fears When Moving Abroad Alone (And How To Get Over Them)
4. The Downsides of Blogging that Most Bloggers Don't Share
5. We are the Microwave Generation and We are Sabotaging our Success

Bajezen - From Zero to Zen

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Tachira loves to inspire others to live their best lives. On her blog Bajezen.blog she shares a unique mix of poetry , inspiration and highlights of island life . a Barabdian by birth she has over ten years customer service experience. when she is not blogging , writing or being creative ; she loves spending tie with her daughter , baking and finding new and creative ways to express herself.

Tachira's favorite posts from bajezen.blog

1. Self Care Means Not Settling
2. Love is in the Air - First Love Yourself
3. Five YouTube Channels that Add an Instant Dose of Optimism to My Day
4. Five Affirmations for When You are Feeling Overwhelmed
5. Live Authentically: Make Your Own Rules

Do Five Things A Day

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Laura is a big dreamer, full time marketing manager, blogger, and part-time artist. She aspires to inspire people in their everyday lives and help them to live towards their dreams and making the most out of every day by sharing her own experiences and stories. Her blog, Do Five Things A Day, offers an eclectic mix of excitement, passion, and a story to tell of self-discovery, development and love. She focuses on topics about taking care of yourself, and learning to find beauty and light in every moment and adventure life has to bring us.

Laura's favorite posts from Do Five Things A Day

1. Winning With Rheumatoid Arthritis - Overcoming My Fear of Failure
2. How to Use a Quarter Life Crisis as Positive Motivation
3. 12 Ways to Deflate Anxiety Naturally
4. A Story of Loss and Finding
5. "Dream within Meditation" Remembered and Reflected Upon