October Monthly Favorites – What We’re Loving Lately!

Monthly Favorites – Perfect warm drink for fall/winter, a gorgeous speaker for your home, a make-up game changer and more in this month’s faves! 

It’s monthly favorites time! I’ve got a quick list of faves this month, but all of them are GOOD. From the kitchen gadget making my life easier, to the warm cozy drink I’ve been loving (no caffeine, sugar, or calories!), to the product changing my makeup game, and more, it’s all in this month’s faves!

Let’s jump in…

The Best Slow Cooker

Slow cooker meals are my JAM this time of year! I love a cozy dinner that basically makes itself. I get questions every year about which slow cooker I like and this is it.

• It’s got lid clips (which means no sloshing or spilling if you’re transporting it to a party, bringing dinner to a friend, etc.)
• It’s easy to use. You can manually program a time (3 hours on HIGH) or simply set it to the temperature setting you want (LOW).
• It comes with a thermometer. You can program your slow cooker to switch to WARM when it reaches a certain temperature. Know what that means? WAY less risk of overcooked meats!
• The crock is dishwasher safe. Just to make it that much more lovely.

PS – Looking for healthy slow cooker recipes? You can find all mine here. 

Gramophone phone speaker

I’ve been looking for a cute speaker I could move around the house with me, and couldn’t help but fall in love with this super low-tech (and super adorable!) gramophone speaker. It’s wireless and doesn’t require batteries at all. It simply magnifies the sound based on its shape.

I really, REALLY love the sound-it’s kind of old-fashioned and almost makes me feel like I’m listening to records instead of my phone. It’s worked beautifully in my bedroom when I’m listening to an audiobook while shooting a recipe video, in the kitchen when I want to play music while cooking or something soft and classical while we work on homework, or the living room for a Disney dance party. Plus, when it’s not being used, it’s not an eyesore. I love it.

Liquid Highlighter

I’ve used several different highlighters since contouring became a thing, and I’m really liking this liquid highlighter. I use a tiny bead-sized drop (it lasts forever!), pat it out on my fingertips and then pat gently on my face to blend, right along the top of my cheekbones and down the bridge of my nose. It’s subtle and NOT glittery, and you can build coverage if you want a more dramatic look. (I get the Moonstone color)

And, speaking of highlighter…

Pastel Erasable Highlighters

I’m a sucker for school/office supplies, and when my last highlighters dried up, I started looking for better ones. I saw these ones on the Simple as That’s IG page and LOVED the colors–mint, aqua, blush, lilac, and soft gold rather than the neon/brash colors I’m used to using.

Plus–they’re ERASABLE. And not “we’ll *call* them erasable, but it really just fades/smudges a little” erasable. Like, you’d never know it was there erasable.

I. Love. Them. *mic drop*

True Lemon & True Lime + Peach Tea

Natalie Perry got me onto these True Lemon and True Lime packets a few months ago. They’re awesome!

Inside is crystallized lemon or lime. There’s no added calories or added sweeteners–just actual lemon/lime juice, lemon/lime oil, and citric acid. Because they’re made with actual citrus, I find they taste like the real thing (SO MUCH BETTER than bottled lemon/lime juice). 1 packet is equivalent to 1 generous wedge of lemon or lime juice.

PS – They also come in grapefruit and orange varieties if that’s more your jam.

You can put them into cold water, warm teas, sauces, salad dressings, etc. They’re great to have on hand when you’re traveling, sick to death of drinking straight up water, or run out of fresh lemons/limes.

I LOVE them. Lately, my favorite is to mix one (lemon or lime) with ginger and hot water or stir one into this caffeine free, unsweetened peach herbal tea. (It’s less expensive at Target and Sprouts!)

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