I came home from class last night tired and frustrated. As I walked in the door though, my attitude did a 180, because I saw that I had some awesome boxes waiting for me. I had 2 Little Black Boxes, a Sampler from Sampler Village, my order from Heaven and Earth Essentials, and my order from Angel Face Botanicals.
Of course, I fell on them like a starving dog on steak.
Then I woke up my kids by squealing in delight. Oops.
The hubby laughed at my reactions, stole some goodies out of my boxes, and told me to blog about the boxes, because I was so overwhelmed.
I am only going to talk briefly about the Little Black Boxes, because anyone who reads this blog knows I LOVE them. This month was the Bath, body, and Candles theme box. I know Kim had some problems with people flaking on their samples, but all I can say about the people who DID step up and provide samples is WOW. There are some full sized items in some of those boxes!! You all know how much I LOVE my bath and body product and candles, and I was psyched. That was why I bough extra boxes this month, because I wanted a sample from everyone. I didn't quite succeed, which makes me a little sad, but that's OK. I can't wait to start using, reviewing, and planning my purchases. :)
Yeah, I know....that was BRIEF????
My eye had been opened this month on facebook to another sample seller that people thought very highly of, and that's Traci at the Sampler Village. I had never heard of them, but I decided to try out their Valentines day Mega Super Sampler (pictured on top....and sold out, though as of this writing, their regular sampler is still available!). Again, all I can say is WOW. Everything came packaged in this pretty pink gift box wrapped with a bow, which was a really nice touch. The box was a lot bigger than I expected, too.
The first thing that happened when I opened this box, is my husband swiped the chocolate dipped pretzel from RhodaRose. While he happily chowed down on what he reports was a very delicious treat that I should think about purchasing more of (he never gave me any. *pout*), I rummaged through the box. Now, I purposely bought one of the HUGE boxes with all of this month's Villagers in it, because I wanted too see what kinds of samples the Village got, and I'll tell you, they get some nice samples. The Valentines box had quite a few sweets samples in it too, which I of course LOVE, too. That may be due tot he box being a "Valentine's Day" sample, but that's OK with me! There were a lot of bath and body products, some candles, jewelry, paper products, pet treats, what have you! In all, I was very plesed and excited!
I'm really glad I tried out the Sampler Village. Now I have two high quality and great sampler boxes I can buy every month to be exposed to even MORE sellers!! For future review purposes, I have done my best to keep the samples from the Village and the LBB samples separate, though some sellers appeared in both boxes.
After all of this happiness and squealing, I opened up my order from Angel Face Botanicals. You may recall a review I made earlier this month about their "awareness" soap. Well, I ordered a full sized bar of it, I loved it so much, and I ordered some bath salts, because, hey, I love me some bath salts. Everything arrived extremely well packaged and safely, and into the box, they had tossed a BUNCH of soap samples!! FREE GIFTIES!! WAHOO!! I swear, I was more excited than I was at Christmas....probably mostly because I had given most of my Angel Face Botanicals products away, and I was feeling sad that I didn't have more of my own. :)
Finally, I got to my order from Heaven and Earth Essentials. They have figured out my weakness at HAEE. LOTS of different scents. They have scents I have never heard of or seen anywhere else! I MUST try them all!! I love that they have a lot of different sampler packs available too, because in general, I prefer to buy a lot of different sample sized products. I probably have adult ADD. I get easily bored even with using the same lotion or soap every day. I like the smaller samples over the full sized products, because then I am not trying to store half used soaps or lotion when I tired of that scent or product for a while. True, I will also buy full sized samples when I LOVE something, but that's because I know I will WANT to go back to it over and over again.
Back to Heaven and Earth Essentials. Barbara has figured me out! Every sample was a different scent! AND she sent me a whole little handmade satchel of EXTRAS!! This is why I love this company. They really care about their customers. The box I got myself over the holidays from HAEE was also full of little extras, and it was so lovely. I really recommend their products!
Speaking of sellers, I had some problems with some sellers over the holidays. Packages not arriving or coming late. Poor quality of items. Breakage due to poor packaging. People just NOT SENDING STUFF, etc. Because of those problems, the sellers who really came through, and then added little extras (which I could use to cover the problems) got an extra little spot in my heart. Angel Face Botanicals and Heaven and Earth Essentials were FABULOUS in that regard, along with other sellers who I have already reviewed or will be reviewing soon, and will be sure to let you know about that. Now, I know I tend to buy a lot at a time (because I buy samples and sampler packs a lot, I tend to want to make things worth the shipping), I may get special treatment, but I have had sellers send me special extras when all I did was buy a bar of soap or a single lip balm, so you never know.
I have to note, though. I had NO PROBLEMS from any seller I have gotten anything from in my purchased samplers, be it LBB, Sampler Village, or other sampler packs. I have also never had a problem with anyone I reviewed on my blog, though I admit I have not purchased from a few of them YET. I don't anticipate problems, though. The problems I had were mostly random people I found on etsy or the web, and I had some warning signs show up with those sellers that I have not gotten from anyone I reviewed (poor communication being a big warning sign).
So, I'm done sharing my extreme excitement! I hope I can get you excited, too!!
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