Let's all take this in for a minute - "LUXE MILK™ is a 100% all natural, rich and creamy milk chocolate" and it comes from one of our party sponsors, Ghirardelli. It seems to be all in the name: LUXE MILK™ and SocialLUXE Lounge!! We're a perfect match.
Ghirardelli LUXE MILK™ is all natural and made with the best ingredients to create indulgent, rich and creamy milk chocolate recipes. It comes in four popular flavors, including original, hazelnut, almond, and toffee:
- LUXE MILK Almond – Toasted almonds contribute a clean, crisp taste to complement and enhance the flavors of the creamy-sweet milk chocolate base.
- LUXE MILK Hazelnut – Lavished throughout this bar, all-natural deep-roasted hazelnuts add crunch and a distinctive, sophisticated flavor.
- LUXE MILK Solid – This bar delivers the ultimate premium milk chocolate experience – pure, all-natural milk chocolate with a velvety texture that melts smoothly in your mouth.
- LUXE MILK Toffee – This all natural, rich and creamy milk chocolate made from the finest cocoa beans is perfectly matched with buttery, crunchy toffee bits.
And for our lucky party guests, you'll be getting to taste this LUXE experience next week. Get ready!
The 2009 SocialLuxe Lounge had so much amazing energy, we wanted to channel that energy to do some good this year. We are happy to announce that our official charity is Drop In & Decorate, a non-profit founded by the amazing food blogger Lydia Walshin. Drop In & Decorate's ultimate goal is to spread happiness...through cookies. We love the simplicity of the idea and the amazing good that this organization does.
PLEASE make sure to 'drop in' at the Drop In & Decorate booth at the party so that you can learn more about this awesome organization and learn how you can support their cause. Here's a little more information:
- Look for the cookie heads at the party!
- Pick up your free copy of Drop In & Decorate's brand new COOKIE IDEA BOOK, with ideas for cookies you can make and decorate at home.
- Take a minute to design a cookie (on paper) - every cookie you design at the Avery SocialLuxe Lounge will be baked, decorated and donated to the CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OF NEW YORK, which serves women and children of New York City by providing emergency shelter and safe housing, and support services, for survivors of domestic violence.
- Learn how to host your own Drop In & Decorate® event and benefit people in your home community!
- You can help bring a moment of joy to a child or mom living in a shelter or facing everyday challenges that most of us will never experience. Design a cookie. Make someone's day a happier day.
We are SO excited to have Drop In & Decorate at SocialLuxe....have fun at their booth. We're happy you can help SocialLuxe bring a little joy into others' lives!
Frito-Lay will be sharing all kinds of fun facts about their chips as a sponsor of the SocialLuxe Lounge party, coming up in less than 2 weeks. Turn the bag around and you may be surprised to learn a few good things about your favorite Frito-Lay snack chips.
Did you know Frito-Lay chips…
- Are made with simple ingredients
- Potatoes or corn
- Healthier oils, such as sunflower and corn oil
- Sprinkling of salt
- Seasonings are added to some products to create a unique flavor
- Have a moderate amount of sodium, comparable to other foods such as white bread and crackers
With at least 50 percent less sodium per one ounce serving than our original counterparts, Frito-Lay’s Lightly Salted varieties provide consumers concerned about sodium with lower sodium options.
We also provide important nutrients such as vitamin C and potassium, which are inherent to potatoes, and vitamin E, which comes from the oils.
And moderation is always key. Look for smaller servings, bag up your own servings in baggies or containers, or find their 100 calorie packs.
There will be lots of snack chips at the party, so come ready to mix, mingle, and munch with Frito-Lay!
Imagine what $10,000 worth of free school supplies can
do for your favorite K-8 school. We're proud to share that our title sponsor, Avery, is helping make a difference in our schools! With the Avery Dennison Give Back to Schools
Program, your vote can help your school win free school supplies.
To enter, all you need to do is vote for your school with the click of a button, from now until August 31st.
All it takes is a few minutes to help your favorite K-8 school win:
1. Find your school in the menu, or add your school to the list
2. Register or sign-in
3. Vote every day!
4. Ask friends and family to vote too!
The top
ten schools with the most votes will each win a supply of Avery-brand school
supplies valued at $10,000. Cast your daily vote here.
We're thrilled to have International Delight as one of our party sponsors, as they are bringin' skinny back with their 2 new flavors!
New CoffeeHouse Inspirations Skinny from International Delight offers a rich, flavorful coffee experience without the added calories or fat – so you really can have it all – the cake and the coffee, too! It comes in two delicious flavors – Skinny Caramel Macchiato and Skinny Vanilla Latte – and is available in grocery stores nationwide.
All the creamy love without all the fat. Skinny is just what I need as I try to fit into my cute new dress for BlogHer. I'll be look hot on the dance floor of the Avery SocialLuxe Lounge!! We can all say "Thank you" to this light latte!
It's summer and hopefully you're able to hit the beach! If so, Stride Rite, one of our fabulous sponsors, has the perfect shoes for your little ones. There are great styles for girls and boys, even itty bitty baby ones, perfect for sand and surf!
Or maybe this summer you'll be hitting up some good amusement parks. Then you'll want the classic walking shoes from back in the day, Keds! Did you own a pair? I had like 4 different styles. I loved being able to switch out the laces. Or I even had some of the classic white Keds and created my own designs on them. Ahh, memories!
What style of shoe will you be using to aid your family in a Summer of FUN?
Thanks to the Blogluxe awards, I've been introduced to so many great blogs. With all kinds of categories, I'm having fun getting lost in "new to me" blogs.
Have you checked them all out? Have you voted for your favorites, whether they be old or new to you?! There are just 2 more days to vote, so head on over!
We're all wearing it, even if we're not always talking about it, right? Shapewear. There's nothing wrong with it, shapewear doesn't need to be a dirty little secret, in fact Yummie Tummie makes it kind of hot. Sexy, even.
Who knew you could have the best of both worlds?
Yummie Tummie designer Heather Thomson has a background in the fashion industry and has brought that history into making gorgeous shapewear. You heard me, gorgeous.
Heather's going to be at SocialLuxe at the Get Runway Ready station to help you get yummie for the weekend. Come to the Yummie Tummie Get Runway Ready station at the SocialLuxe Lounge, try on Yummie Tummie in person, and see just what a fox you are in shapewear.
I'll have some on, and it's not even a secret.
So you're thinking "What does Avery have to do with getting primped and pampered at SocialLuxe Lounge?", but let me ask you this:
Is there anything more sexy than being organized?
I don't think so.
I'm an organization fiend. Being organized top to bottom makes my heart sing a happy little song, leaving me plenty of time and energy to get beautiful. Avery makes it possible to keep all the categories of your life note tabbed and orderly so you can get on with the good stuff, the pampering stuff. I mean after all we're bloggers, CEO's of our brands, and we need to have our home offices and family lives intact as we proceed into the depths of getting gorgeous.
And if you don't mind me saying so, there's something a little bit foxy about organizational products.
Just you wait to see what Avery has in store for you at this years' SocialLuxe Lounge. You might need to bring your smelling salts.
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