Fandom of the Month Club Subscription Box Review

What a great gift idea! Subscription boxes are a way to keep the fun going all year long if you give one for a birthday gift or Christmas gift. The Fandom of the Month Club subscription box is one of my favorites with beautiful jewelry and fun items with all your most loved fan favorites!

This is a post from my other website The Treasured Bookshelf.  I wanted to share this amazing subscription box since it's one of my favorites.  I hope to be able to share a lot more styles and fun since subscription boxes make such great birthday gifts for everyone on your list.

Don't you just love subscription boxes? I have really taken to them lately. I love the surprise, the cool products, and the excitement of waiting for a new box to come each month.

I stumbled across the Fandom of the Month club subscription box six months ago on Instagram.  It was the first subscription box that I had ever tried and I signed up "just to see" how it went

Six months later, I'm still hooked and purchasing it every month with my own money.

Each month of the Fandom of the Month club, you receive 3-4 pieces of Jewelry, a postcard, a magnet, all in a screen printed drawstring bag.  All the items have a fun fandom theme which is a surprise.  In past bags, I've received Mario themed items, Star Wars themed items, and Percy Jackson themed items for example.

This month's theme was Harry Potter.  (Squeel of Delight!)

Fandom of the Month Club boxes are shipped out the last week of the month.  I think I noticed they were shipped on Monday, and my kids came bouncing in with the box on Wednesday afternoon.  (They love this box just as much as I do and always gather around so they can call "dibs" on anything super cool.)

The items come in a fun Fandom of the Month printed box.  I love these boxes and have started using them in my craft room to keep some of the little items organized and together.  Plus, the owl design is super cute and fun.

Inside the box, the jewelry items are placed inside the drawstring bag.  Each month, the bag has a saying printed on it that has to do with this month's theme.  This bag says "We've all got both Light and Dark Inside Us" and has a sugar skull type mask on the side.

I haven't figured out quite how to use these bags yet.  I've got one in my purse carrying around my make up but the rest are just sitting in a drawer waiting for a use.  Anyone got any ideas?

Inside my bag, I found this awesome Horcrux Charm Bracelet.  It has little hanging pendants of each of the horcruxes that Harry and Dumbledore had to find and destroy to defeat Voldemort.  The charms have instricut detail and are well made.

We also received this beautiful compact mirror in the subscription box.  It has the saying "Have You Seen This Wizard?" on the front and has double mirrors on the inside.  I saw this for a whole 2 seconds before my 11 year old grabbed it and claimed it.  I think it would be great to have in my purse to carrying around to check hair and makeup while on the go, but I'm not sure I'm going to ever get it back in the end.

I did see that some subscribers received some earrings in their box too.  I didn't get any, and this is the first time that anything has ever been missing (that I could tell from the Instagram unboxing photos.)  I'm not too upset since I rarely ever wear earrings and some times the earrings can be a bit much for my taste.

The box also contained a small magnet with a picture of Bellatrix LeStrange on the front.  The artwork is really cool and decorates my refrigerator to make me smile as I enjoy all the different fandom characters in my home.

Lastly, each box comes with a postcard with a note from the Fandom of the Month creators on the back.  This month had the Death Eaters symbol in the background. 

The box is a great price.  It's only $13.00 with $3.95 shipping in the US and $9.95 shipping internationally.  I have been subscribing for 6 months now and don't see any plans to stop in the future.

If you are a fan girl (or guy), I would recommend checking out the Fandom of the Month Club.  You can follow them on Instagram and on Facebook for sneak peeks, unboxing reposts, and more.

 

If you want to check out your own box of Fandom Delight, you can sign up for the Fandom of the Month club hereFandom of the Month Club Subscription Box.

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Football Party ideas

Whether your watching college, professional, or your kid's local team, football is a fun sport with it's pep rallies, tailgating, and super parties.  Celebrate your next football party with these easy DIY projects, party printables, shopping guides, and more.

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Bronco Mug

Bronco Tailgate Shopping

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Definition of a Football Mom Print

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Easy Football Candlesticks

Easy Football Treats

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Falcons Superbowl Candy Bar Wrapper

Fast Journal Card Print

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Football Helmet Cupcake Printable

Football Mom Print

Football Mom T-shirts

Football Party Games

Football Peanut Butter Cups

Football Phone Wallpaper

Football Windsock

Gatorade Label

Helmet Plastic Canvas Napkin Ring

Keep Calm Superbowl Printable

Meatloaf Footballs

Mini Candy Bar Wrappers

NFL Team Pennant Banners

Patriots Superbowl Candy Bar Wrapper

Push Pop Print

Rams vs Patriots Printables

School Mascot Seeds Candy Topper Printable and Paint Tutorial

September Phone Wallpapers

Super Bowl XLVII Candy Bar WRapper

Super Bowl Football party

Touchdown Seeds

Wine Glass Marker DIY

Find all our great football party ideas here:

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3 Apple Recipes and Dare to Share Saturday

The kids are back in school now, football is on TV, and there seems to be cracks in the summer heat wave...so fall must be on it's way.

YEA!

I think fall is my favorite time of year.  I love the color changes, the crisp air, Friday night football at the local schools, and Halloween.

It's so much fun to find a local hay ride and have a sip or two of hot apple cider.  I am wondering if South Carolina will indulge me here or if we'll have to find some new fall traditions.  What kind of things are on your fall bucket list?

While pumpkin seems to reign supreme in the fall months, apples are showing their colors too.  I hope that you'll consider some of these yummy looking apple recipes from last week's Dare to Share Saturday.

1. Cinnamon Apple Cake Roll by The Bitter Side of Sweet

2. Quick and Easy Apple Cobbler by The Gracious Wife

3. Apple Cider Doughnuts by Inspiration for Moms

While we are all shouting and excited that school and fall is here, do an extra shout for my friend and co-host Pam from Pam's Party and Practical Tips.  She was featured this week on People Online.  How cool is that? 

We first met when I discovered her Pokémon Party years ago and fell in love with her party style.  Seems like People has too.  They shared her Pokeball Rice Krispie Treats on their 10 Pokémon Go Themed Desserts.

I can't wait to see what you've been up to this week!

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Back to Hogwarts Book Wreath

Go back to school with all your textbooks and necessities with this Hogwarts book wreath!  This wreath would be a great addition to any Harry Potter party as it's magically easy to put together and so much fun too.

Run to Diagon Alley, grab your Hogwarts text books, and prepare your wand for another year back to school.

We have been preparing for our annual Back to School party here for the past few weeks and are almost ready to show you the Harry Potter themed dinner party.  But first I needed to share with you our front door wreath in all it's textbook glory.

When I first had the idea for making our party theme Back to Hogwarts this year, the idea for a wreath made from the Hogwarts textbooks came to mind.  I've been playing around with it for three weeks now and it never quite came together like it did in my head.  (Don't you just hate that?)

I had given up on the idea, until I was hit with inspiration in the middle of the night.  (Isn't that always how it is?)

I decided to simplify the book wreath and to make it lighter so I could fit all the textbooks every Hogwarts student needs right on the door for everyone to see.

And I do love how it turned out!  What do you think?

And after all the fun, it really was super simple to make.

Since the wreath was going to have so many layers to it, I didn't want a bulky, round wreath.  Instead, I took one of the cardboard boxes from our move and a large kitchen bowl.  I drew a circle and cut that out and then drew a circle inside that using a smaller kitchen bowl. 

I used a roll of large Christmas ribbon I had leftover and wrapped it around the wreath form to hide the cardboard and give the wreath the Gryffindor colors.

I think that deciding what size to make the textbooks was the hardest part of the whole project.  I ended up cutting a large sheet of Styrofoam into 2 inch by 3 inch rectangles. 

Once I knew what size I wanted my books to be, I went over to Pinterest and searched up some printable Harry Potter textbook covers.  There are a lot there, so you can pick and choose which ones you want.

I saved the covers, resized them to fit my pages, and then printed them out.  The paper glued pretty easily around the Styrofoam pages to create the Hogwarts textbooks.

Didn't they turn out so cool?  I am totally in love!  Thanks to all the talented artists who shared the talents in making these book covers.

I really recommend laying out the books on the wreath to make sure they fit nicely and the color placement looks good before glueing them to the wreath form.  Once you have it looking good, go ahead and glue the books down.

To make the wreath a little more fun, I created little pennant banners with the words "Hogwarts Bound" in a Harry Potter font.  I glued the pennant pieces to some red and gold ribbon in the center of my wreath.

Now my Harry Potter wreath is hanging on my front door making my kids' return to school a little more magical and fun as they can pretend we are off to Hogwarts!

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10 Beautiful, yet Easy, Short Hair Up-dos

It's not hard to create a beautiful up do when you have short hair.  You'll look beautiful in this summer heat while taking the kids to school, grocery shopping, or going on a hot date with your husband.

Although school has started and fall is on it's way, it's still HOT.

So when going out on a date with my spouse, or looking good while picking up the kids, I want a hairstyle that's up off my neck and shoulders.  But is it too much to ask that it be beautiful too?  And be super easy since I'm a slouch during the day?

So I did a little research and found these 10 beautiful, but easy, hair up-dos for those of us with medium to short hair. 

1. Easy Chignon by Hairstyles Parlor

2. Princess Crown Braid by A Cup of Jo

3. Hot Crossed Buns by Yacamim

4. Fashionable Braid Hairstyle by American Beauty

5. Fashionable Braid Haristyle for Shoulder Length Hair by JeweBlog

6. Halo Braid by JaaackJack

7. Easy Twisty Bun by A Little Slice Of

8. Braided Bun by unknown

9. Messy Up Do by Project Inspired

10. Twisty Bun by unknown

Find more great hair ideas for your next party or date night.

3 Cookie Recipes and Dare to Share Saturday

School started for my boys this week.  It has taken us all week to finally be able to get into a routine with our mornings, getting out the door, getting home, homework, dinner, and bedtimes.  Yikes. 

Now that we've survived the first week, I want to celebrate by getting back into our Cookie Friday family tradition.

We love to bake cookies on Friday afternoon after the kids get home from school.  This allows me to hear all about their day as well as kicking off the weekend with some fun and family time.

This year, I'd like to try making new cookie recipes each week.  This will allow us to get though our Pinterest recipes to see if there are any true gems in there as well as allow the kids to see that "new" recipes aren't all bad.  (Are my kids the only ones that hate to try new things? Yikes.)

I'm glad that you guys had so many great recipes to share at last week's Dare to Share Saturday.  Here are 3 new cookie recipes that I'm going to add to my Cookie Recipe board and give a try with the kids.

1. Left Over Candy Blondie Recipe by The Jenny Evolution

2. Crunch Berry Snack Bars by Delightful E Made

3. Mint Chocolate Frozen Yogurt S'mores by The Bitter Side of Sweet

For now, we are going to enjoy the fact that school is over for the week.  We'll enjoy our weekend (despite having to teach my Marriage class) and even celebrate with a Harry Potter Back to Hogwarts party.

I hope you have a great weekend too.  In the meantime, I can't wait to see what you've been up to!

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50 Fun Date Ideas to Romance Your Spouse

Keep the Romance alive in your marriage with these 50 fun date night ideas.  Spending quality time together will help you to be more than just roommates and be friends, lovers, and partners.

I'm preparing a lesson this week for our Women's church group.  It's on Marriage and I wanted to come up with some fun ideas to help keep the romance alive. 

We all know how hard that is after several years of marriage.  We fall into a rut and it's easy to become roommates rather than partners and lovers.

So keep the romance alive in your marriage by trying these fun date night ideas.

1. Dress up a meal at your favorite fast food restaurant.   Use a tablecloth, centerpiece, and your favorite music to enjoy your food.
2. Buy a half gallon of your favorite ice cream, go to your favorite park, throw a blanket on the ground, and eat the whole thing together.
3. Attend a free outdoor concert
4. Walk hand in hand along a nature trail and have a scavenger hunt.
5. Watch  a sunset together.
6. Rent your favorite movies and have a double feature snuggled together on the couch.
7. Go on a Window Shopping date to your spouse's favorite store.  Note what he/she looks at under $20 and buys a few items over the next few weeks to surprise her or him.
8. Give each other a couple's massage.
9. Make homemade taffy together.
10. Make a homemade movie recreating your first date or how you met.
11. Star Gaze at a local planetarium.
12. Have a water fight with water guns or balloons.
13. Take a music class together and learn to play an instrument.
14. Take a dance class together
15. Go to a mystery dinner theater and figure out who did it.
16. Be a tourist in your own town.  Eat at a place you've never eaten at before. Take a horse drawn carriage ride. Take pictures together in front of the local museum or park statues.
17. Serve together at a local food bank or other worthy cause.
18. Go camping in your backyard with marshmallows camp songs, and ghost stories.
19. Go to a penny arcade and challenge each other to different games.
20. Go to a local fruit picking farm and then make pie or cider with your proceeds.
21. Go to a drive in movie and make a bed in the back of a truck or car to snuggle together on.
22. Have a movie night complete with themed meals and decorations.
23. Go tubing in the river.
24. Make and fly kites together.
25. Get lost in a corn maze together
26. Pack up watercolors and an easel and visit your favorite park or nature preserve. Sit side by side and draw.
27.  Each person gets $5 at the grocery store to buy any food item .  Come home and prepare a crazy meal with whatever you purchased.
28. Have a progressive dinner at local restaurants. Go to a different restaurant for each stage of the meal. 
29. Rent a tandem bike and ride around together.
30. Go bowling but come up with crazy ways to bowl.  Like blindfolded, backwards, granny style.
31. Play a game of HORSE at the local basketball court.
32. Have a fire and make S'mores.
33. Bake cookies together and deliver them to all your friends or neighbors.
34. Go to a high school football game, tailgate in the parking lot and cheer the local team
35. People watch at a local mall.
36. Go to the library or bookstore and find the craziest non fiction book you can.  Read to each other.
37. Make a list of unique and fun items.  Visit local garage sales to scavenger hunt for them.
38. Grab some friends and play a game of Couples Minute to Win It games.
39. Play a game of Would You Rather?
40. Challenge each other to fun games on the Wii Game system or other games.
41. Karaoke together
42. Recreate your first date
43. Play a romantic game of Truth or Dare
44. Dress up in your fancy clothes and go out to dinner.
45. Take a Hot Air Balloon ride
46. Get out of town and go somewhere you've never been before.
47. Rent a convertible and go for a drive
48. Take a exercise class together
49. Create a bucket list and do at least one thing on it
50. Have a chocolate tasting night.

Looking for a Good Escape from the Kids tonight?

Are you looking for a way to take a break from your normal everyday activities?  Escape into a book with these fun Kindle reads.  With a little bit of romance, mystery, fantasy, and thrill, these books are sure to excite you and help you lose yourself in a good book.

Sometimes it's nice to get away from the everyday stress that we carry around.  With jobs as moms, caregivers, party goers, and worker bees, it's nice to slip into a good book sometimes.  I admit this is my favorite way to end the day.

If you are looking for a good book to read, check out these books.  I have added them to my TBR list on my Kindle so I can read while I'm in the carpool line or hiding in my room after the kids go to bed.

Let me know if you've read any of these before.  Or if you know of any other good books to enjoy.  I'm always on the lookout for new books.  Are you?

Not By Sight (Stone Rivers)
by Kay Lyons Stockham

Can you love someone and still be free?

Emma Wyatt agrees to tutor a recently blinded, embittered soldier because of the $50,000 paycheck his brother offers. The job is an answer to many prayers. Blind herself, Emma dreams of independence and freedom away from her overprotective family. Tutoring Ian in all things “blind” isn’t easy, especially when the biggest challenge is helping him walk by faith.

Protect someone you cannot see?

Good soldiers show no weakness. Ian MacGregor holds his battle with claustrophobia close to his chest, unsuccessfully trying to cope on his own, too angry with God to seek comfort. Ian knows duty, honor, serving his country. So why is he being punished with this very personalized hell?

As Ian struggles to strong-arm his phobia and let go of his anger, his growing feelings for Emma are overshadowed by the danger lurking around them. Emma would be better off with someone else. Someone sighted.

Someone able to protect her from the person determined to keep them apart...

Black Rain
by Matthew BJ Delaney

In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street’s Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life…until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico’s door.

As a small band of Synthate rebels steps up its attack on the status quo, Jack encounters a pleasure-parlor girl who opens his eyes to their cause. When he dares to sympathize with the rebels, Jack is hunted down and arrested for the murder. Sentenced to die in the brutal games on Bloomberg Island, Jack will be forced to fight—for his life, for the future of all Synthates, and for a chance to uncover the mind-bending secret buried in his past.

Kiss of Deception (Remnant Chronicles)

by Mary E Pearson

In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn't—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met.

On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love.

Love of Her Lives
by Sharon Clare
Category:
Kindle Unlimited FREE

Calum and Beth are soul mates who have lived many lives together, lusting, loving, and dying for each other. While their lives are often turbulent, their eternal bond is secure - or so Calum thinks - until Beth decides to live a life on her own. Left behind in the Upper World, he sees a wrongful imprisonment in her future, so he bargains with Finn, an elven trickster, to return to Earth, rescue Beth, and reclaim her heart. Unfamiliar with the twenty-first century, he must determine who plots against Beth while playing Finn's sensual game, a game designed to awaken her repressed passion and keep them on the run together.

Beth has no recollection of their lives together and didn't ask this sexually charged stranger to come to her aid. When she takes a risk to help an abused woman, she is horrified to find her house ransacked and her life threatened. With a secret to keep, she takes the greatest risk of all - trusting Calum. Her life soon depends upon re-evaluating everything she thought normal as she becomes embroiled in Finn's game. Her eternal bond with Calum will only be saved if Beth can rescue the man who spanned worlds to rescue her.

Tears of the Sea
by Mary Lu Tyndall
Kindle Unlimited FREE

Doomed by the evil warlock Forwin to wander the ancient seas as a mermaid for all eternity, Perdita longs for the release death would bring. Every ten years she has a chance to break the curse when she emerges from the sea fully human for one month. The catch? She must find a man willing to die for her. Yet, after three hundred years, her failures have left her heartbroken and alone.

Savion Ryne wants nothing to do with beautiful women. It was one such woman whose betrayal sent him far away to battle Natas’s rebellion. He longs to return to his father’s kingdom in Nevaeh, but he is destined for a mission, but where and to help whom? He doesn't know. After Savion falls off his ship during a storm, he wakes on the shores of an island with visions of a dark-haired mermaid tending his wounds. Later, when a woman similar in appearance begs for his protection, he is suspicious.

Perdita has never met anyone as honorable as Savion. Even though he shuns her every advance, she falls for him. But as the end of her time on land approaches, she faces the hardest decision of all: save Savion and remain cursed for all eternity or break the curse and watch the man she loves die.

Magic Unbound (Fae Unbound)
by Jill Nojack
Kindle Unlimited FREE

Not-quite-sixteen year old Lizbet Moore expects a boring last month of summer vacation -- and she gets what she’s expecting until a fifteen hundred year old Fae named Eamon shows up in her backyard disguised as a down-on-his-luck garden gnome. When Eamon slips an ancient amulet around her neck, the memories of Lizbet’s many past lives, including her first life as Morgan Le Fae, come slamming back to her to change her summer plans in a way she could never have expected.

Forced to go on the run when murderous monks show up at the back door, Lizbet hops a plane to Scotland accompanied by Eamon, the whispering voices of her past lives, and geekily cute James, the college boy from next door. Not only does she have to dodge the monks, but she’s racing against time and greedy land developers to prevent the entire race of the Fae from being destroyed.

The only thing Lizbet knows for sure is that if she fails and can't produce a few live fairies at the end of her journey, she is going to be grounded for life...and probably for her next life, too.

Harry Potter Party Ideas

Harry Potter and Hogwarts is the perfect party for any magic loving muggle.  This party theme works for Halloween, birthdays, or Back to School.  Find all of your party needs from party decorations to party printables to inspirational parties here.  And don't forget to join the party and get a free Dementor game printable here.

3 Organization Ideas for Back to School and Dare to Share Saturday

School starts for us on Monday. 

Hooray!!

With all the craziness of this summer and the move, I am so ready for the kids to get out and make new friends and start school again.

Mini Me is super excited, but The Perfectionist is fighting it every step of the way.

Me, I'm celebrating all the way to the bus stop. 

While they are gone, I plan to finally finish the last of the unpacking and get things organized around here.  So it was super nice to be able to see all the great organization ideas you guys shared at last week's Dare to Share Saturday.

1. Kid's Homework Station by Clean and Scentsible

2. School Door Organization by C.R.A.F.T.

3. Laundry Room Makeover by Inspiration for Moms

I am finishing up the last of the projects for our Back to Hogwarts school party this weekend, but will still be sharing them on the blog over the next two weeks.  I have lots to show you, so hopefully you won't get tired of Harry and his friends during that time.

If you can't make it to the blog for all the fun, be sure to sign up for our Email newsletter to have it all delivered to your inbox every Saturday afternoon, as well as free printables and party ideas.

I can't wait to see what you've been up to this week!

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