Libra Tea at Home or On-The-Go

My family is always on the go. We do enjoy tea at home but it is nice to have the option to take it on the go especially with holiday travels. We all want to lead healthy, active lives and inspire our families and friends - enjoy a tea moment anywhere anytime with the stylish and convenient solution for teas, herbs and fruit infusions 'on the go'.

The Libre tea glass is a pretty and practical choice for convenient leaf tea 'on the go'. Its removable filter keeps all the leaves, or the bag, in the glass away from your mouth - great for fruits or soothing herbal elixirs. You can create your own flavorful beverage and enjoy. Wonderful herbal teas are a great way to wind down at the end of a long day. Our 'how to video' shows 3 ways to use and brew tea.

The 100% BPA free, Libre tea glasses keep drinks hot or cold, are very durable and ensure a fresh taste every time due to their easy wash glass interior - its the only to go thermos you'll need at the soccer field, yoga class, on a hike, the morning dog walk or curled up on the couch. We love to inspire tea moments anywhere, anytime - take a sip, watch your tea leaves dance and enjoy relaxing tea moment for yourself.

This holiday give your friends and family an inspired and unique gift you can use all year round. Choose from our Classic Collection - sophisticated metal trim with gold detailed lids, or our Libre Life Collection - bright, joyful patterns - and watch the leaves dance. We have great deals on 6pcs Holiday Gift Paks for all the tea lovers on your list.

Guess what?? My readers get to save! Great for Holiday Gifts, Calm moments and Traveling!

Here is the pretty 'n practical tea glass infuser! Libra Tea does have amazing color choices! Enjoy a tea moment @libretea with 10% off till Nov15 and do use the code USAMoms10 @usfg

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Healthy Holiday Gift Guide for Active Adults

I'm so excited to kick of the holidays this year with a healthy guide for active adults. I am on a healthier lifestyle journey and I know a lot of you are as well. So I will be sharing my favorites this year and include any coupons, discounts codes, deals that I can find to go along with them. Check in frequently as I plan on keeping it updated as well as adding/changing codes & offers.

1- Get fashionable and active boots at Lugz this year! I ordered a pair and will show my boots, soon. In the mean time, check out my Lugz review here and grab the 30% off discount code! You will find boots for all occasions and especially for those who love to be in the outdoors hiking or trail walking.

2- Libra Tea Practical Tea Glass Infuser. This is the bomb diggity bomb for tea lovers for at home or on the go! I have a 10% off offer from Libra tea over here at my blog post. Go check it out! 

Send me a message cafescrapper at gmail dot com, tag me @susieqtpies or #susieqtpiescafe on any of your social media sites/post so that I can see what you purchased or to ask me any questions. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. 

Introducing Fall Fashionable Boots for the Family #lugz

Fall is here and time to get the family new boots or maybe some just for mom! Lugz has been making great footwear since 1993 for the entire family. I love one stop shopping, don't you? Even better is online shopping for the entire family. I'm so excited that Lugz is now introducing their new Fall and Winter Line for Ladies and it has everything you'll need to look fashionable, be comfortable and ready to take on whatever comes your way. Want to go shopping? CLICK photos to go see the featured boots! This is a sponsored post but my own opinions are expressed here. I will be ordering and reviewing Lugz boots for my blog. 

Time to treat yourself with a new pair of shoes from Lugz. You can use my special blog code MYTREAT30 for 30% off on boots at Lugz. (excludes sale items and cannot be combined with other coupons and Expires: 11/22/2015) 

Check out current special offers HERE.  

Follow LUGZ online, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Check back here in a few weeks and I will have a review on my new Lugz boots!

Send me a message, tag me or #susieqtpiescafe on any of your social media sites/post so that I can see what you purchase. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. 

Workout Essentials for Active Moms ad #Underwareness #IC

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Depend. I received product samples to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

I am one of "those" women who love working out. Over three years ago I decided it was time to get healthy. My weight was the highest it had ever been along with my blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol. So I started moving! I moved more and ate less and less crap. The more that I moved the more workouts I wanted to try. Unfortunately that also meant my bladder would have unexpected leaking issues when I would do faster running times, dance jumps, and even when I was leading an exercise class! Anyone else experience this bladder leakage while in the action of every day life?

I'm a mom of three and over 40. Just because that is my title doesn't mean I can't be active. I'm more active now than ever! I refused to let me bladder leakage stop me from getting the healthiest possible!  I learned that over 51 million American women also experience bladder leakage. So that is like 1 out of 3 American women! That isn't something we just talk about at the gym but it has come up on occasion. A lot of them ask why they have leakage while working out. As a mom of 3 I'm well aware that common causes are pregnancy, childbirth, and even diabetes. With this knowledge we can arm ourselves with the right clothing at the gym.

When I'm picking out my workout gear, I'm also including Depend Silhouette Active Fit Briefs. These briefs are amazing! They are a moderate-absorbency brief with a thin design for complete comfort with the trusted Depend brand. These briefs look, fit and feel just like low rise underwear. I know that having on the right underwear at the gym is top priority for me, especially when I'm leading my Fit Club or PiYo classes. I'm extremely modest and do not want my undies showing while working out.

These Depend Silhouette Active Fit briefs are made from a smooth cloth-like fabric and are really comfy. I do not even know that I'm wearing them nor does anyone else. I know that no one really wants to discuss bladder leakage because it is embarrassing but please, don't be embarrassed. It is ok to wear the right equipment when working out and this includes what is underneath your yoga pants. I help a lot of women with their healthier lifestyle goals and I will share this info with them. I don't want bladder leakage keeping anyone out of the gym. You have to watch this video! It is hilarious because it is an "Underware Only Gym"!

The Depend brand is on their second year of Underwareness. This is a social movement and charitable cause to break down the bladder leakage stigma! As part of this Underwareness, the Depend brand is encouraging people to show their support for women with bladder leakage. That is why I'm sharing this blog post. You can get in on the action, too! For every photo and video shared using the hashtag #Underwareness, the Depend brand will donate $1, up to $3 million through 2016 to fund charities that advance the research and education of bladder leakage. Amazing right?

Join the movement and request a free sample of Depend Silhouette Active Fit briefs at Underwareness. Get a coupon to use on your first purchase!You can also follow them as Depend on Facebook and Twitter. Search for #Underwareness.

Have you ever been Pulled, Tugged, or Shoved into an Unknown Direction?

Several months back I saw a bible that had journaling in the margins with words and photos. The journaling was done by hand using markers, pencils, colored pencils, etc. The journaling emphasized a verse on that page. I kept seeing more and more journaling to the point where I really felt this could be a way to help me grow in the Word. Have you ever felt a strong pull, tug, or a shove in a direction you never considered?

Here is a quick backstory on me and how I just recently felt pulls, tugs & shoves! Years ago I had a journaling bible which was just a bible that had wide margins so that you could take notes during bible study. I don't remember how I came to have this bible but I loved it. It was full of hand written notes. I loved looking over it to see what I had been learning in bible study. Then Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 and that was the end of my journaling bible. The flood waters took it from me. It was probably one of my biggest losses from Katrina 10 years ago. Right now it still brings me to tears. Over the years, my mind wandered to my bible and what I had written down about a particular passage we were currently covering. I know bibles can be replaced but over these past 10 years I never allowed myself to get into bible study and really take notes. I think I was just in my own state of shock all those years until I saw some bible journaling on Instagram. 

How in the world can this happen? I know it wasn't of my doing especially since it was 10 years later. I was being pulled, tugged and shoved into this. I really feel as though the Holy Spirit is reminding me of the wonders of the Word of God. Someone asked me if I haven't been going to church the past 10 years. Yes I do go weekly to bible study and to church. The hurricane didn't make me abandon my faith but I feel like I had some sort of heavy weight on me that has been lifted. 

Besides not getting a bible to journal the past 10 years, I also haven't allowed myself time to be crafty. I used to make hand stamped cards, teach stamping and scrapbooking, and more. A lot of my craft supplies did survive the hurricane, oddly enough. My craft area in New Orleans didn't have roof damage and was on a floor that didn't mold. So most of those supplies were saved and are now 10-20 years old! The supplies have all been in my basement and our girls have used them the past 10 years. 

So 10 years of no bible journal and no crafting all came crashing together with this thing called bible journaling that I kept seeing on Instagram. Natural curiosity took over and that led me to find groups on bible journaling on Facebook. I was even friends with Connie, the first Instagram account where I saw this bible journaling. I was totally blown away by what people were doing in their bibles. After checking it all out I told my hubby that I wanted to order a bible! I'm certain that this seemed odd to him since we have bibles in our home, I have a bible and I use one on my phone but I needed a journaling bible to get back into the word. Not only that, but combine it with my inks, pencils, craft supplies, markers, chalks, etc that I haven't used the past 10 years.

I really feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. I'm so excited to see where this bible journaling takes me and who will go along the journey with me. I've already met new friends online, created a Facebook group for new bible journaling people, and created my very first Periscope on bible journaling. I'm also finding my every day friends wanting to join in!

If you ever feel a strong pull, tug or shove toward something then stop and look around you. Take the time to go in that direction and pray about it. I did that and I really feel that now, 10 years later I am moving forward and out of the waters of hurricane Katrina that had held me down from really living in the Word of God.  I'm saying prayers of thanksgiving that Jesus had me all along through baptism, absolution, gospel and sacrament which were delivered to me by pastors along the way including my husband. I pray the same for you. 

I will be sharing Bible Journaling 101 On the Cheap ideas so do follow along!

• Here on my blog
• ItsOurDay Facebook Group
• Periscope as SusieQTpies - what is this? Go get the Periscope app for your phone. Then search me and follow!
• Instagram as MakeTime4_Church
• Twitter as SusieQTpies
• Pinterest as SusieQTpies
• Katch.me SusieQTpies

FREE 50 Amish Friendship Recipe Cookbook

Way back in the day I baked A LOT of Amish Friendship Bread, created friendship bread recipes for my own blog and helped create friendship bread recipes for the blog, Friendship Bread Kitchen​ amongst other things.

Today I noticed author Darien Gee​'s Quick & Easy 50 Amish Friendship Recipe Cookbook FREE on Kindle. Go check it out. I was excited to look through it as see my contributions and my name in the back of the book. 

This was one of those fun things I did when I wasn't eating so healthy :) LOL I can't remember when I last baked a loaf but this time of the year makes me want to create a starter and make a few! I might even have a starter somewhere in my freezer! 

Here are some of the recipes on my blog, too! Feel free to pin them and make & share this fall!

Super Baby Soft Pampers Premium Diapers are a MUST!

Hey everyone! I hope you are having a super summer! One of the things that I do in the summer is work at my friend's home day care. This is really rewarding for me because I am a mom to 3 girls which 2 of them no longer live at home. The last one is busy with school and work so I see her less and less each passing week. Empty nesting is real! So I've set the stage for you why I love working at the day care, right? It gives me snuggle time with little ones, teaching potty training and even...yes I even find joy in changing diapers!!!! This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Pampers

So my experience with Pampers goes back many years but today I'm here to share with you about the new Pampers Premium Care diapers! I have always LOVED Pampers! I love the smell (out of the box) but as a day care worker there are more features to rejoice about!

The Pampers Premium Care diapers have a cool absorb away liner which pulls the wetness and mess away from the skin. We change diapers all.the.time.all.day.long so no one has to be in a wet or messy diaper but messes happen and we don't want our babies bottoms to be sore! 

The material is breathable to keep air circulating around their super soft skin. I did notice that these premium care diapers had extra absorb channels to help distribute wetness evenly for  up to 12 hour protection. Even though they don't nap for 12 hours at the daycare, they are still sleepers and we love this reassurance that they are sitting in a pile of wetness in one spot.

Look at this little cutie and her dollie! Both are wearing a fresh diaper and are happy! I love how little ones want their babies changed, too! 

What do you look for in a diaper? If you are looking for any of the above features, give Pampers Premium Care a try! They will be available later in the month at your neighborhood Walmart! 

You can follow them on Twitter @Pampers or @Walmart and you can check out Premium Care Diapers online! If you want to see what others are saying about these super soft baby diapers, then do a social media search for #MothersPromise. 

Oh and guess what? You could be 1 of 4 winners in the Instagram Giveaway! Enter today as it ends in a few weeks!