Product Review: Apparel N Bags

From time to time, Word Spelunking is asked to write product reviews. Sometimes these are book related products, sometimes they are not. Today, I have a non-book related product review to share...

Apparel N Bags offers a wide variety of wholesale apparel, accessories, and bags and has a large selection of brands, styles, and sizes for men, women, and children. Their clothing and accessories range from casual to work-wear, athletic wear, and outer wear. Apparel N Bags also offers customized decorations through embroidery, screen print, heat transfer, applique, and laser etching services. With affordable and competitive prices and such a huge selection of products, Apparel N Bags is a great one stop shop for businesses, schools, sports teams, and more!

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I was given the chance to choose one product from Apparel N Bags, for this review, and I chose the  Youth Essential Tie-Dye Pullover Hooded Sweatshirt from Port & Company. I chose a Youth XS in the Rainbow tie dye for my two year old niece...

The pullover hooded sweatshirt was shipped super fast and arrived only a few days after my order was placed. It arrived in excellent condition and looks exactly the way it's pictured on the website. It's made of a super soft, comfy, and durable cotton. Right now, the sweatshirt is too big for my niece, but she will soon grow into it and I can tell that it will provide a lot of warmth. These sweatshirts are hand-dyed and the tie-dye colors are fantastic. My picture above doesn't show how bold and bright the pretty colors are! This particular sweatshirt comes in 11 awesome and fun colors to choose from. 

I love the roomy front pouch pocket and the drawstring-less hood.  I know my niece will be able to wear the practical and fun hoodie for several winters. Overall, I'm quite impressed with the quality and look of the sweatshirt, and appreciated the super fast shipping. 

**Disclaimer: I received this product free of charge for review purposes and my honest review was not effected by this. The thoughts and opinions in this post are all mine.

Pippa Morgan's Diary Spotlight Tour {excerpt & giveaway}

I'm so excited to have the Pippa Morgan's Diary Spotlight Tour, celebrating this new middle-grade title, stopping by today...

Pippa Morgan’s Diary

by Annie Kelsey

October 6, 2015

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Sometimes a little white lie can land you in a whole lot of trouble…

Pippa’s new BFF Catie Brown is perfect. So perfect, that Pippa tells her a teeny tiny lie—that she once auditioned for Voice Factor—to impress her. And it works.  It works so well, in fact, that Catie enters Pippa into the school talent show.

The only problem? Pippa can’t sing. Not at all.  In fact, her singing is so bad it scares the neighbors. But if she doesn’t participate in the talent show, Catie will know she lied. But if she does participate, the whole school will find out what a horrible singer she is...including Catie!

It’s up to Pippa to put an end to this pesky problem!

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Praise for Pippa Morgan’s Dairy

“With its approachable style and friendly language, this is sure to please both older fans of Rebecca Elliott’s “Owl Diaries” (Scholastic) and reluctant readers alike.” –School Library Journal

“Likable characters in humorous situations make for a promising series opener.”  –Kirkus

“A charming story about the lengths you can go to win someone over, this is a great addition to the perennially popular illustrated-journal trend in middle-grade fiction. Although the character-created sketches can draw Wimpy Kid comparisons, the tone more closely matches Marissa Moss’ Amelia’s Notebook (1995)… the perfect quick read for any student with starry-eyed aspirations and a big imagination.”- Booklist

EXCERPT FROM PIPPA MORGAN'S DIARY

Sunday

I can still smell the stink of the moving van. Rachel and I just hugged and cried as they loaded her stuff on. Then I watched like a big-eyed kid who’d just lost her puppy while Rachel waved out of the window of her parents’ car.

I will NEVER forgive Rachel’s parents—I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THEY DECIDED THAT RACHEL SHOULD LIVE IN SCOTLAND INSTEAD OF THREE DOORS AWAY FROM ME!

Scotland is, like, a gazillion miles away.

Rachel said Nothing Would Change Really. *rolls eyes* She said, We’ll still be best friends even though I’m so far away. I love Rachel but sometimes she can be one fry short of a Happy Meal.

Of course we’ll be best friends. But it’s not the same. I can only talk to her on the phone. I don’t get to see her every day.

We can NEVER AGAIN dress up in my dad’s extra-high-visibility cycling gear and go and stand under the fluorescent lights in the supermarket and see how many shoppers we can dazzle. The frozen-food section was best because the freezers had this cold blue glow that turned us practically luminous. We’d offer to help shoppers reach for fish sticks or ice cream and try not to giggle when they’d half-close their eyes like they were staring into the sun.

We loved dressing up. Last summer, we pretended we were characters from The Lady of Morpeth Abbey—which was our favorite TV show EVER. It was soooo romantic and all the characters wore beautiful old-fashioned clothes. Rachel and I raided every thrift store in town until we’d made the BEST costumes. Rachel dressed as Mr. Hunderbentleman (buckle-y shoes and a frilly shirt and a big hat and everything) and I wore ten big skirts on top of each other and put my hair in a bun so I looked like Lady Monteith, and we spent the whole day talking like our characters.

RACHEL: Lady Monteith, may I bring you something from my morning stroll as a token of my admiration?

ME: I would be eternally grateful if you brought me a dozen roses, Mr. Hunderbentleman, for my pretty nose needs something delicate to smell.

RACHEL: (giggling) My dear lady! Why don’t you stroll with me and we may smell the roses together?

ME: Oh, Mr. Hunderbentleman! I am so lucky to know such a kind gentleman as you.

And we did it ALL day. Mom and Dad thought it was really funny (Mom and Dad were still married then) and it was the best day ever. Then Mom told us to go and get changed because my big skirts kept sweeping things off her knickknack shelf and Rachel had to go home for dinner.

I wonder what Rachel’s having for dinner tonight? I could have the same thing and it’d be like we were having dinner together like we used to when Rachel’s mom went to yoga.

But I can’t even text her to ask because she’s living on the side of a mountain in the middle of NOWHERE.

Annie Kelsey is a pseudonym for a well-known children’s book author.

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Spotlight-- Thirst: Blood of my Blood by RP Channing {giveaway}

I'm excited to be spotlighting author RP Channing's new young adult title, Thirst: Blood of my Blood, today...

Thirst: Blood of my Blood

by RP Channing

11/26/15

240+ Pages

WITH BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS

~ Kira Sutherland ~

After a near fatal accident (and getting cheated on by her 'boyfriend'), and beating up the lead cheerleader (with whom the boyfriend cheated...), and being labeled as having 'issues' in her school because she, uhm, sees ghosts, Kira is left with two choices:

1. Continue her 'therapy' (where she's told the ghost is a hallucination and also gets her legs ogled too often...)

Or

2. Go to Starkfield Academy, a boarding school for "Crazies and Convicts" (as the social media sites call them.)

She chooses the latter...

~ Cory Rand ~

Cory Rand has not had an easy life. His mother died in a car accident when he was twelve, and so did his mother's best friend...sort of. You see, Janice made a promise to take care of Cory just before she died, and so she lingers. Undead. A ghost that watches out for him.

Brought up in an abusive home, Cory quickly falls into a life of disreputable behavior. After his third offense (which was prompted by a girl, as usual - he has a weakness) he's left with two choices:

1. Be tried as an adult and share a cell with a guy named Bubba (he thinks...)

Or

2. Go to Starkfield Academy, which Cory is pretty sure is run by vampires. But, hey, at least he'll get an education.

He chooses the latter...

It's at Starkfield that Kira meets Cory Rand, a boy with an insatiable Rage who sees ghosts, too. As well as other things, other things from his past, things that confuse him, things like fire and witches and demons.

Things he's always ignored.

Until now.

goodreads / amazon US / amazon UK

available on Kindle Unlimited

R P Channing started writing three years ago, but never published anything even after churning out over a million words of fiction. Thirst: Blood of my Blood is the first book he dared to publish. When asked why, he said, “Because I wouldn’t feel bad telling my mother about it...” When not hammering away (most literally) at his keyboard, he can be found buried in a book, reading anything from romance to horror to young adult to non-fiction to comedy. If it has words in it, I’ll take it.

website * twitter * amazon

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Thirst: Blood of my Blood!

RP Channing has generously offered one ebook 

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