The Wood and Pearl Bracelet $10.00
“Oval-shaped wood sections are united with small beads in between and finished with a circular shaped pearl overlay. Elastic provides stretch. From our Bali Collection.”
This bracelet was very comfy and did not scratch my arm at all. It has a nice look and feel to it! I like it alot and will be wearing it alot this summer. It adds a really nice touch to any summer outfit.
Pop Top Bracelet $5.00
A bracelet made from can pop tops and ribbon. Perfect for the little princess. Handmade by the vendors of StreetWise. Each item comes with the picture and story of the individual who made it. One size fits all wrists. For custom colors and orders please inquire at info@fiveaccessories.com or call 312.504.3483.
This bracelet comes in a lot of different styles and colors (ribbon wise) and you can get custom orders done at the above info. I thought that this bracelet was appealing to the eye and was very fun and cute. Perfect for a child or even fun loving teenage girl! I don’t know if I really would wear this one alot but my children like it.
I received these products in exchange for some work that I did for someone.
Well, this is long overdue review, as I have had these bracelets for awhile now. I was suppose to write this up at about the same time as the recycled picture frame. Regardless, I am doing it now, right?
I like jewelry, but tend to like it in small portions and sizes. For instance, when I was in my teens or early twenties my childless aunt had all of my sisters and female cousins look at her jewelry to tell her what we wanted upon her death (she’s still alive today), I chose my grandmother’s wedding band. My aunt was shocked and asked me if I wanted her huge diamond cluster instead. I told her no that my grandmother’s ring had more meaning to me and the huge diamond just wasn’t me.
So this brings me to my review, the triangular bracelet is bulkier than I would normally wear, but surprisingly it doesn’t feel as bulky as it looks. But it still takes some getting use to when I am use to small chain or bead bracelets. However, it has a comfortable fit and is appealing to the eye. It is made out of solid wood with elastic.
The flowered bracelet has been a favorite of mine since I first learned of five ACCESSORIES, and I actually gave my mother-in-law one for her birthday. She loves blue. I love flowers and this definitely attracted my eye. It has a nice loose fit, is very pretty and is my favorite of the two.
Both are well made and will be a great accessory for nearly any casual outfit.
Here are a couple of photos of my eggplant purple Mayu eyelet capelet. My oldest daughter didn’t want to show her face, so that is why it is covered…guess she doesn’t know yet that I have a photo of the children up online…shhh…;-)
You can see the detail in the hand-knit stitches, again it is extremely well made and I love it!
I did receive this product in exchange for work I did for someone.
At the risk of being very repetitive, I am most delighted with my Mayu alpaca products! I couldn’t believe the softness of alpaca in a finished product. The designs and look of Mayu’s products really catch your eye and the attention of others when wearing them or showing them to others. My last product from Mayu is a short eggplant purple capelet, which has replaced my old beat up sweater!
My capelet is the eyelet version with a hoodie, Mayu also has the two-colored hooded capelet, a fringed halfie, eyelet halfie, a long eyelet hoodie, as well as a long hoodie. My capelet has two knitted ties that close the front of the capelet. I think it is a great product! It has added warmth with my winter jacket, I can also put it on like a sweater and it takes the chill away. I think it will even be very practical for discreet nursing. The short capelets retail for $139.00 and the long hoodies retail for $179.00.
I haven’t had a chance to take pictures of my capelet, so for now I am going to post Mayu’s photos. When my older daughters are home I will get photos, although I may try with my younger girls in the meantime.
I did receive this product in exchange for work I did for someone.
I have loved the look of this flowered hat from Mayu ever since I saw it on their model. It is another handmade, hand-knit alpaca product. It comes in several colors: charcoal gray, chocolate brown, kelly green, red, eggplant purple and orange. I received a kelly green one. It is just as soft as the throw and just as beautiful in design. However, it was too small for my head! 
I was very disappointed. For some reason, it doesn’t quite cover my ears. It fits my all my children pretty well, especially the ones with less hair. If you look at the model pictures on Mayu’s website, the one of her wearing the eggplant purple looks smaller than the photo of her in the cream colored one. It is supposed to be a one size fits all, but if you have a lot of hair or a big head (yikes!) then you may want to ask them to custom make your hat or just order one of their slouch hats. These hats and the slouch ones retail for $59.00. Again, they are hand-knit by Peruvian artisans in the Andes Mountains and the sale of these products goes towards helping support the women who make them. Please visit www.shopmayu.com for more information.
Here are a couple of photos:
I was sent a complimentary Friendship Bag by Daisy Cook LLC in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of Victorian Style Pink Friendship Bag.
My two youngest daughters were very excited to receive the box containing a Rebelle Friendship Bag; even our oldest daughter, at her age, was interested in the Friendship Bags, but I think that she will outgrow it faster than the two younger ones will. So that’s why I opted that the younger girls would be my review assistants with this product.
Ms. Cook sent us a Victorian Style Pink Friendship bag, just in time for Valentine’s Day! It is a pretty pink, with pink hearts, silver rhinestones and a pink-purple-turqouise-gold paisley background.
The neat and interesting thing about a Friendship bag is the fact that it is a two-in-one bag. It is actually two small purses that zip together and can be detached and shared! I didn’t realize that it did this before I received the bag. I like this feature for my girls because my older daughter can zip her 3-year-old’s purse to hers when we go out and keep it from getting lost!
This feature is unique in that all of the Friendship bags will mix-n-match, so girlfriends/sisters can trade, share and wear their bags together.
Yet another surprise was a little card inside the bags saying that the recipient has a secret code that can be entered online. It took us a little time to figure out where the secret code was because at first I thought it was on the card and you had to scratch it off to see the secret number. When that didn’t work, my daughter discovered a pink tag sewn inside the bag that says, “Cut open to reveal your secret code”. Okay, just imagine a nine-year-old and a three-year-old on a secret mission to find their code. They were really into this! I cut the code tag out to eliminate any accidents that might result in little hands cutting their purses and inside the tag was a piece of paper with their code. Then they were eager to go online to see what happened when they entered their codes!
We visited www.FriendshipBags.com and clicked to sign up where you have to enter your name (I didn’t use my daughters’ real names!), email address, password, and if they are under 12, then a parent’s email address is required. And lastly, their secret codes!
Once their secret codes were entered, they were then told they could enter the Design Studio! They have had so much fun designing outfits for the Rebelle Girlz. The girls can even create their own patterns, which I think is going to be more interesting to my two older girls than the younger girls at this point. Through the design site, the girls are even able to email their creations to the owner, Daisy Cook, for consideration for future ideas etc. for Rebelle! Oh yeah, you go girls!
I am very impressed and like the fact that they can learn and create through the website. My nine-year-old, “Giggles”, really liked the rocky music that introduces the website.
I asked my girls what they would rate their new purses, 10 being the best and 0 being the yuckiest and they gave them a 10! (“Blondie”, my three-year-old, had a little help from her sister! 
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You may visit www.FriendshipBags.com for more information and choices of bags. By the way, I forgot to mention that the Friendship Bags retail for $40.00. That’s only $20.00/gift if you have two girls or a daughter and her friend. Pricey, but not too bad when you think of it like that.
Here’s a couple of videos, one of the secret code and one of the Design Studio:
I recently made a pretty frivilous purchase – at least for me. I have had my eye on and been wondering about Kikic’s Glam Bags – Luxe Reuseable Travel Bags for awhile and finally decided to splurge to see what they were like. They are an “upscale” zipper bag to carry personal products in while traveling. Definitely feminine and more attractive thant he brand name or off brand zipper bages, but very pricey. A box of 18 quart size bags retails ofr $9.95. Glam Bags are not quite as thick as the top name brand, however, nor are they thin, flimsy plastic either of the cheapest brands. So I’d probably classify it as middle of the road. They are definitely geared towards the fashion conscious female who frequently travels.
I have to admit taht I have not had the opportunity to travel with them yet or wash them extensively, but considering that they are comparable to what we usually buy to protect our clothing from spilled personal care items, I am sure that they will hold up just as well as other brands.
If Glam Bags are just the thing you have been looking for, you may purchase them at www.kikic.com
