Showing posts with label recommendations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recommendations. Show all posts

Monday, February 24, 2014

Product Review: Style Selections LED Color Changing Night Light with Auto On/Off

The amount of little things we had to buy to "fit" into our new (MUCH bigger) house was mind boggling... more hand soap, trash cans, toilet paper, etc. Night lights were HIGH on the list. Our old house was so tiny that a single night light in our bathroom was all the illumination we needed in the dark of night. Not so in this house. Dark hallways and stairways and bathrooms were in abundance. A very early trip following our move was to Lowes to buy night lights. We went with LED for the energy efficiency. The price has come down so far on LEDs that they really weren't much more than the traditional incandescents .

We bought a four pack of basic on/off LED nightlights for the bathrooms, a power failure indicator nightlight that can also be used as a flashlight, and this color changing LED.  We got the flashlight variety for the downstairs hall outside our bedroom. The color changing LED is upstairs in the hall between the kids' rooms. I really like the color changing one! I would have loved to have this light as a kid. While our "flashlight" night light is a bit bright for a dark hallway in the middle of the night, the color changing night light is just the right brightness for safely walking in a darkened house. And both kids enjoy zoning out at night to the slow, steady change in color reflecting off the hall walls. If you need a night light, you should go with energy efficient and you might as well have one that is pretty and fun too. Highly recommended.



Edited to add a static picture, not just a video. 



Monday, January 27, 2014

Blog Recommendation - Wine for the Rest of Us.

Occasionally, I will post recommendations to other blogs. Many will be those of my friends.  Some will just be cool blogs I really enjoy reading. Hopefully these recommendations will help some of my readers find other fun, new and interesting things to read.

This week, I'm giving a shout out to my bandmate, Erik Karlsson, and his new wine blog... the wine blog for non-wine snobs.  Check out Wine for the Rest of Us and let me know what you think.

And since I like to always have a picture with my posts, here's a shot of Erik at our Super Bowl party a few years ago. You're welcome, Erik.