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5 Favorite Popular Christmas Events in Arizona

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Arizona is well known as very tourist friendly state during the winter months. The warmer temperatures in the winter months are a major attraction to people looking to escape the cold winter temperatures. It is also the best time of the year to live in Arizona due to the weather.

Because of the winter temperatures, Arizona has many Christmas and holiday themed events to entertain visitors and locals alike. Since this is such a nice time of the year to get out of the house and do things, I decided to pick my top five favorite Christmas themed events that happen annually in Arizona and feature them in a post. Some of them are well known events while others are things I like to do myself.

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Walt Disney’s Santa’s Toy Shop: A Little Golden Book New Printing Review

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Holidays are my favorite time of the year to read children’s books. When I was a child, I loved reading and hearing stories read to me during Christmas time. Today, I still like to read those same books for nostalgic reasons. One of my favorite books from childhood is A Little Golden Book called Walt Disney’s Santa’s Toy Shop.

Going through my old things, I found an old version of Santa’s Toy Shop in my things. Since it is old, and probably from the 1980’s or earlier, I decided to buy a newer version of the book. My plan is to use the new print of the book without worrying about damaging the older book.

Since I have a new version of the book, I wanted to write a review about this book for this year’s Blogmas!

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5 Favorite Christmas Light Parades in Arizona

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One of my favorite holiday traditions is Christmas light parades. Arizona has quite a few. Some are large while others are small. Still, I love them all. Since I am thinking of going to a light parade this year, I decided to write a list of my five favorite light parades in Arizona.

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Books I Want to Read in 2024

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Since it is the last day of 2023, I decided to write a list of all the books I want to read in 2024. I did this in 2023, you can read that post here, but I didn’t actually finish the list! Instead, 2023 was a busy year for me. Sadly, whenever the year gets busy like it did in 2023, I don’t like to read. Instead, I like to watch TV or sleep… usually sleep! For 2024, I’m trying to make a list of the books I feel the most confident I will read before the end of the year. I feel like this list is a healthy list of books I feel very drawn to and books I want to read or reread in 2024. I hope in 2024 will provide me with more opportunities to read instead of just rest!

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Favorite Beauty Products for 2023

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It’s the last day of the year, which means it is time to reflect on the past year! For me, there have been many things that I can reflect on in a post. Even though I feel drawn to talk about things more important than beauty products, I still believe like I need to talk about the products I really enjoyed using or discovering in 2023. This list isn’t as long as it could be, yet I am very thankful these products were available for me to purchase and use this year!

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Salon Perfect x Wonka Collection Haul

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In December, there were holiday beauty collections I liked to look at, but didn’t want to own. One of the collections I wanted to own products from was the Salon Perfect x Wonka collection.

The collection, which I talked about in a separate post here, included acrylic nails, nail polish, and nail decals. Between the three, I liked the nail polish the most. Nail polish is the most usable for me. Also, the colors were really pretty! So, I decided to buy all the nail polish colors I knew would look the best on my skin tone.

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Elf x Makeup Revolution London Collection Haul

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It is the last day of 2023 and I have yet to publish all my Blogmas posts! So, in order to beat the clock, I’m going to post as many as I need to make 25 posts for December. I’m going to start with my Elf x Makeup Revolution London collection haul.

I liked many of the products in the haul, but I didn’t want to own them. Instead, I decided to focus on the ones I want to own the most: the lip glosses.

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Dashing Diva Home for the Holidays Ready to Wear Gel Nail Collection

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Recently, the Walmart closet to my home went under a remodel. In addition to the remodels, new brands began to show up on store shelves. The ones I was the most interested in are located in the beauty and makeup department.

I have heard about Dashing Diva, but I saw it available at other Walmarts. After the remodel, Dashing Diva was available in the beauty section. Even though I was unfamiliar with the brand, I liked the nail designs the brand had in their holiday collection.

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Salon Perfect x Wonka Nail Collection

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Almost two weeks ago, the movie Wonka premiered in theaters. As with other movies I’m interested in watching, I didn’t have plans to see it in theaters (I like to see them on DVD or streaming them at home) but I was excited to see all the tie in and inspired by merchandise available.

I found one of the Wonka inspired collections in the beauty section of Walmart. I was surprised to find it because I wasn’t expecting it to be available! I did end up purchasing some nail polishes from the collection, but I will talk about that in a different post.

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Elf x Kitsch Collection and Kitsch Holiday Hair Collection

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A few weeks ago, I discovered the Walmart I like to shop at had holiday hair accessories from the brand Kitsch. I have see n Kitsch available at the store before, but I was happy to see the holiday collection. The accessories available to purchase was a slimed down version of what was available in the collection, but I enjoyed seeing them.

In addition to the holiday collection, there were accessories from the Elf x Kitsch collection. I was really happy to see them! I wanted to look at accessories from the collection in person.

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