Issue 23 of our bite-sized review series plus a giveaway worth £70!
Welcome to the latest issue of our bite-sized series! This time we’ve got something a little bit different for you: fashion and lifestyle picks! We’ve been trying out some rather fantastic items from hand crocheted snoods with a reflective difference, funky LED shoes, happy socks, adjustable reading glasses and a magazine app with over 2100 titles! There’s a fab giveaway worth £70 plus a link to try out the magazine app for free for one month! Keep reading to find out more!
Glow – This London-based company founded by Comet Chukura, graduate from the London College of Fashion, create light reflective knitwear accessories with a difference. Their crocheted snoods (pictured above), fingerless gloves and leg warmers are fashionable, functional and are individually handmade by disadvantaged women in London, providing them with the opportunity to gain work skills, a supplementary income and be part of a greater community. Each garment has a strip of light-reflective fibreglass fused into its fibres, keeping you safe at night. Prices start from £20.
BEAM shoes – Light up LED shoes for the whole family! If you’re looking for the comfiest dancing shoes going, shoes that are going to get you noticed on the dance floor, look no further! These USB powered light up shoes are available in white, black, silver, gold, pink and blue. The charge will last for a whole night of dancing (8 hours) and only takes 2-3 hours to fully charge. The coloured lights in the soles are red, blue, green, purple, turquoise, yellow and white can be individually selected or you can pick a cycling loop through them all for maximum effect. These are the most awesome shoes ever, I tell you, now I just need somewhere to wear them (school run?!). Prices for women’s shoes start at £64.99 plus shipping. Save 10% with the code BEAMTEAM.
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world!
Happy Socks – Swedish company Happy Socks was created with one vision in mind: to turn an everyday accessory into a designed colourful item that also spreads happiness. With a wide range of funky designs for men, women and children, there is sure to be something for all tastes and styles from dots to stripes, paisley patterns to pineapple designs and everything in between. They even do underwear! A pair of women’s socks cost around £9 while a pair of children’s socks cost around £10. That’s our summer holiday socks sorted!
Eyejusters Adjustable Reading Glasses – I’m not going to lie, I’m a woman of a certain age, and my eyes are beginning to reflect this. I was prescribed varifocals at my last optician’s appointment; a badge of middle age hood, no? These glasses from Eyejusters are perfect for those who find they need reading glasses. With separate left and right dials hidden from view, you can adjust the strength of each lens individually from +0.00 to +3.00 D. With 17 different models to choose from they’re great for helping read that morning newspaper or magazine over a cuppa! Prices start from £69 with free shipping. They also have a risk-free 30-day trial.
Readly: The Ultimate Magazine Subscription – Just imagine having access to over 2100 magazines on your tablet or smartphone for only £7.99 per month! No more having to tidy up piles of magazines off the coffee table, no more forgetting to buy the latest issue while shopping. Simply sign up (click here for a free one month trial!), select the magazines you want to read and you’ll be notified when new issues are released. Plus, you can share this magazine app with up to five people in your family at no extra cost! You can download magazine issues for offline use, and cancel at any time too. We’re thinking it’s quite a brilliant app, to be honest! Do try it out! You can sign up for their one month trial using only your email address. No payment details are taken.
GIVEAWAY
Eyejusters have very kindly offered one of my UK readers the chance to win a pair of Eyejusters reading glasses worth £69.99. Simply fill out the Rafflecopter entry form below to enter!
HOW TO ENTER
For your chance to win a pair of Eyejusters reading glasses worth £69.99 enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back and tweet about the giveaway every day for more chances to win!
TERMS & CONDITIONS
This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winner will need to respond within 30 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.
The prize is offered and provided by Eyejusters. The prize is to win a pair of Eyejusters reading glasses worth £69.99. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.
There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway.
The promoter (Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary) reserves the right to cancel or amend the giveaway and these terms and conditions without notice.
Entry into our giveaways will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.
If you need some help using Rafflecopter, here’s a quick clip to show you how. Rafflecopter will pick the winner at random from all the entries received. I will be verifying entries. Any automated entries or those who have claimed they have made the mandatory blog post comment and really haven’t will be disqualified. It’s mandatory! Please make sure your comment is eight words or longer or Google views it as spam and this negatively affects my spam score. All entries with comments fewer than the mandatory 8 words will be disqualified and deleted.
Closing date is midnight (that’s 00:00 hours, 12 am on Sunday night/Monday morning) on Monday 29 May 2017 (GMT). The winner will be announced afterwards.
With thanks to all of the above companies for the review samples. This is not a paid post and all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own.
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i gotta say i think the happy socks look great fun
I’d love to try the adjustable reading glasses – they seem like such a good idea 🙂
i love the socks so different my daughters would love these
The eyejusters glasses look great, would love these for me dad.
I love the sound of the eyejusters glasses, my eyes are great long distance but come close up it just gets blurred, and the fact that you can alter each eye individually is brilliant .x
Happy Socks look great, an everyday item that can help you start day with a smile.
Cute picks. I love the socks.
Love the Beam Light up shoes, what a great idea, especially in the dark you can see were you are going!
These glasses are brilliant! I hate now having to cope with ‘old age eyes’ I am short sighted and now need reading glasses! grrr
Wow! the Eyejusters would be so usefiul at work – am in retail and have to go from reading items on a computer screen to checking the fine print on a barcode or nutritional info from one minute to the next!!
I love the idea of the reading glasses, very clever .
The socks are so different. I have never seen happy socks before
could really do with a pair of Eyejusters Adjustable Reading Glasses
I love love the glow shoes and happy socks. I do make fingerless gloves for friends and family when i get motivation to crochet or knit.
I LOVE the happy socks – they are so cheery! And the adjustable eyeglasses are really amazing – It’s so crazy how technology is making everyday items better all the time. Since my eye prescription seems to change all the time I think these would be a good option for me. Thanks for sharing!
what a brilliant giveaway, I’d love to try these out
These would be super useful, would love to win
The socks are so “happy”! I have a collection of socks but I have never come across Happy Socks. Will definitely try it!
Hoping There will soon be negative as well positive dioptre glasses available.
I love the socks, love something that’s a bit different! Could really do with those glasses
So amazing ! It is absolutly an incredible article !
I really like the look of Glow! I love nice contemporary woolly clothes [As I am always so cold!]. Prices seem very reasonable too
I’m loving all of the picks! Especially the Happy Socks and Beam Shoes .. they made me smile. I entered the giveaway and really hope I win!
This is so interesting! I love the happy socks and the beam shoes they are unusual and so stylish!
The socks look really stylish, colourful and funky.
I love the socks from Happy Socks, even when I have to wear work clothes and black trousers I li still like to brighten things up with pretty patterned socks.
I love the Happy Socks. I have always had the saying ‘Life is too short for black socks!”
Lovely glasses- very cute design and colours! would love to win
lovely glasses!
I think the happy socks are brill ! They would definitely lighten my mood by wearing them !
The happy socks look amazing – i love socks and constantly try to show mine off. They’re an underrated fashion accessory!
The Beam shoes look great,such fun and everyone would want a pair!
The adjustable glasses sound really clever and useful – will be looking at these further as they sound just what I need
I love the glasses, I have a real problem trying to get sorted with reading glasses
The glasses sound wonderful. Perfect for when I wear my contact lenses and need to read something as slightly long sighted now
I’m loving those snoods – I’m a scarf addict so it’s made for me! My eyes are going too – I’m sure the writing on labels, etc is smaller than it used to be!
I adore the happy socks, they will sure brighten any day.
great giveaway readily app is great for having all your magazines in one place
Ideal glasses for everyday use, hope I win !!
I love Glow, but Happy Socks looks so fun! The Ultimate Magazine Subscriptions looks pretty worth the cost as well.
distance adjustable reading glasses sound amazing ! just what i need and what a fab range they have too fab giveaway thankyou x
I love Happy Socks! So fun, comfortable and fun! That is definitely a great pick!
I love the socks and the glasses are fabulous.
That’s what I need sat on mine, cellotape and sticky tape jack duckworth style
The socks look amazing, really brighten up my day.
distance adjustable reading glasses would be great and prevent the embarassing peering over rims to look at people and back down to read!
Those glasses are such a good idea. I use two different pairs, depending on how tired my eyes are. This would be brilliant.
This is such a random list of things but I love it! Especially the scarves! I could also do with those glasses! I often struggle when I work with a pc too much! The shoes would be always for parties everyone dancing away! Thank you for a good light read!
Lovely giveaway thank-you. Some great products, like the look of the happy socks.
Glasses look like a really good product, this is a fab prize, hope I win
What a fab giveaway – i had laser eye surgery but these look ace! Also agree with the quote about the shoes – ha!!
The glasses look intriguing and I would like to try them out.