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We’re nearly halfway through the 2021 Christmas movie season (in weeks) and what a grab bag it was this week. Hallmark delivered again with four more solid movies, some that I liked more than others, but then there was UpTV and Lifetime. Lifetime kicked of Its a Wonderful Lifetime with two knockoff Hallmark movies and I’m not impressed. UpTV had another painfully long and boring Saturday, but brou...

After learning shocking news this week, I felt like this podcast was a must. Being your resident Christmas Queen, I feel like it’s my duty to make sure you watch all the best Christmas movies every year. But there’s too many kinds of Christmas movies to just have one small list. Oh no, there’s sub-genres here! From your classics (seriously if you haven’t watched White Christmas it’s on Netflix and...

Netflix and UpTV have joined the chat you guys! That’s right! This week on binge or cringe there are eight movies up for grabs to talk about. Honestly, I don’t know how I’m going to survive watching them all but I’m going to try! Hallmark dominated the week with four knockouts; Gingerbread Miracle, Next Stop, Christmas, Debbie Macomber’s a Mrs. Miracle Christmas, and A Christmas Treasure. They’re...

Guys, do I have a fun podcast for YOU! This week I found “Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance” at a local bookstore and the way I snatched that up so fast. Instagram got to pick the story and here it is! If you want to rebuild the story for Chrissy, make sure you’re following along on Instagram at SockBunStudios to pick the story this week! But until then - what will our heroine Chrissy do when...

Guys, I can’t lie (seriously I’d be off Santa’s nice list) Hallmark absolutely CRUSHED it this week in the 2021 Christmas movie line up. Okay, Christmas in Harmony wasn’t my favorite, but Coyote Creek Christmas with Janel Parrish and Ryan Paevey? If there’s not a sequel next year I swear…and HMM dominated the 10pm spot again with The Christmas Promise with a true American icon Patrick Duffy. Round...

Happy Hallothanksmas everyone! It’s the October wrap up podcast and there’s a little bit of everything this month! To start, we round out Hallmark’s 2021 Fall Harvest lineup - Love Strikes Twice was the easy winner. Book wise, we’ve got everything from: finishing the Samantha Young On Dublin Street Series with Fall From India Place, Echoes of Scotland Street, and Moonlight on Nightingale Way, all...

Happy fa la la la holidays everyone!! For the next nine weeks, I’ll be watching ALL the Christmas TV movies and reviewing them, helping you binge the good ones and cringe at the bad ones. This week to kick off the holiday season there’s 4 Hallmark movies to talk about. Earning a solid 4/5 stars to kick it off was You, Me, and the Christmas Trees with two of Hallmark’s big names, Danica McKellar an...

I know it’s still October but let’s be honest, it’s time to start making the Christmas lists! Here’s a fun list of Christmas books to read this holiday season, plus…spicy Christmas books? Yeah…I…I’ll never unsee what I saw recording this. Detailed books: The Santa Suit, The Holiday Swap, Window Shopping, A Convenient Christmas, In a Holidaze, Christmas Shopaholic, Wallflower Christmas, Skipping Ch...

Halloween is around the corner, so that means only one thing, Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas is about to begin! I’m taking a look at everything we know so far about this year’s lineup and giving my initial thoughts and opinions before the most wonderful time of the year kicks off! Be on the look out for a printable list of all the TV holiday movies coming because ya girl is watching all of them...

I know, I know, do people *actually* ask others for their skincare routine? I promise I’m not being shady - people really have! Growing up, I was told I over produced so much oil I could give it to all my family and still have oil to go around. It took nearly a decade to get my skincare routine down to a science and I shout it from the rooftops the second someone asks me a question about what I us...

I’d say it’s been a hard year for women, but they’ve all been hard. Somehow we find ourselves in 2021 still the subject of brutal murders, bizarre deaths, unjust controlling, and outright ignored over sexual abuse simply because we’re women. This podcast was hard to record but necessary to keep it all at the forefront because if not now, when? Trigger warning on this podcast as I discuss the detai...

September? More like Booktember! We have a lot of Hallmark Fall Harvest movies to discuss and then eight books. I regret nothing. Back with another Christina Lauren SBS book club pick with Roomies this month, spoiler alert I loved it. Read two Samantha Young books (obviously) Down London Road and Before Jamaica Lane (along with not mentioned two novellas of hers). Kate Bromley is a new author aler...

Ever feel like the months and seasons pass by and you didn’t do half of what you wanted to do to enjoy it? That was me until I started making monthly bucket lists last year. This episode I’m talking about why I loved my bucket lists for the fall months and how it really connected me to each month and holiday during the end of 2020. So sit down and get the pen and paper out to jot down ideas of thi...

We’ve all seen it - the TikToks and Target fashions that definitely DIDN’T need a comeback. From butterfly clips to wide leg and low rise jeans - we elder millennials know what was good and what was bad about the best decades. Here’s my running list of things that I never need to see again, along with a few things I really miss and want brought back - TGIF ABC lineup nights anyone?? There’s gotta...

We all remember the craze of hideous “buttery soft” leggings and the unicorn print search. Only a few years ago Lularoe was a household name. Now some of the top sellers have come out to speak on the horrors behind the company that is facing dozens of lawsuits. I watched the four part documentary on Amazon this week and have lots of thoughts to share! Mostly that it must be an awkward time in the...

August 2021 can really be summed up for me with two words: Samantha Young. Honestly, I wasn’t influenced or paid to swoon over her books but I will anyway because it’s true. Her books are just that good. Before we get to that though, we have more 2021 Hallmark Summer Nights movies to talk about. They really did knock it out of the park in August! Can we also talk about what soap operas you watched...

When I say it’s been an absolutely wild two weeks, that is not an understatement. What started as trying to get in on the fun OOTD videos on TikTok from the girls rushing at Alabama, turned into a near Dateline style of info being thrown my way with a series of videos going semi-viral one after the other. Rush coaches, dorm decorators, attending the “right” summer camps - the whole world of sorori...

If you know me at all, you know that when someone asks for a book recommendation the first words out of my mouth are, “Have you ever heard of Jill Mansell?” She’s been a powerhouse since 1991 writing the feel-good, behind closed doors, Love Actually style romcoms for the world to enjoy after leaving work at the NHS. Thirty years later, it’s time to get into all 32 of her books (plus a look ahead a...

Sorry that the July wrap-up pod is actually coming out in August but it’s the Olympics. Sorry not sorry! There was only one new Hallmark movie this month during Christmas In July, Crashing Through The Snow. I made it through six books before the games came on and my life was consumed with sports so let’s get into them! Book club pick And Now You’re Back by Jill Mansell wasn’t my favorite of hers b...

Soooo let’s just pretend I did this podcast when I was supposed to a month ago and call it a halfway check in! We’re now over halfway into 2021 and it’s time to take a quick temp check on our mental health and our vision boards! How’s everyone holding up? I’m going to be honest, it’s been a rough year in a lot of ways for me mentally and that’s OKAY. Sitting in uncomfortable feelings can be very e...

Ho ho ho, jingle bell sounds are in the air because it’s officially Christmas in July season! I went through all 93 Christmas movies playing on Hallmark Channel and gave the list of ship it or skip it. Aka, I either really love them or really hate them. Also, learn the three Hallmark guys that have found their way to my Instagram stories and the only one that actually hit the DMs. Which, I’m still...

We are officially halfway through the year and WOW where is the time going? There was a full slate of Hallmark movies to get into - but can we first talk about how they axed June Weddings this year and went straight to Summer Nights?! From meh You Had Me At Aloha, to the downright bizarre The Baker’s Son, they pulled it together with a Galavant cast for Her Pen Pal before finishing strong with San...

Continuing the series of books that have made me cry this year - this time it’s all the happy tears imaginable. Christina Lauren’s new book The Soulmate Equation will have your head in the clouds by the end because it’s just THAT cute. Sign me up for the Shondaland movie adaptation. Seriously, I need to see Juno Merriam and River Nicolas coming back from ballet class. I NEED REAL LIFE RIVER NICOLA...

Honestly I can’t believe I was able to wait two months to make this podcast in the first place. The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan is the long awaited sequel of The Royal We that came out last year and we need to talk about it because...well, a lot of people didn’t like it. Which, I GET IT. BUT - the writing. It’s real. It’s raw. It’s what it needed to be after where we left off i...

Every MDW brings up that one year Disney pulled all their DCOMs out of the vault and played them back to back all weekend long and now I’m here to give the ultimate definitive rankings. From where it all started with Under Wraps to High School Musical and everything in between and after, here’s to the movies you should definitely watch *cough cough Rip Girls* to the ones you should skip - Can Of W...