Be Well: Spruce Up Your Summer With These Must-Have Items

<div class="block">Christine Montanti, senior editor, at Social Life Magazine joined Cheddar News to share a few items that are must haves for this summer. </div>

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When it comes to outdoor entertaining or even party going. We've got this summer's must have Christine Montante from Social Life Magazine is here with the seasons trend. And if you are hosting a party, one guest that is not invited, mosquitoes. That's right. So, everything you need for your outdoor event is, can be provided from heritage farm and garden. And this is my go to incense. It's citronella with sea salt and it's, it's so great. It's so that's this. Yes, you can put them on sticks all around your table or, or place them in your planter. It's, um, beautiful ocean air, sea salt and jasmine scent. It's not irritating. There's no deep or, um, synthetic pesticides in that. I'm asthmatic. It doesn't bother me. It's really beautiful, um, smelly. The burn time is about an hour and it definitely keeps the bugs away. Ok. And the good thing is there, there are 50 sticks in this container. So it's about 30 bucks. Now, over here, this is, if you're gonna, you know, really beat the mosquitoes. This, these are about $20 right? If you want to take it a step further before your guests arrive you're going to spray the perimeter of your property, the poolside, the barbecue, it's going to get rid of the mosquitoes. It's safe for Children and it lasts up to two weeks and you can attach it with your hose and then wildlife, it's also a wildlife repellent. If you're in the Hamptons or out east on the east end and there's raccoons and deer before your event, it doesn't harm the animals. You spray it with the hose around the perimeter of where you're hosting. It just causes like a slight irritation to the eyes and the nose and it makes keep them at bay. Ok. And now what about this beautiful orchid? Oh my God. So these are custom made at Heritage Farm and Garden by Mark. And they are just so fabulous because they stay in bloom 2 to 4 months. And all you have to do is, uh, water them with two shot full of water on each stem once every two weeks. And then when the flowers do die, see this, um, nodule right here, you cut, um, below the nodule and, um, it re blooms. So you just have to water it like as directed and it's will last forever. So you really get a lot for your money. Ok. So now we're setting the tablescape and I love the idea of the ceramic because this looks so great, but it's not going to break. You don't want any glass by your pool or I mean, really, anywhere, it really, it's unbreakable. It's acrylic. It dresses up your whole table top for outdoor. It's great to take on the boat. It's great for the pool. It's safe for Children and it's dressy. It's dish washable. It's durable, feel. Health and it's pretty, it looks like glass also. Um, the glass wear the same thing. It's not glass. It's acrylic, it's acrylic and it doesn't break. It's so pretty dishwasher. Now this is bamboo. So it's eco friendly right away. I look at it, I say yes. E yep, eco friendly. It is. And um what's so great about this is you get several uses out of it. It breaks down into the environment without damaging the environment. It's from sustainable plantation. So it's better than a paper plate that's whimsical and it's more durable. The food kind of falls off a paper plate gets yucky with heavy food items. Sure. Now let's talk about prepping for the party. First. We gotta think about our face. If you want beautiful looking skin, Elizabeth, you must try. So skin our a created by leading dermatologist Dr Howard. So Bell, who pioneered the use of prescription great ingredients and over the counter products and all of his products in his entire skin care system contains the highest concentration of active ingredients such as vitamin C retinol stem cells, peptides and glycolic acid. And this, this is vitamin C fusion serum. It has three potent levels of vitamin c that's going to, um, brighten your skin, strengthen and tighten it and you're gonna have that J Lo Glow. OK. You have that. I like that. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, I was gonna say you also want to dress your body. So the great thing I know about this one is that it's interchangeable. You can get it in different colors, the tops and bottoms. That's right. And these are from Bixie, um, Bay rather. They're beautiful. You can interchange them. They're lightweight. It's 100% cotton. So when you're outdoors at your event, it's not gonna be clingy, it's gonna keep you cool. And they also make little, um, beautiful dresses, dresses. That's right. And they're fashion forward, they're comfortable and they're not expensive. Ok? We don't wanna forget our feet. Ok. This is the steel and that's the splurge. So this side is under 50 bucks, under 50. They're great for the pool. Their little slides, knock off Bergen Stock, they're rubber. They're great for the beach anywhere outdoor where you're hosting your events. And these are a little more dressy. The ESPA drills, they're woven the woven wedges and the slides and we have to protect our eyes. Of course. So why not do it in style vision? Source of Huntington carries all these beautiful shades. You have gorgeous Prada on. I have Tom Ford. These are really reasonable place. They're only a couple $100. But if you do not have sunglasses on, you're at risk for possibly developing skin care, skin cancer rather on your eyelid or around your eyes. And that's the the big frame is really in right now. Exactly. So maximum protection is on trend which is amazing and so are bold colors and color blocking. Like J Lo can be seen wearing that black and white product. So I mean, really great this year to have these oversized frames and we don't wanna forget our best friends. I, I think this is hysterical because it, instead of it saying white cloths as white paws that so community pet and Huntington has the most incredible healthy food and treats and they just have such a, a wide variety. This is just a little toy pet, but I just wanna show you this is rock star. This has such a beautiful back story. It's about a street dog that was emaciated and was rescued by, um, a family who was on vacation in Europe. So it is the only bio organic dog food in the world. That's a super food. It's loaded with antioxidants. It has spinach, quinoa, strawberries, blueberries, all these treats are under 15 bucks.