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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Great Ideas To Ponder On A Saturday

   
Saturdays are a perfect day to get some great ideas to try over the weekend.

I am going to do this post a little bit differently than I have done  some of my other post. I am going to try and break them down into categories…..

Health And Beauty:

Skin Care

I love make-up and I really try to look the best to my ability(Notice I am prefacing this with the ability card?!) I am also a self confessed product junky!

Once in awhile I find a product that I am sold on and I have to share it with my readers…..


I am beyond thrilled to have found out about this product. I have very dry skin, and I have been using La Mer for years. I will not say La Mer doesn’t work, because it is the best moisturizer I have ever found for my skin.

Howeve,r it is beyond expensive, and I have tried for several years to find a substitute. I finally have.

 The Eucerin product is sold in France, not the US yet. I found an online source that imports it so we can now purchase it.


I have used this for about 3 weeks and my skin feels moist all day, and it looks dewy, and at my age that is a real plus!!

I highly recommend this product. Just click HERE! to go to their website, you won't be sorry!

Make-Up

I recently updated my lipstick and blush for Spring. My coloring has changed, and I needed to get something different than I normally wear. 

It is important to take a good look at ourselves, and evaluate if we need an update. I try to do this in the Spring and Fall.

I just found what I think is the perfect blush. Not just the color, but this stuff stays on all day into the night.

 I have never had a blush that stays on ALL day. For some reason my skin seems to drink up color. This stuff is amazing…….

Bare minerals READY BLUSH, it is a fairly new product, not a loose powder, but a compact that you can carry with you in your purse. This blush really has staying power. The color I purchased is Faux Pas. Love it!

Health




This is an app for all of you who have a smart phone.

 This app allows you to take a picture of your food, and then the Eatery tracks, and analyzes your overall eating patterns to give you a big-picture breakdown of your strengths, weaknesses, and the best places to make a change.

It becomes a tracker of our good, and bad habits and will make us more aware of where we need to make some changes.


Family

I don’t have any little one’s at home anymore, but when I saw this idea I thought it was worth sharing…….


This little clock turns yellow when it is time for your little one to get up and turns blue at bedtime. This helps in two ways, your child knows his routine and the clock is telling him/her to go to bed, not the parent. 

It will also help by keeping the child in bed until it turns yellow. Eventually your little one will also learn to tell time.

I just think this is a great little tool worth trying.


For you clever DIYers……….


Recycled DVD cases made into a travel art center!


Around the House



Old luggage sprayed all white to use as a night stand in a guest room. How clever!!



(Just a little FYI this particular pin is being pinned like crazy over on Pinterest!)

A rock glued to the top of an old pill bottle, and put in the ground somewhere in your yard that only YOU know about, and you have a key for the one time you lock yourself out of the house. 

Notice I said ONE time,because I am just sure none of you will ever lock yourself out twice.


 Spring Cleaning.........
Spring is here and it is time for Spring cleaning. Using baking soda and some lavender essential oil you can use your kitchen sifter to sift over the mattress.

Let it sit for about an hour and then vaccuum Voila, a clean mattress and one that smells fresh too!!


So there you have it dear readers! I hope your weekend is fun, productive or relaxing!

“Enjoy the Process!” Of:

Trying something new on the weekend!
 

Friday, April 20, 2012

An Eventful Day In My Life

 



We have all heard, or read this saying before. When we graduated from High School or College,or when we got married, someone might have said this saying  too us.

All those eventful days were a long time ago for me, but today for my sweet hubby, and me it applies again!

As of today, my sweet hubby is officially retired!! He has worked hard for our family and has been a wonderful provider. Not just monetarily, but he is our, “ROCK.”

He has conducted his life with honor in all aspects, and he is a man to be honored, and respected.
He is a person I wish I could be more like.

I feel truly blessed to be able  to enter this next chapter in our lives together.

We have already had an amazing journey, not always perfect, not without heartache, or sacrifice at times, but always filled with love and devotion to each other, and our family.

Gone are the days of schedules and alarm clocks…….


Kathysue and her sweet Hubby will be doing more of this, whenever possible…………



We will Be:

 “Enjoying The Process!”
As Much As Possible

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

I Have A Confession



My Explanation for what I am about to confess…..

It is no secret I love Pinterest. I have been on Pinterest  for a bit longer than some, and not as long as others. I guess the fact that I have over 12,000 pins proves I really do love to pin.


(one of the many images I have pinned)
 


Collecting ideas, and pretty images went hand in hand with my design career. My clients paid me well for giving them ideas. I searched long, and hard to find fun, new, and unique ideas that they could apply in their homes. 



You can only imagine my delight when I found Pinterest. I was happily pinning along, and then Pinterest made a change to the format of our Face page.





Once Pinterest changed the look of our Face page I found how obsessed I am about how things appear at first glance.


Now for my confession……..

Every night before I shut down my computer, I would go to my face page, and change the first four rows that would appear on the screen.
I needed the images to coordinate or at least look good together.

My First Four Images On My Face Page……




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  • I knew I was being obsessed, but you have to understand I am such a visual person that if it does not look right to me at first glance, I feel compelled to improving how it looks. I spent my whole career doing that for people in their homes.

    Something had to be done so I took the matters into my own hands and....... 


    Dear Mr. Powers-That-Be at Pinterest,

    I actually wrote an email to the Powers-That-Be explaining to them I would love the option to choose which image was going to be used as the cover pictures on each of my boards. 

    Apparently others had expressed their desire to have control over their face page also.

    Pinterest listened and we now have the ability to choose which image we would like to have up as the intro-image (or board cover, that is the official name from Pinterest) to each board.



     Thank you to the Powers-that-BE!!!

    Here is what Pinterest wrote on their blog………


    One of the most requested features was the ability to choose a pin to be the cover for each board. Today, you’ll be able to do just that

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    If you’d prefer a specific pin as a board cover, mouse-over the board you want to edit and click “Edit Board Cover”. Next, select a cover pin and drag it to the exact position you want.

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    When you’re finished, hit “Set Cover”.
    You can also choose a board cover while you’re browsing within your board: Just mouse-over any of your pins to select it.

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    Isn’t this a great option? I know most people probably don’t care, but for we visual types it has to look a certain way. 

    Now when you visit my pinboards my board covers represent my design, and style aesthetics.

    I don’t feel quite as bad about my obsessive behavior, knowing that others felt the same way.

    Whew!! I guess I am somewhat normal!? Or at least I hope I am. Please tell me I am normal!!