I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Ipod. It is one thing I cannot live without. It plays all my favorite music, tv shows and movies and the best part is that it matches my kitchen :o) The only think I hate is wearing it on my arm when I workout. For Mother's Day, Nathan bought me an IPod Shuffle. I think I love it more than my Nano! I can just clip it to my shirt and it's weightless. I highly recommend it for workouts.
Ann, Miriam and I are all advocates for healthy eating BUT if you have nothing left in your pantry except a box of cake mix, this little book is GREAT! It has fast and east recipes for cookies, cakes, brownies, fruity cakes, bundt cakes, muffins, breads: all using a box of cake mix. I've had the peanut butter cookies (which uses a box of yellow cake mix) and they were delicious. The author has other cookbooks such as, "101 Things to do with a Slow Cooker." Click here to see a complete list. Here is the recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
It all started with shoes! Where else would it start with me :o} My sister Ann had the cutest espadrille wedges from Charlotte Russe and I bought a pair too about a year ago. I don't shop there often since C.R. is about 10 miles from us. I was shoe shopping on SteveMadden.com the other night and came across this shoe to the left and fell in love with it. Of course, it was a clearance shoe and only left in size 10. I looked at Nordstorm.com and other sites and couldn't find them. I checked to see if Charlotte Russe had something similar and I found the exact shoe! Fraction of the price and quality but I couldn't pass it up. I went there yesterday and found TONS of cute tops, accessories and shoes. I will post some of the cute finds. I bought these shoes and this pink top.
These look just like Chanel sunglasses
These look like Ray Ban sunglasses
My friend Ashley gave me a set of these dryer balls. I still use Downy because I love the smell but I also use these for extra softness. Here are the claims: 
My friend Melanie gave me a bottle of Nailtiques Formula 2 (yes, there is a formula 1&3) and and said she's been using this for 10 years. It's nail protein in a bottle and I've been using it for a week. I put on a coat once per day on my fingers and toes. I now swear by this!!! I don't know where she got it (I'll find out) but I wouldn't be without it. My nails look perfect and they are strong and are growing so fast. Here are the claims and I back them 100%.
Where do I start?? I've had dark circles under my eyes for a long time. Makeup artists have always told me that my eye area is way too dry. It never really bothered me until we had family Christmas pictures taken several months ago. When I went in to select the pictures, the photographer commented on how tired I looked in all of the pictures. It REALLY got me down; even though it was true. I decided to do something about it. I went to see a makeup artist I've been going to for 7 years. He's been telling me for years to use NARS Nourishing Eye Cream . I caved in and bought the expensive little jar. I use it every night and in the morning, I mix it with MAC Fast Response Eye Cream. That way, I am not going thru the NARS cream as fast. Here is my before and after. The pic on the left was one that the photographer thought I looked tired in. It maybe hard so see since it's a pic of a pic. After several months of using this FIERCE eye cream combo, my eyes look and feel tons better!! The combo costs a little over $100 but totally worth every penny and will last 4+ months!
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More than 6,000 customers have tried the $45 treatment since the salon began offering it five months ago, according to owner John Ho. The salon says it's the first in the United States to offer the service.
"We have tripled our volume," he says. "At the beginning … I was begging people to go in. But you know, it just went haywire."
On a recent Sunday afternoon, the Vietnamese-owned salon is packed. In the back, thousands of silvery carp flit around in a holding pool. At some point, they'll all be transferred into smaller tanks to suck dead skin off customers' feet.
'It Kisses Your Skin'
One such customer, Barbara Campbell, steps into a tank of around 200 fish.
"Which ones are the hungriest? That's what I want to know," she boldly asks a technician.
Known as Garra rufa, the silvery inch-long fish originate from hot springs in Turkey. It's there that they developed an appetite for the only food around — human flesh.
Calm down; Garra rufa, which look like a cross between goldfish and minnows, can't technically bite because they don't have any teeth.
"It kisses your skin," explains Leah Le, who works at the Yvonne salon. "But more it just sucks off your dry skin."
Kelly Jackson, 27, is a fish-pedi convert. She says the experience is better than having a human scrub her feet.
"It's all organic," she says, "[I] absolutely loved it.... Your feet never felt so clean."
The 'Doctor Fish' Is In
In China and Japan, Garra rufa are known as "doctor fish" and are often used to treat skin problems like psoriasis.
After reading about it on the Internet, salon owner Yvonne Le traveled to China to get a full body treatment.
"I lay down in the pool for 40 minutes," she recalls. "I come out and my skin [was] so beautiful and smooth."
Forty thousand dollars and 10,000 fish later, Yvonne and her husband, John, brought doctor fish to the United States.
The expensive fish are a gamble for these entrepreneurs, because they're difficult to maintain. Ho says he wakes up in the middle of the night just to check on them.
Keeping Fish Warm, Customers Happy
"There's a lot of risk in taking care of the fish," Ho says. "You've got to give them warm water. If the water [drops] below 70 degrees, they'll die."
The fish stay well fed on a steady supply of human skin. Over the past few months, technician Le has watched them double in size.
"When we first had them, they were tiny. You could feel, like, this little nibbling, and now you can feel the sucking and it's more powerful."
That might sound unpleasant to the uninitiated, but the salon is filled with giggling customers.
"When you go in, you just gotta laugh," Ho says. "I have people who laugh 'til their tears come out. I don't think money can pay for that, you know what I mean."
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4. These hangers are slim and made of velvet which means clothes don't fall off! They are from Bed Bath & Beyond and I have seen them at Target too. They are $10. for a pack of 10.
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