Category Archives: living

Giveaway #3: Fresh Lip Shine

Hello, readers! This week’s giveaway is a brand new, never opened Fresh Lip Shine in “Daphne”. The color is a pretty sheer your-lips-but-better muted red. (I did just open the box to confirm the color description.) I got this from the Fresh store in Boston in December (and I have two more tubes; hence the […]

A very Martha how-to

Another birthday is history. We had a nice day. My husband bought me the pink waffle/spa robe that I spotted in the Bloomingdale’s window Saturday night. My son made me a birthday card (complete with typeface quiz), and I baked up some birthday cupcakes (Sprinkles vanilla mix – they were awesome), along with checking off […]

Hall of Fame: Beauty Products

Before we get started, let me remind you that my beauty ideal is a JCrew model, i.e. to look like I am not wearing makeup. Therefore, I propose the following items for the Beauty Hall of Fame: (working clockwise from the top) Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment I love this lip balm because it smells great, […]

Obsessing about

…. I’ve been ripping out pages from magazines, printing out pages from the web, and generally compiling lists, sometimes in my head. For example, I’m thinking about: Music from: Andrew Bird I heard his song “Fiery Crash” at my sister’s December 1 wedding. Asked the deejay who it was, and hit up iTunes the next […]

Still getting into the swing of things

…. like having an idea of how the blog entry is going to go each day. I have a backlog of things I’d like to share accumulated over the two week hiatus, but am unsure how or when to do it. However, today’s plan is to see a matinee of Juno, and I’ll postpone working […]