Revlon Parfumerie Wintermint Manicure
Like most married women, I live with my husband. Unlike most married women, I also live with my younger brother. Neither of these men enjoy the smell of my nail polish or associated removal products. Since I have the distinct pleasure of working from home, I tend to do my nails during the day while I’m working before either of them get home in the evening so I don’t bother them with them smell. An odor that I don’t like either, but any woman would agree that we’re willing to suffer a little bit for the sake of beauty! A few months ago, I read about the new Revlon Parfumerie scented nail enamel line and I was intrigued. “Could it be? A pleasant smelling polish?” I asked? The reviews I read all praised the scent and said that, even under a top coat, you could still smell the scents.
Read MoreFREE Silk Elements Sequin Tassel Bag with Purchase at SallyBeauty.com
Hey lovelies! I’ve got a great gift with purchase to share with you today – and no hurry, it’s good for the rest of the month! It’s cool – take some time to peruse their stock before deciding on what to buy to get your free gift.
Gimme my Freebie!
This fun bag is a PERFECT gift for lovers of two of my favorite colors – it comes in your choice of Purple or Teal! It’s a $19.99 value, so spending $15 to get the free gift is a total bargain. I’ve already ordered my goodies and free bag… won’t you? I have a few purple bags already, so I went with teal. Can’t wait!
Sally Beauty is a great go-to beauty supply store for all your nail polish, hair, and makeup needs. I find myself there at least once a month to check out new stock and find that ONE polish I’m sure I don’t have yet 🙂 And with free shipping on all purchases of $50 or more? Forget it, I often wait and stock up to get my goodies shipped right to my house and into my hot little hands!
Sally Beauty has terrific polish brands like OPI, Finger Paints, China Glaze, and more. Since it’s the 50th anniversary of Sally Beauty this year, they even have two great nail polishes to celebrate the occasion: OPI Limited Edition Sally Beauty 50th Anniversary Fifty Is The New Fabulous and OPI Limited Edition Sally Beauty 50th Anniversary Pop the Cork! I know I’ll be adding these two spiffy looking polishes to my (ever increasing) wish list!
Read MoreOakland Athletics Manicure 2014 Edition
I’m not a sporty girl by any stretch of the imagination, but growing up in Berkeley and Alameda, my parents raised me with a healthy (okay, obsessive) love of the Oakland Athletics and baseball. So for years now I’ve looked at the schedule at the beginning of the season and plotted out all the games I wanted to go to based on opponent and promotion and put them on my calendar months in advance. I’m die hard. I go all out for games and don’t play around.
Read MoreThe next best thing to an Oscar is an Oscar Party!
Okay, not really. But, it’s the closest I’m ever going to come to holding one of those golden gentlemen in my hand. It just so happened last year that my dad & step-mom were visiting from South Carolina over Oscar Sunday, so I decided to throw a party. It was lots of fun with them, my step-sister & her fiancé, their baby (who was 3 months old at the time), and a few friends. As my friends left for the evening, they said “That was fun… can’t wait for next year’s party!”
Read MoreJulep’s Maven Beauty Box – Fully Customizable & Packed with Value
Did you know that Julep’s very popular monthly Maven beauty box just got even better? Just a few months ago when I first signed up, you could choose from several different sets/combinations of colors, but there was still some limitations. Now those are gone! Each month, Julep Mavens get:
A Tree Falls in my Front Yard
Yes, unsuspectingly and out of nowhere today, the tree which I think is some kind of Japanese Cherry tree that was in the parking strip in front of our house literally keeled over. Poor thing committed suicide (arborcide?).
I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business. It’s been about 65° all day and this afternoon I had noticed that the wind had picked up. My desk is near the back sliding glass door, and I often keep it open with the screen closed to let in the fresh air. No sooner had I been sitting here in the relative quiet working and listening to a podcast that I noticed I could hear the rustling of the big tree in the back yard’s leaves over the podcast’s voices, and a sudden movement caught my eye coming from the front of the house. I glanced the opposite direction, out the slivers of the blinds in the front window, to see nothing but red leaves.
Usually when I look at of the blinds, I see my SUV parked on the street.
I’d just looked out the front window a few minutes before when the movement of someone walking down the street caught my eye, so I know it had just happened. I went outside to find this scene of arborcide:
WTF?! The wind wasn’t THAT crazy, yet here the tree lies, all the same. There was no indication that it wasn’t healthy or that this was going to happen. I’m just glad it fell the way it did into the front yard and not onto my husband’s truck or my (leased!) SUV. Upon further inspection, it looks as if it were a model and someone had just flicked it with their fingers and uprooted the sucker:
Now, aside from something this weird happening, of course, on a Monday… it brought a lot of questions to mind. What do I do? How do I get rid of it? It blocks the sidewalk. My first call was to my husband, who said he’d have to get a chainsaw from someone and cut it up. Since my dad owns the house, I called him as well and he agreed with that idea and let me know that there’s a place I should be able to take wood to for cheaper than the transfer station (i.e. what used to be the dump).
It seems sad, ya know? That this pretty tree would just keel over one May afternoon (so soon after Arbor Day too!) and that the only thing to do is to cut it up and get rid of it. I’ll miss it’s shade over the lawn (not that we use the lawn much, or have much of a lawn anymore with this dang drought here in California). As the hubs was cutting it up this evening and stowing part of it in the bed of his truck to haul away this weekend, I grabbed a chunk as a remembrance. Lastly, here’s Dominic busting his ass to cut the poor thing into smaller pieces to at least clear the sidewalk.
