Winter Blues Got You Down?
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Every year come December, January, and February we repeat a cycle. It starts with gaining a few pounds during the holidays, followed by making goals for the new year (possibly involving weight loss). These New Year’s Resolutions make us feel clean and fresh and give us hope that whatever was left undone last year will be fulfilled in the blank slate that lies ahead. We then forget about our list of ambitions as we bask in the river of chocolate at Valentine’s Day. Heart Day is then over and we find ourselves in a lull, it is cold and dreary and we are waiting for Spring to lift our spirits.
How about lifting those winter blues by putting a new charge into your intentions for this year? Recommit to your New Year’s Resolutions or make up different ones that inspire you. No matter what you want for this year the beauty world has a solution that is sure to put a smile on your face!
Have Beautiful Skin All Year Long: Save time and get gorgeous skin with PCA Skin’s Purifying Mask. Quickly becoming one of my all time favorites, this mask detoxifies and exfoliates in one step! Bits of micro pumice buff your skin to a healthy glow while algae from the Red Sea, French Red Clay and Red Wine draw out impurities. You will see your skin brighten the first time you use it. Best Benefit: This mask does incredible work at clearing up breakouts.
Go To The Spa More Often: Keep this resolution by bring the spa to you with Liz Earle’s Energizing Body Scrub. Made with ground olive stones, this scrub smells and feels fantastic. What else would you expect from the woman who brought you the cleanser British Vogue calls one of the, “top must-have products of the last Millennium?”
Lose Weight: If your need for sweets is constantly getting in the way of your desire to shed pounds, try steering your sweet tooth in a new direction with Jaqua’s treats for the body. Whatever your craving this fantastic company has something for you: Cocoa Buttercream Frosting, Pina Colada, Peach Parfait, or their original scrumptious Buttercream Frosting.
Go Green: You already recycle and are loving your hybrid car, but you’d like to take it a step further. Smashbox and Pangea Organics are here to transform you into a eco-contributing beauty goddess. With every purchase from the new Green Room collection from Smashbox a tree will be planted in a developing country. Not only that, but all the packaging is either biodegradable or recyclable and you will love the collection. Taking biodegradable to a new level, the boxes used to package Pangea Organics can be planted in the ground to spout in your garden! Soak the boxes for one minute and nestle in the soil for plants of sweet basil and flowering Amaranth. The best in these two collections include Smashbox Bamboo Shadow Quad and Pangea’s Egyptian Basil and Mint collection.
Get Organized: If you love makeup as much as I do then I’m betting you need a place to store all those eyeshadows. What could be better than a train case as beautiful and fun as your most colorful shadow quad? Fluff has just what you are looking for and tons of choices, I personally couldn’t resist the Chelsea Girls Train Case.
Finally Get The Guest Room in Order: Every guest loves to be pampered. Make them feel special with the new creamy Jaqua hand soaps in Pink Buttercream Frosting and Pink Champagne (they look especially pretty too). Surround your visitors with yummy scents, the candles from Beyond The Basket do just the trick, try the Apricot & Honey!
Use My Gym Membership: Make your workout twice as effective with FitFlops, the flip flop that builds muscle while you walk. These shoes are so comfortable and they work your muscles no matter where you go.
(Images Courtesy Keith Levit Photography, Liz Earle, Pangea Organics)
Easy Thanksgiving Table Decorations
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Looking for an easy way to make your table sparkle for the holidays? This is a very easy, beautiful idea that can easily be turned into a Christmas theme after Thanksgiving.
Start by filling two to six column vases (depending on how long your table is) with pine cones. This idea looks best with a mix a small and large pine cones, but can be arranged with either. If you live in a warmer climate you may not have pine cones lying around your backyard, don’t worry, any arts and crafts store will have them.
Next, you’ll need votive candles in either white, red or orange (an pumpkin or spice scent make this idea even more delicious). Place each votive in it’s own glass container, small cut bowls will catch the light of the candle and create a beautiful reflection on the table, or for a more modern look choose a simple glass votive holder. Finally you will need a bag of fall leaves, available at any crafts store.
Place the column vases filled with pine cones lengthwise on the table. Arrange a votive candle in between each column and one on each end (votive, vase, votive, vase, votive). Sprinkle the fall leaves lengthwise along the table, weaving them in and out of the votive candles and pillars.
For a more elegant touch add a porcelain place card holder and place card at each setting. Check back next week for easy ideas on how to turn this turkey day decor into a gorgeous Christmas table!
(Image Courtesy Pottery Barn)
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How Well Do You Treat You?
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Have you bought yourself flowers lately? You know how special it makes you feel when someone shows up with a big beautiful bouquet for you? It’s time to treat yourself as well as someone else would. Buy yourself flowers! Put them in a gorgeous vase and make them a centerpiece you will enjoy all week long.
My absolute favorite flower for this time of year? Parrot Tulips! They are so luxurious with their frilly edges and bright colorful petals and they come in several colors that are perfect for any decor, pink, red, yellow, deep dark purple (called black). I love that thing tulips do when you put them in a vase, they way they sort of lazily hang over the edge, relaxed luxury at it’s best.
Jo Malone’s Scent An Event
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Jo Malone’s fragrances are so incredible, natural and intoxicating that I don’t know how anyone could resist them, but when I saw this set I most definitely could not resist. It’s a candle set designed to scent your whole event with Jo Malone’s signature fragrances of Lime Basil & Mandarin and Vintage Gardenia. I can hardly even imagine my house smelling that wonderful, and I have a pretty amazing collection of candles and scents.
Picture twelve wonderful Jo Malone candles placed throughout your home or creating a gorgeous centerpiece. All that delicious fragrance and all those little lights, so pretty. Everyone will want to know what your secret is!
The next time you need a special hostess gift stop by Jo Malone online or Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Bloomingdale’s. Better yet, create an event around this scent. Maybe an intimate summer wine tasting party filled with little lights, wonderful scents and crispy cooling Sauvignon Blanc…the jazz trio will start at eight, bring your favorite French cheese.
(Image Courtesy Jo Malone)
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