BEAUTY IS A LIFESTYLE THING

In my home Easter is most welcome, to my family it is the harbringer of Spring. I love to decorate for Easter;and I feel revived after a long and dark winter, I'll bet you do too. I think I have finally embraced the time change (if you have that where you live)and am looking so forward to summer and flowers and butterflies, but until then an Easter Tablescape is the easiest way to be creative and set the springy mood. *Remember that I always say shop your home first, and rethink the way your decorate. Use containers or ideas that you never have before, and you'll be surprised what you come up with. I love it when my spring flower bulbs start to pop up, it really gets me excited for lawn chairs, umbrellas and iced tea. This winter was harsh and the bunnies helped to prune numerous shrubs and ate some of my flowers already, while their wildlife buddy the vole was busy underground stealing a lot of my tulips! But here's what we have already. (most of the tulips that a...

Hi my friends! I'm so happy to announce that I am doing a collaboration with Novica The Impact Marketplace. As you may already know I love to support small business and handmade artisans. You also know I love making an impact. I was given a gift card to help spread the word and I cannot wait to share with you all as soon as I receive my beautiful artisan piece. Every piece is handmade with love and pride for these artisans and every piece tells a bit of a story of their ancestral and cultural heritage. ALL ABOUT NOVICA Novica has a mission to spread happiness by improving the life of an artisan and their community by showcasing their handmade art. Novica provides a customer with beautiful gifts from jewelry to housewares and more that can be purchased from the world over, and in turn this global selling and purchasing of handmade art uplifts, empowers, and improves the way of life for the artisan and their community. THE VALUES OF NOVICA Nov...

Well you know we tried it, maybe you have too, but if you didn't you really should! This easy recipe was simply all over the internet; I mean everywhere! That's how it became viral, because even younger foodies were making it too. Our family not only loves to try new things in the way of food,we love eating the new stuff too, so now we were off to the races. We love cheese and for a ketogenic person this is a good thing too. TIPS: This recipe involves using a whole block of feta cheese. Please do not get crumbles of feta it will NOT cook the same way. Grape tomatoes are used in my recipe and these are keto but only eaten in moderation. If you have only cherry tomatoes on hand you can use them here as well. Use only olive oil and the right amount of it because this will help cook the tomatoes to confit (bursting open). HERE'S THE RECIPE *2 Pints cherry or grape tomatoes *3 cloves of garlic chopped or grated finely *1/2 Cup virgin olive oil *1 8 0z block of feta che...

*Photo Credit: Ourmindfullife.com as seen on Pinterest* Oh Monday!!! (and every day actually, especially during Covid) motivation is sure needed. In the Monday reminders up above, the list reminds you of several things, the first is that no matter what it is that you need to tackle today...1. you CAN do it! This is a mindset that is sometimes hard to maintain; but having a good mindset will set the tone for the whole entire week. Know that our goals are sometimes excruciatingly hard to maintain and in that case, 2. You are ALLOWED to have a break. Overwhelmed will only create the feelings of failure and it will be difficult to get to the next level, or goal so by all means take a break. This could mean just taking a walk for a half hour or leaving it until the next day. 3. You do not have to please everyone. Which also translates into you have ONLY yourself to please. Period. Try to not get trapped into trying to please everyone around you. You cannot possibly be everywhere o...

What Is International Women's Day It is a global day to celebrate social, economic,cultural acheivements of all women. It is about the coming together to witness, experience, lift-up, empower all those women that have come before us and those that will come after us to continue to break glass ceilings in the sciences, political, and any other area that truly believes it requires one specific gender to do its roles. We have seen this year alone, women who have had their political aspirations be reached, we have seen doctors and highly skilled scientists help assist a rocket to Mars and become the managing head to Govenmental agencies. We witnessed still, women in other countries receive pay for that is equal to that of the men in their countries and begin to drive, vote, and otherwise stand up and be counted. Whatever your thoughts on today's International Women's Day, let it be one in which you help the next women feel empowered, encouraged and filled with inspiration ...