Monday, April 26, 2010

I'm Officially Back!

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It has been awhile since I've done anything electronic and online these last couple of weeks and due to other life obligations I finally was fine with that. I would walk past my computer and glance at it and feel a twinge of guilt thinking "When oh when will I ever use you again?" but finally realized that one day I would just slip back into my routine and it would be like I never left.

Now finally my family life has calmed down significantly and we are officially back into the swing of things. Hence my new words on here!

To start back on a nice and pleasant note I am going to have a guest poster this week by way of Michelle over at Mammatalk. She is a riot!

It's nice to be back.... :o)


GUEST POST.....


I am one of those ladies who strolls the beauty product aisle at Whole Foods.

I love to discover new balms and salves. Lotions and creams. Salts and scrubs.

Without parabens.

With essential oils.

Without petroleum.

With vital minerals.

Preferably with dead sea salts.

And, no animal testing, thank you.

I sniff.

I sample.

I linger.

I peek.

“Next time, I’ll bring a camping chair for ya,” Hubs always says, head peeking around the corner. “Well just unfold it and prop ya up in front of the Avalon display.”

“”I’ll be just a minute,” I snarl.

And, off he goes to entertain our children in the produce section.

So, needless to say, I was beside myself when I was the winner of Lynn’s giveaway. I received the Alba hand cream in a tidy little package and immediately lathered it all over my parched mamma hands.

Mamma hands?

Yes, mamma hands. I had a bad case of Mamma hands. You know the type….Hands that have been over washed, over worked and over wrought. The Alba cream was a quick remedy for my mamma malady. It gave my mamma mits a long, cool, well deserved drink.

All with the benefit of no added chemicals.

My only complaint was that it was a bit on the greasy side and lacked the flowery, cool sea breeze smell of some of it’s competitor’s.

However, if you’re looking for a work horse of a hand cream and a natural, sure fire remedy for Mamma Mits, I’d give Alba a try.

And, if you’d like to visit me on Mammatalk where I discuss other mamma maladies including mamma brain and mamma mouth , please feel free…

Be warned, however, that inanimate objects often speak and my toddler serves tea daily at noon, promptly. See ya then!



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Song of the Week: Hey, Soul Sister by Train...too cute

Monday, April 5, 2010

Gush over LUSH!

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I know, I know, it's been awhile right? Life's been really beating me up lately but I'm back and trying to provide something nice for us all this week.

By way of LUSH Fresh Handmade Products. My friend Sadie recommended this store to me ages ago and I have just recently gotten into a store in our nearby large city of Tampa, FL. I was in one of our uber fancy shmancy malls and turned a corner with my husband and I saw it...


official store logo

My poor husband blinked and I was gone before he could even finish saying "Wanna split a Cinnabon?"

I had a blast going through that little store just picking the brains of the girls in there (who were pretty knowledgeable and you could tell they didn't just show up for a paycheck, they were all avid "LUSH Heads" as well) and I came home with bath bombs, soap bars, and body butters for me and the kiddies. Now although they are handmade and fresh and many of them smell sooooo good you would want to eat them, some of the products contain not so friendly chemicals (we all know by now you can't always avoid ALL the chemicals unfortunately) but if you search you can find many gems in there.

The bombs smell absolutely wonderful and they are fun for the kids. You throw them in the bath and they fizz and disappear and your kids are like "What??? I'm scared but curious...hmm"
and they leave your skin velvety smooth. I also got a body butter bar that is just tons of great oils that leave your skin soft and exfoliated. It has ground rice and beans to give you that scrub.

Now if you hit up the website, I've got no info for you on that because I bought all my stuff in-store, sorry. And the online prices might be a bit much - or they might not (you say recession, I say ignorance is bliss ;oP). But when purchasing in-store they had such a nice benefit of you being able to tell them "Well, of this huge chunk of soap (because they lay it all out like a loaf of bread or bricks), I only want to purchase $5 dollars worth of this, and $3 dollars worth of that to try it out" and the girls bring it to the weighing counter, weigh it out, chop it down to size, and hand wrap it right there. Voila! Wonderful right? I loved that! I couldn't find the soap I bought online, but it is the best thing since sliced bread....or indoor plumbing! Let's just say that if the sun had a scent to wake us up in the morning, it would be in the form of this soap. Get to a store, look for a giant (or not so giant depending on how much they sold that day) yellow circle that smells like citrusy sunshine and summer all in one. Buy it! Thank me by sending me chocolate! :o)


Big Blue Bath BombSea Vegetable Soap
big blue bath bomb / sea vegetable soap

So try LUSH today and tell me how you like it, love it, or hate it. Although I seriously doubt anyone would hate it. And if you do, chances are you probably are the same person that pushes the elderly and makes faces at babies too, right? ;oP





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Song of the Strong: Queen "We Are The Champions". Sometimes you just gotta be reminded of your strength...
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