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Nina from Sharing A Journey is hosting Fashion Flash this week. In addition to the great variety you can always expect from the contributors to FF, we have a new member: Mary from Shift Your Stories. Mary is an expert on reducing clutter and helping others to do so. I really need to get to …
City Beauty must have read my mind. For ages, I’ve been wishing they would hold a sale on their entire product catalogue rather than just one specific product, and now they are doing just that!! I Bought This, PR Sample, Affiliate Links Today and tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, March 15-16, 2021, everything is 30% off …
NSDB Giveaways Ending Next Week I’m running two giveaways both of which end next Wednesday: Derma E Radiance Collection: 4 full size CF, vegan skincare products to give your skin a glow in time for spring CRYSTAL Deodorant’s new Magnesium-Enriched Solid Deodorant: two winners, each receiving two different scents I hope you’ll enter if you …
I Bought This, Affiliate Links Smith & Cult Nail Lacquer is one of my very favorite nail polish brands. The bottle is so gorgeous that I could almost sit and look at it all day long. With its squat glass bottle and slightly smashed gold top, it looks like no other brand. So luxurious and …
I Bought This, Affiliate Links A couple of months ago, I wrote about my experience using Olaplex No. 4 Bonding Shampoo that was recommended to me by my friend Amy to help repair my damaged hair that I burned with an old flat iron. No. 4 Bonding Shampoo has worked well for me, and I …
This week’s “Almost Spring” edition of Fashion Flash was named by our current hostess, Jackie from Jackie Silver Style. Although spring is only a couple of weeks away, it doesn’t yet feel like almost spring. But the weather people are forecasting a taste of spring for the Boston area on Wednesday and Thursday when the …
PR Samples, Affiliate Links CRYSTAL Deodorant, the company that invented the first mineral salt deodorant 30 years ago, has launched a new magnesium-enriched collection! Background Magnesium in deodorants has been around for several years. In fact, people talked about using Milk of Magnesia as a natural deodorant. Magnesium does not plug the sweat glands and …
Today, I went for a hike in the woods at the end of Crooked Lane with my friend Sue. Lately, I’ve been jogging instead. The last time I was in the woods about 10 days ago, I was on snowshoes. Temperatures above freezing and some rain last week melted quite a bit of the snow, …
When it comes to body products, I usually love lotions and body butters that smell great from indie, artisan or prestige brands. Even though I have been trying out lots of new body products this winter and have quite a stash of old favorites that do a good job when I first apply them, I …
PR Samples, Affiliate Links This is the first of three Derma E giveaways that I am planning. Occasionally, Derma E generously sends me duplicates of their fabulous products. Since I own so many skincare products, I prefer to share them rather than hoard them. In this first giveaway, I’m focussing on products from Derma E’s …
Better late than never. Here is this week’s edition of Fashion Flash hosted by the lovely Stacie from the Makeup Obsessed Mom Blog. Check out these articles: a new Fashion Flash Beauty and A Book giveaway to enter! when art and fashion combine a quick, easy and life-changing sheet pan recipe how to transition your …
IMHO, the Christmas and Valentine’s subscription bags and boxes are supposed to be the best. But I was disappointed by Ipsy Plus’ holiday bag this year. It was a yawn. So I was hoping for much better with the Valentine’s Day bag. I Bought This, Affiliate Links Although when I chose my items online at …
February is a short month, so it seems like it was a hot minute since I wrote my last Project Pan update. I Bought This, PR Samples, Affiliate Links Here’s what I used up last month: Skincare City Beauty Multi-Action Sculpting Cream: I think this is either the second or third jar of City Beauty …
I Bought This, Affiliate Links Recently, I got a new necklace from an artisan who lives in Wuppertal, Germany. Her name is Susanne Rose, and the name of her shop is “cakecandleholder“. As usual, I was seduced by an ad for one of her pearl necklaces that popped up in my Facebook feed. I thought …
The days are noticeably longer! North of Boston, at 6pm the sky still has some blue in it, and it’s not pitch black. Woo hoo! I think we turn the clocks ahead in about two weeks, so spring can’t be that far behind. It’s supposed to rain most of the day tomorrow after starting out …