I have always wanted to go to The Barnes Foundation, a collection of post-Impressionist art collected by a rather eccentric physician, Dr. Albert C. Barnes. After Dr. Barnes’ death in 1951, the trust he created stated that the collection must stay exactly as it was when he was alive. The works were idiosyncratically arranged by …
Derma E Giveaway Winners & Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
Hello beauty fans! We had a big wind and rain storm on Wednesday night and Thursday. In addition to losing my electricity, landline phone, internet and cable, one of my three lovely Bradford pear trees lost a huge limb that represents about half the tree. Fortunately, it didn’t fall on my house. But it weighs …
I’m Hosting the Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day Fashion Flash!
What goes around comes around, and it’s my turn again to host this week’s edition of Fashion Flash, the fabulous online lifestyle, health and wellness, style, travel, beauty, and mid-life magazine targeted to women over 40! I’m always amazed at how well Deb, our fearless leader, has succeeded in achieving her vision for this unique …
Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup Columbus/Indigenous People’s Weekend
I’m sure it feels like I just published the latest edition of Beauty Spotlight Team and Fashion Flash especially since I didn’t post much this week because of my bad cold. But here we are again! If you’ve got a moment during the long weekend in the U.S. or during the normal weekend elsewhere, take …
Belated Fashion Flash Mid-October Edition
If you’ve wondered where I’ve been this week, boy, was I sick! My garden variety cold turned at least 10 times worse after I had my annual physical on Monday. My doctor suggested that I wait on my flu shot, but for some reason she recommended that I get a pneumonia shot. Four hours later, …
Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup Early October
Well, it’s a rather short list of posts this weekend. But still some goodies, so take a look. BTW, if you haven’t entered my new giveaway of a trio of anti-acne skincare products from Derma E, please enter! They’d be great, if not for yourself, for a friend or family member. Derma E is a …
End of September 2019 Fashion Flash
This week, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, avid runner and the author of Love Your Age, is hosting the end of September edition of Fashion Flash. Here’s what’s in store for you: travel to the Papagayo Peninsula in Costa Rica (I’m dreaming about a trip to Costa Rica so I’ll be reading it for sure!) the best …
Beauty Spotlight Team End of September Weekly Roundup
It’s a quickie today, the end of September weekly roundup of beauty blogposts from the members of the Beauty Spotlight Team. So hope you’ll take a few moments and read through our posts from this past week. And have a wonderful weekend! Prime Beauty can’t stop raving about the September BoxyCharm Subscription Box. Violet Voss, …
Fall Edition Fashion Flash including a New International Giveaway!
This week’s host of Fashion Flash is Cindy from Prime Beauty Blog. I think Cindy was the first beauty blogger I followed. She was and is my inspiration. Click on over and take a look at the Fall Edition of Fashion Flash! Here’s what you can look forward to in this week’s edition: my review …
Beauty Spotlight Team Welcome Fall Weekly Roundup
So summer is officially over, but this weekend, our temperature is warming up (I put the heat on Thursday coz it was 60 degrees in my house!). I’m looking forward to warm weather in the mid and even high 70s. I’m hoping for one more beach day this weekend. What’s on your agenda this weekend? …
Fashion Flash Mid-September via Notes from My Dressing Table
The mid-September edition of Fashion Flash is being hosted by the creative and supremely witty Erika from Notes from My Dressing Table. Here’s what’s on tap this week: tips for looking good, feeling good and living your best mid-life why visit Basel, Switzerland the importance of reading food labels membership perks you may not be …
Mid-September Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
It’s the weekend again. Hope you’ll be enjoying either the last gasps of summer or the nip of fall in the air. Not sure what we’ll be up to, but I’m hoping we’ll be able to spend a lot of time outdoors. If you have a few moments to relax and unwind with beauty info, …
Jackie Silver Hosts Fashion Flash
Today was a busy day. I took part in a local skincare event, and I had planned to tell you about it today. I got the post halfway written, but I had to leave for my monthly book club get together. By the time I got home, it was too late to finish. The extra …
Beauty Spotlight Team Early September Weekly Roundup
Gee, Hurricane Dorian is heading up the coast (though thankfully out to sea) and is bringing cold temperatures and rain with it. What happened to summer? Can it be that Labor Day weekend was just last week? It’s almost cold enough to make a fire in the fireplace, and I’m not joking. Temps in the …
Labor Day Fashion Flash and Schooner Pix
Oh, now we’re on the other side of Labor Day weekend. Wow, did it go by quickly! This was a big weekend in Gloucester: the weekend when schooners from all over the Eastern seaboard come to join the three Gloucester schooners to race and just to show off. Here are a few pix of three …