How to Choose a Good Tie and Wear it Well

Since Father’s Day was yesterday, perhaps the tie-giving holiday of the year, I wanted to pass along a tip I learned just recently about choosing good ties.  In the past, I have professed my ignorance about choosing and styling ties. In the United States, formal 

Ballet Makeup Tutorial

When you are a mom, you wear a lot of hats all the time.  This week, in addition to my role as a teacher Santa, I also had to moonlight as a makeup artist for my daughter’s ballet recital! I went searching online for ballet 

Entertaining Teacher Gifts

This week was the end of the school year which means one of my top priority tasks was to organize thank you’s for my daughters teachers. For this year’s teacher gifts, we went the entertaining route. I was a bit stumped for ideas but received 

June’s Theme: The Lazy Days of Summer . . . NOT!

As you may have noticed, I missed posting entirely last week! I have not yet recapped April and May nor given you a theme for June. I don’t know if that has ever happened before in my 2 years of blogging. There is nothing wrong 

The Ick of Ticks

As I mentioned before, we share our garden space with numerous visitors.  For some people (and usually me) this can be the icky part of gardening. Is this a mole beneath my daughter’s earlobe? Nope.  It’s a tick! Yes, ticks are back.  We have pulled