Rhinestones stud many a period appropriate bracelet, and encrust the occasional cufflink. While rhinestones add dazzle where diamonds are impractical or unobtainable, the challenge often lies with durability. The foil backings cannot be immersed in water and must be cleaned extremely (more…)

Trick-or-Treaters can never go wrong with a ghost costume fashioned from a thrifted bed sheet or older brother’s graduation frock and a purchased witch hat. Along with perennial classics, each new crop of Halloween costumes brings a new slew of nods to recently-at-the-movies (more…)

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I am a total sad movie addict. I know most people don’t enjoy feeling sad, but could there possibly be anything better than curling up in a warm blanket on the weekends and watching a good tearjerker on Direct TV?
I have a lot of [...] (more…)

Tanda Skin Care recently created a chart about the history of skin care. Some of the info I was already intimately acquainted with, laced with tidbits of shocking new. While the madness and illness lead powder left behind is legendary, I had no idea that it was used for spot treatments (more…)

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Silence used to be golden. Driving to and from was almost a moving meditation. I sat in my car, listened to silence or music and the burdens in the head began to clear. Nothing was really that important (more…)

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Just a ponderance: Harry Potter added another reason why the Windsor eyeglass style remains iconic, but are children who wear the style automatically enlisted in the cool club or are they mercilessly teased (more…)

No one, apparently, got the memo that Christmas music is absolutely not to be played until at least the day after Thanksgiving? If i ruled the world, the sleigh bells wouldn’t ring until December 15th. This way, we could all truly enjoy it instead of burning out on it by December (more…)

Ever since Wagglepop came and went, the inbox runneth over with press releases, pitches and recommendations for new auction and selling sites.  Tradze.com is a new one to me. Apparently, its in the barter websites format. Users list items that they want to get rid of, and other users (more…)

The night they invented champagne
It’s plain as it can be
They thought of you and me
The night they invented champagne
They absolutely knew
That all we’d want to do is
Fly to the sky on champagne
And shout to everyone in sight
That since that world began
No woman or a (more…)

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Gingivitis Germs. Golf. Yes, lots of golf. The life of a dentist can be a bacteria-filled and solitary existence. Unless your friends are a nuclear nosed reindeer and a gold prospector. Unfortunately Hermie is one (more…)