2.02.2007
I am the Crafty One!
Sometimes - I , well, I just amaze myself.Doodles would say that I watch too many HGTV and TLC Home Decorating shows, but you know what? Sometimes, the great ideas just pay off.
I bought the following lamp base (2 of them) for $4.99 each, and then I found the lamp shades elsewhere for $7.99 each. I wasn't sure how they would look together, so I shopped for some trim to try and dress them up.
What do you think?
The final result:
I wonder what else needs some trimming. Just give me a hot glue gun and watch out!
I am thinking that I need a mirror above the fireplace - ooh, which we finished in black granite. Maybe I can trim that...LOL.
Oh - what about my new drapes? I made the tie backs with tassels myself!
Labels: family, family life, friends. housework, house, remodeling, shopping, Teri, women, work
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1.12.2007
Nominated at the Glam Network.
Over at Beautiful Makeup Search, we have been nominated in the Glam Network Awards.
If you haven't been to Glam.com, do check it out. It is the number one destination on the web for fashion and beauty. And I am a proud member of the network.
So please, take a moment, register at Glam, and vote for Beautiful Makeup Search!
Thanks!!!
Labels: beauty, blogging, Teri, women, work, writing
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1.03.2007
How Have You Been?
I have been not so dedicated to posting in the last few weeks, but now that the holidays are over and we are sort of back to a normal schedule, I should get back to posting more regularly.So if you have missed us, sorry!
We missed you too!
So here is a quick family update:
Justy is back in a full arm cast. We thought it would be cut down today, but the one bone is not creating new bone as fast as the other, so it still need extra protection. Hopefully in two weeks he will get his wish and only be casted up to the elbow.
Doodles is the last of us to have had the stomach bug. She still has the lingering headache that accompanied it and didn't go to school today. She made basketball though, of course. And she is so totally looking forward to the High School Musical Concert tomorrow night.
Jon-Jon was to the doc today too. He has a bad ear infection in one ear. The good news is that he is very good taking his medicine and it has been almost a year since his last ear infection - when it was a double one, the day before we got on a plane to Florida. (Which I can't believe was a year ago already - it seems like yesterday!)
Joe-Joe has chapped lips right now - exciting, I know. So, he is currently obsessed with the petroleum jelly. He is finding new places to apply it and smear over. I keep finding greasy piles of it everywhere you would think he is two. Oh yeah, he did smear a whole jar of it on the bathroom cabinets when he was, yeah, just about two.
I am obsessed with baking lately after getting my new stand mixer from my parents for Christmas. I don't remember baking to be so fun! We have cookies galore in the house. Seriously, I think I have to send some in to the teachers at school or deliver plates to the neighbors. That is how much we have!!!
Okay - after that lengthy post about ...did you really miss us that much???
Labels: blogging, daughter, doctors, family, family life, kids, life, Teri, writing
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11.20.2006
ALLURE Magazine!
You have read Allure magazine, haven't you?
I am sure you must have seen it at least?
Well this glossy mag is basically called The Beauty Expert. And this mag's head writer called upon my expertise a few months ago for information on some cult beauty products.
You see, she saw one of my posts on that, you know, that other blog I write, and obsess about (gotta write some good stuff, gotta get some good ads, gotta review some great products, gotta get the readership up!). And she wanted to use some of the quotes I gave in my post for her article.
I agreed to let her use it. She asked me all crazy things about my other blog, and it's demographics, and traffic, etc. And she wanted to let her readers know that I was sort of an expert because I have some experience, with the blog, and why with all the beauty product testing and such - I am an expert. And the product she was quoting me about had become one of my favorite products of all time. I swear by it. I use it everyday before I put on my makeup. It is awesome, I tell you! So yeah, I am an expert on this beauty product.
Well, I was quoted in the magazine this month, the December 2006 Issue (on new stands today) in the cult beauty products article (on page 224). Goodie!
But.
What is quoted in the article is not even about the product that she asked me about. Not even the same damn product! And a fact checker even called me to confirm what I had said and verified my blog's address and name spelling and such. And then she e-mailed me what was to be included. And that was correct!
Hmmm.. in the actual magazine, they got my name, age(unfortunately) and where I am from correct, but there is no mention of my blog anywhere and I am totally misquoted.
WTF???
And I was asked by this same publication, for which I had to sign a confidentiality agreement for, about working on something for them, and getting paid. But if they are going to print what they want to print and cater to their advertisers, would I want to even be involved in the process? (Oh yeah, the $$$)
Anyway, Joey thinks I am a star because my name is in a magazine that we bought at the checkout counter in the Big Y. And if that's good enough for him, then that's good enough for me - in some strange sort-of way.
Well, I guess that was worth it alone!
And I should be happy to have at least been noticed by a major publication like Allure in the first place.
Mixed feelings, people - mixed feelings!
I am sure you must have seen it at least?
Well this glossy mag is basically called The Beauty Expert. And this mag's head writer called upon my expertise a few months ago for information on some cult beauty products.You see, she saw one of my posts on that, you know, that other blog I write, and obsess about (gotta write some good stuff, gotta get some good ads, gotta review some great products, gotta get the readership up!). And she wanted to use some of the quotes I gave in my post for her article.
I agreed to let her use it. She asked me all crazy things about my other blog, and it's demographics, and traffic, etc. And she wanted to let her readers know that I was sort of an expert because I have some experience, with the blog, and why with all the beauty product testing and such - I am an expert. And the product she was quoting me about had become one of my favorite products of all time. I swear by it. I use it everyday before I put on my makeup. It is awesome, I tell you! So yeah, I am an expert on this beauty product.
Well, I was quoted in the magazine this month, the December 2006 Issue (on new stands today) in the cult beauty products article (on page 224). Goodie!
But.
What is quoted in the article is not even about the product that she asked me about. Not even the same damn product! And a fact checker even called me to confirm what I had said and verified my blog's address and name spelling and such. And then she e-mailed me what was to be included. And that was correct!
Hmmm.. in the actual magazine, they got my name, age(unfortunately) and where I am from correct, but there is no mention of my blog anywhere and I am totally misquoted.
WTF???
And I was asked by this same publication, for which I had to sign a confidentiality agreement for, about working on something for them, and getting paid. But if they are going to print what they want to print and cater to their advertisers, would I want to even be involved in the process? (Oh yeah, the $$$)
Anyway, Joey thinks I am a star because my name is in a magazine that we bought at the checkout counter in the Big Y. And if that's good enough for him, then that's good enough for me - in some strange sort-of way.
Well, I guess that was worth it alone!
And I should be happy to have at least been noticed by a major publication like Allure in the first place.
Mixed feelings, people - mixed feelings!
Labels: beauty, blogging, family, jobs, kids, Teri, women, work, writing
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11.15.2006
Can I Decorate Just One Room, Please?
Just one room.It is all I ask.
The dining room. I have never had a formal dining room. It was always part of the family room.
I had the idea, and we are moving on it fast.
I could rant and rave and go on and on. But I just want one room for myself. Seeing as most of my other ideas for the house got vetoed. Can't I just have this one???
Labels: husbands, life, remodeling, Teri
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11.12.2006
Not Another Project - TODAY!
I woke up with an idea.Let's get the dining room ready in time to have a house full over for Joey's Birthday Thanksgiving weekend.
Let's see - that will give us just under 2 weeks.
And all we really need to do is move all the furniture out, get the floor done, paint, put in a new light fixture, move the china cupboard out of the old dining room into this one, paint that, build a faux fireplace/mantle into the old closet, and buy a table and chairs. Oh, wait - I can probably use the table I have - just refinish it to match the corner cupboard I am going to move in there and throw some fancy holiday tablecloth on it for now.
Simple.
Not a problem.
To Jeff that means - we need to start today. Not today - please, not today. It is better to get it done when the kids are at school, and we have some other man figure to help move everything out and upstairs. Please - not, today.
Guess what?
We started it today.
Luckily for Jeff, he married a woman of substance. I just totally helped move a bedroom armoire out of the room and up the stairs.
I am STRONG - Like Bull!
Nice.
Even though I didn't want to do this today.
Labels: family, family life, husbands, life, remodeling, Teri, women
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10.30.2006
Tootin' My Own Horn!
A little over a month ago, I was honored to be invited (and be paid) to join the GLAM network. GLAM reaches about 7 million readers a month - yowza. It is the number one site for fashion and beauty. It beat out the competion (style.com, elle. com, ivillage.com, instyle.com, vogue, w, etc.) by a landslide. So you can see why I was honored.At GLAM, there is a GLAM Network of bloggers - 180 of them to be exact. There are 36 of them in the Beauty category. And I am ranked #2! I am so very excited!
And if you haven't been to Glam.com yet, do check it out, and if you are so inclined, subscribe to my posts over there!
Labels: beauty, blogging, family, glam, Glam.com, jobs, Teri, women, work, writing
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