Grown Up Summer Clothes

Courtesy of a shindig we are attending in early May, I have been making a fervent attempt at re-working my rather old clothes for mostly housekeeping into an actual wardrobe of clothes I love and am not slightly embarrassed to leave the house in.  This has involved much knitting, some less than stellar sewing on my part (in my defense, pants are more complicated than simple skirts) and the purchasing of some very particular pieces to fill out the rest of it.  

One thing I decided I must absolutely have was a pair of red high heels. Not on everyone's list, I know, but can make a dress pop and jeans look flashy simply by sliding them on.  A bonus is that the pair I bought happen to be exceptionally comfortable as well as affordable! Thank you Payless!  While not the only shoes I purchased for the spring/summer season, they are the only ones that are not black.  All have a slightly vintage vibe to them.
As for the Nuance line from Salma Hayek I've been using, I still love it!  Nothing I've used has caused a negative skin reaction (for once) and the coffee and cocoa butter cream smells like you've smearing a light coating of milk chocolate truffle over yourself as well as improving the texture of the skin.  I will be replacing what I have when it runs out, as it's one of my new favorite things!

A little help for my friends!

One of my dearest friends is a part owner of a lovely little bean to bar chocolate company called Snake and Butterfly  Now they are really trying to open their very own real world store! Please, head over to Dulce de Leche to read more or just head here, to their Kickstarter page  to help them reach their goal! They make amazing tasty treats and happen to be absolutely wonderful people too!

Bunny Bread and New Bath Stuff

All I could think of as I was forming the bread for Easter was a line out of one of the novels by Sir Terry Pratchett, where random characters shout:"Do deformed rabbit!" My poor bunny bread was not the ideally shaped bread sculpture I had hoped for, but he was tasty and went well with the roast lamb.

The other thing that I have been playing with is bath stuff. I will be the first to admit, I am a bath product junkie. Give me beauty in a jar!  So when a friend of mine pointed out a new line she was trying out and that it was currently on sale, I decided I needed to give Nuance by Salma Hayek a try.  I also happened to be out of night cream and rapidly running out of face cleanser, so it wasn't entirely an impulse purchase.  The radiance renewing night cream is really nice. It does the job, isn't overly greasy and doesn't cause any unpleasant reactions (which is a major thing with me).  Ditto with the black walnut face scrub and body scrub, both which have rather slinky consistencies, more like polishes than scrubs.  In fact, I liked the things that I had bought in the line well enough (her hair anti-frizz stuff is also kind of awesome), that I decided to get a few more things to test this weekend.  Dark cacao and coffee body cream?  Prickly pear body wash? Sign me up!

Birthday Books!

These are the wonderful new books that I got for my birthday this year.  My husband took me to a bookstore, stood there and asked, "Which ones did you want again?"  He knows me so well!  Now to find time to read them.  Most of my time has been consumed with an impromptu re-do of what resides in my closet.  Spurred by an upcoming event, clothes a decade old that scream "I have kids and do lots of housework" have been replaced by items that follow more of a "Morticia meets June Cleaver" theme. There will be pictures, I just have to actually take them.  I am also making several of the items, so that slows the whole process down a bit and with my deadline fast approaching, my lovely new books will just have to wait a wee bit longer.