I have a lot of pictures to share for this one. This is my first time trying Sinful Colors Professional. The application was a bit weird, but the color is truly sinful (if by sinful I mean spectacular)! It’s this gorgeous light blue that shimmers pink and diamondy in the light.

So I totally thought I was buying Essie Marshmallow. I even typed out this post with that title. But alas, when I looked at the bottle it is actually Waltz! I absolutely love this color. It’s this creamy, milky, marshmallowy goodness that makes me feel so pretty every time I loo

Happy Valentines Day! For the special day I decided to do some shades of pink with cute polka dots, inspired by this image: I like how hers has less polka dots, but I realized that after I had done mine. Oh well! The colors I used were Essie Fiji (light pink) and Essie E-nuf is E-nuf

Ok so what could possibly be better than chocolate and bananas?? Pretty much nothing. My favorite healthy smoothie is the Chocolate Vivanno Smoothie from Starbucks, but I hate paying $5 a pop for it! So I figured I needed to learn out how to make it myself. I never have much luck with

I found the idea for this smoothie on Pinterest, which linked to Martha Stewart’s version. I made a few modifications based on ingredients I had, and it turned out to be delicious! I will definitely be making this one again. Oatmeal Smoothie Ingredients: 1 cup ice 1 cup strawber

As I’ve been doing P90X and really trying to be absolutely healthy for 90 days straight, I have said “no” to many things that are huge temptations for me. A few thoughts that make it easier for me are “This will not be the last chocolate chip cookie offer I wil

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell I stumbled upon this quote the other day while I was browsing Pinterest.com, and it seemed to go perfectly along with my thoughts throughout the pas

Unfortunately, pumpkin spice isn’t always so nice. For the past few months, I’ve been blindly loading my Starbucks Gold Card and buying drinks (very) often, purposefully avoiding the knowledge of exactly how much I’ve been spending. It was a delicious habit I just di

After countless evenings of the boys going totally wild in the play room, trashing it, tripping over toys, and losing items in the mess, I finally had enough! There were so many toys out at that point they weren’t even playing with them. The fun of the play room was pouring all