Five Steps to Beautiful Skin

My aesthetician recently inquired as to how I care for my skin - she was having some problems with hers and wanted to know how my skin remains clear after a treatment. Although I do happen to be blessed with good genes when it comes to my skin, there are…

How to get a festive look for the holidays

It's getting to be a festive time of year! Just in time for the holidays, some fun and classy ways to get in the holiday spirit and freshen up your look: 1) Add sparkle. Choose shiny jewelry and great statement pieces to draw attention to your look. Beautiful, eye-catching earrings…

Dozens of cookbooks and not a recipe to make!

Sound familiar? Over the years, through blogging and gifts and my own purchases, I've amassed quite a nice little collection of cookbooks. I probably easily have more than 50 cookbooks in the house (and that doesn't even include the ones that Mr Science owns!)*. And yet, so often, we find…

Five Ways to Keep Your Home Healthy

Sometimes we get so caught up in thinking about how to keep our bodies healthy through nutrition and fitness that we forget about the effects that the environment we live in can have on us! Here, five ways that you can keep the environment in your house and your entire…

Ten-second fix: body shapers

You found the perfect dress or shirt, but it's just a little too snug when you try it on. What can you do? Go for body shapers! What are body shapers? Body-shaping tights and other materials are just the thing you need to reduce "lumpiness" and get a more sleek…

How to ease into exercise

As much as I really enjoy exercising, from time to time it just doesn't work for me. Between going on vacation, working long hours, having a busy schedule, and falling ill, somewhere along the way the exercise piece can just slip quietly away. The good thing about exercise falling off…

Ten-second fix: Wear hats on bad-hair days

Sometimes your hair just doesn't do what you want it to do, or you need to give it a wash but don't have the time for it, or the weather is making it stick out all over the place. The fix? Wear a hat! Find a couple hats that look…

Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to Glamour

A Girl's Guide to Glamour by Sandra Deeble is a super cute little how-to book for incorporating more glamour into your life. "Glamour is a way of being," Deeble writes at the beginning of this guide. "Glamour comes from within... [it] has old-world, Hollywood screen goddess connotations." Everyone can use…