Facials

I've been tossing around the idea of doing facials in my salon, i love getting them, they are such a pick me up! In hair school you learn all about esthetics's and have to complete a certain number of facials in order to graduate, I've since done facials on family members but have had most of my focus on the hair part of being a beautician. With our awesome tax return I decided that it would be the perfect time to buy a high quality facial line, and that is what i did. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of enjoying your own facial this is generally what it entails: a facial cleanse followed by a facial massage, an exfoliant that removes dead skin cells- while helping tighten your skin, a toner which reduces the appearance of pores and collagen spray that helps reduce redness and improves the skins natural moisture and softness, finally a recovery cream that helps with fine lines, wrinkles, dryness or sores. Your face feels so clean and soft afterwards its just a great way to get it ready for the coming spring and summer months. I've been trying to come up with a decent price; its not always an easy task because I want it to be affordable but also worth my time so what I've come up with is $15 . Tell me what you think

Happy Easter To Me

see this little beauty... she is my ticket to freedom! I just bought her with our awesome tax return. If any of you are in the market for a double jogging stroller this one was $125 with free shipping at amazon.com, this is by far the cheapest jogger i could find but its made by Columbia and it looks nice so i think it will hold up :) it is originally $316 so I'm kinda stoked. I'm gonna get some big muscles pushing this baby whale around, i think i will have to name her Shamoo. I'm so elated to finally be able to run whenever i please, there wont be another good day that will pass me by without a run!

the flower box

I've been wanting to make a window box from some of the wood pieces we have in our basement. And since Jared got sent home from work because he wasn't feeling well and everyone is afraid of the swine flu still, I had someone to watch the children while I crafted my own window box.

this is the beauty I started out with it once made a frame to a cabinet that was too big for our home, so i ripped it apart and kept the pieces.

my chalk line... very boring, they are 6 inches apart

the basic box

i hot glued some old wood trim to the top of the box

spray painted it cream

as you can clearly see i'm not the best architect but i get the job done

and some pics of my boy and girl

this was just too funny to not take a picture of, he is so chubby

he's almost as big as her!

Easter Dresses

I would like to sew an Easter dress for makayla so I've been online looking at patterns and all of these are my favorites, I just need to choose one to start with... these came from butterick, McCalls, and Vogue
Makayla said this dress is the princess and the frog dress

the top three are from Vogue (obviously)

so i love the vintage looking dresses and i want to make one for me

so that one turned out way smaller than i thought it would

the patterns range from $5 to about $10 so their really not too expensive and i could always use them again for other dresses, let me know what one you like!

The Healthy Life Company Meeting

Hey all, were having a meeting for JD Premium on Saturday March 6 at my parents house, Patric from Idaho Falls will be presenting and were hoping to get some bodies there :) it will be at 1:00 and only be 45 minutes. Come and ask questions, there wont be any pressure to buy or sell. They have some really great products and the top multivitamin on the market. JD Premium also has a great way to earn some extra money without selling your soul :) Thanks

it'll be at

3323 N 850 W in Pleasant View

messing around with pictures

The Itch

Its this time of year for the past several years that I am so anxious to garden. I have yet to produce a decent garden, last year even my pumpkins totally sucked. My real problem is probably a combination of knowing next to nothing about gardening in real life (I've read magazines and online articles) and by the time summer hits I'm so unamused by my pathetic plants that I give up and don't water or weed like I should. My mother hated gardening because that is what she grew up doing and so we really never had a vegetable garden. My mom also hates cooking and canning and so why grow something that is gonna take more work to use. I always have such huge expectations about how beautiful my flower garden will be and how impressive my vegetable garden looks. Its all yet to happen. Talking with some of my neighbors they after many years finally have good soil and good producing gardens, I just don't know if I have the patience to wait so long. So tonight I got a movie from the library called yardening and its a VHS so its a little older, a guy who's pants are held up by suspenders and has a full beard walks you through the whole "how to plant a garden". Now I'm up and I can't sleep because there are so many things I need to do to prepare for the spring planting season. So to bore you out of your mind I'm gonna share my mental to-do list :)
1. see if my dad has a working chain saw and would want to help cut some logs for me
2. make my big raise garden into two skinnier raised rows (big project)
3. move the dog kennel again, possibly up against the fence that the stupid dog keeps ripping apart
4. see what scrap pieces of wood i have in my basement that i could rig up a nicer more organized compost pile.
5. Make Compost bin
6. Put leaves and straw and grass from the yard into the bin.
7. see how much a drip hose and timer cost
8. buy more pet pots to start seeds in
9. figure out what needs to be planted in the spring and get seeds started
10. consider building more raised beds
11. change mind because you can't even get one bed to grow good.. maybe next year
12. figure out a way to get more earth worms.. possibly flooding the backyard.. or paying siblings to round some up.
13. look for sales on seeds and buy more
14. figure out a way to do all of this with two children.

When all is said and done I'm completely in awe of the pioneers and people who lived before there were home improvement stores or online help, they produced food for their whole family for both the growing season and the winter. I would be skin and bones if I had to rely on what I could produce, how in the world did they do it? and do it so well? hmm maybe I'll look it up online.