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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I was fortunate enough to receive some Body Butters from Burning Tree Creations to review about 2 weeks ago, and I’ve been using them every since.
I was a little surprised when I opened the jars of body butter, and saw a rosebud in the Rosewood Body Butter (you can see it in the picture) and a tiny orange peel and what looks like 2 small pieces of cinnamon bark and part of a vanilla bean in the Vanilla Orange Spice Body Butter. (more…)
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
We finally moved our first generation of BN Pleco to their new home - the 55 gallon guppy tank that didn’t have any plecos in it.
We could only catch two of the six BN’s and believe me we tried.
They are fast, and they are small, ranging from 3/4-1 inch long.
These fry were freeswimming on Sept. 24, so they are just about 2 months old.
The second batch and most of the first batch died after we changed the water, so right now we’re trying to be very careful with water changes, and time it so there are no eggs or very young fry in the tank.
We have a new batch that we saw swimming out and around the taco last Wednesday.
So far we haven’t lost any of them - fry can be hard, for a while I was finding dead fry every morning, and it was depressing to look at the fish tank.
The two fry we moved are doing well in their new home - a few of the guppies came over to inspect when we put them in, and after they made sure they weren’t food, they left the pleco’s alone.
We got 8 German Blue Rams on November 10, and a couple of Golden German Rams before and after that, and we’ve had two batches of eggs since then. Unfortunately none of them have made it.
We had read that the Rams might start to eat their own eggs after the lights went off, so we left the light over the eggs on all night - the eggs lasted longer that way, but they were all eaten after 3 days, instead of after the first night.
The Rams are pretty good at keeping the other fish away too.
I used to think I’d never want cichlids, because it upsets me to see them fight, but these keys chase and nip at each other, and don’t seem to cause any permanent damage, so it’s not as bad as I thought it was.
They are fun to watch, and they’re really pretty too!
Well that’s enough of the fishy update for now.
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, I did.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
It’s the Holidays - and Mystical Beauty’s Musings is giving away some Holiday Goodies.
I asked Elke from the Beauty Blog Network to throw in a few extra goodies with the items I wanted to review, so I could pass the extras along to you.
Up for grabs is MAC Fluidline in Uppity, and MAC Nail Lacquers in Vestral White and Gold Veneer.
If you want to know more about the products, here’s what the MAC website says about Fluidline:
Ultra-smooth, Fluidline’s gel formula provides the precision of a liquid liner with a silkier, softer finish. Goes on “foolproof” with a brush in an easy dip-and-stroke action. Long-wearing. Smudge-proof. Lines up in a rich array of colours and finishes. Brush sold separately.
US$15.00
and about the Nail Lacquer:
Revolutionary new high gloss formula. Three long-wearing finishes - Cream, Sheer, and Frosted. Visibly different. Provides no-streak/no-chip finish. Contains conditioners and UV protection. Go hi-lacquer!
US$10.00
I have to admit I was really impressed when I saw these items. I’m more of a silver person, but I thought about sneaking the gold veneer polish for myself when I saw how beautiful it was in person.
But I didn’t!
I decided that you deserve it, but you have to work for it!
Just leave a comment telling me about the first time you wore MAC, why you love MAC, or what you’d do with these products if you won them - where would you wear them (out to dinner, at home, to a party), how would you wear them (a golden french manicure, little white flowers on a gold background on your toes), or something like that.
Pictures get you an extra entry, and they’ll be posted on the blog, unless you ask me to keep them private!
Since today is Thanksgiving (Happy Thanksgiving!) I’ve decided that if you list at least one thing you’re thankful for in the comments you can be entered to win too.
If you leave a qualifying comment on this blog post, you’ll get one entry into the contest, if you sign up for the mailing list you’ll get another entry. If you send pictures of how you would wear the nail lacquer and fluidline (you don’t have to use these colors), you’ll also get another entry, so you can get up to three entries.
We’ll put all the names in a hat (if you have three entries, we’ll put your name in three times), and pick the winner on December 18!
We have to have an email address so we can contact you and let you know you won, so make sure you use an email address that you can check on December 18.
If you haven’t signed up for our mailing list yet, you can sign up below, and get one entry into the contest.
Good luck!
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Well, we made it to the Mall of America, and I had tons of fun at my first visit to Lush.
When I found out that Lush was coming to the MAO I told my husband that I wanted him to take me there for my birthday present 
So I got a little early birthday present, but that’s ok.
I’ll tell you more about that later.
Right now we have to go get ready for the furnace inspector to come.
He would have been here already, but the company called the former owner of the house, instead of calling the people who actually live here and made the appointment.
And instead of saying “No i don’t own the house anymore, I don’t know why you’re calling me,” the former owner requested that the person who always did her inspections come out.
So the company called us - the people who actually own the house, and made the apointment - and told us that the former owner requested a certain person and he isn’t able to come out until tomorrow, so do we want to reschedule.
No not really.
What is wrong with people?
Are we really going to have to start telling people that they are only allowed to talk to us about the house before we do business with them?
Well, this is being continued a little bit sooner than I thought.
Apparently if you buy a house, and call Laney’s, and they’ve previously been to the house, you have to prove that you own the house.
I guess I better go whip out the mortgage to prove it to them.
Is it just me, or does that sound crazy?
I’ve never had to prove I owned a house before when I wanted a service.
I can see if you wanted to do a major renevation, or knock the house down or something.
But not just to check the furnace to make sure it’s working.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
I ran across these Pop-Up Makeup Brushes at bookofjoe this morning.
I think it would be really nice to have nine brushes and a mirror in one place, in a container that wouldn’t get dirty or dingy even if I carried it around in my purse every day.
According to Solutions:
This brush set was created according to the strict guidelines of actress Catherine Hickalnd of One Life to Live, Loving, The City, Knight Rider and other television series and movies. They re-create all of her favorite brushes used on TV and movie sets.
Unfortunately, the web site doesn’t list the type of brushes - just that there are nine brushes in the set.
It’s obvious that a makeup junkie wasn’t involved in writing the description of the set, or they would have listed the types of brushes as well.
What do you think? Would you use Pop-Up makeup brushes?
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
It’s the first snow of the season!
The flakes are so small you can hardly see them.
How’s your weather?
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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