May 25, 2013

7 Simple Items to Help Live Greener and Reduce Your Bills

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Spring is here, Earth Day is coming up and I find myself not just spring cleaning but looking for ways to simplify our lives, save money and be better at living green.  Paul Taylor from www.babysittingjobs.com is our guest contributor on the topic this week and has a lot of great things to stay about [...]

Fall Nails

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Thanks to Coterie I received three new butter LONDON nail lacquers and a matte topcoat this week. For free!  Yes, free. My new fave color is Wallis.  It just might be my go to color for fall.

10 Cosmetic Ingredients to Avoid

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In the past century, facelift procedures and cosmetics have become the most common ways to enhance beauty. However, some cosmetics contain harmful ingredients. Plasticsurgeryguide.com believes it is important for all consumers to know which ingredients to watch out for while shopping for cosmetics.

22 Budget-Friendly Tips for Going Green

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Attention Earthlings: It’s time once again for that annual celebration of all things green. Earth Day is nearly upon us and, while many people offer advice on being kind to Mother Earth, too many of these tips don’t quite coincide with frugal lifestyles. In an effort to dovetail these two purposes, we offer 22 budget-friendly [...]

Blame it on Earth Day

Maybe it is all the PR pitches about Earth Day that has me in the green mode more than normal.  Maybe it’s my pregnancy or the spring time with its feelings of renewal and spring cleaning.  Whatever it is I’ve become incensed lately when I see something going to waste.  Well, more so than my [...]

Just Because It’s Free…

I love me some Freecycle. I think it is one of the best things on the Internet most days.  Every few seconds my email inbox is updated with new items that are available for free.  All I have to do it pick them up.  Most of the time it is some pretty good stuff. An [...]

My Parenting Skills Sucketh

1. I believe in teaching TD about caring for her planet. She knows how to recycle. She, uh-oh, likes it. Shh…. 2. She wants to eat her veggies so she won’t um, cough up blood or anything. 3. She likes to donate her time and money to worthy and valuable causes. Which, according to Glen [...]

Taking Time for the National Day of Service and Rememberance

Taking Time for the National Day of Service and Rememberance

What are your plans for tomorrow? It’s National Day of Service and Remembrance, a day where many individuals and organizations (think nonprofit, employers and faith based groups, etc) around the country will work together to perform good deeds in observance of the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Maybe you are remembering someone dear or [...]

Confessions of a Grocery Whore

Confessions of a Grocery Whore

Hi there loyal Mummy readers! This is Stacy, aka: The Fabulous Miss S. I am guest posting here today for our dear Mummy, Victoria who is recovering from a nasty cold and child birth. Congratulations and GET WELL!! Vicky. ::I hear that the first step is admitting you have a problem? Well, I have a [...]

My Trash the Dress

Cross-posted from Flaming Tulle Recently I participated in Trash the Dress, a growing project that many photographers are taking part in. Now worldwide Trash the Dress is typically done the week after a wedding has taken place. The bride gets back into ‘the’ dress and well, trashes it. Photos are done in water, under water, [...]