So how was your day?

[LMD84]

i hope that she makes a full recovery - burns can be so nasty and that is such a shame about one of their dogs. sorry about your allergies too! i imagine all the smoke has done it

Lollipop Loving – Best lipstick ever! - check out todays blog post! i know i keep posting links but i'd love loads of you guys to read! hee hee!

 

[ElvenEyes]

Love your blog, Lou! I am so jealous over those beautiful pink lipstick containers, but they were pre-Debi days! I see them in a lot of the You Tube collection/storage videos and drool with envy! I was hoping the Quite Cute collection might have pastel or bring pink and purple packaging with little flowers on it. That would have been fun!

I swear if one more "burnt house peeper" or town truck drives down this quiet road to look at what happened I am going to scream!

 

[LMD84]

Love your blog, Lou! I am so jealous over those beautiful pink lipstick containers, but they were pre-Debi days! I see them in a lot of the You Tube collection/storage videos and drool with envy! I was hoping the Quite Cute collection might have pastel or bring pink and purple packaging with little flowers on it. That would have been fun!

I swear if one more "burnt house peeper" or town truck drives down this quiet road to look at what happened I am going to scream!

why thank you! and yeah the heatherette packaging has been my favourite packaging from mac - so pretty and fun! maybe one day you can track some down

 

[ElvenEyes]

why thank you! and yeah the heatherette packaging has been my favourite packaging from mac - so pretty and fun! maybe one day you can track some down

Wait! I thought you were coming here to play in the milkweed with me this fall. No? What if I dangle some pigments in front of you. Will that help?

Bad news. The woman burnt in the fire is in critical condition and fighting for her life. There are several family members gathered at the house. Not sure if they are allowed inside at all to retrieve things for the girls or what. Unreal. These kids don't need to lose another parent. What a tragedy.

 

[LMD84]

Wait! I thought you were coming here to play in the milkweed with me this fall. No? What if I dangle some pigments in front of you. Will that help?
Bad news. The woman burnt in the fire is in critical condition and fighting for her life. There are several family members gathered at the house. Not sure if they are allowed inside at all to retrieve things for the girls or what. Unreal. These kids don't need to lose another parent. What a tragedy.

oh yeah! pigments will definately get me over the milkweed issue! hee hee!

i really hope their mother pulls through - that would be terrible if they were left without parents how old are they?

 

[ElvenEyes]

The youngest is 17 and I believe is graduating this year, but not positive. The older one is 20. They have had a hard life of it. Their mother isn't exactly the brightest star in the sky and after her husband passed away she had another guy living with her within weeks. It was unreal. This messed up the girls and the son. The son left and joined the service. The oldest girl joined up with a gang, the youngest has some emotional problems but it sweet inside and very thoughtful. I wish I could pull her out of that family and raise her myself and show her what a normal life is like. But she is close to her sister and getting tougher and tougher, in more trouble, etc. I really hate seeing this. I think the mother is going to be okay, but she has other health issues and emotional ones that will delay her recovery. Overall I wish the best for the family, but everyone hopes the house gets patched up, renovated and sold to another family. I'm not sure how she can fix this with a lot of neighbours that she or her kids have had conflicts with. The egged house on Halloween, smashed our next door neighbour's mailbox, snuck in and used our other next door neighbour's pool late at night and the owner had to call the police. I guess it happened more than once. They have their own pool, but the mother never opened it last year so there is green scum everywhere. All in all it is a sad case.

On a happier note the tarot selling has picked up again, the drawers getting a bit emptier (still a long way to go) but I feel like I am moving it along. Coach sent me a 25% coupon (hehehe) and I have some fun things coming in the mail today! I have spent a lot of time going through old magazines and tossing them out or sending them on to other places. I have a few books to sell, etc. So, things are busy but getting more organized! Wish me luck to keep up my spring cleaning until it is completely done. Heck, I haven't even put makeup on yet. My eyes are all teary from allergies, so no eye stuff today!!

 

[LMD84]

A tour of Boots

check it out guys - a video done by myself! a tour of a UK drugstore!

 

[rockin]

A tour of Boots

check it out guys - a video done by myself! a tour of a UK drugstore!

I love the covert filming LOL. Your Boots looks quite a bit bigger than ours.

 

[LMD84]

I love the covert filming LOL. Your Boots looks quite a bit bigger than ours.

LOL! i was so scared because i swear i thought i was going to be ejected from the shop! because it was early morning when i went in it was pretty quiet and stuff where everywhere! i even used a sony bloggie to film because it looks like a mobile phone!

 

[ElvenEyes]

Miss Austen Powers on a mission! lol Excellent blog...I posted over there. Lots of fun to see it all and you did fantastic! I finally know what a Boots is like! Yay! And of course, now I want to come over there and shop!

 

[katred]

Deni- Very sorry to hear about your neighbour. I know what you mean about setting past wrongs aside at such times. It might make me a bad person, but I was especially sorry for the pets. Maybe it's just because they so often get left behind in such emergencies. I would think that, under the circumstances, the mother would just take what she can get from her insurance company and move on. It sounds like her kids could do with a change of location anyway... By the way, I thought of you this morning because I had a dream about receiving a very strangely but intricately decorated tarot deck as a gift from someone.

Lou- I've been loving the blogs, but it was especially nice seeing the one on Boots. I'm convinced that our main national pharmacy chain here- Shoppers Drug Mart- copied a lot of what they saw Boots doing, because they started adding in more prestige makeup and skin care brands, etc. It's strange for me when I go to the US, because I find the drug stores there a little shoddy compared to what I'm used to (no offense meant to anybody). Boots looks much more like the ones we have here. You also made me kick myself for missing Lollipop Lovin'. I'm not sure how I managed to check out on the entire Heatherette collection, but I didn't pick up a single thing. Too bad, because it seems like there were some real winners!

We've been promised some thunderstorms tonight, which I usually enjoy. So far, though, the atmosphere is holding out. Nothing but regular dark sky...

 

[LMD84]

Deni- Very sorry to hear about your neighbour. I know what you mean about setting past wrongs aside at such times. It might make me a bad person, but I was especially sorry for the pets. Maybe it's just because they so often get left behind in such emergencies. I would think that, under the circumstances, the mother would just take what she can get from her insurance company and move on. It sounds like her kids could do with a change of location anyway... By the way, I thought of you this morning because I had a dream about receiving a very strangely but intricately decorated tarot deck as a gift from someone.

Lou- I've been loving the blogs, but it was especially nice seeing the one on Boots. I'm convinced that our main national pharmacy chain here- Shoppers Drug Mart- copied a lot of what they saw Boots doing, because they started adding in more prestige makeup and skin care brands, etc. It's strange for me when I go to the US, because I find the drug stores there a little shoddy compared to what I'm used to (no offense meant to anybody). Boots looks much more like the ones we have here. You also made me kick myself for missing Lollipop Lovin'. I'm not sure how I managed to check out on the entire Heatherette collection, but I didn't pick up a single thing. Too bad, because it seems like there were some real winners!

We've been promised some thunderstorms tonight, which I usually enjoy. So far, though, the atmosphere is holding out. Nothing but regular dark sky...

aw thanks sweetie! i am so pleased that people seem to be enjoying them! it is great the amount of variety we get in our drugstores and you can buy super cheap stuff or high end in the same place. I enjoy shopping there. the only issue i have is that the displays always look really messy - it's like the only clean them up once a day or something. or maybe they do actually clean multiple times but teenagers come and bugger it up! i swear it looks like people have eaten tester lipsticks before!!

oh and i really like the american drugstores - mainly because they have entirely different products to what we get! but it would be nice if there was some higher end stuff there! and i hope the storms weren't too bad for you!

today me and nick are going shopping again because it's payday. i want to get a couple of summer dresses and i will be stalking chanel in case they put the summer collection out early!

 

[ElvenEyes]

Katred~Yes, I was hoping that would be the case. That they would move on and start fresh somewhere else. But one daughter still has another year of High School and they have decided to rebuild and move back in. I can hope they change their mind, but unlikely. It will take a long time but they did drop off a dumpster today so that means the long job of cleaning up will begin shortly and all summer we will be hearing them hammering and sawing away. They have to do her bedroom completely over-possibly knock the entire part down because that fire was huge and hot. Then the entire second floor and attic. Redo the siding and redo the roof. And that is just the basics. That doesn't include new windows, floors, walls, rewiring, etc. I have this horrible feeling this could happen again with far worse results. I woke with the fire in my mind and my husband said the same thing. You just can't get rid of that memory quickly. Funny about the dream. I also dream of tarot sometimes and am always making up the deck in my mind!!

Lou~Selling was amazing yesterday. I just really lucked out because a lot are selling decks and there are only so many who buy, so I was delighted. The sale at Coach starts tonight at Midnight!! Guess who will be super tired tomorrow between trying to nab a bag (which I am hoping I can get and will be for fall) and then the Royal Wedding. I am going to need a nap today! Sorry about the pigment situation. I think you were just nervous and maybe rushing. I know a lot of gurus show one side of the face done in advance and only do the second one. Would that make it easier for you? That way everything is already out and you have one eye already completed. It might feel more like you are doing it just for yourself. Also you could just concentrate on doing it, hold things up once in a while, and do a voice over. I've seen that a lot and it is actually kind better. That way you are not rushing (you can always speed up the video parts where you blend) and you won't be thinking about what you need to say. Add that later! Like this one (I hope it is okay to put up...if not please remove)

http://www.youtube.com/user/theoutfitters08#p/u/20/1k_IRsNfzeQ


And I know what you mean about messy MU stores. That is how our Sephora is these days They used to be so clean and tidy, but not anymore! They are always a mess, with chewed lipstick and stuff smeared everywhere. You have to be careful when leaning over or you can end up with junk on your clothes or coat. I remember them constantly cleaning up but that seems to no longer be the practice!

 

[LMD84]

Katred~Yes, I was hoping that would be the case. That they would move on and start fresh somewhere else. But one daughter still has another year of High School and they have decided to rebuild and move back in. I can hope they change their mind, but unlikely. It will take a long time but they did drop off a dumpster today so that means the long job of cleaning up will begin shortly and all summer we will be hearing them hammering and sawing away. They have to do her bedroom completely over-possibly knock the entire part down because that fire was huge and hot. Then the entire second floor and attic. Redo the siding and redo the roof. And that is just the basics. That doesn't include new windows, floors, walls, rewiring, etc. I have this horrible feeling this could happen again with far worse results. I woke with the fire in my mind and my husband said the same thing. You just can't get rid of that memory quickly. Funny about the dream. I also dream of tarot sometimes and am always making up the deck in my mind!!

Lou~Selling was amazing yesterday. I just really lucked out because a lot are selling decks and there are only so many who buy, so I was delighted. The sale at Coach starts tonight at Midnight!! Guess who will be super tired tomorrow between trying to nab a bag (which I am hoping I can get and will be for fall) and then the Royal Wedding. I am going to need a nap today! Sorry about the pigment situation. I think you were just nervous and maybe rushing. I know a lot of gurus show one side of the face done in advance and only do the second one. Would that make it easier for you? That way everything is already out and you have one eye already completed. It might feel more like you are doing it just for yourself. Also you could just concentrate on doing it, hold things up once in a while, and do a voice over. I've seen that a lot and it is actually kind better. That way you are not rushing (you can always speed up the video parts where you blend) and you won't be thinking about what you need to say. Add that later! Like this one (I hope it is okay to put up...if not please remove)

http://www.youtube.com/user/theoutfitters08#p/u/20/1k_IRsNfzeQ


And I know what you mean about messy MU stores. That is how our Sephora is these days They used to be so clean and tidy, but not anymore! They are always a mess, with chewed lipstick and stuff smeared everywhere. You have to be careful when leaning over or you can end up with junk on your clothes or coat. I remember them constantly cleaning up but that seems to no longer be the practice!

oh Debi that is such an obvious thing to do that i just didn't think of! i think that for tutorials i shall just do my face as i normally would but hold things up to the camera and the do the voiceover! why did i not think of this?! i filmed my April favorites video this morning - lots of people do them and i always like to see what people have been using. i also chucked in a couple of non beauty products but i wanted to mention them anyway!

and that is awesome timing that they coach sale starts and you have just sold so many decks! makes things much easier right?!

I ended up buying a couple of tops in town today. i bought a t shirt that has a tiger print on the front and little orange and black crystals throughout the print. sounds tacky but it's cute! and the i bought a purple cropped cardigan which is nice to cover my arms! and then i bought some jeans and some flip flops too. i hope everybody is having a lovely day!

 

[ElvenEyes]

lol Lou. I knew the Coach thing was coming because they called me up to tell me I was receiving a discount. I figured if I stopped buying for a bit they would send me one, so now I know how they work. So I was in a big hurry to sell and getting a bit frustrated when whammo! Everyone bought within a few hours! We added up the sale so far and I've made 4695.00. OMG. lol And that doesn't count some book selling I did or even a few transactions at the beginning when I started to sell. I never wrote them down because I really didn't expect things to go so well. Yay!

After I read your post about the pigments I thought, hey, Lou has a cool sophisticated voice. She can do this as a voice over and concentrate on applying the MU instead of trying to do both. I would be smacking my eyeball with mascara if I tried and even the best of gurus have lots of accidents. Things fall, things break, things spill, liners get messed up, eyes don't match, etc. It is all in good fun and nice to know we all have our moments where MU has a mind of its own!

Your new clothes sound cute!!! You could do a coral n/p with black shatter to go with the tiger shirt! Ooooh! May I have the cardigan? It sounds perfect!!

I am somewhat excited. One of the ladies who bought my more expensive decks is a photographer and has a pile of MU from MUA's that is sanitary. She asked if I wanted anything and I said the only product I really want is that MSF in By Candlelight. She said to expect a package in the mail. OMG...I hope that she found it in the collection!!! That would be amazing, if it is nice! This is one reason I look forward to the, um, Boob collection. More MSF's. I only have 2, plus my natural and the WW one.

Lou...show me pictures of your jewelry! I am excited to shop for fun things and we have quite a few stores here and in Concord where I can get them! New obsession!!

 

[WhatWouldJoanDo]

Enjoying wild berry Pop Rocks right now! I would say it's a pretty fantastic day!

 

[katred]

Well I got a haul from Mac and Guerlain, so I'm a pretty happy camper right now!

On the other hand,, I had a bitter fight with my best friend last night, something which has been brewing for a while. Although I obviously see my side of things better than his, he's gone off on Dom (The Great Enabler) a few times recently for pretty innocent things and he seems to have been getting more and more concerned solely with himself, while completely losing interest in others. The other week, I had a bad asthma attack- Dom had to force air into me and give me repeated hits off my inhaler (I may have mentioned this here previously, actually)- and this person didn't even bother to ask the next day if I was doing all right. He's been exceptionally sensitive any time anyone has said anything about him, even in jest (as Dom is prone to doing), but at the same time has been completely arrogant and disrespectful to almost everyone else. It's quite depressing, because we've been friends for years- I was the best man at his wedding, actually- but lately he's been unbearable. Night of the asthma attack aside, I can't even remember the last time he asked how I was, or for that matter, asked anything about me. I hear from him when he has things to vent about, or when he wants to tell me what's going on in his life. Growl. Sorry, I'm now doing exactly what i just complained about and just venting...

Debi- I hope you do get By Candlelight! It is a lovely shade. I know that some people complained that they found it too shimmery, but I've never had that problem. I find it gives the most lovely warm glow to my face- in fact, it pretty much exactly lives up to its name.

Lou- I'm greatly enjoying the blogs and I can't wait to go through your April favourites. I was just reflecting on my favourite makeup things from Spring collections. I feel like, although I was a little let down this year by what Mac had to offer, I more than made up for it through others' collections.

 

[LMD84]

Well I got a haul from Mac and Guerlain, so I'm a pretty happy camper right now!

On the other hand,, I had a bitter fight with my best friend last night, something which has been brewing for a while. Although I obviously see my side of things better than his, he's gone off on Dom (The Great Enabler) a few times recently for pretty innocent things and he seems to have been getting more and more concerned solely with himself, while completely losing interest in others. The other week, I had a bad asthma attack- Dom had to force air into me and give me repeated hits off my inhaler (I may have mentioned this here previously, actually)- and this person didn't even bother to ask the next day if I was doing all right. He's been exceptionally sensitive any time anyone has said anything about him, even in jest (as Dom is prone to doing), but at the same time has been completely arrogant and disrespectful to almost everyone else. It's quite depressing, because we've been friends for years- I was the best man at his wedding, actually- but lately he's been unbearable. Night of the asthma attack aside, I can't even remember the last time he asked how I was, or for that matter, asked anything about me. I hear from him when he has things to vent about, or when he wants to tell me what's going on in his life. Growl. Sorry, I'm now doing exactly what i just complained about and just venting...

Debi- I hope you do get By Candlelight! It is a lovely shade. I know that some people complained that they found it too shimmery, but I've never had that problem. I find it gives the most lovely warm glow to my face- in fact, it pretty much exactly lives up to its name.

Lou- I'm greatly enjoying the blogs and I can't wait to go through your April favourites. I was just reflecting on my favourite makeup things from Spring collections. I feel like, although I was a little let down this year by what Mac had to offer, I more than made up for it through others' collections.

i'm sorry about the issues with your friends. but he does sound like a bit of an arse right now. i wonder why he has changed and started to act like this. do you think he'll just go off on one if you try to sit down to talk about it? sadly i had a friend that never asked how i was, only called when she had a problem and blah blah blah - now we rarely speak which is sad really.

and thanks for reading the blogs Kate! and i totally agree with you about how let down you have been with mac. i have been finding myself less impressed with what they have to offer. i am excited for the few things i buy of course. but my hauls have gone from buying 10 things at once to only getting 2 things. i have been spending money on chanel and nars recently so it is just as well i havent spent as much on mac! that said i am very much looking forward to semi precious

 

[ElvenEyes]

Katred~I am so sorry about the situation with your friend. It sounds like something is up and more likely it has absolutely nothing to do with you. Maybe they have had some bad news recently or some kind of major disappointment. Maybe someone they trusted deceived them and when that happens a person can pull away from everyone. There can be a myriad of reasons, so it is a good time to step aside, know it is not personal, and let them figure themselves out. Maybe you will factor into the picture again or maybe not, but most important is for you to move on with your own life and be happy. xo And I am very sorry about your asthma attack. That must have been very scary and painful for you. I hope things improve quickly.

Lou~Yay! Jewelry pictures! I can't wait! Seriously!! I am so excited!! I have some beautiful jewelry that is very classic; diamond crosses, gold crosses, gold and diamond heart, gold locket, etc. and love them all. And my pearls from my wedding. But sometimes, especially in the spring/summer, I like to wear something fun and different and there is so much out there that it is really cool to see people's collections or even bits of it to get an idea of their style and so forth. I will try and post mine soon. Maybe Specktra needs a jewelry section! Fancy, fashion and storage ideas. I love this place!!!

I am so tired but so happy! 2 hours of sleep and watching the Royal Wedding. They look so happy, so real, the dress is gorgeous, she is going to make a perfect princess and future queen. They are a lovely couple! The abbey was amazing looking, the music just brought me to tears and I loved seeing Harry smiling huge in the carriage afterward with the kids and making them wave to the crowd. Too cute! Just a super happy day in all....and did you see the sun break out on their way back to Buckingham Palace? So cool! After the balcony I can go back to bed for a few zzz's! Between this and the fire at the beginning of the week I am running on empty!!

 

[LMD84]

ok Debi - here are some pictures of my jewelery - mostly fashion i also forgot to take a picture of my tiffany key necklace but i am sure you guys have seen that before anyways!


bangles that i bought the other day


pendants and necklaces with the odd earring thrown in!


small earrings


big earrings

rings! the middle one on the top row is my engagement ring


necklaces

more necklaces!