Alright, I’m starting a new little article called Weekend Excursions. Nowadays it seems that no one ever has the time to take a vacation. So in an effort to put an end to your bordeom and cabin fever, Weekend Excursions will go out every Wednesday, suggesting a town to visit for the weekend, enough activities [...]

I added this one to the “inspiration” category.
Most people have seen Sarah Silverman’s video to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel:

Alright, it’s kind of amusing. I don’t really like Sarah Silverman, but I do like Matt Damon and the concept is entertaining. Although, what I’m really reminded of is Matt Damon in that movie EuroTrip singing “Scotty [...]

Labradorite Poison Ring by Ayala Moriel
Creme perfumes are easy to carry around with you and you can often find really cool containers. Look for rings or pendents that flip up and have hiding places that can be filled with the scented cream – when looking for these pieces to purchase they are often called [...]

This project is so easy it’s ridiculous, and they make great gifts (that are also inexpensive and all natural!). The entire process will take about an hour. You can personalize your lip balm by choosing your own essential oil.
Ingredients:

Oil and Beeswax Base
Essential Oil

There are a tone of different essential oils out there to choose from, [...]

Here’s an oil and beeswax base that you can use when making lip balm and creme perfumes (just by adding essential oils). Making this base and then the lip balms and perfumes are great ways to spend a rainy day. It’s all natural & really simple – the ingredients should be available at either a [...]

Recently Paula Hayes has been getting a lot of press for her terrariums (although she makes aquariums and dry gardens too, but those haven’t been chatted about as much it seems) and landscape designs. In the past couple years she’s been published in Dwell, Architectural Record, Wallpaper, Garden Design, and Vogue, oh my!
I have to [...]

courtesy of zensart

Thanks to a snow storm in New Jersey, my flight in Albany was canceled, and the earliest they were able to rebook us was a flight with an arrival time of 12am Sunday morning. Various factors combined, getting there Saturday meant that we’d have to drive to Baltimore then get a flight to [...]

I’m a firm believer that you should listen to your body. If you have a craving for fish, then go ahead and eat fish. Whenever I’m sick I find myself craving fruit. I’m positive this is because when I’m sick I’m dehydrated and fruit has a high percentage of water in it as well as [...]

So tomorrow I leave for Florida with several friends for a canoe trip in the Everglades. There are no campsites, no running water, no bathrooms, etc. Oh, I also happen to be the only female on the trip. While I’m okay with roughing it so to speak, since my only beauty products are a mirror, [...]

Alright, I’m not entirely sure of how accurate some of these statements are, or at least of how accurate their numbers are. Regardless, they definitely give some food for thought.

75% of the American population is chronically dehydrated (this likely applies to half the world population).
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that [...]