You are never too old to learn. Now Apple’s iTunes U app makes it very easy to continue your education, for free.

From Apple’s website:

The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.

Features:

Free courses in a wide array of subjects
• Take free courses created and taught by instructors from leading universities and other schools
• See all assignments and updates from the instructor in one place, and check off assignments as you complete them
• Take notes and highlight text in iBooks and see them consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app
• Access course materials, including audio, video, books, documents & presentations, apps, and new iBooks textbooks for iPad

The world’s largest catalog of free education content
• Choose from more than 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology
• Browse collections from education and cultural institutions in 26 countries — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress

So whether you are interested in Literature, History, Science, Astronomy, or thousands of other subjects, I would encourage you to take a look at this app. And if anyone asks, I’m currently enrolled at Yale . . .

This recipe recently won Best Baked Beans in my Southern Living Magazine. If you are having any barbecues this summer, you might want to give this easy recipe a try!

Grandma Gwen’s Beans

Let me know if you are bored of how many different lotions and potions I use.  I like to mix it up a bit. I convince myself that all of this IS helping. Really. Mario Badescu Seaweed Night Cream is an oil-free night cream enriched with Seaweed, Collagen and Hyaluronic Acid to soften, hydrate and nourish the skin without clogging pores. It leaves the skin feeling soft and silky. It goes on a little greasy, but it quickly absorbs. From reading about this line of products, I think the entire Mario Badescu line is used by a lot of people with sensitive skin or acne-prone skin. I just like it. I can’t remember who originally recommend it to me but I am very happy with the results. I like anything and everything that hydrates my skin.

Have you tried anything from the Mario Badescu line? I am tempted to try the Mario Badescu Buttermilk Moisturizer. I don’t think I’ve ever tried anything with buttermilk but milk is good for the skin, and buttermilk is thicker, right? So surely it would be a good one too!

If you are looking for a unique keepsake, a personalized letter art creation is a great one to have or give. I have received this as a gift, and absolutely love mine. Foundalphabet.com has a great selection of letters, frames and mats to make your creation very personal to the one you are creating it for, whether that be yourself or someone else. Foundalphabet.com has a huge selection of real objects that look just like letters of the alphabet.

Here are a few of my favorite letters:

B:

C: 

E: 

I: 

Oh goodness, I really love them all. So clever. And truly creative and beautiful photographs turned into the alphabet.

The end result will look like this:

It would make a great wedding, anniversary, or housewarming gift.

The nice people at foundalphabet.com have graciously agreed to give my readers a discount, so when you purchase from foundalphabet.com, enter coupon code “TAC20” to receive $20 off of your purchase. Isn’t that nice? Also, they are having a drawing for a free keepsake on July 1, 2012. This will be up to ten letters and the winner’s choice of mat and frame. Anyone who signs up for their e-newsletter will be entered into the drawing. You can use the sign up form either on their site or Facebook page. You can get a second entry into the drawing by liking them on Facebook.

 Let me know in the comments section if you order one, or if you have ever given or received one.