Recently I got the ingenious idea to put some of my liquid beauty cleansers into these great pump dispensers. If you’ve ever gotten a manicure, you see your nail tech using this type container with a cotton ball to remove your polish. So I purchased three different ones, one for my eye makeup remover, one for my Dickinson’s Toner, and one for baby oil, for those stubborn days when my eye makeup remover just refuses to budge. (FYI, do not put baby oil in bottle or dispenser directly on marble, I learned my lesson years ago to always have something under it). I purchased different ones so I wouldn’t confuse the three. It now takes up a lot less room on my counter, I don’t seem to waste any product, and I’m not mixing my makeup back into the product. Some days I really impress myself!

If you have a Sally’s Beauty Supply close by, you can purchase there, because they have several different types so none look alike. They range in price from $3 each to $10, anywhere you find them.

If you are tired of cheap or cutesy and are looking for a more sophisticated line of party supplies, I want you to check out acmepartybox.com.

How cute are these mason jars?

And you must get these cute stripey straws!

How cute are these chalkboard egg place cards?

Seriously? A moss table runner!

Love this site so much it makes me want to throw a party! And be sure and bookmark because I can tell from their Sale Section they will have some cute holiday decor for Halloween and Christmas!

I detest those icky diet salad dressings. I was so happy when I discovered Marie (which is my favorite dressing) carried a line of yogurt dressings. These are DELISH and have half the calories and fat of regular salad dressings.  Did you read that correctly? HALF! What’s even better is they are not very thick so a little goes a long way – so in my mind if you use less, and they are half the fat and calories as regular, well, they are practically free! But they do not have that bitter diety taste like some diet salad dressings or reduced fat dressings.

My favorite is Blue Cheese. All natural. No preservatives. Love that! The line of flavors are:

• Blue Cheese
• Ranch
• Feta Cheese
• Parmesan Caesar
• Honey Mustard
• Thousand Island
• Cole Slaw

If you aren’t familiar with the Marie line of salad dressings, they are usually in the refrigerated produce section of the supermarket, so don’t look for them with the rest of those ordinary salad dressings on the shelf! Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Did you miss me? Still a lot to do but I’ve cut down my travel time to and fro to my mother-in-law. She’s now about ten minutes from us as opposed to an hour and a half. Thanks everyone for all your kind words and thoughts.

Now, back to the blog. I love to unwind and play little games on my iPhone when I have a few minutes. Sadly, I’m a big time cheater. I come from a long line of cheaters. It’s sort of a family tradition. Only when it comes to games though. We don’t cheat in any other sense! The first time I played Words With Friends with my son, I could only come up with the word “it”, so I started cheating.

Ruzzle is a fun word finder game you can play with your friends or with a random opponent. You will find cheats out there but for the life of me I don’t know how you could cheat. It goes so fast and by the time I could enter in the word puzzle I think my time would be gone. Don’t tell me if there is a way to cheat because I would just start cheating!

I LOVE word finder games. I think it keeps my old feeble mind sharp. And I still get plenty of points, even for the “it” words.

From the developer:

If you like playing word games then you need to join over 30 million players and try Ruzzle!

Ruzzle is a fun and fast-paced word game where you can challenge your friends or allow an opponent to be chosen randomly. Who can find the most words in two minutes?

Find as many words as possible on a board by swiping your finger across the screen. The letters may form words as long as they are connected to each other. Nice audio and animations make it even more fun to play.

The matches are played in three rounds and the highest total number of scores wins.
The rounds can be played when it suits you. You can get going as soon as you have two minutes to spare!

Letter scores, word length and bonus pieces help you to collect as many scores as possible.
If you would like to practice offline, you can play matches in the premium version.