DIY Picture Frames

Everyone's favorite fab four!

I adore this picture!

These only take a couple of hours to make, and they are a nice personal and fun touch in any room. I took two pieces of cardboard, and covered them by gluing on a collage of pictures that I had cut out of magazines (In Style magazine and the Anthropologie Catalogue are great for this). I would recommend using a paintbrush to apply the glue. The pictures of the Beatles and the dog wearing a wig (so ridiculous!) are actually post cards that I got from an art supply store, and I figured that since they were black and white that they would really stand out against their colorful backgrounds. Have fun!

Love Potion #9

Urban Decay's Primer Potion seems to get all of the love, but I would argue that U.D. has an even better product out on the market. I'm pretty sure that their Eye shadow Transforming Potion is truly magical. Harry Potter ain't got nothing on it. On one end, you have a fine brush, that allows you to turn any of your eye shadows into a liquid liner (which I feel that Too-Face's Liquif-Eye does a better job of), but it's the wide line brush on the other end that makes it an indispensible beauty buy. It basically allows you to paint on a creaseless wash of color (note the art terminology). Absolutely gorgeous, and it makes the need for a primer--wait for it-- disappear (see, magic)!

Who's Excited for the Holidays?!!!!

Eat to Live

Have you heard of Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live diet? I started it a couple of weeks ago, and I feel great. Basically, you eat a mainly plant-based (fruits, veggies, legumes) diet, omitting all animal products. This is not your college dining hall variety of vegan (french fries and two pieces of lettuce). You can pretty much eat as many vegetables as your stomach can physically hold.
By now you are probably going, this girl is nuts, why isn't she eating deep fried Twinkies and swigging natty light like the rest of us?Well, to answer your questions, I have celiacs (a gluten intolerance), so there goes the Twinkies and the beer. I'm also allergic to dairy. Basically, I can't eat much besides fruits and veggies anyways, and after reading Dr. Fuhrman's book, which offers sound medical science and refers to peer-reviewed scientific journals, I had nothing to really lose (besides about 15 pounds, of which I've lost seven). I would recommend checking it out. Even if you can't imagine following a diet like that, he makes several interesting points about nutrition in general, which might convince you to throw away that twinky, and pick up a carrot (or twenty).