{trivia tuesday}

10 random but delightful facts....

1. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
2.  A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
3. Cold water weighs more than hot water.
4. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
5. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
6.  Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
7. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven
8.  Apples are 25% air.
9.  Avocados are poisonous to birds.
10. The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."

  Do you feel delightfully smarter?

Need a New Family?

Tools and Materials

 Two dozen 6-inch skewers
Wax pencil
Child-safe pumpkin-carving saw
Toothpicks
Staples
Waxed twine
Round wood gouge

Gather some natural objects for decorating and for facial features: We used almonds, carrots, pear berries, pear leaves, pine cones, oak leaves, pumpkin seeds, gourds, hazelnuts, chrysanthemums, and radishes for eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and hair.

Gourd Family How-To
1. To make the bodies, select pumpkins in a range of sizes, stack, and secure them to one another with skewers.

2. To make faces, trace the object you will use for each feature onto pumpkin with wax pencil, then cut and scoop out a slightly smaller opening. Lay object on the opening, and press to wedge it in. Poke holes for small objects such as twigs and leaf stems using skewers or toothpicks. Push in staples to hold hair, such as dad's comb-over.

3. For the dad's glasses, twist a 2-foot-long twig; tie in place through the lenses with waxed twine. For the mom's apron, tie Swiss chard onto twine.

4. For the child's hat, an adult should cut a small pumpkin in half horizontally and scallop the edge of the top using the wood gouge.

From Martha Stewart Kids

Read more at Marthastewart.com: Gourd Family - Martha Stewart Holidays

{spa-licious saturday}

You can't go wrong with chocolate right?

Chocolate Facial Mask
This creamy mask is an excellent moisturizer, leaving your skin baby soft. Recommended for normal skin.

1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 tbsp. heavy cream
2 tsp. cottage cheese
¼ cup honey
3 tsp. oatmeal

Mix all ingredients together (a bullet blender is ideal) and smooth onto face. Relax for ten 10 minutes, then wash off with warm water.

In case you're wondering like I was if chocolate was good for my skin...

It's true! Antioxidant compounds in cocoa, called flavanols, improve artery health by boosting blood flow, and that boost may be good for your skin, too.

Researchers discovered this chocolate benefit in a study of women who consumed half a cup of cocoa (containing 329 milligrams of flavanols per serving, the amount in a 3-½ ounce serving of dark chocolate) daily for 12 weeks. At the end of the study, the women experienced less skin dryness, scaling, and roughness compared to the beginning of the study. Also, their skin was thicker, exhibited improved blood flow, and was even more resistant to sun damage. Pretty Delightful if you ask me!

{funny friday}

Need more {funny} in your friday? Try these silly tongue twisters. You can't help but laugh..eventually!

Skunk Stump

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

The Bug and the Bear

A big black bug bit a big black bear, and
made the big black bear bleed blood.

The Sign of a Great Jacket

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

Short and Sweet ... and Hard!

Ed had edited it.

Ewww, Gross!

Freshly fried fresh flesh.

What are you finding {funny} today?

{trivia tuesday}

10 random but delightful facts....

1. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
2. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
3. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
4. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size
5. Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
6. It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
7. Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet
8. Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow
9. Did You Know, 25% of your bones are located in your feet
10. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

  Do you feel delightfully smarter?

{Spa-licious Saturday}

ladies...it's time to give our hair some much needed attention...Just in case I'm the only one that didn't have a clue what jojoba oil was I've attached some info about it. I found it at our local natural health food store. Along with every other kind of oil you can imagine..who knew that all existed! 

Pre-Shampoo Rinse

You'll need:

1/4 cup jojoba oil

1/4 cup canola oil

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup sesame oil

Combine all the ingredients into an empty — and clean! — plastic ketchup bottle. Apply the mixture to your scalp and all your hair, cover your head with a plastic shower cap and let it set for at least 30 minutes. Then shampoo and condition as usual.

Benefits of jojoba oil

• Provides all day moisturization – jojoba oil doesn’t evaporate like water based moisturizers can.
• It is theorized, but not yet proven, that because jojoba oil is so similar to human skin oil, it can "trick" the skin into thinking it has produced enough oil and thus balance oil production.
• Very stable – jojoba oil does not become rancid or lose antioxidants even after long periods of storage.
• Spreads well and absorbs well.

{funny friday}

{trivia tuesday}

10 random but delightful facts....

1. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
2. There are 86,400 seconds in day
3. Ants never sleep.
4. A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds
5. The human brain is 80% water
6. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites
7. No president of the United States was an only child.
8. Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales
9. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
10. All polar bears are left handed

  Do you feel delightfully smarter?

{Spa-licious Saturday}

New idea for creating your own little spa-licious Saturday! 

Spectacular Bath Cookies

You'll need:

2 cups finely ground sea salt
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons light oil
1 teaspoon vitamin E oil
2 eggs
5 to 6 drops essential oil of your choice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all ingredients and form into a dough. Taking a teaspoon of dough at a time, roll it gently into a ball in the palms of your hands, then place the "cookies" in lines on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake your bath cookies for ten minutes or until they are lightly browned. Do not overbake. Allow the bath cookies to cool completely. To use, drop two cookies into a warm bath and allow to dissolve. Yields enough for 12 baths.

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{funny friday}

Sanity: A Treasure Thou Shalt Keep

Are you ever out and about and the kids are starving to be entertained? That's me about every where I go. I keep toys in the car for this very purpose. But sometimes we don't have any toys and my circus clown is showing her true colors! I've discovered these hand games to play when we have no toys...

Dance the Hand Jive

Take a trip back in time with this dance craze from the 1950s, made popular again in the late 1970s by the hit movie Grease. Kids love to learn it.

Here's how it goes:

1) Pat your thighs twice.

2) Clap twice.

3) Wave your hands, one over the other, in front of your chest. Then do it with the other hand on top.

4) Bump your fists twice, one on top of the other. Then do it with the other fist on top.

5) Point your right thumb over your right shoulder twice, then your left thumb over your left shoulder twice.

Play the song below and put it all together to the beat! Pat-pat-clap-clap-hand-hand-bump-bump-thumb-thumb!

Steeple People

This classic hand game for young children is easy to play and has a fun rhyme to say. Here's a refresher course if it's been a while.

Fold your hands together with fingers interlaced downward and hidden between your hands:

"Here is the church."

Raise your index fingers and point them together toward the sky:

"Here is the steeple."

Open your thumbs:

"Open the doors."

Keep your fingers interlocked and turn over your hands so your fingers are facing up. Wriggle them as you say:

"And see all the people!"

Lastest Great Finds

http://www.etsy.com/listing/57682005/close-to-my-heart-double-hand-stamped?ref=cat1_gallery_31

 http://www.etsy.com/listing/58480776/vintage-1980s-cabbage-patch-knit-skirt?ref=cat3_gallery_9

http://www.etsy.com/listing/58452692/olive-drop-waist-pleated-skirt?ref=cat3_gallery_21

Have You Wondered This Before?

I'm always amazed at the many uses for our every day products. such as Apple Cider Vinegar...
Have you ever wondered what all this weird smelling stuff can be used for?

It's good for repairing damaged hair!

Vinegar removes residue to restore your hair's natural shine. Vinegar treated hair will also be less likely to tangle.

Mix one-third cup of apple cider vinegar with one quart water.

Rinse hair with this solution after shampooing.

So why does vinegar work so well? Because vinegar removes scaly build-up and residue from hair shafts and closes the cuticles. Vinegar has a tonic action that promotes blood circulation in the small capillaries that irrigate the skin.

{spa-licious saturday}

I don't even has curly hair but the ends of my hair get some serious fuzz after I use the blow dryer...


Frizz Control Hair Gel


Mix 1/3 pure aloe vera gel to 2/3 distilled, warm water. Pour into a spray bottle and mist hair. Scrunch hair, or sculpt curls with your fingers and let air-dry. Bye-bye frizz.

{funny friday}

Some Marriage Math:

1. Smart man + smart woman = romance
2. Smart man + dumb woman = pregnancy
3. Dumb man + smart woman = affair
4. Dumb man + dumb woman = marriage
5. Smart boss + smart employee = profit
6. Smart boss + dumb employee = production
7. Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
8. Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime