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I read these in reverse order, because that is how I found them. I bought book # 3 and book # 2 for my Kindle.  I got book 1 from the library. The author  Elizabeth Spann Craig has written other series, but I have not read them. Myrtle Clover is an octogenarian and uses a cane, which thumps when she walks.  She is 6 feet tall and a former English teacher. She lives across the street from her son Red and his wife and their toddler son. She had her daughter-in-law have a good relationship, which is fun in itself. Red is on the police force. When she is mad at her son, she puts her gnome collection out in the yard.  That, of course, makes him mad.  The gardener, who hardly mows, isn't happy either, and the gardener' s wife is a poor excuse for a housekeeper. She delights in solving the murders, because it proves to Red that she isn't yet put out to pasture in the happy home for elderly. There is a delightful cast of peripheral characters as you would expect in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business, including a nosy next door neighbor and the eligible bachelor on the other side of that neighbor, Miles, who ends up helping her on occasion. She is feisty and a total delight! A body in the backyard (Book 3) I loved this book!  It was so funny.  I laughed my way through it and knew I wanted to read the series.  There was enough background given that I didn't feel the books had to be read in order.  This was probably my favorite of all of them.  I just loved her character.  I am far from being 80, but I sure hope that when that day comes I can be like Myrtle. I rate it 5 out of 5 star.  Progressive Dinner Deadly (Book 2) When a body is discovered during the first progressive dinner, Myrtle must figure out who dun it. This was probably my least favorite, but I still give it 3 stars. Pretty is as pretty dies (Book 1) I give this 4 stars.  When a beautiful woman, who is not a beautiful character, is murdered at the church altar, Myrtle is on the scene to figure it out.  Have you read any of these? or any of her other series? Karin www.savvythinker.com No items matching your keywords were found. No items matching your keywords were found. $100 AMAZON CARDS gift voucher certificate FAST FREE worldwide shipping KINDLE US $114.99 13d 13h 44m

Hey Everyone. Firdaus left a very useful tip to remove pesticides from oranges. Check it out. I'd love to share something very important with u and with all the visitors on your blog. You r right when u said we dont have organic oranges available in India. But there is a way to remove the pesticides from oranges or any fruit or vegetable we eat. Take oranges in a big bowl or bucket, pour white vinegar, add some baking powder to it and table salt. mix it in water and leave for 10-15 mins. Before throwing water, rub the oranges nicely with your hand. Now rinse with fresh water 2-3 times and your oranges are free of pesticides. To make your "anti-pesticide liquid" more powerful, u can add some lemon juice. This is the best home made method based on my research to remove pesticide. Stay healthy and beautiful :) You are right, Firdaus. Baking powder and vinegar do help to remove a bit of pesticides. Fruits having an outer covering are free from sprinkled pesticides. But, this method can be tried on grapes. But, I have to add here that this method would work only if the pesticides are on the outer covering of the fruits. If they are absorbed by the fruits in the process of plant growth, it is impossible to remove those absorbed pesticides. What do you think, guys? Related Posts: Get bouncy hair without hot tools Aloevera for Skin and Banana Hair Pack Facials from the fridge

Here are Book Girl's nails. Hot Chilis is a wonderful color on her with her skin tone -- and the Hibiscuses on her ring fingers really spice it up! I love this. Kim did a super job! Nails by Kim. See more Shellac posts here: http://savvythinker.com/category/hands/shellac/ Karin www.savvythinker.com CND,Shellac soak off gel color, soak off gel polish. US $14.95 2h 16m CND Shellac UV Gel Nail Polish - Lobster Roll - Summer Splash Collection .25 oz. 0 Bid US $17.95 30m OPI Germany Collection, Full size 0.5fl Oz./ 15ml US $6.90 18m NICOLE OPI~Kardashian Kolor~DECK THE DOLL'S Nail Polish/Enamel~Blue~#NI K33 US $9.99 5m Originally posted 2012-05-02 08:48:13.

Bigger IS better when it comes to Laura Geller Beauty! The Signature Superstars SUPERSIZED collection features the best in Baked, plus the award-winning Spackle® Under Make-Up Primer—all enclosed in a beautiful, limited edition gift box. You’ll love the skin-pampering ingredients of these Signature Superstars that deliver big, beautiful results. Laura Geller Beauty truly is the Baked Authority. Made by Italian artisans, their Baked Collection starts as a cream baked for 24 hours on terracotta tiles and is then hand finished into silky domes of powder. The result: makeup that flatters all skin types, with unparalleled coverage, blendability and superior color-correcting benefits. Bronze-n-Brighten Supersized Baked Color Correcting Bronzer is the very first product that launched Laura Geller Beauty’s celebrated Baked collection! Bronze-n-Brighten features swirls of color-correcting pigments that combine to deliver even, sun-kissed color. It is infused with skin-loving antioxidants Centella Asiatica and White Tea Extracts. Baked Highlighter in Duo Supersized in French Vanilla/NEW Golden Rose features two luminous highlighter shades to put the spotlight on your best features, giving you a gorgeous, lit-from-within glow. Spackle® Supersized Under Make-Up Primer is formulated with botanicals and powerful antioxidants Centella Asiatica and White Tea Extracts to enhance skin texture. Prime your skin to a soft, smooth canvas so make-up glides on with truer color and stays on for extended wear. Also included are the Large Retractable Kabuki Brush and a Baked Highlighter Brush, making application super easy. With this collection, you’ll be able to bronze and highlight—creating the perfect, light summer look that is so on-trend right now! BeautyStat loves Laura Geller Beauty and is so excited about this NEW, SUPERSIZED collection that we’ll be giving away 1 complete Signature Superstars Collection to 10 lucky winners! If you want to get in on this “more is more” beauty prize, then start spreading the word to all of your friends! All you have to do to be eligible to win your very own Laura Geller Beauty Signature Superstars Collection is LIKE and SHARE this giveaway on Facebook. Make sure to re-PIN this giveaway post on Pinterest and re-TWEET this giveaway on Twitter using the hashtag #SupersizedStars! You’re so close to winning your very own collection! Also, make sure to let us know which shade of the Bronze-n-Brighten Supersized Baked Color Correcting Bronzer you would like: Fair or Medium? Signature Superstars Collection includes: • Spackle® Supersized Under Make-Up Primer – Net Wt. 4 oz./113 g/118 ml • Bronze-n-Brighten Supersized Baked Color Correcting Bronzer (Fair or Medium) – Net Wt. 0.85 oz./24 g • Baked Highlighter Duo Supersized in French Vanilla/Golden Rose – Net Wt. 0.26 oz./7.5 g • Large Kabuki Retractable Brush in Black • Double-Ended Highlighter Brush in Black Note: BeautyStat and Laura Geller Beauty reserve the right to send you information on new products and launches to the e-mail and mailing address submitted, and reserve a royalty free, irrevocable, permanent right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, creative derivative works from and display this submission in whole or in part, in all media (not known or later deployed) without attribution or compensation to the entrant, his/her successors and assigns or any other entity. No purchase necessary to win. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Void where prohibited. Contest will begin at 12:01 am EDT on Monday, May 20, 2013 and ends at 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. BeautyStat will notify winners by Monday, June 3, 2013 at 11:59 PM EDT. If you are selected as a winner, please allow 4-6 business weeks for prize delivery. By entering, you agree to all terms and conditions. This giveaway is only open to those in the U.S. Winners will have the option of selecting the shade of Bronzer.

Hair and makeup lovers adore beautiful images, so it's no surprise that Pinterest is filled with beauty inspiration, tips, and tutorials. This week on the POPSUGAR Beauty Pinterest page, our most repinned posts included nostalgic prom hairstyles and bridal braids, plus a topknot tutorial. We love to hear from you, so remember to follow us on Pinterest to see and share more. Source: Getty View Slideshow ›

With the pixie cut craze hitting a crescendo, celebrities are getting pretty creative with how they style their short hair. Case in point: the pompadour. Demi Lovato showed a way for ladies with lobs to pull off this style by pulling her hair into a bumped-up French twist, while Miley Cyrus was seen sporting this voluminous coif with dark roots. And Halle Berry kept hers casual with highlights. All three ladies wore their pompadours slightly differently, but whose hair won in your book? popsugar pollWhose Pompadour Did You Like Best? Demi Lovato Miley Cyrus Halle Berry

Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Wash is the number two best selling beauty product on Amazon.com this week (because it’s on a special promotion.) Let’s look at the label to see what makes it moisturizing. Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Wash ingredients Water Solvent for the other ingredients. Is it a moisturizer? I suppose so but you’re already in the freaking shower where there’s plenty of water. Glycerin Is this moisturizer? Sure when it’s left on skin. It doesn’t really do much when rinsed off from a body wash. Unless maybe it’s moisturizing the shower drain. (Hey, that’s a new product idea for the folks that make Drano!) Cocamidopropyl Betaine Is this ingredient moisturizer? Now we get close to the true moisture story of this product. This product really moisturizes by not drying out the skin. It does that by using mild cleansing ingredients like this one that don’t strip natural oils. Sodium Laureth sulfate While not at the top of the mild cleanser list, the laureth version is milder to skin than sodium lauryl sulfate. Decyl Glucoside Now that’s more like it. Glucosides are very mild and reasonably good foamers. Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Flour Well it wouldn’t be an Aveeno product without some oat extracts now would it? Glycol Stearate A pearlizer ingredient added to make the product look more moisturizing. Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil, Soja (Soybean) Seed Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil More natural goodies that make the ingredient list look better. Sodium Lauroampho PG Acetate Phosphate Another mild cleanser that has some skin conditioning properties. Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride This one’s a keeper. It’s a positively charged conditioner that sticks around even through rinsing. PEG 120 Methyl Glucose Trioleate A baby shampoo type mild cleanser. PEG 150 Pentaerythrityl Tetrastearate A thickening agent. Since this is a mild formula that doesn’t contain a lot of strong anionic detergent it can’t be thickened with salt like many body washes and shampoos. Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch Since these are quaternized they can stick to skin and help condition. Provided of course they put enough of the stuff in the formula. Tetrasodium EDTA A chelating agent it’s part of the preservative system. Quaternium 15 The primary preservative. Fragrance Smelly stuff. May Contain (+/-):, Sodium Hydroxide, Citric Acid These are adjusting agents that are only used if the pH is too high or too low. If you care to purchase Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Wash please support the Beauty Brains by using our link. Thank you!

Recently I was sent the puredistance master perfume sample collection. It is very elegantly packaged. The box closed The box opened. It has a nice magnetic closure. If you would like to see what each little individual box looks like when it is opened, go here. The price for this set is $49 in the US, which includes shipping. This link takes you directly to the product. You can see other pictures of the set there also. You can also choose other areas of the world. It makes a nice gift for under $50, even if it seems a little expensive. OTOH, if you included a note saying the full size will follow of the one they like the best, you will be their favorite person this year~ You can see other puredistance posts here: http://savvythinker.com/category/perfumes/puredistance/ Karin www.savvythinker.com Originally posted 2011-12-16 08:35:33.

looking for a gorgeous glow, beauties? for me, a really good highlighting product has just enough shimmer to catch the light, makes you look lit from within and treats skin beautifully...it just so happens {as you already know from the title} for this moment, i'm referring to Sheer Glo shimmer lotions. offering three gorgeous color options, these shimmer lotions deliver on their promise to give skin the perfect look of incandescence and luminosity {not glittery in the slightest!}. each mixes beautifully with your favorite foundation, tinted moisturizer or can be worn alone. i have an oilier skin type, but they work for all skin types. i also have to mention that i love that they comes with a pump that dispenses the product to keep any yucky dirt or bacteria out of the product, thus off of your skin!movie star paradseglow pinkformulated with vitamin E to rejuvenate skin, glow pink {mid-tone rose}, movie star {pale pink} and paradise {bronze pink champagne} each delivers a luminosity in such a small amount. one bottle will last for a long time...oh, and by the way, you should be happy to note that Purely Pro Cosmetics does not test on animals. :)have you tried any of the Sheer Glo shimmer lotions? visit purelyprocosmetics.com for more info!products featured sent to me for review consideration; pics taken my me :)

After spending three days in a cold medicine haze, consuming my body weight in won ton soup and pho, it’s finally time to reveal the Emerald Madness Elite Eight. Click to view full size To recap, Emerald Madness is a March Madness style tournament pitting the best emerald shades against each other throughout the month of May. The winner will be revealed on May 31st. Thank you to everyone who voted last week to push their favorites onward in the bracket. Keep their fight alive by continuing to vote. The race towards the number one spot is heating up and I need you to vote for your favorite green nail polishes to keep them in the running! Some tough battles were fought last week but the decisions aren’t getting any easier. I have my own favorites that I’m pulling for so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that you love them as much as I do. Elite Eight voting will close on Tuesday, May 21st and the Final Four vote will start on Wednesday, May 22nd. If you are unable to view the survey CLICK HERE to cast your vote on the survey site. Please enable JavaScript to view survey Encourage your friends to vote for your favorite colors using the hashtag #EmeraldMadness or [TWEET THIS] Are you enjoying Emerald Madness as much as I am? Should we do this every year with the Pantone Color of the Year?