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Portrait Photography – A Mother’s Day Gift That Lasts A Lifetime

Breakfast in bed. A lunch or dinner date. A full day of pampering at the spa and nail salon. A head-to-toe glamour makeover session. These are just a few ideas that might have gone through your head – or that might still be going through right now – as you rack your brains for the best gift to give your Mom this Mother’s Day. Although the ideas I just mentioned would all be truly fabulous treats for Mom, you might be...

The Best Makeup-On-The-Go From Laura Mercier 2011 Edition

I love the wonderful opportunities that traveling brings – for relaxation, for experiencing new things, for building new memories and acquiring new knowledge. I’m not the type who always has to be “on the go” or one who constantly has to have a change of atmosphere. For the most part, I do love to stay home. However, if and when I get the opportunity to travel, I see to it that I do a lot of advance planning and...

Top 5 Weight Loss Essentials

I stand 5 ft. 2 inches tall. For my petite frame, my ideal weight should be kept to somewhere between 100 and 105 lbs. according to the commonly accepted standard I wish I could say that I’ve consistently managed to maintain my ideal weight through out the years but I can’t. I was at my heaviest at 124 lbs. and that was seven years ago. In my post last year, My Journey To A Healthier Me, I mentioned that I don’t...

Totally Smashin’!

Introducing The New Smashbox BB Cream Earlier this month, I received an email about one of the most awesome news EVER!!! Smashbox (one of my most loved and worshiped cosmetics brands) has finally created its own B.B. Cream. How cool is that? Now, if you’ve been following the MyMy Blog since January of last year, you’ll most likely remember one of my earliest posts, Perfect Combination For a Luminous Skin, where I first made...

The “B” Party

A Surprise Baby Shower For Elma Brechtel “B” is for Brechtel, “B” is for Baby; “B” is for Boy, the latest addition to this family; “B” is for Blue, and “B” is for Brown, The color motif for our afternoon party! Last March 24th, some of the SMCQC HS ’90 gals threw an intimate surprise baby shower for our very pregnant girlfriend Elma...