Now through March 10, 2012, Ulta is offering a coupon:

coupon for $3.50 off $10.00 purchase

What a great deal! Have at it Darlings!

Even living in Florida, there is a tangible shift in the weather, in the air, the feel of things – spring is coming and hot on the heels of spring is Easter and before you know it, SUMMER!  The big question for me is not even where do the days go, but where do the weeks go?

Around the larger Hive of my life, we have some fun things going on …

Nozin® Nasal Sanitizer® has a great Oscar giveaway – Five Movie-Themed gift bags – enter the contest now to win tomorrow night during the Oscars!

The Hungry Goddess has a nutty #HGEATS happening next Wednesday, February 29 at 12n est on twitter – #HGEATS is Going Nuts – Bring your nuttiest recipes!

Leave me a comment and let me know – How are you curing Spring Fever? 

Are you on Pinterest?  Follow me on Pinterest and I will follow you back!

Through Thanksgiving and Christmas, a mashed potato overload occurs.  I love mashed potatoes but by New Year – I am over them … for a bit.  It’s not like I could abandon mashed potatoes forever!  Could you?

Last night at the Hive required a quickie but delicious dinner. I had a London Broil marinating with truffle salt and garlic so mashed potatoes leapt to mind … followed quickly by thoughts of creamy and delicious gorgonzola!

Potatoes went into the pot cubed to boil until soft – like falling apart soft.  I used a combo of gold and red potatoes because they were leftover.  I leave skins ON for mash – more nutritional benefit (not that this is a healthy dinner … not reallllllly.).

While the potatoes were boiling, the london broil went on the grill and once finished, was resting while I made the potatoes.  Add some spanokopita on the side (Thank You, Costco!) – per the request of the kiddo – and a spinach salad and whoooooooosh … pretty quick and definitely delightful dinner!

The gorgonzola mashed potatoes stole the show.  Make them.  Roll in them.  Gads – they are GOOD!

The Queen Bee GRILLS

The coupon is good on purchases at full-price Coach stores (not outlets).

Like the Coach fan page on Facebook and click the “Coach Spring Fan Event” tab to register to get the coupon.

Click here for the deal. The coupon is not valid at Coach Factory or in department stores.

Find the Full Price Coach Store Near You

The new light-as-air mists come in 20 fragrances.

Choose from any of the new Fine Fragrance  Mist collection in yummy smells like Pink Chiffon, Paris Amour and White Citrus.

Click here for the deal. The coupon expires on Feb. 29.

Head over to the Bath & Body Works Facebook page for more information.

Book a consultation with a Clinique beauty advisor during the “Fall in Love With Color” event at Nordstrom stores and you’ll get a free Clinique Superbalm.

Choose from four delish flavors: grapefruit, apricot, rootbeer or currant.

The event is listed on Clinique’s Facebook fan page.

Click here for the deal. The offer is while supplies last.

This deal is running through February 25 so get in there before this Saturday!

It is called the Benefit Brow Bar at Macy’s and I experienced it – my brows and I had an EXPERIENCE and I want to share it so you can go and have an EXPERIENCE as well.

In the frenzy to get ready for a client meeting and since two caterpillars cleverly disguised as eyebrows had taken residence up on my face, I was flying through Macy’s.  I rounded the corner headed for the escalator and encountered a warm pink haven with a glowing sign:  Benefit Brow Bar

I stopped and gawked for a moment and a delightful woman who was delicately tweezing a woman’s brows turned and smiled and asked if she could help me.  She had marvelous eyebrows.  Truly.  And a marvelous smile to match.  We made an appointment for 30 minutes and I ran off to scour the racks.

When I came back, Theresa (who introduced herself, kept smiling and made me feel TOTALLY comfortable and not like I was going to be eyebrow waxed in the middle of the cosmetics department at Macy’s) sat me in the chair and then went to work.

I call the Benefit Brow Bar an EXPERIENCE because from the moment I encountered Theresa and made the appointment until I stared in amazement at my perfectly shaped brows, I felt just like a treasured customer should feel:  comfortable, relaxed and the center of attention.

She chatted pleasantly, made quick work of the caterpillars and smiled through my embarrassed mutterings about working too much to tweeze.  The truth is – I don’t tweeze – I am a sissy.  And my last experience at the hairdresser with a slightly madcap Brazilian woman had left me with crooked brows and a red rash that lasted 4 days.  My teenage son was even impressed and loved that she talked to him about his eyebrows (although he would not let her do them … yet).

Theresa reassured me that I would be in tiptop shape for my meeting with no lasting redness and a well-groomed presentation to boot.  She was correct.

And I am hooked and I can’t wait to go back and request Theresa at the Macy’s in Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, Florida.  For my readers in South Florida – CALL HER … THERESA 561-393-4235.  She will make you feel like the center of the universe for 20 minutes AND give you fabulous brows.

THAT is an experience and THAT is phenomenal customer service.  I love it.

Thank You, Theresa and Thank You, Benefit Brow Bar – I can’t wait to come back and bring my friends!

Find a Benefit Brow Bar near you

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AND – if it is your birthday – FREE BROW SERVICE …

Christine has wonderful innate abilities for organizing and staging and she has woven those fabulous abilities into her business Henning Home Inventory Services and Organize and Downsize Your Home.  In South Florida, this is a challenging business and I am continually impressed by her patience and creativity with her clients, many of whom are making a move to a care facility or are families who have suffered the death of their parents.

Chris has recently made the move into the blogosphere and she is covering some GREAT topics.  Keep the blog at Organize and Downsize Your Home on your bookmarks and please share - if these topics are not relevant in your life right now, they will be eventually or you know someone who is going through it.

I am so tickled to share one of her most recent posts with you – What Will Your Next Generation Say About Your Journal - and considering that so many of us are writers and bloggers … this really made me think!

Contact Chris on twitter @OrganizerChris

Another Favorite:  What Does Your Home Say About You?

Thanks to Christine who let me re-post the great article – xoxoxo!  And did I mention that Chris will be staging an e-book for The Hungry Goddess that we are releasing for spring???  SO excited!

What Will Next Generations Say About Your Journal?

One of the items you may come across when clearing out your parents estate is a JOURNAL! It might be a good thing or it might be a bad thing depending on what the journal reveals!

For those of you who are diligent about writing in your journal on a daily basis, do you ever wonder what your grown children will think when they read your entries after you are gone?  Remember the movie,  ‘Bridges of Madison County’, when the children were reading the diary Francesca wrote during her life? Especially about the affair she had with the photographer? What a shock to the children! I’m sure you also remember that the daughter accepted it better than the son.

So, what is in your diary? Do you want your children to read it after you are gone? Many stories that I have heard of  say they wouldn’t want their children to be hurt by reading it. Another segment of people say that since we are all human, their children should accept their human mistakes and learn from it. Then again, some people are careful not to offend anyone with their journaling.  As therapists tell us, Journaling is good therapy for us. Doreene Clement states:

“Writing, expressing can heal us. It can focus, support, and enhance our lives and well-being. Whether we laugh or we cry, whether through sorrow or joy, we can understand more about ourselves, and each other, through keeping a journal, diary, or diaries.”

- Doreene Clement

I had a friend who wrote in his diary every day for over forty years! When he died he had boxes and boxes of red diaries. I often wondered if someone took the time to read them. It would be a shame after all of his journaling, if his kids didn’t read any of them, but, then again, he probably didn’t do it for his kids. He did it for himself. I have another friend from many years ago who made a decision that she would not want her kids to read her thoughts about her troubled marriage so she threw them out. I have read that Oprah and Gayle have already talked about their journals and what to do with them after one dies.

 What about you? What are your thoughts on this subject?

I’m always here to help you with your sorting of  paperwork and your disposal of your household. Paperwork is such a burden for the older generation. They are not sure what to keep, what to save, and, basically, have a hard time to free themselves of all of their papers that give them many memories.

You can call me, Chris,  at 561-512-7482 .

I also love to share photography so when I saw the Color, Click, Capture Photography Challenge on A Helicopter Mom’s Blog – I thought it would be fun to participate and share!

Orange is a great color – warm, vibrant, energetic – and Tangerine Tango is actually the Pantone Color of the Year!

Here are a few of my ORANGE inspired photos … Thanks, Helicopter Mom – and JOIN IN!  Next week is Yellow!

Share your ORANGE inspired photos!

Since I am happily separated from my husband and well on the way to a much-deserved divorce, some would say that I am just bitter since I have no one to love.  And while I would concede that I am far more attracted to the life of a single crazy lady with lots of cats, I also would like to put forth that Valentine’s Day has NOTHING to do with love and everything to do with competition, greed and generating feelings of dissatisfaction in relationships.

So I pass.  Today and every Valentine’s Day.  I am comfortable being a Valentine’s Day Grinch.  I feel sad for all of the feelings of disappointment, anger and resentment that will be set off by gifts that were received or not received and I am grateful to be out of that round.

I will go kiss my son.  I will go kiss my kitties.  I will be thankful that I am not in an unhealthy relationship just so I can say that I am in a relationship.  And I will eat chocolate.  Kind of the same thing that I do every day.  And if I see that chubby little Cupid looking to interfere in my single blissdom, he should know that I am a proponent of the Second Amendment.

To all of my readers – I wish you LOVE.  not today but EVERY DAY.  

I wish you success and happiness in your relationship or single blissdom.  

I wish you chocolate that rocks your world and champagne that always bubbles.

You deserve it.  Every Single Day.