Arrgh!
 

Okay.... tried and tried, my brains are fried. I put some art photos on photobucket, and sized them accordingly. Can't get them from there to here any which way! Tried to make an album on my profile page... can't do that either. I'm yanking my hair out here!
Maybe it's because I have a Mac, and so require different instructions because of that?
Anyway, sweet K9, if you want to see a few paintings, message me and I'll give you my password to photobucket. I don't know how else to do it.

YAY!!!! I DID it!
 

pturner you're a genius!
 

Yay! I searched and found Pturner's photo posting instructions!!!!
Remind me to hug you big time when I get to TV!
Thanks Pturner! :coolsmiley:

I'm in awe. What talent!

I just love all the suggestions and recommendations for beauty products. I'm heading out today to buy my Olay brush. :wave:

K-9, I'd also like to try the WEN product. Can you buy it in stores, or just online. (What is QVC?)

Uptown Girl, the olive oil products ... are they available in stores, or just online?

WEN products are only available online as far as I can find. You can buy from the official WEN site: http://www.wenhaircare.com/index.php...S|e|6749367616

Or from QVC, which is a home shopping network: http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/v...ng-Conditioner

Look carefully on QVC to be sure they don't sign you up for automatic repeat orders every month (unless that's something you want).

Uptown Girl -- amazing work!! What is your medium? Do you airbrush?
:BigApplause:

K9Lovers.... I work primarily in traditional oils, using filbert brushes ( no hog bristles) and work wet on wet.
I have experimented with water soluble oils, but they're not as creamy to work with, but I use them for glazes on occasion, over completely dry oils that I've done the conventional way. Glad you liked it!
Remember to keep us posted on your wonderful next painting!!

For Bare ... yep, the olive oil products I use (DHC Products) are only available online.

Absolutely beautiful----

Wow. Totally in awe! Can't wait for my hug.

I sincerely Thank You all... you have made me feel very welcomed among you!:wave:

Uptown Girl, you're painting is beautiful. We have many art associations in TV as well as the surrounding area. Your style of paining is incredible. Welcome!!

K9 love your photos, they are beautifully posed.

Why thanks for your kind words, Duffysmom! Did you get your beta fishy yet?

No fishy yet. Hubby doesn't like the idea, even threatened to have a fish fry.:cryin2: I'm working on him.::boxing2: When the adoption is complete I'll let you know.

Uptown Girl: AMAZING talent!!!! Absolutely beautiful screen art.....barb

They stay very, very tiny . . . .not enough for a fish fry. My fish, "Flash"

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...d/IMG_3053.jpg

OOOoooo, I like your fishy. Maybe you could paint him too!

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Also something I've tried lately that has worked wonders for my face is a rotating brush cleaner by Olay that is a knock-off for the Clarisonic. So instead of $200, I spent $30 to find out if this idea really works, and it does! I stopped wearing foundation, but especially for those that still use make up, this thing would be fabulous. It cleans your pores so well that they close up a bit and become smaller. I use it once a day with their supplied exfoliating cleaner and then follow up with moisturizer. I found it at Walgreens and just love it.
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I couldn't find the Olay brush cleaner for $30. So I bought a Neutrogena rotating brush for $9.99. Love it! Thanks for the tip K9.

Where does your iPad live when it is not out?
 

Hi Girls,

I have not known my iPad long so we have not quite bonded, but I am working on it. I know that some of my emails sent on my iPad look like I am trying to write them in stanzas -- just like poems -- poems that do not rhyme.

When I look in the "Sent" mail, there they are, tormenting me, in stanza form. They did not look like that when I sent them. Oh well. I am not here to whine about poem-impersonating emails......although....oh my! Recipients of my iPad generated emails that arrive in stanza-form, looking like really dumb poems, could suspect that I might be an English major -- and a bad one at that.....but I digress....I am really here to give you iPad girls a shopping tip.

Every now and then, I give a shopping tip here in Girl Talk. I do not like to shop so when you get a shopping tip from me, you can bet that I am serious about it.

There was that shopping tip back in 2009 on page 148 where I went on and on about the wonders of Coldwater Creek's knit denim jeans. Now, I own 4 pairs of those jeans, including the ones I was writing about all those months ago. And they are still doing what they said they would do, after several million washings even.

Recently there was the Paula Dorf Special Camouflage to de-pink your nose and cheeks when needed. That stuff I have been clinging to for two years. Tones me right down where I need it.

And tonight, as if I have not gone on and on enough, I now must go on and on about the perfect little home I found for my iPad. My iPad has the case that can be adjusted at 3 different levels. It is a sturdy case, but sometimes my iPad needs a place to live when not in use -- other than blended in with a stack of books. Or maybe it wants to go along in the car with me so I can play around on it and be distracted from giving Mr. Boomer helpful driving tips. (Do you think that could be why he bought that thing for me?)

So anyway, I felt like I needed something besides just the case for my iPad. Something to tote the thing around in sturdiness. And quite by accident, I found it. A Lands' End tote.

I know you might be out there rolling your eyes and looking at your sophisticated briefcases and thinking, "Geez! Boomer, get a grip and a life. You are all excited about a Lands' End tote?!"

Well......yes I am. Not only is this a tote. It is a zip-top tote and it perfectly fits the iPad in its case and holds its charger, too.

I love totes. I have a few old totes around that are from the days of being employed, when I sometimes went to conferences where vendors would lure me to their booths and give me totes, emblazoned with the names of whatever they wanted to sell me. (Well, sometimes they just gave me plastic bags or donuts.) Those free totes were not really good totes.....no matter what the cost of whatever they were selling, but I liked them anyway

But Lands' End has the best totes ever. And the one I am linking for you here is the small one. That zip-top is great and helps you to swaddle that precious iPad so it does not fall out. :eek:

I bought the black one because I am boring and also because I spill stuff. But I bought a red one for a friend who loves red and that is one beautiful and red shade of red. It is the color of a Valentine.

Well, I have gone on and on and on about the Lands' End small, zip-top tote. I have not posted anything for a few days so I guess these words have been all pent up.

So anyway, if you have managed to read this far without snoozing and if you have an iPad that needs toting, here is the link to the perfect fit....

http://www.landsend.com/pp/ColoredZi...&origin=search


Boomer (not sent from my iPad which is all tucked inside its tote)

About those facial rotating brush cleaners . . .
 

Recently, I've been having eye pain, so off to the doctor I go. Turns out there are tiny dry spots on my corneas and the doc says my eyes are irritated, but he cannot tell why.

So now that the pain is gone and my steroid drops did their job, and the doc says I'm back to normal. . . I think it may have been my rotating brush that caused those microscopic dry spots, I think.

It makes sense, that those little bristles could flick a tiny speck of cleaner into your eye without you realizing it. So I've started closing my eyes when I use that rotating brush thingy. It feels even better with your eyes closed, and I don't have any trouble finding my face with my eyes closed.

So ladies, my advice is that you close your eyes when using those rotating brushes, just in case.

Barefoot I recently bought the rotating brush and love how my skin looks, thanks. K9 Im closing my eyes and enjoying the experience.:thumbup:

DMom .... What kind of rotating brush did you get? I have no idea how my $9 neutrogena model compares to the more expensive ones. I know that it is quite active because it hurts if it catches a piece of hair.

K9, thank for the tip about closing our eyes when using the rotating brush. Usually I look in my magnifying mirror. And that is a scary, scary thing because it magnifies things six times larger. Yikes.

Boomer, I have a Villages heavy canvas bag which makes a good tote bag for my iPad. The tote was given to us by our realtor when we purchased our latest home in TV. I love my iPad so much! Do you like yours?

Bare, I bought the Olay rotating brush, I think it cost $30 and I love it.:MOJE_whot:

Barefoot, about the iPad.....I think I am going to really like it once I truly spend some time figuring things out. I feel like I am holding a little treasure box in my hands but have been able to take only a tiny peek inside.

And your tote bag sounds perfect and free at that. My goodness, I was certainly into my ode to the Lands' End tote the other night. I caught it during a 30% off sale, but free is so much better.

I must look into that Olay brush. Nora Ephron has a new book out. I am reading it now. Her last one was titled "I Feel Bad About My Neck" and I absolutely loved that title. Her new book is "I Remember Nothing." I can relate to both titles. Maybe the Olay brush will help with the neck thing.

Boomer

I've been using the Olay cleansing brush on my neck. The massage can only help, I figure, and my facial skin looks so much better that it probably will do something wonderful for my neck. Now, I'm thinking about the rest of me. . . . . .

Mr. K9's power drill with a brush attachment maybe . . . . . :D

iPad learning stage....
 

Boomer, it sounds like you have the same feelings about the iPad as do. My family gifted me with an iPad which was a shocking surprise as I would hem and haw about really wanting one and yet didn't feel it was worth the expense.

Upon testing out this sophisticated piece of equipment, I feel guilty not using it more and preferring the comfort of the laptop. I know that I MUST work with the iPad and get that comfortable feel of it as well as investigate the endless apps that are in this little genius pad. My 14 y/o great g'son and his advanced knowledge of this hi-tech "stuff" is due to visit next month and I'll have to pick his brain learning this pad.

I certainly don't want the family to feel that I'm not pleased with such a lovely gift and I'm usually the computer guru but this iPad has me completely all thumbs. I've been so used to using AOL for all these many years and the transformation to the iPad is no easy task.

So, am asking anyone if y'all felt the same, or am I just not giving it a chance?

Lost in cyberspace.....b

Oh Barb, I can SO relate to your comments. When I first got my iPad I really didn't like it at all. I guess I'm a creature of habit. I wasn't used to the touch screens and it kept doing weird things if I tapped it my mistake.

Three months later I love my iPad. I call it Baby Paddy because I carry it everywhere. Recently my internet and phone stopped working. So I just took Baby Paddy out to breakfast at Bob Evans and used their Wifi. Neat. It is so portable! Unfortunately I've barely tapped the potential. I have downloaded lots of neat Apps, there is one I use to put me to sleep, a bedtime hypnosis one, it works like a charm. But I use my iPad mostly for research and reading ... everything from TOTV to books to People Magazine to watching Harry's Law!

There is a neat App, you just ask it a question (by talking to it), and up pops a choice of websites. And another App .. you just "talk" your e-mail message and it will print what you said. Not very accurately, but still, it's amazing.

I use my iPad for an hour or two most days. But I'm a fast typist and I need a "real" computer and keyboard. I still find the touch one awkward. I just bought a new Acer Laptop which I'm using right now. Basically, I consider Baby Paddy an expensive toy. But I love my iPad; money well spent.

Ladies, I see that the Olay exfoliating brush is on special at Walgreens and CVS.:clap2:

I'll get right over there! I need some exfoliation! :a040:

Please let us know if you like it. My neutrogena exfoliator comes with pads which you stick on the unit. Kind of like velcro. The pads are either exfoliating or normal cleansing. Does the Olay unit work the same way? I want to give myself a pumpkin-pie-filling facial with a plain pad but I don't know how to get a plain pad to adhere to the unit. :ohdear:

Description of the Olay Unit:

The Olay unit only has one brush; there are no pads. The brush has two speeds. The low speed is used for once-a-day cleansing and the fast speed is for once-a-week exfoliation. (Although the slow speed exfoliates my skin). The battery-run brush is completely waterproof and can be used in the shower. There are replacement brushes available for purchase. Included in the kit is Olay exfoliating cleanser, which I use every day. But it says you can use any cleaner you prefer.

The neutrogena unit doesn't have a brush. It has a rotating head to which you attach pads, and discard after using once. Either cleansing pads or exfoliating pads. So you're commited to buying the pads which attach like velcro. I think I'll treat myself to an Olay unit.

You'll love the brush, Bare. Using it feels like getting a gentle face massage. When you're done, your face feels sooo soft. If Fireboy's in town, he'll love it too. :D

OK, I need a brow and bikini wax? Is there a spa in TV where I could get these and maybe a facial? There aren't too many spas in town which surprises me. Either that or I'm just not finding them?
Thx

Tuscany in LSL

Hi Girls,

Have you ever had to wrestle yourself to the floor to keep yourself from saying something that you probably should not say?

Or should you just say it? --sweetly and quietly -- just tell the guy? Even though it is none of your business? Even though you have never seen him before and likely will never see him again?

Have you ever had to wrestle yourself into NOT giving unsolicited advice to a perfect stranger? Even though you know in your heart that you would make that person's life sooooo much better if you just said it?

Ohhhh, those dilemmas life throws our way.....

Here's what happened....

Mr. Boomer and I were having breakfast this morning in a restaurant when a man walked in wearing a suit and tie and white shirt, and all that, looking quite spiffy. He chatted pleasantly with the server as he made his way to a corner booth. And then it happened! :22yikes: He took off his suit jacket to hang it up and that's when I saw what the poor, misguided man had done to himself. :22yikes:

He was wearing suspenders -- which I still like even though I know they probably are not hot anymore like they were a few years back -- so the suspenders part was OK. BUT he was ALSO wearing a belt. A belt AND suspenders!

Oh my! What to do?

I fretted about it to Mr. Boomer who did not seem to care. (He was busy with his bad, bad breakfast involving fried eggs and fried potatoes and bacon.)

I told Mr. Boomer about the time a friend of mine showed up at work wearing brand new suspenders AND a belt. He was strutting around a bit and asked me how I liked his new suspenders. Well.......what is a friend to do??? We had worked together for many years. This guy trusted my judgment. I could not betray the friendship. So, finally, I had to just say it....

I said, "Your suspenders are great, but you must never ever wear suspenders AND a belt. So please get rid of that belt before anybody else notices."

Well, at first, my friend was rather taken aback. But knowing who he was talking to, and that I had never steered him wrong before, he ditched the belt and never again wore it with his great suspenders.

But that was a friend. And he had asked.

The guy in the restaurant this morning was a perfect stranger. I could have changed his life for the better. But I chose not to. I let him finish his breakfast in peace, get up, put his suit jacket back on, and walk out of my life forever....never knowing. (sigh)

AND THEN I learned that the guy is a lawyer!

Ohhhhhhh, nooooooooo! What if? What if?

What if he was on his way to stand brilliantly in front of a jury, delivering a masterfully prepared closing, and on that jury there sat a hard-hearted, unforgiving fashionista who would not even listen to his words once she spotted that belt AND those suspenders. Ohhhhh, I will never know how many lives I could have changed this morning -- had I not succeeded in wrestling myself to the floor.

Boomer (face down in the stream of consciousness, once again)

PS: Just so ya know, I am not a fashionista. Heck, I have been trying for years to talk Mr. Boomer into growing a ponytail. I love gray ponytails. But he still just looks at me and shakes his head. But he has never been and never will be seen wearing a belt AND suspenders.

Belt Loop Alert
 

:police:The fashion police say it is a faux pas to wear suspenders with pants meant for a belt. The pants meant for suspenders have buttons for attaching the tabs, either on the outside or on the inside of the waistband. And, those pants do not have belt loops, which precludes the wearing of a belt. :ho:

Thoughtful Boomer,

You made the right decision not telling that lawyer about his fashion mistake. You were having breakfast, right? The lawyer was probably heading over to court right after breakfast.

Just think, if you had mentioned his fashion faux pas the lawyer would surely feel self-conscious about his appearance. During his vigorous defense of an innocent man charged with a heinous crime, the lawyer would surely remove his jacket thereby revealing his embarrassing situation. Immediately, he would realize his suspenders and belt were showing all at the same time :eek: and would begin to fumble his words. In fact, he may forget his speech and points of law to defend his innocent client in his distracted state. The opposing attorney would take advantage of his flustered, inadequate speech and zero in for the kill. :boxing2: The innocent man would surely be convicted of a crime he did not commit.

So, Boomer, by NOT mentioning to him the problem of wearing the belt and suspenders together, you probably saved an innocent man's life.:angel: For that you are truly to be admired!

Imaginative K9

To Boomer, Head of the Fashion Police .... :mademyday:

Suspenders and a belt .... :1rotfl:

P.S. I hope Mr. Boomer comes to his senses soon and grows that gray ponytail for you.