Adding Bliss

What I Gave My Mother for Christmas...

  My mother is the hardest person to shop for because, like me, she is an impulsive shopper. She hits the stores almost everyday with a fistful of coupons looking for the best deal. And when she sees something she likes... she gets it.

She's also a gadget and appliance junkie. If there is a commercial for it and Consumer Reports rates it #1 she probably has one in every color. So this Christmas instead of trying to guess which hot new iPad accessory she doesn't have or get her a gift card (oh, the impersonal horror!) I decided to design a simple gallery wall in her hallway that currently occupied by atrocious plastic photo displays with all the spaces filled and extra photos shoved in.

What Will Your Six Things Be This Weekend?

"Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination" - Jim Jarmusch(stolen from this book.)

Every Friday I'll be featuring ways to spend your weekend Adding Bliss neatly organized into the six blissful categories of: Spiritual Bliss, Chronological Bliss, Physical Bliss, Intellectual Bliss, Financial Bliss & Relationship Bliss.This genius idea was lovingly borrowed and modified from one of my favorite blogs.

 The hubby and I have decided to make 2013 the year of Living Well Below Our Means. So this weekend I'm going to try my hand at couponing. I'm hoping to someday graduate to extreme couponing but I'm taking baby steps. I'll be sure to keep you posted.

In the meantime, please check out these awesome things I found to keep you entertained until Monday...

Why?

 

** UPDATE: 12.15.12 I have edited the post to remove the name of the individual responsible for this atrocity. No one asked me to, but I made the choice to do so because I didn't want the focus of this post not to be the crime itself but it's effects, my personal feelings about the tragedy and what we can do as a global community to move forward and make things better. Speaking of making things better; as promised I listed a few ways that everyone can help to comfort the families directly affected and work to make sure awful events like these never happen again. Thanks for reading! ***

As most of you know a terrible tragedy befell the people of Newtown, Connecticut and our entire country. A gunman, entered an elementary school and opened fire killing 27  innocent individuals including 20 children, between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.

And the only thing that courses through my mind is why?  Why did this happen today? Why does this keep happening?

How to Look Expensive... with Andrea Pomerantz Lustig

 

 

Recently, I was editing photos from my anniversary party (One year down, only 64 more to go...) and I realized I was spending  an inordinate amount of time removing blemishes, erasing stray pockets of skin  bulges, whitening teeth & whitening eyes. Did I mention these were pictures of me? Ugh...

So, I decided to make 2013 The Year of Photoshopping Myself in Real Life!

This entails a no nonsense year of diet & exercise lifestyle changes, which should be easy since Hostess went "belly up" (sorry, I couldn't resist)  and a beauty regimen that would make Halle Berry stop me in the street and say, "Girl, your skin in gorgeous!" This is mostly because, like all of us, I want to look and feel better but partly because it saves me hours in the Adobe Suite which can better spent reading Suri's Burn Book and bidding on Devil Dogs on eBay.