Hope everyone has recovered from budgeting 101, yesterday. Today, we enter the fine world of crystal and china. You know the stuff that your girlfriend puts on her bridal registry, gets it, but serves you on paper plates. Anyway, one day I was scouring around the Internet to price some crystal flutes. I came across a great, great deal! In the world of crystal and china- Bacarat- the most famous and expensive, waterford.com , and lenox.com The price points can run from 5,000.00 to a basic Bacarat vase to 150.00 for a leaded crystal flute from waterford.com . In terms of china, my sister's lenox.com full service china set that I have yet to eat off, which was 10 plus years ago, cost about a month's rent. Anyway, back to the deal-- I was on the waterford.com site which was absolutely breathtaking, then I noticed the discontinued section, click, click-- 4 waterford.com flutes for only $35.00. What?? I then asked someone else to read the price and descri...
It is the fall season and some of us are preparing for Brunches with our significant others, meeting the perspective in laws, or just hanging with the girls So how do you create award-winning tasting muffins from a box? 1. Cranberry Orange Muffin Mix: Take a package of dried cranberries and rehydrate them in orange juice, put them into the mix. 2. Lemon Poppy Mix: Juice 4 Myers Lemons and put them into the mix. 3. Blueberry Muffins: Take fresh blueberries and throw them into the mix. 4. Carrot Cake Mix, turn them into Morning Glory muffins by adding fresh grated carrots, chopped nuts, and reasons into the mix. These are simple ways to turn the regular into the spectacular. Cheers!!
High school seniors are busy writing college applications, interviewing and making certain their social media accounts are "clean." The following are tips that may help them and YOU! 1. While your child is applying to schools, don't speak about the application process to your friends or family. Teens don't need the added pressure by every family member about "the process." 2. Create a list with your child's Top 5 Favorite Choices--this way if they don't get into one school they had their heart set they won't feel as much rejection. 3. Don't have your child discuss his/her college choices with their classmates, too much competition if her best friend gets in and she/he doesn't. 4. Remind her/him that many people have done great things without an Ivy League education. I have fifteen childhood friends who all went to Ivy League schools, and none of them have been Congressional Staffers, ran their own companies, met 4 Hollywood Di...
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