Free Mothers Day Wallpapers, Mothers Day Photos, Mothers Day Pictures

Mother’s Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world. Its celebrated on different dates in different countries. Every mother gives a lot of love to their children without any expectaion of getting any thing back. She cares you to such a extent that it may possible that you own may not care about yourself. As all of you know, Mother’s day is fastly approaching, so I just wanted to wish everyone Happy mother’s day, for those of you dont’ know what mother’s day is, here is some information. Select "Set as Background," and it will be instantly set as your new desktop. Check out this collection of Free Mothers Day Pictures, Beautiful Mothers Day Wallpapers, Amazing Mothers Day Photos.

April Giveaway: luxury soaps

As a way to promote my new business and reward all my awesome followers and readers I am having a giveaway for this month. Up for grabs is three 4 oz. soap bars from my shop. These are the most popular bars: 1 goats milk green tea, 1 goats milk lavender and oats and 1 chilli chocolat bar.

All you have to do to enter is be a FOLLOWER of my blog, and tell me what you will be doing for mother's day or what you plan to get your momma's for their special day of recognition!

To get a second entry: you can feature my new shop on your own blog via links or a blog post and leave a second comment with a link to the post.

The contest will be open until May 4th 2010 until 10 pm EST, the winner will be announced the following day through random.org. Good luck to all and of course don't forget to check out Lather & Soak!

Weekly DIY: patterned vases

This week's DIY comes from Elizabeth at To be charmed who used Japenese washi tape to decorate her simple vases. I really love that this idea is very simple, no clean up! plus most of us have tons of empty vases laying around  (a lot of mine come from winning the centre pieces at weddings!) that need filling especially with all the lovely flowers that are starting to bloom. I also like that you can decorate vases for certain seasons like winter or fall and spring and even for events like birthday parties, dinner parties etc, and then peel the tape off when you are done. Very inventive idea, love it!

Also forgot to mention, if you don't have Japenese washi tape (google it for local retailers), you could really use any kind of tape, including all of really neat lace shipping tapes that have been so popular lately.

lace tape

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IPL 2010 Closing Ceremony Wallpapers: Bipasha, Shahid, AR Rahman IPL 3 Photos

The third edition of the Indian Premier League Closing Ceremony had a special ending performance with a Oscar Winner A R Rahman with is Music Night in the Ipl Season 3. And Bollywood diva Bipasha Basu has been roped in to give a scintillating performance in the grand final in IPL this season. And Bollywood’ Action Hero Shahid Kapoor also showed her performance in IPL 3. Watch Bipasha Basu at the IPL 2010 Closing Ceremony, A Rahman Stage Show At IPL 2010 Closing Ceremony and Shahid Kapoor Dance At IPL 3 Closing Ceremony.

Soap & Chocolate?

I know weird post title...but I can explain. I just recently opened a new business, and since I don't make chocolate, well I guess you can conclude from the title I've gone into the soap making business.

It all started when my sister Patti mentioned how much the soap we regularly use in our home was always bothering her. We changed the soap, several times but still her skin seemed to be sensitive to the overly drying generic and name brand soaps.

I do buy a lot of LUSH products because well to be honest I love them (as does my sister) but to be honest they are pretty pricey...I once payed over $30 for a large block of "Honey I washed the kids", which by the way lasted a little over a week!

So my next idea was to research, and research I did. I found out how to make my own soaps, this way I knew exactly what was going into them and I didn't have to pay ridiculous retail prices!

So I wanted to share my new endeavour with everyone and share some pics of some of my products.

My shop is called Lather & Soak and can be found here I would love for you all to head over and check it out. I also carry organic soap products.

This one is called "Chilli Chocolat"

oatmeal and lavender

green tea and goats milk

Weekly DIY: fabric ottoman

This week's DIY comes from Kellie at Scraplog who made her very own ottoman from scratch.

the building process

spray painting the legs

the final product in all its glory!

You can find all the details on her blog

Outdoor Updates: red garden stool

I had bought this garden stool a long time ago... when I realized the space between the armchairs in my patio furniture set was well... missing something, I knew just what needed to go there. So a little trip to Lowe's for some Berry coloured spray paint and ta-da! A great new side table/garden stool/ extra seating for my outdoor living room in a co-ordinating colour with my set!

Did I mention I love spray paint!!!

Stay posted because I have a few more things to add to the space outside...

the garden stool inspiration

the before

the after