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Summer Water Recipe

Water, water, water. I'm personally a big fan, but I know many of you don't like drinking it straight. We've all heard that we should be drinking 6-8oz. glasses per day for optimal health. When you are dehydrated, your metabolism slows down, you get sluggish, lose energy, increase your chances of allergies, possibly get headaches, not to mention your skin cells don't stay plump. It just isn't pretty all around. So I suggest you find a flavor of water you can drink, especially as the weather warms up.

I just came across this invigorating water recipe, and as soon as I buy my ginger, I'll give it a try. I like to add berries, lemon or cucumber slices and mint leaves (like the Four Seasons Hotels do in their lobbies). But I haven't tried this combo. Lemon for vitamin C and to reduce feelings of hunger. Ginger to help release toxins from the skin and body, aid in digestion and also reduce appetite. Cucumber works to keep your skin and body hydrated, and Mint helps calm the digestive system.

 

                  Boost Water

• To a gallon of water add:
• 1/2 juice of half a lemon
• 1/2 a cucumber thinly sliced
• 1/4t ginger paste from a tube or fresh ginger root sliced
• 1 sprig of mint

Slice the remaining lemon and add to the water along with cucumber, ginger and mint.

Find 35 more fun water recipes to try here.

Vintage Assemblage

Tonight I'm doing a Girl's Night Out show at Windmill Gardens in Sumner, WA. I've done it for the past several years. Each year, it sells out and the beautiful nursery and gift shops by day, are filled with ladies dressed to have fun, laden with food and drinks, giggling and chatting their way through all the vendors they setup around the flowers and gifts. Live entertainment and a dance floor, gentlemen servers dressed in tuxes to show the ladies where to go, Martini Luge, tasty appetizers by Chef Bruce, wine tasting with 8 complimentary tastes, vendors (like me) of all kinds, door prizes and silent auction! Sounds like fun, right?

Here's some of my latest creations - lately I've been taking the vintage components from the past and bringing them up to present code. I will list in my ETSY shop after the show. Most of these are one of a kind!

Cuff Couture

 

Lady Luxe Collection - MONET

 

 

Fitness Phone Apps

I've used several of these in the past, and now I find just a few more to add that may turn out to be quite helpful. I also like Endomondo for running/walking (FREE app). I strap in my phone to my armband to be hands free, and it pauses my tunes, at least on my iPhone, to let me know the good news (I've run a mile) and then the sad news (it was a 10 minute mile, or whatever it may be), then continues the music. It also shows my route, etc. via accurate GPS.

I think from the list below I will check out Relax Melodies to play in my earphones, while I cook dinner, move laundry from washer to dryer, help with homework, answer texts, let my dog outside, buy Girl Scout cookies from my front door, and drive to soccer practice. Ahhh!

 

 

Run the Path

Here's some divine inspiration for my running friends. Scriptures like these really inspire and give your faith and your feet a boost of renewed energy. Plus can you imagine if you had to run these stairs everyday? Actually looks like a fun workout! 

 

Check out my ETSY shop for my latest RunDisney and Running Diva Series jewelry.