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Before my life with children, the onset of spring meant looking forward to lovely self-indulgent rituals. Switching my closet from winter to spring, sprucing up the apartment and putting on the bright slipcovers and the light linen drapes in the living room, and the dazzling bedspread to liven up the elegant white bedroom…Getting my spring facial and a nice bronzing treatment to show off the bare legs in my sassy new sling backs and pencil skirt for work, deciding what asparagus-based appetizer should star in my next neighborhood Saturday-night get-together. Things are just a weeee bit different these days. But in the spirit of turning over a new leaf (sorry, it was easy!), I’m going to try to reinstate some of my old renewals. Based on the principle of “If mommy ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” I’m going to make sure that refreshing our lives for the new season becomes a family ritual. And just think how happy it will make me when the little cherubs are finally old enough to air out their own quilts! Chic Mommy Look: I did mention that we were keeping mommy happy right? Well, a stylish mommy is a happy mommy indeed (and since everyone knows that when you look great you feel great too, you are actually doing your family a service!) So slip into a chic pair of crops and a springy little top, toss a comfy sweater over your shoulders, slide into a sassy pair of wedges and finish with a fun little tote and you are good to go—to the store, to the PTA meeting, to the park, to wherever all the chic mommies are going! No more schlubby sweats darling—that's a stylish mommy no-no. Another fun style option is the new Miche bag—create your own handbag to match your mood or style. Check it out! There is one tip I can share with you that will not only polish your image among the preschool drop-off set but also speed your morning prep: the dress. Sleek silhouette or trés-chic Retro , comfy airy cotton, spring's safari chic. Layered or on its own as the weather warms—it’s an outfit in a hurry! Throw on cute skimmers or wedges, grab your loaded tote, and you’re off. Personal grooming: I’m lucky if I get a chance to shave my legs, let alone bronze them. Not to mention that the pencil skirt has disappeared from my closet completely, chic heels are only for date night, and entertaining neighbors has to occur between nap time and bedtime (and stars variations on hot dogs, not asparagus). But there are touches of spring that take but a moment to add to one’s life, and won’t be marred by sandboxes and jelly fingers. Start with a peachy-keen blush to add some life to the winter cheeks, and swipe lips with a dewy lip gloss to soften your skin. Switch from your earthy, exotic winter scent to something light and green and fresh—this one is my new favorite. Get your hair out of that ponytail you’ve been working all winter (to avoid the dry fly-aways) and deep condition it. Then let it air-dry for once, and see what your natural texture is all about—waves and beachy hair are in! Stop wrangling it into submission every morning. Think of the time you’ll save—and the PB&Js you can make instead. I am making one well deserved concession to beauty this spring. Having spent too many of my young-and-silly days actually soaking up the sun's rays, on purpose, and without adequate sunscreen I might add (I know, I know—tres naughty!) Anyhoo, this year I am treating myself to a fabulous skin rejuvenation treatment. A glorious photo facial! Years of sun bathing and exposure to the natural elements can be removed after a short, no down time protocol. Clothing for the Kiddies: Isn't it amazing how quickly our little ones grow? Which means the constant replacement of kiddie wardrobes. For the little princess, start with a darling floral print dress and top with a sweet cotton cardigan. She can wear a long sleeve tee under the dress while it’s still nippy, then it will work beautifully on its own when the days warm up. For boys, I’m still holding the preppy/surfer line: seersucker shorts, durable denim and an oxford shirt, polos layered with tees. If you can get him to wear a little blazer, you have my admiration; just tell him he’s dressing like daddy. And don’t forget the wee little raincoats and boots! Why didn’t we have decorated Wellies when we were little? Tip to the wise mommy: don't skimp on your child's footwear! Those tender little feet are still developing and they need proper support. Invest wisely in top quality footwear and those little tootsies will thank you. Along with keeping your little angels adorably attired, it is important to keep their delicate skin nourished and protected with pure, safe and beneficial products. All aspects are covered with Lavanila Baby Bundle. Everything you need to cleanse, hydrate and protect sensitive skin without the use of harsh chemicals. Home Style: It’s hard to think about brightening your décor when you’d really rather just have someone clean the windows for you, but it’s so worth the extra effort, especially on those grey rainy days when you’re just dying for a little sunshine. Add it yourself with easy-peasy accessories and new colors: pillows, duvets and coverlets, bright towels—how about a splashy slipcover for that armchair? Trade your heavy velvet drapes for something sheer and linen-y. Get inspired to cook with fresh spring ingredients and put the crock-pot away until stew season returns. The #1 easiest way to let the spring fever into your home? Fresh flowers. Get the little mister back to his old courting rhythms, or send yourself a fat bouquet. Better yet, send some to your yummy-mummy BFF and have her return the favor! Peonies and tulips are divine. Now that you’ve perked up your surroundings, it’s time to work on that attitude. Sometimes it’s easy to get bogged down with the minutiae of life with little (or big) kids, the schlepping, napping, crazy food requirements, etc. Make it a priority to spend at least ten minutes each day with each child, reliving the joys of hanging upside down on a tree branch, spinning on the swing until you get dizzy, or watching the spring clouds zip overhead and looking for animal shapes. Your kids will adore you for being silly, and you won’t even remember why you were in a mood by the time you’re finished. Oooh, I see a zebra! xoxo, Pretty Mama
Eco-friendly Beauty with Aubrey Earth Day is around the corner, and Aubrey Organices has fabulous green products! Aubrey uses herbals and plant extracts in their most natural form, and no synthetic additives or petrochemicals to ensure that you’re being kind to the earth and your body.
Aubrey Organics products can be found at health-food stores nationwide and at www.aubrey-organics.com Go Green with Pampering Products It’s time to go green! This Earth Day, stock up on products that are not only gentle on mom and their little one, but also Mother Earth. Noodle & Boo, the premier leader in luxury skin and hair care products for newborns, children and “mamas-to-be” is the answer for discerning moms who demand nothing but the very best for themselves and their little ones.The innovative product line contains sustainable, plant-based ingredients derived from natural resources that won’t harm developing babies or nursing newborns, giving moms the peace of mind they crave. All product formulas are pediatrician and dermatologist tested for sensitive skin to ensure they are safe to use while still delivering outstanding results. In addition, Noodle & Boo products are recyclable, nontoxic and biodegradable, and never tested on animals. Products you can feel good using – inside and out! For the mama-to-be
For newborns/children
Sustainable Style for Earth Day In the spirit of Earth Day, we’re shining the spotlight on the sustainable goods that make your clothes chic and good for Mother Earth. Roux Maison, a collection of eco-friendly home laundry products, cleans effectively while lessening your carbon footprint. Simply incorporating “green cleaning” into your life will have a positive impact on the environment while hardly sacrificing your commitment to style. Keep your clothes in tip top shape—save the planet in style with Roux Maison.
Roux Maison Essential Detergent
Roux Maison Delicate Detergent
All Roux Maison products are available at rouxmaison.com Green Beauty With Jurlique Jurlique has been the leader in natural skin care science for over 25 years and I would love for you to consider some of their greatest hits. Jurlique applies the most advanced technologies to biodynamic ingredients straight from their one-of-a-kind Australian farm to create high performance, potent skin care. The result: healthy, beautiful skin!
Everyday bags that give back
Earth Day - Help Plant a Forest Lavanila doesn’t celebrate Earth Day – they celebrate Earth MONTH. Known for its 100% all-natural fragrances and deodorants, Lavanila will dedicate the entire month of April to working with The Nature Conservancy, on their Plant a Billion Trees campaign. Lavanila will plant two trees for every:
While encouraging fans to spread the word about this exciting Earth Day campaign, Lavanila will also offer 30% off all online purchases to everyone once 1,000 new trees have been planted. Join Lavanila to help save the Earth two trees at a time.
Lavanila’s NEW Fresh Vanilla Lemon Looking for a new spring scent? Search no further than Lavanila’s NEW Fresh Vanilla Lemon. Make an airy impression with this modern citrus blend of crisp lemon, fresh bamboo, lush watery fruits and pure Madagascar vanilla – sure to be the brand’s cleanest take on vanilla yet! The Fresh Vanilla Lemon Collection Includes:
L'Occitane Celebrates Earth Day! For over 30 years, L’Occitane has ensured that all of their products are created with completely natural and sustainable ingredients throughout the entire production chain. From the preparation and planting to the harvesting and distillation of the plants, L’Occitane is constantly monitoring each step to guarantee that every ingredient meets all standards and regulations. This Earth Day (April 22nd), it is more important than ever that we all take part in making our environment stronger. L’Occitane’s Eco-Refills are a great place to start your endeavor to become more eco-conscious. L’Occitane offers some of their best selling shampoos, conditions, liquid soaps, face cleansers, body washes and oils in these amazingly convenient Eco-Refills.
L’Occitane Eco-Refills retail from $20 - $44 and may be purchased at usa.loccitane.com CHOOZE - The Ecofriendly Shoe With celebrity moms like Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry putting these shoes on their children's feet, should come to no surprise that CHOOZE is an ecologically responsible brand! CHOOZE shoes are matched but never the same, and are always eco-friendly! Wearing two tastefully different shoes inspires creativity and empowers children to have the confidence to make a difference in the world. An easy first step to having a positive impact is wearing shoes that only use vegan materials in manufacturing. With a full collection of cute and fun boys and girls styles, kids will want to sport these eco-friendly shoes year round! Chooz also has a fantastic selection of shoes for women.
CHOOZE takes eco consciousness a step further by creating "Art Boxes" instead of shoe boxes. These reusable boxes made form recycled cardboard are meant to be colored on and have a handle, so that they can be used over and over again for whatever the child's imagination desires.
And in case you are not sold yet on brand doing enough good, CHOOZE is a Good Returns Company, meaning it invests its profits in anti-poverty programs through micro-finance loans. These programs provide support, training, educations, and loans to women so they can start their own businesses to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Shop the collection and learn more about the brand on:www.choozeshoes.com Happy Earth Day from Burt’s Bees! Celebrate Earth Day by bringing a whole new dimension of color and shine to your lips with Burt’s Bees 100% Natural Lip Glosses, Lip Shines and Tinted Lip Balms. Burt’s Bees has been offering distinctive earth-friendly, natural health and beauty care products for over 25 years. The company creates products for total skin health that keep The Greater Good™ top of mind. No petrochemicals, phthalates, parabens or sodium lauryl sulfate. Not tested on animals.
LaLicious Sugar Reef & Save Our Shores Collaboration In honor of Earth Day 2013, all-natural bath and body line, LaLicious, will collaborate for a second year with Save Our Shores (SOS), the oldest marine conservation group in the Monterey Bay region. Paying homage to the beauty of the ocean that inspired the LaLicious Sugar Reef collection, the brand will donate 20% of ALL Sugar Reef sales during the month of April from their website to Save Our Shores whose core mission is to care for the marine environment through ocean awareness, advocacy, and citizen action.
Price: Sugar Reef Whipped Body Soap - $18; Sugar Reef Sugar Soufflé Scrub - $34; Sugar Reef Body Butter - $25; Sugar Reef Body Oil - $24 available at www.lalicious.com I just adore the Sugar Reef Sugar Souffle Scrub! The BEST way to start the morning! NCLA Life Is A Beach Collection 2013 The Los Angeles darlings are staying environmentally-friendly on the fingertips with their 5-free, non-toxic lacquers. This Spring, NCLA, has once again introduced a playful twist on Los Angeles living, but this time the inspiration is sunshine and shopping (think: Cluesless). These four exclusive pastel shades channel your inner California girl.
REEF for Earth Day! Key Reef sandals have an organic foam that biodegrades faster in landfills. Reef also has developed and incorporated Coconut Stretch, a material made from discarded coconut husks, into their boardshorts along with recycled polyester. Finally, much of Reef's woman's Bella Costas are constructed with woven textiles made by artisans from Guatemala, Uganda and now with the West African nation of Togo in conjunction with their We Heart initiative, which works to create economic stimulus in developing regions by employing local craftsmen.
Coconut Stretch Boardshorts ‘Coconut Stretch' is a new fabric made from discarded coconut husks and is a functional fabric for surfers and logical alternative to non-renewable textiles. The new fabric designed with quick dry, odor fighting and built in UV protection isincorporated into Reef’s Spring 2013 line of boardshorts and will include a special collaboration with Cyrus Sutton. The new line will range in price from $65-$80. Reef ‘Coconut Stretch’ is a renewable yarn made from discarded and landfill bound coconut husks 'Surfer, blogger, DIY enthusiast, EMMY award winning film director and lover of all things outdoors, Cyrus Sutton, has joined creative minds with the Reef apparel team for one of the signature ‘Coconut Stretch’ styles called the Cy Stripe. The line is a reflection of Cy’s affinity for the outdoors and his balanced appreciation for modern and vintage styling. Kiss the Earth in Celebration of Earth Day with Kiss My Face As Earth Day approaches we are reminded to keep the planet in mind when purchasing everyday items. Kiss My Face, a pioneer in the natural and organic industry, offers an entire line of green body care products. The brand uses only sustainable, plant based ingredients that are gentle to people and the planet and post consumer, recycled packaging. So go green and replace your existing beauty products with these eco-alternatives that work to reduce your carbon footprint and minimize waste imposed on the environment.
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Be sure to check out The Sassy Pepper Blog! Created by the amazing team of Pepper and Sassy, two very stylish young mommies with amazing abilities in regard to all things DIY, the Sassy Pepper Blog is filled with wonderful ideas for creating, decorating and repurposing to make your life easier, your little darlings more adorable and your home more stylish. From making homemade oreo cookies and building a dream bed for your toddler, to tips on how to throw a Wizard of Oz birthday party or the perfect baby shower, you're sure to be as amazed and thrilled by the ideas in this blog as me! Check it out today — you'll thank me tomorrow! Check out the latest tutorial — how to get yourself organized for spring! Check Ot the Ask She She Blog The Ask She She Blog, where She She Girls go to find the latest styles and the hottest trends; where your fashion, beauty and lifestyle questions are answered, and the thoughts, ideas and comments of all She She Girls are encouraged and welcomed! |
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