Get a Face Lift Without Plastic Surgery

Posted on July 7, 2011 by katiem2

Lets face it, there is nothing we won’t do to look younger, better and hang on to our beauty. I admit it, I’m determined to hang onto my good looks and youthful appearance.  I pride myself on looking at least ten years younger than I am and plan on keeping it that way.

The facts are this, your face is a mass of muscle and tissue and anytime you take a knife to those tissues you alter their natural state forever. How is it you think these tissues and muscles will function once you’ve cut the ties that bind?

As we learn better we do better and going under the knife is not the end all to a fresher complexion. Yet we yearn for that firmer skin and a over all lift creating a much younger look taking years off our appearance.

Do you think plastic surgery is the answer?  We consider it because we want a fix.  We’ve been told surgery is a quick fix making it all the more appealing. The truth is plastic surgery is not the only option and far from the best.  Lets get to the truth about how to get a face lift and keep it maintained easily without surgery.

Get a Face Lift Without Plastic Surgery


Not to mention the expense of surgery; the average face lift cost;

  • Standard face lift: $6,000-$15,000, average $8,000
  • Mid face lift: $4,000-$10,000, average $7,000
  • Lower face lift: $4,000-$10,000, average $7,000
  • Mini (weekender) face lift: $3,500-$6,500, average $5,000
  • Thread lift face lift: $2,000-$6,000, average $4,000

You will want to save this page to your favorites so you can come back anytime and do the age erasing routine for free. I’ve included the videos with step by step instructions so you can return here getting everything you need for your own personal natural face lift.

Get a Face Lift Without Plastic Surgery

Common sense will tell you taking care of your face just as you do any muscle on your body works much easier than you’ve ever dreamed.  Follow along as this youth addict shows you the ropes.

Today we’ll cover the factors that make for a youthful appearance and how to achieve these qualities easily at home and without surgery!

A Youthful Face is;

  1. Glowing and Soft – Needs to be exfoliated and moisturized
  2. Firm and Taunt – Needs a muscle toning routine
  3. Hydrated and Clean – Needs water and a cleaning routine that’s a ritual

Mother Nature offers a face lift for pennies as compared to the surgical procedures.

Working a routine of facial tissue care into your routine is the answer to reverse aging and turn back the hands of time!

Just as any part of your body consists of muscle tissue your face does as well. You must keep your face in shape and fit by working those muscles.

Get a Face Lift Without Plastic Surgery

The good news is a facial exercises are far easier and much quicker than any work out you’ll ever do. I’m a big fan of Yoga and have found facial Yoga to be the easiest and most effective thing I’ve every used and it works. You’ll find it easy to remember and easy to do just about anywhere anytime.

Your mother taught you not to make those faces or your face could freeze that way right? Well, these are some simple face making moves that will have you face firm and glowing in no time.

Check out the videos below connecting you to amazing free face yoga instructions and begin looking, no actually being younger today!

Here’s to being beautiful, Katie 🙂

 

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Cooking with Cheese

Posted on July 6, 2011 by katiem2

Cooking with cheese is often considered a daunting task by many. The question as to how to use the ingredient cheese successfully in your dishes and recipes has plagued the minds of many a cook in the making.  But no more, today you learn the ease of cooking with the wonderful ingredient cheese. Do NOT be afraid of the cheese!

Cheese is your delicious friend, embrace your new found friendship.

Cooking With Cheese

The key to cooking with cheese is;

  • Low Temperatures
  • Short Cooking Times

Low heat and a short cooking time work best for cheese. High heat and a long cooking time make cheese stringy and tough.

Anytime it’s possible add cheese near the end of cooking time, and always add last on the tops of casseroles, cooking just long enough to melt it.

Cheese in Sauce – When adding cheese to soups or sauces, shred or finely dice the cheese so it will melt and blend quickly.

Hard cheese is the only cheese you should dice as softer cheeses can always be shredded. There are just a few simple rules to follow to achieve a great dish.  The flavor experience is always worth the addition of cheese.  Remembering the simple guidelines you’ve learned here today will have you happily moving about the kitchen with the greatest of confidence and many a delicious dish.

Happy Cooking, Katie

 

 

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The Most Comfortable Sandals

Posted on July 6, 2011 by katiem2

Now is the time to prepare for summer footwear, are you ready?  Come on now its time to get out there and enjoy this beautiful weather.

There is absolutely no doubt that the condition and comfort of your feet dictates the mood of your entire day. You can have an otherwise delightful day ruined with sore aching feet from an ill fitting or poorly designed pair of sandals.

Spring and summer bring the warm and beautiful months when we are out and about moving more than ever and it is for this reason good comfortable shoes are a must for every foot owner.

Before you let one more outing be slowed down or ruined by torturous shoes, develop a plan and seek out the one shoe that will take you anywhere and have you keeping up, or leading the way though out the perfect day.

When you put your feet up at the end of the day, the only thing you want to be thinking about is all the great moments you had.

What makes for a good walking sandal? Remember the most comfortable sandals ever and where to get them are where ever you find the perfect fit and match for your taste and needs.

What you want matters and your feet are different from any one’s. Your feet determine what kind of a day you will have.

How your feet feel governs how you feel and your level of comfort and enjoyment. When it comes to a functional pair of fun sandals only you know exactly what you need and the minute your foot slides into the perfect pair you will know.

  • You want a sandal that not only fits well but is made of materials that is both supportive and shock absorbent.
  • You foot should fit snugly, but not to tight in the form fitting zone.
  • Your foot should enjoy breathing and respond well to the material the shoes is fashioned from.
  • The sandal should meet your desired taste and pair well with your wardrobe.
  • A good neutral color or two is a good addition to your summer wardrobe.

Enjoy your summer and enjoy the most comfortable sandals ever. Katie

         

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The Best Deals and Facts on Active Outdoor Summer Sandals

Posted on July 6, 2011 by katiem2

When it comes to summer active orthopedic footwear, sandals top the list of must haves for the season.  We all enjoy the option of an airy sandal, one as close to being bare foot as possible. There are those times however that comfort, support and durability are of the utmost importance.

While you no doubt will stock your closet with the highest fashion trends and fads in summer sandals, thongs, flip flops and flats, you will need a good reliable and durable active pair ofsandals.

For these such outings where you’ll be walking, climbing or on the next big adventure exploring the beauty of nature as summer unfolds you will love such a dependable shoe.

A good shoe is needed for many an excursion with you and your loved ones. A good outdoor active sandal is the ticket to conquer any such day.

The Best Deals and Facts on Active Outdoor Summer Sandals

When it comes to durable, multi purpose and function I’ve found a sandal that’s a hands down go to sandal. I know many of you will feel the same, for example on the go Mom’s, nature enthusiast or all out explorers.

The Best Deals and Facts on Active Outdoor Summer Sandals

What I love about this shoe;

  • It fits your foot beautifully giving you all the freedom of any great sandal with amazing control to climb, walk, run and all out get up and go.
  • This amazing shoe has two straps that gives you added support staying put and comfortably hugging your foot, as I’m an avid rock climber this shoe is great as it allows me to do so in the comfort of a sandal.
  • I love water and while out hiking I always find a creek or water source that I will always tread though, its all part of the adventure.
  • This outdoor sandal is great for this, it stays put giving me great water traction and drains dry in no time with no stretching or slack.
  • The strap around the toe was a feature I was not sure about. As it turns out I love it, the comfort is barely there freedom and yet this feature provides forefoot stability keeping this shoe in place and working hard for me with complete comfort.
  • This shoe was designed for some serious wear and tear yet it looks good. I prefer this active outdoor sandal to others that are more tennis shoe like.
  • Its the best of both worlds yet really delivers on the sandal appeal and freedom.
  • As far as I’m concerned it’s the next best thing to being bare foot, yet better as it super charges your foot allowing you to do anything you want in comfort with no pain later in the day!
  • It honestly looks good, it’s a feel good durable active summer sandal you can feel good about wearing as it really looks good, I mean it’s not a fashion sandal to where out on dates, but it def will take you through your day to day routine in comfort and easy.

Added Bonus;

  • This is an attractive shoe, once I got mine and began wearing them I quickly learned they look good with jeans, shorts, skirts and over all a shoe I’m comfortable wearing any where.
  • This shoe cleans up easy and looks as good as new to wear out to the Zoo, shopping or play dates with the kids at the park.
  • The color varieties are wonderful, I just had to get a couple colors.
  • They hold up and last, you will own these active sandals for years to come.

Enjoy Your Summer, Katie

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Buy the Hot Trendy Girls Vera Bradley School Bags Lunch Totes and Accessories

Posted on July 6, 2011 by katiem2

I was introduced to Vera Bradley totes, bags and accessories by my eleven year old daughter. She was just about to enter middle school and she is one little up to date fashion diva.

My lovely and informative daughter went on to tell me she needed a Vera Bradley tote for her new middle school bag, the days of a back packs were over.

Note: Vera Bradley is an American company proudly making “Made in the USA” products right here in Fort Wayne Indiana 🙂

I was all to happy to give her just what she wanted after all just like finding the perfect purse, you do not pass it up. As she described this Vera Bradley product I felt she had found the perfect bag and this was important to both of us.

I was very surprised when I first saw a Vera Bradley Bag as it is not what I thought a young girl like my daughter would carry.

It’s durable, pretty, easy to care for and practical.  This bag looked like something Grandma may have made quality standards included.  I was very impressed with the care put into making this bag as I examined it. It was built to last!

My daughter picked a pink and orange large tote for herself, as I quickly surveyed the blue ones.  I also have a 14 year old who would be going to high school in the fall. A friend who has a son in high school now mentioned to me all the girls in high school carried the Vera Bradley totes. This all came flooding back to me.

     

I pulled my cell phone out of my bag, called my friend and asked her if the price on the bags was a good one, she said YES! and began to ask me what designs were available.

She too wanted the pink and orange one like my youngest daughter got and ask me to snatch it up for her and quick.  She explained to me that they were hard to come by and so I listened and did as I was told.  I also picked up a blue one for my oldest daughter.

The Vera Bradley totes proved to be a fantastic purchase. My eleven year old has never been so proud and organized. She’s made the right of passage into middle school and is headed back this fall with her faithful Vera Bradley tote and now matching purse with billfold. She is in love with her Vera Bradley products.

Me too, I’ve washed them and had not one single miss hap, no loose threads or anything. Vera Bradley products are solid and durable. They looked good as new after a simple spin in the washing machine and a basic air dry.

I’m buying my daughters back to school lunch boxes as soon as they choose which one they want. Aw choices!

Both of my daughters pack their lunches and a good lunch box or bag is a must have. I’m really excited to get the new lunch totes as I know how great the quality of Vera Bradley bags are and am very anxious to check out the newest and most trendy lunch bags, totes and boxes.

Enjoy you new Vera Bradley totes, bags and accessories, I know your going to love them.

Much Love and Success, Katie

                 

 

 

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The Hottest Fashion Trends in Ladies Shoes

Posted on July 6, 2011 by katiem2

You’re no doubt here because you love shoes and keep up with the hottest fashion trends in ladies shoes. Regardless of what it is about a shoe that makes your pulse race we have it all.  Lets move on to the hottest trends in ladies shoes and get our shoe fix for the day.

Do you know the language?  Can you talk the talk when it comes to ladies shoes and the hottest basics, the names and details about ladies shoes?  For example do you know the difference between a sling back and a kitten heel?  It is a must that you get the 411 on these fashion details and get in the ladies shoe know.  You will want to book mark this page and save it to your favorites as this page has all you need to know about shoes, their names, the types and how to get your fashion diva on!

What is it about a shoe that empowers you?


  • Feeling strong and successful
  • Feeling powerful and driven
  • Feeling you best and prepared to seize the day
  • Feeling and looking beautiful
  • Feeling and looking sexy

Whatever your reason, I’m sure you know shoes make the woman and certainly can take any day or moment and turn it around. Enjoy this wonderful hot and trendy shoe collection.

Shoes are one love most women have in common.

Shoes make us feel good, they give us a real feeling of empowerment to motivate and encourage us to be our best.

The best way to bring on a renewed sense of worth, value and confidence is to slip on a new pair of power shoes.

Go ahead feel the power of a great pair of shoes, we girls know what I mean.

The Types and Variations of Womens Shoes

Pumps – Your basic high-heeled shoe for high powered moments, office jobs and meetings.

Slingbacks – Super sexy pen-backed shoes with a strap that runs back along the heel, rather than around the ankle, coming in either a high or low heel.

Toe cleavage – A pump with the toe compartment cut low enough to see a bit of toes

Mary Janes – Flat, rounded at the toe with a strap across the bridge of the foot. Traditionally in black patent leather.

Kitten heel – Much like the stiletto tapered at the heel, but the heel is only 1″-2″ high, the effect leans more toward cute than sexy.

Stacked heel – A more substantial and stable heel, made from thin slices of wood layered or stacked together as if building a tall sandwhich. These babies can be squared or tapered, these shoes are for getting down to businesss.

Platforms – A built-up and stacked high sole. Platforms can either be shoes with a small sole at the ball of the foot which becomes more narrow becoming a high heel toward the end or floor, or one large thick platform from toe to heel.

Wedge – This sole starts out low at the toe and rises toward the heel, elevating on a wedge shape rather than on a distinct heel.

Mules – Mules are slides with a heel and a tad bit dressier than standard slides. These are becoming more and more a fashion statement as they continue to get their bling on.

Thongs – Before they were an under garment they were technically shoes with a thong connecting the sole to the upper shoe anchoring between the big toe and the second toe. These are commonly referred to as flip flops.

Much Love and Success, Katie

 

 

 

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How to Boost Your Energy with “The Big Workout”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Tom Rubenoff

If, like me, you have an exercise routine that you do several times a week, eventually you reach what is known as a ‘plateau.’  I ride my bicycle over one of a few routes to work and back a few days a week during the spring, summer and fall.  You might run or work out at the gym.  At first it’s a big effort and then it gets easier.  You’re in better shape and you feel good, but you feel that you could achieve more, get stronger and feel better

Well, you’re right.  What you need is “The Big Workout.”

For me, the big workout is the fundraising bike ride I do for the Multiple Sclerosis Society every year – a two-day, 150-mile trek.  At the speed I ride, that’s two days in a row, 5 hours a day of riding a bicycle.

The benefits of the big workout are:

  1. A reason to train
  2. The big workout itself
  3. The afterglow

Training for the big workout gives me incentive to improve myself – to go a little faster, to climb a little steeper, to go a little longer.  As a result, I get myself into better shape.  During the big workout my body gets a major cleanse, I get lots of endorphins, and I get in even better shape than I was before.  After the big workout, I feel stronger and faster.  I have more energy and deeper reserves.

If you take my advice there will be a long bike ride, triathlon, run or other big endurance test in your near future.  It is a wonderful thing to go back to your routine and feel the differences in strength, endurance and surprising hidden reserves suddenly at your disposal.

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The Declaration of Independence from Government Protection

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Aya Katz

It’s the Fourth of July. People all over America are celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The majority of Americans are employees of large companies or of the government itself. Very few are independent. What does the fourth of July mean to them? They get a day off from work.  They have a fourth of July picnic. Maybe in the evening, they watch a fireworks display. If they live out in the country, they might even be setting off their own fireworks. But in many municipalities across the land, the sale of fireworks is illegal. These laws have been enacted for “our own good” to protect us from ourselves. We are so independent now that we cannot be trusted to make our own decisions about our personal well-being.

Americans know that they are commemorating the day when America declared its independence from Britain. But most people don’t think about why that was.

When children are taught about history in the schools, it’s often represented as a break from a monarchical form of government, and the words “republic” and “democracy” are often used interchangeably.

In fact the war of independence was about taxation. It was about the right to be free of from the measures taken by the British government to protect its colonies, and the funding that was needed to pay for that protection. The argument went something like this:

Americans: Stop taking our money away from us.

British: But we need to tax you in order to protect you. It’s for your own good.

Americans: We don’t want your protection.

Did the Colonists need British protection? Were they ungrateful for all the government had done for them? Maybe. Every nation needs protection from marauders. And it certainly was true that the Americans needed protection from the British, as the war of 1812 demonstrated. It’s hard to fight a war with no navy. It’s hard to fund a navy without taxes. It’s hard to maintain your freedom once you decide that for your own protection, you need a standing army. And that’s how we start down that slippery slope that leads to the nanny state.

How far have we slipped? Here’s a video that shows the government at work protecting its citizens from the perils of everyday life:

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Much of the machinery for protecting the average citizen from bad food is designed to put independent farmers out of business, while favoring the factory farm.

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Is this the inevitable result of independence? Have we jumped from the frying pan and into the fire? Was the war of independence meant to be just the start of another kind of dependence? What would it take for Americans to achieve the sort of personal independence that they used to enjoy as British colonists?

Everybody needs protection from interference from others in their personal lives.  That’s why we form governments: to get protection. But who will protect us from the protectors?

© 2011 Aya Katz

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Bard of Ely’s song needs your votes in the YouBloom Quarter Finals

Posted on July 1, 2011 by bardofely

My song Mañana got through to the Quarter Finals of the YouBloom Song Contest for which Bob Geldof heads a team of celebrity music industry judges for the finals. In order to get through to the next round, which is the YouBloom Semi-finals, contestants have to be one of the top 12 of the 24 entries in the current stage of the contest.

There is a big cash prize for the winner of the finals and a lot of excellent and much-needed publicity for the songwriter and the song. For me it would be a dream come true because it would show the world I can write hit quality songs and would get my material heard by experts from the music business. This is how to really showcase my talent if I can win this.

Of course, Bob Geldof is famed as a singer-songwriter himself, who first made his name fronting the Boomtown Rats New Wave/Punk Rock band back in the late ’70s punk era. He went on may years after to be the man who organised the Various Artists charity single by Band Aid entitled Do They Know It’s Christmas? I would love him to hear my song!

But in order for any of that to happen I need to get through this round and so I need your votes. Please join the YouBloom site and then log-in and vote for Mañana. If you have already done so in the earlier Heat 5 then thank you for your support then. You just have to log back in and you can vote again for my song.

It is also a great help if people share the link for voting for Mañana on your websites, on message boards, or anywhere you can think of. ‘Likes’ are much appreciated too but it is the votes that count so please vote for me and Mañana! You can listen and vote here: http://www.youbloom.com/ybsc/entry/2351/

Mañana artwork by Orion Hale for the Mañana EP

 

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BitCoins: Decentralized Electronic Currency

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Aya Katz

How do you make change? If you have a dollar in your pocket, and you want to pay someone a quarter, do you cut the dollar up into four equal parts and give one of them to the other person? No. Because when you cut a dollar up, it loses its value, and the resultant pieces cannot be traded. But it wasn’t always this way.

Did you know that it was once possible to cut a silver dollar into four equal parts and each one was worth a quarter? This was because the value of the dollar derived from the value of the silver, and not from the prestige of the bank that had minted it. Pirates of the Gulf Coast and frontier settlers alike used to do this, and the currency they used was called “bits and pieces.”

Today, using government created currency has the following disadvantages:

  • It is subject to inflation because it not indexed to any commodity, and the government can decide to print as much as it likes.
  • It is subject to taxation, because the exchange of currency is not anonymous, and it leaves a verifiable trail.
  • It is not truly fluid because it cannot be melted down and cut into indefinitely smaller pieces.

Okay, I’ll admit the third disadvantage has never really bothered me that much, since inflation has rendered even the cent too small to bother with, but wouldn’t it be nice not to have to worry about making change? Wouldn’t it be nice to break a twenty just by cutting it into pieces?

Today, in the virtual world, there is a new version of the old bits and pieces used by pirates and pioneers. It is called BitCoins. Here is a video that explains a little about it:

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The mining metaphor employed by the BitCoin software is meant to solve the problem of predictable scarcity. When silver and gold were the common currency, they derived their value from the fact that these metals were rare, had to be mined, could not be produced any other way (alchemy), and were held to be of value by most people. The mining mechanism in the BitCoin software simulates rarity and the requirement of effort in order to acquire Bitcoins. The area in which this concept seems a little less effective than precious metals is this: BitCoins serve no useful purpose except as currency.

Here is a video explaining BitCoin mining:

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People use dedicated computers in order to mine BitCoins and then they sell them on an open exchange. Not everybody who uses BitCoins is a miner. Most people just buy them on the open market.

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People use BitCoins to purchase things they would not normally buy using regular currency for fear of being traced by the authorities. Here is video about that:

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If you would like to get in on the BitCoin action, here is a link to their site.

http://www.bitcoin.org/

For some biographical information about the founders and participants in the BitCoin movement, watch this video from ReasonTV:

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Are BitCoins the wave of the future? I’m not sure. Concerns about BitCoins include their vulnerability to hacking and the fact that government scrutiny of computer records can make serious inroads to the anonymity that they are meant to offer. The price of BitCoins has been volatile of late, and some early adopters are rethinking their strategy. But whether BitCoins succeed or fail,  it seems clear that a decentralized currency would be a good thing to have.

© 2011 Aya Katz

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