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HomeInspirationInspiring StoriesStories of FaithErin Napier Shares How She and Husband Ben Came to Be HGTV Stars
Erin Napier Shares How She and Husband Ben Came to Be HGTV Stars
She was a designer; he was a woodworker. Together, the hosts of Home Town stepped out in faith to shine a spotlight on Erin's hometown of Laurel, Mississippi.
by Erin Napier
From - Posted on Oct 24, 2018
My husband, Ben, and I are about to launch our third season of Home Town on HGTV, where we help folks in our town of Laurel, Mississippi, make and remake their houses into dreams come true. Truth to tell, the whole thing still boggles my mind. It is not at all what we thought we'd do or become when we met at Jones County Junior College.
I figured I'd be an art director for a publisher in a big city far away. Ben was a fledgling history major who volunteered on every committee on campus. I was quiet and shy, not seeking out the limelight that seemed to belong to him. He was tall (six foot six) and broad-shouldered, bearded and magnetic without ever letting it go to his head. We fell for each other hard over the course of six days and soon after transferred to Ole Miss. And that's where we got married on a cold November day.
Ben was the son of a Methodist preacher. His family had moved around a lot, so he didn't really have a hometown. I did: Laurel, a sleepy old place that had seen better days. Founded in the 1880s, it had flourished when lumber mills were harvesting the area's yellow pines. But industry moved on, and people moved out. Others might have hurried past the shuttered storefronts, but I kept seeing the myriad possibilities amid architecture that was worth preserving. What if there could be a bookstore on the corner or an Italian restaurant or a shop that sold sweet-smelling candles and soaps?
Ben and I made Laurel our home. Together, we fixed up a second-floor loft in a flatiron building in the historic district. The floorboards had nickel-size gaps, the nine-foot-tall single-pane windows were a century old and too expensive to replace, so we learned to love how the wind whispered through them in all seasons.
Ben had always been handy, but in redoing the place, he discovered his gift for woodworking: restoring old pieces of furniture, making an armoire from reclaimed material because we couldn't afford to buy one. Though he had a job as director of youth ministry for a Methodist church around the corner, that armoire—made from an old door he found in the rafters of my grandfather's woodshop—was a harbinger of things to come. I would wish for things, and he had the vision to make them happen.
As for my job, I commuted to an office cubicle at a tech company, where I worked as a designer. I was grateful to have a paycheck, but the work wasn't at all what I'd dreamed of. I couldn't wait for five o'clock to come each day. To do the work I loved.
I'd started a blog right after college to showcase my freelance design work, mostly birthday party invitations and wedding stationery. I did the invitations for our own wedding, using a simple typeface that felt like Ben and me, printed on ivory cotton paper in red and blue inks that reminded me of the November colors of the trees and sky. A childhood friend of mine was so taken with the design, she asked me to create a save-the-date announcement for her own wedding. "Think outside the box," she said.
I came up with a classic design but, instead of printing it on card stock, screen-printed it on ivory handkerchiefs with lace around the edges. I snapped a photo of them to post on my blog—which I had named Lucky Luxe—packaged them in boxes and mailed them off. My friend was pleased; I was pleased. I figured that was it.
The next thing I knew, I got an email from a woman in New York who'd seen what I'd done and wanted me to do something similar for her wedding. Then she shared the hankies on her blog, and within hours I had a rush of inquiries from customers all over the world, not to mention a call from Martha Stewart Weddings, saying it would be featuring me and my handkerchiefs on its website. Lucky Luxe was launched.
The challenge came for me when I had to decide whether I could do it full time. To be my own boss. The prospect scared me out of my wits. I am not by nature an optimist. I've always been afraid that if I don't manage my expectations, the other shoe will drop. What if the business failed? What if we ran out of money?
I prayed. Boy, did I pray. I sought counsel from Ben, our friends, our family and our church. The answer came from a devotion that my best friend from high school e-mailed me: "Wherever God's finger points, his hand will clear a way." I had to trust. Even so, on that first day of self-employment, January 1, 2010, I felt like two different people merging into one: equal parts fear and hope, small potatoes dreaming big.
The only remedy I could find for my fears was to erase them by keeping track of my blessings, writing them down, remembering them. I started an online journal, Make Something Good Today. Each day, I focused on what gave me and the people around me joy. I cooked and taught a painting class, joined a women's Bible study, spent time with my parents and walked the streets of Laurel. Even on the worst days, I'd search out the positive so I wouldn't be empty-handed when it came time to write an entry. It was a way to make my faith more real than my fear.
At the same time I was launching my business, Ben was launching his: woodworking. His hobby grew into a shop making his own furniture, beautiful hand-finished works of art. He made a 14-foot dining room table for his parents out of an old church pew, finished just in time for us to use on Thanksgiving Day. He studied joinery and picked oil-based stains that gave the wood a rich depth.
He'd had a big decision to make too. Though he loved being with the kids at the church, it had become clear that God was calling him to another field. Like me, he'd put off resigning the one job so he could do the other full time. In the meanwhile, we had moved out of the loft and bought and restored a Craftsman cottage on a tucked-away street. Picking out the new paint colors, renovating the kitchen, finding the furniture, remaking it into our own home. Everything we loved doing. Together.
Do you see where this is going? We didn't. Or at least I didn't. Naturally I wrote about the sheer joy—and the challenges—of fixing up an old home, and I posted plenty of pictures. Of course I talked about Laurel and my dreams for it and how I saw some of those dreams coming true: new stores opening up, people feeling drawn here to revive a small town. I could describe how, after our dog got spooked by a thunderstorm and snuck out of the fence, I got a call from the chief of police, who'd spotted him running to our vet's. Or how Ben and I on our late-night walks often ended up in a church that's always open, where anybody can seek refuge, light a candle and pray.
Ben finally wrote that letter of resignation and called up the pastor. We didn't know exactly how it would work out, but we'd work together. We'd take a risk. Within two hours—two hours!—I got an e-mail from a woman I'd never heard of who said she was from HGTV and had seen me on Instagram. "Your life looks amazing," she wrote, "and I want to get tape of you and your hubs and your space and your business."
I should be very clear here: The odds of getting an e-mail like that and having someone send a crew to take some pictures, followed by another crew making a pilot that gets picked up and turned into a TV show…well, they are incredibly slim. Ben and I knew this. Everybody on the crew kept telling us as much. Fine by me. It was such a long shot anyway. We were too busy learning new things, like how not to stumble over words when speaking into a camera and how to say the same thing a million times for different takes. Or discovering that I had to stand on an apple box next to Ben because otherwise he was just too tall for the two of us to be together in one shot.
When the show did get picked up—amazingly—I wanted to be sure it wasn't all about us. It would be about Laurel and the people whose houses we were fixing up. As in our own houses, I always look for things that are very personal. For instance, in our second season, we worked with Caroline, whose antique toy trucks from the 1950s had been her daddy's. They had been special to him and, now that he'd passed away, were special to her. We gave them a place of pride in the foyer of her home.
Or in the Edwards house in the first season, with Will's rods and reels for fly-fishing. They took up half the master bedroom, to his wife's dismay. We found a way to display them as art in another room. The gear could be taken down and used on weekends.
I am still that quiet, sometimes shy girl who fell madly in love with the big, bearded, boisterous son of a preacher. We each have our own special qualities, and God can use them. If we're open to the opportunities. If we let go of our fears and focus on our hopes. If we look for the blessings that come every day. Our biggest blessing came just this year—with the birth of our baby, Helen. No telling what she becomes—although from the noise she makes I wouldn't say she's going to be quiet or shy. In the meanwhile, I'm just ready to share with her the wonders I find every day in our beloved hometown.
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Read more about Erin and Ben Napier in their new book, Make Something Good Today. And catch the new season of their HGTV show Home Town in January.
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Nigerians must talk to each other, not at each other – Atiku
MTM June 15, 2017 | 48 | | Atiku
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria.
Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Mazi Paul Ibe has described as blatant falsehood claims by President of the Southwest chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nathaniel Uzomah that the former Vice President has been silent in the wake of the ultimatum issued by a coalition of northern youth to the Igbos to leave the North.
Uzomah, was reported in a section of the media on Monday, as claiming that Atiku Abubakar, APC chieftain and Waziri Adamawa was among northern leaders who had maintained silence following last week's ultimatum.
But responding on Wednesday, Ibe said:
"We would not have dignified Nathaniel Uzomah with a response but for the implication of the intended mischief of the listing of the name of the former Vice President.
"For the avoidance of doubt, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar had on June 7, 2017 issued a statement chastising the northern youth coalition for the ultimatum to Igbos to vacate the North. He also took exception to the counter response by a Southeast group, warning that such a scenario was a recipe for crisis. (See Atiku Abubakar's press statement of June 7, 2017: https://www.facebook.com/Atiku.org/posts/10155419904159640).
"Atiku Abubakar restates his abhorrence to the shocking ultimatum by a Northern youth coalition to the Igbos to quit the region and the counter response by a South-east group. He notes that the unwarranted rhetoric is provocative, reckless and poses great threat to national security and peaceful co-existence.
"Atiku Abubakar reminds everyone that the Southeast and the North are two regions united by a common history. Some of the most prominent South-easterners actually had their humble beginnings in the North. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Odumegwu Ojukwu were both born in Zungeru, Niger State. Many others, too numerous to mention, were also birthed in the North and vice versa.
"By virtue of their age, many of our youths may not know that the first elected mayor of Enugu was Umaru Altine, a Fulani from Northern Nigeria elected in 1956. Or that a year later a South easterner, Felix Okonkwo, was appointed a member of the Northern Nigeria House of Chiefs.
"With such rich legacies, we can't afford to allow misguided elements to divide us. Nigerians must talk to each other, not at each other. The whole of Nigeria is greater than the sum of her parts.
"Atiku Abubakar commends the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo for rising up to the challenge by initiating dialogue with leaders of the zones. He expressed his commitment and willingness to avail the government of the benefits of his experiences in forging lasting peace and stability.
"Atiku Abubakar believes that we must all become one until, our enemies are none! That Nigeria is one united country because we, who are committed to Nigeria's unity are more than those few who are not."
Mazi Paul Ibe
Media Advise to H.E. Atiku Abubakar
Waziri Adamawa
Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999-2007.

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It's not often that new administrative tools for Windows come along, nor do they typically arrive in stealth. After reading about a "new" command line utility named StorDiag.exe on WinAero.com this morning, I dug in to find out when and how it popped up. According to Google, the earliest mention is an August 5 blog post from Mark Berry entitled "StorDiag Errors after Windows 10 Upgrade." This post explores a class of events related to the Windows Storage Class PnP event log. In fact, StorDiag.exe captures such events in a file named "Microsoft-Windows-Storage-ClassPnp.evtx" when run. And like the original poster, I may also have issues with embedded SD card circuitry. Very interesting!
Help info for Stordiag.exe shows only a few switches and options.
– collectEtw: collects a 30-second long event log for each storage device. Uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW).
What does StorDiag.exe Do, What Files Does It Create?
LocalMetaData: a folder with 15 files, each related to event files it creates.
Microsoft-Windows-<event-class>.evtx: A collection of 15 event trace files, all viewable in Event Monitor. They feature internal labels: DataIntegrityScan-Admin, DataIntegrityScan-CrashRecovery, DisakDiagnostic, Ntfs, Partition, Storage-ATAP, Storage-ClassPnp, StorageManagement-Operational, StorageSpaces-Driver-Diagnostic, StorageSpaces-Driver-Operational, StorageSpaces-SpaceManager-Operational, Storage-Storport, Volume, VolumeSnapshot-Driver, and System. They cover most aspects of Windows system and storage performance plus data and crash integrity.
StorDiag.Exe: Interesting Output, But What Does It Tell Us?


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Troopers arrest girl, 14, on DUI charge after high-speed chase
Updated: Sat 11:00 AM, Nov 16, 2019
PUYALLUP, Wash. (KOMO/CNN) - A 14-year-old girl is custody after leading police on a high-speed chase, troopers say.
A 14-year-old was arrested on a DUI charge after a high-speed chase in Puyallup, Washington. (Source: KOMO via CNN)
Troopers say she crashed an SUV at the end of that chase on Friday morning.
It started after troopers tried to pull her over, reaching speeds of up to 100 mph, but troopers eventually stopped the car using spike strips.
Officers then arrested two 14-year-old girls who they say tried to run away after the crash.
Troopers say the one driving is suspected of being drunk at the time.
"I thought it was going to be someone who is, you know older, running because of felonies, stole a car, something like that. I did not think it was going to be someone who was 14, at all," said Aaron Kelsey, a witness.
"It's a scary thing for parents," said Johanna Batiste with Washington State Patrol. "I'm sure no one wants that phone call at midnight thirty that we've just arrested your kid after a high speed chase, and we believe that they were impaired."
The girl who drove the car is held on suspicion of DUI and a felony charge of eluding police.
The other girl, who is now back home, was listed as a missing person.
Copyright 2019 KOMO via CNN. All rights reserved.


I believe Roy Derwood Fambrough was married to my great aunt, Agnes Davis.They lived in MD for a time (either Lucketts, which is now in VA, or in Point of Rocks).Agnes was my maternal grandfather's (Albert's) sister. They also had a sister Mae who lived in Silver Spring, MD.Agnes was born 20 Apr 1904 and died June 1973.
I'm trying to get more specifics on their marriage and where (??) it occurred....Agnes was originally from Loudoun County Virgina.I believe that Agnes and Roy may have had a son named Ernest?
Please post back if any of the above rings a bell in your family history!!


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Beauty in the Chaos: "Perfectly Preserved" by Love and Death
on June 19, 2021 June 19, 2021 By Sam Segar
Eight years after their debut album, Between Here and Lost, Love and Death have released a new album full of grit and honesty. Perfectly Preserved takes the rugged truth of the Love and Death's debut release and adds a greater chorus of voices. The metal background of Brian "Head" Welch and J.R. Bareis mixed with the cleaner tones of Breaking Benjamin's Jasen Rauch and Keith Wallen create a unique auditory journey through the trials of life.
The album's prelude begins with a simple, eerie combination of piano and cello. As a single voice joins in and blends with the cello, "Infamy" begins to transition into peaceful exuberance. The cello expands into layers of strings as more voices join in. The track builds and slowly breaks into a chorus of ghostly vocalizations before fading out into the abyss.
"Tragedy" begins with heavy guitar riffs and an unsettling high-frequency drone. With heaviness in both style and lyrics, the song embodies the cage of trauma:
"I am only human
Can't face this wounded heart
I stand here still unwoven
Held together yet falling apart"
Starting with more drones and uneasy guitar leads, "Down" briefly builds with drums before quickly coming alive. The intensity of the music ebbs and flows, creating a fitting backdrop for the story of being buried under the weight of life.
The next track is a powerful and catchy re-imagining of DJ Snake and Justin Bieber's "Let Me Love You." After a heavy intro, J.R. Bareis takes the lead on vocals, accompanied by Lacey Sturm. Brian Welch joins in as the song builds from breakdown to release.
Coming in with angry riffs, "Death of Us" crafts a picture of heartbreak at the ending of a relationship. The music intensifies throughout the pre-chorus, then opens in the chorus, allowing the full weight of the words to shine through:
"Running on borrowed time
There's nothing left of us (but betrayal)
Looking for a sign to guide the rest of us
The death of us"
Ambient guitar tones and static begin to usher in "Slow Fire" before the song bursts to life with signature heaviness. Another song about the end of a relationship, this one focuses on the chaos of breaking free from co-dependency.
"The Hunter" rushes in with a growling riff. The guitars give way into a clean reverb as Keith Wallen begins to sing: "Bleeding like a child without a mother, we see the same shades but different colors…" The full strength of distorted guitars and drums flow in the pre-chorus and chorus. The calm returns briefly in the second verse before giving way to a bridge that musically reflects the chaotic world the lyrics describe.
Similar to "Slow Fire," "Lo Lamento" begins with calming clean guitar before drums bring the distortion to the forefront. Welch and Bareis trade vocals, sharing a story of reluctant acceptance while processing mistakes that led to greater heartbreak. "Affliction" sets the stage with harmonics and panned riffs, creating a soundscape to display the conflicted tone of the lyrics. This song captures the reality of life inside an afflicted mind:
Living the lie
Living it up in the nightmare
Sweeping the pieces of my broken heart"
The intro to the album's coda matches the eerily calming prelude. A growling riff kicks in shortly before the vocals. The music and lyrics match intensity as a conquering force, refusing to surrender to low expectations. Righteous Vendetta's Ryan Hayes joins in for the breakdown, bringing the album to a powerful finish:
"Tell me, I can't destroy your empire
Tell me, I won't fuel the fire
Tell me, I won't burn the white flag
Burn it again, burn it again, burn it all"
Perfectly Preserved is a journey through the hell of the human condition. From ending relationships, conflicted minds, and drowning in the burden of life, this album carries a heaviness greater than that of the music. However, there can be no joy without pain and no peace without chaos. Love and Death have profoundly captured the reality of resilience, acceptance, and hope within the darkness of life.
You can find Perfectly Preserved on Apple Music and Spotify
Related Artists: Breaking Benjamin, Righteous Vendetta, Spoken
Published by Sam Segar
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Tagged2021, brian head welch, jr bareis, love and death, new music, perfectly preserved, Reviews
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We are living in the Waze times. Community sourced real-time data are helping us to find better ways to get through the crosstown traffic and avoid speeding tickets always on time and on the spot.
When it comes to delivery companies, it is not only about delivering on time, but also reliable requirements are crucial if they want to gain a customer. According to the survey of 800 recipients in the UK realized by Honeywell, almost all consumers (99%) expected delivery to arrive within one week of ordering. More than half of adults expect the estimated time of delivery (ETA) to be precise within three hours or less.
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The holidays are a joyous time to spend with friends and family. Unfortunately, with holiday parties, shopping and travel, the seasons can easily turn into a time of stress. The American Psychological Association (APA) reports that 8 out of 10 Americans anticipate stress during the holiday season. Increased stress can lead to unhealthy behaviors such as overeating and drinking, reduced amounts of sleep, and over-spending money.
So what if you had a quick, easy way to reduce your stress? And the best news is … It's FREE! It's simple: slow down and take a deep breath.
So let's look at how our nervous system works and why we respond the way we do when we get "stressed out." When we encounter stressful situations, our bodies unconsciously respond by going into action: our heart rate goes up, breathing rate increases, our immune system is suppressed, our palms get sweaty, our pupils dilate to let in more light, our digestion decreases, and our body prepares to "fight or flight". All of these responses are a result of the sympathetic nervous system and are meant to be a short-term coping strategy to get us through the period of stress. The counter-regulatory system is the parasympathetic nervous system. This division of our nervous system is responsible for reducing stress. When it is activated, digestion and secretions increase, heart rate slows down, sexual arousal increases, and our immune system increases resistant to infection. It basically induces a period of rest and rebuilding within the body.
We should be spending most of our time in a "parasympathetic state" where we are more at rest; however, a majority of us spend our time in a "sympathetic state" of stress. So how do we reverse this trend?
BREATHING! Breathing is necessary to life. A person can live months without food, perhaps a week without water, but we would not survive even 5 minutes without oxygen. Breathing is so important that it is mostly controlled by our autonomic or "automatic" nervous system. Therefore, the brain can control our breathing so that we don't have to consciously think about it. However, one thing that is unique to breathing is we have to use our muscles to initiate breathing. Our muscles are controlled by the somatic nervous system, which is under voluntary control. So breathing is one of the few actions within the body that can be voluntary or involuntary.
So when we do deep breathing exercises, we are voluntarily controlling our breath, but by deep breathing and slowing down our breath, we are initiating the body into a "parasympathetic state." As we discussed above, this induces a state of rest, relaxation, and rebuilding within the body and helps counteract the effects of stress. Studies have shown that regular deep breathing exercises can be beneficial for pain2, mood processing2, stress and anxiety3, and asthma4.
It is important when breathing to focus on the breath coming from deep in our belly. The more stressed we get, the more we use our secondary muscles of respiration, which are located in the front of the neck. As these muscles take over, the breath gets shallower and we get less oxygen with each breath. Less oxygen means less oxygen to our brain and all of our other organs.
Try it out for yourself! To start off, lie down on your back and put your hand on your belly. Take a deep breath in while counting to five. You should feel your hand rise up if you are using your diaphragm to breathe deeply. Hold the breath while you count to five. Slowly exhale while counting to ten. Repeat this process five times. As you get better at "belly breathing" start to incorporate this exercise throughout the day while sitting at your desk.
Dr. Hugh Riordan, founder and namesake of the Riordan Clinic, was a psychiatrist and famous for saying that deep breathing exercises on a regular basis throughout the day can induce the same state of relaxation as taking a Valium. So relax, breathe, and enjoy your holiday season!
2. Busch V, Magerl W, Kern U, Haas J, Hajak G, Eichhammer P. The effect of deep and slow breathing on pain perception, autonomic activity, and mood processing–an experimental study. Pain Med. 2012 Feb;13(2):215-28.
3. Paul G, Elam B, Verhulst SJ. A longitudinal study of students' perceptions of using deep breathing meditation to reduce testing stresses.Teach Learn Med. 2007 Summer;19(3):287-92.
4. Saxena T, Saxena M.The effect of various breathing exercises (pranayama) in patients with bronchial asthma of mild to moderate severity. Int J Yoga. 2009 Jan;2(1):22-5.


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Catalogue No. 1959-01 represents the first Bonneauville item of historic value that I recall collecting. The year was 1959. I was eleven years old and had an interest in history. By then both of my grandfathers seemed to have lovingly but sternly taken me under their wings. I eventually realized that what seemed like constant reminiscing about their past was their way of passing important facts from one generation to another.
Perhaps there was a bit of fear linked to their motivation. Technology was moving so fast for the men. Their lives spanned from the first decade of the automobile and the flying machine, to breaking the sound barrier and putting a man on the moon. Medical miracles and World Wars transpired in their lifetimes.
What if society regressed? My grandfathers had lived through the Great Depression. They were both quite aware that society could degenerate to a point where there was not even enough food for everyone to purchase - or at minimum, not enough cash to make food purchases.
What if something happened and society had to go back a step? They seemed to think that I was the one who should learn. Who would know how to cut weeds with a scythe and sickle, if there was no gas for the lawnmower or tractor? Who would remember how to grow their own meat and vegetables, split shingles, cut fire wood for warmth, or re-sole a pair of shoes? "Do you know what this (obsolete, antique) tool is for boy? Let me show you how to use it." "Do you know who used to live in that house?" "We'll go deer hunting. Here's how we used to gut a rabbit or skin a muskrat and preserve the furs." The information poured from them year after year - and I loved it. As a consequence, I tended to collect anything related to the past. It is here that I share my Bonneauville Collection.
In this accumulation of Bonneauville related memorabilia, each item is listed chronologically and assigned a number in order of date purchased. Naturally the contents of this collection lean disproportionately towards the author and his family since those are the historic items that are most accessible.
This file format is based on Recollector, a collection management system designed primarily so that collectors (of whatever interest), are able to logically catalog and track their items.
Since the future of this collection is about as uncertain as Heisenberg's Theory (of uncertainty), no donations are accepted. I will however, be happy to purchase items related to the history of the town, its business, individuals, etc.
Apologies are in order for poor photograph quality. All items are available for inspection and re-photographing by appointment.


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Oof, these busted bath and beauty items are giving me nuthin' but shattered dreams (shattered dreams!) – unfortunate victims of a sudden drop and a short stop, both. 😦 And yes, I know being crushed all to bits impacts the functioning of this Luxury Lush Pud bath bomb and Unicorn Horn bubble bar not a whit, but for blogging purposes, I always prefer to have these things looking their finest.
But shattered or not, I can't say really say my dreams with regard to these items were all that grand – I've been a bit off Lush as of late. Or perhaps I was never actually "on" Lush to begin with – I've never really cottoned to their scent blends or company aesthetic. Then a string of expensive, dudderiffic bath bombs kind of sealed the deal on my whole informal Lush embargo, at least until I've used up the few items I already have in storage.
Which is where this Luxury Lush Pud and Unicorn Horn come in – might as well use up that which is busted all to crap, as no saying I know of goes. Anyhow, my Pud wasn't too badly damaged in its swan dive off the counter, so it performed nicely, throwing off first pastel – and then ultra vibrant – swirls of pink, turquoise and yellow bubbles.
And the Unicorn Horn, jaundiced devil that he is (there's seriously so much yellow in that Horn), provided mounds of creamy, lavender-scented bubbles beneath which to sink. A very relaxing and daintily-hued bath, broken bits or not.
But with an upcoming milestone birthday (the one accompanied by all those obnoxious black balloons) and the gentle nudging of some dear blogger friends (lovely people, but terrible enablers with their gorgeously photographed blog posts!) and a completely bare beauty cupboard, I thought it was high time to treat myself to some beautiful bath and body care, Bathing Garden-style.
The Bathing Garden, an indie bath, body care and home fragrance vendor popular with the waxie set, does steady, year-round business turning out rotating themed collections of beautifully crafted scented wax and other bath and beauty products. I have ogled their hoard-worthy wares for years. Alas, with shipping restricted to the United States, this Canuck has been crap out of luck. No Bathing Garden for me, eh?
No Bathing Garden, that is, until one of those dear blogger enfriendablers (rolls right off the tongue, don't it?) allowed me to piggyback on her order, a random enough act of kindness before she also picked up the outrageous shipping as a sweet little pre-birthday treat. I was so touched. There are some truly lovely people online. If your Internet activity centres around Twitter or Reddit or YouTube comment boards, that statement will absolutely not compute, but kindness on the Internet can occasionally happen!
Anyway, enough with feeling all hashtag-blessed. 😉 Onward haul, right?! Let's do this thing.
The scrubs I chose were both from the soon-to-be-rotated-out Circus Collection, Poppet's Coaster Ride (actually a scrub/soap hybrid), a blend of strawberry peach jam, raspberry cake bites and lemon curd (ugh, I want to eat that, it sounds so delicious; it also helps not one bit that the lemon curd side actually looks like lemon curd!) and Clowning Around, a carny-approved blend of toffee apples, cotton candy, popcorn and layer cake.
I'm so in love with these scrubs, they're beyond gorgeous. And that's just the labels! The scrubs themselves feature a beautifully plush texture – like slightly damp Magic Sand – buff on gently and rinse away cleanly, leaving behind no oily residue. Best of all, despite sporting such lush, vibrant hues, they don't stain your hide 12 different shades of turquoise! Victory! Clowning Around, the sugar scrub, was $8.00 US for an 8 oz. jar and Poppet's Coaster Ride, the split parfait, was $12.50 for an 8 oz. jar.
Suds and saturation came in the form of two more picks from the Circus Collection and one from the recently-retired Valentine's Day Collection, Candy Carousel lotion, a sugary sweet blend of candy floss, apples and cake, Fried Candy Donut whipped soap, a lip-smackingly delectable wildberry bakery blend, and Coconut Crystal Cake whipped soap, which, to paraphrase my friend Julie, smells like a coconut if it didn't know whether to be dessert or suntan lotion.
I haven't cracked into the whipped soaps just yet, so I can't speak to their sudsing power or their scrubbing bubbles, but the texture, which you can see in the above photos, is just divine – thick and rich, like buttercream frosting whipped into stiff peaks (there we go with that "do I eat it or wash with it?" thing again!) Coconut Crystal Cake's delicate fragrance is unfortunately somewhat obscured by the soap blend used here; Fried Candy Donut's robust berry bakery holds up much better. I really wouldn't kick either out of bed, though. Each soap was $8.00 per 4 oz. jar.
The light lotion, here in Candy Carousel, looks deceptively thin and maybe even a bit watery. Looks aren't everything, though, as beneath the surface lies a powerhouse moisturizer that soaks in quickly and dries down to a soft, touchable finish. This lotion was $8.50 for a 4 oz. container.
Ah, but did you really think I was going to stop with body care and 799 words? 😉 Not when there's wax to be had, and certainly not when it's this beautiful! Because this, this is what lured me in to The Bathing Garden in the first place – the gorgeous little details on these clamshells, to say nothing of the deliciously complex scent blends. These feel like such sweet little luxuries, I love them.
In addition to their fantastic clamshells, The Bathing Garden also offers a number of their scents in adorable little shapes. Many of these shapes are pressed into service as super generous samples (more on that shortly) but a number are available for purchase. And in my world, if there's something donut-shaped on offer, you just don't say no!
From left to right we have two frosted donuts in Fried Candy Donut ($1.25 per .8 oz. tart), a glitter-embedded bundt in one of Julie's favourite scents, Victorian Midway, a sweet, pumpkin-apple cake blend ($2.00 per 1.5 – 2 oz. tart) and a wee little dipped caramel apple in Nights at the Circus, a dupe of one of my mother's favourite scents, Bath & Body Works' Winter Candy Apple ($2.50 per 1.8 oz. tart.) I will never be able to melt any of these because they are just too darn cute.
Finally, let's close this beast of a bathing beauty bonanza out with what we all came here to see – the free stuff! Of which, I don't believe it can be denied, The Bathing Garden goes way, way above and beyond in providing. They are crazy generous, often providing dozens of samples, in addition to full size products. And this bounty – save one or two extras my friend snuck into the package – represents just my choice of items! We split the freebies (and the three full size samples) roughly 50/50. Perhaps I should upgrade that to wicked generous. So what freebies did I score?
In the top left-hand corner we have a beautiful little bunny tart studded with glittery hearts in Tea with the Queen of Hearts and a wee chocolate gateau in Eat Me.
In the bottom left-hand corner we have, from left to right, a microbead-embedded Peep in Looking Glass, a speckled robin's egg in Blackberry Fudge (actually a little gift from Julie), a pale-and-pastel Peep in Keep Your Temper, a grape-hued Easter egg in Lavender Vanilla Custard, an absolutely delectable little mica-dusted egg in Caterpillar Mischief (it came in that cute little chick cup!) and a ruby red Easter egg in Strawberry Nonsense.


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Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Akwa Ibom state, under the aegis of Akwa Ibom Progressives Watch, have petitioned the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, protesting the defection of Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, to the party.
In a letter dated August 3, 2018, and addressed to the APC national chairman, the group said it had noted with deep concern the broad chorus of disapproval and complete despondency amongst different strata of members of the APC in Akwa Ibom state over the defection of Akpabio to the party.
The letter endorsed by Innocent Sylvanus, Chairman and Ubong Victor, Secretary, read in part: "Our group is an integrity watch team whose support for the APC is driven by the party's change agenda, the fight against corruption as well as the near immaculate personality of the leader of the Party, President Muhammadu Buhari.
"For this reason, we feel sad, so are most members of the APC in Akwa Ibom State who looked up to our party as institution that will evict moral pervers as Senator Godswill Akpabio from position of authority, by the admission of Senator Godswill Akpabio into our party.
The group also informed Oshiomhole that Akpabio polarised ethnicity to its zenith in his bid to annihilate the Ibibio majority, and destroy the Oro ethnic nationality, when he was governor of Akwa Ibom State.


I couldn't be more excited to have you here for the launch of this podcast, where my goal will be to empower you to maintain a positive experience, reduce and eliminate the need for medications, & make your time together with those you care for, the best it can be.
Overall, I want to help you and your family Live Well, or the best you can, with Alzheimer's or other dementia in your life.
In this inaugural episode, I discuss what it means and takes to Live Well with Alzheimer's. This information is derived from one of my signature presentations that I've given multiple times in my own community.
I've also been involved with individuals with dementia and their caregivers for several years now, and I've seen and heard what works and what doesn't.When you ask people what living well means to them, you will get an array of answers.
For some, it's about being happy; for others, it's about their health.But for the family faced with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia, it also takes on a whole new meaning – because living well is also vital to protecting the health and well-being of both care partners (the person with dementia and you the caregiver).
Living Well is the best medicine for delaying the progression of the disease.In this episode, I discuss 8 pillars of care that must be addressed in order for both the person with Alzheimer's and their family, including you, to live "well" through the stages of the disease.
The emotional roller coaster leaves the station the first time something is considered to be wrong.
The ability to make decisions is important to a person's individualism.
There is a lot of ignorance and misunderstanding about Alzheimer's in our society. Because of this, families dealing with dementia often stay in the closet.
We all want an easy solution, so we hope that we can protect our brain by simply doing more crossword puzzles or playing some Sudoku. But, it's much more complex than that.
Following good dietary guidelines are just as important and should a heart-healthy diet and a rainbow or fruits and vegetables.
All our lives we've been told about exercise guidelines. Sound health is dependent upon the functioning and interaction of our neurophysiologic systems.
We spend the vast majority of our lives in our homes, yet the most families dealing with Alzheimer's do very little to make their home Alzheimer's friendly.
While we tend to think of spiritual as religion, it can be any kind of meaningful activity or blissful experience.
Living Well with Alzheimer's won't be easy, and it takes daily proactive effort. But together we can implement strategies to help you, your loved one, and the rest of your family live Well with Alzheimer's.


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In a league of their own
Posted on September 14, 2016 by Hilary Burden
Watching the Hampson-Hardeman Cup, the AFL Women's All Star Match, last weekend you couldn't help but notice how good it was and how well it flowed. Women have played football for 100 years – we just haven't seen them.
We're watching something new. And it's proved a TV ratings success, with over a million viewers nationally tuning in to watch the Saturday game, and a record for any Saturday night AFL match.
Culturally, Australians are not accustomed to seeing a team of strong women play high profile sport. We're used to tall and agile women make a name for themselves in netball or basketball. Swimmers and tennis players make front-page news, often more for their looks than their skill.
Sure, there's women's cricket and soccer teams that rate a mention now and then.
But AFL is different. It's Australia's game and a contact sport, reflecting a unique culture. It's fast, tough, and calls for skill at kicking, hand-balling, marking and tackling. Until now, women mostly made news for being glamorous wives – ornaments not equals – certainly not for kicking a goal from 55m, as the Demons' Tayla Harris did.
The genie is out. Women who love to play footie will no longer struggle to be noticed or have a voice. They have a league of their own. The inaugural national women's league kicks off in February 2017.
Last weekend, the Western Bulldogs and the Melbourne Demons ran onto the Whitten Oval wearing smiles. There were blondes and brunettes, ponytails and headbands. No one even cared if they were wearing makeup or not because their passion and talent was what mattered. What they came to do was what counted. No mention of hip measurement or cleavage. This is what happens when women are treated equally and respectfully.
One reporter observed it was all commentators could do to keep up with the play, at first stumbling over terms like "ruckwoman". Soon, it will be the norm.
Our Watch (part of the government plan to reduce violence against women and children) partnered with the AFL for last Saturday's game. They're onto the value of this, while sponsors are also beginning to sit up and take interest.
Our Watch CEO Mary Barry said, "Sport has an influence way beyond the field it is played on. Providing opportunities and pathways for young women and girls to play AFL at an elite level normalizes the role that women play in our sport – on the field, in the clubroom and in the boardroom. Gender equality is at the core of healthy, respectful relationships."
While men have often hidden their emotions behind the game, there's something different happening with women players. We know already Moana Hope, who scored 6 goals for the Bulldogs and was best on ground on Saturday, is from the school of hard knocks. And Katie Brennan is a former bulimia sufferer who now sees beauty in and harnesses power from physical strength.
"Strong is the new pretty", said Brennan memorably.
The new code marks a continuation of a necessary evolution for the AFL. Racism and sexism have long found common ground, on and off the field. Just as footy fans are being challenged to focus on the player not colour, this goes for women too, being recognised for who they are and what they can do, not what they look like.
Bulldogs vice-president Dr Susan Alberti is at the heart of the revolution. She was one of many signatories to a letter of complaint to Channel 9 about their treatment on The Footy Show. Sam Newman called the signatories liars and hypocrites and Alberti fought back, suing for defamation.
An apology from Channel Nine was read out in court, saying the network had not intended to impute Dr Alberti was a liar. She received $220,000 compensation, ironically helping to fund the women's league.
Alberti told Australian Story, "I believe the culture of any organization, particularly AFL, it comes from the top. And I was making noises behind the scenes, albeit ruffling a few feathers, saying this is crazy, why haven't we got women playing AFL football? It's not a privilege, it's a right."
Racing Victoria should consider itself on notice, using topless models alongside horses and men in suits to advertise the upcoming Spring Racing Carnival. It was only less than a year ago Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
The AFL said that amongst the final total of 6,365 at Whitten Oval were "little girls sporting the unusual combination of over-sized footy jumpers and fairy dresses". Now that's a look. And, in a second-quarter televised interview, Bulldogs President Peter Gordon proudly said, "I see a future in which girls know that they can not only watch the game and love the game but play it at the highest level. It's fantastic to know that half the population, the female population, get to play this game, get to start up a league of their own."
The Hampson-Hardeman Cup is named in recognition of female football pioneers Barb Hampson and Lisa Hardeman who developed the first women's championships in 1998.
First published in TasWeekend, September 10, 2016
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Described by The Washington Independent Review of Books as 'terrifyingly brilliant,' The Antigone Poems is a powerful retelling of the ancient Greek tale of defiance and justice. An intensely personal invocation of the Sophocles tragedy, it questions power, punishment and one of mythology's oldest themes: rebellion.
Summer 1983: Abandoned by an alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Kate, her younger brother Tosh, and little sister Ellie find themselves alone and homeless on the streets of their home town. Kate has two choices to go the authorities or to run. She chooses to run.
She takes Tosh and Ellie to in the countryside. There, they find refuge in a derelict bungalow where they meet their new family: Mannis, a murderer and a thief, hapless Dock, and the troubled teenage runaway, Saul.
Shortly after their arrival, Ellie becomes sick. She dies four days before her sixth birthday. In a bid to remain strong for her brother, Kate locks away her grief, unaware of the devastating impact it has on their relationship.
Rick, an old acquaintance of Mannis comes to hide out for a while. He brings with him his plunder: stolen artifacts from a museum, and a gun. The ill-tempered Rick nicknamed by Kate as The Wolf takes over the bungalow and their lives.
In the beginning, Kate stands up to Rick, but her terror soon surfaces when she witnesses his unprovoked attack on Saul.
Alden, the woodcutter, has a cabin in the woods at the bottom of the lawn. He befriends Kate and Tosh. Through him, they learn of the bungalow's history and learn what it feels like to be in a safe and secure home.
Kate wants an end to their brutal and squalid existence. She asks herself whether she should keep on running or ask someone for help, someone like Alden. She does not get the chance to ask him.
One fateful night, Jack, a member of Rick's gang shows up. He takes Kate, Tosh and Saul hostage, threatening to kill them if Rick fails to meet his demands for money. The two men engage in a brawl that results in Saul's accidental and untimely death. Just as Kate is thinking that there is no way out for herself and Tosh, Alden takes them through a secret doorway, which delivers them into the past: the bungalow as it existed in 1889.There, they are reunited with their sister Ellie. Alden mysteriously vanishes. The children never see him again.
Meanwhile, Mannis, Rick and his gang all in prison, Detective Inspector Bradford continues his search for Paul 'Dock' Dockland and the missing children, whose bodies have not been found. He pays Ada Bright a visit, the woman who called the police when she heard gunshots coming from the bungalow. Coincidentally, she is also the great niece of Alden Wallis, whose body was found in the lawn, along with the axe that his wife used to kill him.
After the Detective Inspector leaves, Dock wanders in. He has been staying with Ada, ever since she found him sitting outside her door with the bag full of Rick's stolen money; enough money for them to start a new life.
One night, Lark steps outside to find Saul waiting for her. And in their new home, the children finally find the happiness and safety they have craved for so long, unaware that they have died.
Walt Honerman is a man who has just about given up on life.
loquacious nursing home resident who has never been seen without a tie and who wishes to return to his former hometown of Crawfish Bay.
During their trip, Izzy entertains Walt and Moira with an elaborate tale of the grand resort he once owned in Crawfish Bay -- a resort that, according to Izzy, had an almost mythical reputation of being a place of good luck. It is a tale that provides an immediate bond between her and Walt -- a bond that slowly deepens during the small town stops of their trip. But this humorous lead-up (provided by the cross-country drive, during which a romance begins to develop between Walt and Moira) gives way to a sudden mystery when they arrive at Crawfish Bay, where Izzy is suddenly arrested on a longstanding charge of embezzlement.
Although Walt is ready to abandon Izzy, Moira insists on staying to help him -- and when they check into the resort that Izzy claimed to have once owned, Walt and Moira quickly discover that most of Izzy's stories are highly embellished, if not an outright fiction. This discovery comes when they meet Felix, Izzy's old partner in the small diner they once ran together, and Emily, a single mother who used to work at the nursing home in Billings where Izzy lived and who came to Crawfish Bay because of Izzy's promise of a job at his fictional resort.
Brought together by Izzy, and fueled by Moira's dogged belief that she can find out what happened to the money a now-confused Izzy was supposed to have embezzled when Izzy disappeared from Crawfish Bay years ago, this mismatched group of characters decide to try to renovate the dilapidated ocean-side diner that Felix still owns.
Despite his reluctance to have anyone need or rely on him, Walt, a construction worker, becomes the pillar on which the renovation scheme depends. And despite his retreat from life, brought about by a long-ago tragedy, Walt finds himself being pulled along in the wake of wild dreamers. Yet just when everything seems to have worked out, Moira mysteriously disappears.
Titled Finding Flipper Frank, the novel has a narrative voice that employs both humor and the frequent use of flashbacks. It falls within the categories of humor, copy mystery and literary fiction.
When visual artist Tina Martel was diagnosed with Stage Two B breast cancer she decided to document everything. Throughout her treatment she created a stream of sketchbooks, photographs, paintings and video, in response to and frequently in spite of what was happening. Simultaneously she was writing to friends and family across the country. It seemed a logical combination and the resulting book Not in the Pink is the "graphic narrative" of the pain, the tears and the laughter, the day-to-day dealing with the eccentricities and bureaucracy of the medical system. It is also a candid and moving exploration of the expectations often placed on you once you are diagnosed with cancer: by the people around you, by society and ultimately by yourself.
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