So I've been collecting wedding pictures like crazy this past week. I bet my friends on Pinterest think I have a problem. Ha-ha. But hey...I've got a wedding to plan so I need all the ideas I can get! Here are a few of my recent finds. Let me know what you think!
I have a relationship with coffee beans. I love the smell of them, eating them, drinking them, relying on them every morning...basically I'm in love with thebean. I stumbled across these fabulous things to do with beans and thought I should share them withyou.
DIY Coffee Bean Projects
Spray-paint your coffee beans and use them in a glass vaseor put them in a clear box to hold your make-up brushes, pencils etc.
Renowned as an anti-cellulite agent, coffee detoxifies and tightens the skin. According to Jessica Kernochan, founder of skincare line LaLicious, the ground beans can also exfoliate, reduce fine lines, and fend off acne.
The scrub is gentle enough for everyday use and leaves skin silky smooth.
INGREDIENTS
1½ cups cane sugar
¼ cup ground coffee beans
¼ cup shredded coconut
¾ cup macadamia nut oil or olive oil
1 tsp. honey
3-5 drops essential oil of choice
DIRECTIONS
Mix sugar, ground coffee beans, coconut, and oil in a bowl until fully combined. Add honey followed by the essential oil.
Transfer the mixture to a plastic container with a lid. (The scrub will keep for 1 to 2 weeks sealed at room temperature.)
Rub a generous scoop of the scrub over your arms, legs, stomach, chest, and bottom, scrubbing medium to hard depending on your sensitivity. (Skin should be moist when applying the scrub.)
Rinse off in the shower under warm to hot water, ensuring the sugar crystals disintegrate completely. Pat dry to allow the oils to soak into your soft, glowing skin.
Note: Those with very sensitive skin may wish to use pure cane sugar because it is less abrasive than raw.
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Spiced Cream Coffee
Kick-Start your day with French vanilla coffee, Irish cream, a generous heap of dark chocolate powder, a pinch of cinnamon and a fresh pod of cardamom. Yum.
Photo of model Erin Heatherton wearing Cutler and Gross sunglasses from their S/S 2011 line by Enrique Badulescu for Elle Russia, July 2011. Found via C'est Vogue.
Photo of WASP pilots carrying the flag at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, TX., scanned from Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II.
Photo of French sailor Florence Arthaud, winner of the 1990 Route du Rhum (transatlantic single-handed yacht race), by Jean Guichard, 1982.
Photo of Chapman College students participating in four-month educational cruise to Greece and Italy by Loomis Dean, 1968.
Photo of Beverly Johnson, the first woman to climb the face of Yosemite's 3,000-foot El Capitan, by Sibylle Hetchel, 1978
"Rocks make no compromise one's sex. Rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal." -Beverly Johnson
Photo of Goodall by Hugo Van Lawick/National Geographic, 1974.
"I was never, ever told I couldn't do something because I was a girl." —Jane Goodall
Photos of William and Brenda Holden on vacation in Canada by Allan Grant, 1949.
Photos of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the Channel
"Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting." -Robert Smith Surtees
photo of Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, 1967
photo of singer Eartha Kitt playing stick ball in Central Park by Gordon Parks, 1952
"I love games, especially baseball. Ice cream cones convinced these boys I could play with them in the park, and now we meet twice a week."—Eartha Kitt
Photos by Allan Grant, 1957
"Some people have Alcoholics Anonymous, Starbucks, church...I had Malibu."—Kathy Kohner (the real-life inspiration for Gidget who started surfing at the age of 15, sometimes trading her peanut butter and radish sandwiches for chances to ride)
Photos of Steve McQueen and Neile Adams by LIFE, 1963
"We went on a weekend drive, after a show I was in at the time. We were on a motorcycle, and there was a carload of friends behind us. It was freezing ass cold. We stopped for a bite to eat, and one of the guys said, ‘Steve, why don’t you let Neile ride with us? I can ride with you. It’s too cold.’ And I said, ‘No, I think I’m just gonna stay on the bike.’ Steve told me later, ‘That’s the moment I fell in love with you.' "—Neile Adams
