My Color for Spring

If you've ever been to an Aveda Concept Salon or an Aveda Retail Store you'll know why I love Aveda. The Aveda approach to beauty, wellness, aromatherapy & ecology is so inspiring. When you go into a retail store you are offered hot tea and a complimentary hand massage. When you have a styling appointment at the salon you receive a scalp and neck massage with essential oils before your service, and a hand/arm massage while your hair is being shampooed/ conditioned. Aveda's environmental mission is displayed everywhere and even the stylists and sales staff are excited to talk about the environment while showing you the latest things in hair and makeup. I personally love Aveda's fragrance and makeup lines (especially the Uruku Lip Color Line.) The makeup products are stylish, simple, sustainable, great smelling, great tasting, and beautifully packaged. Here is what I love:::::

My colors for Spring were a little different this year. I love my new style and most importantly enjoyed the day with my mother. People I know flip out when I tell them I drive to
Greenville to get my hair done, but trust me it is totally worth it. I have been going to Wisteria for about 2 years now and LOVE IT!!!!!!! Grant it I don't always have the same stylist but I
have never left not liking what I paid for. It is a long drive just for hair but the experience there is awesome and soooo relaxing!!!! I highly recommend making an appointment or
even try the Aveda Products.

www.wisteriasalonspa.com

My Easter Bunny of a Different Breed........

After being trapped inside an office ALL DAY....(lol) I love the days I can come home and spend time with a faithful friend who is also anxious to get outside! She had her hair done yesterday and is always so photogenic! She is very dominant and shows out when she doesn't get her way. Always persistent about what she wants and recently lost her best friend Dominique (which was our poodle we had for 18 years.) She loves to take rides in the car and never ever likes to be left alone. Brittiany

A River Runs Through It....Reedy River Run

On Saturday March 7th I ran in the 32nd River Reedy Run held in downtown Greenville. Bethany (Ryan's sister) also came along with me and we finished the 5K run. We met up with my best friend Lauren and Carrie bright and early that morning with beautiful weather to look forward to. It was so ironic to think we had snow last weekend and now having 78 degree weather a week later.....LUVED IT!!!!!!!!!

I'M ADDICTED TO................

Okay so I am ADDICTED!!!!!!!!! It's those little things that make me smile ;)

I am not picky when it comes to coffee (black, extra sugar, light sugar, creamer....) I will drink it!!!! A lot of people who know me will tell you I'm a BIG fan of coffee. My favorites would be Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and Liquid Higway buttttttt I really loved Port City Java (bummer they closed all of them) Some of my favorites are:: Caramel Machiato Iced and Hot, Caramel Frap,Vanilla Creme.......luv them all!!!

Hmm. We should make up our own inspirational or funny sayings to right in permanent marker on our own coffee cups;.....

"In a world where coffee costs $5.00 a cup, where image is everything and Botox exists - it is most important to be rich, beautiful and wrinkle free."

Fact: Starbucks shops offer high?quality coffee, drinks and food items. Starbucks operates with more than 5,200 shops in five countries (mostly US) and 2,800 licensed units (shopping centers, airports).

Did you know:::

65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics.
Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.
30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.
October 1st is official "Coffee Day" in Japan.
Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)
Brazil produces around 40% of the world's coffee supply.
A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.
Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.
More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.
There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.
75% of the world's coffee comes from the Coffea Arabica plant.
Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.
In days gone by, Turkish bridegroom had to promise that they would always provide their new wives with coffee.
Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
An expert in preparing Turkish coffee is known as a "kahveci".
The Nicaraguan Margogpipe is the largest of all coffee beans.
It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.
Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.