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Where Has The Ambassador Of Fun Gone?!

I’m here!  I’m here!  I’ve been kind of, sort of MIA for almost two weeks now, and it hasn’t been entirely by choice.

Someone knocked the wind out of my sails.  That’s what started the hiatus.  When I decided to start this blog, I knew it was going to be a huge commitment.  For years, people asked me, “why aren’t you blogging?” And my short answer was, “I don’t have time.”

Things are a little different now.  I still have Mom and Wife responsibilities that compete with my “baby,” my blog.  Glitter & Bruises is only two months old.  I want to nurture it, tend to it, and encourage it to grow into a website with a purpose and a message.  I’m doing this because I want to, while simultaneously doing the meal planning, the grocery shopping, the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, the child rearing.  Like every other working mother out there, I’m just hoping to strike the magical balance between worklife and momlife. Click here to read more…

In The End, We Only Regret The Doorbusters We Didn’t Take

Whether you’ve experienced it firsthand, or lived the camp-outs and stampedes vicariously through the news–you know that a good percentage of Americans lose their shit when it comes to Black Friday sales!

Just for fun–what’s YOUR Black Friday Alter Ego name?  Comment below, and let me know if you plan on shopping this year, and…do you have any special strategies to get in and out of the stores?

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DIY Pumpkin Bling Bling (Glittering Pumpkins!)

coverI hate carving jack-o-lanterns.  Like, haaaaaaate it.  I’m pretty sure it’s all because I was the youngest, way youngest, child in my family.  By the time I was old enough to participate in the annual Halloween pumpkin slaying, everyone else was “over it” and there was a noticeable absence of enthusiasm.  Plus, I always got the knife with the blunt tip.

I don’t know if the blunt tip thing was because I was the youngest or because everyone thought I was a frontrunner for the “Ending The Month Of October With Less Fingers Than He/She Began The Month With” award, because in 1998 (when I was a college freshman), my friend Jamie Hardin threw a Halloween party/get-together/mini high school reunion at her house and I got the fucking blunt tipped knife then, too. Click here to read more…

French Kiss Friday: OCC Lip Tar Swatch + Review

main_oct4KISSES TO YOU!!  And if you’re reading this, welcome to the very first edition of FRENCH KISS FRIDAY!  Every Friday, you can look forward to a new lip product swatch and review.  The succulent lips you’re looking at, in that beautiful berry shade–those are MY lips!  I can finally say…I’m a model!  The juicy color I’m wearing is… Click here to read more…