Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter Tanning Lotion

Check out this great giveaway from 80 MPH Mom! Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter Tanning Lotion! I was amazed by this stuff! It smells good, encourages tanning, and even repels bugs! I can't wait to get mine to use when we go canoeing or to the lake.

From Bikini Kitchen: The Best All Natural Tanning Lotion for Your Booty

Your booty deserves the best. That's why we only use the finest natural ingredients in our Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter tanning lotion. Chemicals? Nope. Artificial dyes? Please. We Booty Butter babes are all natural, baby.
And leave those streaky orange lotions at the drugstore ladies, this Booty Butter tanning lotion is NOT a stain or self tanner. It's a totally natural potion that accelerates your tan by nourishing your skin.
Our recipe for a glowing, beautiful tan:
• Aloe – soothing and nourishing
• Hawaiian Kukui Nut Oil – a Hawaiian secret for glowing skin
• Light Mineral Oil – Makes your booty glisten with moisture!!
• Kona Coffee Extract – Yum!! And may help prevent skin cancer!!
• And other ALL NATURAL ingredients.
Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter all natural tanning lotion is perfect for babes of all shades and skin types, since it can be worn along with your favorite SPF lotion (highly recommended) – and it works so well, you'll still see a tan! This all natural tanning lotion is really potent stuff – so if you're a fair little mamma, you may want to limit yourself to an hour in the sun your first time.
Not convinced? Ladies, here are some more reasons this Booty Butter is the BEST tanning lotion for your booty:
• Contains Antioxidant Vitamins A, E & C to protect and nourish that sexy glow.
• Super moisturizing for a long lasting tan you can bet your booty on.
• Water resistant for you bathing beauties!
• A Great Bug Repellent – So no bugs bite your booty!!
• Us babes LOVE our furry friends (we're talking about pets, girls, not that guy with the back hair. Eww.). Absolutely NO animal testing.
Need we say more? Nothing but the best for your booty. Smooth it on ladies. And look fabulous.

80 MPH Mom is giving away a great gift basket full of Bikini Kitchen goodies. Get over there before June 15th for your chance to win!

My Magnificent New Office Chair (Kinda!)

So I was checking out this post from dink http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNyYWZ0c3Rlci5vcmcvZm9ydW0vaW5kZXgucGhwP3RvcGljPTI2NzI3OS4w and decided my chair needed some love too! It was an awful textured black that looked nasty no matter how much I cleaned it. I scored some awesome furry cow print fabric with a wavy pattern to it about a year ago and thought it would be perfect! Only one injury and it wasn't even from the staple gun! Let me know what you think!

New Drapey Green Dress

So I saw this gorgeous Thayer dress on Shopbop.com and wanted, wanted, wanted it. Unfortunately I do not have $200 to spend on a dress so I made a similar one. This was my first time working with satin and I have like 3 bolts of hunter green so I thought that would be the perfect color to practice on! I think this is the first thing I have made that I will actually wear. I think I am going to make another one in a print. Let me know what you think!

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Delicious Gooey Carmelized Baked Chicken

Okay, so the above picture is from Allrecipes.com. This is the second time I made this chicken and both times it was inhaled before I could take a picture. This chicken is that delicious...and easy! Well, we thought so, anyhow.

Caramelized Baked Chicken
Ingredients:
3 pounds chicken wings
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup 1 cup honey
1 clove garlic, minced
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Mix together the oil, soy sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Pour over the chicken.
3. Bake in preheated oven for one hour, or until sauce is caramelized.

The first time I made it I didn't have enough honey, so it was a bit runny, but it was still delicious. The second time I added a bit extra honey and it turned out perfect! Gooey, sweet, and delicious! I also baked it about 30 minutes longer. It was falling off the bone when we pulled it out. I also recommend using real honey. Our local honey had so much flavor then the honey bear from Wal-Mart.

Here is the link to the Allrecipes.com recipe so that you can see all of the hints other readers added. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Caramelized-Baked-Chicken/Detail.aspx Easy, cheap, delicious, and a crowd-pleaser!

Fantastic Zebra Print Notecard Giveaway

Check out these great Zebra Notecards that Knotaway is giving away on her blog! They even come with matching envelopes and you pick the color! Stop by and visit for your chance to win.

Our Newest Family Member

I apologize for being gone so long. We lost a very important family member, our dog Dixie. After a few weeks of grieving, and watching our other dog and the cat mope around, we decided to bring a new dog into the family. While we aren't the Rockefellers, we have the love and resources to support another dog. I feel this is especially important with record numbers of animals going to the shelters because, in this economy, people claim they can't afford them. My pets are like my children. I can't imagine giving them up for any reason. If worse came to worse, they could eat generic bagged cereal and ramens with the rest of the family.

Our dog Howl is part Mastiff (He's the one in the dog coat, below.) and we thought it was important to get a dog that was about his size. Having seen him interact with several other dogs, I also thought we needed a girl...but I wan't set on this. We also needed her to get along well with children since there are plenty in our neighborhood (and we are hoping to have some our own). My friend Sara had found her two dogs on Petfinder and I thought I would check it out. I kept putting it off because I wasn't ready for a new dog. I was certain that I did NOT want a puppy. They annoy Howl, Maury (the cat), they have to be potty trained, and they chew. When Howl was a puppy he ate a table, wood, like a whole quarter of it, the couch, a blanket, and my favorite black stilettos. There were countless other things, he was a terror. He refused to be potty-trained. He ate a bag of rat poison. He wouldn't sleep. There's so much more I could tell you, but I will sum it up with, he is the worst puppy I have ever had. Four years later, he is a great family dog but I was not ready to go through all of that again. The other reason being, adult dogs have less chance of being adopted. I just don't get it! I only see perks to a pretrained dog! :-)

I didn't just want to stop by the pound because I knew I would want to take them all home, but I definitely wanted to get one from the pound. I figured I had better have a plan. Petfinder was great. I put together a list of dogs that I thought would be compatible with our family, called them to find out if I could bring Howl along and went for a visit. I was so excited that they let me bring Howl to see if the dogs would play well together. He rejected all of the dogs but one, and it was the one at the top of my list, Toffee, a Rottweiler/Lab mix. She is two years old, it appears that she is pretrained, if not, she has caught on quick, she is roughly the same size as him, and is very, very sweet.

A few other things I learned while I was there...

• Over 25% of the dogs taken to the shelter are purebred. My friend adopted a Yorkie and a Daschaund, with all of their papers. While they come and go all year, the best time to pick up a purebred dog is in January or February. Alot of people get these dogs for Christmas presents, then realize they don't have the time and/or energy for a pet.
• Our shelter, as do many others, keeps a wishlist. Just let them know what kind of pet you are looking for and they will call you as soon as one comes in.
• The adoption fee covered getting Toffee spayed, her vaccinations being up-to-date, a bag of food, a month of pet insurance, and more.
• Our shelter runs a different special every month. This month Large Male Dogs were $25 off. Not only that, they were offering a discount if you wanted more than one animal. They had two beautiful golden retreivers that you wouldn't have wanted to seperate.
• The shelter I went to was very clean and the animals were well cared for. It wasn't as glum and hopeless as shelters I have visited in the past. I was very impressed. It was also much nicer than many pet stores that I have been to.

To sum it all up, my experience was much better than anticipated and we have a great new family member. I still wanted to take all of them home, but I am aware that trying to provide enough love and attention to more than three animals is probably more than we should try to take on. If you are looking for a new addition to your family, check out Petfinders. I have put the search tool to the left of this post!