This week’s Book Club Choice is All We Ever Wanted: A Novel by Emily Giffin. This book with take you on a “gripping, thought-provoking journey”. Here is the summary:
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton.
Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.
Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally starts to relax after Lyla earns a scholarship to Windsor Academy, Nashville’s most prestigious private school.
Amid so much wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn’t always fit in—and her overprotective father doesn’t help—but in most ways, she’s a typical teenaged girl, happy and thriving.
Then, one photograph, snapped in a drunken moment at a party, changes everything. As the image spreads like wildfire, the Windsor community is instantly polarized, buzzing with controversy and assigning blame.
At the heart of the lies and scandal, Tom, Nina, and Lyla are forced together—all questioning their closest relationships, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning. – Amazon.com
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Throughout the year, I test so many products. Rarely do I find one that I end up using daily or weekly. But about a year ago, a friend sent me a sample of Rodan + Fields Mico-Dermabrasion Paste and I was hooked. I use it twice a week and love the way my skin looks so “polished”afterwards. When my friend Mary told me that she started selling Rodan + Fields, I asked her to show us some of their new products. I have highlighted them below, and Mary has offered to give the first few readers, who place an order, a special gift of their choice from their uber popular Essentials line. If you have any questions or for easy ordering, EMAIL Mary. She really knows her stuff!!!! Bon Weekend!!!!
This week I am sharing one of my favorite recipes with you, Mr Chow’s Crispy Seaweed. I always thought this recipe was made with seaweed until I tried to make it at home. The seaweed is actually collard greens and with the mixture of the salty and sweet taste, I guarantee you will not be able to stop eating!!! Bon Appetit!!!
4 to 6 collard green leaves
Pot of boiling water
Oil for frying
1/2 tsp Salt, 1 tsp sugar
Pre-heat your oil to 350°F
Bring a pot of water to the boil
Rinse and pat dry your leaves
Cut out the thick stems from the leaves slicing leaves in half
Stack the halves together
Roll them up tightly into a thick cylinder
Slice them finely into ribbons
Place sliced ribbons into the hot water and blanch them for 45 seconds
Drain and squeeze the water out of them using your hands or kitchen paper
Place into the hot oil and fry for 30 seconds staring once or twice
Drain onto kitchen paper
Sprinkle with sugar and salt
Can you embrace the white shoe trend. I have not bought a pair of white shoes in ages. I actually cannot remember the last time. I have been noticing that white shoes are all the rage. I decide to buy a pair of white pointed flats. I have been wearing them with summer dresses and white jeans. So far it seems to be working for me UNLESS I look down. It is still a shock to see the bright white glaring up at me!!! I think it is going to take some getting use to. But overall, I love the look on others so maybe it will grow on me!!!!
With the garden walk still on my mind, I am attempting to fill the planters in front of my house. I really like the idea of a Hydrangea arrangement. In order for this to work for my size planters (which are pretty adverage size), the Hydrangea plant has to be in eight inch containers, like the ones you see at the grocery store. This year I bought pink ones and potted them. Now I need something cascading. I like the idea of ivy, perhaps English Ivy. But I found some photos for inspiration. Hydrangea planters are really popular. I love all the looks below, esp the ferns…hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!
This week’s Book Club Monday’s choice is When Life Gives You LuluLemons, by Lauren Weisberger, the author of The Devil Wears Prada. I have read the reviews and it seems to be a very quick fun read. Perfect for the beach or one quiet summer night. It also takes place in Greenwich, Ct, which is toooo close to home. Here is the summary:
Welcome to Greenwich, Connecticut, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.
Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. After leaving Miranda Priestly, she’s been working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now.
When Karolina Hartwell, a gorgeous former supermodel, is arrested for a DUI, her fall from grace is merciless. Her senator-husband leaves her, her Beltway friends disappear, and the tabloids pounce.
In Karolina, Emily finds her comeback opportunity. But she quickly learns Greenwich is a world apart and that this comeback needs a team approach.
So it is that Emily, the scorned Karolina, and their mutual friend Miriam, a powerful attorney turned stay-at-home suburban mom, band together to not only navigate the social land mines of suburban Greenwich but win back the hearts of the American public. Along the way, an indispensable ally emerges in one Miranda Priestly. – Amazon.com
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