more planning in progress!

food for thought....

Powerful messages of compassion are sprouting-up on billboards around the Denver, Colorado area right now, courtesy of the fabulous animal welfare group, Mercy For Animals. I love this one:


Did you know that while all 50 states afford dogs and cats legal protection from abuse and neglect, animals on factory farms have little or no legal protection in most states? So who's protecting them? They need our voice! The pain and suffering that these sentient creatures endure -- before and during slaughter -- is (unimaginable) ANIMAL CRUELTY !

Please re-consider what's on your dinner plate ... go HERE to go veg!

On behalf of animals, thank you!

at the beach!

...blogged from my iPhone.....

happy Valentine's Day!

Looking forward to a romantic evening out with my "Salentine".....
XOXO,
Susan

scrapbooking, sprinkled with fabulous....

Scrapbookers everywhere have been drooling over all the new crafting goodies revealed at the recent Craft & Hobby Association trade show in California. Such fun new releases will be hitting store shelves soon!

Michelle, who's the owner of my terrific local scrapbook store Everything Scrapbook & Stamps in Lake Worth FL, attended the show. She stopped by the booth of my fave scrapbooking designer, Heidi Swapp. Michelle knows that I'm so excited about Heidi's new product launch (see her new catalog HERE), and she so was kind to bring me one of Heidi's handmade button pins bearing her logo, and I just LOVE it !! And it was the LAST ONE left at the booth ... so how lucky am I ??

Thank you SO much, Michelle! :-)

And I wanted to mention some exciting news ... Michelle has been invited to be a celebrity teacher on a mixed-media art cruise in October! Congratulations, Michelle!

And speaking of Heidi ... registration has opened for her upcoming online class; it's sure to be "sprinkled with fabulous"!

quack!

Sal stopped for a haircut yesterday, arriving at just the right time to witness an adorable spectacle! Apparently a mother duck and her (count 'em!) 14 ducklings are often out in front of the hair shop on their way to a canal that's behind the shop. Instead of watching the feathered family try to dodge traffic and other hazards to reach the water, the hairdressers open the front door, usher them through the shop, and they head out the back door to the canal! OMG, how precious is that ?!?

Enjoy the weekend,

it's Deborah's special day!

Happy birthday today to Sal's sister, Deborah! She lives in Gulfport, Florida.

We wish you a FUN day full of HAPPY memories, Deborah! :-)

Love, Susan, Sal, Buddy & Aruba

it's Sal's special day!

Happy birthday today to the love of my life, my darling Sal !!! (and today's SuperBowl Sunday too ... how cool is that??)

Sweetheart, I wish you a day full of smiles and a new year filled with happiness! :-)

Buddy & Aruba & I love you lots!


XOXO,

pumpkin for my little pumpkins

They love it !!

happy spa-li-days (to me!)

I had planned to start the new year off right ... relaxed & refreshed with a visit to the spa sometime in January. But the month got busy and slipped away from me, and here it is February already!

During the holidays, I noticed that the Seagate Spa was having a giftcard promotion, including a free beach tote in one of my favorite colors (lime green!), so I made that a "from-me-to-me" Christmas gift ... a gift card to use "someday". And who can't use a new beach tote? ;-) It's a fairly new spa here in Delray Beach, and I've driven by it several times thinking "I'll give it a try someday".

So today was "someday"! I took the day off, got up really early to catch-up on some work, and then spent today at the spa. I chose the Rain Massage ... 80 minutes of B-L-I-S-S !! It starts with a full-body exfoliation using sugar cane and coconut oil. This really gets the blood pumping, and leaves your skin so soft, smooth. Next came a tension-relieving massage performed while a rain shower of warm water cascaded down onto me. I added on a soothing scalp massage, too. They use frangipani oil, it smells sooooo good! Geez, I'm relaxing all over again as I write this, LOL !!

Also spent some time lounging in their eucalyptus-infused steam room and in the outdoor heated pool (even tho today The Sunshine State ... wasn't). Took a break for lunch and savored this DELISH tomato soup !!
Overall, a nice spahhhh day!

I just love going to the spa, it's like pushing life's "reset button".

ok, NOW I'm ready for 2012 ......