lilita’s Neighborhood

We are now offering FREE S&H for the Holiday Season...lower prices too

Free Spirit Beauty Mineral Makeup

New balm: Tuxedo Mocha! This one has coffee butter added... yum.
Also selected balms are on sale right now. Go here to see them.
I also have a "you choose flavor" listing if you want to choose your favorite flavor.
Or if you want a good deal, you get 6 balms for one low price. Perfect for stocking stuffer or just to keep them for yourself.

Last but not least, you get a gift with purchase with every order. :D

Doing free publicity lah :)

Two days ago, I blogged about I went for Henderson Waves trail, right?

And, I met some foreigners doing some stunts on the trail and, out of the blue, they appeared onto my camera frame.
I exchanged email address with one of them so that I could forward photos to them :) 

They work in a ship as volunteers and invite everyone (including me *winks*) to onboard "MV Doulos", oldest passenger ship in the world, sailing as floating bookshop for a charity organization. Its last voyage to Singapore, and will be berth in Vivo City from 15th to the 27th of December 2009.

Entrance is FREE ..

Come and bring friends with you :)

I don't do Black Friday. I did it once when my kids were rather young to get inexpensive bikes for the older two at Walmart but it was so crazy that I never was tempted again. As usual we were at my in laws and thus Black Friday holds even less appeal since I wouldn't be shopping my home turf. I did partake in Cyber Monday on a small scale. 

Happy Thanksgiving !!

I hope all of you had a wonderful, happy Thanksgiving, full of love, laughter and good food.

I just settled down to the task of drawing the winner for today's prize winner. My 7 year old grandson did the honors and pulled our winner from all of our entries.

The winner of the travel dispenser brush, with adjustable settings, is Dorothy from SC. Congratulations Dorothy. You are going to love this travel brush !

Several weeks are left for the drawing and the Grand Prize Winner to be announced on Christmas Eve. If you aren't registered at Free Spirit Beauty for our monthly newsletter and special offers, there are still plenty of prize winners to be chosen. Don't miss out !

Ok, so here’s another total rant… stop reading here if you don’t wanna hear all about it and scroll down about a page to read about more fun stuff… two hauls!!!

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I am soooo praying that this is just a STAGE in my eldest’s development. Been dealing with so many issue this past couple of weeks. Ranging from lying to stealing (well, according to him borrowing… but who borrows $100??) and now…

He spent the nite at my MIL’s. I went to bed forgetting to switch off my ringer on my handphone (this is my old set cos my new set won’t take photos and I had to send it in for servicing which is a whole ‘nother rant! *grrrrrrr*)

Woke up from a deep sound sleep by a very loud ringing phone. Picked up the call and was greeted by silence… lots of silence. Even with my repeated hullos… there was no reply… and then the call got disconnected. Given the number reflected by my caller id… the suspect list was really short… couldn’t be my MIL or my FIL… so only person left in the house… my son.

The call triggered one of the worst headaches I’ve had since getting preggy way back in 2001. It wasn’t an ache… but a throbbing pain echoing in my head. The kind that makes you wanna bang your head against something. So got up and popped in two panadols (paracetamol) and tried to go back to sleep.

Woke up late with the pain still there… mumbled some nonsense to my hubby over the phone (yeah, I know… same house and I can’t get my butt off my bed to go talk to him in person) and he coaxed me to go eat something so that he could give me a stronger painkiller afterwards. After breakfast, in went Ponstan, an antiacid and a muscle relaxant. All of which combined to make the pain more of a fuzzy interference in my head.

The meds have lasted quite a while and the pain hasn’t really returned… it more of a nagging ache now. Much easier to handle… just that I’m sensitive to sharp sounds. Sends an echo bouncing round my head. Sigh…

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Anyways… on to more fun stuff… checked my mailbox…

*drum roll*

My package from LT was there… nice and fat… and so was my recent SN order. (no pics… cos no phone => no camera *sobs*)

*cartwheels around the room*

I <3 <3 getting packages in the mail!!!

opened LT’s first and here’s what she sent me (for pics, check out her post here -

• SN perfecting powder (yippeeee I’m all out)
• Revlon azure mist palette (been eyeing this in the stores but couldn’t bring myself to pay the price)
• LA Splash liquid eyeliner in Blue Whale
• EDM blush sample in Walkie Talkie
• Body Shop blue and pink/peach e/s
• Jessie’s Girl e/s in skywalker (can’t wait to try this one out!)
• Ulta e/s in Truffle and Zephyr
• Juice organics light tint moisturizer – sample size (ideal for my quick trip to Malacca coming soon)

Its been a while since I’ve gotten excited over m/u but getting my hands stuff I’ve been drooling over and itching to try… well, put it this way… pretty good chance I’ll be going out with my face done tomorrow. :D

Then I opened my second (smaller package).

*wanders off on a tangent*

You know how there are some companies that just give you such good service that you can’t stop buying from them? Well, I gotta say SilkNaturals is one of my all time fav m/u companies. Their customer service totally rocks! even when I had problems with shipping going awol, they made it up to me.

ok… so I placed an order to restock on perfecting powder, date bait, foundation (ebony, white and tried a packet of the new glow) and their new zinc powder. The way it works is that they give one free ‘surprise’ e/s and then with every $30 you get a e/s of your choice FOC.

well, I don’t like SN’s e/s… doesn’t suit my need for color *grin* but I DO like their lippies… so I added a note to my order asking if I could please change my free e/s to a lippie instead.

Surprise surprise… they not only sent my the freebie lippie I requested for but an extra one for good measure… and… I still got a free e/s thrown in.

The color I asked for was Fashionista… a nude wine shimmer vegan lipstick and I got Mirage (Ultra Nude Vegan Lip Gloss) as my extra. I have to say I wouldn’t have order Mirage on my own… but I can’t wait to see what it looks like on my lips and how it’d blend with other shades to make something special :)

So… the day started out bad and ended on a pretty upbeat note. Gotta stay thankful even on bad days, don’t you think?

stay cool everyone and Happy Thanksgiving for those of you who celebrate it.  

We have officially moved into our new home.

This means of course that Freddie now gets 100 acres to roam and protect.

Which means that there is a whole new set of adventures out there for Freddie to get into.

Yesterday we went out for a walk because I wanted to check out the Water Tank at the top of the hill.

I'm going to pee on this, do you have to look???

Here is the cute boy caught in the act of peeing on a bush.

Coming mum! You called?

Getting closer!

After which he bounded off down the hill in pursuit of something.

After I walked up to visit the water tank and check out the views, I started calling for Fred.

He'd been gone for a good fifteen minutes by then and I was getting worried.

I stood still listening intently for the sound of a puppy in pain. I eventually heard lots of crashing and wood snapping and then spotted the boy bounding up towards me.

I love how the pics capture him with this mouth open and all this fangs sticking out. LOL

Freddie the Luck Dragon

Freddie Big Tongue

Here he is after coming back, panting like a banshee and with his tongue hanging out.

This picture makes him look like the Luck Dragon from Neverending Story.

At least I think so anyway....

He seemed pretty happy anyway.

I also spotted all this yellow stuff on top of his nose.

I think he might have tried to stick his nose into an ant hill or something.

That or he found a HUGE flower full of pollen to sniff. LOL

Here he is later, resting back at the house. If you look his back paw is bleeding.

I didn't notice at first until I started taking lots of pics.

He had managed to scrape off half his toe.

YECH

I think he might've just landed on something without realising as he was running.

I washed it off with dettol and rinsed it a few times.

This morning it looks ok so I've stopped worrying.

Let's just hope he keeps his adventures to ant hills.

The last thing I want is for him to discover snakes =(

"Yech mum! Not Snakes..."

Here are a few more close up shots. I love this one - he looks so serious:

The Contemplative Fred

Here he is after drinking water. He practically drank an entire bowl. I have no idea what he got up to when he ran off.
And to be honest I'm not sure I really want to know. LOL

A Happy Boy

I LOVE this shot of him also. Again you can see that yellow spot on the bridge of his nose.

He's been Yellow-Spotted

And another one taken from above...

Fred8

And lastly a profile shot. Look at his fangs!

Fred6

some postive stuff first…

remember the lovely set from Crabtree and Evelyn that I got. Well, I’ve been using the hand therapy cream… really like the smell and how it feels on my hands.

I’ve never used a shea butter product before but I sure do like the way it gets absorbed into my skin and not leaving a residue behind. The tube sits on my computer table and I use it when I remember. I try to make sure to rub it into my cuticles too and my elbows.

On the whole, really liking this although I’m not sure if I’d buy if for myself. Still I have 2 tubes of it so it should last a long long time. :)

Been looking at the various holiday collections from mmu coys… tempting… oh so tempting but I’m staying strong… so far. I have put in an order with SilkNaturals for mre powders and foundie… in particular, gonna try out a more ‘glowy’ foundation. Can’t wait to see how that’s gonna turn out.

ok… really have to get this off my chest… totally not m/u related… but parents out there… help me out…

how do you keep your temper when dealing with a kid who doesn’t want to to do the work you set him? I’m clenching my teeth so much they ache and I think my blood pressure is sky rocketing. Seriously, 2 hours to do 1 problem sum question is totally nuts! I don’t really wanna ask my hubby for help cos his idea of help is the liberal use of Mr Cane. sigh… 

Good Morning.  Happy Sunday. :)  I hope your weekend is going great. :)  Yesterday instead of going to agility class, I attended an Excel class.  haha.  I can be nerdy.  Well, this is actually for work.  It touches a few different subjects:  pivot table (oh joy!), formulas and some other fun stuff.  It's actually fun... sort of.  I enjoyed it and didn't fall asleep... that would be hard when you are sitting in the front row and have to do exercises and such.  But anyway, it went great.

Ok, now on to the main point.  I am cleaning and organizing and have been collecting little jars and tubes and baggies of good stuff and am planning to give them away... am thinking around Christmas.  Maybe before or after... I am not sure yet.  I will post an "goodie bag sign up post" later so that you can enter the drawing.  Some of them might be gently used (eg:  mmu sample or colored lip gloss etc).  Some will be full size, some sample size.  I have a bag sitting next to me and with goodies in there already.  I will post in greater detail of what's going to be in there.  But right now, I will give you a list of companies that will go into the bag:

• YLBB (sorry, can't help it.  lol)
• Lure Beauty
• Aromaleigh

Rules/key points for now (subject to change): 

• Free to you
• US only, as the box will be heavy and oversea shipping is expensive... please understand
• If you have won something from me before, either via Vox (jenfer) or via YLBB, please refrain from participating and give others a chance
• You will have to make a post of some sort in my "goodie bag sign up post" to qualify.

THIS IS NOT THE "sign up" POST.  REPLYING TO THIS POST WILL NOT GET YOU INTO THE DRAWING.