5 Minutes for Mom now has their interview with me up. Go check it out!

Holy smokes! So my site was down for 4 days! Eep! Please forgive the lack of images and sidebar messiness while I reconfigure everything. We had hosting issues and they basically messed up the whole blog to the degree that we had to change hosting services–and now everything isn’t uploaded right, so we’ll be fixing that throughout Sunday.

Have patience and I’m glad to be back! Thank you Leslie at Catapult Web Development! xo

Floyd’s 99 Barbershop is a Rock n’ Roll inspired shop, offering old school service with new school appeal in an entertaining atmosphere. It serves up traditional hair cuts and styling, specialty barbering (face and head shaves) and color services for both men and women. Floyd’s 99 employs professional stylists and barbers who are also trained to provide high-quality customer service — all at a great price. While customers are getting a haircut, color or shave, they can watch one of the plasma TV’s, hang out at the internet stations or sit back and take in the music while surrounded by posters of hot bands and music artists.

Rob O’Brien, one of the three founding brothers, said of the barbershop’s interior, “Floyd’s 99 Barbershop is inspired by Rock n’ Roll- it’s a blending old-school barbershop charm with a modern, rock and technology vibe.”

This place looks FUN. Sometimes you go to the salon to relax, but other times I think it would be a great mood booster to walk into a place like this. Floyd’s 99 Barbershop has several locations nationally, head to their website to find out if there is one near you.

It has certainly been a lucky 3 weeks for A Girl’s Gotta Spa! when it comes to getting mentioned in magazines. If you don’t know, on January 1, 2008 I made it my goal that I would get write ups in magazines. It took 8 months, but it’s finally all falling into place. I am every so grateful!

When I was a teenager I used to long to be older just so my skin could stop being in overdrive. I constantly have blemishes in my T-zone and many more at my chin (with the battle scars to prove it). So it’s disappointing to be just shy of turning 34 and still have to deal with several blemishes invading my face on a continual basis. I decided to give Burt’s Bees Herbal Blemish Stick a try to see if it would make any difference in the length of time a pimple would stick around.

The scent of the Herbal Blemish Stick is very much like black licorice. While yummy if it is candy, not really what I want to smell on my face. It’s a pretty strong fragrance too. The Herbal Blemish stick is meant to be used 2-3 times a day and contains botanicals, especially tea tree oil, which is supposed to work wonders on blemishes. I found that this product stung a bit when I applied it and even using it 3 times a day, despite all of the wonderful oils and herbal goodness, dried the skin out in the area that I applied it.

I didn’t notice any difference in inflammation decreasing or clearing up my skin. So the daily applications, stinging, strong scent and dried out skin left me very disappointed. And I really wanted to like this product because it is conveniently in a rollerball applicator tube and something I can easily carry in my handbag to use when necessary. So my search continues for the perfect blemish remedy.

*Photo Credit: Burt’s Bees

One of the great benefits of being on Twitter is coming across followers of your friends. Last night I came across Soapylove, and yes my friends, it was love at first Soapsicle. A true lover of glycerin soap, I marveled that soap could be molded to resemble a tasty summertime treat. Soapylove’s Soapsicles are a true work of art.

Not only is this a non-fat moisturizing bath time treat, if you have kids like my 4 rugrats, can you imagine the begging that will go on just to take a shower? Whether you have kids or not, I not only think this is a fun soap to hang around your bath tub, but also to display in your bathroom. Why not become the talk of all of your friends for having such a unique soap for them to wash their hands with?

Soapylove Soapsicles can be purchased via their website at $8 for a 3oz. soapsicle, as well as other fine retailers listed on their site (one is only 30 minutes from me at Great Wolf Lodge–who knew!?)