A few days ago I mentioned that I might start a travel journal rather than share everything here.  I decided to give it a shot, and have created such a journal.

If you would like to follow my travels, you can find this new journal here:  untourdumonde .

At the moment, I have merely set up the journal, and posted a presentation post.  I do hope some of you will ( Read more... )

Over the last two weeks, I have been friended by numerous people during my absence from LJ.  I usually would not react badly to this, as I am here to make new friends and read about people's interests.  The thing with these recent adds is that all of them are written in Russian, which I do not understand, and all of them have only between 15 and 30 ( Read more... )

 
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If you like to travel, and/or if you have a specific like or love for all things French, you might like to join or watch my new community called LA BELLE FRANCE.  Here is a small description:

Ever since a very very young age, I have been familiar with France. My parents used to take me camping, and by the age of 8 I had already seen most of the ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday when I visited my local Lush store, I took a chance and purchased a Dark Angels cleanser for young & oily skin.  I say I took a chance, because I have heard mixed reviews about this specific cleanser, and also because the last time I tried a Lush product which contained the words "young skin" in the description, it didn't help my skin ( Read more... )

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AIME / LOVE

C'est un fruit sucré que l'univers et la terre ensemencent
It's a sweet fruit which is sown by the Universe and the Earth
Un cadeau divin qui nous est offert
A divine gift which is given to us
Si l'on croit à cette chance
If we believe (in this luck)
La vie s'arrange pour nous donner
Life has a way of giving us
L'autre moitié d'orange
A slice of ( Read more... )

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I usually wouldn't review a product before i'd used it a couple of times, but I am posting this really for touchoco as I know she was looking for something for her own holidays.

So yesterday when I went down to my local Lush store, I decided to buy a couple of soaps to try instead of shower cream or gel, because sometimes the bottles take up too much ( Read more... )