It’s almost May. Almost May 11th, more specifically. Which means I’ve been thinking a lot lately about two things:

• Dude, it sucks to be so broke right now.
• What in the hell am I going to buy for our mom’s for Mothers Day (see first bullet)?

When I’ve found myself in this gift-buying predicament before, I simply relied on the craft knowledge of my bestest friend May. But um, since May deserted me moved to Reno, I’ve been on my own in the make-your-own-gift category. But whatever, I knew I needed to move past that. I asked myself, “what would May do?”

May would get herself to the craft store and buy some supplies and make her own damn Mothers Day gifts.

So that’s what I did.

I decided that I wanted to make those cute little glass magnets that you see all over places like Etsy. Guess what? They are so easy to make and so cute, and dude, so inexpensive. They turned out so cute, that I couldn’t keep this craft knowledge to myself. I must share it with the interweb.

First off, you need your supplies. They can be bought at your local craft store. I went to JoAnn’s.

You’ll need: clear glass stones (found in the flower arranging aisle) Gorilla glue (you need extra strong glue to hold the magnet), strong magnets (they need to be very, very strong), decopage glue (I didn’t have any, so I’m using Elmers glue mixed with a tiny bit of water), and a brush (I’m using a crappy make-up brush) and of course, pictures to cut. (You can also use decorative paper, maps, or even magazine pages. I found the little stickers from my Moo Sticker Book were the perfect size!)

Next, find the picture you want to use. I’m using this adorable one of Babboo’s new hair cut.

Trace around the piece of glass that you’re going to use. (Each glass piece is different, so you’ll want to customize each one.)

Next, cut the picture.

A lesson-learned; you’ll want to make the picture smaller then the actual glass stone. (I didn’t figure this one out until I had made quite a few. If May were here, she wouldn’t have allowed me to be such a craft-reject.)

Next, brush a coat of your decoupage (or glue, if you’re too poor to buy decoupage) onto the back of the glass (the flat part).

Just like so….

(Thanks to Vesper for being my lovely hand-model.)

Another lesson learned; don’t use pictures printed out on your ink jet printer. The glue will just make the ink smear. You don’t want smeared pictures!

Next, brush another coat of decoupage onto the back of the picture that you just glued onto the glass. Make sure you put enough on there to ensure your picture is secure.

Set them aside, as you finish the others, so that they can all dry enough for the next step.

After the picture is plenty dry, apply a tiny bit of the Gorilla glue to the back of the picture. If you’ve not familiar with Gorilla glue (and you might not be), this stuff is awesome. And strong. And will ruin anything you let it touch. (Keep it away from your cute skinny jeans. That’s all I’m saying.)

Now you’ll want to apply the magnet (make sure you have the magnetized [is that the right term?] side out or it won’t stick to your fridge), to the Gorilla glue.

Press the magnet down firmly, to ensure correct placement.

Next, lay (lie?) your completed craft goodies out, preferable overnight, to dry completely. Lesson learned; don’t put them too close together as the magnets will be drawn to one another and will mess with the glue placement. The magnets…they are strong. You have been warned.

Wake up the following morning and bask in your (semi) glorious craft skillz.

Because, holy crap, they are cute. And fun. And inexpensive. Plus, I just know our mom’s are going to love them.

So tell me, what are you giving your mom for Mothers Day this year?

Back in January I told you how we planned to move into the new house the last weekend in April. This wasn’t because the house was going to be finished in April, but was because we could no longer financially afford to not move into the new house. You may have also heard mention of a three week trip to Europe this coming September. Discussing dire financial restraints and taking a three week trip to Europe do not go hand in hand.

I feel like an @ss blogging about how financially strapped we are while also blogging about an upcoming three week trip to Europe. And yet, I don’t want this to stop me from being able to blog about both of these exciting things here on my site (the new house, not the financially strapped part).

We travel a little different then most people do. We travel cheap. Very, very cheap!  We’ve stayed in some sh!t holes all over the world. It’s one way we keep our costs down.

Yesterday, after church and after putting Babboo down for his nap, The King and I sat in the front room and tried to plan more of our trip out. With about 15 travel books from the library and a couple of maps, we discussed the pros and cons of different places to visit in Europe.

Oh, and I pulled out my swimming suit stash and took inventory of the suits I’d take with me on our trip (and tried them all on, you know, to see how my latest attempts at Weight Watchers is going). (It’s going, by the way.)

I own a lot of bikinis. And, can you see, that some of them still have their (super clearance) price tags on them? Oh yes, I have so many that I’ve got some ($1.97) bikini’s that I’ve never even worn. I plan on using all of them on our trip.

Oh right, back to this little trip.

The quick-ish history of this particular trip is:
The King lived in Berlin, Germany for a few years in his early twenties. We are very connected to Germany. We have many friends there and good memories of trips past. We’ve been fortunate enough to visit Germany three times since we’ve been married. The last time we went was in the second trimester of my pregnancy with Babboo. Before we decided to have kids together, The King and I discussed how wanted to raise our kids. One of the top five things we wanted for our future off-springs was the opportunity to travel. Something that I was never fortunate enough to have when I was a kid. When I got knocked up, we vowed that this kid was going to love to travel. We were adamant about this.

Two years later and we’ve got to stick to this promise we made. This means we’ve got to actually take Babboo on a trip. I mean, if he’s going to learn to love traveling, he might was well start young.

So now you know a little bit of the back story and why we feel we have to travel at this point in our lives, and why we make it a priority. You also know why we go to Europe all the time instead of trying some place new like Australia, South America, or Asia. (I mean, The King actually speaks the German language. So, of course, it’s a place we like to visit.)

The thing about traveling, that I never realized until I actually traveled, is that it’s not that hard to actually do it. All of us can travel. We don’t need to be rich or afraid. We just need to learn some of the secrets as to how to make it work. In the months prior to our September trip, I’m going to keep you guys in the loop of our travel plans and teach you some of the secrets that The King and have I learned over the years. I’m hoping that you guys will be able to share some of your secrets with me and with the rest of the readers.

Something that the new house has afforded us to do is accrue frequent flyer (FF) miles. Before we started the house project, we switched banks and signed up for the Bank of American Alaska Airlines Visa card (and their debit card too). While Alaska Airlines doesn’t necessarily fly to all the places we went to go, their affiliates do. Which means we can pretty much fly anywhere we want with our Alaska Airlines miles. How we’ve accrued so many FF miles is we’ve paid for everything for the new house on our Alaska Airlines credit card. I know this sounds scary, but don’t worry, we haven’t actually carried the debt on the card.

Here’s the deal; The King will call and order 20K in lumber for the house. We’re using the money we made when we sold the last house to pay for the lumber. But dude, we might as well get FF miles for it. So we use the FF credit card and then two seconds later (literally), The King will pay off the credit card from our construction savings. Which means, we just got 20K in FF miles for free! (You get 1 FF miles for each dollar spent with your card and it takes about 50K FF miles for one free ticket to Europe.)

The King also spent the last year traveling for his job. While having him gone every other week sucked, he was able to accrue tons of FF miles (and hotel points) this way. We’ve also made a couple of trips to Utah and one trip to Washington DC during this time, all of which gained us more FF miles. It took a while, but eventually we had enough miles to cash them in and get The King, Babboo and me all FREE tickets to Europe!

Completely free!

(Well, except for paying the fees/taxes. But dude, nothing like the 1K each they would have been.)

One negative thing about using FF miles is that there are only so many FF mile seats made available. The airlines suggest you reserve your tickets as soon as possible. The earliest you can get them is 365 days in advance. So that’s what we did. We got our tickets last September. Having to get your tickets that far in advance doesn’t give you much time to actually pre-plan your trip. Basically, you just take what you can get.

That’s how we ended up with the tickets we got; we fly into Berlin on September 3rd and fly out of London on the 20th. Where we go in between was still to be determined.

I’ve never been to Europe in the summer time. We’ve always gone in the winter. Going in the winter months allows us to stay in hotels for cheaper, eat for less, and avoid the crowds. The Europe I know and love is freezing cold and pretty much devoid of tourists. Summertime in Europe is going to be a whole new thing for me. (I’m sure I’m going to loathe the crowds.)

We decided to make this trip to Europe less about the snowy Alps, Bavaira, long underwear and coats and more about beaches and swimming suits. (Or better yet, beaches and no swimming suits!) More like the trip we took to Tulum, Mexico when I was first pregnant.

(I just got the film from our waterproof camera developed last week! It’s almost been three years since our trip to Mexico. And dude, I’m glad I waiting since I got a coupon for FREE film developing.)

Now you know a little bit more about how frequent flier miles can work for you. Even if you don’t plan on traveling a ton or paying for a house with your credit card, you really should sign up for a credit card that allows you get earn FF miles. You’re going to use your card anyway, you might as well get something for using it.

In my next vacation-themed post, I’m going to tell you how I make Priceline my bitch by using biddingfortravel to book our hotel rooms. We bought our hotel room for the last three days in London for $70 using biddingfortravel, instead of the $200 other people are paying.

So tell me, what are your secrets to making frequent flier miles work for you?

Hey everyone! It’s Carrisa guest posting for Isabel today. She’s busy running around Canada the local shopping malls having a great time. So not fair.

So here we are, the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe you are one of those people who has the day off and yet you get up even earlier than usual to do some of that Black Friday shopping. Or maybe you are still in bed for a couple more hours because you have to go to work. Hopefully you aren’t one of those that has to get up at 3am to go work retail because there are crazy people out there getting up at 4am to go shopping. I would hate for you to have to deal with all that.

But if you are the luckiest of the bunch you not only have the day off, but you actually use it to sleep in and watch tv. And eat leftovers. You have your priorities in order. And while eating a leftover bowl full of turkey with gravy and mashed potatoes sounds delicious, I’m here to offer you another alternative for that leftover meat.

Chicken Turkey Corn Chowder

Ingredients:

• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 lb boneless skinless chicken turkey breast (you can use dark meat as well)
• 2 14oz cans of creamed corn
• 1 14oz can of chicken broth
• 1.5 cups milk
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 2 8oz blocks of cream cheese (don’t be one of those fat free cream cheese users. it’s not right.)
• 1/2 cup of chipotle salsa. (you could use regular salsa, but the chipotle is so much tastier)

If you are using leftover meat you obviously don’t have to boil it first. But if you decide to keep this recipe and use it later on with chicken then yes, throw the meat in a pot of boiling water until it’s cooked. Probably about 20 minutes for white meat.

In a large pot melt the butter and stir in the chopped onion. Saute on medium high heat for a couple of minutes. While that’s going on, take your blocks of cream cheese and cube them up. And I really do mean it when I say don’t use fat free cream cheese. Maybe 1/3 less fat would be ok, but the fat free I just can’t see it being able to melt as well.

Once the cream cheese is cubed throw it in the pot. Reduce the heat to medium. We are wanting to melt the cream cheese into the onions, but not scorch it. It’s going to look like a big ole blobby mess. When the cream cheese is mostly melted add in the 2 cans of creamed corn. Keep stirring. As the corn heats up it will help the cream cheese along. Then add the chicken broth and the milk. Keep stirring it all so that everything just kinds of melts together. You can even get out a whisk if you’d like. Then add the chicken and the salsa. If your chowder seems too thick you can add more milk or chicken broth. It’s technically a chowder, but if you want it to make into more a soup you go right ahead.

Now you want to be careful not to scorch the chowder. So medium or medium-low heat is best. And also stir often. Once the chowder has had time to simmer and get all hot and stuff it should be ready for eating. Start to finish I can make this in about 30 minutes.

This soup is best served with tortilla chips. Lots of them.

Isabel flattered me, little ole Vesper, by asking me to participate in the HOW TO week.

She also asked me to change her cat litter out while they’re on vacation. I wasn’t so flattered.

There is one thing that I feel like I can do pretty well and love to teach others to do and that is knitting. Considering that is WAY to involved to try and teach in a single blog, I decided to give some hair do how to’s instead. The do’s I’ve included would be appropriate for semi formal occasions or just looking nice on a date or looking nice to go to the ballet, etc.
The first thing to decide when doing your own hair is whether or not you want it curly and for how long. If you are dealing with super stick straight fine hair like I have to, you may have to take into consideration more factors such as humidity and wind. The general rule of thumb on curly hair is if you want it to stick for longer, or in my case at all, dirty hair curls and styles better. “Dirty” can mean just putting styling product in your hair, or washing your hair late in the day before your event and not washing it the day of. Usually what I use when I’m curling my hair is Paul Mitchell Extra Body Sculpting Foam and then a very generous helping of hairspray, my favorite right now is Garnier Fructis Style Pure Fix Spray in strong. For all the do’s below, I didn’t have enough of my hairspray so I picked up some “Big Sexy Hair” Firm Volumizing Hairspray.
INSIDE OUT BUN

This is a great do if you are in a rush and don’t have time to curl your hair! Great for medium to long lengths of hair. If you have long enough hair to put in a high pony tail with about 4 inches of tail you can do this!
Stuff needed:

Bobby Pins(small)

Pony Tail elastic (covered so it doesn’t damage your hair)

Hair Spray

Bun decorations

1. Part hair in front and pull hair into high pony tail. You may need to keep out the front sections and pin them back later so you can keep the part. Don’t like the part? Just pull it straight back but be sure its sleek and smooth!

2. Part the tail into 4 sections: a top, right side, bottom, and left side. Starting with the top section, roll the hair away from the middle of the pony tail toward the scalp. If you want it to be a smaller bun, roll it tighter. A bigger bun? Roll it bigger. When you get to the scalp, take a bobby pin and pin it on one side of the roll. Then take another one and pin it to the other side of the curl.

3. Repeat step 2 for all other sections.

****Don’t forget to pin back the front sections!!! You can add their little tails in with the two side rolls.

4. When done pinning all sections, bun should look continuous, not like 4 sections. You may need to pin some of the ends of the rolls together so it looks more continuous.

5. Smooth hair and spray. If you want to decorate the bun a little bit you could but a sparkly necklace around the base or flowers or whatever (think baby’s breath like Liz wore in P and P for the big ball at Bingly’s)

Voila! Fancy hair in no time flat!

I’m goin out tonight hair!

This can be done sans curly or curly. So it can be more elagent (with curls) or more casual(with out curls). Good for any length that can be pulled back half way and flipped a bit (so a longer short cut to long hair). On the model, her hair was a bit too dirty to curl so I just left it straight.

Stuff needed:

1 or 2 pony tail holders (smaller if you can find them)

a couple of bobby pins (whatever size)

Hairspray

1. part hair and keep these front sections out

2. Behind these sections, gather hair half back and put into a half pony tail. On the last twist around, don’t pull the hair all the way through the pony tail holder.

3. Take the right front section of hair and twist it so it is twisting under and back. Using a bobby pin, pin this in place for a second while you do the other side.

4. Repeat step 3 with the left side.

5. Taking the second pony tail holder, take both twisted front sections and pony tail them onto the already exsisting half up ponytailed hair. If this is too confusing, pin them better into place with a couple more bobby pins but make sure the pins aren’t showing and that the ends of the hair are pointing up.

6. At this point, all your hair that is half up is ’spraying’ forward on the crown of your head. Look in the mirror and arrange it better so it’s cute looking (you’ll know when you see it). When it gets there it may be a good idea to bobby pin the little half pony tail ‘butt” into place.

7. Spray hair and smooth bottom half of hair. You are ready to par-tay!

Optional: If you wanted to be more dressy by curling, curl your hair FIRST (with curlers or curling iron) and then do this hair style.

PS: HOW DO I USE CURLERS?

I had a good friend that liked me to do her hair and liked it to be curled with curlers, but had no idea how to use curlers herself. If this describes you, this is covered in this next section. As long as your hair is long enough to wrap around the curler atleast once, you can use curlers (be warned though, the shorter the hair, the bigger “big” hair it turns out with curlers). They are also great b/c they give your hair a lot of body and style in a short amount of time.

Stuff Needed:

Set of curlers with varying sizes of curlers

extra bobby pins in case any of the curler pins are missing

hairspray *

*disclaimer on hairspray: if you have short hair (ie shoulder length or shorter) or naturally wavy or mousse infused hair you will probably NOT need to spray any hairspray at all, even if the directions say so. I needed to on my model b/c she has straight stick hair that is VERY long and no mousse or body. If you find yourself in the same predicament, don’t be afraid, hairspray is your friend.

1. It helps if you use mousse before you dry your hair to help give you that extra oomph of body (for us body challenged hair people). If you don’t use mousse its ok. Hairspray is your friend.

2. Take your most front and middle section of hair and a middle sized curler. Spray the roots of your hair with hairspray, and then, starting from the ends of your hair, roll your hair down with the curler toward your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

3. Repeat step 2 with the section of hair directly behind this section, except make it a tiny bit bigger and use a large size curler.

4. Next, on the right side, take the top half of that section of hair and, after spraying some hairspray underneath at the roots, take a large curler and roll the hair under from the ends until the curler reaches your scalp. Pin in place with a curler pin.

5. Repeat step 4 for the section of hair right underneath, except use a medium size curler.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the left side.

7. Now you still have a ton of hair in the back to curl up right? Starting with that middle mohawk line, take a large curler, grab an appropriate size section of hair right behind the last curler, spray the roots and curl and pin. Then go on the left side and then the right side of this curler and, also using large size curlers, repeat.

8. The next layer down in the mohawk line, take a medium size curler and an appropriate size section of hair, spray the roots, and curl and pin. Do the same on either side of this curler, although by this time, you may only have small size curlers left. No problem, just make sure that the section of hair isn’t too thick for these tiny but powerful curlers.

9. For the remainder of your hair, divide into small sections for the small curlers, don’t forget to spray the roots, and curl and pin.

10. I’ve been told that the curlers only need to sit as long as it takes to brush your teeth. Usually, if I’m using them on myself, I’ll do my make up and then take out. 5 min is probably PLENTY OF TIME.

11. Remove curlers. Flip your head upside down and shake out. VOILA! Curly awesome hair!!! (Don’t forget to spray with hairspray to help keep the curls!)

12. Want to do something with it? You can either do the above style i mentioned, or you can just twist little sections back and pin with bobby pins.

Thanks to my hair models: Ooster, Grasshopper, and Beastie!!

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Hey Kids, Lets Get Crafty With Cards!
September 6th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

You know, because you have so much free time on your hands…

Remember me? I’m Isabel’s bestest friend May. I’m the one that just deserted her for the lush green fields of Reno!

Since we’ve packed up & moved away from everyone we know & love, I have a LOT more time on my hands. I was super excited when Isabel asked if I’d do a guest post, especially since I had so much fun with the last one I did. This is extra exciting because I am now allowed to read her super secret blog (which I am SO PROUD of myself for resisting the temptation to read it for the past 1.5 years, and I was SO HAPPY when as my going away gift she told me I could start to read it…) So class, today we’re going to make some beautiful greeting cards.

To make this as painless as possible & fun for the drawing-challenged, I have hand-drawn some designs for your use. (Go to Isabel’s Flickr page for my designs.) You’ll need to print out the line art for the cards (best if printed on card stock). Then I’ll show you what I’VE done to color them in, and you can go get all crafty yourself…

Random Bullet Pointed Tips:

• Buy envelopes before you make your cards. That way you can make the cards exactly the right size. Or, if you’re like me, you may have a stockpile already to pull from… (Because you never know when you’ll need 500 envelopes, right?)
• I buy reams of card stock to make my own cards (it’s a bit of an addiction. Husband was not happy when he had to move all my paper in move. Sorry, husband…). I use a paper cutter like this to cut it down to the right size. If I’m really ambitious, I’ll use a butter knife to score where the paper will fold before I cut it. Then I get a pristine fold line. It’s very satisfying.
• Coloring Your Card:
• Colored Pencils are the fastest. That’s what I used for this post, but you can also use:
• Cheap Craft Paint to get some nice strong color on your card.
• Watercolors will work (if you’ve laser-printed the designs, but if you printed it on an inkjet printer it will smear.)
• Glitter glue is your friend. Embrace the glitter glue. For best results, color the design in first & then enhance & highlight with the glittery goodness.
• I like to make the envelopes match the cards by adding a little “flair” to them. After all, they are custom, right? Like this:

• You can glue or tape the designs directly on the cards, but the foam-ey tape makes it a little more 3-D & funky. (Confession – I didn’t have any of that tape, so I just rolled up a little paper & taped it behind the designs to make them stand up off the card).
• NOW GO GET CRAFTY!

And now to make this post a little more interactive, and to catch me up on my BF’s secret life, I want YOU to tell me about your favorite Isabel post. The best comment will win this set of cards* (plus some more that I will throw in, because 4 cards isn’t much of a set…)!

Hooray for giveaways!

Tomorrow is the last in the week long series of How-To’s. Make sure to come back and see what Vesper will be teaching us.

*but only if you’re comfortable giving me an address to mail the prizes to.

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Now if only Isabel can figure out how to do this herself!
September 5th, 2007 @ 5:01 am

Hello all you awesome Isabel readers! My name is Christar and I will be your guest poster for today while Isabel is on vacay with The King and Sweet Babboo.

Let me first tell you that I heart Isabel and her blog. She is so awesome! But, obviously you already know that. One of the neatest things in finding Isabel’s blog was to find out that she was just as awesome as I am. We really do have a lot in common and we’ve been able to talk about places and events that have happened that we are both familiar with. You know, like Fry Sauce.

Isabel has told me many times how she loves my hair and has told me a few times that I should do a How~To on my blog on how I do my hair. I never got around to it and to be honest, a girls beauty secrets are kind of sacred, but because Isabel is my homie and I know all Isabel’s readers are awesome, I’m totally going to share this secret with you.

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1. I’m going to start off from the beginning, meaning freshly washed, wet hair. Your hair doesn’t have to be freshly washed to follow this How~To. If it’s not, just skip to the step 3. After taking a shower, and towel drying my hair, I like to set my part where I’d like it, and I lightly spritz my part with hairspray to get it to stay.

2. How you choose to dry your hair is a personal preference with each person. I try and let it air dry as much as possible, so less heat damage is done to my hair. Sometimes I get too impatient and just blow dry it all. Either way works! But your hair definitely needs to be dry to continue to the next step.

3. After your hair is completely dry, it needs to be straightened with a flat iron. Note: Even if your hair is naturally straight, I still suggest using a flat iron, because it does make a difference, especially at the ends. It giving your hair a sleek look.

Always start from the bottom layer and work your way up. So using a clip or a ponytail, pull all your hair up on top of your head, so only the very bottom layer is available.

4. Start on either side you want, but make sure you’re only straightening as much hair that can fit into the flat iron at once. Start at the root (or as close as you can get without burning your scalp) and press the straightener together and slide it down, going all the way to the ends of your hair. Sometimes you’ll need to redo a section of hair if you didn’t get it completely straight the first time, and that’s ok.

5. Continue doing this until the whole bottom section is done. Then let down the middle section of your hair and repeat step 4. Once the middle section is done, continue doing as many sections as you need until your all your hair is straight. My hair is pretty thick, but I usually can get all my hair straight with only 3 sections: The bottom section, the middle section, and the top section. Once you’re done, your hair should look similar to this:

6. Now that the straightening is out of the way, it’s time to rat for volume! Personally, this is one of my favorite parts of doing my hair. I start with the back section, holding my hair straight up and with a comb, ratting my hair by brushing the underside of the hair towards the scalp.

You’ll want to do this a few times until your hair is all ratted and honestly, you’ll want it to look a little ridiculous as though it’s ratted too much, simply because you’ll brush a lot of it down. So once you start you’ll want it to look like this:I know what you’re thinking, but trust me! It will look fabulous once it’s finished.8. Once your hair is ratted like crazy, you’ll want to gently brush out the very top of it to cover the rats underneath, leaving it looking like this:

9. After ratting a particular section, I always like to spritz the underneath (aka, the ratted part) with a little hair spray so the rats don’t fall out later. This has happened to me more than once, but usually only on one side, so one side is ratted while the other is flat. It’s not a good look.

10. Once you’ve ratted the back side, it’s time to rat the left and right side of your head. Start on either side by taking a section that goes from your forehead to the back where you’ve already ratted. Rat the hair by repeating step 6, lightly spritz with hairspray and allow to dry.

So now, your hair should look like this:

11. Now that it’s ratted and dried, comb over the very top of the rats to conceal the ratted part underneath. You may need to rat certain section over again to get everything to look even so you’re not lop sided or bumpy. I suggest using a second mirror to check out the back and sides of your head to make sure everything looks alright.

12. Once everything looks good to your standards, then go ahead and lightly spritz your hair with hairspray to hold. You look fabulous!

Come back tomorrow, when we’ll be hearing from Isabel’s best friend May (who just deserted Isabel for Reno). May promises to deliver.

(And by “deliver”, I don’t mean deliver the baby she’s carrying.)

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