Thanksgiving Recipes That Are Perfect for Little Helping Hands
Bella Breakdown Thanksgiving is almost here! The weather is cooling down, the holiday commercials are on TV and the time for cooking delicious food has arrived. If you have children, this is an especially wonderful time to include them in the traditions of preparing fun holiday treats. While you would not want to chance your prize dessert or the main course of the turkey on having it repeatedly touched and licked by little fingers and tongues, there are some smaller, more kid-friendly ways to make use of those little helping hands. You and your kids will cherish these fun...
Kourtney Kardashian Regrets TV Births
Bella Breakdown Kourtney Kardashian is one of the stars of the hit TV reality show ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’, and has allowed the cameras into her life for many different occasions. However, Kourtney admits that she regrets letting the ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ cameras in to film her giving birth to Mason, seven and five-year-old Penelope. However, the raven haired beauty said she sometimes is happy that she shared her beautiful birth experiences. She says the reason she shared such a monumental event was to prove that a birth experience can be both beautiful and...
5 Days of Natural Remedies & DIY Face Masks
Bella Breakdown This particular episode of ‘Try Living with Lucie’ is a week of going “au natural”. While many of the things Lucie is going to try for one week are considered pseudoscience, why not go in with an open mind? Some people are regular participants in these treatments and swear by them. Acupuncture is the first thing Lucie tried. It is one of the oldest forms of traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese believe that “qi”, or your life force is circulating throughout the body along meridians. When the meridians get blocked, the energy is also blocked. Therefore, tiny...
Fashion and Technology: Closet Organization
Bella Breakdown I once read a statistic that people wear 20% of their clothes 80% of the time. I’m not sure of the accuracy of this, but for most of us, it probably rings true. Part of the reason we struggle with pulling the other 80% of our wardrobe out of the closet and drawers is because we don’t have everything organized. We have all seen the gorgeously ordered perfection of the closets of people like Lisa Vanderpump and the Kardashians. However, for the rest of us who aren’t millionaires, how can we have a closet worthy of a...
DIY Toothpaste
Bella Breakdown Now you can customize your toothpaste to be whatever flavor you want. Combine 1/2 cup coconut oil, 3 tablespoons baking soda, two packets of Stevia powder, and 20 drops of peppermint oil (or other flavoring of your choice) and mix well. Pour the contents into a jar with a lid and use as your daily...
