Author Archive: TinaB
Married, mom to two busy kids, biology major turned internet marketer, workaholic, trying to slow down long enough to enjoy life! Tina Becci
Sunfest 2011 South Florida Festival
Sunfest 2011 is just about 7 days away! This is the 29th year for this festival. If you don’t know already, SunFest is Florida’s largest waterfront music and art festival. It is held every year in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. Their website lists that each year over 270,000 visitors attend – that is crazy! […]
Growing Easter Basket Grass
We are getting ready to put out Easter baskets together – how about you? Do you make your own Easter grass or do you buy the cheap fake grass? Our cat decided to eat a bunch of the Easter grass last year so we have since banned it from the house. In search of an […]
The History of Easter & Chocolate Bunnies
Do you really know the history of Easter and Chocolate Bunnie? Gourmet live wrote a great article that gives you an overview of both! Recently while I was write a post on Passover Seder I started looking into Easter also. Easter is the greatest feast day in the Christian calendar because it celebrates the Resurrection […]
Do you say Ummm and Uh ?
Do you say um and uh what you are stuck in a sentence? I’ll admit it – it makes me crazy when some people (including my husband) use filler words when they are actively thinking and speaking at the same time. He sometimes can’t go one whole sentence without an um or a uh? And […]
Passover Seder 2011 menu and recipes ideas
Passover Seder 2011 will start on Tuesday the 19th of April and will continue for 7 days until Monday, the 25th of April. The Passover Seder is by definition the Jewish ritual feast that marks the exact beginning of the Jewish Holiday of Passover. The Seder ritual usually preformed in someones home and you read in […]
Decorating Easter Eggs without Dye
Time sure flies! Easter is next weekend and the ever daunting tasks of coloring eggs is upon us. With all the news about food dyes in the actual food I sure do not want to place the egg in food dye directly. Luckily there is an alternative this year! Turn your Easter egg decorating into […]
Spring Cookies : butter umbrella cookies
We all know the old addage “spring showers bring may flowers” well do we have the perfect rainy day activity! This is the perfect rainy day snack for your April shower day – butter umbrella cookies! Cindy Manwarren, the Manager of the Test Kitchens for Land O’Lakes posted the step by step instructions on how […]
Womens Health: An Apple a Day
We all know the old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” but did you know that new research shows that an apple a day can help lower your bad cholesterol levels and help keep unwanted wight off for women? They recently did some research at the department of nutrition at the Florida […]
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
If you have ever watched a cooking channel then you have seen Jamie Oliver. Recently, the British chef has gone far beyond food tv and on to the big networks but he has also become an author and food champion for school lunches. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is a series on ABC where he attempts […]
Safest Booster Seats
Back in September 2010 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rated booster seats. They had 21 Best Bets and 7 Good Bets; 8 out of 72 seats evaluated aren’t recommended. In the wake of the recent news on Car Seat Recommendations for 2011 from American Academy of Pediatrics many of us are now putting our […]
