Metro Home: Jackson Siblings

I’ve confessed before that I’m always a bit behind on my magazines. I’ll pile them up on my coffee table like so many treasures, waiting for just the perfect whole free hour when I can talk Mr. SIT into building me a fire and I can luxuriate about in them. And when I came across an old copy of the sadly, now no longer in existence, Metropolitan Home, I was thrilled to see this article on Southern siblings, John and Jimmy Lyle, entitled Sibling Revelry.

These two design-conscious brothers designed a fashionable home in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi — keeping the bones of the house traditional, but leaning towards the Lyle’s preference for contemporary design. Check it out!

Fall Honey Harvest

For the past three years, my family and some close friends have become beekeepers.  Each season brings a new harvest of beautiful and tasty honey.  This spring, the color of the honey was a translucent gold, but in the fall we have palm honey.  Palm honey is molasses in color and tastes like brown sugar. The difference between the two harvests (pictured above) is almost shocking (we live for the little things).   Over these years the hives have grown, split and produced more honey than we can sometimes giveaway, but we are happy with it being a hobby for now.  Who knows maybe we will be able to sell it at the local farmer’s market in the years to come?  Jacksonville Beach Honey.  Forget the Tupelo variety, this is liquid gold. 

Tuesday Tip: Preparation Face

None of us are as young as we used to be. And everyone has their little tricks. They don’t have to be pretty, they just have to work.

So if you’ve woken up one day and noticed just a few fine lines where there used not to be, a friend shares this tip: pat just a small dab of Preparation H on that delicate skin. Think about it — it’s designed to shrink tissue. It’s a face lift in a tube.

If you’re just too ashamed to walk up to the pharmacy counter and purchase, use drugstore.com… it comes right to your front door, and you don’t have to think about its intended use! Then again, next time you’re behind someone in line buying an embarrassing product, don’t judge. They may just want great skin!