Shop Til You Drop With BadMsM

A one-time copier sales person, Sara Blakely, took a hard look at the hosiery industry and created SPANX, a line of seamless shapewear that can give any woman the sleek, sexy shape she needs to look fantastic in the latest fashions. SPANX are now wo...

No woman qualifies for "One Size Fits All". You're different, you're beautiful, and you need what's right for you! Why settle for a bra that almost fits, when you can feel comfortable and confident wearing a bra that actually fits? Read on to learn m...

I was hospitalized for a short time last year, and as I was cleaning up to go home, I found a sample of facial cleansing oil in my overnight bag. I get a lot of these types of samples when I'm modeling or styling for different vendors, so I tuck them...

I work as a merchandiser, model, stylist and makeup artist. In 2005, I began merchandising a new line of cosmetics called e.l.f. (eyes, lips, face). The amazing thing about this line is that EVERYTHING only costs a buck! ONE DOLLAR! Including hi...

Here I am in a 1920's style cloche (say CL-(long O)-SH - the French word for bell), in a picture taken by my good friend Mr. Zan for a photography class, circa 1986.  When I moved out on my own at the age of 19, I got my first REAL job at a...

My paternal grandmother was widowed very young, with 8 children in the 1930's. Living in a small Colorado mining town, there weren't a lot of career opportunities available. But, being of hardy Danish stock, she set forth to meet the challenge. You s...

About 13 years ago, my father-in-law decided to indulge his passion for fine wines and start his own vineyard. So, with my mother-in-law in tow, he started his adventure with initiative, five acres of rocky hills in Calaveras County, and a dream...

Ben is my youngest son, and he just discovered coffee. Ben is also an aspiring artist, and one of his comic characters is Larry The Stick Dude. Since he's too young to get a job in the real world, he wanted a lens on Squidoo; a lens that co...

Also known as levain or mother sponge, this humble mixture of flour and water becomes a fermented concoction that makes fabulous bread, rolls, muffins, pizza crusts, cakes and pancakes. Known for their long life, when properly maintained, there have...

How NOT to make Sweet Tea: 1. 1 cup sugar in a small pot of water 2. boil water 3. add old, cheap, open bag of tea from Rwanda 4. oversteep 5. filter out tea chunkies 6. add 1 gallon water 7. Ta Da! Poor Dear, but lucky for her I love Sweet T...

With all the recent pet food recalls in the news, baking your own dog biscuits makes sense. Maybe you have a pet who is getting on in years,  has allergies, or strict dietary restrictions. Whatever your reasons, home made biscuits...

Use your own photos, music and videos to make unique slide shows, greeting cards, e-cards, postcards, photo albums and scrapbooks. Then you can email, blog, or print them. Smilebox makes it easy with hundreds of design templates to choose from (it w...

The giver of a handmade gift has avoided the parking lots and long lines of the big chain stores in favor of something more meaningful. If the giver has purchased the gift, s/he feels the satisfaction of supporting an artist or crafter directly. The...

BadMsM's Gift-O-Rama supports my work with women's work cooperatives in Africa. Proceeds help defray the cost of travel, lodging and supplies needed to train women in developing countries. Sales from catagories designated for specific groups, such a...

As a mother of five, I know how hard it is to find time for romance. Maybe you have a busy home life and/or a hectic job. The trick is to schedule some time for just the two of you. You often hear romance compared to fire; here's how to fan the flame...

Maybe you moved as a kid, I know I did- many times. One of the first things a kid does in a new town is take in the landscape and culture, however small, or weird, the town may be. Enter Marshall Teller, the new kid in town, who is discovering that t...

Who would have thought that a children's show would bring together the cast of the worldwide sensation that was Monty Python's Flying Circus? With a cast that included Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin a...

Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) and  David McCallum (Man From UNCLE) star as Sapphire and Steel, two entities, or elements, who help deal with weak spots in the corridors of Time. Time itself is portrayed as a malevolent,...

This six episode series tells the story of a corporate drone, Richard Mayhew , who helps a wounded stranger bleeding on a London sidewalk, much to the dismay of his high maintenance  girlfriend. The stranger, Door, is not a young...

Our family doesn't watch cable TV, so we have a large collection of CDs and DVDs. Over the years, the ravages of time and 5 kids have taken their toll on our precious entertainment collection, so we bought a SIMO machine. It has saved us money by res...

Celebrity Friends remember James Brown: “What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a diffe...

The title of Xanadu came from an unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, entitled "Kubla Khan". It was inspired by an opium induced dream Coleridge had one night. He tried to write it all down when he awoke, but was interrupte...

If you like non Christian music, but get annoyed with bad lyrics, then check out these videos, written by a group that know just how you feel. They swap a lot of bad language and often bad advice into songs with words related to Christianity.

I first heard the Wicked Tinkers at the 2001 Calaveras Celtic Faire in Angels Camp, CA. I loved their non-traditional musical approach to Celtic music and instruments, always with a WICKED sense of fun. Did I mention that they are REALLY loud, too?...

Picture this scene: Elvis Presley, probably no more than eight or ten years old, sits in the pews of the Assembly of God Church on a hot summer night in Tupelo. The windows of the church are open, and the women are working those cardboard funeral hom...