Try and keep up!

Life feels like it has been going at warp speed lately.
Salon Renovations are full steam ahead working with NorthRidge Renovations choosing fixtures, finishes, cabinetry and dye for the cement floors.
The best part..... Is our family and team get to build Ethos Barber!  Leather, wood, scotch and straight razors!!  I can not wait.
 Ethos Annual friends and family event is November 23rd, it will be nice to have everyone in one room!

On a personal note, we are getting excited to take Charlotte to DisneyWorld and NYC.  I am not certain which surprise she will love more and i cant wait to see those baby blues light up when we tell her!

Travelling to Uganda

It was a serious two days of travel time to get to Kampala. Departed at 6 am for Calgary, caught my flight to Montreal;where I met most of the other "water wizards" (who were to be incredible companions for the next 10 days), Montreal to Amsterdam overnight flight, Amsterdam to Entebbe, bus from Entebbe to Kampala to arrive at 11:30 pm Uganda time. We were tired but not too tired to hit the lounge in the Speke hotel for a nightcap and some introductions. When I finally got to my room it was nearing 2 am and my companion on the boulevard was doing its best to keep me awake.

Walking the Water talk

I will first start off my story with a review of the boots I bought for the journey to Uganda. I bought them from Swank, a local downtown shoe store in Saskatoon. Frye boots (http://www.thefryecompany.com) ...$500... all of my tips, Christmas Money, Birthday money and then some. Yet, so worth every single penny!

I bought them 3 weeks before my departure and wore them at least a little every day until I wore them for 12 days straight.

Just so happened I had a guest come in the salon before I departed, who has had the same pair for 3 years, they looked so great broken in, a reaffirmed splurge!

They are the perfect boot for any adventure....easily taken off at 5 different airports, sand, mud, cement, the shower, the slums, several very unsanitary latrines, a 6 km walk around a volcanic crater, a swept red sand pathway to a rural home, to the shores of both Lake Mburo & Lake Victoria!

The perfect boot for my walk the talk Watercan journey to Uganda! I will definitely be wearing them for the 2012 Walk for Water on April 22 2012 in Saskatoon

The Crystal Chandelier

There it was....The Crystal Chandelier

Has it really been that long since I wrote in this blog...wow Summer just flew by!!

The kitchen is almost complete and I will post pictures as soon as the finishing touches are done!!

I wanted to share my first DIY project. I have been reading many blogs lately of some very inspirational women! The one I am currently addicted to is House of Smith's

So I took this on for the sake of making our house, that we have lived in for 3 years, a beautiful family home.....finally!

It really only took a few hours from it's purchase from Habitat for Humanity($100) to completed( two coats of black lacquer spray paint $5.99 and a lot of disassembling and reassembling)and it is now gracing my dining room with it's sparkling glamour! I can't stop looking at it and Charlotte can not stop turning it on and saying "I love it mommy" She is a girly girl!!

I think my husband , who was very apprehensive about the purchase, is secretly loving it too!!

So here it is!

Beauty Lessons

I sat down with one of my staff this past week, she was afraid of her make-up bag!!

Getting married, wants to do her own make-up for her wedding and needs a make-up lesson.

This is one of my favourite services.

This is how it works, you bring in your make-up bag, we go through it, toss the expired, and teach you how to use what you have left, stock you up on what is needed to enhance your radiance and teach you how to care

Not only that but we educate you on skincare..... particularly your skin and what your skin needs may be!

Then today, it happened again!

Someone who owns make-up but has no idea of how to use it! Why do you buy things that you have no idea of why or how to use it!

BLOWS MY MIND.

Did the person who sold you this make-up not teach you anything? WOW.

Secondly, not is it make-up one of my favourite services. But Aveda has revamped their make-up!!

They have already released their eye color trio.

And I am so looking forward to the up & coming lip shines and glazes coming the end of July!! FINALLY!

Tamara looked amazing after we finished our lesson! She looked radiant and ready to marry the man she loves...I can't wait to see the photos of what I taught her.