Calling all hippies, young and old! My son, Johnny, is designing, making and selling Limited Edition Tie-Dye shirts on my website.

    

The shirts are $16 each and 100% of the money from the sale of these shirts is going into his college fund. Johnny will be a freshman at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in September, majoring in Biochemistry.

Visit my website and if you love a shirt, grab it! Johnny is adding new shirts weekly, so check back often. If there is a specific color, pattern, or size you'd like, shoot us a message and Johnny can...

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La La Land left me totally in la la land wondering what the heck I'd just paid $10 to see? I ran to the theater to see it after it took all those awards at the Golden Globes and sorry Hollywood and what seems to be the whole wide world, but I don't get it. For starters, this film needed to decide if it was going to be a motion picture or a musical and then it needed to be cast accordingly. It drags on and on and on, long beyond where it needed to go to make it's point. And the ending? The worst. It made me sorry that I did not walk out of that movie during the first hour when I had the urge to do so. I do not require a happy ending, but I do want an ending that makes...

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I've been a "writer" since high school when I started keeping a journal. There's something about taking pen to paper that feels magical. I still keep a hand-written journal and I imagine I always will becasue I've never completely transitioned to "writing" on a computer screen. I find the actual act of writing relaxing.

I didn't share my writing until 2001 when I jumped on the My Space bandwagon and discovered blogging. Blogging has been a fantastic creative outlet and one of my favorite passtimes since then. Everyone these days seems to have a blog, but back in the day, it was very boho to post blogs.

Friends would tell me, "Lisa, you should write a book" and I'd smile but I never really imagined publishing my work until last year when I was approached by a friend in my industry...

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If you've not read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, I highly recommend it. It was the best non-ficton book I read in 2015 and it laid the ground work for January, the month that each year I spend thinking about the previous year and planning for the New Year. 

I saw the author of The Happiness Project interviewed on Oprah and I was immediately taken-in by her logical approach to connecting happiness with attitude, action and reaction. Like the author, I am not unhappy, but I know that there are days when I could be happier. The author challenged me, the reader, to really think about what makes me feel happiest?  She suggested that I choose twelve things to work on and then do one a month for a year.

So, January ... I feel the same way the author...

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Truth: Women transform into elegant individuals when they have perfect fashion sense. The entire look of a woman changes when she is aware of the lip color that best suits her skin tone. The accurate complementary shade of lipstick can brighten one’s complexion, oomph one’s eyes and enhance one’s whole appearance.

Let's look at the most classic shade of lipstick: Red. Just as there is not one perfect hair color that suits all, there is not one "perfect shade of red". Blue based reds are completely different than yellow based reds. Wearing the incorrect shade of red for your complexion can be downright clownish. But roll on the correct shade of red and whoa! Red lips + white teeth = sexy.

Blue based reds enhance cool undertones (pale skin) and yellow based reds will spark on warm undertones...

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I've just finished reading a very thought provoking book by Marie Kondo called:

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

If you read only one non-fiction book this summer, make it this book. I promise, you will never look at cleaning your house the same way again. This is a small book, less than 200 pages, a quick read and a real page-turner. I could not put the book down. I know, that does sound impossible, a book whose title would lead you to believe that this is yet another book about how to "get organized". It is. But on a very unexpected, almost spiritual level.

I know that I feel so much more at ease in a room when I...

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Meet Char Fatke, the owner and creator behind Later Gator. Char and I have been friends for about 3 years now, having first met at Holy Hill Art Farm. Her work is very unique and she's fascinating to talk to; she can recount the history or story behind every image that she sells. I particularly love her vintage Milwaukee images. Check her out!

Char, tell us about Later Gator, when and how did you get your start?
Later Gator was started in 2009, but it took 4 years for me to come up with the name. I have always loved photography and bought my first camera during my first year of college. Being a poor college student and since this was during the 35mm era, it was costly for me to get photos developed. So, it was a hobby...

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