This year give a gift that will not only inspire friends and family, but will help support and spread the word about the hope, healing, and guidance we provide to so many deserving young women… Butterfly Tears: Stories of Entrapment to Empowerment Years in the making, this newly released book features the stories of nine [...]
A vino spin on a traditional steak that will impress your guests. Serves 6 2 bottles (750 milliliters each) hearty full-bodied red wine 8 ounce apple wood-smoked bacon, cut into ½-inch strips (about 2 cups 2 cups ½ inch diced sweet onions 2 cups quartered cut button mushrooms 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic 12 tablespoons [...]
Fabiola Fleeson Rancho Santa Margarita Resident, talks to Refined-Life about her Laguna Beach Store. How would you describe your store Messenger of the Sun? Messenger of the Sun is our dream of exposing to the world the millenary Inca culture and their talented artisans. Our mission is to create a golden bridge between our customers [...]
Take the Mystery Out of Carving the Holiday Bird. It is up to your preference but don’t feel required to carve table side. Though a common tradition in many families, it’s perfectly fine to carve the turkey in the kitchen and bring the arranged platter to the table. This especially holds true if you’re a [...]
We’ve pulled together a list of rabbit deterrent plants that grow in Rancho Santa Margarita USDA Zone 9 that will help keep rabbits out of your yard. Allium From the cute 6-inch-tall rock garden types to the 6-foot-tall giants, alliums are great garden plants. Perfect cut flowers and long-lived garden residents, it’s an added bonus that [...]
Blue John Stone is found nowhere in the world but amongst the rocks of Treak Cliff Hill, Castleton and exists in only two caverns: Treak Cliff Cavern and Blue John Cavern. This mineral, a colour banded form of fluorspar, has been prized for many hundreds of years. Vases found amongst the ruins of Pompeii are [...]
Butterfly Tears: Stories of Entrapment to Empowerment So many women’s lives are shattered before they even have a chance to begin girls who suffer childhood abuse, neglect, drug addiction, and despair. Butterfly Tears reveals the gripping, intimate stories of nine brave women who found the strength The butterfly symbology is derived from the famous parable The [...]
These tasty olives have become one of our favorites. Found at Sprouts’s Olive Bar the Italian Aglio Green Pitted Olive is a crisp Sicilian cured, pitted olive marinated with robust minced garlic for a harmony of buttery and tart flavor.
Our editors have tried several products from different price points for a month or longer. Below is a list of product we saw made a difference when using them. 1) Le Mar Moisturizing Cream 2) BioCorneum Advanced Scar Supervision PlusSPF30 3) Kinerase Procedure Recovery SPF10 4) TNS Illuminating Eye Cream from SkinMedica 5) Olay Regenerist [...]
