Hey, here's mine - and now I've thought about it, I think it needs some clearing out!! Max Factor face Finity compact - really naff stuff, I need to look around for something better, this can look very caked on, urgghh!! Calvin Klein eye pencil in brown - excellent pencil with a smudger on the other end lipglosses - loads of them! in clear, brown and a pinky one. MAC spice lipliner Estee Lauder Illusionist mascara - trial size I got free Agnes B concealer - for daytime emergencies Mini bottles of 2 of my favourite fragrances - Lancome Miracle and Gucci Envy breath freshner drops tiny 'Take Away' pot of my hair wax - Charles Worthington hair putty actually, there's nothing in there that I don't use at some time or another!! and I keep it all in a lovely red leather mulberry purse which I got for less than 25% of the price it should have been in the sales last winter!! Ed x

Oh, lovely greens! And an awesome Design Seed. Thank you! I'm so frustrated after visiting the paint store again. All the lighter greens and blues will grey out if they are dark enough to see the color, or look white. Anything yellowish, orangey or brown picked up the floor colors and gave me flashbacks to the current sand dune. I'm not to keen to use any pinks/reds either. I picked up a few samples from the one color card that looked promising. I won't be home in the sunlight again until Thursday, I'll post some pics then. I really love those greens similar to sea glass and the one next to last in the above design seed. I might have to revisit them. As much as it is killing me to drag this on, I might have to wait until the floor goes in. We are scheduled for a month from now, assuming the materials arrive in time to acclimate. **insert frustrated scream/sigh here**

SunnyC, you should start a new obsession thread every month. I enjoy reading everyone elses "preoccupation"lol! obsession Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion. You asked for a pic of my finished stenciled wall. I did this project at work, not at home. I wanted something a bit over the top in scale. The scroll is almost 3' high though I wish I could have found one about 5'. The walls are 24' so it would have been kinda cool if I brought them up even higher. Didn't want to stencil from an extension ladder though. A broken bone is not in my plans for the future! Anyway, here is a pic. Product has been hastily thrown back in place, so just look at the wall please:) For perspective, the pink is painted to a height of 9'. The stenciling goes around the corner about another 20'. So that project has now led me to the next phase of my obsession which is painting this harlequin pattern on an opposite wall. I'm thinking just a shot of it. Three rows wide and going up about 12'. I found a company that offers diamond shaped stencils in a 4' x 2' size. I could achieve the Harlequin pattern with painters tape, a level and a tape measurer, but that's giving me a headache thinking about it....

I can definitely run errands and go workout and grocery shopping without makeup. I would not go to work without makeup. I am fortunate that my family genetically has good skin and doesn't wrinkle very much although now that I am in my 50's and menopausal I do notice some changes that have me a little concerned. I'm just overall less confident in my appearance. I don't know what I will do. Would I ever consider a filler or botox? After reading about it here, maybe. Oh well, I'm really too busy at work to even think about it. I am due for the dermatologist in May for my annual checkup and I'll maybe see how I am feeling about it then. We had someone interviewing for a faculty position, and I don't think she was wearing makeup. Of course, she was in her early 30's and naturally beautiful and confident and very tall, but I thought this was pretty cool.