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What makes hot days and nights fresher? ICE CREAM!!!

With an Ice Cream Maker is quite easy to make ice creams that will serve all tastes.

The Cuisinart 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream Maker produces, in only 20 minutes or even less, 1-1/2 quarts of ice cream. This electric Ice Cream Maker is really easy to use, you can choose the consistency of the ice cream, no ice needed, easy and quick cleanup, you can verify the ice cream production though the transparent top, and it comes with a booklet with instructions and recipes.

This ice cream maker can also be used to make sherbet, sorbet, and frozen drinks.

What about some recipes. The famous book: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book is still one of the most wanted Ice Cream books in the world. Delicious and easy recipes are explained step by step while the illustration shows you the final product. Different flavors and textures will make you have a fresher and cooler Summer.

Both products are available at Amazon.com.

Ready for the beach? Have you already decided between a swimming suit and a bikini?

If you still aren’t sure about what to wear here are a few tips you should follow when selecting a bikini.

#1 – Make sure you select your size and that your bottoms fit in the bikini.

#2 – For the top, if you have a small bust make sure you select a model that enhances your bust, that makes them seem bigger.

#3 – If you have a big bust make sure you select a model that supports and makes your bust stay in place, a halter top will be the right choice.

#4 – Long legs or short legs is also an issue that should be taken into consideration. For sure you don’t want a bikini that makes you look like your legs never end (or start) or that you have real short legs.

#5 – Crucial point is: always try the bikini before you buy it. Sometimes we find a bikini that seems to be the perfect model, perfect pattern and when we try it it just doesn’t fit or really make us look like we have the wrong body when in fact is the wrong bikini.

Even if you need to take some eca stack pills, don’t worry, you will find the right bikini for you, you just need to search, search until you find the right one.

My friend E. finally received the key for her new apartment. She has been waiting for this day for so long. I’m so happy for her.

We were “invited” to help her out with the move. She lives in her parent’s house with her two kids and now some furniture, gadgets, rugs, curtains, books, clothes have to be moved to her new place.

The new apartment is naturally illuminated, big windows make the sun enter in all the rooms, well, not all, the two bathrooms have no window so she has to look for some vanity lighting that will illuminate the bathrooms during the day and night.

Her room and her kids rooms will stay with the same furniture and the ceiling lighting they have right now. She wanted to keep her kid’s furniture on her parents house so that when she has to go on business trips her kids can stay there but right now she has no money for a new furniture.

For the living room she hasn’t decided yet what she’s going to put. She likes progress lighting but she also would like to have only a floor lamp near the sofa, she says it will be enough for the living room. For this room she’s buying a new sofa that will only arrive in August.

The corridor already has spots installed and in the kitchen she’s going to use fluorescent lighting to give the kitchen a lot of light. She’s also going to put under cabinet lighting on some zones of the kitchen furniture to lighten up the area where she prepares the meals.

My friend is a very “green” person so she’s trying to use the appropriate lighting for each room in order to save energy and therefore also some money.

Nowadays lighting is an important piece to energy saving. There is a great article about this subject on BBC NEWS called “Lighting the key to energy saving“, it’s worth reading.

Today it’s my first vacation day! So, in the next days, I’m going to write about vacation related tips.

Sun Protection… I’ve already written about my own experience with sunburns and believe me, this is something we just can’t ignore.

I have a very white skin therefore I burn very easily. I usually use my kid’s sun protector and I try to be as much as I can away from the sun.

My kids are very often in contact with outside air, meaning they spend little time on the sun but they do a lot of outdoor activities. For those not knowing, the hot air can still burn the skin. So, even when they go to daycare I protect them with a sun protector.

Due to the often outdoor activities they tun slowly but faster then someone that is indoor. I mean, they don’t get burned because they are not exposed to direct sun for several hours but instead, the frequent contact with an outdoor environment makes them tun, I can say, almost naturally.

The sun protector my kids use is NIVEA SUN Children’s Sun Spray Factor 40. I think a lower factor, and this is my personal opinion, is not appropriate for a child. Their skin is very sensitive, soft, unprotected and they really need a protection that allows them to be in contact with the sun safely.

This Sun Protector offers:

• immediate protection from UV rays
• enhanced UVA/UVB filter system
• long-lasting water resistance to allow your child to play safely in the water from 80 minutes to 120 minutes
• easily applied & quickly absorbed
• vitamin E to help combat free radicals & premature skin aging
• and it’s dermatologically approved.

Of course there are other really important points to take into consideration.

• Avoid 11am to 4pm sun exposure
• If it’s too hot, children should use always a T-shirt and hat (when they are on the beach for instance)
• Although most sun protectors are water resistant, it’s better to put sun protector after they come out of the water
• Drink water

Protect your children and don’t forget yourself! Enjoy the sun and Have a Better Life!