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I think it’s all three! It’s a lip shimmer made by Burt’s Bees and it is the best lip product ever! Within four days time, I had purchased four colors of the lip shimmer: papaya, peony, champagne, and merlot. I believe my current favorite is merlot. Each tube is around $5. I found mine at Target, Walgreens, and Borders (near the checkout).

Not only is it made from natural ingredients, but it provides that tingly soothing feeling that I love…maybe that’s the peppermint oil. Other natural ingredients are sunflower seed oil, cocoa seed butter, and rosemary leaf oil. Love this stuff! It has transformed me into a lipstick wearer…only took 31 years!

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My grandmother turns ninety years old in two months and three days.  She was born in 1919.  She lived through the Roaring Twenties.  She lived through the Great Depression.  But her family lived on a farm in Missouri and she says they didn’t experience the depression because they were self-sustaining, providing their dinners straight from the farm.  They were a very large family and they always had food.  When she was just five years old, she told her mom that she would stay home from school to help care for her little newborn baby brother. Five years old! Amazing.

Grandma finished college and became a high school English teacher at the young age of twenty-one years old.  She wore fashionable eye glasses simply to appear older to her students who were in some cases just three years younger than she!  She went on to become a principal of a high school and then she was a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau.  To this day she is terrified of tornadoes!

Grandma has lived in the same three bedroom one bath home for over fifty years.   My mother was born when Grandma was 31 years old…just a few months older than I am now.  She says that after Grandpa returned from serving in WWII, they had to start all over with jobs, house, each other.  I love this pic of them!

I enjoy visiting my grandmother and hearing all the stories of her past…and she loves to tell them!  I find myself thinking that I am a lot like her.

Go to Mel’s here to see what the others brought to Show and Tell!