Want 2 Be Barbie

My teeth ahve never been exactly what one would call bright white. They’ve always had a bi of a yellowish cast to them, and as long as I was smoking, I didn’t mind too much. Now that I have quit, however, I am ready for my teeth to be white. Or at least as white as they can be, given genetics and my habitual coffee and tea drinking. But you know what happens to teeth as we get older, right? The get less white, and since mine weren’t actually white to begin with, I am fighting an uphill battle. That’s why I am willing to try different toothpastes to see if they help. I signed up today to get a free sample of Arm & Hammer Advance White, and thought you might be interested too. Not that your pearlies are less than bright white, of course, but only in the interest of getting free stuff.

So I was reading along in a magazine the other day and I came across this:

You’ll burn approximately 300 calories (a Snickers candy bar) per hour traveling on foot.

Hello? Whose idea was that? Because if you tell me I have to walk a slap solid HOUR to burn off a candy bar?? I may just cry. Or learn to live without candy bars. I am so not happy about knowing this little bit of trivia!

I saw this in a book I read yesterday, and I just feel in love with it! I’d love to do a big bright wall like this. I saw a much more subdued version in a magazine once. All their plates were round, but some of them overlapped. Here’s how they did it.

~First, draw around your plates to create templates.
~Arrange them in a pleasing design. It’s great if there is some overlap, too.
~Tape the templates to the wall and draw around them in the positions the plates will occupy.
~Attach velcro to the back of the plates.
~Attach velcro to the wall for those plates that will be on the wall.
~Mount 1/2 inch thick blocks to the wall for plates that need to come up one level and 1 inch thick for those that need to come up 2 levels, and apply velcro to them.
~Hang the plates using the velcro.