winter skin.

It's cold as ever here in the Windy City (we're expected to get up to 12 inches of snow by Friday morning! eeps!) and, I must admit-- one of my woes of the season is how dry my skin gets--especially my hands. Recently, I've been loving the classic Smith's Rosebud Hand Salve. It's pretty much the best product I've found, plus, the sweet, small containers fit so conveniently into my purse so I pretty much always have it on hand.

Then, when my mom was here visiting for New Year's, we were in the kitchen and she poured some olive oil onto her hands and started working it into her skin (her hands are very sensitive and they break out very easily). It didn't surprise me at all-- my hip, bohemian mother always has the best tricks.

How about you ladies? Do you ever use olive oil? Or do you have other recommendations to help save our hands this winter?

eco-friendly edition #20.

This is certainly random for an eco-friendly post, but I had to mention this yogurt that I had for breakfast this a.m.: siggi's Icelandic style yogurt. I'm sure many of you have heard of it or seen it (or tasted it!) at your local gourmet market, but, despite the hefty price, it's made with milk from grass fed cows, and boasts that it uses no aspartame, sucralose, gelatin, artificial colorings, preservatives nor any high fructose corn syrup. Well-made and delicious, my friends! I had the "Pomegranate and Passion Fruit" but I'm sure all the flavors are perfection.

P.S. With all this talk about food, you'd guess I hadn't eaten enough this Christmas. And what a big, fat lie that is. . .