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As Young as I Feel Serum – Update on Availability

Our truly amazing youthful complexion serum has been absent from Evan’s Garden site temporarily and I am returning it today with the intention of resurrecting it.

I owe you an explanation. Ingredients for it aren’t just pricey, they’re so expensive that I have to time restocking with an overflowing bank account.

Some are awfully rare. One oil in particular has, if my searches have been in-depth enough, only one source, a farm where it’s grown and extracted.

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As a rule, I can plan to cover As Young As I Feel expenses. However, with having moved, a right time to buy them has not presented itself. Rather than omit things from the recipe, which is essentially reformulating it, I took the serum off the site. (If you knew how I put formulas together, you’d see that removing ingredients is out of the question because the whole thing, by the addition of or removal of anything, is altered into something else, into a new and different concoction.)

How’s this for a solution? My idea is:
If you want As Young As I Feel Serum, place an order for it — I’ll return it for now to the site so you can. If you love it, get as many as you like.I will reserve the funds from your order for the ingredients purchases and make it available to you as soon as I can.  (I want my serum, too!)

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Here’s a Coupon Code: WANTAYAIF  to save 10% on the serum. It is good through Sunday.If there is another sale, these offers cannot be combined but in any case, you will be able to save.

If you are an Evan’s Garden Fans Club Member, I apologize but I cannot honor the club discount for As Young As I Feel just now. If you want to help with this now, call me and I’ll help you place an order at the 10% discount.

It will take quite a few orders of the serum to cover the costs. I think we can do it because it’s a popular product.Of course, any order you make (of anything) will help toward this. But if you love this serum, speak up now, please.Should we be unable to raise enough to cover the needed supplies, I will contact you to see what we do from here.I think we can pull it off, don’t you? 

So, if you re game, run over to the website and place your order.

I’ll take it from there. And thanks for your help and vote of confidence!

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Much love and thanks,
Evan

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Saying “hi” again!

Hi, guys! I have not posted to my Blog in ages and it’s beyond time to resurrect it, eh?

I owe an apology to anyone who has visited. I’ve been a real dud with it and will try to mend my ways.  :o)

It’s not that I don’t enjoy social media. Problem is, when I go to Facebook or any other site like, say, Pinterest, it’s so engaging, amusing and sometimes inspiring, I can forget the time as it rolls quietly on by. Unless I set an alarm before I enter into that world, I can get thoroughly lost in it. Noticing this, I decided to mostly leave it alone — see, with what I do between Evan’s Garden and music plus the zillions of things one has to do to keep life chugging along,  I figured, better to abstain.

But oops! My Blog got thrown into that heap of abandoned social media. My daughter, Desi, reminded me to post specials to the blog and she probably saw my cheeks redden. I had spaced it. That’s a confession. Now you need to say to me, “It’s okay, Evan, I forgive you.”  Ahhh, thanks!

Please let me know what you’d like me to write about. I’m going to post the new special in a sec and now and then I write an article which I’ll add — but if there’s something you want, let me know, okay?

Evan

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Special & My Morning Routine

 

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My Morning RoutineTick, tock, tick….Brrring!Cockadoodle doo!

Oh, my gosh, morning already…

Okay, up and at ’em, me!
This account of how I use what products in the morning may be interesting to you. And then, it may not. :o)  So it’s here to read if you want to.Once I accept the fact that my head is not on the pillow, I get to the bathroom, wash my hands and pick up some Tooth & Gum Powder to put on a tooth that’s been painful again recently. With the toothbrush, or my fingers after pouring some into my hand, I get plenty of powder onto the trouble spot.  I’m going to leave it there for a while.
Because I know it might mean surgery (No!), I do this twice and perhaps three times a day.The idea is to hold it in your mouth (spit some if you have to, that’s fine) while you get ready in the morning (or take your evening shower), then spit it out. In this way, the powder stays in contact with the area for 10 or 20 minutes.
Morning, face! Hi, DreamSoap! I use a clean wash cloth and purified water. (Velvet Fruit & Flower Scrub and Simply Sensational Masque are evening treats for me, once or twice a week).Being of a supposedly mature age, on goes As Young As I Feel Serum and Ma Jeunesse. I may layer on some La Creme de la Creme or Creme Rose. Each is unique and my skin calls for what it needs.Pretty often, I mix some The Perfect Rose in there somewhere. I top it off whatever I’ve done with a little spray of Skin Perfection Mist. Sniff…ahhh.

I use enough to do the job and for my complexion, that’s never gobs. Still, when my skin is dry either because of weather or health, I use more.
Oh, man…a pimple.If I have a blemish (doesn’t that sound better than “pimple”?  ;o)  I apply First Aid Ointment. I only need Clarity Spot Serum if it’s bad. The ointment has made pimples go away so fast and marks disappear (or not become marks).
While straightening my bangs a few months ago, I burned my forehead pretty badly. All Better, Honey has healed the burn. There’s a very faint hint of it still so I’m continuing with it. After cleansing and moisturizing, I rub a bit on the burn area. A bit later, I wipe off any brown goo (let’s face it, ABH is a brown goo!  LOL). Some ABH stays on the skin but is not visible.While I am into the ABH jar, I apply it to any bruise. I bumped myself quite a bit while moving. This salve has clears up those bruises.I am not much for foundation but I use some over any spots and maybe a little under the eyes. With my skin moisturized, it’s easy to spread.

After some mascara (I know, we don’t carry this) and Rouge Powder, either 13 or 9 for me, perhaps 5 (depends on the season and outfit) or Shea Butter Cheek Tint if I have been able to make off with a bit of it, I turn to my wild head of hair.
This mop is color-treated. I look so much older if I leave it grey. Some people look great with grey hair. I look like me in an old hag costume. :o) 
It’s blond not just cuz blonds have more fun ;o)  but because darker shades of hair color are considerably more poisonous than bleach-lighter colors. And because grey as it grows out doesn’t show as much against blond as against brown.Anyway, back to my routine. It’s time for Crowning Glory Conditioning Pomade only on days when I have shampoo‘ed and so forth. Happily, I don’t need to do the whole time-consuming hair prep daily because my hair doesn’t need to be washed every day.BTW, the best shampoo for me used to be Dry. After a few months, my hair was no longer dry. Now I use Normal.

When I first created the Hair Be There system, I needed it myself. Hair loss is a frightening and depressing reminder of our vulnerability. I am so happy that I grew back my hair where it was vacating the premises (right where a lion would have ears!). Now I just use the Scalp Oil once in a blue moon if it seems as if I need it.
Chester does not do this routine every morning.
Pomade is needed by me only on shampoo days. To apply it, I melt a very small amount between my fingers and dab that (light dabs) over my hair in different spots. Then I rub my hair, one part against the other, making a real mess of it, to spread it well. When I’m done, any remaining pomade helps  soften and protect my hands.Tangles — use a wide-toothed comb and I bet your mother also warned you not to tug. Start at the bottom, moving up as tangles are gently taken apart.The next step of the daily morning routine is a once-through brushing of my hair and arranging it —  and that’s that.
There is a hair care ritual that I enjoy now and then. Our mothers and grandmothers told us, remember? that for beautiful, shiny hair, one should give it 100 brush strokes a day. Doing this helped our Victorian predecessors achieve a well-kempt look; in those days, women washed their hair much less often and brushing well to distribute the oils was necessary to keep it looking cleaner.I love to do this, though, even if the reasons for it are different now.
You might want to try it. Brush 100 times (or so) from the scalp to the ends, from the back to the front, every which way. Your scalp gets ooo-ooo so tingly.If you have any hair loss, go very gentle with this.
The repeated brushing both relaxes and energizes me.Beyond that, the 100-stroke brushing is indulgently pleasurable and, because I suppose my grandmothers and probably theirs did this, it wraps me in sentiment. I feel thoroughly feminine.Do you often hear, “You can watch TV while you do this” as a selling point?  For this, TV would oppose the mood. I like to hum and imagine myself in a white lace nightie and robe such as our tea lady wore in her private chambers.
Still with me?Hey, what are you doing in my bathroom?! LOLOkay, it’s time for Amazing Balm for Dry Skin to amaze my knees, feet and elbows, my lips and if it is dry weather, my whole mug. It’s an addiction. The leftover gets massaged into my hands and wrists. I reapply if I think of it during the day.

Like an old grannie, yep! I have a touch of the rheum’tism in my hands. I read about emu oil for arthritis and I can report to you that it’s been helping reduce inflammation and pain.
When dressed, I grab the Certainty Deodorant Powder. My fav is Romance but I go for Lavender, too. I need only a smallish amount.The spray is wonderful, too, but I happen to prefer the feeling on my skin of a soft and fragrant powder.I get some into my hand and apply it by reaching in and putting it on under my clothes. This way, any powder that falls lands on the inside of my clothes and that’s perfectly okay.
 
I’m washed, dressed, spruced up and ready. Time to spit out the dental powder. I’ve probably spat a few times already…you just have to holding that in your mouth for a while. I use water (purified, have it in the bathroom in a glass bottle) to rinse out any brown blobs from my mouth. Finish it with a small sip or capful of Tooth & Gum Rinse. If I don’t do the rinse now, I do it before I hit the sack.
Some days are perfume days, you know?Embrace! Beach House! Bouquet de Reves! Rose Enchantment!I seriously love to wear the perfumes.
Now at this point, I used to apply Nail Oil. It gets put on and left to sink in for a minute or so. Why did I stop? Because my nails grew so long and strong, I couldn’t play the piano without hearing loud clicks. Some people are best with short nails.Voila! I’m gahgeouss!  Or at least ready to get to work. :-DEven though this may seem like a lot, it goes fast. A little blob of cream, pat, brush, swish…done! And all the while I’ve been treating my tooth.
I’m very interested to hear what and how you do your own routine. Write me with your story and any questions.:o)Evan

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