One of my favorite places to vacation is at the Cape Cod National Seashore.  Our family enjoys camping here in New England on Old Cape Cod in Massachusetts.  This photo was taken on Coast Guard Beach, and as you can see, this Baby Boomer Grandmom still enjoys being a bathing beauty.

I’m petite, and I’ve long given up wearing a bikini and now feel more comfortable in a swimsuit tankini for a full figure so I can build sandcastles with the grandkids at the shore!  Now I look for sylish swimsuits for mature women over 40 or 50.  The one I’m wearing is a two-piece and has a skirt which isn’t too short, yet is still flattering.

Add an attractive cover-up and we can stroll the boardwalk confidently and … still turn heads?

Don’t you think the magnetic ankle bracelet adds a nice touch? Plus it offers ancient healing properties for those pesky little ailments!

I’ve been a dedicated Lands End shopper since the early 1980s when my girls were babies.

Here is how you can participate in the efforts:

• Get the Twibbon – Go to http://twibbon.com/join/I-Have-Swimsuit-Confidence-2 and display the “I have swimsuit confidence!” Twibbon on your Twitter profile photo.  Send a tweet to @LandsEndPR proclaiming “I have swimsuit confidence!” #landsend for a chance to be entered to win a $500 Lands’ End gift card – winner announced May 27.

• Participate in a Week of Tweets – Mark your calendar each day May 23 – 27, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CDST so you can join in the series of National Swimsuit Confidence Week events on Twitter. Follow @LandsEndPR and tweet at #landsend.  We will be announcing exclusive swimwear promotions, giving away great prizes and inspiring women to embrace their swimsuit beauty.

• Bloggers Join the Movement – On May 23, 2011, 21 women of all ages will show off their swimsuit confidence by posting a photo in a 2011 Lands’ End Swimsuit.  You can join in by posting your swimsuit photo on May 23, 2011 to inspire your followers – send a link to libby.schmeisser@landsend.com for a chance to win one of five $100 Lands’ End gift cards.

Spread the word, join the movement and embrace your swimsuit confidence this summer!

Baby Boomer Women and Lands End Swimsuit Confidence Week is a post from: Moomettes Magnificents

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There’s an old saying that “hindsight is wonderful.” The Culinary Institute of America, now located in Hyde Park, New York, at one time was located in New Haven, CT which is not too far from me.  My husband’s first cousin graduated from the Institute when it was  in New Haven, and he would stay with the family during break.

Over the years I’ve come to realize that I really  enjoy cooking, and perhaps I should have looked into attending the Culinary Institute and it’s hospitality programs while it was in Connecticut.  Now I just share my enthusiasm for cooking through my food and recipe Blog.

Having a Blog, is a great way to share information with others in a public forum, by posting comments on a (often free) website.

Recipe Blogs are easy to build; even a novice can set one up in just an hour or less. With free applications like Google’s “Blogger” (blogger.com) or the easy to use WordPress (Wordress.com), a simple blog can be put together that will highlight your thoughts and images. By setting it up with a clean format and using the latest templates, this increases the blog’s appeal and it can be updated as often as you wish.

One fun and profitable way to blog is by starting a recipe blog (and there’s plenty of information on the topic in this Just Add Sweat guide). A recipe blog is where you can post your favorite family recipes, restaurant secrets or other popular “dishes” about the world of cooking. It’s perfect for people who have tried recipes and thought they could do better. Or those who have sampled restaurant cooking and found a favorite they’d like to share. If cooking is your passion, blogging about it is a wonderful way to get more information out there about this interest. It’s also a great way to tell others about new products available in the world of cooking.

A recipe blog can also offer the opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a home based business. How? By offering for sale cooking products, popular recipes, recipe eBooks and other tools that the budding chefs of the world would like. In this way, a blogger can build a nice residual income to support their cooking habit.

Popular blogs that earn a substantial amount of website traffic can earn even more revenue. Through the power of using web traffic tracking tools, a blogger can earn ad revenue or earn commissions by recommending product from other companies. Successful bloggers can even sell their blogs to others and earn an income from developing popular topics into highly trafficked websites.

With a little bit of time and a lot of creativity, a recipe blogger can create an income working from home.

As a Baby Boomer, I’ve collected and tweeked quite a few family recipes over the years.  Check out my Recipe BlogHERE for all the recipes I share!

Recommended Additional Resource:

To learn exactly how to set up your blog and how to create a recipe blog that people love, talk about and come back to, grab Just Add Sweat Guide to Start a Recipe Blog. You’ll also learn how to get traffic to your blog and make money doing something you enjoy.

On Squidoo: Old Fashioned New England Yankee Recipes and Cooking

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“Toot Your Own Horn”

What does that mean? Well, it means every Tuesday, we get to post a Meme of an accomplishment that we have done. As Moms sometimes, we are quick in praising our kids and others about their accomplishments but we are “shy” when it comes to our achievements so … here’s our chance.

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