Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy Blog Tour (Little late!)

About Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy: The bestselling author of Suck Your Stomach In & Put Some Color On! returns with more helpful how-to's and keen observations from Dixie.

Guided by principles from the ancient Belle Doctrine, the host of radio and television's All Things Southern offers down-home advice on everything from health and fitness-managing thy caloric calculations without going Straight Running Crazy and surviving the Raging Inferno Syndrome (aka hot flashes)-to the Southern art of handling your man (Bubba Whispering). Whether giving business tips or debunking the Big Boned Theory, making political observations or celebrating the inevitable resurgence of big hair, Shellie is an adviser women can relate to and laugh with regardless of their age or which side of the Mason-Dixon they call home.

Link to buy the book: http://www.amazon.com/Ellens-Girl-Aint-Weighs-Heavy/dp/0425240851/ref=sprightly-20

About Shellie: Shellie Rushing Tomlinson and her husband Phil live and farm in the Louisiana Delta. Shellie is the author of Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road, Twas the Night Before the Very First Christmas, Southern Comfort with Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, and the Penguin Group USA release, Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On, voted Nonfiction Finalist of 2009 by SIBA Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Tomlinson is owner and publisher of All Things Southern and the host of the weekly radio show All Things Southern as well as a weekly video segment by the same name. Listeners also hear Shellie in her All Things Southern radio segments aired across the South. Shellie writes a weekly inspirational feature in Newsstar and a monthly print and online column for Lousiana Road Trips.

When Shellie isn't writing, speaking, taping her show, answering email or writing content for the next deadline, you can find her playing tennis with Dixie Belle, (the chocolate lab who thinks she is in charge of running Shellie's life).




My Review:  So this is not something that I would normally read, however when I got it and opened up and started to read it I was blown away!  It is funny, whitty, and packed full of advice!  I have pretty much always been a Northern girl (grew up in Washington, did have a 6 year period when I lived in Colorado, but now find my self back in the north in Maine) and always known that Southern girls had a different way of life.  I think it is wonderful that Shellie has shared with us the Belle Doctrine and gives us great tips on living.  I think that we will be seeing a little of the south rising up in all of us that read this book!  I love that Shellie doesn't bash our "bubbas" but tells the women (and sometimes the men if they are reading) on what to do!  This is a definate read for all!  I am looking forward to picking up the first book in this series!



To celebrate the Sue Ellen’s release, Shellie is having a Facebook Party!


Join Shellie and the gang on June 2nd at 5:00 PM PST (6 MST, 7 CST, 8 EST) for a Southern style shin-dig! She'll be dishing on Bubba Whispering, debunking the Big Boned Theory, and how to manage going Straight Running Crazy. If you don't know what any of that is, then be sure to pick up a copy of the book (Not necessary to join the fun! Who knows - you might win a copy!) and join us at 5:00 pm on June 2nd at Shellie's Facebook page. And tell your friends - she's giving away copies of her books and some great gift certificates.


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Chocolate Pops

So my friend's daughter's birthday is this Saturday and my friend, Jodi asked me to make the cake.  It is going to be a ladybug cake.  :)  Very excited about this one!  Pictures will come later in the week.  However, as part of the cake/gifts for the guests, I am making chocolate pops to go on the cake and then home with the guests.  Today was my first attempt at doing this.  I ran down to our local cake/party store (Piece of Cake in Somersworth~LOVE THIS STORE!!!)  and picked up the chocolate, sticks, brushes and a few tips!  I had already picked up the molds a while ago.  One tip was to melt the chips in a muffin tin placed in a pan of boiling water... This worked amazing!! And they stayed melted for well over an hour! 

The next thing to do was to pick up the brushes and start painting!  I started with the flowers since they seemed the easiest!  :)  And they were.  Next time though I just need to paint on the chocolate a little thicker. 

After painting the flowers and the bugs, some places I used a toothpick (mainly on the butterfly!) to get some smaller detail, you let them sit for a few minutes until the color hardens.  At this point I melted the sold chocolate chips for the backing and then poured it in the molds (but not before putting the sticks in!).

It was so hard to wait for these to harden.  But I did, well almost.  I got a little impatient and pulled one of the flowers out, it didn't make it completely, so of course I had to taste test it!  (They are yummy!) 

Well, finished product, I guess turned out OK for my first time.  Tomorrow I am going to pick up some white chocolate chips as I want to make daisy's and I think that some would look better with white backgrounds, compared to milk.  But I guess it is all about what you prefer to eat in the end!

I am hoping the next ones turn out better and that the party is a success! :)  They are a little addicting (I have already only done one try and I am thinking of baby showers, baseball, church, and so many other activities I can make these for!)