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Did you know
that eyeshadow primer is a multipurpose product? here are some ideas: 1. Under eyes – eye shadow primer is used to hold shadow in place on your lids; the same principle applies to concealer under your eyes. Use eye shadow primer before concealer to prevent creasing and keep circles covered longer. 2. eyebroWs – Sticking with the eye area – eye shadow primer
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can also be used on the browline to keep eyebrow pencil and powder in place. This is great news for me – i have a bare spot on my brow thanks to a collision with my grandmother’s buffet server at the age of 5. The primer has really made a difference in the longevity of my penciling. 3. Lips – you can, of course, use specialized lip primer, but if you want to save a few bucks, try eye shadow primer instead. it’s generally fragrance free since it’s intended for use on sensitive skin around your eyes, so no weird perfume-y taste. 4. pimpLes – even those of us with the clearest skin get
have long had a problem with makeup “falling off.” i
blemishes from time to time. Try using a dab of eye shadow
feel as though the makeup i apply in the morning is
primer to increase the coverage of your concealer.
rarely present by the end of the day, with the exception of my mascara, which doesn’t come off until i wash it off, and lipstick, which i obsessively reapply. can you relate? One problem may be the fact that i do not wear foundation. i’m guessing there is a reason foundation is sometimes referred 8 Charm | m A r c h / A p r i l
5. Fine Lines – Foundation tends to settle in fine facial lines over the course of the day. Try dabbing a bit of eye shadow primer along fine lines before applying foundation to prevent settling.
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say is an accurate description – it looks like a
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and my shadow lasted all day without creasing.
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well and looks like a light concealer. This product did not ever seem to set on my skin – it had a greasy feel. I thought this might be a good thing, since I have very dry skin, but over the course of the day it actually made my eyelids look dry and crepe-y. I also found it very difficult to remove. I do want to tell you about another product I used during my
I found this one to be particularly easy to apply and blend with
experiment – a Merle Norman Shadow Stick in Glow ($18). I
great longevity, even without primer. Give it a shot if you don’t
could not recall how old any of the eye shadows in my makeup
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drawer were, and I decided it would be best to use fresh shadow while testing the primers. I have used other creamy shadows – Bobbi Brown’s cream shadows have been a favorite of mine – but
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eloney and Larry Ferguson enjoy being as close to the earth as they can, planting and harvesting fruits
and vegetables that they – along with their church – distribute to the elderly and homebound. “I like the soil. We have benches in the arbor where you can sit. It’s peaceful. You can kind of get close to God’s earth,” Larry says. “Everything we have comes from God’s earth. I like the feel of the earth.” “And, the wonder of nature,” Meloney adds. “It’s simply amazing.” Meloney and Larry, both retired educators, are master gardeners who help maintain a community garden at First Baptist Church of Longview as well as at their home. Meloney is this year’s Gregg County Master Gardeners president and both the husband and wife served as co-presidents in 2016. Meloney has always loved plants, but both she and her husband were busy as educators for many years for her to really focus on gardening. Meloney taught English to junior high and high school students in Hallsville, Spring Hill and Kilgore. Larry was a defensive tackle coach for Longview, then a defensive coordinator for Spring Hill. He took some time off from coaching to operate a business but went back into education as a fourth and fifth grade teacher in Kilgore before retiring. In 2009, they helped their church – First Baptist Church of Longview – start a community garden. At the garden, the church grows a variety of fruits and vegetables. When the produce is harvested, it is then distributed to the elderly and homebound. From time to time when the church has leftover food, it donates it to nonprofit organizations, such as House of Disciples and Newgate Mission. “Our goal is to make people feel good and provide them with good nutrition at no cost to them,” Larry says. When the garden first started, Meloney and Larry say, food was grown in rows and they worked to till soil. Since its start, the garden has changed. Not only has it grown in size with more crops added each year, but the way they garden also has changed. Today, they grow produce in raised beds, which in turn allows them to grow more foods.
TOP: Betty Canon, left, of Longview and Carrie Moore, also of Longview, pull bermuda grass out of the First Baptist Church’s community garden. Photo by Kevin Green. BOTTOM: Gregg County Master Gardeners Larry Feguson, left, and his wife Meloney Ferguson, right, plant a peach tree at First Baptist Church’s community garden in Longview. mycharmonline.com 11
In 2013, with both of them retired, they had the
keep garden soil from being eroded or washed away
opportunity to participate in the Master Gardeners
during rains, and prevent soil compaction as well as
class offered by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
help keep weeds from the garden. They essentially
offices in various counties, including in Gregg
allow people to control the soil much better,
County. Master Gardeners are members of their
Larry says.
community who have an interest in lawns, trees,
One of the reasons for using raised beds, Larry
shrubs, flowers and gardens, according to the Texas
says, is because when soil is tilled, it stirs up the
A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Meloney says
microbes (bacteria) and they can be killed by the
she had been interested in the class prior to 2013,
sun, eliminating beneficial material to the soil.
but because it is a day class she didn’t have the
Something else many people don’t know starting out,
opportunity to participate until after she retired. The
he says, is that when you have a garden you should
classes typically meet weekly between January and April, with signup in December each year. In the class, Meloney says, they had the opportunity to hear from a variety of experts in different aspects of gardening and took field trips to get hands-on experience. They also had some opportunities to get hands-on experience even during lectures. For example, in one class an expert talked about propagation and participants received small plants to take home to propagate, or reproduce. Additionally, class members have the opportunity to talk among themselves and share experiences. “Because the class is filled with people who have different interests, it is a good place to hear a lot of different viewpoints,” she says. “Some people are very interested, say for example, in daylilies, while someone else may have more of an interest in trees or vegetable gardens. You have a lot of different people who bring a lot of different aspects. “No matter what your interest is, you will find some aspect of it presented in the courses. We have learned so much.” The classes provided the couple with knowledge that they have been able to use at both the church garden and at their home. TOP: Gregg County Master Gardener Meloney Ferguson plants squash at First Baptist Church’s community garden in Longview. Photo by Kevin Green. BOTTOM: Larry Ferguson adds a dirt mixture to First Baptist Church’s community garden in Longview. Photo by Kevin Green.
plant something different in that spot next year. The practice, known as crop rotation, is important to balance out the soil and to prevent disease. “I would also encourage people to try something new every year,” Meloney says It’s a practice that she employs herself. Some of her favorite “new and different” things she has tried include Armenian cucumbers, which are pale green but “taste fantastic,” according to Meloney. She also has enjoyed Chinese noodle beans and heirloom tomatoes, which – similar to the Armenian cucumbers – “taste wonderful but are not as pretty to look at,” she says. While Meloney and Larry have a small garden at home where they can walk outside and pick fresh fruits and vegetables for dinner, they also work to maintain the garden at the church. They want for as many people as possible to be able to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. At the church, they grow vegetables and also have a variety of fruit-bearing trees, such as peach, apple and pear. There also is a grape arbor and thornless berries. Larry and Meloney plan to continue doing what
By March, Meloney says gardens should already
they can to help the community garden at First
be prepped and it’s time to start planting. Spring
Baptist Church grow so more people can be served.
is an ideal time for planting cucumbers, peas and
“We serve over 3,000 pounds of fresh produce
tomatoes, she says. For those just starting out in
a year through the garden and I think we’re about
gardening, she advises to start smaller than you think.
to have our largest season yet. I think we’re going
“A good way to start is with a raised bed,”
to produce more this year than ever before,”
she said.
Larry says.
Raised beds, which are now used at the church
That means more people will reap the benefits
garden, reduce back strain that occurs when bending
of fresh food, which as Meloney says, just makes you
over to tend to the bed. The sides of the raised bed
feel better when you eat it.
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Community service is not only at the heart of the Fergusons; it’s at the heart of the Master Gardener program itself. After completing instruction, those in the program are required to complete 50 hours of volunteer service to officially earn the Master Gardener title. The community garden at First Baptist Church is just one of several places in the area where Master Gardeners can get those volunteer hours. Other opportunities include the J.R. Curtis Garden for the Blind at Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center, Kilgore Community Gardens, and the garden at Newgate Mission. “You meet really need people in Master Gardeners who have a common threat of helping others,” Larry says. “They love to see seeds or bulbs grow.” C
MARCH LAWN AND GARDEN CHECKLIST FROM GREGG COUNTY TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE EXTENSION AGENT RANDY REEVES: • Prepare beds for planting flowers and vegetables. • For every 100 square feet of bed area, work in a several-inch layer of either compost, pine bark or sphagnum peat moss, plus 5 pounds of balanced fertilizer. • Check with your local county agent for the average last killing freeze date for your area. March 15 is the average last frost for our area of East Texas. • Pruning of evergreens and summer flowering trees and shrubs should be completed in early March. Prune spring flowering trees and shrubs as soon as they finish blooming.
• Select and order caladium tubers as well as geranium and coleus plants for late April and early May planting. Do not plant caladiums until soil temperature reaches 70 degrees. • As camellia and azalea plants finish blooming, fertilize them with 3 pounds of azalea-camellia fertilizer. Check mulch on azalea and camellia beds and add where needed. • In Northeast Texas there is still time to plant seeds of your favorite annuals in flats to be transplanted outdoors when danger of frost has passed.
• Beware of closeout sales on bare-root trees and shrubs. The chance of survival is rather low on bare-root plants this late in the season. • Start hanging baskets of petunias and other annuals for another dimension in landscape color. • Plant dahlia tubers in fertile, well-drained soil. • Dig and divide summer and fall flowering perennials just before they initiate their spring growth. • Prune roses if you haven’t already.
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I’M RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME Words by APRILL BRANDON | Illustrations by MICHELLE LAVERELL
If
you would have asked me 10 years ago what I saw myself
Running for fun? Pffft. In my book, those two things are
doing in the future, arguing for 23 minutes with a toddler
mutually exclusive. Much like, say, a delicious vegan meal or a
about appropriate places to poop would have been fairly
funny Kevin James movie.
low on the list (which, by the way, the bathtub, Momma’s bed and
And yet, here I am, sweaty and gross and begrudgingly emitting
the dairy aisle at the grocery store all equal “Not Appropriate” for
an aura of health because I just got done with a run. A run I did
any of you toddlers out there reading this).
ON PURPOSE.
Winning the Pulitzer Prize, divorcing Orlando Bloom so I
It all started because after I had my second baby my body was
could marry Ryan Reynolds, sailing on a fancy boat with a clever
80 percent mush. And, to be honest, I’m not really comfortable
name like Ship For Brains; all of these answers would have
in my own skin when I’m above 75 percent bodily mush. So, as
probably come tumbling out of my mouth.
much as I hated it, I gritted my teeth and ran (well, did a weird
Even jail wouldn’t have been too outlandish an answer.
walk/sad jog hybrid before working my way up to my current level
But running on a trail with actual running shoes when nothing
of just a sad jog).
was chasing me and/or I wasn’t trying to make it to the liquor store before it closes? That wouldn’t have even made it ON the list. 20 CHARM | M A R C H / A P R I L
But then a funny thing happened. I started to look forward to these runs. So much so, in fact, that I was actually willing to
I LOVE MY KIDS.
do them at 6 a.m., watching the sun rise while my perky ponytail
OF COURSE I DO. YOU KNOW I DO.
swished back and forth like I’m freaking Kate Hudson in some
Just like I know you love your kids. Children are amazing human beings whom we occasionally want to murder.
rom-com. Not because I started to like to run. Oh god, no. It’s the worst. But because that 45 minutes hoofing it around the park gave me an escape from my kids. I love my kids. Of course I do. You know I do. Just like I know
And so that we don’t murder them, we do insane things like literally run away from home (albeit temporarily).
you love your kids. Children are amazing human beings whom we occasionally want to murder. And so that we don’t murder them, we do insane things like literally run away from home (albeit temporarily). The best part is that even though my main motivation while running is that at some point I will stop running, all this exercise is helping me get back to myself. To the person I was before I considered a trip to Target by myself as a luxurious vacation. It’s easy to lose yourself in the demands of parenthood. To remember that you are not just a glorified sippy cup re-filler and breathing milk dispenser. Having children changes you to your
complicated meals that didn’t use ketchup as 40 percent of the main ingredients! And how could I forget all those plans I made as a young 20-something to travel to Ireland and get drunk in a real Irish pub and then make friends with a real sheep and then bring the real Irish sheep home and make it my pet and name it Dave BAAA-rry? On the other end of the spectrum, although I have yet to feel that mythical runner’s high, I have experienced what I call “cranial radio static.” This is when your brain just stops and there’s no
very core but it doesn’t erase your former self. That person is still
thought; just music and pavement and the fresh spring air and
in there, waiting to come out occasionally so they can look around
your feet going one in front of the other and heavy breathing and
and say “Why the hell are we running? Is the liquor store closing?”
chaotic jiggly butt movement. And as a mom and a writer and a
Running helps me remember that I’m a complex person with
woman who keeps up with current events, anything that helps you
interests outside achieving the perfect brown color on a grilled
turn off your brain even for a short while is a miracle.
cheese sandwich. Hey, I used to love reading “The New Yorker!”
But most importantly, now that I have kids, I want to be
And watching old Woody Allen comedies! I used to enjoy cooking
healthy enough that I live forever. I want to be the unbelievably old lady with the leather face that says wildly inappropriate things at Christmas about losing her virginity and terrifies her infant great-grandchildren because she looks like the Crypt Keeper and sounds like Marge Simpson’s sisters. I want to wreak havoc in that fancy retirement home my kids will pick (if they know what’s good for them). I want to nag them until they’re in their 80s. I want a local newspaper article written about me just because I’m so old and then respond to each question the reporter asks me with a loud “huh?” And so, I keep running. And who knows? Maybe someday I’ll actually start enjoying it. Ha! Hahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *wipes eyes* Ah, sometimes I forget just how funny I can be. C
On the other end of the spectrum, although I have yet to feel that mythical runner’s high, I have experienced what I call “cranial radio static.” This is when your brain just stops and there’s no thought; just music and pavement and the fresh spring air and your feet going one in front of the other and heavy breathing and chaotic jiggly butt movement. mycharmonline.com 21
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STARS OVER LONGVIEW LONGVIEW | MAUDE COBB CONVENTION AND ACTIVITY CENTER | 1/12/2017
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Hundreds of people came together Jan. 12 to celebrate women in Longview who make a difference in the community during Longview Regional Medical Center’s Stars Over Longview luncheon. Dr. Peggy Coghlan, Melanie Northcutt Crocker, Frankie Parson Riggins, Patricia Florence, Gale Johnson, Keeta King, Natalie Lynch, Ginia Northcutt, Shirley Perkins, Dr. Karen Roberts, LaRaslum Williams and Jill Chaney were honored at the event.
MELANIE NORTHCUTT CROCKER, SHAUNA PARKER, KRISTEN ISHIHARA
SPENCER AND ANDY MACK MEGAN KING, MARISSA MARTIN, KELSEY RUNGE
REBEKAH GREGORY, LIBBY BRYSON
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at least $100,000 was raised for the american Heart association on Feb. 3 as more than 600 people gathered for the Go red for Women luncheon at maude cobb convention and activity center. actress, author, radio host Brandi & MaTT russell
susan PoPe, Janine Turner
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