Pin itI found out about Fabulous in February while reading my friend’s post over at Minister of Style and thought hmmm this is a good idea. It’s so easy to get down on myself ~ my weight isn’t where I think it should be, my hair is swooping to the left instead of the right, [...]
Pin itYay! I’ve made it to the third week in the Makeup~Free Mondays Challenge. If you don’t know about the challenge, please check out The Beauty Bean. Today was our Christmas Party at work and I was totally and completely makeup~free and it didn’t bother me a bit, nor did it detract from my festive [...]
Pin it Monday Mingle is hosted by Jennifer at Eighty MPH Mom. Participation is easy: simply record yourself answering the questions, post it on your blog and then hit the link. This week’s questions: Where is your favorite romantic place to to with your spouse/partner? Freestyle! Talk about whatever. Makeup Free Mondays is hosted by [...]
Pin itHappy Makeup~Free Monday! Today is my first week of the Makeup~Free Monday challenge (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, go here) and it was actually a lot easier than I thought it’d be. But there were also some challenges. My normal routine is foundation, eye brow pencil, eye shadow (usually 2), eyeliner, [...]
Pin itI love makeup. Specifically, I love Bare Escentuals makeup because it gives me a flawless face with natural coverage. And don’t get me started on the glosses (my fave is a Buxom called “Dani” ~ a purply pink)… Moving on, ’cause this isn’t a post about Bare Escentuals, but if you’ve never given it [...]
Pin itBOOK DESCRIPTION Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we’d no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please and [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Permission to Live Obligation Free Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give ourselves permission to live obligation free and not take on more responsibility than we can handle. I didn’t do so well with this challenge but it’s not because I didn’t want to, it’s because I had a windfall of [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Give Up Comparisons Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give comparisons and spend the week drawing inspiration from those I view as successful and acknowledging my own successes and learning from my failures. I honestly didn’t do as poorly as I thought I would with this challenge. There were a few [...]
Pin itWeekly Wrap~Up: Give Up the Gossip Last week’s IMG Cleanse assignment was to give up gossip and spend the week speaking love, truth and respect into the lives of the people we encounter. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this assignment. For the most part I was able to avoid celebrity gossip [...]
Pin itYesterday about 6000 of my closest friends and I started the Inner Mean Girl 40~Day Cleanse. The Inner Mean Girl Cleanse is a self~improvement workshop for women that is taught by Amy Ahlers and Christine Arylo and hosted by Stacy of The Mom Renewal Project. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage women [...]
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