I've been promising my activity days girls a fun craft activity and I'm finally going to do one. We're going to make Hair clips! How fun. I need to get the stuff on saturday so that I'm prepared but I'm just going to get the materials and then let the girls have at it. I'll have to post some of the finish products on here when we're done.
I have this philosophy about crafts and I think it serves the girls best when you give them tools but let them create on their own. Some of the girls will start out copying each other but when you don't set the activity to a limited style you'll be amazed at what wonderful things they come up with. I remember kind of hating unstructured activities like this when I was younger cause I usually took a little bit longer to make a plan for what I wanted to do than some of the other girls did, but I think regardless in the end, the style that you come up with is much more individual than it otherwise would be. It's a growing opportunity right and we do better when we learn from growing opportunities than when we're handed ideas on a platter. I'm excited and I can't wait to see what the girls come up with. I have the 8 and 9 year old girls I think.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Dressing Your Truth Club Night
I'm excited to view the Dressing Your Truth Club Night tonight. I have purchased the Dressing Your Truth online course in addition to the Beauty Profile Bundle and have been dressing my truth for almost 4 months now. The difference knowing this information has made in my life is amazing. I am a soft subtle woman and I have never allowed myself to just be me over the years until I understood this information. I was always trying to be more of something else and judging myself as not good enough or pretty enough.
You know,.. I wasn't one of those kind of girls who spends hours in the morning getting ready for the day. Or the girl who went out for every sport and excelled at all of them all while balancing an extremely successful career. Or the life of the party who knew everybody and everybody knew them... (admittedly I wanted to be the life of the party and I certainly knew everybody but it was all too rare that those same people knew who I was) I wasn't the girl who was super crafty or endlessly serving others. You all know the types we all compare ourselves too.
Now having said that I certainly was not depressed or down on myself at all. I did just enough crafts to consider myself an aspiring crafter. Sure I'll play a sport if you ask me to just as long as we both understand it's for fun and don't expect me to be competitive. I got by with who I was but what do you tell yourself when people suggest that you're one of the slowest people they've ever met? Or when you take about 3 minutes to assess that your house is going to burn down and review the plan for such situations of getting out the nearby fire extinguisher to use and figuring out how to use it...meanwhile your husband has time to get out of the bathroom and come downstairs and put out the fire in about 2 seconds by dousing it with a nearby pot of water. I'm not saying that I was unhappy being me but I certainly judged some of my tendencies and personality quirks that often caused tension in my marriage and other important relationships including work. Now that I understand myself better and my tendencies I am so much happier being me and content with myself and instead of judging those quirks I figure out how to temper or use them to my advantage to make my life and marriage happier. My other relationships with friends/family and coworkers are improving as well because I can honor those people for who they are too.
On top of all of that!,... I was never the girl to take hours to get ready in the morning...after taking the Dressing Your Truth course it is sooo easy to accessorize and do make up and hair that I get up and do it every morning and my friends and family all have noticed how much more beautiful I am and how much happier I have become. I'm not trying to turn this into an advertisement here but I just wanted to share how much this information has increased my happiness and self-worth and how liberated I feel to be myself and dress exactly the way I want to be without judging my look or trying to copy anybody else. I love the information I've found and the new self-confidence that I enjoy and if you're looking for something like this in your life check out my links and try it for yourself. You won't regret it!
Now back to the whole point of this post. Club night! I love going to club nights because they really keep the information new and keep you excited and constantly refining your style and your skills. I would never stick with this information if it wasn't for the constant opportunities to review it and to learn more. It's so fun to see everyone dressed beautifully and having a fun time together and learning more and more about the information. If you ever decide to get the Dressing Your Truth course you will most likely look forward to club nights every month like I do where Carol presents a topic of interest and gives tips for how to refine that part of your style. Plus I get the opportunity to meet up with some of the friends I've made there who are also dressing their truth. I love it and I can't wait for tonight!
You know,.. I wasn't one of those kind of girls who spends hours in the morning getting ready for the day. Or the girl who went out for every sport and excelled at all of them all while balancing an extremely successful career. Or the life of the party who knew everybody and everybody knew them... (admittedly I wanted to be the life of the party and I certainly knew everybody but it was all too rare that those same people knew who I was) I wasn't the girl who was super crafty or endlessly serving others. You all know the types we all compare ourselves too.
Now having said that I certainly was not depressed or down on myself at all. I did just enough crafts to consider myself an aspiring crafter. Sure I'll play a sport if you ask me to just as long as we both understand it's for fun and don't expect me to be competitive. I got by with who I was but what do you tell yourself when people suggest that you're one of the slowest people they've ever met? Or when you take about 3 minutes to assess that your house is going to burn down and review the plan for such situations of getting out the nearby fire extinguisher to use and figuring out how to use it...meanwhile your husband has time to get out of the bathroom and come downstairs and put out the fire in about 2 seconds by dousing it with a nearby pot of water. I'm not saying that I was unhappy being me but I certainly judged some of my tendencies and personality quirks that often caused tension in my marriage and other important relationships including work. Now that I understand myself better and my tendencies I am so much happier being me and content with myself and instead of judging those quirks I figure out how to temper or use them to my advantage to make my life and marriage happier. My other relationships with friends/family and coworkers are improving as well because I can honor those people for who they are too.
On top of all of that!,... I was never the girl to take hours to get ready in the morning...after taking the Dressing Your Truth course it is sooo easy to accessorize and do make up and hair that I get up and do it every morning and my friends and family all have noticed how much more beautiful I am and how much happier I have become. I'm not trying to turn this into an advertisement here but I just wanted to share how much this information has increased my happiness and self-worth and how liberated I feel to be myself and dress exactly the way I want to be without judging my look or trying to copy anybody else. I love the information I've found and the new self-confidence that I enjoy and if you're looking for something like this in your life check out my links and try it for yourself. You won't regret it!
Now back to the whole point of this post. Club night! I love going to club nights because they really keep the information new and keep you excited and constantly refining your style and your skills. I would never stick with this information if it wasn't for the constant opportunities to review it and to learn more. It's so fun to see everyone dressed beautifully and having a fun time together and learning more and more about the information. If you ever decide to get the Dressing Your Truth course you will most likely look forward to club nights every month like I do where Carol presents a topic of interest and gives tips for how to refine that part of your style. Plus I get the opportunity to meet up with some of the friends I've made there who are also dressing their truth. I love it and I can't wait for tonight!
Introducing Stressa Is My Name
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