Morning musing...

True success comes from and when you are your true self.

   Being your true self, what does that mean? How do you find that? your true self?

That's the question...

Natural hair stages

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Stumbled across this illustration and could not resist the urge to caption it

Stage 1: OMG, what did I do? I look like a boy and these earrings are so not helping.

Stage 2: hmmm this my natural hair sef when will it grow

Stage 3:Looking FABULOUS!

Stage 4: Yeah it is all mine.

Currently in stage 2, can't wait to reach stage 4, looking forward to stage 3.

Happy Earth day, Everyday

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Yesterday, April 22nd was Earth day. Who knew, not I for sure, yesterday was the first time I ever recognized the day. Earth hour, I know about but not Earth day. All the same I decided to embrace it and find out more on how to mark the day. One thing I did was read a survey and educate myself on ecotriva from this website below

http://www.earthday.ca/resources/ecotrivia

A few tips, I learned and would like to work on include:

1. Unplug electrical appliance when not in use, from laptops to kettles to toasters. This will not only be earth friendly but save me money. That I can definitely get on board with ( smile)

2. Keep my showers short and quick, especially as I already take too long and use up too much water on days I wash my hair. 

3.Keeping car idling to a minimum.  A minimum, as this cannot be help sometimes due to our cold Canadian weather. However a great tip/eye opener I learnt was the fact the car is idling when in a drive through, going forward, I will park the car and walk into the restaurant.

4. Stop being lazy and go out of my way if need be to recycle. This will require some effort especially in places where recycling facilities are not readily available but I am now more willing look or ask for a recycling bin.

5. Use less disposables. From fashion, to packaging to cleaning materials, our society tends to lean towards disposables, disposables that end up in landfills. I plan to learn, investigate and use other alternatives. For example, purchasing more classical fashion of good quality fabric that would not need to be tossed out after a few wears, using cloth napkins and less paper towels, using actual plates and less Styrofoam, taking my re-usable bag to the grocery store etc.

Ideas for the future

- Plant a garden. A garden instead of a backlawn, one that is a rock garden that consist of food crops in rotation to keep the soil healthy and mixed in with some flowers of course.
- Would love to own a home with energy saving features and possibly a solar panel. 

Words to live by....

Valentine's day just went by, a day to share love or express love in different ways that the media, the world encourages, influences and in some cases dictates that we do. As much as there are so many people out there taking part in the festivities, there was so many others hating on the holiday.

All the blog posts and vlogs on valentine 's day outfit,events  for couples and singles in the city got me thinking. What is all this about? in one word HAPPINESS! We are all looking for love for many reasons, the underlining cause is HAPPINESS. We do it all to be happy and that I think that is admirable.

Like most times, when I feel inspired, I went looking for happiness quotes. Here are a few that I found that resonated with me.

Happiness: a calm awareness of the present moment, of sensation, consciousness, thoughts, and perception.

Everyone has a different idea of happiness. Follow your own path, not someone else's.

A loving family and friends....... that's happiness.

Be happy you're alive!

Happiness is a natural outcome of being able to be oneself

Make happiness your goal, and do whatever it takes to achieve it.

All photos cutesy of Pinterest

Happy Valentine

All images courtesy of pinterest

Face

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Face, like ashiek118

My Girls, My Beautiful

It all started with this picture of Grace Jones, that I saw a long time ago, then recently, I catch myself in the bathroom mirror doing a sideway version of this. Ever since then I haven't been able to stop myself from doing this each time. Years ago, my sister would tease me telling me that I look like Grace Jones, am ashamed to say I didn't think Grace Jones was beautiful; infact I thought she looked like a man. My perception of beauty has matured since then and  if my sister were to tease me now.I would definitely pull that face again.

This picture got me going with a whole train of thought and I went searching on internet, spent hours looking at images of strong , fierce women that i grew up watching. All these women, love, love them for all they have inspired in me.

 All images are from pinterest.