8 weeks to a better me, week 7: Personal Style

Welllll, I had semi success with my 3 goals from this past week. I did not succeed at all in goal # 1, to eliminate stuff I didn't absolutely love. I haven't had a lot of access to my bedroom this week during the day, therefore wasn't able to rifle through my closet and drawers some more. BUT, as I said, I did just clean out my closet a week before, so I am well on my way with that one. Goal 2 was a success and my computer desk looks so much better. I have a sense of peace when I am not surrounded by clutter.

BEFORE

AFTER

Goal 3, not so much. Most all of my scrap booking stuff is in my room, and as I said, I didn't have much access to my room this week, SO, no progress there. BUT, I did buy the scrapbook I've been eye balling all year at Michaels that I wanted for my wedding scrapbook as it's very similar to my guestbook. I love Michaels weekly 40% off coupons.

As for this week, the topic is personal style. I had a lot of fun reading Elsie's guest post about style. I can honestly say that I don't consider myself to have a set personal style. I wear what I feel most comfortable in. And many times that may be yoga pants and an oversized tee. I tend to wear jeans a lot, dressed up or down. Sadly, I can't wear heels, but if I could, I'd have SOOOO much fun with them! But, I make the best of the many flats and wedges that I do have! I guess the one thing that may be a signature style that I do is, when I wear a regular tee, I tie a ribbon around the sleeves, like this:

* make some new outfits out of existing pieces that I have
* wear more dresses or skirts, I have plenty of springy dresses!
* style my hair differently. I am not loving all the layers I have in the back of my hair, from my recent hair cut, so I may be chopping it off anyways

XOXO

8 weeks to a better me: Week 6, Home sweet Home

This is my 2nd week joining in with 8 Weeks to a better me over at Sometimes Sweet. I'll give you a quick recap of how I did with last weeks goals before moving on to this week. Last week was loving life and having fun and my goals were: take time to enjoy the small things more, not to say one negative thing about anyone, and do myself up more  (ie, makeup). I did okay with my goals. The first was easy, and I tackled that... I enjoyed some cloud watching this week. The second I could have done better on. Saddens me to say that, but we all battle keeping our negative thoughts to ourselves at some point. Third one I did half the week, the days I went to work I wore make-up. And I enjoyed it. I feel prettier when I wear it BUT my problem is I am quite lazy and don't take the time to do it on a regular basis, mostly special occasions.

This weeks topic is home sweet home and how to make a house a home. You should definitely head over and check out Danielle's guest blogger on this topics post. I found it really inspiring. She made a lot of really good points. I am excited to tackle some of my goals this week, as I am NOT at all a fan of clutter, however it always seems to find it's way into my house. Maybe because I live with my husband and two other people? Anyways, let's get to this weeks goals:

1. One of the tips Mandi gave us was to not keep anything we didn't love. I have already started to tackle this with my closet, but I have so much more I need to go through. I've kept a lot of random things from over the years, especially high school years, and they really have no function anymore. Do I need them, or will I ever need them again? Probably not, so I will continue to rifle through all my stored away stuff and get rid of more and more things I don't need. My junk is surely another woman's treasures. :)

2. Another tip was to tackle one project at a time as if you do much more than that, you will overwhelm yourself. SO, my job this week is to tackle my computer desk. Papers are constantly thrown up here. It's so disorganized. It's kind of organized chaos I guess you would say.

3. Organize my crafty stuff. I have high hopes of creating some wonderful scrapbooks from my recent wedding. I have stuff strewn everywhere at this moment though, and if I leave it that way, there's a very good chance it will stay that way and never get done. So, this week I will gather all my scrapbooking stuff together, in a more organized effort, and slowly get started with my wedding scrapbook. :) I also have a friendship scrapbook in the works.

Here's to a great week everyone! Good luck with your goals!

XOXO

8 weeks to a better me: Week Five - Loving Life and Having Fun

Today I am starting to participate in a project that Danielle over at Sometimes Sweet started. It's called 8 weeks to a better me. Here is how the project works, taken straight from Danielle's blog:

So here's how this is going to work, and I encourage you to join in over these next two months:

Each Sunday evening during the months of May and June one of my eight participants will present us with a guest post on their topic. They'll be discussing how and why their topic is relevant to them, and will also be giving us inspiration and motivation to move towards setting goals relevant to the subject matter. For instance, this week's topic is "Blogging Inspiration," so our participants (this week we have a husband and wife duo!) will be sharing what inspires them to blog.

At the end of this and every post, I will be setting three goals for the week that have to do with the subject at hand. So this week I'll be setting three simple goals in relation to blogging.

If you're inspired and interested, I encourage you to join along for this week, or all eight weeks!

Essentially at the end of the 8 weeks, we will have all done a little more, tried some new things, set and achieved goals, and truly become a little better than we were. I'm definitely excited, and I think you guys are really going to enjoy the amazing bloggers I have lined up!

Sounds pretty interesting, eh? I am excited to start on this journey with her. I am joining in on week five, so I can link up with the other bloggers on time, and then I plan to back track to weeks four, three, two and one. I know, I know, I'm a weirdo. Sometimes doing stuff backwards works. We shall see :)

  

I'm jumping in on the perfect week. The theme this week? Loving Life and Having Fun. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I love my life. So many people take for granted how precious and short life really is. We get so caught up in culture and thinking we must do this and that to be loved and accepted, that we don't even comprehend that our life here on earth is so short compared to our time that will be spent in eternity. 

I totally agree with the guest blogger this week, Lauren from Busy Bee, on her number one tip on enjoying her life: find beauty in everything and document it. I love photo's. That is one of the best ways to share a memory with someone. 

You can't take life too seriously, you have to sit back and enjoy the time you have here. Take time to truly look around you, and enjoy the beauty you see.

Laugh Every Day

Be Goofballs

Yesterday while driving, I had to stop for a minute and look at the breathtaking view before me. I was driving past an empty field, with some horses in it. It was so tranquil for me at that moment. It's spring, so the field was a vibrant green, with two brown horses eating some grass, but at the same time, we had perfect blue skies yesterday with an abundance of big puffy white clouds. This view brought so much joy to my heart. Our earth is so beautiful, scenes like this just make me love my life even more. We are so blessed to be here. I wish I'd had a good camera with me yesterday, to capture all that beauty around me. Today is another beautiful day, blue skies and white puffy clouds. I think I will go lay outside (in the 100 degree weather) and enjoy it.... for as long as I can last. Haha.

 1. Take time to enjoy the small things more. I will start today, with going outside and laying around, enjoying the big beautiful clouds we have over central Florida this weekend.

2. I am going to have to agree with Danielle, and take one of her goals: not to say one negative thing about anyone this week. At one point or another, we've all gotten sucked into the gossip drama, whether it be workplace or just with friends. It's as simple as being out at Walmart and seeing someone and mumbling "WHAT on earth is he/she wearing?" Nothing good comes out of that comment, and it's actually pretty mean. Who knows what he/she is going through. So, this week, I am going to work on changing that within myself. I will not judge people this week, afterall, who am I to judge?  

3.  Do myself up. We generally feel better about ourselves when we know we look good. I am very laid back, and while I love the way I look when I have makeup (natural looking) on, I am a bit too lazy to apply every day. I rarely wear makeup, and am fine with the way I look, but this week, I am going to wear makeup everyday (oh my!) and see if it makes a difference at all in the way I feel or present myself.

Have a great week friends!

XOXO