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Vintage Soul & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #106
There’s a tiny little shop tucked off in the corner of Main Street in Watertown, New York, that is bursting with the most inviting nostalgia of bygone years. Warm and friendly, kind and welcoming, this charming shop entices your sentimentality with the most delightful relics from the past and makes you yearn for a simpler time. It’s like taking a few steps backwards straight into an uncomplicated era where people lived to work and worked to live and had pride in their endeavors. I stopped in Vintage Soul Antiques this past Saturday when the temperatures were double digits below zero and as I crossed the threshold into the warmth of…
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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Coats and Outerwear & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #105
Welcome to The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book! Welcome! This is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. Over a year ago, Nancy and I started The Bad Buy Book, a monthly series about our worst purchases. It was a lot of fun to do and we both learned something from it, too! Nancy learned that off-white against her face is not the most flattering color. And I learned that I have a serious problem resisting a good thrift shop find when it comes to pieces that fit “good enough” but “not quite right.” However, after running that series for a year, we decided to change it a bit. For this series, you can choose…
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Synchronicity: The Secret Language of the Universe
Analytical psychologist, Carl Jung, first introduced the concept of synchronicity in the 1920’s, but defined it more fully in a 1951 lecture stating that synchronous events are ones that appear to occur with meaningful coincidence and no causal relationship but seem to be causally related in a meaningful way. Otherwise known as meaningful coincidences, acausal parallelism, or the togetherness principle without any known cause, synchronous events occur in our daily lives more frequently than we even notice. But if we really pay attention when these seemingly related events occur, it is as if the universe is speaking directly to us. It is saying, “Hey, you. Pay attention. I am giving…
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Aligning My Chakras & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #104
I needed some focus. I needed to let go of toxicity. I needed fulfillment. I needed to reignite my passion. I needed some spiritual healing. I needed a universal realignment. And I needed to take action to get it done. And so my adventures in the healing arts has begun. A new year. A new attitude. A new approach. A new willingness to try new things in the interest of self-examination and self-improvement. A new way to become centered and reconnected with the Life Source that drives us forward, onward, and upward. That universal energy. It only responds when we connect to it. And it is our responsibility to open ourselves…
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So Many Blessings & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #103
While I am grateful every day for the blessings in my life, the holidays tend to bring on an overload of emotions. Lately, I have been feeling overwhelmed by love coming at me from so many directions. This type of abundant love used to make me question if I deserved it all, but I have reached a point in my life when I can accept it with gratitude and acknowledgement that I do deserve all the blessings in my life. I know that I am not unique in my journey that has included many struggles and pain and heartache and loss. I know that I am not unique in my…
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Spiritual Healing & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #102
Three weeks ago, I introduced you to my new friend Leti and her Good Life Healing Arts & Gift Shop in my post, The Good Life & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #99. I shared some photos of the leather jewelry that is handcrafted by Leti and promised to show you my new earrings that were given to me as a gift by my friend, Denise, who owns Solitary Consignment where I work. Denise chose the olive green feather earrings for me and I absolutely love them! I was so excited to build an entire outfit right around my new earrings. Have you ever built an entire outfit around one accessory? I do…
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Shaklee 7 Day Healthy Cleanse & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #101
On Saturday, I completed the Shaklee 7 Day Healthy Cleanse which guarantees that you will feel better in one week. From my experience, I think they have most definitely satisfied their guarantee. A few of the benefits that you can expect from this cleanse include improved focus and energy, enhanced mood and sleep quality, detox and healthy digestion, a jump start for weight loss and reduction in food cravings. I have never done a cleanse of any sort so this was a brand new experience for me and I really did not know what to expect. The diet for the week consisted of all fruits and vegetables, mostly raw, some…
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Let Light Shine & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #100
I cannot believe that my #SpreadTheKindness Link Up as reached 100 weeks of sharing light and spreading kindness. So many wonderful posts that have been linked here. In the two years of its existence, nearly 8,000 posts have joined these link parties. Eight thousand creative, inspiring, brilliantly drafted blog posts on all sorts of fun and interesting topics. To all who have joined, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. This link up began in response to a horrible backlash I received over two years ago when I shared My Response to the Presidential Election. I don’t do politics. I don’t discuss them. I don’t usually…
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The Good Life & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #99
I have read a lot of articles in the past 5 years or so that have addressed the issue of how difficult it becomes to make new friends the older we get. I have watched my 5 year old meet a new kid on the playground and when they discover one tiny thing they have in common, they instantly become best friends. And I have made comments like “Wouldn’t that be nice if it were that easy for adults?” Well, you know what I am discovering lately? It actually is that easy. For real. I have made a lot of new friends recently, right here in the middle of my…
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The Holiday Series 2018-Black Friday Outfit Inspiration & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #98
Welcome to the second post in this series six holiday posts coordinated by the lovely Ada of Elegance and Mommyhood. Last week, thirteen bloggers joined together to bring you Thanksgiving Outfit Inspiration and this week nine bloggers have joined together with our Black Friday shopping looks. I won’t be shopping at all on Black Friday since I will be pulling double shifts between Solitary Consignment (10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m) and Torrid (5:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.). This is after a 7:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. shift at Charlotte Russe on Thanksgiving night. Followed by 7:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at Charlotte Russe on Saturday morning and another 5:30 p.m.…
