Bloggers Challenge - Where I would like to be in Ten Years

As a planner, this one should be simple but all I can think is 'ouch'. I would like to be realistic but I would also like to be optimistic....Here goes:

In ten years I'd like to be where God wants me to be and I sincerely hope that is a place of joy. I hope it will look like this however:

• in a home I own myself
• with my husband and at least two children
• comfortable with myself in my career and made a name for myself
• launched my business and enjoying some success from it
• written at least one book, have the other on the way
• become disciplined with my beauty routine
• have a handle on my weight and my health
• seeing ALL my family comfortable and happy and successful
• having arrived at my savings goal, doubling it, and having some good investments
• seeing certain Ministries and Charities firmly in place and thriving

And that is that. What are your goals? And how are you going about achieving them? Let me know!

Thirty Day Blog Challenge - Yes I'll stick to it this time!

Day One - Your Current Relationship

*DISCLAIMER: Some of these titles I think are really personal and private so I will be taking my own spin on them*

The only thing I will say about my current relationship is that I really love him and I really enjoy his company. Any other details etc I think should stay private, however I will expound on why I think relationships are important, and keeping them close to your heart is even more important.

Relationships are the mechanisms through which we gain support and growth and encouragement. They are sacred and we need to remember to treat them as such. We should really take our cues from Jesus, and His super unconditional love for us all, otherwise we are definitely shortchanging ourselves.

Putting persons through tests and having them run through hoops and playing games with them; and setting them up for a 'three strikes and you're out' policy even before the person has disappointed is foolish and illogical. WE ARE HUMANS WE WILL FAIL EACH OTHER - very soon you will run out of persons who haven't disappointed you. We need to realize that a relationship can only really survive when we give and give and give and then give some more. A selfish or guarded approach to any relationship is setting it up for disaster, you are essentially forcing yourself to have the perspective where a mole hill seems like a mountain. This applies to any relationship - friendship, romantic or family relationship.

We need to learn to love persons for who they are, not who you want them to be or who you think they can be. We need to look at who the person is, all the good in them and the bad and choose to love that person, not the end result of what they can be after we're done fixing them or teaching them a lesson. Leave the character-building to God. Seriously, who are you to fix anyone's flaws?

Try encouraging someone and stroking their ego and giving of yourself to them (and no I do not mean this sexually) this week and see how much better you feel towards them and about the relationship. Shift your focus from all the things they aren't doing, haven't done and did wrong, to what you can do for them just to make them smile or make their lives a little easier. 

Adios!

Paint By Numbers Makeup

Anyone remember doing paint by numbers or colour by numbers as a a child? That was seriously one of my favourite thing to do.

Makeup can be beautiful but it can also look so so so bad. Case in point:

But what people dont realize that applying makeup can be as easy as paint by numbers. You just need to follow two rules:

1. apply with a light hand and then build up
2. blend

But on to the paint-by-numbers:

Your face can be divided into ten sections  which I will illustrate below-

1. Left Lid
2. Left Crease
3. Left Outer corner
4. Right Lid
5. Right Crease
6. Right Outer Corner
7. Left cheek (bone)
8. Right cheek (bone)
9. Upper lip
10. Lower lip

Items 1-6
Powder eyeshadow will be your best friend. An eyeshadow palette that has at least three colours in varying shades is the best/easiest option. The darkest colour goes on the outer corner; the medium colour goes in the crease and the lightest colour goes on the lid. Easy right? And the best thing is that your best tools for makeup are your fingers. Just make sure to wash properly before you apply and have a baby wipe nearby to quickly wipe off your fingers as you move from colour to colour.


Items 7-8
If you're using your fingers, cream blush is your best bet. If you have a blush brush then powder blush is best. One colour that fits all skin tones is a peach-toned blush. So grab some now!


Items 9-10
If your lips are the same colour then go ahead and treat both items as one. If they are not however you are going to want to pay attention. You can even out the colour of your lips by applying an extra layer on your bottom lip or use a slightly darker colour on your bottom lip than your top lip.

Try it out at home, and see how simple it is. The safest way to go is to try neutral colours (think earth tones) and then to work your way up to some darker and brighter colours.
Easy-peasy!


Leave a comment and let me know how it goes.