New day

I have a ton of things going on all over the place. However God has it under control. I just have to trust him, have faith, walk in it and be obedient. He has placed great people in my life and for that I am super grateful. I have a fabulous church family here that is really supportive and caring. Friends too who have my back. So its all good.

Its a new season..

Our father..

So I was talking this morning to one of my coworkers and I just had to write
this down before I forget. Now if you have read some of my earlier blogs you
would know how much I love the work I do in Jr. Kidz church at LWFC where I
go to church. This morning for about 5 minutes I talked with my colleague
about last night. One of my kids, who I absolutely adore, can at times be a
little challenging. I have discussed with her mother (who is also my friend)
that she is a natural leader but just needs to work on her skills as a
follower and a listener. In any case last night she was helping one of the
kids with picking up a ball after he threw it. At a certain point I was
closer and I said "give it to me, I will give it to him, and she made a huge
stink about it. We have had this situation happen several times where I have
asked her to do something and she doesn't understand why or agree so she
doesn't want to obey. So because we have been working on this it kind of
forced me to now have to insist that she give the ball to me first. So she
got very upset with me and then she got over it 30 seconds later when it was
her turn to throw the ball. Anyway that is just a little background. My
coworker told me a story about his kid being sick and acting out and at a
certain point he had to stop allowing that to be an excuse for that bad
behavior and start disciplining him for it. We talked about how these things
are necessary and for the good of the child even though they don't think so
at the time. I came back to my desk and thought of the analogy for how God
deals with us sometimes. In my situation, I know that sometimes God has
specified something he wants me to do. Well I make a decision because I
don't understand why or I just simply want to do it my way. But because he
loves me and knows whats best for me. He corrects me and i don't like it.
But eventually I come around. Anyway the point is that God is trying to
parent us because it makes us better, it helps us to take the skills we have
and develop them into the potential he sees for us. In the second situation
it reminds me that even though we may be going through changes and the
things that life throws at us, God still has an expectation of obedience. He
has mercy, but continued disobedience will yield consequences. But it is
because He loves us.

Today i thought ...

Today i thought about Ephesians 3:14-19 and am praying that over myself. To have the power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. And to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that i be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Faith...

Some things i heard today...
Faith will help you to endure your current situation or to enter into a better one.

You will always act like the person you believe you are.

No pics today

That's ok. I didn't take any and now I am getting ready to go to bed. I had an 8 am con call this morning. I thought for 1 second, i could just take a quick snap. Then I realized that there is no quick snap with me. So that is that.

ok i am tired..later..

Peach and Purple

Yesterday was more peachy today more purple...

Yesterday I experimented with MAC Paradisco and Cranberry, trying to recreate the look my new MAC freelance buddy AG gave me. She was using some other colors I don't have that I really want, particularly Coppering. MAC is having a 25% off sale for the next day or so, so I am in heavy debate about buying some stuff. Although I really should be spending that money more wisely, since it is clearly not a necessity. Anyway back to the look. I used some stuff out of my Coastal Scents 88 Shimmery Palette. I gave the matte one to my sister then had to rebuy it. So I am waiting on that delivery. I love shimmer..lol..

Anyway, I still didn't get it quite right, although I am still pleased with the outcome. Also my eyebrows are in really rough shape so I have been giving them quite a bit of assistance to make them look decent.

Today I used less MAC and more Coastal Scents Shimmer. So there are too many colors to name because I started out with blueish green and it didn't have enough pigment too it, then I was like, ok why not try brown, again I didn't like, so then i tried a violet on top of it and I was happy. So I will never be able to create this exact color again, but oh well..lol. I have it in a picture.

I don't have any pics from monday because I had a 6:30 am flight from NY to Raleigh. I felt tired and didn't want to take apic although, I probably could have.. I had on a nice shade of blue. This weekend I was busy with my new neice and my family in NY. So excited about that. I had a date which ended horribly, but I won't go into that, but I spruced myself up for that one. I should have taken a pic, it was blue too, to match my shirt. Oh well, next time.

I will say that dating has been interesting, so much excitement then disappointment when things don't go as planned, then excitement again. I have had some good ones and Lord knows I have had some bad ones. But I am really enjoying the experience over all. Ok enough of that..

I am going to try to think up something different to do tomorrow..

Not my best day...but thats ok

So today i look a little tired...but this morning was the first day i used my de-potted eye shadows in my 15 eyeshadow palette. Inspired by one of my girls I used Paradisco, then Cranberry Retrospeck, Shroom, Mulch, and Bamboom paint.

MAC Day!

As much as I would like to take credit for this, because it is fantastic, one of my girls a newly hired MAC makeup artist, was practicing on me the night before her interview.



Fabulous job!

Starting Eye of the day - Smokey

So I decided that I am going to use my blog as a way to chronicle my current interest in makeup and fashion. Since I am not using it to ramble on about my life. Although there is church, work, dating, family, and friends to go on about. I just can't seem to bring myself to get on here, so this daily upload of my eye's and outfit might just be it. Since I do it everyday..for other reasons..don't ask.

OK so here is today, that is what we will start with today..the smokey eye..

Also, I am going to backtrack all the eye pics I took of the past couple of weeks. I did 4 or so already, the rest later.

Pink Eye..

Although I was wearing browns today, I decided to depart from being matchy-matchy, which I had started doing and just go with a feeling..and this day it was pink..

I am deciding if I am going to post my outfit too.. hmm..

Lime Greeny

So.. I tried to recreate the birthday look with a more limey-type feel..



Once again.. I was pleased.

My Birthday

So June 1st is my birthday, and I decided to go for my absolute favorite color which is green. I wish I new exactly what I did here, but it is literally impossible for me to replicate any of these looks. But I was really happy with the outcome!

I also had a bit of help in the lash department, courtesy of MAC #7's.

Purpley

This was more of a purple-ish day for me...

Blogging..on again..

So........I haven't blogged in a while. A lot's been going on and I haven't really been in the blogging mood. But I have been looking around on a lot of different blogs lately; fashion, weight loss, makeup, etc and it has made me think about blogging again. It would be nice if I had a topical sort of thing going on, but I don't. So I will try to put labels for my posts thats the best I can do.

I am home for my mom's retirement party, which was really nice, I have to say, I am glad I came up to NY for it. Right now I am chilling in my parents house in Long Island, watching X-Man Origins - Wolverine. It is really good, however, it's a "production cut" which is why I am watching it at home AND the computer graphics haven't all been put in. So I can see the strings when people are doing stunts. Then some of the background scenery looks super fake.

Anyway, I am going to go now, Dad's outside BBQ'ing... I can't wait!

Missing In Action...

I know I have been M.I.A. and I haven't blogged in a really long time, not because I didn't have a ton of things going on, but because I wasn't sure how many of them I wanted to put out here..lol.. My life has been revolving around work, church, and dating. Which is what I was most hesitant to bring up. My dating life for the past few months has been somewhat of a relvolving door, but I guess that is what dating is. I have been making jokes about writing a book on my experiences with going out and meeting guys and going out on dates, because it seems almost fantastical the types of people I have come across.

 

So with that said, I guess i can't blog about it since it is material for my book, but suffice it to say if nothing else it will be entertaining.

 

But I think i will start blogging about my couponing, which is A-MAZING the amount of money I have been saving. I will put some of my deals up for you to see one of these days.  Muffin is in obedience school so that is funny, I might take a little video of how much she DOESN"T obey me now..hopefully it will be a good progression from disobedience to obedience...

 

We will see...