Happy Monday

Good evening, I hope you had an awesome day. I have to admit my day started slow and I felt blah the majority of the day. I started the clean eating cleanse on Thursday and by Friday evening my attitude changed, not to mention the horrible sugar detoxing headache. Saturday was a little better when I began my one clean meal and 2 shakes/smoothies daily. (I'll post more about my cleanse and supplements in a different post).

My high, the best moment of today is that my awesome big sister got married...I am so happy for her. That totally made my day.

What was your high, best moment of the day?

WTF, Actually that's Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

Good early morning, I've had my challenges the last couple days. We anticipated a huge storm on Wednesday but the rain wasn't too bad, however, my power went out. *cue sad face*. I thought my power would come back on after a couple hours at the most but I was wrong. It stayed out until after I went to work after noon on Thursday. Usually my power doesn't go out so I was a little lost. It did make me aware I need a plan. I will research "in case of emergency" plans and share the links. Well my power is back and I'm a happy camper. 

I missed Wordless Wednesday so I'll just double up next week.

My new news, I finally made the purchase and have AppleTV. Let me just say it was amazing and very entertaining / informative watching YouTube and my favorite bloggers on the big screen. It also made me realize I need to do a better job with my videos. I am going to use different tools/cameras for videos and see if any offer the quality I'm seeking. Please offer your recommendations if you don't mind sharing what you use.

Yesterday also marked my first day of clean eating. I struggled with breakfast because I had no power but I managed to avoid temptation and not eat anything "bad" in my house. 

It's FRIDAY, TGIF!!! 

I guess I'll try and blog about today's adventures tonight. Have an awesomeness day!

-Sonya 

Talkative Tuesday - Sonya's Edition

Good evening *waves*

I decided to do something different and post a video...

I hope you are motivated to join, like, and subscribe to us on social media.

-Sonya

Really??? Yes, I'm Watching...

...Monday Night Football. It's awesome and I'm interested in the game. I'm learning my players and trying to decide who's jersey I'm going to wear. Slay is doing his thing or at least I'm impressed with him so far. I have to cheer and show love for Detroit's own Bell, and I can't forget Johnson, Bush and Tate are my second favs. All in all, so far so good...it doesn't hurt were winning now...I interrupt my post...could it be that we just got a turnover...fingers crossed for a favorable call and we get the ball. YAY INTERCEPTION LIONS!!! I hope we get a "W" tonight.

Came back to add, woohoo, another interception and great decision QB, I see you Stafford.

Are You Ready For Some Football?

It's the beginning of FOOTBALL SEASON and the beginning of the struggle with Kayla and Sonya. We are so different when it comes to sports.

Kayla loves sports!!! She can tell you different facts about players, give you stats from college and sometimes even high school. She is truly a fan.

On the other hand, I am completely different. I will go to games but I can't tell you the players (unless they're on a reality show or dating someone on a reality show). I can only tell who win and lose because of other people's FB stats, tweets, or on Instagram.

Game days for Kayla are like tailgating. She will be out or home with her jersey (custom made, see picture below), cold beer and some type game day food enjoying the games.

I'm usually napping, relaxing, drinking, shopping or visiting, basically nothing whatsoever dealing with sports.

Packages, Packages...Oh My!

Good morning,

I realized that I usually don't post what's in my packages. I will mention that I love getting packages but never show what I received. Well today that changes, below are pictures of some of my favorite necklaces. I love them and cannot wait to wear them.

Well without delaying you any longer, here they are...

It's Friday, TGIF

It's Friday, for some it's the best day of the week. Are you one that looks forward to the weekend?

Well I feel like it's a holiday, a bonus, close to the best day ever, just kidding. I know you're probably tired of hearing about my braids but they are coming out today. WOOHOO!!!

That's actually not why I'm posting today. I want to share (and encourage you to join me if you wish) that I'm doing Dr. Junger's  Clean Cleanse. It is a 31 day program that I can extend if I wish. I start on Tuesday with 3 days of the Pre-Cleanse, 21 days of the Cleanse (or longer), and 7 days of Reintroduction. Please visit the website to see if you are interested.

I will discuss and update how I'm feeling throughout the Cleanse. I'm looking forward to this lifestyle change and I hope I can encourage you to join me.

Happy Friday!

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My Last Night

I decided to have an impromptu photo shoot in honor of my last night with box braids. I enjoyed playing with my hair, with my accessories, and with lipsticks. I did 4 different hairstyles, different accessories and different lipsticks. You can't notice but I changed lipstick colors and tried to match the accessories. In the attached pictures I wore purple, blue,  black, and red lipstick. Well, without holding you up any longer, I hope you like my shoot...

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New Style, New Attitude

I'm not sure what happened but I typed the below message almost 3 weeks ago when I first had my hair braided.

Good afternoon...

I'm excited, I've wanted braids for a long time (like over 5 years) and I finally went to get my hair braided. I love my box braids. I cannot wait until they loosen some so I can begin to style them. I have to admit I didn't know they would be so heavy, a little painful, and that I wouldn't know how to sleep, lol. Here are some pictures and I will post more in detail next weekend. Have an awesomeness day and thanks for reading.

Fast forward to today...

BOX BRAIDS ARE HARD!!!

I have had 3 weeks of struggles. I thought braids were supposed to be easy. I thought wake up in the morning, do something simple to my braids and have a beautiful style all day. I thought my time getting ready would be reduced. I WAS WRONG.I went from quick hairstyles to spending over 30-45 minutes trying to styles my braids and they look horrible. I had so many misconceptions. I've had "braids shock".  With all the problems, time consuming days, having co-workers help me, I wouldn't trade my braids experience. I've also decided instead of braids, get twists...and use a professional.  

Off to research how long my hair needs to rest before I attempt twists.

Wish me luck...

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You KNOW I had to do it..........

Good Afternoon Lovelies……

No matter what type of eating regimen that I am on there are two constants in my life that are my dear, dear LOVES and I cannot even imagine parting with, not even for a day……Coffee and Potatoes.  I love all types of Potatoes; baked, mashed, broiled, grilled, fried and of course, potato chips.  Which leads me to the topic of today’s entry………Lays Cappuccino flavored chips.  Now you know that I could not pass on the opportunity to do a taste test for you guys.  I have already prefaced this test with the fact that I am both a coffee and chip lover, which already favors well for this bag of Lays.  Chad Scott, the finalist that entered the Cappuccino flavor, is a coffee lover from Modesto, CA.  My kinda guy.  So…….let’s get started.

First of all, you probably already know what the bag looks like…….. 

After opening the bag, I took a whiff…..smells like coffee and cinnamon. YUM!!!  

After opening the bag, I took a whiff…..smells like coffee and cinnamon. YUM!!!   The first bite is quite unique.  The smell overpowers the taste so I get no chip flavor, only coffee flavoring with a chip crunch.  With my second chip, I get the same flavor, texture combo.  Because there are not two flavors competing with one another, I actually like what I taste.  I was a bit skeptical but overall, it is not bad, not bad at all.

Greetings from Pensacola

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Monarch Butterflies make me Happy!!

Good Afternoon Lovelies……

Although I do LOVE Summer so very much, I do appreciate the fall, particularly the colors.  This is why I was so excited to get my package yesterday evening in the mail.  I was watching YouTube a few weeks ago and saw the most gorgeous pair of earrings on Ms. Toni Daley (Tonidaley.com).  I absolutely adore her earrings and already have a few pair but THIS pair was EVERYTHING.  I knew I had to have them so I ordered a pair.  First, let me say that as soon as I saw them, I was immediately reminded of the fall and here is why……

Monarch Butterflies!!!!  I thought that the caged packaging was brilliant and I that made them even more unique and gorgeous.  I can’t wait to try them on for a little spin at the first tough of cool, autumn air.  If you, like me, have a thing for unique earrings, please check out Ms. Daley’s website for some fancy items……

 

I Love Packages

Happy Monday...

Don't you just love coming home to packages?

I have been on a mini shopping spree lately and I love packages. I decided to shop more in my attempt to shed my "Plain Jane" shell. I hope to have a complete wardrobe with all cute clothes instead of trying to make a cute outfit.

I hope you all will agree that I'm transforming but for now I'm off to open my packages.

It's Monday and I am blogging again.........

Good Afternoon Lovelies……

I am back; well, for now that is.  I find it really difficult to stay on task and blog regularly.  I think that I put too much pressure to deliver a blog worth reading.  I really have no desire to post just for the sake of saying that I posted but I need to find some motivation that will keep me posting regularly.  I’m sure you guys can relate.  This summer has literally flown right on by.  This has been a very challenging year for me.  I lost some very important people in my life.  My Aunt passed away in April and she was literally my second Mother.  I was totally devastated by her passing.  When I was just beginning to get my feet under me, my Father passed away.  He had been ill for about a year buthis passing was still an immense shock and beyond devastating.  I am slowly trying to come to grips with the fact that I won’t see or talk to these extremely important people in my life again.  Everything outwardly tells me that I am coping and that I am slowly getting back to normal but something deep down inside refuses to budge.  I feel like I am running around and around and going nowhere.  My daily life has become an existence.  I’ve traveled more than usual this summer hoping that in some small way, I can begin to enjoy some parts of my life again.  In many ways it has become nothing more than a shield or sorts; allowing me to appear to be healing.  I am hoping that getting back to something that I love, writing, will help me begin the healing process.  This post may be a bit more than you bargained for from a fashion blog but, I felt I owed it to myself to be true to what I feel on any given day and today, I felt like using this blog as therapy.  Until the next post……..  

Throwback Thursday: Kayla and Sonya

We don't get together nearly enough but when we do....we're usually having a ball. In honor of Throwback Thursday here's a few pictures of us out and about.

Wordless Wednesday: Sonya's Selfies Edition