Thirty Powerful Minutes

Thirty Powerful Minutes

Thirty minutes of peace underway!! Just thirty minutes. Thirty minutes of peace. Thirty minutes away from the world. It is amazing just how powerful thirty minutes can be. Yesterday afternoon, for thirty minutes, I received my Anti-Ageing Facial from local esthetician, Jennifer Brown. Her brochure says the following about this facial: “Perfect for mature, sallow,…

FBFF:  Summer Trends

FBFF: Summer Trends

Flowers everywhere is a summer trend! Katy, at Modly Chic, has returned from her travels and selected SUMMER TRENDS for the Friday discussion. This will be a review for over50feeling40 readers, because all of the summer trends I selected to participate in this year have already been discussed on the blog. I would also like…

Thinking of Fitness Makeovers

Thinking of Fitness Makeovers

How do you start your day??  Is exercise a part of it? Fitness Makeovers. Have you heard of them? Have you experienced one? Pattie Hiesser, founder of the website, http://www.50fabulous.com/, writes this month about her awakening to the importance of fitness. We all know that it is important, but so many of us do not…

Smiling or Settling?

Smiling or Settling?

Jacket: Old Navy Top: Stein Mart Jeggings: Lane Bryant Necklace: Chico’s Bracelets: Various Purse: Marshall’s I smiled. That’s what I did when I looked at this outfit in the mirror…smiled. It’s my goal with every outfit. To smile. To feel good in what I am wearing whether it is for work, church, an occasion, or…

I Feel Your Pain!

I Feel Your Pain!

Back in the saddle again! Cami: Chico’s Marsh Landing Jacket: Goodwill, $2! Capris: Stein Mart Really, I do feel your pain! I have friends who live with pain every day…either from arthritis, carpal tunnel, sore backs, migraines, or other symptoms. They struggle with how to live life around pain. There are some reading this post…

Beware of the Buzzards

  They hover everyday near my end of town where this is lots of foliage and brush.  Hormonal-Dysfunctional. That is what my 18 year old son labeled me in the car yesterday! “Mom is hormonal-dysfunctional.” He doesn’t understand what hormones have to do with anything, but he understands that I am very punchy! My…

Fashion & Freedom

 The rule I am about to throw out the window is the old one which said don’t wear silver with gold or mix your metals!  Now, any mix goes  I had a whole different strategy for today’s post until I read what Serene had to say at http://elegantbohemian.blogspot.com/ I would like to encourage…