My Two Cents

Most Stylish 8 Year Old! He's adorable!

2009-03-11T21:14:00.003-05:00

I ran across this stylish little heartbreaker in The Cut. He is simply adorable, and has a pretty developed taste of fashion for an 8 year old. It seems to me that children are much more daring and adventurous in their clothing. A little girl will think nothing of wearing her favorite princess dress out of the house, and children love coming up with outlandish outfits. I think many adults play their outfits too safe. Also, we seem to have created a culture of uniforms where no one gets to express their individuality, but must blend to create one identifiable group identity.
While this can be helpful when your looking for a Best Buy clerk, it also makes the world so bland.

Be sure to see the slideshow of the most fashionable 8 year old I've ever seen! Enjoy :)

Cheer up your shoes with Ruffle Spats

2009-03-04T15:19:00.006-06:00

I ran across these adorable brown leather/wool houndstuth ruffle spats at the Etsy shop of ashesandempires.

Sellers Description: " ..a pair of leather and wool houndstooth spats with a cute leather ruffle at the bottom. They are fully lined with a combo of leather facing and cotton.Spats are a great way to add some variation to your wardrobe without having to shell out the bux for a new pair of shoes!"

I think these spats are simply adorable ... and it could be fun to switch out the colors of the lacing from black to say brown or a burnt orange. I would of loved to have had these this winter, but they are fabulous for fall/winter or winter/spring transitions. They are available in other color schemes as well so visit ashesandempires for more spats!

Stop Being A Victim

2008-06-30T11:22:00.003-05:00

"If we could change one thing about ourselves to see the greatest gain, it would be to stop being the victim. Too many believe they are destined to be victims of broken relationships, disease, poverty, and overbearing personalities - and they say it over and over again. How we see ourselves makes all the difference. If being brow beaten is security, we will always be the underdog. Day after day we throw ourselves into the path of what we think we deserve. But we can change that pattern. We can stop repeating what we have heard all our lives, and begin talking to ourselves with good words. We have hidden gold within us and as soon as we learn it, we will get out of the lunacy of being the perpetual victim."
- Excerpt from Cherokee Feast of Days by Joyce Sequichie Hifler.

"We must help one another and the Great Spirit will help us both."
- Pied Richie

What is love?

2008-06-29T12:53:00.004-05:00

"Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody], Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law."
- Romans 13:10

"There are things that we shouldn't do, simply because we love God, and because we don't want to hurt somebody else's conscience. We may have the freedom to do these things, but our freedom could offend others, or cause them to do something against their conscience, and thus sin against God.
If you walk in love today, there may be things that you have the right to do, but the Holy Spirit will prompt you not to exercise your right out of love for someone who is watching you. Love never demands its own way. Love is always the higher law."
- Excerpt from Starting Your Day Right by Joyce Meyers.

"If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. "
- 1 Corinthians 13 1:13