Be Inspired Monday: Joy

This quote to me inspires JOY!

To live a life without joy is poison to our soul.

Live Joy and Joy will become you.

Be Inspired this Monday to live a life inspired by Joy!

Be Inspired Monday: Do Something Today

Good Morning Friends...we have been ignoring our little blog

 and it's about time we started up again.  

Therefore, this morning we wanted to inspire you to do something...

you have been putting off. 

Be Inspired this Month to do one of the following and just think...

it can all become habits you engage in every day!!

Happy Monday!!

Be Inspired Monday: Work Hard =Success

Good Morning Friends....

Here is something to inspire you this Monday.

We all want to believe that work hard equals success of some kind because if this was not true...

we would all be very unhappy.  Believe that hard work pays off in the end 

and be inspired to start what you thought was hard today...

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Be Inspired Monday: Habits

Be motivated to create new habits and make them stick.

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Wednesday Fashion Item: Faith

If you don’t know Faith, then you are missing out so much. She is one of those bloggers you just fall in love with and you keep going to her online home to get to know her better.

Her smile wins the coldest of hearts. The more she shares her fashion sense the more I love what she wears.

This outfit called me to share it here on TC30s. I love the blazer, the top, the necklace, the jeans and those shoes are killers. The colour combination is perfect, so fresh and springy {is that a word?}

Faith @Life.Love&Marriage

What do you think of Melissa’s style?

Be Inspired Monday: Spring Forward

Spring Time is around the corner and i am reminded

 that Spring brings new growth and what a better time for us

 to remind ourselves about areas in our lives that still need some growth....big or small.

 Old things can become new. And what a great opportunity for us all to

 Spring forward and make our dreams come true....big or small.   

And also while we are in the mood for Spring...here are a few things you can do.

Be Motivated this Monday to Spring Forward!!!

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Wednesday Fashion Item: Sandee

I just found her blog and I must say she rocks her outfits all the time. I love her style.  That baby pink frill skirt is going on my most wanted fashion items

Sandeee @CurvEnvy

What do you think of Sandee’s style?

Wednesday Fashion Item: Melissa

Melissa is a mother of two, she blogs at Dear Baby, where you can find anything related to her life as a mother, wife and fashionista.

She always looks amazing in all her outfit. Yesterday, I saw this outfit post and I couldn’t resist but share it here with my TC30s readers.

This picture inspired me to focus on taking care of my health and style to be the yummy mummy I always dreamt to become. I have a beautiful daughter and now I need to become a beautiful/stylish mother.

Melissa @ Dear Baby

 

What do you think of Melissa’s style?

Be Inspired Monday: Live Life This...

If we all lived the way this quote instructs...we would all be better for it!!

Be Motivated this Monday...to do what you can today to live life like this...

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Be Inspired Monday:

I have been a bit MIA with Be Inspired Monday 

and I wanted to bring it back full force today.

Being inspired can be a difficult thing sometimes

 but it should never be something we don't strive for because of lack of motivation. 

We are who we become because of the limitations we put on ourselves.

And we should choose to live our lives limitless...there is nothing we can't do...

there is nothing we should choose not to do...

And the quote below says it all...

Be Inspired this Monday to be the best version of yourself.

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Wednesday Fashion Item: Date Night Outfit

If you follow my personal blog, then you already know that Saturday, AMI and I went on a date. I dressed up, applied make up, lip gloss and mascara. So I can resist but share it on TC30s.

so this is the outfit I wore. flats: shelley made in italy/ coat: Sisley italy/ dress: Vero Moda/ tight: Calzedonia/ {cardigan| scarf| earrings}: no name

I bought the dress last year but hadn’t had the chance to wear it until Saturday. It felt good to wear a brand new dress.

Do you like dressing up? How often do you go on a date?

xoxo, TOI

Be Inspired Monday: New

Sometimes NEW is good...
Be inspired this Monday to Start something NEW without fear!!!
Starting Over can be a challenging and difficult process
 however depending on the lenses you are wearing when the NEW begins....
you may be in for an awesome opportunity.

What is that you need to do NEW??

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Wednesday Fashion Item: Red + Grey

This outfit photo shoot was previously featured on mine personal blog.

Red is my colour #1 and I love the way it compliments the grey cardigan and scarf.  boots: hunter/ dress: Old Navy/ cardigan: garage/ scarf+gloves: no name/ tight+bodies: intimissimi/ spec: 39dollarglasses (10% off your purchase with the code TOI13)/ hat: everest designs

What’s your favourite colour? Do you wear it often?

xoxo, TOI

Wednesday Fashion Item: Valentine’s Day Special

Tomorrow is Valentine’s day and I hope these finds help me wear something romantic  

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what are you going to wear for the special day of love?

Wednesday Fashion Item: Fashion Gone Bad

I love Lauren Conrad’s style, so down to earth but sometimes few times even Lauren gets it wrong like us mortal people.

What do you think of Lauren Conrad’s style? Would you borrow it?

Be Inspired Monday: Perserver

Hope you all had an awesome Super Bowl Night and your team won....

If not....there is always next year.

But the Super Bowl reminds me that....

No matter what the odds are...

it is never a good time to back down.

Perserver in the midst of adversity....

Out of darkness....lightness shall prevail.

Here's to being Inspired this Monday to Perserver!!!

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Be Inspired Monday: Be Strong

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Wednesday Fashion Item: The First Lady

Though the hair at the second term inauguration day was not one of her best, i love the first lady’s style.

How about you, would you steal her style?

xoxo, TOI

Be Inspired Monday: Smile

Sometimes we forget what is most important...

Let us remember to smile because of the events that happened...

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Wednesday Fashion Item: Solange

she is the Knowles sister I wouldn’t mind stealing her wardrobe. her style is quirky, flirty and fun!

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i liked her before, but like even more after she decided to chop her hair and try to go natural. most Hollywood beauties lookalike, so when she decided ‘to stand out’ among the many, i took it as breath of fresh air in my opinion

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another thing i like about her style is her love for African textile. I LO.VE IT!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Which one of the Knowles would you steal her style?

Please share with me,

xoxo TOI!

Be Inspired Monday: Happiness

Sometimes you hear about someone's circumstances and more 

than anything you want to wish that person,
who is going through the difficult/challenging time, nothing but happiness! 

 Some people deserve happiness in their lives more than anything sometimes.  

I want to inspire you today to think of someone 

you know that needs a little more happy in their life and offer it to them...

in a smile, hug, look, word...whichever way you can offer it...
it may make their day.

Be Inspired this Monday to bring happiness to someone else!!!

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{Repost} Fitness, Food & Fun Friday: (Guest Blogger) Hitting the Wall

I am so pumped about our guest blogger!

You remember when you were young and you really wanted that cool girl to be your friend? Well that's how i felt about Ms. Drazil & Sheniqua! Therefore, I was very excited when she agreed to be a guest blogger for TC30s!

The first time I read Drazil & Sheniqua's blog, I was a little confused because I thought it was about two people until I read further ahead and found out that there were two people but in one person! Herself and her alter ego! Drazil is the inner "lizard/demons" and Sheniqua is her extra 15lbs. Her story is one that we can all relate to. The story of our constant search for self-love and self-worth throughout our teens, twenties, thirties and beyond!

As soon as you read her blog, you can hear her comedic chops and it is refreshing to have so much honesty in the blogging world. I mean her tag line is: ...bathing in rainbows skittles and farting gumdrops while we search for our ever-elusive inner peace and self-love! Gotta love her!

In her unique, fun and fabulous way she shares some confessions about her experiences related to fitness, food & fun! But I will stop and let her talk for herself. Enjoy our guest blogger ladies, we certainly did!

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Food, Fitness and Fun. Yup, that’s what I was asked to write about. And that’s exactly when I drew a blank.

If I’m being honest – it’s the word “fun” that threw me off completely. Food and fun? Well, heck yes. BEFORE I became a Nutrisystem fruitcake and followed it to the letter and food just became fuel for my body.

Who would have guessed?

That leaves me to fitness and fun? Whhaaatttt? Can you really put those two together?

I have no flipping idea. I mean, Casey Anthony is walking free so really – anything can happen right?

I can tell you from experience that a person can start craving and needing and wanting fitness. And that in itself is FUN if you’ve never felt it before.

Speaking of new things during workouts…there are two specific things I had never experienced before I began running and they are “the wall” and “the runner’s high”.

How many of you have ever heard of either one?

I have often talked about “hitting the wall” as a worker-outer on my blog. That’s – by technical definition (lol) – the minutes or few minutes during your workout when you want to die or hork up a lung or just sit the hell down and stop.

Quitting is the only thing you can hear, see and breathe and it becomes your main objective. You start telling yourself – “just five more minutes and you can be done”…..

And then? You get to the end of the five minutes and you’re still standing and you have both your lungs and suddenly you feel like you could fly.

You know that if you had to – you could endure this “fitness stuff” for hours and hours more. You almost feel “high”.

That my friends is called “climbing the wall” and “the runner’s high” – in my case cuz it only happens to me when I run. I’ve heard you can experience it during most kinds of fitness.

I thought I was the only one who spoke of this invisible wall theory. For me, it always hits at about 20 minutes in…and I tell myself if I can stick it out to 25 – then I can quit.

25 minutes comes and I always go on to 60 or more. I have never once actually stopped when I hit 25.

Turns out MANY people have a wall – each at their own minute or mile or spot in their workout. A fellow 10 mile a day runner friend of mine says he hits his wall at 5 miles into a run. If he can make it past that – he could run all day. This is a guy who has completed 50 mile marathons and yes folks – even he has a wall.

Another friend says 3 miles is his wall hitting point. If he makes it past that you can try to catch him but he’ll probably outrun you every time.

I guess the point of my story is – just do it. (Sorry Nike). Even the most experienced exercisers have limits and walls and moments of not wanting to continue or get up and keep going.

But they do.

And the payoff is worth it.

It’s a free high.

It’s not available on any supermarket shelf or department store kiosk. You can’t buy it even if you have all the money in the world.

You have to earn this high and once you do – I promise you – you’ll be back for more.

So tell me?

When do you hit your wall? When do you feel the high?

And if you don’t know – what are you waiting for?

GO FIND OUT!

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Thank you Drazil & Sheniqua and we appreciate the woman infront of you! 
Ladies, please check her out when you can at "It's Juse Me, Drazil & Sheniqua" and give her loads of love and fist pumps!

Wednesday Fashion Item: Fashion Gone Bad Edition

RIHANNA

so she sung Good Girl Gone Bad. With that first album her fashion was clean cut. Then things started to take a different. I believe Rihanna is one of the singers that lived her albums to a level. Every year she has a new look which walks along side her current album.

Apparently her provocative fashion sense is a therapy because she doesn’t feel confident in her body. Darn that entertainment industry that sucks confidence out of its people.

I am happy to see that her confidence is slowly returning with her latest album.

Good luck Miss Rihanna.

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