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Invest In: Massage

Not looking forward to this long and arduous work week, I set out to really pamper myself this last weekend. The debilitating knots in my shoulders told me the best thing to do was head down to Clear Awakening and see if lovely Carissa couldn’t alleviate months worth of computer work. Seattlites – this is Related posts:

  1. Invest in: A Little Pampering
  2. Invest In: Quality Time
  3. There IS Life…
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Relationship or bust

The Scenario:  You’re starting to panic a little bit.  It seems like you’ve been single FOR-EV-ER, and you’re starting to think you might be doomed to a life of celibacy, or a life of un-fulfilling dates with men who don’t do it for you.  You start to notice your thoughts as you step up to Related posts:

  1. The I in Relationship
  2. Wholestyle Manifesto
  3. Smart Words
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Invest In: Quality Time

This weekend, mortality sort of slapped me right in the face. It reminded me how important it is to take a step back from the rush and bustle and really invest some quality time in you, and in your loved ones. In the grand scheme of things, our lives seem so fleeting. Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. Thoughts on “Fame”
  3. Relationship or bust
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Value You

Do you ever toot your own horn, and then almost immediately panic – as if what you’ve done might not have been such a good idea? It’s like submitting a resume and then promptly experiencing some sort of terror that you’ll fail at what you’ve just submitted your resume for, or worse – you’ll Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. Invest In: An Updated Resumé
  3. Thoughts on “Fame”
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IFB Links à la Mode Presents: A Touch of Frivolity

A Touch of Frivolity Edited by Retro Chick It’s been a long time since pay day and this weeks Links à la Mode brings a touch of much needed frivolity as we crawl into the second month of a new decade. Idiosyncratic Style takes Scooby Doo’s Velma as her style inspiration, Dirty Hems is inspired by dolls Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode: Playing Dress-Up
  2. Style Vs. Fashion: Links à la Mode
  3. Links à la Mode: Ice Cold Lemonade
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Synchronicity

Everything is as it should be. Who you once were, who you are now – these things are fitting and right. You are precisely where you should be as a product of your choices and your actions, and you will go amazing places because your soul demands it. It is in this realization that you will Related posts:

  1. Oh! December!
  2. Wholestyle Manifesto
  3. We are Amazing
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Invest In: A New Year, A Fit You

At the forefront of many people’s resolutions lists, one is sure to find something regarding the words, “healthy, fit, gym, eat well.”   Every year-end, we’re bogged down with holiday foods – rich main dishes, loads of carbs, sweets galore.  It’s no wonder we come out of last year in an insulin haze, pushing ourselves Related posts:

  1. New Year, New Focus
  2. Invest In: An Updated Resumé
  3. Invest In: Quality Time
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The Holiday Spirit

This post was written by the AMAZING Scarlet, and I’m so overjoyed to be able to share her writing with you. Besides being an AWESOME stylist, and my BFF, she’s hilarious, incredibly smart, and a wealth of insight. I read this little note and had to ask if she’d let me post Related posts:

  1. Work Your Passion
  2. Oh! December!
  3. Those Bright Words…
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Best of 2009

Each New Year’s Eve, many of us look back upon the last year and say “this is what I still need to accomplish,” and sometimes, “I achieved these resolutions.”  It’s often a last minute thing, and it doesn’t really give you a good incentive to look back on what worked this year, and what was Related posts:

  1. Oh! December!
  2. Post Inauguration Obamania
  3. The Holiday Spirit
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Links à la Mode: Beyond Fashion

Beyond Fashion Edited by Retro Chick This weeks Links à la Mode blows away any preconceived ideas of the narcissistic fashion blogger posting endless outfit photos and magazine shoots by covering a huge array of topics. Ranging from Dream Sequins whimsical birthday tea party to High Fashion Girls detailed examination of racism in fashion magazines, these Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode: Ice Cold Lemonade
  2. Style Vs. Fashion: Links à la Mode
  3. IFB Links à la Mode Presents: A Touch of Frivolity
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More Beautiful Than Fiction

OMG!  *GASP!*  It’s published! (Photo and info on Blurb, or at MarkLaubenheimer.com) It started a couple months back, when I got an email from  Mark Laubenheimer.  Mark, a local (Seattle) photographer, takes gorgeous photos of normal people – untouched, unadulterated, using natural light and simple settings.  Mark needed a foreword for his newest project, and after stumbling Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. Beautiful Diva
  3. Embrace Yourself
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Wholestyle on the Web: Week of 10/16/09

It’s that time of the week again and we’ve got some amazing articles to satisfy your wholestyle sweet-tooth!  Since the roundup’s been growing by leaps and bounds, we decided to break the articles up into categories for easy browsing.  We are currently discussing posting more than one link per source, as long as the articles Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. Media Literacy Week: What Does it Mean?
  3. Media Literacy Week: How Will We Screw Ourselves?
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The Art of Self Love

It’s not enough to be mere amazing mortals, we continually have to be something more. We have to be brighter, we have to be bigger. We must be smarter and faster. We must be genius and impress others with our sense of style. We must be the famed writers, the acclaimed Related posts:

  1. Thursday’s Love List
  2. The Inevitable
  3. Are We Ever Satisified?
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Work Your Passion

Slowly, you are gravitating towards doing what you love for a living. As you read this statement you’re probably thinking about your day job and what you do, and the implications of why you’re not doing what you love. I ask you: What do you do out of love, and what do you do out Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. The Holiday Spirit
  3. Breaking the System
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New Adventures: Bellydance at VDP

Bellydance… the word seems exotic and conjures images of beautiful girls in wispy, gauzy fabrics, jingling as they shimmy to eastern drum beats.  It almost seems like an impossible feat – the ambidextrous isolation of only your hips, only your torso, while making a strong statement in body movement.  When I tell friends I’ve enrolled Related posts:

  1. Thursday’s Love List
  2. Wholestyle Manifesto
  3. Things to do Before Summer Ends
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Life à la mode

I was having a conversation last night with Mister about how the human condition is a struggle to come to terms with our own mortality.  In that, it seems like we’re trying to accomplish so much that sometimes we miss out on the finer points in life – the time spent to yourself on the Related posts:

  1. There IS Life…
  2. New Year, New Focus
  3. Perseverance
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Links à la Mode: Playing Dress-Up

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup -  Playing Dress Up Edited by Jordana I’m in the process of moving to New York City, just in time for Fashion Week, which kicks off in two weeks. In browsing through all the link submissions this week, I couldn’t help but tie it all back to one very Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode : The Heavyweights
  2. Style Vs. Fashion: Links à la Mode
  3. Links à la Mode: Ice Cold Lemonade
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Wholeness

I am whole. Every part of me is a part of the package deal that you get when you sign up. I am “fairy hair” and tattoos. I am a love for books and a strong hate for raisins. I am a little burlesque, a little rocker, a little My Little Pony with Related posts:

  1. More Beautiful Than Fiction
  2. Thursday’s Love List
  3. La bonne vie commence!
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Blogging: Believe in You

This is my note to writers – as a writer we all go through periods of serious blasé when it comes to cranking out material. There’s no reason to fault yourself for this – part of creating is the ebb and flow of creative process. It can’t come to you all the time, Related posts:

  1. Invest In: An Updated Resumé
  2. The Art of Self Love
  3. Embrace Yourself
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Wholestyle Manifesto

Your personal style is made up of so many more factors than what you wear, how you dress, or what color your hair is that day.  While talking about this, Jaka – from Jaka’s Tea Party – and I drafted up an idea of wholestyle.  Jaka wrote it out and it ended up like this: ========= The Related posts:

  1. More Beautiful Than Fiction
  2. Smart Words
  3. Community
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