SIX SHOTS for SEPTEMBER 2017

 

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This past month, most of my efforts were applied to launching my animal friendly beauty brand, Bosscat.  The first product is the Glam Edition Lash Box!  I decided to use a few of the pictures we have so far involving that! The product is just now beginning to hit the streets so it’s great to see these lashes on other people!

I will look at growth and where we are at this time next year before launching more products!  In the meantime, making videos is a renewed focus as I work on the marketing outreach! The link is above if you are a lash connoisseur ! Please feel free to follow the links on the Bosscat website if you want to see more social media!

As for blogging, there are more fashion posts coming soon, I have a renewed energy and focus and can’t wait to share!

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FALL RUSH

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Jessica Simpson booties, Forever 21 pants

 

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I am so happy to be pumping out a quick blog post!  We had a final cold snap so I was able to get in a final use out of my Johnny Was Sweater Wrap and a new Eshakti custom made to measure dress that they had sent me many weeks ago!

Of course, I couldn’t resist another black dress…but as I scanned the eshakti.com site, there were other things I was interested in as well! When this came in the mail, I tried it on immediately and of course I was shocked when it fit perfectly according to my measurements.

We were on our way to dinner and we were both extremely hangry and behind schedule for dinner so again….rushing.  However, my husband is really pushing me to continue to take time to work on my projects and hobbies so he has been a positive force.  Since Eshakti sent me this dress, it’s been patiently waiting in the queue to be worn! So BAM! Here she is.

After the remodel and the recent move, my home office is taking shape so I feel I can take some moments to live the dream. This means different things to different people. To me, it means that I follow my interests and dreams and work on what I love.

For weeks, my life was full of chandelier and tile shopping, staring at paint samples and researching design inspiration, and packing boxes.  Alone. With no help.  I think mt husband was doing that thing Jazzy would always do when she wanted to avoid something… look away thinking that if she wasn’t looking at it, it wasn’t really there. Ignore it.  he literally started packing the same day the movers came.

Now, I am in the mode of gardening and reworking the landscaping.  There was a hard freeze in January so plants that usually can hold on through the winter did not make it.  I love tropicals nestled in between evergreens so that the winter look is not bare and naked during the die down months of winter.  With landscaping, I get a bit obsessed, and am constantly buying plants. IT is my goal to eventually see absolute;y no fence!

Yes, tend to get obsessed with gardening so I am slowing down on that for now because I got a really great start on reestablishing the yard.  I want to share photos once Spring really kicks in.  I also started a mini garden with all types of tomatoes, peppers, onions and such.  I’m not putting a ton of work into them, but I want to see if I am nurturing enough before investing in a greenhouse.

We do have lemon and pear trees here already, and I added a fig tree a few weeks ago.  I feel so happy and complete when gardening and when things grow and look nice outside.  We love having trees and flowers that attract birds.

I guess my point is that I have been busy trying to finish the decorating, landscaping, and moving in process in general.

I am also working on product development for some things I am passionate about, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, there’s always blogging! This dress comes to you via Eshakti, and there are a million reasons to check out their site.  Out of those reasons, custom fit merchandise at the same price a common clothing item would cost, is the best reason!

If you check them out, or have ordered before, let me know what you think. The last dress they sent me was a retro fabulous, black and white number with a ton of fabric from the waist down…which meant I ended up in the feed of  some people’s “plus sized” Pinterest feeds ! LOL! Note to self, make more of an effort to appear thin in photos. 

I love Eshakti, and will probably head over there in a few minutes to see what else I can find! One thing is for sure…it will fit great when it arrives on your door step!

-March 27, 2017

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Easy Date

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I am an easy date.  I had been off all day running errands, but we had scheduled time together for a quick dinner out and a movie. We have a new favorite theater close to home, which has those reclining seats so we are super jazzed to go to the movies now more than ever.

There is a salad I love, at a restaurant he never wants to go to, so I offered to pay for dinner to make the prospect more attractive.  (Just a life lesson here…men absolutely love it when a woman offers to pay for something here or there. They melt.)

Which brings me to the big event near the end of our movie date. No, not that big event.   Throughout the movie, there was a girl next to my husband, who was clearly not that into the guy who brought her.  She was literally texting some other dude on her phone the entire time.

Ten minutes before the film is over, her date curses her loudly, threw her purse and phone down as he ran out of the theater calling her terrible names.  All of which were probably accurate.  My husband helped her pick up her MAC makeup that was all on the ground at our feet, before she left.  She had a sheepish look on her face as if…oh crap, he caught me, this is super embarrassing.  

As we left the theater a few minutes later, I’d looked around to offer her a ride, but then decided that the guy she was texting throughout the movie needed to come pick her up.

Back to me.  I’m an easy date for my husband.  Females do not really think enough about how much a simple movie and dinner night out costs these days.  My husband and I are so glad to not be part of the single universe. I know men hate it. My male friends…yes, even the rich ones constantly bitch about how expensive it is to date these days.  And they really hate it when the woman doesn’t think twice about the cost.

I literally got ready for my date in 25 minutes.  In and out of the tub, throw on a black Johnny Was Tunic and pretend it’s a dress, a scarf to look like effort was applied, and the coolest new Uggs  that will be a staple this winter because they are so comfortable.  My mean work peeps are like, “…but there’s maroon fur stuff on them” and I’m like “I will deal with it for the comfort factor.” I’d come across them at Nordstrom Rack and decided they were wonderful.

I love my life right now. I love my husband right now. We both are so happy which is kind of scary because you don’t want anything to happen to mess it up.  I tell young people all the time, that you do not know what love is. You can’t. You think a crumb of cake is exciting until you have an entire cake. Until you have an entire cake, you don’t know that a crumb is just a crumb.

A female friend of mine that’s almost 60, and about to get married again, after divorce and grown children recently said, “I have literally never been so in love and happy.”  This confirms my belief that we don’t know as much when we’re young. Generally speaking.

We left our movie date telling each other how much easier life is to not have to deal with dating people and hoping to come across a decent person. He then calls me an Easy Date which I can assume has a lot of different meanings.

-SDS

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On top of the all of the hats that I wear…I also have this little side gig called a full time job.  The stylists and managers that work with me are from a wide array of backgrounds and hear me when I tell you that each person brings their own personality with them in their handbag to work every day.

I am proud to say that we have a full time school teacher in our midst, who just enjoys the brand we represent, Johnny Was.  We also have another part time stylist that works full time at a doctor’s office. There are others among us with college degrees or makeup artist backgrounds, or both. Whatever the case may be, we all basically feel like we live together.  I guess that’s because we actually do. We spend 8 hours a day together which is probably more time than I see my husband.

On this day, I was trying to up the amp on a typical mandatory store meeting.  The deal was that we would do a mini photo session before the meeting for fun.

There is a really cool blank white wall, outside our store in Highland Village, that bloggers come by weekly to use as a make shift “studio” because the lighting is perfect most any time of day.  It’s like trying to herd cats, to get more than 3 people to look acceptable in a photo, but we had fun and it was something different to do.

I always tell young people that if you can do retail for any length of time, it will prepare you for absolutely anything the world has to throw at you in the future.  No matter where you work in the future, there will be challenging personalities in the workplace. Integrity and basic sanity are my top two prerequisites for hiring.  Insanity is far too disruptive in the workplace and you have to be able to get along in order to be relatively happy and productive at work. Integrity is everything.  If a person is the most intelligent being on the planet yet holds no integrity…what good are they? Everything else can be taught, but I can’t force integrity into a person. That was your parent’s job.

In the past, I’ve gone through spells of being self employed and working from home.  I actually missed being at a job and having work people. For the past year, these have been my work people. My days consist of making sure Fetus Randy’s mom doesn’t do any heavy lifting, sharing the joy in Haley’s engagement (and big ass ring) , wondering if Miranda’s cold is going to get us all sick,  and blending everyone’s life together through holidays, birthdays, weddings, deaths, vacations etc and keeping it real about why we are all here and what we are expected to do. Oh, and hell no…you can’t be off every Saturday. Are you insane ?

The ladies all decided that it was OK for them to star in my blog. Well, as long as they looked good. I thought it would be fun to show a peek into who I spend my days with. This is our #workflow.

-SDS

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