How to Have a Lovely Day

This was on another blog I look at everyday, here is some good advice about having a LOVELY day:

1. Drink tea.
2. Wear something that makes you feel good.
3. Say please and thank you.
4. Tell someone you love them.
5. Eat dessert first.
6. Watch the sunrise or the sunset, which you may be morning or evening person.
7. Wear perfume.
8. Smile, alot!
9. Read a book.
10. Cook or bake for someone else.
11. Wish others a lovely day.
12. Watch a good movie before going to bed.
13. Exercise.

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau


"The simply luxurious life is something that I believe every one of us can attain if indeed we are seeking quality rather than quantity, decadence rather than frivolity, personal style instead of trendy fashions and a truly fulfilling life instead of being led around by the nose. Thereby creating a life of true contentment."
-Shannon Ables

"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to be Lovely

So, if you don't already know, I am obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. She is someone whom I look up to and have so much respect for, not only in her style but in her life priniples. She is such a classy and greaceful woman, I strive to be half as a woman as she was to her family, friends, and anyone she came in contact with.

I was looking around on the internet and found a neat site that shared so much on being a true lady and having a lovely spirit. I loved the website! Its called elegantwoman.org....check it out!

Here are some tips from the website:

How To Be Lovely
She who is altogether lovely...

is generous with her smile
is kind
is on time, if not a little early.
believes others come first.
is disciplined in her mind and heart.
is impeccable in appearance.
has a good work ethic.
has a balanced life with her values intact
loves.
never lets herself believe that anybody is different from anybody.
is gracious.
is authentic and never puts on pretenses.
is a giver.


*How to be lovely as Audrey Hepburn?

She is one who...

is generous with her smile.

is kind.

is on time, if not a little early.

believes others come first.

is disciplined in mind and heart.

is impeccable in appearance.

has a good work ethic.

has a balanced life with her values intact.

loves.

treats everyone the same.

is gracious.

is authentic and never puts on pretenses.



"The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings...I'm a long way from the human being I'd like to be. But I've decided I'm not so bad after all." AH

"The song of the redeemed, the echoes of those made free."

For the new years, one of my goals for this year is to read every Beth Moore study. I am so excited for this because I literally have been known to read through her books in about three days. Her wisdom and power is something that is God given and it is only the Lord that speaks through her. There is so much freedom and grace in her words. And the Lord uses her to speak to men and women who have been through everything stemming from good to bad. In the second book of hers for the year, it was an eye opening study, but it was worth every word I read in her study. This study is called When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction. There is so many lessons to learn from this book. When I purchased the book, I was scared of the title, well, not the title, but one word. Ungodly. It is such an uncharacteristic word I would not want to be labeled as, but as I read through the book, it showed me so much about how the Devil can use anything and everything in our lives as schemes.



Here is an passage from the book that really touched me:

"God is huge. He is awesome, indeed terrifying. He is powerful. He holds all the keys to life and death, ecstacy and agony. Our futures are entirely in His hands. He is sovereign, and He answers to no one. He holds the oceans in the palm of His hands. The lightning checks in with Him. But for His mercym we would all be consumed. He is Holy and does not wink at wickedness. He lifts up and casts down. He makes the mind and can break the mind. When He rises from His throne, His enemies scatter. He has so equal. He is complete, pure, unadulterated otherness."

Fashion Quotes

"Fashion is not Frivolous. It is part of being alive today." Mary Zuant, Designer

"Fashion is a state of mind...a mirror of the time in which we live a translation of the future that should never be static." Oleg Cassini

Listen to em2409s Playlist

"The LORD protects the simplehearted;
when I was in great need, he saved me.
Be at rest once more, O my soul,
for the LORD has been good to you.
For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling...
Psalm 116:6-8"

You may be a southern girl if...

~You always wear real pearls, and have been known to wear them to
the gym.

~You pull over to the side of the road when a funeral procession passes,
showing respect for the deceased.

~You know how to entertain, and all your parties have themes.

~You cross your legs at your ankles.

~You believe that if you can be ready to leave the house in less than 30 minutes, you probably shouldn’t be leaving the house at all.

~You always clean your house before going on a trip, just in case you don’t come home.

~You monogram everything.

~You know that no matter how old you are, your father is “Daddy” and your mother is “Mama.”

~You would stay home before you wore white shoes, patent leather shoes, or linen before Easter or after Labor Day. Also, you would never wear velvet before Thanksgiving or after Valentine’s Day.

~You only use a straw to sip a mint julep (silver straws are nice), during
an illness, or when you have a Coke in a can.

~You follow up everything with “Bless your heart.”

~You had two cakes at your wedding—a bride’s cake and a groom’s cake.

~You know that if you are chewing gum, you’d better be underneath the
bed with the bedroom door closed.

~You love sweet tea, red velvet cake, black-eyed peas, fried okra, turnip
greens, and cornbread.

~You have to have your stuff—Brighton, Arthur Court, Vera Bradley, Pink Monogram Clogs, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Lilly Pulitzer, and Burberry.

~You think fried catfish is the other white meat.

~You think of yourself as either Scarlett O’Hara, Reese Witherspoon, or Audrey Hepburn.


What makes a 'Girl Raised in the South' so very extraordinary? Why, it's the very essence of who we are--our style, our heritage, and our upbringing.
Deborah Ford