Monday, March 17, 2008

are you HAPPY?? (e.g. "Treating Yourself Kindly"

Never having done this, I will do it now....
here's an awesome blog entry I found by the one and only Kris Vallatton!



"Whether you are young or old, male or female, or introverted or extroverted, you have more conversations with yourself than you have with anyone one else in the world. There was a study completed by a large university that found that the average person hears twelve hundred words a minute of self-talk. The study found that eleven hundred of these words are negative in most people! If you add to that fact that we tend to trust ourselves more than anyone else, what do you think happens when we talk down, punish or talk negatively to our self? I’ll tell you what happens; it destroys our confidence, kills are self-esteem and yields the fruit of depression, hopeless and fear.
Christians should be the happiest people on the planet! Think about it, Jesus prayed, “But now I come to You (Father); and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves” (John 17:13). ... "Read the rest here!


After reading the whole thing, I can tell myself (and my wonderful readers) that I am so proud of myself for using pictures I took myself, instead of googling random people! I love all those grins!

~joy, joy, joy...joey, joey, joey! Happy 1st birthday!

~Dutchess

Friday, March 14, 2008

A Dolly's Tale

While digging through my old Barbie clothes for inspiration, I was once again mindboggled by how they have changed her shape, thus rendering all my now-vintage doll clothes useless to my modern model. (see: enlarged hips, and shrunken chest...it makes altering the patterns very tricky...)

Frustrated, I decided to send her to the gym, since her hips are now so huge. Unfortunately, this get-up is the best I had in gym wear, and we lamented her once-fashionable duds......She was far too embarrassed to leave the house looking like this, so I am stuck with her and all her friends who now line the shelves of every Wal-Mart in the nation...


Now, I leave you with some Etsy sneak peaks of my upcoming listings for Quite Lovely Boutique:


I knew you were wanting some party dresses! They will be listed very soon, do make sure you visit them...

~Dutchess