Hey! I haven't been on here for a while. I find it takes time to get into a new habit and well, Bloggin is new to me and isn't quite a habit yet. But I do wish to share my thoughts and new things in my life.
So, Since August/September, I got married, and it was the most perfect day I've even seen. We had so much fun, and only had a few close friends and family attending, because we wanted to keep it simple (Ok ok, that was my idea.... to keep it simple, because I had seen brides get so stressed, and stressing the family and their very own relationship just before getting married, and I didn't want that to happen to us. I also didn't believe in going into debt, just to get married and start our new life together.... in further debt. Didnt' make sense to me). So back to what I was saying, it was a perfect day, my husband was the proudest man I've even seen and he's been glowing since. I couldn't ask for a better friend, confidant, husband and future father.
We've since joined a Leadership Development group of poeple who wish to improve their lives in any area of their lives. Such as, Friends, following, fun, finances, Family and there's a few more. The great thing about it is that we've already read some of these books and they've already made a big change in our life.
When Mike and I first met in 2009, we were instantly attracted to eachother's personalities.... which was a first for me. I'm sure I'm not the first person to have gone through some challenging relationships trying to figure myself out along the way. But Mike, he was different. We had both been hurt in the past and so we were both ok with taking it one day at a time.... and we loved having fun! For what ever reason, we both love to dress up for any kind of event.
Fastforward to Nov 2010. Mike had officially moved in with me.... and the butterfly feelings started to dwindle... and real life started to settle in. I knew that Mike loved me very much, and I love him very much too... but somehow.... we couldnt' see eye to eye anymore. Argued over the simplest of things, faught on a regular basis. Now Mike comes from a family who is very comfortable in expressing themselves verbally, and screaming at eachother to resolve problems is normal. Because that's how he grew up. Our normal is defferent for everybody, because no 2 people have the exact same experience growing up. My normal was, to resolve differences in talking calmly and taking time to listen to eachother and finding solutions together. Meanwhile, eachother's way of dealing with the situations iritated the other person.... because one wanted to fight about it to sort it out, and the other wanted to discuss calmly.
Finally, Mike and I sat down, and we decided that obviously, we couldn't go on like this because, neither one of us was happy. We were both hurting, and had no idea how to make it better. That's when we had to make the next decision. Do we split up? Or do we change our ways, and make this better?
We both opted to try and change our ways. I had access to a group of people a few years back, who had Self development books, and I knew they'd helped me in the past.... so I thought.... let's give it a shot. The book we read and made a part of our everyday life was; "The 5 Love Languages".
All couples, young, old, newly weds, new relationships, friends, family, coleagues, supervisors and employees should read. Because in all those walks of life, if you can make a person feel loved, or appreciated, or respected, or special.... it will go a long way. You will connect with people in a different, more fulfilling way.
This book changed our lives. I believe this book is what helped us work together, grow together as people and as a couple. I don't want to think where I'd be today, if we hadn't decided to read this book. It's a simple concept. Simple easy quick read. Took a few hours out of our day, and changed the rest of our life.
The current book I'm reading is "Peronsality Plus" (it goes about explaining the 4 different types of personalities, and how they think and process information, making it easier to understand and relate to anyone in your daily life. The next couple of books I have lined up are "Grown up Girlfriend" and "Positive Impact". I'll come back once I've completed reading these books and let you know what I thought.
Thank you for reading. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have more information about the Leadership Development Group we're part of. It's definately having a positive impact in our life!
Sincerely
Danielle
Friday, November 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Getting married.... Sept 3, 2011
As I'm sitting here at work, taking a 5 minute break, I step back and wonder.... what-ever happened to our small little budget for our small little intimate wedding. LOL
My initial idea was, let's not go overkill with the wedding, let's keep it sweet and simple. When my friend Carole found a website for my wedding dress..... I thought.... GENIOUS! I can get the wedding dress of my dreams for under $100, it's just coming from half way around the world! (Hong Kong) (not to mention when it arrived, it was too big, so I ordered another one, smaller size.... for $20 less than the first one.... :) It came..... and it was ..... just beautiful! (did I mention it's red!?) I can't wait to see his reaction on our wedding day!
Never the less we did find some really good deals on dress, tux, shoes, flowers, gazebo, wedding favors, wine, cake tiers* and envelope box* (Carole and I had the brilliant idea of going splits on it, where she's getting married in November).
Not to mention the photographer who gave us a great deal, unfortunately, easily broke our initial budget.... :) JP, wedding liscence, gifts for the wedding party, RINGS!
We decided to use my mom and dad's original wedding ring set, since mom passed away in 1993, my sister still had her set and dad still had his ring.... so we decided to use those for our wedding bands..... not realizing how much it would be to have them repaired. But it's all going to be worth it in the end. It is so special and sentimental to be able to use Mom and dad's rings for our wedding.
All in all, when I compare to other weddings I've seen or attended, ours will probably be in the $2-3,000 range..... once all is said and done, and we'll have a very nice little intimate wedding, in our quaint back yard, having a BBQ and corn boil.
We'll have some little butterflies on clips, for our wedding party and as a decoration. Butterflies have a funny story in our family.
After mom passed away, my sister, one year around Feb-Mar, was part of a beauty pagent, and I attended one of her practices one night, when they were practicing the "question". Her question was "who is your role model and why?" She went on saying that her role model was our dad, because he's such a strong person in our life and would go out of his way to take care of his little girls.... something along those lines.... and all of a sudden this beautiful white butterfly came out of nowhere and flew up above her head and disappeared in one of the spotlights. Everyone at the practice fell silent.... not understanding what had just happend.
Then some time went by.... another year, my sister was home with my dad around Feb-Mar and they were in my dad's wood shop. Dad was showing her one of his projects he was working.... we're talking about winter weather in northern New Brunswick, where it's really cold. When they left dad's shop, they were astounded to find a beautiful large yellow and black butterfly on the snow bank!
They told me the story and I asked them, what they thought about this unusual phenomenon.... dad replied calmly.... it's your mom checking in on us. Which just confirmed how I was seeing it, but wasn't sure they felt the same way.
Hence, the little butterflies on clips, for our wedding. :)
Mom Bercier will be holding a little reception for us in Mike's "home town" of Regina Saskachewan in December, when I'll have the opportunity to meet his relatives. I've already met mom and dad, brother Ryan and sister-in-law Ruby, with their tall little guy Taylor, looking forward to meet their new addition, Lucas.
Dad will be holding a reception for us in Grand Falls NB sometime in September, where we'll be able to invite the whole family and friends from home, should be a pretty impressive gathering.
Feeling exciting about the big day, we've only been together for 2 years and engaged for about 2 months, and I'm not sure how people are engaged for years..... but I know it's been alot of fun planning our big day, I"ve never seen Mike so happy, I know we'll have a wonderful life together, we've grown so much in the last little while and have so much more to learn but, there's nothing better than growing together.
Love <3
Danielle
My initial idea was, let's not go overkill with the wedding, let's keep it sweet and simple. When my friend Carole found a website for my wedding dress..... I thought.... GENIOUS! I can get the wedding dress of my dreams for under $100, it's just coming from half way around the world! (Hong Kong) (not to mention when it arrived, it was too big, so I ordered another one, smaller size.... for $20 less than the first one.... :) It came..... and it was ..... just beautiful! (did I mention it's red!?) I can't wait to see his reaction on our wedding day!
Never the less we did find some really good deals on dress, tux, shoes, flowers, gazebo, wedding favors, wine, cake tiers* and envelope box* (Carole and I had the brilliant idea of going splits on it, where she's getting married in November).
Not to mention the photographer who gave us a great deal, unfortunately, easily broke our initial budget.... :) JP, wedding liscence, gifts for the wedding party, RINGS!
We decided to use my mom and dad's original wedding ring set, since mom passed away in 1993, my sister still had her set and dad still had his ring.... so we decided to use those for our wedding bands..... not realizing how much it would be to have them repaired. But it's all going to be worth it in the end. It is so special and sentimental to be able to use Mom and dad's rings for our wedding.
All in all, when I compare to other weddings I've seen or attended, ours will probably be in the $2-3,000 range..... once all is said and done, and we'll have a very nice little intimate wedding, in our quaint back yard, having a BBQ and corn boil.
We'll have some little butterflies on clips, for our wedding party and as a decoration. Butterflies have a funny story in our family.
After mom passed away, my sister, one year around Feb-Mar, was part of a beauty pagent, and I attended one of her practices one night, when they were practicing the "question". Her question was "who is your role model and why?" She went on saying that her role model was our dad, because he's such a strong person in our life and would go out of his way to take care of his little girls.... something along those lines.... and all of a sudden this beautiful white butterfly came out of nowhere and flew up above her head and disappeared in one of the spotlights. Everyone at the practice fell silent.... not understanding what had just happend.
Then some time went by.... another year, my sister was home with my dad around Feb-Mar and they were in my dad's wood shop. Dad was showing her one of his projects he was working.... we're talking about winter weather in northern New Brunswick, where it's really cold. When they left dad's shop, they were astounded to find a beautiful large yellow and black butterfly on the snow bank!
They told me the story and I asked them, what they thought about this unusual phenomenon.... dad replied calmly.... it's your mom checking in on us. Which just confirmed how I was seeing it, but wasn't sure they felt the same way.
Hence, the little butterflies on clips, for our wedding. :)
Mom Bercier will be holding a little reception for us in Mike's "home town" of Regina Saskachewan in December, when I'll have the opportunity to meet his relatives. I've already met mom and dad, brother Ryan and sister-in-law Ruby, with their tall little guy Taylor, looking forward to meet their new addition, Lucas.
Dad will be holding a reception for us in Grand Falls NB sometime in September, where we'll be able to invite the whole family and friends from home, should be a pretty impressive gathering.
Feeling exciting about the big day, we've only been together for 2 years and engaged for about 2 months, and I'm not sure how people are engaged for years..... but I know it's been alot of fun planning our big day, I"ve never seen Mike so happy, I know we'll have a wonderful life together, we've grown so much in the last little while and have so much more to learn but, there's nothing better than growing together.
Love <3
Danielle
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
How to prevent eye shadow from smudging
Good morning!
Do you you have hooded eye lids? (where your top lip rubs on itself when blinking)
I love to be creative when applying my makeup, and this was causing me some problems..... when I would apply my makeup in the morning it would look great, but halfway through the day, the colors would start blending in together.... and just end up looking like a big smudge by the end of the day.
I discovered 2 fabulous solutions!
1. Use an eye primer, it hold the makeup in place, and makes the colors bolder.
2. When applying the eye shadow, especially in the area where your lid rubbes agains itself, imagine a vertical line. Place your favorite (darker) shade on the outer part of your eye lid, place the next shade (lighter) on the inner side of your lid.
(Next, this is where I get a little creative and add a couple of different shades in the areas on the lid that is exposed and doesn't rub on anything.)
When you create this look, the area where your eye lid rubs on itself, is acutally rubbing on the same shade, therefore preventing the different colors from blending in togheter and avoiding the whole smudge blob I was struggling with.
Hope this helps keep your fabulous look in place!
Don't forget your mascara for the finishing touch!
If you have any questions, don't heistate to ask!
xo
D
Do you you have hooded eye lids? (where your top lip rubs on itself when blinking)
I love to be creative when applying my makeup, and this was causing me some problems..... when I would apply my makeup in the morning it would look great, but halfway through the day, the colors would start blending in together.... and just end up looking like a big smudge by the end of the day.
I discovered 2 fabulous solutions!
1. Use an eye primer, it hold the makeup in place, and makes the colors bolder.
2. When applying the eye shadow, especially in the area where your lid rubbes agains itself, imagine a vertical line. Place your favorite (darker) shade on the outer part of your eye lid, place the next shade (lighter) on the inner side of your lid.
(Next, this is where I get a little creative and add a couple of different shades in the areas on the lid that is exposed and doesn't rub on anything.)
When you create this look, the area where your eye lid rubs on itself, is acutally rubbing on the same shade, therefore preventing the different colors from blending in togheter and avoiding the whole smudge blob I was struggling with.
Hope this helps keep your fabulous look in place!
Don't forget your mascara for the finishing touch!
If you have any questions, don't heistate to ask!
xo
D
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