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Let the Challenge Begin…

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My birthday is officially 90 days from today.  I have decided to do a customized 90-day challenge.  The goal is to accomplish those challenges by December 7th.

What are those challenges you are asking???

Well, let me backtrack for a moment.  Recently, I completed the 75-day soft challenge.  Well, it was really a 100-day soft challenge, as I extended it for an extra 25 days.  I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to do another challenge.  I, however, wanted to customize it to goals that I have.  I want to achieve and work towards certain things in my life.  So what better way for me to focus on it?  Challenge myself.  I noticed that when I have a challenge, I work hard to complete it.

Since my birthday is coming up in 3 months, I wanted to challenge myself to complete things I’ve either been working on or things I said I wanted to do before the end of 2025.  So here are the challenges I need to complete:

  1. Reopen my online jewelry boutique
  2. Learn to control stress
  3. Lose a specified amount (5 lbs left to my goal weight)
  4. Read a total of 15 books (just completed book #8 and started June 3rd)
  5. Get pregnant ( the most important challenge I want to achieve)
  6. Get higher paying campaigns
  7. Post a blog once a week
  8. Post on Instagram and TikTok at least 3 times a week
  9. Save a specified amount of money
  10. Journal everyday

I feel pretty confident in my quest to complete my challenges successfully.  As I previously said, let the challenge begin…

Until next time, talk to you soon 💋

Where Have I Been?

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Hey Friends!

It feels like forever since I’ve posted a blog.  What can I say?  Life is lifing…

Life has definitely changed for me, some good and some bad.  The good or shall I say the great is that I’m now married.  We’re actually celebrating 6 months of marriage.  We are halfway there to our 1 year anniversary.  I love being married.  It’s definitely different from my norm, but I love it.  Could be because I’m married to an amazing man that I know my dad would have loved to have as a son-in-law.

The wedding was absolutely amazing.  I wanted to blog while going through the wedding process, but obstacles prevented me from doing that.  I still plan on blogging about my wedding as I believe it can be a good resource for others planning their wedding.

Another good is that we went not on 1, but 3 honeymoons (or as I like to call them: minimoon, honeymoon and finale moon). I look forward to blogging about that as well.

Oh I almost forgot, we went to Cancun, Fiji and Paris…

One more good thing, I’m a dog mom to a wonderful and cute chocolate Lab, Wally. He is my husband’s dog and now mine. Those of you that know me knows that I was extremely terrified of dogs.  Somehow Wally changed that for me. 

I will blog more about my newfound love for this amazing dog.

Now onto the not so good…

I have not reopened by Jewelry business to date.  It has been 2 years.  As you may know, I put a hold on my business when my dad went into the hospital and after he passed away, I was not motivated to make jewelry . 

I have every intention on reopening my online jewelry boutique in the next month or two.  After knowing how proud my dad was of me starting my business, I must do this.

I also put campaigns on hold to focus on the wedding, family issues and just my overall mental health.  Those of us in the social media world knows that is not a good move.  Pausing social media for a period of time, definitely sets you back.  I’ve started working on a few campaigns again.  However, it sometimes feel as if I’m starting over again. 

And of course the main not so good is not having my dad. It’s been 2 years since he went to Heaven and I am still in disbelief. Not a day goes by that I’m wishing that this was all a bad dream and my dad is really still here. I don’t believe in time heals all wounds because I’m still in pain…

God bless my daddy. He is now an angel watching over us. My saint, my angel, my daddy, the first man I ever loved…

Until next time my friends 💋

Blogmas Day 2: My Jewelry Business

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Hey my friends!

I’ve been getting lots of questions regarding my jewelry business N A Waterman “Eye Catching Jewelry”.  Am I still making jewelry or do I plan on closing shop?

Without a doubt N A Waterman “Eye Catching Jewelry” is here to stay.  We took a break that was such a necessity. We have some exciting new pieces coming your way. I was actually inspired by the planning of my wedding.

Stayed tuned for the new collection coming soon 👀