Took a GelMoment today!

OK I Dove Right In and got some self care pampering time in this afternoon with new fingers and matching toes! 

I’ve given myself a Lovee Dovee accent nail - thinking I want to eventually add some nail art to it! Just need to narrow down a choice cause there are so many choices in my head! 

I could do an ombré of blue polka dots, a flowery or mandala stamping plate with Dove Right In tinted gel, the rainfall technique with blues/silver, a silver Cullinan shimmer or SSpectrum Chrome … how’s a girl to choose?

Be as Bold as your Polish!

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Protect your skin!

Ohhh I am excited to try this new line from doTERRA!

I have been making my own sunscreen for the past few years because so many on the market are full of crap and aggravate my sensitive skin and the natural brand ones were always hard to find in stock locally! The challenge with homemade is making sure you combine the right ingredients in the right ratios to get the proper SPF. 

The new doTERRA SUN COLLECTION is launching July 1st just in time for summer vacations.

Review a convention attendee who got to try it early:

 “You are going to love this line ☀️

There is nothing like this on the market!

• Super clean ingredients + botanicals such as raspberry seed oil, avocado oil, shea butter, Vit E, turmeric extract, carrot seed, jojoba esters and non nano zinc oxide

• SPF 30 Broad Spectrum UVA/UVB

• Protective, lightweight, water resistant, moisturizing, and nourishing for your skin

• Vegan friendly, reef safe, cruelty free

• Infused with the protective + nurturing properties of our pure essentials oils such as helichrysum, frankincense, copaiba, lavender + peppermint. 

It’s a must have in your summer skincare collection.”

D E T A I L S:

• July 1st: Launching out of US warehouse. 

Note: the After Sun Mist is a little delayed and will launch mid July 

• Limit of 2 of each product per account

Note about Canada: these product will launch later in the year ... health canada is taking longer and longer to approve products in the natural health category. 

Be sun safe!

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love  

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Weekend Creative challenge #8

It’s Happy FriYAY! A brand new month to conquer!

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L008.

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Come join us over on Facebook 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Challenge #6

Happy FriYAY and Long Weekend to boot! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart!

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?
Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L006.

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them) … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗
Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 
Live, Laugh Love 
Be Totallyawake4-life 

Weekend Creative Challenge #5

  Happy FriYAY! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

Here’s my inspiration 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin’ It Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L005 

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I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Here’s a few google images for adult colouring if you need an extra prompt to get your creativity flowing.

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Creativity Challenge #3

Happy FriYAY! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples ability to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another installment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

 

 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorite way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L003 in this case but I will change the number with each new prompt. 

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Need some inspiration to get you going? Here are a few motivational word mandalas from Pinterest to print off and colour of paint! 

 

 

 

 

Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

 

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Whatcha Wearing Wednesday?

Wednesday ... I am still over here wondering and worry about what colour polish to wear for my next manicure!

 

 

 

Sometimes when you have anxiety it’s just easier when someone else makes the decision for you … when I had the home childcare running I would get the little ones to help choose my next manicure colour by majority vote wins and they’d be all excited to see it the next day … somehow Paul is not quite as excited to help nor invested in the outcome as the crew was. Men, eh?

 

I am lucky that thanks to my GelMoment Fortify treatment my natural nails look fairly stunning even when they are naked!  

So help me choose - what is your favorite Spring colour?

Be as Bold as your GelMoment polish!

 

Margaret!

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

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Living with Chronic Illness

This is so very very true and sometimes we can pay dearly for that one day of “enduring for sake and benefit of some socialization” with days afterward of increased pain and decreased coping cause we used up all the resilience and energy we had in one go!

Sometimes I think of chronic illness as waking up with, let’s say 5, energy chips and I have to be reflective of which activities I will do to make it through the day without running out of chips  - and if something I am being asked to do is going to take 20 energy chips that means I am going to have to accept that for the next 3 days after I am likely gonna be useless for doing anything. And sometimes that’s ok one is willing to go into debt so to speak cause I really want to participate and other times something is offered to me that I really WANT to do but I have to decline because I already used up all my energy chips on something else and I am now in debt and I KNOW from past experience if I say yes and borrow any more energy chips from my tomorrows that my autoimmune system will start demanding significant interest on said debt in way of new symptoms to knock me back a peg! 

It is a delicate balance and sometimes someone with chronic illnesses can get into that spiral of borrowing more and more chips from tomorrow because they hate having to miss out on things and hate that their disease controls so much of their life that they end up hitting rock bottom again with a nasty flare that sets them back that peg or two  before remembering that unlike others they cannot gamble with their chips and hope that they will somehow win more of them and it will balance out in the end.

Just a little PSA that when someone says yes to one persons invite and the next day says no to another persons invite it’s often nothing to do with the INVITE and often much more to do with the timing and the same invitee just being out of energy chips to be able to say yes. Please don’t take it personally and KEEP inviting them out for the next times so that they can trust that it’s ok to say no to “this time” and do get into the spiral of borrowing energy chips from tomorrow out of FOMO in future.

We never know what someone else is going through which is why it’s important to act with empathy and kindness to all! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

I Propose a little Pampering

Who is excited for all that spring has to offer?? 

What’s your favourite thing about spring? 

Longer days for the warm sunshine, return of colours with the gardens budding and the promise of summer nights hot on her trail and most of all the return to OPEN TOE SANDALS!

Proposal shown here with an adorable accent toe using stamping plates and silver gel is the perfect colour for spring! A gorgeous pinky coral that really pops against those first sun kissed signs of warmer weather to come! 

Get your feet sandal ready with our amazing Eclipse exfoliatator and moisturizing treatment! 

Pamper yourself with a home pedicure today!! 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Can we get a WOW?

OMG how stunning are these cars creations from Stampin’ Up! Artisan Team member Yvonne? 

Oh 

I love the turquoise colour combo with the pops of gold and definitely nailed her challenge of creating structure and texture - just 💗💗💗

Want more details check out her blog - there’s a translate button up at top if needed. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret
Live, Laugh, Love
Be Totallyawake4-life

Attention all Nail Addicts

I can’t be the only one who gets excited by new product releases from my favourite brands!

Dropping tomorrow at 2pm are the following GelMoment goodies!

Not sure what I love more the new colour or the mug being used to model it!

Get Glowing is simply stunning! 

Seriously it’s just so shiny! 

I also love that it can not only stand on its own but also gonna bet it will be stunning as a top coat over coloured polish! 

Check out the Valentines Day specials - perfect for making self care a priority! 

Where are the bath lovers at??? 

Want to make sure you get pampered this February? Show yourself some love with this

VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL!

With purchase of this bundle Valentine’s Day Bundle, you save 40% on our NEW BodySpa Towel Wrap!

Valentine’s Day Bundle includes:

 1 BodySpa Euphoria Eucalyptus & Peppermint Bath Salt (120g)

1 BodySpa Euphoria Grapefruit & Rosemary Bath Salt (120g)

1 BodySpa or FaceSpa Coffee Scrub (choice)

1 BodySpa Body Scrub (choice)

1 BodySpa Eclipse Radiance Gel

1 BodySpa Towel Wrap

Comes with EXCLUSIVE Gift Sleeve, only available through this offer. 

Valid from January 23rd at 2 PM ET through February 14th, 2022.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the BodySpa category.

PRICES of Bundle with 40% Savings on the BodySpa Towel Wrap:

$72.30 USD, $89.00 CAD, $101.10 AUD

I don’t know about you but for me nothing feels better than stepping out of the shower into a nice wrap around towel that says where it should while I am doing my hair and occasional make up routine! 

I haven’t seen it in person yet but when with my big extra fluffy forefront the  57.5 inches should do to wrap around 🤣

NEW: BodySpa Towel Wrap

Up your spa game with this luxurious BodySpa Towel Wrap! We are so excited to announce our newest addition to the BodySpa collection: an ultra-absorbent 100% cotton wrap-around towel. Complete with an adjustable velcro closure to secure the towel to your body, freeing your hands so that you can busy yourself elsewhere while the towel does its job for you.

Available at 2:00 PM ET January 23rd, 2022.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the BodySpa category.

PRICES: $28.00 USD, $35.00 CAD, $41.00 AUD

100% COTTON

28.5” L X 57.5” W

Care Instructions:

Machine wash in Cold Water

Do Not Bleach – Use a Non-Chlorine Bleach If Necessary

Tumble Dry Low

Do Not Iron

 

Be As Bold as your GelMoment

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Where are the tea lovers????

 

Hey tea lovers! Check out the NEW Tea Time Flavours & A Brand New Look! I personally love all our current teas flavours and I 💗💗💗 that they source ingredients from female owned farms so am excited to try the two new ones when I place my next order!! 

Try our newest Tea Time flavours: Mint To Be and Moulin Rouge. Made with some of the best ingredients on Earth sourced from female-owned farms and sporting beautiful new packaging, this tea is exactly what you need to break in the new year.

Mint To Be is a nourishing, refreshing tea that will wake you up and revitalize the senses.

Moulin Rouge will equip you with endurance and vitality with its comforting scent and taste.

Your skin, hair, and nails can benefit from these Biotin-infused delicious teas full of vitamins and antioxidants.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the Tea Time category.

Be as a Bold as Your GelMoment

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Self Care on the Go

Guess that’s gonna be first and last time inside a Starbucks 🤣

Unlike the coffee scrub treatment you could technically do a GelMoment manicure while sipping your Starbucks - our Essentails kit LED lamp can plug into any USB slot including a power bank so you can treat yourself to some pampering just about ANYWHERE without people calling the cops on you 🙂 

Sitting in the waiting area for your kids extra curricular activities - use the time to pamper yourself! 

Watching from the picnic table as your crew burn off some energy at the local park - great time to pamper yourself! 

Stuck on the Go train for a long commute - use the time to pamper yourself! 

When could you squeeze in some pamper you time?

Be As Bold As Your GelMoment Polish

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Are you creating for YOU?

I often hear card makers expressing frustration that they worked for over an hour creating a card for someone in their life and the receiver tossed it aside like meh and moved on oblivious to the time, love and care that went into it. My response is that you are gonna burn yourself out and stop enjoying if your relying on others to validate your crafting! IMO the passion needs to be in the experience of the CREATING and all the benefits that gives YOU in the DOING of the things more so than any potential accolades the receiver might give in appreciation of your byproduct. 

Does it make me feel good when someone tells me they love the card or project I gift them? ABSOLUTELY! Seriously who doesn’t like positive reinforcement!  But that’s just an added bonus when that happens because I already got my return on investing and internal positive reinforcement in the  creating! In the lowered stress and calmness and energy that creating brings me! 

I create for ME and it’s an added bonus if I can pass my creations on to others and they get some joy too! 

Or that I make money from people who want to commission a project or attend a technique class cause they want to learn to create for themselves too! 

When the doing of something brings you peace, joy and energizes you it doesn’t matter if others care! And when you’re more focused on external validation it looses all those things and becomes “a chore” where your more worried about pleasing someone else than you are about enjoying the process of creating. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life.com 

Tasty Thursday Recipe Review - Baked Boursin Chicken

Nom nom - saw this recipe on a Tik Tok so had to give it a try! I wish I had jotted down the creator so I could give a shout out but it was a 2am insomnia find and in my effort to read the ingredients on my phone clearly I zoomed in and accidentally cropped off the handle when I took the screenshot! So whoever you are - thank you kindly for this one it was a huge hit!

 

 This one got 6 thumbs around the table here and at least one this is a worthy mouth orgasm  - even the still developing his clean eating palette cleaned his plate! 

We had this with a spinach salad because we try to eat grain free - however if you can have grains it would be lovely over pasta. Next time I think I will try it over some sauteed Zucchini noodles to help with the delicious sauce having something to stick to - although its all good I got it up with a spoon this time so it did not go to waste!

 

Bon Appetite 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4/life 

Goal Digging!

Soaking up all the empowerment I can get my hands on right now to help me kick start 2022 like a rock star 💫 

Today  I took advantage of  The Goal Digger Girl live workshop on creating your roadmap! So packed full of goodies had to come back for the replay cause my shorthand couldn’t keep up live 💕 so much love and respect for those who love to share content with those new to a journey to help them grow and thrive! 

Do you have goals your looking to rock? 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

#gratitude

I AM coachable!

Crushing my 2022 goal to spend more time investing in my self and skills needed to rock my social selling journey! 

Digging in with all the amazing team training and supports that are in place, joined the teams monthly book club which is reading Romi Neustadt book Get Over Your Damn Self! Loved chapter 1 and moving on to Chapter 2.

Seriously did not know what I was missing with Audible books - now I can ‘invest in myself’ while I am doing the dishes, in the shower, hiking or driving! So those mundane chore times can now serve dual purposes! Like honestly I got stuck at a train today and I was like “cool I can focus on listening to my Audible”  

So grateful to @staceyregan.__  @laurie_drinkwater both are amazing mentors in the GelMoment family! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Are you a nail polish smudger?

Do you tend to SMUDGE your polish when you try to do them yourself?

The quick cure results of the GelMoment at home nail care line is definitely what drew me to give it a try when I attended a virtual party of a friend. Bring a klutz I love that with the quick cure time I can choose to do one finger at a time and still have quick results for a complete manicure! 

It’s THIS easy!

And well I am FRUGAL so being able to get amazing results at a FRACTION of the cost sealed the deal 🤣

If you want to make your life easier too grab an essentials kit - link to my GelMoment shop is here.

Be As Bold as your GelMoment polish! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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