Veronica and I had a blast on Zoom this morning both trying to do the same look (we used slightly different colors).
Neither of us ended up even close to the picture so we both considered them fails!! That said, both of ours look respectable and we both have a newfound respect for anyone who can copy a look. It’s hard.
So, did we succeed or was it a hot mess? You be the judge. No offense taken because we both think it was a mess.
Woodworking today since it’s gorgeous out!
Just look how this turned out. Gorgeous. 🤩 I even accept the lip color that a friend suggested, even though Goddess is a color that I generally do not like at all on me (it’s one of those damnable pinks). It looked absolutely horrid going on—like chalky Pepto Bismol—but after, with gloss and in a photo…I can admit it looks pretty good.
Introducing naan pizzas with leftovers! We each got to build our own with bunches of whatever was left in the fridge!
They were delicious. But more importantly, Katie willingly ate meat! She finished the whole thing!
I know it’s long. Stay with me.
So as I’ve mentioned, I do my SeneVersary party months as a celebration of another year in the business but also as a huge thank you to everyone for supporting me—I couldn’t do it without you!
Never did I imagine the impact this business would have on me. It’s not even the extra money so much as the newfound friends, additional self confidence, improving makeup skills, learning to go outside my box…and even moreso now…allowing me to work from home!
I want to publicly thank my friends and family for your orders (and loyal REorders!) of AMAZING products, to the ladies always wanting to try something new, and especially to the few who have also found a love for this sustainable home-based business that we get to work on our own schedule.
So I wanted to share something with you that I learned tonight.
Had I planned to attend seminar (this weekend, cancelled), I would have been up on stage receiving an award from the CEO of our company. What the what?! Yep, I technically fall under her so in her dominion, I would have been one of the top 15!
Now, to be perfectly clear, this is not the top 15 of the whole company. This would be more like…a grade out of a whole school district. There are many grades and classes, each with a leader and a bunch of people in them. And in her grade of, say, 500 people, I am in the top 15. So it’s still something good but it’s not like I’m in the top 15 of the entire school district of 10,000. (We just had our annual awards ceremony and there are so many people doing so many amazing things with huge teams and multi millions dollars worth of sales that my achievement seems quite piddly in comparison. But it is still something noteworthy.)
So you guys, this just completely blows my mind. And I wasn’t going to go to seminar because it cost a few hundred dollars and is way outside my box and I hate huge groups of people and I keep thinking this is just a little side thing and I don’t have a huge team and I really don’t do THAT much business… But apparently I do enough to earn a top spot?! Again, mind blown.
And I could have had this one as a company-wide thing…had I ponied up the cash to go. I guess I’ll be happy knowing I could have gotten a piece of paper. But seriously, it’s actually a pretty big deal and I’m kinda bummed you only get the award if you were going to attend.
⭐️⭐️Looking for a side gig or wanting to earn extra income…
▪️TOTALLY FREE SIGN-UPS THIS MONTH
The snow is long gone but we are just now getting around to starting the fire.
Tom jokingly put Katie‘s robe on Maggie about an hour ago and she has wandered all around the house and up and down the stairs and it still remains.
So I knew when I woke up this morning that something was different about today because our room had a really distinct bright white light in it…which can only mean that there was snow outside on the ground. WHAT THE F, MOTHER NATURE?! Then Katie came in all excited because she thought today was going to be a lazy day—apparently she thought that since LAST Friday was a lazy day that THIS Friday was a lazy day, not realizing that last Friday was a holiday.
“BUT THERE’S SNOW OUTSIDE….” she whined.
“Yes, and in regular times, you’d still be going to school.”
I did agree that today should be a LAZIER day (because my ulterior motive was me not getting out of bed at all!)
So here it is 1pm and I just got out of bed to put my mask on and then I crawled back into bed.
I think this is the last puzzle that I am buying and we are attempting as a family. Puzzles are just one thing that I would absolutely love to be able to sit and do with my family…but as I’ve mentioned before, Tom hates them, Owen really doesn’t like them, and Katie is okay for a short amount of time.
We have done smaller puzzles (I’ve posted pics recently) but it’s a trade off because Katie loves them but they only take 5-10 minutes. I’ve bought all of 8 or so of the ones she loves (of which Owen will tolerate doing 1-2 of the smaller ones).
I guess maybe I need to look at more options. We don’t have to do them but just in watching Owen try, I get really frustrated because he (mostly) has zero sense of spatial ability or sense of color. I watch the pieces he tries and he’s trying to put a round knob into a long skinny foot. Like huh? Didn’t you learn how basic shapes fit in kindergarten? Why is this different just because it’s not a triangle or a circle? And trying to put a white piece where it’s clearly black. I thought he was just being stubborn so I asked him if he really couldn’t tell or if he was just being silly and he said he couldn’t tell. If I’m to believe him…I just can’t even…?! I mean I guess I know people have those issues, but it just seems so weird because nothing else in his life shows that issue. So I want him to keep trying puzzles to get better at the spatial thing.
Maybe in the next house if I had a separate room to do them in…but there’s no good place here. That said, I rarely have the time.
But one cool thing about this puzzle is that it came flat and put together and we had to make the box! So Owen did that!
Katie’s teacher sent a YouTube video of her reading a story so I asked the kids if they wanted to do one…and to my surprise they both said yes. Katie whines and complains so much about reading that I was FLOORED that she was excited to do it. She knew exactly the book she wanted to read (they’ve read it in class), she knew what one I should read (an old favorite), and Owen knew what one he wanted immediately.
Y’all. This is the fun I get to have with my SeneGence business!! I just got done playing with, showcasing, and answering questions on the most awesome shadows to a great group of ladies for an hour…while enjoying an adult beverage. Gotta love a job that you can drink while having fun, helping people, giving out prizes, and making money, right?
Masks, made with love, from a dear friend. We love them!
I kept seeing this on Facebook so I let the kids do it today. They had fun but since I wasn’t involved there was no cute shape or hidden letter or the full driveway filled. But it got them out off my hair for about 45 minutes.
We got caught up in finishing Ozark so we were up much later than expected prepping for the Easter Bunny. And the weather stinks so the eggs have to be hidden throughout the messy house…
Katie left a request for the EB to put up the last sheet of Easter window clings—she even left the scissors out so he could open them. She also specifically told me she wrote “like you” instead of “love you” — maybe love is too strong for the EB? Kids.
Also, she wrote that note in like 2 minutes happy as a clam. I try to get her to write a sentence for homework and you’d think I was asking for War and Peace.
Shortly after I stopped recording (of course) she crawled in and meowed at Maggie until she left.
Picking a bottle off the shelf in the garage means I have to dust. And I didn’t even pay attention that Tom opened something for me while I was busy. P.S. The white sangria is yummy.
Another pastel-inspired eye look for y’all today! I did this live with my friend Joyanne.
Isn’t she just too damn cute for words? I’m old enough to be her mom but I want to be her when I grow up.
▪️ Sandstone Pearl (base)
▪️ Mulberry
▪️ Mauve Shimmer
▪️ Pink Frost
▪️ Onyx
I thought this was a good mask for our walk around the neighborhood. Owen refused to do it.
I get to sleep in and enjoy this. I usually do get some work done…
Maggie is too much of a wimp to push the cat out. The cat, however, has no qualms about getting in with the dog causing her to leave. Maggie walked away.
We happened to have an extra 42″ TV not being used so Tom bought a cable to project his laptop screen. And we quickly learned that we had to make signs since he’s often on conference calls…plus the door needs to stay shut to retain heat.
When you have to get creative with dinner because the packaged cabbage salad (that you forgot about in your garage fridge) is half frozen (because the fridge is stupid and apparently can’t hold a correct temperature) so you have to improvise and create an egg roll stir fry with some leftover pork while also making chicken nuggets for the kids because you know they won’t eat the stir fry and then hubby gets yet another work call right as we’re sitting down.
I can still smile, though.
I knew the kids were downstairs watching TV but I didn’t expect to see this setup. Their daddy spoils them.
I did a new thing today—a Zoom call with a friend who walked me through a new eye look using ALL THE PASTELS!! Other than some typical internet glitches where we froze or sounded like robots, it went really well and was a lot of fun! AND I AM TOTALLY LOVING THE WHOLE LOOK!
I was hesitant about this collection since I am generally NOT a pastel person…but these are actually my jam!! The Mauve Shimmer is divine (and my favorite) but the Buttercup Shimmer and Peaches are really good, too. The Lilac is probably the least best color for me but it TOTALLY worked as a base.
▪️ Peaches as an undereye base (under CCTM)
▪️ Lilac as base coat
▪️ Buttercup Shimmer in inner corners and center of lid and brightening under brows
▪️ Mauve Shimmer on outside corners to brow bone
▪️ Deep Plum as a tiny wing
THEN CHEEKS!!
▪️ Peaches + ▪️ Mauve Shimmer + ▪️ Pearlizer as blush—which turned out to be perfection!!
Lips we went a little different—me:
▪️Peacock Pearl
▪️Chocolate Copper as center highlight on bottom lip ( where has that touch of fancy been my entire life?!)
▪️ Pink Prism Gloss
Andrea:
▪️Lilac Lacquer
▪️Gold Bar in the center
▪️Pink Prism Gloss
He is working more hours now than before—sometimes starting before 7 and trying to finish by 6 but getting calls at all hours. He even worked ALL weekend. So since it was so nice today he tried to take a little break to play catch with the kids. It lasted about 10 minutes before he got a phone call.
Really enjoying the first (and last) nice day this week while the kids play nicely and quietly with legos on a blanket in the grass…and wondering how long it will last.
I love it when they do stuff like this…
but it eventually mutates into some type of argument.