Farmers Mint chocolate chip and Neapolitan ice cream... A blissful way to start my weekend:)
30.9.11
Autumn
I am so excited that Autumn is here! It's my favourite time of the year for so many reasons:) One being running at sunset and enjoying the beautiful Fall colours... This weekend I am continuing my 10k training for my race Thanksgiving Day with my friend Lori! I should be able to blog from the run with my new blogger app... I am such a Dork! We are doing a long run Sunday so I will be sure to take a picture or two to share with you. The Valley has the most beautiful Fall colours!
Have a wonderful weekend my Lovelies and make sure to take sometime to enjoy the Fall colours and smells;)
29.9.11
I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes.
I am currently addicted to this song...
Sometimes you think everything is wrapped inside a diamond ring
Love just needs a witness and a little forgiveness
And a halo of patience and a less sporadic pace and
I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes.
Sometimes you think everything is wrapped inside a diamond ring
Love just needs a witness and a little forgiveness
And a halo of patience and a less sporadic pace and
I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes.
28.9.11
Choice
“Every day we’re given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.” ~ Elizabeth Lesser
iPhone
Have a great day my Lovelies:)
Color so Hot it Berns
Since I have the Blogger app on my cell now I can blog my little heart out:) and I love nail polish so much I thought I would start sharing what I'm wearing with you. so here's my second post...
I'm wearing OPI So Hot it Berns which I surprisingly love! When I put it on it looked to orange for me but when it dried it was a nice bright red. I used Vite dry fast top coat which makes my nails look super shinny and dries fast! I highly recommend it!
I'm wearing OPI So Hot it Berns which I surprisingly love! When I put it on it looked to orange for me but when it dried it was a nice bright red. I used Vite dry fast top coat which makes my nails look super shinny and dries fast! I highly recommend it!
27.9.11
3 things I learned while my plane crashed
I no longer choose to be right, I choose to be happy:)
I had to share this with you because we take so much for granted in this life...
26.9.11
Newfound land
I am back from Newfoundland! It was a crazy trip! My Dad and I were lucky enough to run into Steve Earle on the Ferry over to the Rock! What are the chances?!?! He was eating breakfast right next to us for about 2 hours! I introduced him to my Dad who is also a huge fan and we talked for a bit, he actually remembered meeting me in the Hamptons a few years ago! We also got him to sign his book that I just happened to be reading! What are the chances of that too?!?!?
I also fried my laptop on the trip:( We went around a truck parked in the middle of the road and my tea spilled all over it. The good news is I decided to buy an iPhone because of it...
Images taken by Sandylee
Nail love
Loving my French tips! The sparkling grey with purple and gold sparkles is Sacred Ground by Sparutual and the fun blue tips are Roadhouse Blues by OPI!
Inspired my my lovely and very pregnant friend Tess:)
Inspired my my lovely and very pregnant friend Tess:)
21.9.11
20.9.11
Peacock Feathers:)
I think this would look amazing on my friend who is getting married this Christmas...
19.9.11
16.9.11
Sparitual 2011 Fall collection-Wilde
- Spirit Child – shimmery red hue
- Running With Wolves – rich copper metallic
- Rhythm of Life – frosty deep emerald shimmer
- Instinct – an opulent purple tone with bright blue and pink shimmer
- Howl – unique deep golden black tone
- Sacred Ground – sparkling grey with purple and gold sparkles
All the six nail polishes are vegan and, even more, the bottles are made with 50% recycled glass in order to prevent unnecessary waste.
15.9.11
Yoga for Running
When I return from this lovely trip to Newfoundland I will be in full swing of my training. I believe I am running a 10k this year instead of a half because of the lack of time to train and because my friend Lori can't run a half this year due to injury. So I thought I would share this article on yoga for running with you that I found on Yogi-heath! Enjoy:)
Because of the repetitive motion of the legs, running creates tightness in the hip flexors, hamstrings, and quads, often leading to lower back pain. Running also fails to strengthen the upper body or the abdominals. The Yoga Fit poses here serve as counter poses to offset runners’ lower-body strength and to provide supplemental work to increase total body strength, endurance, and flexibility. Many runners find yoga keeps them running longer and faster, without the nagging injuries.
Strength Focus:
Ab work:
Abdominal Curl: Start on your back with your feet flat on the floor and knees up. Place your hands behind your head with your fingers interlaced. As you exhale, slowly lift your head, neck, and shoulders away from the floor. Inhale and release slowly back toward the floor without ever completely relaxing your abdomen.
Yoga Bicycle: For oblique work, start on your back with your feet flat on the floor and knees up. Place your hands behind your head with fingers interlaced. Exhale, lifting your head, neck, and shoulders away from the floor as you bring one knee to your chest. Twist, bringing the opposite shoulder toward the opposite knee. Touch your elbow to your knee and inhale as you release slowly back toward the floor without ever completely relaxing the abdomen. For an extra challenge, extend your other leg out above the floor, pushing through the heel.
Modified Flow Series:
Bow: Lying on your belly, grab your right ankle with your right hand and your left ankle with your left hand. Lift your chest and legs to the sky. Pull your ankles back against your hands with your feet flexed, as if straightening your legs.
Half-Bow: Hold one ankle at a time, flexing your foot. Switch sides.
Flexibility Focus:
Kneeling Lunge: From all fours, place one foot forward between your hands, stacking your knee over your ankle.
Crescent Lunge: (not in book but I find it a great running stretch) Lift your back knee off the floor and straighten your back leg, pressing your back heel toward the wall behind you.
Quad Stretch (or sleeping hero pose): From a kneeling position, sit back on your heels. Place your hands on the floor next to your hips. Lift your hips and chest to the sky. For a greater challenge and a deeper stretch, place your forearms on the floor (or if you’re as flexible as I am and get no stretch from this, lay all the way back.)
Butterfly: Sitting tall with a straight spine, places the soles of your feet together in front of you. Use your outer thighs to draw your knees toward the floor. Holding your ankles, use your abdominals to fold forward. (If you’re flexible enough, bring your feet as close as you can to your body and bend forward as far as you can.)
Upside-Down Pigeon: From your back, lift your right foot off the floor and place your left ankle across your right thigh, flexing both feet. Hold your right hamstring with both hands and gently draw your right knee toward your chest until you feel a stretch in your left hip. Switch sides.
Seated Forward Fold: From a seated position, extend your legs. Pull your toes/feet back toward your body. Read forward, placing your hands on your legs, ankles, or feet, or on the floor. Draw forward through the top of your head using your abdominals. for an added challenge, bend one knee, bringing your foot flat to the floor with toes pointing forward. Keeping your knee pointing straight up, reach forward. If you can’t do either of these, just do a seated hamstring on both sides.
Source
Because of the repetitive motion of the legs, running creates tightness in the hip flexors, hamstrings, and quads, often leading to lower back pain. Running also fails to strengthen the upper body or the abdominals. The Yoga Fit poses here serve as counter poses to offset runners’ lower-body strength and to provide supplemental work to increase total body strength, endurance, and flexibility. Many runners find yoga keeps them running longer and faster, without the nagging injuries.
Strength Focus:
Ab work:
Abdominal Curl: Start on your back with your feet flat on the floor and knees up. Place your hands behind your head with your fingers interlaced. As you exhale, slowly lift your head, neck, and shoulders away from the floor. Inhale and release slowly back toward the floor without ever completely relaxing your abdomen.
Yoga Bicycle: For oblique work, start on your back with your feet flat on the floor and knees up. Place your hands behind your head with fingers interlaced. Exhale, lifting your head, neck, and shoulders away from the floor as you bring one knee to your chest. Twist, bringing the opposite shoulder toward the opposite knee. Touch your elbow to your knee and inhale as you release slowly back toward the floor without ever completely relaxing the abdomen. For an extra challenge, extend your other leg out above the floor, pushing through the heel.
Modified Flow Series:
- Child’s pose: Begin kneeling on all fours. Push back and bring your arms around to the side of your body. To stretch your shoulders or to transition into another pose, reach your arms out in front of you for an extended Child’s pose. To make more room for your body, separate your thighs for a wide-knee version of the pose.
- Kneeling Plank: (either on forearms or hands) From Child’s pose, shift forward until your shoulders are directly above your wrists. Keep your back straight and abdomens firm. (I assume you can just do a normal plank for yoga for running but the book doesn’t say it)
- Kneeling Crocodile: From the kneeling plank, shift forward, bringing your shoulders over your fingertips. Hug your rib cage with your elbows and lower your chest, keeping your abdominals strong and hips stationary.
- Cobra: From your belly, rest your hands lightly on the floor next to your chest. Use your back to lift your chest up and forward. Draw your shoulders back and down.
- Back into Child’s pose.
Bow: Lying on your belly, grab your right ankle with your right hand and your left ankle with your left hand. Lift your chest and legs to the sky. Pull your ankles back against your hands with your feet flexed, as if straightening your legs.
Half-Bow: Hold one ankle at a time, flexing your foot. Switch sides.
Flexibility Focus:
Kneeling Lunge: From all fours, place one foot forward between your hands, stacking your knee over your ankle.
Crescent Lunge: (not in book but I find it a great running stretch) Lift your back knee off the floor and straighten your back leg, pressing your back heel toward the wall behind you.
Quad Stretch (or sleeping hero pose): From a kneeling position, sit back on your heels. Place your hands on the floor next to your hips. Lift your hips and chest to the sky. For a greater challenge and a deeper stretch, place your forearms on the floor (or if you’re as flexible as I am and get no stretch from this, lay all the way back.)
Butterfly: Sitting tall with a straight spine, places the soles of your feet together in front of you. Use your outer thighs to draw your knees toward the floor. Holding your ankles, use your abdominals to fold forward. (If you’re flexible enough, bring your feet as close as you can to your body and bend forward as far as you can.)
Upside-Down Pigeon: From your back, lift your right foot off the floor and place your left ankle across your right thigh, flexing both feet. Hold your right hamstring with both hands and gently draw your right knee toward your chest until you feel a stretch in your left hip. Switch sides.
Seated Forward Fold: From a seated position, extend your legs. Pull your toes/feet back toward your body. Read forward, placing your hands on your legs, ankles, or feet, or on the floor. Draw forward through the top of your head using your abdominals. for an added challenge, bend one knee, bringing your foot flat to the floor with toes pointing forward. Keeping your knee pointing straight up, reach forward. If you can’t do either of these, just do a seated hamstring on both sides.
Source
14.9.11
Just in time for Fall...
While I am freezing my buns off in Newfoundland you can make a refreshing Grey Goose popcicle:) Yummy!!! What a great idea!
not going to stay where you are
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are .
- John Pierpont
13.9.11
Ice Cream Bliss
Best day ever! They had both Mint Chocolate Chip and Neapolitan ice cream at the Farm Market!:)
Image taken by Sandylee
12.9.11
things that make me smile...
Image taken by Sandylee
have a party
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
- Ron White
9.9.11
OPI 2011 Fall collection-Touring America
Loving the new OPI 2011 Fall collection-Touring America! I had to buy some of the colours even though I have way too much nail polish! So far I have Honk if you love OPI and Road House Blues but I have a feeling I may have to get Get in the Espresso Lane and Uh Oh, Roll Down the Window. But to be honest I love them all, they are so hard to choose from...
joie de vivre
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
-Sylvia Plath
8.9.11
Gros Morne
I am headed to Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland today for 7 days of camping, hiking and perhaps a few other fun things! This is a holiday I haven't planned. I don't think I have ever been on one of these... should be an interesting adventure! Can't wait to share all the fun photos with you!
7.9.11
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