Today's Fashion... It's All in the Details

I think it's the little things like shoes and a great accessory that really makes an outfit. They also give the world a BIG statement on your mood for the day... Just my thoughts for the day, PieXOXO

Monday Inspiration

Happy Monday My Loves!!! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mines was up and down but I woke up today with a smile and willing attitude to take on whatever may come my way. Lately, I have been battling a lot in my personal life but regardless of everything I may be going through, I am determined to keep a positive attitude through it all. I feel that the support of my family and close friends has really helped me through it all and has given me an abundance of appreciation for the life I live. It’s great to know that whether you're flying high or seem like you're crashing to your low, there are people in your corner that will support you 100%... It really doesn't get any better than that. 

Well I’m sending positive energy to everyone and wishing you all a wonderful work week. Thanks for having your daily Piece of Pie XOXOXO.

YouTube Song of the Day...Just the Way You Are

ME STRIPPED: fresh out the shower, face and hair just washed. NO make-up, NO weave, NOT EVEN LIP GLOSS. JUST ME IN MY NATURAL STATE.

Hey Loves, today while I was listening to some music trying to relax the Bruno Mars song "Just the Way You Are" came on. Now this is a song I have heard and sang along to more times than I can count but today I actually sat back and listened to the lyrics and I realized how beautiful of a song it truly is. In the song Bruno expresses to the woman he loves that everything about her from her eyes, to her smile, her hair, to the way she laughs is what makes him feel the way he does. He lets her know that her being just the way she is makes her perfect to him,"You know, you know, you know I'll never ask you to change. If perfect is what you're searching for then just stay the same".... And I personally think that's how every woman would like to be viewed by the men in their lives. To be confident in knowing that you have found that special someone who loves, appreciates, and will always be there by your side unconditionally. I know as women we sometimes find ourselves getting hung up on trying to appear perfect to everyone who we come into contact with. We spend extra time making sure our make-up is applied just right, our hair is curled that special way we like it, and our outfits are put together without flaw, but what a feeling it will be to know that someone is in your corner that sees past all those less important features you create and sees the beauty you poses when everything is stripped away. To have someone who is  honest and genuine when telling you "When I see your face, there's not not a thing that I would change; Cause you're amazing just the way you are and when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while; Cause girl your amazing just the way you are" would make any woman feel like the Queen that he sees. My hope is that every woman will get to experience that unconditional, true, and unchanging feeling of love. To be apart of a friendship set on fire that enhances the relationship and comforts the soul. Love should be experienced not just felt.


In closing I want you all to remember that if we do nothing else we must learn how to understand the people we include our lives. Everyone is not perfect and we all have our flaws and short comings. Take advice from Mr. William Shakespeare "Love All, Trust Few, and Do Wrong to None"...Well until next time thanks for having your daily Piece of PieXOXOXO

Bruno Mars: Just the Way You Are

These Are Few of My Favorite Things....

A Man In A Suit... IT DON'T GET NO BETTER THAN THAT!!!

xoxoxoPieces of Pie

Fellas PLEASE step your suit game up!!!!

Cutest Kids

Hey Loves.... today I was searching the web for a pic for a flyer I was making and I came across a picture of the cutest little boys I have ever seen. So I thought I would add a new Piece to the Pie blog called "Cutest Kids". I hope you guys like it...

Whenever I decide to have children of my own I need them to be like these ones!!!!

YouTube Find of the Day

Hey Loves... I seen this Youtube post on FaceBook today and knew I had to repost it to my blog. It's a poem entitled Sex, Marriage, & Fairy tails by Jefferson Bethke. He hails from Tacoma, Washington and has a raw talent in spoken word. He offered the following statement when talking about the inspiration and purpose of the poem:
"Marriage today is struggling. Divorces, adultery, misconceptions, etc are plaguing not only the institution of marriage itself but the products of those marriages (my generation and the next). My hope in this poem is to highlight the most frequent and problematic issues marriages face today while also pointing to Jesus as the ultimate healer, redeemer, and restoring of every marriage. Whether single or married, my intention would be that this poem would allow you to look more deeply to Jesus to either better your current marriage , or prepare for your future marriage". 

Sex, Marriage, & Fairytales || Spoken Word

If you're a fan of spoken word like I am, I highly suggest you look Jeff up on his webpage, http://www.jeffbethke.com. You can also visit him on FB @  http://www.facebook.com/jeffersonbethkepage or follow him on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/#!/jeffuhsonbethke.  Remember we must support our own. Well until next time, Thanks for getting you daily Piece of Pie XOXOXO

Can All My Real Men Please STAND UP!!!

Happy New Year Loves!!!! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and brought in 2012 the right way (with family and people you love… Lord knows that’s exactly what I did). This year should be a year of change, improvement, empowerment, and higher intellect in one area of our lives or more.  We should dedicate this year on becoming better than we were last year. I myself have decided that this year I will no longer accept the things that I know are wrong and are against my beliefs from myself or the people I surround myself with. Now with that being said today while on Twitter (y’all know I’m addicted) I came across a tweet my friend posted that just so happen spark up a nice debate between me and a fellow tweeter. The tweet read as follows:

One my followers response to that post was “ain’t Nothing Wrong wit it if she the 1 Driving! Lol” which is what got my fire burning and caused the debate.  I and that person went back and forth on twitter for a while and then he posted these two comments:

Which brought me here and made me ask this question: Is chivalry completely dead and gone from today’s men? I really don’t understand it anymore… It’s 2012 and I’m really trying to figure out what are we teaching our young boys now. These same boys that will grow up to become full grown men and lovers of our girls that will grow up to be women?  What are we teaching our future husbands, fathers, baby’s daddies, or whatever category they may be placed in? Are days gone when we women should stop expecting our men to pump our gas; pull out and push in our chairs, and open, hold, and close the door behind us??? Which makes me wonder what exactly are we teaching our girls… That chivalrous behavior is no longer the norm and shouldn’t be expect or require by the men of today and tomorrow? That they should rather learn how to do all these things for themselves to demonstrate their so called “independence”? If so, I feel we are setting these young men and women up for failure when it comes to them keeping a lasting and promising relationship. What happened to the days when parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and authoritative figures sat these children down and explained to them what should and should not be expected by the opposite sex? Did it fall when so many of our babies decided to start making and having babies of their own; when fathers stop taking their rightful place in the home and stopped claiming to be the head of a house hold they helped to build; when “Big Momma” decided that she no longer wanted to be viewed as the matriarch of the family and would rather be out partying and having a life of her own; or was it when mothers and fathers decided that these are their kids and NOBODY better not say nothing to them which tore down the village that was put in place to help raise them???

Well since the reasons behind why our future Kings and Queens weren’t taught to act as such is unknown, I decided to take it upon myself to help lead you back to your throne. 

Young men need to know that the only true way to get respect is to show it to others first, especially to women. If you want a lady you need first present yourself as a gentleman. The same goes for these young girls and women. A lot of you need to stop being professional jump-offs and start acting with more class and dignity. Women need to stop being so concerned with our independence since it doesn’t seem like it’s doing anything but help to lower our standards and expectations of men. In no way am I stating that independence is bad thing because I too consider myself an independent woman. But do not become so independent that you forget that you’re a lady and should be treated as such. Stop allowing the men we decide to keep in our company to do little to show that they have and know what common courtesy is all about. I’m not saying that it’s 100% your fault that most men don’t open doors for women like they use to, but it is your fault if they’re not doing it for you. It’s time that we went back to men courting women and them both knowing what all that should entail. They need to know that this includes the practice of pulling out and pushing in chairs, calling instead of texting as a form of communication, helping us with our bags, taking out the trash, offering your coat or jacket if we’re cold, picking up the tab on dates, walking us to our front doors, opening and holding our door and closing it behind us, and last but not least getting out to pump the gas for us when we stop at the gas station.

All these things should be taught to our boys and expected for our girls. In this New Year we should make an effort get back to teaching our boys how to be gentlemen and our girls to be ladies. Stop letting MTV, BET, and VH1 depict what image they see and learn how to become their Walking, Talking Example. Well until next time thanks for having your daily Piece of PieXOXOXO