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Fortress

Posted in Blogging, Creative Writing, Fiction, Inspiration, Life, Non-Fiction, Photography, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing, tagged Blogging, Castle, Killyleagh, Northern Ireland on September 14, 2017| 1 Comment »

Autumns, roses, loves, leaves. Leavings and losings. Moons, stars, sorrows, souls. Forevers and goodbyes.

Fine webs spun off the tattered edge of a torn heart.

Broken

Bleeding

Beautiful

Pain. Ache. Loneliness. Things that make it hard to breathe. Things that make it easy to cry.

Things that turn on the light before we reach the switch.

The wishes we shouldn’t make. The things we don’t know we want. Endings leaving happiness to interpretation. Beginnings making unhappiness clear. The hope that turns the page. The rock that keeps us anchored. The robe that makes us feel safe while we dream.

The pocket that carries us.

Every song worth hearing. Every story worth reading. Has these. And they are the things that hold us.

While we listen.

Killyleagh Castle, Co Down, NI (Photo credit: Me)

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Shoot

Posted in Beauty, Blogging, Fashion, Inspiration, Life, Non-Fiction, Photography, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing, tagged Coffee & Couch, Make-Up on February 23, 2015| 8 Comments »

In between being me and struggling to become who I think I should be, I also get to be someone else.

At 25 I was thankful to finally discern I didn’t have to do things I didn’t want to do—things like work with numbers, play bitchy office games, scrub someone else’s toilets or eat my carrots cooked. I realized I could take something I’d loved to do as a child and turn it into a big girl career.

I trained to be an Aesthetician. I took an intensive, full-time course and for the duration of a year, I did nothing but homework and performed thousands of services on hundreds of clients and my fellow students. Contrary to my mindset prior to diving into the adventures of beauty school, it was a long and challenging haul.

Surprise, surprise, there was much to learn for the sake of vanity. I memorized the names of every bone, muscle, nerve, organ and system in the human body and their functions. I explored nucleic cells and biochem.

I studied.

Hard.

Every single night.

Never having had an affinity for school, I was pleased to graduate at the top of my class and more than proud to receive my 5 diplomas. But, after some time working in the industry and a stint of dabbling in my own endeavor, I realized I had managed to somehow still be doing something I didn’t want to do.

Shoot.

I hung on for as long as I could, but in the end, had to succumb to the fact that electrifying unwanted hair from areas I shouldn’t see unless I’d at least been bought a dinner made me cringe and scraping dead, flaky skin from the soles of needy feet was not, in fact, the glamorous profession I had dreamed it to be.

So, I sidestepped.

These days, and that encompasses the last nineteen years, I focus solely on the make-up aspect of the beauty industry. I get to float around on TV sets, wedding days, runways and photo shoots.

And, it is in fact, glamorous, and something I still want to do after all this time.

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

: Photography by Jennifer Findlay ~ Make Up by Hazy

You can check out Jennifer’s many stunning shots over at COFFEE & COUCH

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Eleven Things I Learned In Mexico

Posted in Blogging, Inspiration, Life, Lists, Non-Fiction, Our Moments, Parenting, Photography, Relationships, Top Ten, Travel, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing on June 3, 2014| 12 Comments »

1. Glass-bottomed slippers are as slippery as they look

2. After several “free” drinks, you will still feel pain

3. Walking over fire will not save your soul…s – it will burn them

4. “Extra waterproof”my sunburned everything

5. Gravol is as much a liar as sunscreen

6. When you’re over 21, Pina Coladas make your feet swell up like chubby babies

7. All-inclusives only pretend to have the real thing. What they actually have is TP Zero

8. You may get shanked for your $20 towel card

9. Never bring a friend’s pristine novel on a humid, oil-filled, alcohol infused beach vacation

10. It is entirely possible to feel like there’s “nothing to eat” after a few days of 24/7, all you can eat buffet

I don’t mean to put you off, but you will slip on wet marble floors while wearing gripless flip-flops and alcohol will not make you feel better about this.

That bridge is as long as it looks and its brown, glossy paint is scorching. Wear your gripless flip-flops.

Rough waters will ruthlessly strip your allegedly waterproof SPF and eradicate any Gravol from your needy system. You will be feeding the fishes digested buffet food faster than you can say mercy.

Drinking all day will make your feet swell up like puffer fish and TP Zero is exactly what you think it is. Somehow the simple concept of card equals towel and towel equals card becomes complicated. It might be the fact that each missing card means a $20 charge. Of course at least one must go astray during your stay. This also demonstrates how desperate people are for soft, cushy toilet paper.

When a friend lends you a book that’s in mint condition, so much so that you’re questioning whether she’s even read it or not, you should leave it at home or it will definitely look like it’s been read when you hand it back…and dragged along the bottom of the ocean.

Why will you stand in front of hundreds of delicacies and feel there is nothing? Because you’ve had all you can eat. You will come home full.

While the above may not be the most upbeat of points, I feel they are things you should know. But there’s something else. Something more important. There’s no proof of the unfavorable. No photos. No videos and in a few years time, no memory of those of minor details.

11. All you will be left with is a fantastic family vacation. There’s a vast difference between what you should know and what you need to remember.

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A Little of This, A Little of That

Posted in Blogging, Inspiration, Life, Non-Fiction, Our Moments, Photography, Thoughts, Travel, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing, tagged Dublin, Ireland, vacations on April 28, 2014| 12 Comments »

This is where our journey started!

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Well, we got here. And fairly unscathed, I might add. Apart from the fifty security checks, the twenty-mile hike at Heathrow from terminal three to terminal one and the nasty border guard that stood between us and our escape from that behemoth barracuda of an airport.

All worth it though, because we’re free! And we’re having a great time.

Last night ended up being a little too great though. As I mentioned, my husband is here on business so after my long walk I was ready to hunker down for the night while he attended a Hewlett Packard dinner.

I was relaxed and ready for bed when up popped a late, unexpected text to meet them at a pub. Okay, so our arms are made of rubber. But let’s remember for next time, more than one glass of Pinot Grigio, jet lag and no food for forty-eight hours do not bode well the morning after. Not well at all.

Looked so pretty at the time

So, this is what we’re doing tonight.

Terribly tame and remarkably less potential for danger.

Fortunately, we managed to salvage what could have been a wasted day and went out walking for hours. We wandered the streets of Dublin meandering through beautiful parks and quaint shops. We even came across this gem of talent. My video skills are not the best and the sound doesn’t do him justice, but this guy’s voice made me stop in my tracks.

The only thing that might have enhanced today’s experience? A size three in those lovely little boots I found. But, there’s always tomorrow…

I’ll leave you with a few pics to enjoy: