Welcome Home! 07/23/2010
 
It's "Move-In" weekend! I can't believe it! We got our new house! It has been a long (and I do mean LONG) week! Josh has been out of town for most of the week. I am looking forward to his return and making my house feel like a "HOME". I can't wait to hug him and dance around our empty living room!

Have a wonderfully relaxing weekend!     
-Stevi
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Last September, Megan Monique, Brawn, Josh (my BF) & myself took a trip to Port Aransas, TX. As many of you have read through Megan, this trip was life changing in many ways. Megan surrendered her life to the Universe and I let myself "just be" and realized what a friend I had found in Megan. Josh & Brawn enjoyed the trip as well. (I don't know of any profound realizations they came to, but it was a great trip to say the least!)

Megan & I both share a love for thrift shopping so one afternoon we ventured out to find any and every thrift store on the island and see what treasures we could find!

I had the idea to send out a "Message in a Bottle" so I was looking for a cool bottle to put the note in. It had to be something different because I didn't want it to appear as trash washed up on a shore somewhere. I found an awesome bottle in one of the stores for only $2.00! So then I had the bottle but I wasn't sure what I wanted the note to say. I wanted the note to be magical so that the person who came across it would be inspired! I didn't want to include a name, return address or any contact information either. I wanted it to be a mystery to them and to me.

So after much thought I simply wrote:

"Peace does not mean to be a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all of these things and still be calm in your heart."
May the finder of this "message in a bottle" live a life full of joy, love and peace.

I dated it September 18th, 2009. (Megan's Birthday) At the bottom of the note, I wrote Port Aransas, Texas. I didn't even sign it! That night, Megan and I went to the farthest point of the island to the bayside and Megan gave it a good throw into the water. We watched it bob around until we could't see it anymore.

I don't know where that bottle ended up. For all I know, it may still be floating along in the ocean. If it isn't, I can only hope that the right person, at the right time was walking the beach off the coast of somewhere beautiful and came across it. I hope that it spoke to them and maybe they even kept the letter but wrote a new note to put back into the bottle so they could send their own message out to the world to whoever needed it after them.
 
I love the mystery of not knowing. Not knowing about the bottle. Not knowing about tomorrow or the next day or the next. There are things I don't know about myself. Things I don't know about you.  I like to think and dream and wish about all the possibilities. Why do we think we need to "know" everything all of the time? 

I don't know all the details of what I'm doing this weekend or where I'm going or who I will spend time with. I do know that I hope to see everyone at the Pink Posse Clothing Swap on Sunday!

Below is a live performance of John Mayer singing "Message in a Bottle." I absolutely ADORE him and it seemed appropriate. He is such a beautiful soul. I just might marry him one day! You Never Know?!?

Much Love,
Stevi
 
 
Whenever the small things in life start getting you down, you just need to be uplifted by some good music! Jason Mraz always makes me smile! Hope he makes you smile today!

 
 
I have seriously been slacking on my blog posts. I have been so busy that I haven't had time to even get on the computer. Journaling doesn't seem to be slowing the time down to a "slow enough" pace for me. The Pink Posse and mypinkroadmap.com are very important to me so please don't think I do not care or that I am just lazy.
Now that I have gotten that off my chest, I have really exciting news! Tomorrow (Saturday May 15th) I get to go to Dallas to do haircuts for the road crew and staff for Nickelback for their "staff appreciation" event. Nickelback, Shinedown & Breaking Benjamin are in Dallas and will be performing at American Airlines Center tomorrow night. I will get to be back stage and be a part of pre-show set up! I will get lunch and dinner catered to me and it's quite possible that I could get tickets to tomorrow night's show!!! How incredible is that?
I am very excited and  a little nervous since I really don't know what to expect. This is going to be "out of my comfort zone". I am used to working a nice little half a day on Saturdays. Tomorrow will be very long, but I am looking forward to it!
I hope to see all of you at the Pink Posse event on Sunday. I will have the details of my experience back stage. I have posted a song from Nickelback in case some of you are not familiar with their music. I thought this song was a good choice since it makes reference to some of the purposes of the Pink Posse!

Have a fantasticly relaxing weekend,
Stevi
 
 
 
 
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Let me let out a long deep breath before I begin...

I have been busy at the salon since about 10:30am. I came up here to upload pictures from yesterday's Pink Posse event. I know everyone is anxious to see them. As I was uploading, I thought "I need some tunes..." so I Googled and was able to find a playlist with a few songs from "Don't Wake Aislin". Some of you are aware but others may not be but the lead singer of this band was one of our Henna artists yesterday. Miss Deena Jakoub. She is an amazingly talented singer as well as being a gifted henna artist. So I had my music going and I was smiling & uploading away and I felt the urge to send Deena a text message. I simply put "I just wanted to tell you that I think you are amazing. I'm listening to your music now as I am uploading yesterdays pics. Thank u for being you!" And that was it. I didn't really think that much about it, I was just feeling the music and reliving yesterday through the pictures and I just thought she should know that.

I finally got done with the pictures and was fooling around some more on the computer, this time on YouTube, and I entered a search for "Don't Wake Aislin" again. What I found was amazing! I knew that there HAD to be something about this young women because from the first time I spoke to her, I knew that she was the one I wanted to be the henna artist for the Pink Posse event. I got such a good vibe from her. I never even spoke to another artist. I think Megan might have even questioned my thinking, "Are you sure we don't need a back-up or to call around?"

Now it all makes sense! Deena is a truly unique and amazing soul. I thought she was such a blessing before that I felt I had to tell her in a text message but NOW.... I can't really put into words all that is going through my head at the moment so just enjoy the video! Some may think I should have waited until Easter to post this (and you'll see why) but I thought it would be good to keep this on your mind for the next two weeks leading up to Easter Sunday.

Warning: I cried like a baby! Some would say it doesn't take me much, but let's see if you can keep a dry eye!

Much Love,
Stevi

 
 
 
 
This is a beautiful song that provides me with light and inspiration. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Have a fabulous weekend!

Peace & Love,
Stevi

 
 
I love Bob Marley and Tracy Chapman. The song "Three Little Birds" sends such a happy and positive message and I'm pretty sure its impossible not to have a smile on your face when you hear it.  So go on, press play and ENJOY! 

Peace & Love,
Stevi