One Beautiful Thing

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’m participating in Brooke’s photo meme, One Beautiful Thing. The challenge is,

“Challenge yourself to look for the beauty in your life. Your interpretation can be anything (as long as it’s family friendly) that brings peace and inspiration to your heart. No camera requirements, no worries that your photos won’t measure up. Just one beautiful thing each week.” ~Brooke McGlothlin

I discovered these frilly, delicate flowers on our Mother’s Day walk on Balboa Island. I am thankful for the day I spent with my girls and we always enjoy our outings to Balboa Island. Brooke mentions her desire to say yes to God and this past Sunday was my time to say yes to Him by saying yes to myself. Yes, it’s ok to take a day off and enjoy my girls. When teens are growing it is so important to spend quality time with them and I am full of gratitude that my girls WANT to spend time with me. We decided to make it a tradition to enjoy Balboa Island next year as well.

pink flowers by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

I hope you’ll join us over at Brooke’s blog for this photo meme.

All my love,

Sisterlisa

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Coastal Living

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Now that we get to live by the beach, I decided I would journal about our coastal living and add it to my categories. In this category I will be sharing my photography as well. Some of it is from my camera while others are from my phone using Instagram. I can’t begin to describe to you how thankful I am that God has blessed us to live so close to the ocean. I always felt such a deep connection to the sea, even though I tend to get sea sick when on a boat. I truly love everything about the ocean and I am thrilled to be able to have access to such a vibrant coastal community and to the communities north and south of our neighborhood.

One of the passions I have is to see the beaches stay clean. It infuriates me to see people leave garbage on the beach and even in the parking lots here. Today I saw a woman at the stop light next to me, flick her cigarette out the window. We were on Pacific Coast Highway, which is right along the beach. It grieves me to think of the animals who are negatively affected by litter like that. Don’t cars have ash trays anymore? Why be so lazy about snuffing out cigarettes in the ash tray by tossing it out the window? I wish I had a license from the city or state to ticket people like that. Imagine a painting by the beloved Thomas Kinkade having cigarettes painted into the landscapes. Would we buy a painting like that? When I go to the beach, I like to see the beauty of creation, not the litter from mankind.

I am raising my children to appreciate nature and when we go to the beach we take paper bags with us and pick up litter as we see it. We have seen the garbage cans dumped over and we picked them up. We also volunteer with the state to plant native plants along the beaches. If we want the Earth to continue to yield her ‘fruit’ to us then we had better take care of her. Because this is just too beautiful to mess with.

 photography by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

boy at beach by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

oceanside by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

Blissfully yours,

Sisterlisa

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My Girls and Mother’s Day

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I awoke on Mother’s Day with a surprise breakfast in bed with blueberry pancakes that Monica drove six miles to get from The Lazy Dog Cafe. It came with their maple bacon butter which is fantastic! Then after breakfast I took my girls with me to Balboa Island to go for a walk and ride the ferry over to the peninsula. While on our walk we entered a fairly new store there called, Sinfulicious. At first glance it looks like a pastry store, but walk inside and you see that it’s pastry style body care. Yummy!

cupcake bath bombs by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

bath treats by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

We got to create our own scents at the fragrance table and my favorite mix was Hawaiian Lei and Coconut. They have hundreds of fragrance oils to choose from and thousands of combinations.

fragrances by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

We got to have a hand treatment while we were there. All three of us got pampered with a salt scrub and an fragrance infused oil to condition our freshly exfoliated hands.

girls by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

Monica, Jessica, and Gina

The gal mixed my two fragrances together and created my very own custom scrub and oil. I got to watch and know exactly what’s in these products. No need to google the scientific name you can’t even pronounce!

mixing by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

I chose the bottle sizes and she filled them up.

bottles by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

Now I can use that fragrance here at home and my husband loved it! Now if only I could get scented candles to match!

product by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

We had a great time for Mother’s Day! Next year we’ll be making this a tradition!

store by sisterlisa, on Pix-O-Sphere

*Disclaimer: I chose to feature Sinfulicious on my own accord and paid for my own products. I received no compensation for this post. If you would like to visit their shop you can find them at three southern California locations and at Facebook.

 

I hope all the mothers out there had a great day for Mother’s Day.

Sisterlisa

 

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