I am certain a blog about how to grow hair on a bald head would be a hit, but lol,  J sorry I don’t have one. I can share that Reg and I accidentally found out how to grow something, I would not call it real adult hair though, more baby fine down, fluff, on his totally bald head.

I get emails from people who see my husband’s picture and know he does not have a full head of hair and send information about a hair loss cure and lol, Reg accidentally found one that worked here at home.  As some people are keen to try anything, I share it, do not know how this might affect others, I am making no 'claims', just sharing an accidental discovery we made.

I think the secret of that rosemary oil and emu oil concoction is that rosemary oil is slightly stimulating of blood vessels, you could probably rub the crushed rosemary leaf on the scalp for similar effect and emu oil is a soothing anti-inflammatory and carrier oil, it would assist the rosemary to penetrate the skin. A concoction you could experiment with if interested. lol. No responsibility accepted for what your results are. lol :-) Experiment at your own risk. :-). You could always let me know here, if you want to, what your results are.

 I do not plan to sell the formula, lol J and I do not guarantee it would work for anyone other than my husband Reg.  As you can see from the pictures, he does not use it now, the fine downy hair, or fluff as we called it, actually looked cute, but funnyJ. Formula might be useful before you actually go bald.

 

Rosemary - Stimulant, tonic, astringent, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, carminative.  Rosemary can help to lower blood pressure and improve circulation.  Rosemary is thought to improve circulation in the brain, therefore improving memory.  Powerful antioxidant, aids digestion, blood cleansing, and helps treat headache.

 

I am sharing my Golden Rule for a successful creative life in my blog tonight. All creative people know, there is never enough time to 'do it all'. We have to make choices. Where do we start?

'Speaking in our own voice, telling our own story', is an excellent starting point and this is where a friend of mine, Carol Willis, also a talented writer has begun.  Carol is speaking in her ‘own voice’, and talking about something she knows about, her own life, and as a guest poster in one of my blogs, she spoke of her own country. This is to me what makes someone a good blogger, someone with an original story to tell.

You can read Carol’s Blog at ; "Modern Woman's Guide".  

Now I have read many self help articles, about how to be a better blogger and honestly I could never go that fast paced though my lifestyle and blogging to be able to  incorporate all the ideas into my blogs. I would hate to lead life with the, Cobra radar detectors turned on as I rounded every corner. Seriously by the time I did all that networking, reading and commenting on all the ‘right’, blogs and belonging to the bloggers groups, I would not have the time to lead the life, which is the very essence of my blogs.

Here I am daring to dispute the advice of the blogging kings and queens and say many  of their ideas do not suit me.  By not networking a great deal, I have time to lead an interesting life and that then provides me with limitless things I love to share with people.  Blogging flows easily for me because lots of things happen in my day that I love to share. I love sharing my life. I love writing. I love blogging.

I am breaking all the rules and making my blogs what I want them to be.  Guess what, those are the sorts of blogs, I do manage to find time to read. I read blogs where people are sharing a life and an expertise that they are living, not reading about, in other people’s blogs.

We only have so much time in a day; none of us has time to be the perfect blogger.

How do we decide, from all the advice out there, how we will write and promote our blog?

The answer is different for each of us. I decided a long time ago, back when I was an artist with my own art gallery, that I could not ‘do it all’.

This is the rule I chose to live my creative life by-

“Do what you do best, and let the others do the rest.”

 

Obsolete Occupations Jobs Of Yesteryear.

As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct but we have a nostalgic past that is kept alive through the work of skilled writers who research the past and share it with the current generation.

When I looked at these obsolete jobs, I could vividly remember most of them as being from my own lifetime. I remember our old, ice chest and the man driving his draft horse and cart down the road, yelling out, ‘ICE-O’, and then stopping when hailed and carrying the block of ice into the house for you. My sister joining the typing pool, I worked on a telephone switchboard for a short time.

Some of these jobs would today, require high risk life insurance due to the dangers,  such as that encountered by the river drivers, those men, sometimes called, river pigs, who rode the logs, often tied together like rafts,  keeping them moving, from the upstream logging sites to the sawmills downstream.

Click through the gallery to see examples those oft-forgotten jobs and as a writer consider keeping the memory of this past, our own family’s history, alive.

 

I love the You are Beautiful message.

Blogs about body image.

• Operation Beautiful
• Letters to My Body
• The Body Image Project
• Beauty Business
• you'd be so pretty if...
• FedUpGirl
• The Baby Bump Project
• Claire Mysko
• Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Sketchbook
• What's the Skinny?
• Improving Body Image in the Media

WEALTH CREED 
(remembering that wealth is not necessarily anything to do with money) 

Wealth is my birthright

I claim it today

I follow my heart's desire

I create my future

I share my gift

I live in gratitude

I am wealth

My time is NOW

I DECIDE

I COMMIT

I TAKE ACTION 

 

Have you had a turning point in your life?
I would love to hear of your turning point, in the comments section.

I have had many. The latest one was just over three years ago.  My joyful journey is mostly told in my artslim blog.

This was my turning point and also when I began blogging.



My turning point was being so ill I was going into hospital once or twice a week due to extreme low pulse or low oxygen saturations as my lungs and heart were packing it in.
I was finding it difficult to walk, both my feet had been broken and my right leg crushed in an accident and I needed some   mobility products  to move around, even in, my own home.

I was looking at chairs and scooters in mobility compare , and barely managing with Reg’s help (when he could assist me) and walking sticks.

Reg my husband had then and of course, still has a degenerating disease of the frontal lobe of the brain and I needed to care for him not the other way around.
Doctor told me to 'make our final arrangements this involved arranging for someone to care for my husband after I was gone.  We relocated to live 6 minutes walk from my youngest daughters so she could take over when needed. I had a couple of night time life threatening events and needed to call the ambulance when I only needed help to sit up to breath deeper and some steam, but she was out and my man was confused, so the move was still of no help to me in managing my illness at home.

Similarly, when I needed help to manage my husband when he was having a bad episode of dementia, she could not step out of the daughter role, be strong, and learn how to be the one to manage her dad's behaviour. 

I also realized that the risk of having an adult with dementia under your roof is too great a risk factor to give anyone who also has the responsibility of children under the same roof.

I knew that a dementia hostel, would be the emotional and mental death, for my wonderful husband and if he was to stay well most of the time, if he was to live a good and happy life, then I had to be the one to provide the environment in which it happened.
To do that, I needed to be healthy. 

There was only one part of my health situation, I knew I had the power to fix and that was my weight.
I began my joyful journey to a healthier lifestyle and becoming slim, on 28th January 2007. I have only had one slow pulse visit to hospital since then instead of almost twice a week  prior to my commitment to be 100% healthy lifestyle living, no excuses, not ‘just this once’ overeating and I learned how to be more active.  I had already been eating healthy, just too much quantity. 

Illness and injury had gradually made me sedentary.  

How I became active after some serious illness and injury is another story, but I did it and my health returned, conditions considered incurable ceased to be evident and my current Doctors who do not know my past medical history are very unaware of those conditions I used to suffer from.

Today as I swam in the pool, watching Reg sitting reading under the shade of a tree,  I feel so fit and well, I can hardly believe I am 63. 
This afternoon, Reg and I walked on the beach and with Indigo the dog, I did seven 100 meter plus sprints along the sand.  Lol, this is the same woman was once in need of a heart lung transplant. 

This is the same woman who so easily could have been wheelchair bound with feet and legs too painful to stand up on.  
I know I have worked hard to be this fit, but I also know I have been blessed, with an amazing recovery and I do not take it for granted.

If through writing and telling people that you can recover from the near impossible, I can instil in them the belief that it can happen for them, then J, I’ll waffle on about my own recovery for ever. I am so very grateful that the human body has such incredible ability to heal itself given the right degree of self-nurture and positive belief.  
Remember that every cell within our body is replaced, every seven years. Remove the reasons for illness occurring and degenerative illness can reverse.


 

 I joined a forum about six months ago, called "You Are Beautiful" I began spreading the 'You are beautiful', message.
The forum encourage sharing the message that "You are Beautiful." I have not been active with the group and a friend has just reminded me about the positive work they do at http://www.operationbeautiful.com

The mission of Operation Beautiful  is to leave post-its that have heartwarming, pleasant, smile-provoking messages on them.
Write on a bunch of post-its and leave them anywhere: on peoples cars, change room mirrors, wherever - you'll be able to brighten someones day :-) I had some business cards printed up, saying 'You are beautiful'.  I give them out when I do the shopping wearing my T Shirt, I designed,  that says' You are beautiful.

Believe in yourself, YOU are Beautiful, NOW.

A man was strolling along the beach, waves gently lapping at his feet, the sound of the ocean in his ears. As he walked he saw in the distance the most beautiful colours lining the sand. Approaching closer he found the colours were actually tiny starfish - hundreds of them washed up and stranded on the beached, slowly baking in the sun.

In the middle of the starfish was a gentleman frantically picking up each little urchin and tossing them into the water, one, two, ten starfish; harldy making a dent in the hundreds.

'Why are you putting yourself through it?' Asked the walker 'There's so many, it wont make any difference.

'Really?' Said the gentleman tossing yet another starfish safely into the sea 'It made a difference to that one'.