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Une femme d’un certain age ~ Celebrating the Mature Woman

May 7, 2019 By Deanna Piercy 16 Comments

Une Femme

Are you familiar with the French expression, “une femme d’un certain âge”? The literal translation is “a woman of a certain age”. Within the English language “a certain age” alludes to spinsterhood and yet the French, God love ’em, give it a different twist. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Read more here. Celebrating the Mature…

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Celebrate Yourself with the Celebrating Womanhood #selflovechallenge

September 16, 2014 By Deanna Piercy 1 Comment

Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving Life, Cabin Goddess, Tea with Dee, Living This Moment, and Teachable Scotts Tots Homeschool. This is the third annual Celebrating Womanhood Event. This year, instead of shining the spotlight on another woman, it’s all about YOU. Or, in my case, ME. The challenge is to share three positive things…

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Take the #selflovechallenge – Celebrating Womanhood Event

September 5, 2014 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving Life, Cabin Goddess, Tea with Dee, Living This Moment, and Teachable Scotts Tots Homeschool. For the past two years, we’ve let you get away with shining the spotlight on another woman. This year, it’s all about YOU. As women, we often have trouble putting ourselves front and center. We’re…

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What I’m Into (September 2013 Edition)

October 5, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Here it is, October. OCTOBER! So far it still feels like late summer around here but that will change tomorrow as a cold front comes through bringing rain and high temperatures not expected to get out of the 60s. I can’t really complain, however, since several friends have been posting pictures of snow on Facebook…

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The Value of a Homemaker

September 17, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving Life, Cabin Goddess, and Tea with Dee. For one day, we want to drown out negativity and celebrate the beauty and pride of women. These days it seems that some people want us to be ashamed of being women. They want us to believe that we’re less: less intelligent, less important, less human….

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Filed Under: Dee's Life, Featured Posts, Home & Garden, Homemaking Tagged With: #womenrock, Celebrating Womanhood, cleaning, cooking, decorating, home, home life, homemaker, housekeeper, sanctuary, women

What I’m Into (August 2013 Edition)

September 6, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

I’m a bit late with this but better late than never, right? It’s been a long and busy day (I’ll blog about it later) so this edition of “What I’m Into” may be a bit light on elaboration. Celebrations This month we celebrated the life of my dear uncle. David, my mom and I flew to…

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Bloggers Wanted: Second Annual Celebrating Womanhood Blogging Event

August 22, 2013 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

  Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving Life, Cabin Goddess, and Tea with Dee. Yes, we’re taking over the internet again to spread positive messages about women. Last year, a few of us got fed up with all the negativity aimed at women and decided that for one day, we wanted to flood the blogosphere…

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Celebrating Womanhood ~ Bloggers Wanted

August 30, 2012 By Deanna Piercy 1 Comment

Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving Life, Cabin Goddess, CrazyLadyx5, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dave, Tea With Dee, alchemyofscrawl, and Retro Housewife Goes Green. For one day, we want to drown out negativity and celebrate the beauty and pride of women. These days it seems that some people want us to be ashamed of being…

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