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So it came to be. I decided that we needed a change. The business was dying like a grape on a vine. I hadn’t watered it enough. You only fail if you don’t try. So I decided I needed a cleaner logo. A new direction.

The last one as personal. I have it tattooed on me, so it isn’t going anywhere. We designed a new website for our business. It’s done on our Webcenter platform. So know I have a site to show you what this design center is capable of. Here is the link. www.indivastyle.com

All questions about what we do, who we look for and what we can do to help can all be found there.

The DarkHorse Webcenter design business has now upgraded to another design platform called Oasis.  This is new state of the art drag and drop page builder that has all of the tools at your disposal to make your new business stand out or help your current one become more recognizable. Whether you want to roll your sleeves up and tackle your website on your own, or  let the design team create a state of the art website for your business with SEO capabilities, Google Adwords, E-commerce enabled site, we can do that. Enquire at www.darkhorsewebcenters.com

So looking forward to bringing new posts on fall fashion during this COVID season. Gift ideas for the holidays. Meal plans, exercise routines and supplement tips are coming as well.

Stay tuned…

 

Who doesn’t love sunglasses? I do. But who hates paying $70-$300 a pair for good ones? I do. There are plenty of knock offs. Cheap Amazon brands that don’t look like the photo when you finally get them and then you realize why they were $10.00. Well, if you love great products at great prices, I have found the brand for you. PRIVE’ REVAUX These are phenomenal glasses. They look and feel just like the high end shades that all the famous people wear, with out that wallet crunching price tag.

The best part is, if you click the link and register with ShopToSavings, you can get up to 15% cashback on a purchases of these amazingly perfect sunglasses! This company was founded on the belief that quality and style shouldn’t be out of reach for everyone! They have both men and women’s frames, as well as unisex styles. I’m a sucker for a woman in a nice pair of aviators!

They just announced a partnership with Americas Best Eyeglasses, so know you can get prescription lenses as well.

Entrepreneur David Schottenstein and visionaries Jamie Foxx, Hailee Steinfeld, Ashley Benson, Jeremy Piven and Dave Osokow, and star stylists Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn aimed to shake-up the eyewear market — and they’ve done just that.

check out the hashtag to see who has purchased these new glasses!

                                                                                                                         #PRIVÉPEOPLE

UPDATE

JUST GOT MY NEW PAIR! To say they are great would be and understatement. They feel and look just like $15o pair of designer glasses. The optics are amazing. The color of the world is vibrant and crisp. It’s like the “VIVID” setting on your HDTV! Seriously, if you want a great pair of shades without breaking the bank, you cant lose with choosing these! I bought the COMMANDO GOLD w/Brown lenses. You get 20% off your first order. The styling just isn’t reserved for the glasses either. The case is triangular and it collapses and folds flat to stow away in a jacket pocket or a purse. Thats something no one has thought of. So my review is pretty straight forward. Buy a pair, Hell, buy two pair!

It’s a serious question that I have not heard anyone asking. Daily briefings, death counts, more restrictions, more misinformation, no debate, and a flailing economy waiting on trillions from a disconnected representative government trying to save it by subsidizing it. I’m one of the lucky ones I guess? My job at this time has been deemed essential. I’m still working.While driving around, I see less traffic than I normally see, and it is surreal. It begs the question: Is this reaction by government sustainable? You have a large portion of the public not doing just that, working. Hundreds of thousands of people in every state not working. Unemployment roles are now over 600,000 in my state alone. We are at a point of making some hard choices. Do we get back to work or just surrender to this?

“To make intelligent decisions about countermeasures, we would need have hard data about all these matters. Yet, for two months, doctors such as Anthony Fauci have messed up millions of lives and commandeered trillions of dollars while scaring the hell out of people and watching curves based on projections based on meaningless numbers. Watching the several curves resulting from the testing that is now ongoing and that is projected to continue as the country suffers will provide only more guesses, that will feed more models and more disputes. The most important fact about COVID-19, its true mortality rate, is the number who die of the virus divided by the number infected by it. No algorithms. Simple arithmetic.”
And 98% of the people that get it recover from it. “In short, Fauci, et al., are showing themselves to be typical of our bureaucracy: over-credentialed, entrusted with too much power, and dangerously incompetent.” That’s Angelo Codevilla

Business as we know it, is probably never going to be the same again. I can’t believe that the amount of money that is being lost on a daily basis, can or will ever be recovered. We can’t spend our way out of it printing money we don’t have. If you don’t have a plan 3,6, even 9 months from now, you could be worse off.  What businesses can sustain this storm? Most of us are employed by small business owners. There could be less of them when this is over. Who’s to say those jobs will be waiting for you when it is over? What will we do?

Remote business may take off after this. It’s become an emergency option that is now becoming a normal thing for a lot of big and small business. Big Box stores are converting over to a digital showroom. That trend was happening on its own, but this pandemic has brought it on even quicker. Even in businesses that would’ve never though they had anything to offer in a digital landscape are evolving.

Then the age old trade of time for money. We all do it. Now a lot of us have no job to trade our time for money.  We will get through this, but you need to figure out exactly where you want to be when it is over. What will be different? Evolve. Change. Fear has almost always brought out success.

This is kind of the footnote article that I referenced in my musings. He is a lot more experienced than myself in the age of digital marketing and e-commerce.

https://medium.com/@ryanstack/business-will-never-be-the-same-act-now-d5f9580be2ad

 

Guests on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood were often surprised to find that although Rogers was just as gentle and patient in life as on television, he was nevertheless a perfectionist who did not allow “shoddy” ad-libbing;^[29] he believed that children were thoughtful people who deserved programming as good as anything produced for adults on television. (Wikipedia)

  “Hello Neighbor” Anyone at least 5o remembers those words. Everyday started with Captain Kangaroo, then Sesame Street, and then Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. That little tune on the piano opened up a world of make believe. A land full of learning social things, friendship, differences, hurts and understanding why we “feel” the way we do. My little guy is almost 18 months and with all the useless mind numbing things available to stream, this show was a far cry from all the other stuff out there.

 The first episode started the year before I was born. It was black and white and rudimentary in it’s production. Didn’t matter. That same quiet and trustworthy demeanor was there from the first episode till the last. The first time I turned the show on, my son stopped in his tracks, sat, and watched 10 minutes of it! He loves the puppets! King Friday, Queen Sarah Saturday, Henrietta, Owl, but Lady Elaine Fairchild still is creepy to me! LOL! The characters of Mr. Negri, Lady Aberlin and Mr. McFeeley were all friends of Mr. Rodgers and they all were just as kind and caring as Mr Rodgers himself. They showed how just by being yourself you could make a difference in anyones life.

With all the things going on in our world, its nice to see Mr. Rodgers and his message being introduced again. We could all use a little refresher on kindness and compassion nowadays.

I never realized all the talent this man had. His show was his direct connection with God. It was his ministry. He hated television, but new he could use it to reach children and share God’s message of love, compassion and understanding. He was an ordained minister and child psychologist, as well as an accomplished song writer and musician. He wrote  lyrics and music for almost every song on his shows. He was also responsible for almost all the puppeteering and the puppet voices in the Land of Make Believe!  He tooled each show specifically to answer the millions of questions children will ask. I hope I can learn a little from him as well. We all should be lucky to have a neighbor like Mr. Rodgers.

It’s you I like,
It’s not the things you wear,
It’s not the way you do your hair
But it’s you I like
The way you are right now,
The way down deep inside you
Not the things that hide you,
Not your toys
They’re just beside you.

But it’s you I like
Every part of you.
Your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new.
I hope that you’ll remember
Even when you’re feeling blue
That it’s you I like,
It’s you yourself
It’s you.
It’s you I like.

-Fred Rogers .1972

I wrote what seems ages ago about a new skincare line that was coming. Well, one baby ago it came. It’s been out for about 6 months and I’ve been using it. It is amazing!

It has a face cleansing gel, an eye serum (late nite puffiness) hydrating creme,  and a restoring serum. (Think botox in a bottle) We even have one of those fancy eye roller and face massager tools. Works great at night and first thing in the morning to help firm up your skin. Click on the image and order away! The entire line is available individually or in a convenient kit.