I've got STD fever!!!

So when I first started posting on Internet message boards and forums I was always so confused about the letter language that everybody was using!
WTF, FI,DH, OOT, DIY, PIB, and my all time favorite STD!
I know right! I will never forget one day when I innocently logged on to theknot.com message boards to be assaulted with a post in all caps loudly proclaiming:

I GOT MY STD'S!!!!!!

I almost spit my water all over the computer screen! All I could think was uhh, damn STD's...PLURAL!!! Obviously she's not living right!

But I was relieved to find out that STD was the Internet bride's way of talking about her SAVE THE DATE cards!
With guests and family schedule's being so packed couple's have taken to sending Save the Date cards months in advance (usually 6-8 months before the wedding) to let their loved ones know about their upcoming wedding!
Is it absolutely necessary.... nope!
Is it a fun thing to do and another awesome way to brand your most fabulous wedding? Most divanitely, YES!

Lately I'm all about the save the date design! I've got new save the date designs up at my etsy store and the one up at the top is the newest design that I have been working on! I'm loving it! I hope you all don't think I'm extra conceited putting our picture in all the designs! It just easier cause Mikey and I are willing guinea pigs!!

On the home front: I'm still fighting the INFLUENZA so I'm exhausted half the damn day! But I am pressing on with all my great life changes! Today when Michael came home he said "Oooh, you look cute!" and I did! I put on a little jean skirt, a cute red top, and some cute sandals just to chill around the house! Ya, I know its January but errr um its hot in my house! I'm embracing my inner fabulousness!

Just cause I'm a stay at home mom doesn't mean I'm not a fierce one! I made the most delicious pot roast with creamy mashed potatoes and brown sugar cured baby carrots! I can barely move it was so delicious!!!

So my darling diva's.....
When was the last time you home-cooked a deliciously divine meal for you and your family! Luckily, now that I am at home, I'm able to do it all the time. I know how the hustle and bustle of working, keeping up with bills, keeping it fabulous, and just being you can keep you at the local take out joint! That is perfectly fine! My takeout menu drawer can be my best friend but every once in a while its nice to make something totally from scratch...

It can be totally therapeutic to chop your own onions, peel your own potatoes, and watch your loved ones devour the meal you made all on your own. It makes me feel like even with all the craziness in the world for just this one moment I have given my family something of my own making, filled with nothing but my good intentions and love, something that will give them that good, full belly feeling that is so divine!

Stay fierce, fabulous and full of good food & good love,

Senam
Head Diva in Charge
My Design Diva

Thirty ... Uhh... 60 days to a better me...

Let's be honest this mess might take 60 years but alas the eternal optimist in me is going to try to be just a little bit better than I am right now in the next 60 days!

How very grown up of me to realize that I have some areas to deal with.... Even DIVA's can be better. I mean don't get is twisted I am still spectacularly, Senam! Over the next few days I will go over all of the items one by one.

1. I have plans to have the actual website for mydesigndiva.com on and popping!

In order, to have that happen I need to create & product test at least 100 different products/designs to present to you, my adoring public. I would also in the next 30 days have at least save the dates, monograms, and 10 invitation suites up and popping at my etsy shop.

Hopefully have some sales and some very,very happy customers. I really take each order to heart knowing that these people have trusted me not only with their money but with a part of one of the most important moments of their lives.

There is not enough love in the world. This I know to be true.

So any two people who have, despite of the nonsense that this world is filled with, enough gumption to jump into the lovely, tumtultuos, peaceful, harrowing, fun-filled, gut-wrenching, heart healing, soul stirring, boat called marriage, I applaud them. I support them. I lift them up to God, Allah, Jesus, Yaweh, Buddah, and to every good power, spirit, thought, and force in the world and sincerely hope they will be blessed!

I do my best to offer my skill as a designer and paper artist to trumpet the day when they took the leap for love.

Stay fierce, fabulous & In love,

Senam