Live Fancy

I was just sitting at home one day and I glanced over at my china cabinet, which is full of Old Country Roses china.  I thought to myself how beautiful the pattern is and how much I love it.

My second thought came in the form of a question.  That question was why do I leave it all shut up in the cabinet looking pretty when I could be using it?  I don’t mean in a formal dinner type fashion, I mean in a day to day way.

My thoughts then began to wander to other “fine” things put away for the perfect moment to use them or the right people to share them with.
 

As this thought process began to unfold, it turns out that my china was only “the tip of the iceberg” so to speak.

I began to think about using my crystal wine glasses, having fresh flowers just for me, wearing my finer lingerie every night, breaking out the finer teas and coffees, usually reserved for when guests are in the house, pinning my hair up in the mornings with my crystal hairpins to drink my coffee, wearing my expensive perfumes even if I’m not leaving the house that day, using a linen hanky for those tears, and the list goes on….

Now don’t get me wrong I heard a little voice that said the china could break, the lingerie will wear out, you should save it for special occasions or girl trips, and those crystal hairpins are for a night out somewhere special..

Well... I just turned the volume down to zero on all of that noise and found myself drinking my coffee right out of one of my china cups the next morning, wearing silk pajamas , hair up with crystal pins and I am here to tell you it felt good!!

I thought to myself right then and there from now on I am going to live life playing lady.  Just like a little girl that fancies up for a tea party, and best believe it was on…
 

I’m sure at times it borders on ridiculous, and I might very well, on some mornings, look like a leftover from prom night, but I just refuse to die with a bunch of life’s finer things stashed away in my drawers or shut up in a cabinet while I live life drinking out of some old random coffee mug, wearing an old t-shirt.

Now some of you may say I don’t have china and things like that.  Well I say to that…get yourself to T. J. Maxx or somewhere like that and purchase yourself a china cup and saucer at a good price. You might be thinking that fresh flowers are costly…Honey go outside and pick you some..I’m telling you God provides!! A dollar store vase later and you are in business!

What I’m saying is, where there is a will there is a better way to spend your day to day life. "Dress it up”.

Keep your mani-pedi fresh, even if you have to do it yourself.  When you have completed your morning teeth brushing ritual apply, some shiny lip gloss…get your shine on for coffee time!

After a long day,  get that hot bath, drop a little of your favorite perfume in the water, light a candle.

Give or get yourself a facial, wear those pearls, put a ribbon on it…Now I’m not saying whether I do or do not own and occasionally wear a tiara..I’m just saying in life, who or wherever you are…fancy feels good!!  After all you are a child of the Almighty God!

Come on y’all ..”Live fancy”..trust me…You are worth it!!