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We love Fridays! (and Give Aways!!!)

10th August 2012 by kallie under -- giveaway, featured post

Soul Restoration 1 started this week – YAY! Soul Restoration 1 is a 8-week course, but you have 16 weeks’ access to the classroom (until November 27th), sooo registration is open until September 7th. This is the last time this class will be offered in 2012. In Soul Restoration 1, you learn many of the same things that Melody teaches at Brave Girl Camp.

We are so excited for the lovely girls who are joining us for this session. All of us here have taken the class (as well as Soul Restoration 2 and Body Restoration), and have had our lives change and blossom because of it! So have women all over the world.

Since we love it so much, and we want everyone to have a chance to take it,

we’re giving 5 Soul Restoration 1 tuitions away today!

Seriously girls, this class will change your life….it changed mine! When I heard Melody and Kathy would be offering it, I was excited, and when I saw the curriculum I cried. The banner Melody made for class says, “the original you is still in there” and when I saw that I knew that’s what I had been yearning for, without even knowing I was yearning for anything. I’d gotten wrapped up in being a wife and a mom and had forgotten what the real me looked like. In Soul Restoration 1 you’ll learn about setting boundaries and protecting yourself and healing your past and finding your very own truth. I can’t wait for you to take it!

To enter to win today, comment on this blog post and answer this question:

If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?

* WINNERS!! *

(Thank you SO much to everyone who participated!!! You overwhelm us every day with your amazing stories and responses to our questions…we couldn’t help ourselves…we picked ELEVEN WINNERS instead of 5!!)

Jordan Wildman
Mary Cody
Laura Bickmore
Deidra Kidder
Suzanne Strom
Kelly Scott
Susan Houseman
Geralyn Bradley
Elizaben Chabin
Pattie Mublerig
Sharon “Sam” Randlett Major

**WINNERS: If you don’t receive an email from Kallie (kallie@bravegirlsclub.com) in the next 15 minutes it is because we don’t have your email address. Please email her with your full name and email address so we can put you in the class and send your login information today!!

Come back here at noon mountain time (or on our Facebook page) to see if you’re one of our 5 winners!! Good luck!! And remember:

tags: dream, encouragement, Give Away, Gratitude, inspiration, love, loved, motivation, self help, self love, soul, soul work, take care of yourself

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Deal of the day GIVE AWAY!!

3rd August 2012 by kallie under -- brave girl shoppe, -- giveaway, featured post

It’s FRIDAY again!! We are just finishing up another INCREDIBLE Brave Girl Camp…seriously we love love love LOVE Brave Girl Camp and spending time with Brave Girls face-to-face…watching lives change and wings unfurl and goodness absolutely BURST from everywhere! It is the most amazing experience.

Since we can’t ALL be together ALL at once at Brave Girl Camp, we’ll have to remind you from here to PUT ON YOUR BRAVE GIRL BOOTS!! Please don’t settle for anything in your life that is less than spectacular. Put on your brave girl boots and do what you need to do to create beauty, goodness, love and happiness!

In case you have a hard time remembering, we are going to give away one of these gorgeous prints!!

This print is our Friday Deal of the Day!!
An 8×10 of this print is available at 21% off in the Shoppe until midnight tonight –
$19 instead of the regular $24 and as always, domestic shipping on prints is FREE!

Answer this question in the comments for a chance to win:

What makes you feel brave?

In other words, what gives you courage, what makes you feel strong enough to face your challenges instead of backing down, what drives you, what makes you keep going?

Check back here (or on our Facebook Page) at NOON TODAY (mountain time) when we’ll randomly pick a winner (from US & Canadian entrants)!

And the winner is….

Rebecca S who said:

Everyday is hard for me. I feel brave when I get up in the morning, put my shoulders back, hold my head up high, and do all the small things that added up, make something big. When I lay my head on my pillow at night, utterly spent…knowing in my heart that “I did it anyway”.

Rebecca – please email Kallie – kallie@bravegirlsclub.com with your email address so we can send your print!!

Thanks to everyone who participated!!!! xoxox

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Deal of the Day and GIVE AWAY

27th July 2012 by kallie under -- brave girl shoppe, -- giveaway, featured post

We have been on a mad search for the perfect Brave Girls Club water bottles. We not only found them, but this week they were delivered!! We love them sooooooo much we’ve made them our Friday Deal of the Day…AND we’re giving one away to a lucky winner! Aren’t they gorgeous??

Friday Deal of the Day
NEW Brave Girl Water Bottle

35% off until midnight tonight, 7-27-12
Just $4.49
(regular price $6.99)

We ordered them for the Shoppe and for Brave Girl Camp, and because we want to make sure they’re perfect, we’ve been trying them out. They’re AWESOME! Let me point out some awesomeness that you might not be able to see from the photo…

1. On the back there are little spots for your fingers. Someone spent a lot of time putting them in just the right spots. I don’t know why, but for some reason that makes it fun to hold. Those ergonomics guys are onto something.

2. The part you drink out of is all rounded and nice to drink out of. I feel weird telling you it will feel good in your mouth, but it will. You’ll know what I mean when you try it.

3. The part you drink out of is also easy to flip up and down by just moving the little part with the ring on it. Easy Peasy.

I know I’m blowing you away with technical terms…Actually I don’t know the technical terms. What I do know is awesomeness. And this water bottle is awesome. I’ll prove it by GIVING ONE AWAY today!!!

If you want the chance to win one of these super duper water bottles, answer this question in the comments:

What is your favorite summertime treat?

Check back here at NOON mountain time (or check our Facebook page) when we’ll randomly select a winner (from US and Canadian entrants)!!

and the winner is….

Suzan D. who said:

My favorite summertime treat is to take a gallon glass jar and fill it with clear spring water, ice cubes, 1 lime rolled to release the flavor with ends cut off, and a nice little handful of fresh spearmint. I put it out on my picnic table and let the sun kiss it for just a little while. It tastes heavenly and would be so much fun to drink out of a Brave Girls water bottle! :-)

SUZAN: Kallie will be emailing you today!

Thanks for participating, everyone! How fun to read about everyone’s favorite treats!!

Here’s Melody enjoying her water bottle. Awesomeness all around.

tags: brave girl, Brave Girl Camp, water bottle

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Friday FUN Giveaway!!

20th July 2012 by kallie under -- giveaway, featured post

It’s FRIDAY!!! Fridays were made for fun, right??? Along with all the other amazingness that goes along with Friday, we are doing a giveaway! We’ll be giving this print away from our Shoppe:

Wanna know how to win it?? Leave a comment answering this question:

Which Daily Truth is your favorite and why?

If you have trouble remembering your favorite, check out the archive. If you don’t know what our Daily Truths are, click here to learn more, then go to the archive and pick one that you like so you, too, can enter the contest!

Check back here (and/or on our Facebook page) at noon mountain time to see if you’re the lucky winner!!

(**winner will be selected from entrants in the US and Canada**)

And the winner is…

Stephanie!! who said:

Hi Melody and Kathy!! I have been following you for about a year now and I am still saving money so I can attend one your amazing camps! So until then , reading every single one of the Daily Truths have inspired me. Inspired me enough to break out of the daily “hell” I hAd been living. I am signing up for your Art School because I have never in my 42 years been as inspired by anyone as I am you two beautiful ladies and art is my “therapy”- so I CAN’T Wait!! Wish it was now
I haves searched and searched the archives but cannot find my favorite one about “COURAGE”!! All I remember is that it talked about finding your TRUE self and not adhering to what everyone wants you to be! Because of you and that daily truth ( really all of them), lol – I have opened a handmade gift/ vintage boutique in my tiny small town Helotes, right here in beautiful Texas! Just hope you read my post because I REALLY REALLY want you to know that YOU CHANGED MY LIFE and we haven’t even met each other. No one else- just you and Brave Girls Club and your truthful messages about ourselves. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! See you in the classroom on Sept 1 and when I have saved enough- I will reserve a spot for camp. I love you!
Stephanie

Stephanie – expect an email in the next 15 minutes from Kallie!

Thanks to everyone who participated! We have LOVED reading your responses and are so grateful for each of you!! xoxo

tags: -- a little bird told me, brave, brave girl, dream, encouragement, happiness, inspiration, love, loved, lucky us, motivation, self help, self love, soul, take care of yourself

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60 WINNERS!!!!

13th January 2012 by Kathy Wilkins under -- a little love for you, -- giveaway, featured post

This is soooooo exciting! We’ve drawn the names of our 60 winners!! 20 for Body Restoration, 20 for Soul Book, and 20 for I Have An Idea.

Drum roll please…..

Body Restoration Winners
http://bravegirlsclub.com/body-restoration (details & supply list)

Dedi Ray
Kim (kimberlythorsen)
Coreena Kornel
Tammy (Tlmcclain)
Toni Maddox
Nolwenn (nolwenn)
Erin (charpenette)
Shelby (shelbyrad91)
Melanie (loumelcom)
marilyn (mlbrown4258)
Jessica Engel (jess.engel)
Megan (clavey423)
Wendy Brightbill
elizabeth (elizambc)
Christa (punk_rock_candy)
Angie B. (2byersbills)
heather (jeanellehbraun)
laura black (lblack)
Jen Knepper (RaceGoddss)
Shelly Mendenhall

Soul Book Winners
http://www.bravegirlsclub.com/lifeartalacarte/pdfs/Soul-Book.pdf (details & supply list)

Gail Lynn
Lori Horton
Kristen (allinamomslife)
Jeanne Kelly (jkelly46)
Jennifer (Jenb)
debbi (dmiddleton7)
Janet (joehlin)
Torri (ctburt57)
fancyscrapper
Tammi (tammihayne)
Sylvia (princesachula)
Marybeth B. (mb)
Rachel (aylafreedom)
Lauran Vieland
Lou (loustinephoto)
Debi (wildwoodsarts)
Jennifer Johnson (scrapattackmom)
Angie (werthegreens)
Mary (mhomola)
Alyson (balancedenergy)

I Have An Idea Winners
http://www.bravegirlsclub.com/lifeartalacarte/pdfs/I-Have-An-Idea.pdf (details & supply list)

Gwendolyn Goldsmith
Carrie (ckalmar)
selenaintx
Heather Ferguson
Donna Chomichuk
Janie (sjsmythe1)
Carole Kurth
Carol W. (workmanscraps)
Brendalcsw
Sandra (schmidts)
catebrown
Desiree (desdm)
Michelle (meberhart05)
Robyn Couillard
Ellen (arbywytz)
Holly Hanover
Robyn Sanderson
Trudy Eisner
Robin (ventquillatrist)
Pati (Impatiencet)

Note to winners: It will take us some time to get all of you registered. You will receive your login/welcome email within 24 hours. We’ll do our best to get them done asap!

Congratulations, friends! We hope with everything in us that you enjoy the classes and that you make time for them and get all you possibly can out of them. You are worth it!

Love,
Melody & Kathy

tags: Give Away

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We’re giving away 10 Body Restoration tuitions!

2nd January 2012 by Kathy Wilkins under -- a little love for you, -- giveaway, featured post

Brave Girls Club - Body Restoration

This week we are putting the final touches on our amazing new online class called “Body Restoration” (Jan 10 thru Feb 20), and to kick off this week, we’re giving away 10 free spots!! There are two ways you can be eligible:

1. We will be drawing 5 names from those who left Awesome Things comments in our series of posts from the days leading up to Christmas. Thank you to every single one of you who inspired and uplifted all of us with your comments. We love you!

2. We’ll be drawing an additional 5 names from comments to THIS POST! To enter: just leave a comment below telling us why you would like to participate in our Body Restoration class.

We’ll post all 10 winners at noon (Mtn) on Tuesday, January 3, so don’t wait!

love, kathy

PS. If you’re wondering what Body Restoration is all about, CLICK HERE.

tags: Body Restoration

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Wrapping Up our “Awesome Things” Series With a Gift For You

23rd December 2011 by Kathy Wilkins under -- a little love for you, -- giveaway, EVERYDAY BRAVE, featured post

We have had so much fun putting this fun series together! Big thanks to each of our helpers who contributed their favorite things to these blog posts…what an awesome bunch of women they are!

And thanks to every one of you who has left Awesome Things comments…we have loved reading them and we have read every single one.

Late tomorrow, on Christmas Eve, we’ll post the 2011 Awesome Things video…you’re going to LOVE it!!

For today, we’re sending you a little gift…something that we’ve used in gatherings with our own family and friends…a gift that we think is completely AWESOME….We hope you think so, too. Enjoy!

Conversation Starters

Our gift to you is just what you need to make your Christmas dinner fun,
meaningful, and memorable this year! (Can you imagine, lol!?)

Print these beautiful Conversation Starters (pdf at the bottom of this post). Cut them out and place them in a pretty jar or basket on your dining room table.

During dinner, each person chooses a slip of paper, reads the question, and then answers it out loud. You can go around the table as many times as you like. Answers can be short or long, serious or funny…the idea is to have fun, learn something about each other, begin to understand one another a little better, and in some cases, to prevent those conversations about politics and religion and other potentially contentious subjects! (Just keepin’ it real, friends.)

Here’s a preview of what you’ll find in the pdf :
(you’ll find the link at the bottom of this post)…

For best results, follow these steps:
1)Right click HERE (this is the PDF Download Link) and “Save As” to your computer.
2)Then open the files with the latest version of Adobe Reader.

We hope that you have fun with these Conversation Starters, and that you even give them a permanent home on your dining room table and use them often throughout the year!

We love you, you are important to us, you matter enormously, and we count each of YOU at the top of our favorite Awesome Things list.

Merry Christmas!
Love, Melody and Kathy

tags: Awesome Things, Christmas Gift, Conversation Starters

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Awesome Things Challenge!!! BIG Giveaway!!

5th December 2011 by Kathy Wilkins under -- giveaway, EVERYDAY BRAVE, featured post

It’s time for our 2nd annual AWESOME THINGS CHALLENGE!

WOOOOHOOOOO!!! We LOVE this challenge!!!

Watch this short video to see how YOU and everyone you know can participate in this FUN challenge, and how YOU can be eligible to WIN FREE TUITION to our new Body Restoration online class (Jan 10 – Feb 20).

Two ways to participate:

(1) Just leave a comment below with your Awesome Thing…you’ll be eligible for our Body Restoration drawing!

How many Awesome Things can we come up with this year? Do you think we can reach 10,000??? Let’s TRY really hard, okay?!

We’ll choose a winner for every 1000 Awesome Things Comments…with no limits! Winners will be drawn from each block of 1000 comments, so be sure you leave new entries every time we cross the 1000 comments line. Be sure to introduce yourself and tell us where you’re from, okay? (Leave as many as you want!)

(2) To be in our Awesome Things VIDEO…

…just take a photo of you (or someone) holding a sign that says AWESOME next to your Awesome Thing. (Even better: include a sign in the photo saying who you are and where you are from). Send your photo to awesomethings@bravegirlsclub.com. Deadline is December 20, and the video will be out before CHRISTMAS! (See last year’s video here!) We hope to see your beautiful face in this video…along with your family and friends or pets or whoever you love. Make it fun and creative and AWESOME. Big or small, serious or silly, funny or profound…anything goes! Like this one from Melody:

Starting this week, we’ll be posting some of our own favorite Awesome Things to give you some ideas and inspiration…and we’ll be getting some help from some of our family and friends, too!

We love you and we can’t wait to read your comments and see your pictures. Thanks for your help…YOU ARE AWESOME!!

XOXOXO

Kathy and Melody and the Brave Girls Club Gang

PS. We’ll announce the winners as they come up as updates to this blog post AND on our FaceBook Fan Page.

tags: Awesome Things, Body Restoration Giveaway, Challenge, Gratitude

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Birthday Presents for YOU!

19th October 2011 by Kathy Wilkins under -- a little love for you, -- giveaway, featured post

Hi, Brave Friends!

This week, to celebrate Brave Girls Club’s 2nd Birthday, we are giving you presents! Below you will find two gifts that we hope you will enjoy and pass on to your friends!

First, a beautiful sheet of collage images that you can print and use for anything your heart desires…cards, art journals, whatever you want!

(Click on the image below for a full size version > right click on the full size version > choose ‘Save Image As’ to save it to your computer.)

Our second present today is Desktop Wallpaper with a VERY cool message for all of us to remember. (Click on the image below for a full size version > right click on the full size version > choose ‘Save Image As’ to save it to your computer. And then if you’re not sure how to get this wallpaper on your desktop, follow the instructions at the bottom of this post.)

We hope that you enjoy these special images that Melody has created just for you! More to come later this week!

With Love, the Brave Girls Club Team

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How to install desktop wallpaper:

On a PC:

-Save the image in an easy to find location.

-Right click on your desktop background, and select “Personalize” from the dropdown list.

-Click on “Desktop Background”

-Browse for/select the image you want to use as your background.

-If it distorts the picture you will need to change the “Picture Position” in the settings. For best results select “Fill” or “Fit”.

-Save the image to your computer.

-Open the folder where the image is saved.

-Right click on the image, and select “Set as desktop background”

-You may need to tweak the “Picture Position” setting for best results.

On a Mac:

-Save the image to somewhere easy-to-find, like your desktop

-Click on “Finder” in the dock (the little blue face)

-Find the folder here that called “Pictures” (the folder should have a little camera on it)

-Move the picture to this folder. Click and drag, or copy + paste it.

-Right click a blank spot on the desktop (Control + click if your mouse doesn’t have a right click)

-Select “Change Desktop Background…” from the list.

-Under “Folders” on the left side of the window will be “Pictures.” Choose the picture from there. Choose the fitting option that works best.

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what if I can’t? …AND Birthday Giveaway #6

17th October 2011 by kallie under -- giveaway, EVERYDAY BRAVE, featured post

So….this year’s last session of Soul Restoration 2 closes one week from today and I found this post that Melody wrote a few years ago…I thought it was perfect for today and perfect for SR 1…maybe because the way she FELT is the way I FEEL some days. So read on…hope you like it. At the bottom I added a little birthday giveaway surprise. We are still celebrating after all.

Hope you enjoy….and even more than that, I HOPE you will join us for Soul Restoration 2 and end this year with a BANG!

Do you ever get totally overdone…..cooked…..to the point where you are just sort of nuts and you can not cope with things that you normally do quite beautifully with? Might be because you have been overworking because you took on 3 design jobs that all have the exact same deadline, or you have not gone out of the house or the office in way too long….or because you have been eating junk and not drinking water, or exercising….or because you let your thyroid medication run out 4 days ago and now it’s the weekend and every day you get a little more crazy and tired……not that I know anyone like that…just sayin’

Well…..if you ever do any combination of those things, your big mean questions might come out when you are all vulnerable and raw and weak…because that’s when they like to attack….but, heck….bring it on, I have been here before….you just have to face it straight on…..so……let’s get to the question….

I will now have a live dialogue with me and myself….please do not call the loony bin, I do this all the time and it seems to work out quite peachily for me and my wild mind…

WHAT IF I CAN’T DO IT???

“do what?”
It….you know, my life, just everything?
“what do you mean?”
Well, I just feel overwhelmed, and you know, sort of discouraged, and there’s just so much crap going on out there…the economy, people who are way ahead of where I am…there’s so much to do and not enough time….and I am getting old, and maybe my best years are over…and I keep losing and gaining this same 15 pounds, and my roots are all grown out, and my studio is a complete disaster….and I am a complete disaster…
“OH MY GOSH, SERIOUSLY, BUCK UP!!”
what?
“I SAID, BUCK UP, SISTER, COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!”
huh? Can’t you feel sorry for me for a second?
“Why would you want to waste 1 more minute feeling sorry for yourself? Why would you want to waste one more minute all paralyzed when you could stand up and do something about it?”
What? Like what?
“Well, what do you really want to be doing right now?”
ummm…I want to be making a plan for this week that I can get excited about, I want to take a hot bath and then watch a movie
“well, why don’t you do it then?”
because I have too much to do
“you are not doing ANYTHING, you are sitting there all stressed out and doing nothing but thinking about how stressed out you are.”
Yeh, I guess you are right, but I really should be working
“You have to have balance”
yeh, right.
“You know I’m right”
But what if I can’t get it all done?
“What if you can?”
What do you mean?
“Why don’t you think about why you want to get this all done and what it would really mean for you? Is it even what you want? If it is, then…what is the payoff?”
Well, some of it I want to do and other stuff I’m not so sure about
“So why are you making yourself crazy trying to get impossible amounts of things done?”
because I am nervous and scared about the future
“Why? Haven’t you always been taken care of? Haven’t things always worked out?”
Well, yes.
“Why would things not work out now?”
I guess they always will. They always have.
“So, what are you going to do with the rest of your night?”
I am going to sit down and make a plan for the next week, then I am going to breathe, and take a bath, and then I am going to watch a movie and let myself take a break. All I can do is all I can do.

“Exactly.”
But, still, what if I can’t do it all?
“Then you can’t, all you can do is give it your best and enjoy it while you are doing it…make a plan and then just live in the NOW, stop worrying so much about the future, just do your best and breathe through it…take breaks, enjoy your life.”
Ok, I will try.
“Ok, are you going to stop asking that question now?”
yes, for now.
“promise?”
I will for this moment….and I will put it into my plan to stop asking.
“Good Idea…now go take a bath.”
Ok….I will.

Since Soul Restoration 1 closes for the year in ONE WEEK. If you haven’t signed up yet, this is the last week to do so before the year ends. We hope you will join us and see what good things your life has in store for you!!!