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Featuring an Interview With Stephanie of StepStitches

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  Photographer: Nikia Paden of Iridescent Ms. Stephanie, please share with my readers a little about yourself. I’m a Georgia native, wife, and mom to 2 college students. I am a Sunday School teacher. I taught elementary school for 16 years and I am a licensed social worker. And I love to sew!   **Please tell about your business StepStitches. Cinnamon Annie Dolls by StepStitches is a vintage style doll with a modern twist. Cinnamon Annie is a Raggedy Ann style doll updated for today’s generation. I also wrote a children’s book about her and make a limited-edition Cinnamon Annie Doll Ornament, which only available during the holiday season. StepStitches is ran completely out of my home where I make each doll. **How did you start this amazing talent? Doll making grew out of my sewing hobby/obsession. I started sewing Raggedy Ann style dolls for my own personal enjoyment in 2016.  I named them Cinnamon Annie. I loved my dolls, but I

Love Hard and Forgive Fast

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Written By: Felecia Causey Photography By: Felecia Causey Models Are Sisters: Shantasia Lewis and Yvette Brooks Families are being destroyed all the time. It's so much pain and hurt that goes on ,but the disagreements and misunderstandings are never discussed.  This causes grudges to be held for years. Most times when there is a wedge between family members, there is also separation and no communication.  What causes so much rivalry amongst siblings, cousins, aunts, grandparents,  and parents?  Family members can be in such competition with each other because of a generational thing. Many will become so distracted on what the other have that it consumes their love for one another.  Siblings sometimes fall out because of just a small thing, and then show up at events and not even speak.  They will allow a childish and selfish thing to take away the enjoyment of family time. People shun themselves from their family, because of feeling like the black

Grandparents Love Your Grandkids Equally

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Written By: Felecia Causey Photography By: Felecia Causey Models: Elanda Sankey-Patterson Grandkids: Kaden and Kailee Most soon to be grandparents are very excited to welcome the new addition into their family. I mean really, who doesn't like sweet babies?  They usually spend a ton of money trying to help the parents prepare for his or her arrival.  The strict parents some of us once knew have turned soft, and the grandkids have them wrapped around their fingers. Unfortunately, all children don't receive this love that is so special to many. I am not sure how someone can mistreat a child that has the same blood as them. There are many reasons such as not liking one of the parents, the color of their skin, and many other ridiculous whys.   An innocent child should not be involved in adults conflicts. There shouldn't be any grandparent that wants to mistreat or disregard a child, that will one day realize that he or she didn't want to be a p

Interview with Jennifer Pfautch Hardwick on Mental Health and Self Care

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Jae, thank you so much for being on my blog. Please tell my readers and myself who is the woman that speaks the truth(You) is ? Hi Felecia! Thanks for thinking of me for your blog. The me you see on IG is pretty much the me you’d get if you were my BFF. I am a Mother, a wife, a sister, daughter, friend, an advocate, and a gloriously imperfect human!  I’m passionate about helping others (women especially) to learn and live in their authentic self, their unique brilliance if you will. Honoring and living in our genuine self (who God made, not who society has tried to convince us to be) is where our power lies.  **What inspires you for most of these quotes or saying that I see on your Instagram? Either personal experience or the personal experience of those close to me. I share them because, all too often each of us feel like we’re the only one going through something or feeling a particular way, and that’s just not true. We’re all more