It’s “Strut Your Style” Friday and today’s spotlight is on…JADE WINK.  Jordyn Jones and Co., are creating the most beautiful and delicate works of art with embroidery. Messenger bags, bookmarks, towels, boxes and more. What a unique and special gift or addition to your own accessories. Visit their Etsy store and “like” their FB page, to view and buy these wonderful unique creations.

Katie Kay.com Accessories believes that promoting and flaunting other women owned businesses is an essential part of inspiring young and new entrepreneurs and empowering other women to toot their own horn.  Let us know what you think of our “Strut Your Style” Fridays, maybe you would like to suggest YOUR fabulous fashion and beauty biz for our next spotlight here and on Facebook!

It’s “Strut Your Style” Friday and today’s spotlight is on…SDB Style. Are you ready to take your look to the next level? Can you imagine transforming your existing wardrobe into a collection of outfits that radiate the inner you into the outer world? Shona Brenner will take you there and further. Girl has style and know-how! Check her out at SDB Style on Facebook and the Web.
BECAUSE, in edition to feeling good and looking great working with a stylist can save you time and money. By pre-shopping for you, preparing items from collections at carefully selected stores based upon needs, a stylist will eliminate the hours of aimless browsing and money wasting impulse buying. Also, a stylist will take all the stress away and make your experience an enjoyable one.
Pssst over here…I hear she has a Mother’s Day special, what? huh? YES, now get going on a new fabu look for you or MOM, today!

Tanks by SPUN

It’s “Strut Your Style” Friday at Katie Kay Accessories! Today the spotlight is on SPUN cotton clothing company. Sara Seumae strives to bring quality organic clothing that meets her personal three F’s…it fits, flatters and is fashionable. Each piece is proudly made in the United States using high quality 100% Certified Organic Cotton. I own the cutest 3 quarter sleeve spring green boat neck top with hip pockets from SPUN, that I love! Check them out on Facebook too!

It’s “Strut Your Style” Friday! AND…my 1st spotlight is on Riddle “Style Solved” is her motto. Candice Riddle has a fabulous eye for the feminine, vintage, yet current styles for all girls. Her dresses, tops and skirts are absolutely adorable one-of-a-kind, must haves. The girl is definitely a finder, a junker if you will, but no JUNK here, just fabulous finds that she works her magic on. Check out her goodies on Etsy, and become a fan on Facebook.  Simply Stunning Style!

Tip of the Week Series; “The Best Clothing Fit for Your Body Shape” – 2nd, Pear Shape. Smaller on top, wider hips. Choose looks that showcase your slim upper body (sleeveless, plunging neck) and balance your hips. Stay away from tapered jeans with cropped tops. Wear bootcut jeans with a fitted jacket. Dark skirts at the knee or just above with matching tights, tops with a collar or lapels add width to upper body.

Tip of the Day; 3rd in the series, heart shape face. 1st of all pulling hair back and off the forehead is a no no. Love short hair? Opt for a choppy bob that ends at the jawline. Leave hair flat and smooth on top, add fullness and curls around the jawline and down. Bangs are a good thing for heart girls, wispy, side swept, blunt, or full, just do it! Kerry Washington is a perfect example of a heart shape girl.

Here is my 2nd in the series for The Best Hair for your Face Shape; For Long shape face, Bangs, Bangs, Bangs, if anyone can do them IT’S YOU! Long straight hair? Volumize it or wave it, stick straight with a center part accentuates a long face. Try a side part, it will make your face look broader. Up-do with wispy pieces curved around the cheeks and chin, PURDY!

Beautiful Examples; Sarah Jessica Parker & Molly Simms

Tip of the week series; “The Best Hair for your Face Shape” – 1st, square shape faces. Stick to longish styles, with movement to soften your angles. Curly and wavy rounds out the angular shape. Love straight hair? Add volume at the sides. Avoid one length cuts, bobs, and sharp bangs, too boxy looking.

Examples of a square face shape; Gwyneth Paltrow & Angelina Jolie

Saint Valentine was actually a Bishop, who was a Priest, a kind and humane Roman Priest, who held the celebration of sacred love at high esteme, and he also enjoyed uniting young couples in Wedded Matrimony, and was executed due to that fact.
Now this act, performing wedding ceremonies, was frowned upon by the Roman Emperor Claudius II.  Claudius was a bit of nasty fella, a warlord,  nicknamed ‘Claudius the Cruel’, and when the big Roman war began, Claudius put out a decree for all available men to attend their stations, prepare for battle. Only not soo many Romans showed up. Infact, every year that the great battle was being fought, the number of soldiers signing up for Claudius’ army was declining.  Emperor Claudius was furious, when he discovered that his Roman’s didn’t want to go to war, because of love. They were either married, married with children, or engaged to be married. They didn’t want to leave the loves of their lives, their sweethearts. And this was unacceptable to the Emperor Claudius II.
The Christian faith was banned, marriages were banned, all engagements were illegal and ordered to be dissolved, and anyone daring to convert their faith to Christianity would be considered an enemy to the Empire and would be executed.
So, Roman Priest Valentine continued on in his work, teaching of his God, and performing marriage ceremonies in the eyes of God, all in secret. And the Priest, Valentine was caught, and imprisoned, after refusing to denounce his Christian faith. Everyone loved the Roman Priest Valentine, it is said they each had slipped him pieces of paper, rolled up, with a ribbon tied around it, through the prison wall, in continuing to ask the Priest for blessings, and also offering him words of comfort. The young, the old, the wealthy, the poor, scholars, and the ignorant. His popularity was unchallenged, the people had faith in Valentine, the people always knelt to Valentine, and asked for his blessings, before the fire was set to the alter for his preaching. He was kind-hearted, soft spoken, and the people were in melancholy due to the fact that their Priest was sentenced to death due to his refusal to renounce his God. The Priest, while in prison, developed a cherished friendship with the jailer’s daughter, and it is said, that she was loyal to Valentine. Valentine, also, converted most of the prisoners while he was in jail, when Emperor Claudius was unable to break the spirit of the Priest, and the priest’s love of his God, he ordered the execution by beheading..
The Roman Priest Valentine’s execution caused great mourning throughout the Roman Empire. The lovers loved, and the poets dreamed, and the jailer’s daughter received a letter. It was written by Valentine, to his sweetheart, in a goodbye note, that was signed, Your Valentine. It is said, Valentine gave the first love letter, or poem if you will, to a sweetheart, and the tradition of expressing your love and devotion through words was born, and signing it, your Valentine, was as well. Some legends say, that the jailers daughter was blind, and the Priest was able to heal her, and she could see, the evening before his death. Other legends say, that one of the men who died with Jesus, was named Valentine, and he took on the Christian faith the evening before he died, and Christ healed the sight of his friend, the jailer’s daughter, who inspired him to love and honour Christ.

The Roman Bishop Valentine was executed on February 14^{,  AD 269} he was burried on the Via Flaminia, where his moment exists today. Relics of Saint Valentine reside in Baltan and Malta.