This is a picture of the southern field this afternoon, so stunning!Hello to everyone, reading my first post on my first blog!
I named my blog Jane of the Jungle in light of the wildness of the times we are living in!
Women ( and men ) need to feel good about themselves and to enjoy life. Especially when times are tough and things look dark. Self esteem and self-confidence are important to enjoying life. They are also both precious treasures. The good news is that both these attributes are free. One of the best things about my experience this year is the self confidence I have developed, because of personal circumstance and the passage of time. I feel that I have been waiting to feel this way since I was a young girl, and now I feel like celebrating. I also feel like sharing this great feeling and the things I have learned with other women and hearing their experiences and personal thoughts on style, self esteem and confidence .
I want this blog to become a platform for living with style, whether it's cooking, fashion, gardening, work or anything else, let's do it in style! I can't wait to hear your thoughts.
Do you have any tips for keeping up style in a down economy?
One I have always loved is to make my own clothes and jewelry.
" Style, is loving yourself till' everyone else does too "
~Prince
I love this song from Prince's album Emancipation.
I lived in Minneapolis , MN most of my life. Recently I married and moved to the country in rural Wisconsin. I live on my husbands family farmstead and it has been an amazing learning experience. I have learned how to live off the land , how to make something from nothing, I have learned alot from animals too by living so closely with them which is something I always wanted to be able to do. Living in the country is an enchanting and seductive experience. Now when I take trips to see relatives in the cities I feel that something is missing. I actually feel like I have been separated from a friend. I think that the subtleties of pheasants squawking, deer meandering and the peaceful quiet of wind through trees and crickets chirping becomes as comforting as a mothers heartbeat to an infant
Tonight I am loving that my husband stoked up our wood furnace and the house is getting cozy, as the outdoors gets cooler. The skies have been gorgeous with those typical blue gray, heavy rain clouds and the sun peeks through and lights up the fields. I was feeling bummed about the end of summer but now I have a delicious cozy feeling.
