I just wanted to say thank you for those who continue to come to my sight and check on me (or check me out). My goal in life is to be a positive person and lately I have not felt positive. I am taking it one day at a time and realize I have a lot to be positive for. For example, my 35th birthday just passed on September 9, 2007.
This biggest and hugest present to myself are my “LOCKS”. I was excited and apprehensive at the same time. My hair is oh, so SHORT—that is my only negative contemplation. I consider how for the last three months or so I have sported my SHORT afro (TWA), I want to carry this courage over into my ” LOCKS” hairstyle. My positivity was enhanced after I spoke with my consultant Creyole a week ago and she indicated that she has no issues with my hair length. So it is full forward ahead.
New Birth, New Beginnings... This is exactly what this process has felt like, conception and birth. After covering my natural hair up with braids for about four years. I started with two strand twisting my natural hair last December 2006. I learned to actually like the look, and texture of how my hair was made by God. Now I am ready to LOVE the freedom and joy God meant for me to experience with my own hair. I had an appointment to get Sisterlocks, cancelled because I wanted that "specific" person to do my hair. I started wearing my hair in a Tiny Afro, after a barber cut off half of my hair in an attempt to shape up my afro. I thought about dying my hair, adding the extentions back on, here I am approximately nine months later with LOCKS! Okay, they are not locked yet, but you know what I mean!
We started at 8:00 am and finished at 4:30 pm with a 30 minute lunch in between. So over all it only took 8 hours to birth my LOCKS! Creyole counted and I own 390 LOCKS, just as she predicted months ago. This woman knows her stuff, just as I knew she would. I am so proud, she is my IDEAL CONSULTANT!
P.S. Goodnapps blogspot was very encouraging to me as I wrestled with the shortness of my hair. She has her links to others blogspots catorized by short (TWA) starts, medium starts, long starts ,etcs. I went to the links with the short starts and I began to see that it was not only possible, but beautiful as well. Thanks Goodnapps!
Sis. RJQueen10
26 comments:
Congratulations!! They look very lovely. May you start to experience a new era of hair freedom. I'm glad you were able to find the categories beneficial on my blog.
Congrats on your new locks. I am glad that you are happy with them!
They look beautiful... And I sported the TWA for a year or two... and that in between stage is crazy, but with your locs, it will be wonderful !!! I am sooooo excited for you....
WELCOME TO THE SISTERLOCK FAMILY, "even though you were already family even before you got the locks, it was so easy to fully embrace such a beautiful woman as yourself :)" I look soooo forward to following your journey, you are off to a good start.
I WISH YOU A HAPPY "Belated" BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER BABY!!!! MY BIRTHDAY IS THIS MONTH AND I POSTED A BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUT TO ALL SEPTEMBER BABIES!!!!!!
Blessings upon you Sis!
Congrats on the birth of your baby locks!! I can't wait to see you a year from now. I believe I was more excited about the finished products then you were...tee hee!
Creyole
Awwww...congrats!!!
Congratulations!
I'm always happy when another sister joins the family but, I'm especially happy with the birth of your new locks because I know they mean so much to you. You look lovely and they will grow more and more beautiful every week.
I know I am late! Welcome, your locks look gorgeous. Creyole did a wonderful job. Don't worry your locks will grow in no time!
You're back!!!!! Hooray!! Your locks look great, and before you know it, they will grow longer and fuller. Congratulations, and welcome back.
looks great...so these are latched locks right? you look great too!
Goodnapps!
Thank you for being the first to stop by and leave me your comment and encouragement. Feedback is really helpful and lifting to the spirit. Thanks again for having beneficial categories and great work on your blog! It kept me going forward towards LOCKS when I could not see how close I was to process birthing my LOCKS.
RJQueen10
TRA,
Thank you TRA! I am happy with my LOCKS. I am happy with my Consultant! She is the “bestest” as I knew she would be. By the way I made that word up.
RJQueen10
Chosen Vessel,
You are born in September too! Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew this! This HAS to be why I love ya so! It could also be because you have such an outstanding blogspot! Thank you for your encouraging words and the welcome to LOCKS! I need to stop by your blogspot real soon!
RJQueen10
Jenn Jenn,
Thank you! I am eager and excited about the “UNKNOWNS” of how my LOCKS are going to behave.
RJQueen10
Creyole,
You are fabulous! You are great! You have awesome skills! I am proud you are my consultant! I am glad God gave me the patience to wait for YOU, you have been more then worth the wait! Thank you for introducing me to LOCKS, thank you for handling yourself with the ultimate professionalism, and thank you for birthing my LOCKS! You go woman!!
RJQueen10
Cluizel,
Thank you for stopping by and leaving positive vibes!
RJQueen10
Ms. Stella,
My LOCKS DO mean a lot to me! I get to glorify God as he truly meant me to be, NATURAL. Thank you for the nice comments you bestowed upon me.
RJQueen10
Cashana!
Thank you for stopping by! I miss your blog spot. I need to stop by and leave a comment or three!
RJQueen10
Sista Locd,
There is no such thing as late on my blogspot. I am honored you took time from your life to more than just read me. You leftme a comment, feedback is an uplifting gift. You have lifted me up, thank you! Creyole is most excellent! I am glad our paths have crossed.
RJQueen10
Aya,
Hey you! Yes I am back! I am striving to blog consistently. Yesterday, I finished up a class and I am off for the next two weeks. Our professor returned our grades yesterday and I earned an “A” in my graduate Healthcare Economics course. That really boosted my confidence level. I look forward to when my baby LOCKS grow longer and fuller. But I am so thankful for this beginning. Thank you for stopping by and welcoming me back.
RJQueen10
Cheleski68,
Thank you for leaving a comment and compliments too! Like my identical twin sisters frequently says, compliments are always welcomed! To answer your question (and for you too Creyole, also anyone new to considering LOCKS), My LOCKS were installed with the nappy lock tool, so I guess if we want to be technical they are “Nappy LOCKS”. But I will choose to refer to them as MY LOCKS. This is such an “awesomely”—there I go making up words again, personal experience!
When I was first introduced to LOCKS by seeing Creyole’s gorgeous hair during our aerobics class. I was not aware of the many versions and options of LOCKS out there. I only knew of the traditional dreadlocks (which did not appeal to me) and Sisterlocks™ (thank you Jo Anne Cornwell for this glorious invention and patenting it and raising the standards of professionalism).
But as I researched and investigated my SELF-LOVE experience I learned to my dismay there other types of LOCKS that exists. This meant more work by me to make sure of what I really wanted in my hair and that my hair would not be “jacked” up. After all is said and done, it really does not matter what MY LOCKS are called, it just matters how MY LOCKS look. I strive for them to as beautiful as my role models Creyole and Blakofi but as unique as me, RJQueen10!
RJQueen10
Hey Lady!
Missed you so much!
So glad you're back!!!
My RSS isn't udating properly, so I didn't know you were posting again. I'm sorry I didn't get to find out about your locks when you FIRST got them.
They are beautiful!!!
I'm glad you finally made it!
390...wow...that's 120 more than I've got! They will be so thick and full a year from now! I'm more excited about your locks than I was about my own because I know you had a lot to go through to get them.
I am sure you will be happy with them. Creyole did an AWESOME job! Not a day goes by that I don't LOVE MY LOCKS!
BlackRussian,
Now it appears as if you are missing in action! I am waiting for you over at your weight loss blogspot. I figure we could encourage and support one another. Perhaps you could help keep me honest as I endeavor to once again slim down. Come on back now.
What is RSS? Thanks for the encouragement on my LOCKS. Thanks for being excited as I am. I believe when you �go through� to �get to� then you can really appreciate the process that much more. I learned how to be more patient and I learned how to be truly appreciative of what God is allowing me to experience within myself.
I do love my LOCKS and I am proud that Creyole is my consultant!
RJQueen10
I have been MIA, especially on my weight loss blog - you're absolutely right! Sooo busy. I'm trying to start a business AND working 2 jobs at the moment, so my schedule is insane right now!
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's kind of another name for feeds and bloglines, blogrolls, etc. It's not the actual services, but the technolgy behind them.
My computer is supposed to tell me when my favorite bloggers post new entries, but it hasn't been doing it lately and I haven't had time to trouble shoot and figure out why.
I'm definitely over due for posts and pics! I'll get back to it shortly.
Congrats on your new journey!!!!! Many blessings to you!
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