I’m a vegetarian and now vegan because of my love for animals and my desire to live healthy as well as caring about our planet. I am an active woman who enjoys and teaches dance. I also love fashion and style. I celebrated my 61st birthday and I feel it’s important for women to keep up with fitness and fashion no matter what their age.
Hi Carmen –
You look amazing!! Can’t wait to check out more of your posts and thanks for stopping by mine!
~Sherry~
Thank you Sherry!
Nice to make friends in the blogging community. Love your photos and stories!!
Hard to believe you had a self-esteem problem – you were a sweet little girl (very cute pics!) and have grown into a beautiful woman with a beaming smile!!
Keep on smiling!!
Love,
carmen <3
I miss your post. When will we hear more?
http://sensecorbata.blogspot.com.es/
Hello Carmen!
It’s Glory from the Cambridge Raw Food Potluck on Monday. Finally got a chance to respond on your blog.
It was so nice meeting you, hopefully we’ll get to see more of each other at the potlucks. As you already know, I have been a vegan girl for almost 18 years now, and this lifestyle keeps blessing me over and over again.
In love and Light
Glory
Hello Glory!
Your pics turned out great–you are beautiful and very photogenic!! Your loving heart shines through!!
I will post your story with your pics soon. I think it’s a great testimony to show people that a vegan life-style (especially raw vegan) is a healthy, happy choice. Hopefully, we can influence more people and the world will be a more loving and peaceful place.
Love and blessings!!!
<3 carmen
Hi Carmen! Thanks so much for following my blog – I appreciate it. Anyway, I wanted to check out your blog and say, “Hi.” I have to tell you, reading your blog couldn’t have been more timely for me. I’m 46, and am currently working from home. When I worked at an office I used to be the most fashionable woman there, but since I started working from home I’ve relaxed my standards (a lot!). This is a shame, because my figure has improved since going vegan and it would be nice to show it off. Anyway, I’ve been telling myself that I need to dress nice despite the fact that my dog is the only one besides me who will see me. I need to do it for me! If I look good, I feel better about myself and that’s important. Anyway, you and your blog provided that last push to get me to the mall. Now I’m sitting at my home computer wearing a bright orange top, white capri’s and some fun earrings. It may not be the height of fashion, but it’s a lot better than yoga pants! I look forward to keeping in touch!
A pleasure to meet you, Celeste! I’m enjoying your blog and will try your tasty-looking recipes!
I am picturing you with your bright orange top and white capris, very Californian and perfect for Orange County! Fashion jewellery is so much fun and you can buy many nice pieces without going broke. It’s true that if you’re home it’s easy to be lazy and get into a habit of looking frumpy. If you dress pretty, you’ll feel pretty. In fact, I have a draft about that.
Keep up the good work! I’ll be stopping by regularly to see what you’re wearing – I mean writing – and hope you’ll visit me, too!
<3 carmen
61? When I read “fashionable over 50″ I thought 51! You have to tell me your beauty secret!
I’m a Christian and a vegetarian too. And I’ll be 50 later this year — so I’m gonna follow you!
Hallelujah!! He is risen! What a wonderful note to wake up to this morning! So glad you found me and are following me. I’m following you too and will check out your blog as soon as we return from the Resurrection Celebration this morning!!
Oh, happy day!!
<3 carmen
Hey Carmen!
Thanks for stopping by our blog (:
It’s great to check out your page as well! You look great! I mean GREAT (:
you remind me so much of my mom who is also vegan like us and fit and healthy and looking young beyond her fifties! Keep it up (:
And here’s my curiosity….: do you expand your Veganism into fashion as well? I mean avoiding animal-made clothes (from leather, wool, fur, etc)? If so, we would be really interested to read something on this (: ..or if you have already written any post about it, please give us a link (:
Happy Blogging!
All the Best,
Sia from NewlyVeg
Hey Sia!
Happy to hear your mom is a vegan too!
Most of my shoes and boots are synthetic. My daughter is a vegan and has a great post! http://sunshineandslaughter.com/2013/03/29/leather-free-shoes/
You can check it out. She expresses how I feel. I do not buy leather shoes anymore. I want to support vegan shoe manufacturers.
I have never bought fur. I do have some fake fur which is definitely fake – 100% polyester. Knowing the difference between leather and non-leather is easy for me. I can smell it. Fur and fake is just as easy for me. I know of the deception of foreign imports that use dog, cat and rabbit fur but I can spot it immediately.
I know some would disagree with me and believe even fake fur (meaning 100% polyester) is not good either. I like the idea of promoting fashion with compassion. You can buy shoes that look like leather, we don’t necessarily have to buy only canvas shoes. So in the same way, we can buy fuzzy fibers that feel soft but are truly synthetic.
What needs to happen is truthful labeling, if a garment says faux fur beware and be sure it’s not from animals. But if it says 100% acrylic or polyester, then it’s supposed to be that.
An excerpt from Wikipedia …
“In late 2006, HSUS broke the story of its investigation into the sale of coats trimmed with real fur but labeled “faux” or fake. Laboratory testing found that the fur came from purpose-bred raccoon dogs in China that were sometimes beaten to death and skinned alive … The investigation reportedly prompted several retailers including Macy’s and J.C. Penney to pull the garments from the sale floor. Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Congress to require that all fur jackets be properly labeled, and to ban raccoon dog fur.”
With love and compassion,
<3 carmen
Thanks for your reply! We were really curious to know that, because many people tend to think that being vegan is all about diet, and not compassion. And clothing is such a big part of Veganism.. We’ve recently read about wool, which always seemed less evil than leather and fur production…and were terribly disturbed by facts ): and it’s great to know that more and more people get aware of all the aspects of being Vegan.
Cheers,
S & H
Hey, I nominated you for a Liebster Award! Please visit my blog at animalsdeservetolive.com to read about it under the post titled Wow!.
Thank you, Greg! I am very honoured!!
Hey Carmen! I just wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the Liebster Award – congratulations! I love your blog and believe that you deserve this honor. To find out more about the award, check out my post, ‘Who Lies the Best?’ Yea, I had a little fun with the title of the award – haha!
Hey Celeste! Delighted that you thought of me for the Liebster Award! Guess I’m too slow, I was about to nominate you and Jean after receiving Greg’s but I see you have both been nominated too!! Well, you certainly deserve it!!!
Thank you!!
<3 carmen
Hey girl – you deserve it! And I appreciate that you thought of me too:)