On this episode of Forward Fridays:

Things are getting a little "hairy" around here! Noticed the beard on our "O" above? How does it look? Do we look like the Boston Red Soex? Which by the way, congrats to the city of Boston for this most wonderful win. They needed it. #BostonStrong

We're sporting the beard in honor of Movember.  In case you've been living under a rock, Movember is awareness for men's health in the month of November where clean shaven men (and women) go the entire month without - well, shaving! Here is their mission statement:

"As an official global charity, Movember’s vision is to have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health. During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of millions of moustaches on men's faces around the world. Through the power of the Mo, vital funds and awareness are raised to combat prostate and testicular cancer and mental health challenges."

Since most of our followers are saving their pennies to Feed America, we'd like you to bring awareness to this cause by adding a "Mo" to your logo or blog profile pic and tagging us on instagram under #motouched

You can however donate to the Movember cause (just tell them Touched sent ya!) -  We won't STOP you! We might even put our bearded logo on a shirt and donate the proceeds to the Movember cause. Just let us know down what size you'd like - (we are only selling white tees at the moment) 

Keeping in Pay it Forward fashion, we'd like you to follow these 2 amazing men and their journeys:

Harold George, Artist Extraordinaire. Creator of The Funnicks Comic Strip, Creative Director of Gsting Labs - a creative design firm servicing small businesses everywhere with logos, business card, branding and website development and illustrator for Webcomic's I Hate My Kids. And did I mention he's my brother?? Didn't think so!!

FACEBOOK|ARTIST TRUTH

Coined the moniker, Bronx's Sexiest DJ for his sexy beats and R&B flavor. Born and raised in NY, he's taken his talents to Atlanta, GA and opened up not only 1 but 2 businesses. His graphic design firm called ATL DESIGN KING and his newly established, The MIXTAPE MAGAZINE, an online and in print magazine for music artists and DJ's to enjoy! 

ATL DESIGN KING FACEBOOK|MIXTAPE MAGAZINE

If you've joined our challenge last week, how much money have you set aside already?

Other men to follow:

Shamell from One Off Fashions

Nik from Global Hip-Hop Battles

Jeff from The JERD

Thanks friends!!

On Today's episode of Forward Fridays...

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“A life lived for others, is the only life worth living.” Albert Einstein

Forward Fridays (Pay it Forward) are now in place. Every Friday, we will ask Touched's followers and supporters to do something for us and with us. Last week, we asked you to follow some of our favorite blogger friends that make us smile! We thank you for that! You guys are awesome and we appreciate you! 

This week and for the next few weeks, Touched will like to ask you to set aside $1 dollar from every purchase you make - from your morning coffee, your morning McDonald's breakfast, your dry cleaning bill - **don't forget to shop our curated home collections as well**,  put it in a nice mason jar or any jar you have at home and at the end of 2 weeks - on November 22nd, we will ask you to check back with us on the new Forward Fridays post and let us know how much you have collected for those 2 weeks. Take a pic of the jar and write the amount collected and post it on our FB wall.

But what will Touched do with the money collected?

On November 22nd, we will donate the monies collected to Feeding America to help in whatever way we can to feed even one family for Thanksgiving! 

How will I know if you're really using the money to donate?

We will send everyone who has donated and participated a copy of the receipt.

How do we get the money to Touched?

Please use the donate button found on this page to make your contributions. 

Thank you friends for helping us help someone in need! 

If we've inspired you or made you smile, please Stay Touched. If you're not already, please take a minute to subscribe down below for more health, fitness,beauty and interior design tips. coupon codes for our curated collections and upcoming news and events sent directly to your inbox!!  

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I have an AMAZING series of posts coming your way! In these posts, we will invite you to PAY IT FORWARD with Touched. Haven't decided on a set day of when it will be but maybe you can help me out. It'll be like volunteering from your computer screen.  

Our first "completely for charity" event will be our Touched T-shirts. The Touched logo with the pink ribbon will go to the nationalbreastcancer.org and can be purchased at ANY time - not just only during the month of October. When the links are up and running, I will send the link via newsletter so if you aren't already subscribed, please do so below. 

The regular Touched Shirts will have just our regular logo and it can be purchased shortly as well. Proceeds for this T-shirt sale will benefit a family in need. Help them pay an important bill like their utility bill, rent and anything else that can help keep them afloat! We hope to raise a couple of hundreds so we can help at least 2 families a month and with your help, maybe more. 

Although the T-shirts aren't up and running (we ran into an sizing snafu), Right now, you can donate here. Will you please help a family out and pay it forward? No amount of money you give today is too small so don't be afraid to donate a dollar! :) 

Also, if you are a company and wish to donate an item for me to sell, please email me at kgstyle@gmail.com and lets discuss! 

For Today, our small token of "Paying it Forward" is to invite you to become a follower of these amazing people below who always happen to put a smile on my face. Stop by and say hi and let them know that Touched sent you! :) 

Click on their pics:

Hope you enjoyed today's episode and help me decide on a "Pay it Forward" day! Leave me a comment down below! 

Thanks friends!! 

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"Sometimes you gotta lose...to win again!" - Fantasia

On Today's episode of Be Touched...

Sometimes it's hard to let go of something that isn't right for you, whether it's a job, relationship or situation, we tend to hold on to things that no longer work for us. It's said that we have a "no-quitter" gene in us that makes us fight to the end and while that may be true, what happens when we absolutely know it isn't right for us? We hold on anyway. 

Other times, the things we are losing are out of our complete control. We lose a job because we get laid off, a relationship fails because the other person had us in the dark, or a situation happens unexpectedly like a natural disaster. I think it is in these times, that we must learn to lose to win again.

Losing isn't the end all to everything. Personally, and I don't usually go personal on my business blog, but I've gone through a few setbacks the last few months which made me abandon all of my followers and even clients but I took it as a time of reflection for my company, my family and most importantly myself. I learned what I wanted and needed more than ever and that was to "Inspire" so I started my new company focus "Life Redesigned" as many of you have read in my "What's New With Touched" blog post.

My company goals are simple: to inspire each and every one of you to not only design your interior space but redesign the things that can potentially make you happy. Topics include Design Tips, Event Designs, Beauty Tips, Health & Fitness Tips and Stories and Articles to Inspire your Inner Beauty and my ultimate goal of Paying it Forward. I want you to travel through our blog and website like the pages of a magazine - finding inspiration for every part of life. 

Since my team and I have been working on the 30 Day Ultimate Blog Challenge, we have decided to stay as much as possible to that goal but this time we will only do 5 days a week. Our weekends are usually client and shopping meetings but we will try to post at least what we shop for..take you along with us on our shopping day as we did last Saturday on our Weekend Wayfarers: Shop with Touched blog post. Can't wait to share with you three amazing designs and coincidentally ALL with the Paris theme. How did that happen? :)

I hope that whatever you are losing out on becomes a time of reflection for you and you feel like you are able to move on from it. There's no way out of the bottom than going up. Meditate, go for a nice long walk, make a plan for learning to live with what you've just lost, put on your nicest clothes, throw on some makeup and most importantly, smile through the tears!! Your pain on the inside will eventually catch up to the smile on the outside.

"Smile...IT WON'T MESS UP YOUR HAIR!

As always, please take a minute to subscribe using the form down below to Stay Touched! Visit our website for design services, portfolios and our shop collections. 

According to nationalbreastcancer.org, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That's an alarming huge percentage! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, we here at Touched have rounded up our best "pink" articles. If you haven't already, click on the pic to read our COVER STORY!  We designed the girliest "Pink" Party for a client with pink cakes, diamonds and tiaras. It was a girltastic extravaganza! My inspiration was of course the beautiful and incomparable, Marilyn Monroe. Click on the pic to see the full Blog post on how we designed this Girly Bash. We also designed this very Pink and Gray baby shower. It was so much fun to create. Client gave us her colors and we ran with the theme.  Click on the pic to see the full Blog post on how we designed this beautiful baby shower. My husband has designed this wonderful Shimballah bracelet for breast cancer awareness month. Isn't he talented? There's only one slight problem: he is only selling ONE! Or is he? To order, drop me a note at kgstyle@gmail.com $20 I hope you enjoyed this short but sweet post! We are thinking of ALL of you who have experienced breast cancer or know someone who has. It's tough but we as a human race have a right to help others who are less fortunate than us whether in health, wealth or in anything. That's why I started the PAY IT FORWARD section of our company. We haven't put it in gear just yet but give us some time and we will have the donation button up for you!  Whatever little you have that you may think is little to you, can do a world of difference to someone in need. Once donations start pouring in, we will donate the money to a family in need to help pay a hospital bill, a utility bill, rent..anything!!  Would you help us by donating? If so, please subscribe at the bottom of this page to stay in the know when the Pay it Forward section will be up and running.! Thanks so much for the support!!!  WE CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! THANKS FRIENDS!

READ THIS TODAY TO MAKE YOUR TOMORROW BETTER! :) 

"I LOVE MONDAYS!" Said No ONE EVER!! 

But it's inevitable. Why do we hate it so much? Well, it's a day that breaks up a good thing. 
The day that gets us right back into our routine - right back into the 'ol 9-5. Right back to 
school lunches and work meetings and makes us forget the lovely time that was the 
weekend!!! It's no wonder our hatred for this day has been known as "The Monday Blues!" 


Is there something that you can do for this day not to feel like a drag?! But of course, there
is!!  Go ahead and click on the title "Beat the Monday Blues" to read the full article on our 
website. So please hop on over!!

Question for you: How do you beat the 

Monday Blues?