Category: My Purple Life

What’s coming in 2019

What’s coming in 2019

Since I’ve been taking on more blogs, jobs, and purple mobs (lol), I decided to make this blog a monthly event instead of weekly.  Since I already post over on the For the Love of Purple Facebook fan page daily 7 days a week, send […]

7 Reasons Why Purple Fans are Different

7 Reasons Why Purple Fans are Different

I have polled a ‘grape’ number of you over the years both here and on the For the Love of Purple Facebook fan page, and it has confirmed what I have long suspected about purple lovers.  We are a different breed of fan.  There are […]

Official FLP Things: From the Grape Old Days

Official FLP Things: From the Grape Old Days

These are a few of our favorite PURPLE things. The official FortheLoveofPurple.com (FLP) color is, of course, purple.  However, I got to thinking that we need to declare other things, like our theme song!  So…I decided to begin a list of them right next to […]

Forwarding addresses

Forwarding addresses

Hi folks!  I have some purple news to share with you this month. I haven’t had as much time to focus on this site since my Hashimoto’s Disease kind of took over my purple life.  Right now I have two other blogs, one website, a […]

My newest purple things

My newest purple things

Last month was my birthday and I got some fabulous new purple things to add to my grape collection.  From left to right starting in the back: My new purple heart keyring is something I actually picked up at a Sports Authority the month prior.  […]

My purple birthday menu

My purple birthday menu

I’m going to be 51 this month and I’ve been trying to eat healthier for me, esp considering I have Hashimoto’s disease.  How can I purple-ize this? Breakfast: Blackberries in my vanilla protein shake Lunch: Blueberries in my turkey and spinach salad Dinner: Purple food […]

My Purple Book Title Contest

My Purple Book Title Contest

A long time ago, in a purple galaxy far, far away, I began writing a grape eBook sharing all my secrets for redesigning things inexpensively  in order to make them purple.  Due to some other deadlines, I had to abandon this project long ago.  However, […]

Taking a Grape Big Step Back

Taking a Grape Big Step Back

As some of you already know, 2012 was a very difficult year for me.  Aside from the normal busy-ness of being a work-at-home-schooling mom to a very clever 13 y/o, I’ve had some health issues for the last 35 yrs that have grown in severity […]

What purple thing are you looking for this year?

What purple thing are you looking for this year?

It’s a new year!  It’s a new opportunity to replace your old, sad, UNpurple things with bright, new, shiny (well, if you want them shiny) PURPLE things! What are you looking to get your purple hands on this year?  Maybe we can help each other […]

Gundar Struck the Purple Zone!

Gundar Struck the Purple Zone!

Today was one of those terrible, no-good, rotten, very bad days. First my dd left to go back to grad school (2000 miles away from home) this morning and we don’t think we’ll see her again for a year.  I will admit that there are […]