rose.

Likely because Valentine's Day is coming up in a couple days, but lately I've been enamoured with anything pink, fluffy and utterly girly. 

Life is just more fun when you embrace what you love. Right now, I'm addicted to florals and pink. What's a gal to do?

don't.

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. 

But it's true - hard work pays off. 

If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. 

If you don't love something, then don't do it." 

- Ray Bradbury 

chapters.

Currently listening: Patti Smith's cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

The last month has certainly been an interesting one. I know there was a ton of this "New Year, New You" mantra-ing happening, but I really wasn't feeling it. In fact, I felt exactly the same moving into the new year as I felt leaving 2014.

I sat down with one of my good friends and Producer for several shows I've been a part of the other night, and we hashed it out. January 2015 was hard. T

here were a lot of things that went south during a time of refreshment and renewal. On the flip side, I experienced and found success in several places I didn't think would be profitable (like booking my first TV show!)

However, it's ending. Tomorrow is a fresh page of a new month. For me, I feel like it's my time to step into a new chapter.

I'm thrilled to be expanding my personal brand of dance work and choreography, and am taking on new projects, teaching more classes and brainstorming ways to travel, share and showcase more of what I love to do.

Right now I'm in the thick of building www.portiafavro.com with a full class schedule, background and demo work in all my areas of expertise and creativity. It's a long time coming, but I'm en route!

Have a wonderful weekend friends. Tomorrow, it's a brand new day.

bell.

"Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: 

rose picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. 

Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. 

A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark...

I hoard all those letters like treasure. 

One day I hope to fasten them end of end in a half-mile steamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. 

It will keep the vultures at bay." 

- Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

top5.

This has been one of those perfect rainy Saturday's - quiet. 

This past week was full of work, classes, meetings and not one, but two fantastic dance gigs. I'm very pleased to annouce I'm a specialty dance performing on the show, MOTIVE, which airs on CTV. 

I'm slowly but surely getting better this whole "resting" thing and taking days off when I really get them. Audrey Hepburn once said, "I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." 

It also gives me the precious time to plan, write, and plan for the coming week. 

PLUS, I get to write a new Top 5 for y'all! 

The Day Designer. 

Sometimes, you just gotta kick your own butt into shape. 

Today I took a deep breath and dove in to find out more about what I really want to do. I definitely have some fresh ideas, goals and am ready to process and put them into place. This little book just opened up the possibilities. Let's do it. 

Etta James. 

There's just something about dancing to this siren of song. Plus, her birthday was on January 20. 

Stay tuned for my level 1 dancers performing to her beautiful music in "Back to Basics" March 26/27 at Celebrities Nightclub. 

Hair. 

You guys, I've decided to finally once and for all grow my hair out into a long bob. It's time. 

Tuesday Grooveday. 

Step one, just go for it. I finally voiced and laid down the ropes to start my own dance class under Portia Favro Productions. Every Tuesday evening, my friend and I offer a heels cabaret and artistic direction class at one of our local studios for a reasonable price point. 

Although it seems simple, I found this very challenging. Every week, who knows if anyone will come? But it's worth the risk. Which leads me to...

Quote. 

Boom. 

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend. 

- P.