/Following up from my post on Loving Your Stomach – Materfamilias writes about grappling with the issue. What colour should you paint your closet space? Maria at Colour Me Happy has some inspiration (if only I had a wardrobe that looked anything like the ones in her pictures.) LPC from Privilege writes about her style [...]
Why Do We Hate Our Stomachs So Much?
June 19, 2011 By 18 Comments
. . Time and time again when I ask clients about what they’d like to highlight and camouflage on their body stomachs come up as a place that they dislike and want to make disappear. Most of the time these are normal stomachs. I see a lot of stomachs in my job as an [...]
What’s Your Happy Colour?
May 3, 2011 By 19 Comments
Sunset over Wellington NZ harbour Having just spent the past 5 days running a Personal Colour Analysis training course I’ve been thinking lots about colour. Part of the course covers psychology of colour and I like to think about what colours mean to me, or to you and why. An experience with a client one [...]
Weekend Reading: 19 February
February 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
Not Supermum has had a lovely blog makeover, she’s also written and interesting post on the differences between bloggers and writers. Tips on how to praise to achieve results from Michelle, an opinionated woman. Teer Wayde or Curves to Kill has a fantastic list of places to shop for plus size fashion that are fashionable [...]
Keep the Love, Chuck Out the Stuff
December 1, 2010 By 5 Comments
.This morning I was talking to the teacher at Niamh’s creche and she was mentioning that she’s been given a few pieces of jewellery that she doesn’t like, that she’ll never wear, but feels she can never throw out because they have been given as gifts. I see this phenomenon often with clients too, who have clothes [...]
Relaxing with a Magazine
November 3, 2010 By 12 Comments
Women’s Weekly Magazine I’ve always loved magazines. I love the glossy paper, the beautiful coloured photos, the headlines that promise some of life’s little mysteries will be revealed to me. Ever since I was a teenager and I started buying Dolly magazine I’ve been a magazine fan. As I moved into my late teens and [...]
Weekend Reading – Happy it’s the Weekend!
October 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
Weekend Reading: Never Short on Style
September 17, 2010 By 12 Comments
What made me happy this week? Well I’m thrilled to say that I’ve FINALLY finished writing and editing my new ebook for Petite women called Never Short on Style: Dressing and Finessing the Petite Frame. I’d like to say thanks to all of you who came up with potential titles, to Susan (contact me for your [...]
Where Do You Attitudes to Clothes Come From?
September 2, 2010 By 11 Comments
. .When I’m with a client I like to understand them and why their clothes aren’t working for them. Quite often there are deep seated attitudes to clothes that they’ve never thought about, why they end up wearing clothes that make them look much older or younger than they are, or why they can’t spend [...]
How Did I End Up Frumpy?
July 29, 2010 By 18 Comments
