Weekend Reading – Pearls of Wisdom on blogging and closets

..Picking Pearls – a great guide by Duchesse – all about shape and size and lustre and what to look for Want a happy closet?  Check out Already Pretty’s guide to getting one. 20 useful websites to help you become a better blogger. Plus Penelope Trunk’s view on Why Blogs Need Topics Happiness Project this week: [...]

Weekend Reading – Fashion is Feminist

A thought provoking post from Sally at Already Pretty about the link between fashion and femininism. A brilliant way to find new inspiration for mixing colours – check out Wear Palettes (pictured) – this one is a great cool palette for someone with darker hair and stronger colouring. Karen gives us some great thoughts on the [...]

Weekend Reading – happiness, cancer prevention and breasts in public

. From newspaper columnist and former women’s mag editor a great post on breasts in public From a new Australian study that shows that potentially the mineral Selenium can cut the risk of bowel cancer – eat 4 brazil nuts a day (interestingly I remember years ago – we’re talking 1998  looking after Dr Andrew [...]

Weekend Reading – Scarves, Eyebrows and more

An oft asked question is how to wear a scarf – Sal has put up a selection of ways. Duchesse wrote an interesting post on the difference between pride and vanity and the place of vanity in our lives. Rebecca showed in her fashion lab how easy it is to give a pair of jeans [...]

Happiness is … Communicating and Colour

This week I found happiness with friends – my best friend from university (I met her on the first day of uni 22 years ago), we were each others bridesmaids, and I’m a godmother of her oldest daughter (now 12) came down to visit from Canberra with her 3 daughters and husband.   It was [...]

Happiness is … Happy Kids

This week my kids have been on school holidays and so, the joys of being self-employed, taken some time off to spend time with them. Some of the things they’ve done this week that have made me happy: 1. I was cuddling my son Aston on the couch (which always makes me happy) and he [...]

Weekend Reading – happiness project this week

Earlier this week when taking out a basket of recycling to the bin at dusk, as I tipped the rubbish in, I caught a whiff of spring. I closed the bin, stopped and breathed in deeply and discovered that my garden is currently overflowing with the scent of beautiful flowers. As I walk around the [...]

Will You Join Me in a Happiness Project?

I’ve been reading and thinking about happiness – and discovered a blog by Gretchen who went on a Happiness Project for a year (and has since written a book on it which will be published in December 2009 The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My [...]