Day 21 - Last day!

Here I am on my last day. Day 21. This has been a fun filled but very challenging 21 days.

I have learnt a lot and think it has changed the way I will dress for ever!
Wearing constant colour has required a lot of energy and has called on a lot of confidence.
I am looking forward to having a few lazy days. Throwing things on without having to give it as much thought as I have in my past 21 days. The thing that I miss the most is my black and white stripes. I think that I may wear them for a week! I love the graphic drama of black and white.

I think that I may rest the white pants for a while... I have also missed some favourite black shoes.
I will continue to wear lots of colour and will have one day a week of no black minimum. I am happy about being reunited with black but am over my addiction and will no longer let it rule my life!
Please join me in trying at least one blackless day each week x

Day 18

Tonight I attended a fashion event at Ultimate Motor Group, Ford dealership in Tauranga. I got to wear this new dress from the just launched 'Sabine' label. Sabine is a NZ designer label that is now stocked exclusively Farmers - your store. This dress is a fab smokey grey with tiny pleating below the waist. The range has pretty party pieces and some sophisticated separates.
I love to wear glamourous feminine dresses. Many women tell me that they have no where to wear them. Glamour and femininity is a state of mind. Wear them to work, wear them to do school pick up. Start wearing clothes because you want to!

You will be amazed at how great you feel. Dressing for yourself is such a treat. I think that a lot of women have evolved enough to stop dressing in things because their husband approves of them, but there are still a lot who dress safe. "What will people think?" This is a disease that many catch.

Get immunised against it! If some one feels dowdy because you look good, then let them deal with that! x

Day 17

Here goes! Welcome to the start of Christmas 2011...
The shops are loaded already with gorgeous decorations and presents. I even heard Christmas music today.

I am getting started on my home decorating this weekend and am feeling very inspired!
I have helped two women this morning to find outfits for Christmas Day. How organised is that! Loads of weddings also happening.
Dresses everywhere...
Christmas is coming ready or not! Best you get ready....

It is such a lovely time of year, full of love and giving and pretty decorations. Whats not to love?

If you are a Christmas grinch then get over it and start decorating!!

Lisa x

Here I am. Levin's answer to Starbucks except the coffee is better and you know everyones name that comes in!

"Caffeinate Too" in the Levin Rose Gardens.
I so look forward to my 'rice milk' latte (allergic to lactose).
Coffee is definitely a spiritual experience for me. Only one a day but it has to be a goodie. No instant for this brightly dressed tart!

People are constantly amazed that I live in Levin. I have for 39 years.
I love it. I have a big house and section that I could not afford in a city.
A large amount of family live close and then of course there are gorgeous friends.

I firmly believe that it is how we live that is important. Not where we live. So here I am living out loud in my 2nd hand blue palazzo pants.
Got many strange looks today. Levin just doesn't seem ready for big bright blue pants! They cost $7!!
I am also wearing a silver satin tee from Ella J Farmers - your store. The big silk scarf is from the best little boutique in NZ Harry's Boutique Wellington. In Seatoun. Next time you are heading to Wellington Airport it is just round the corner.

Allow plenty of time. It is so good you will miss your flight! x

Day 15

Bright and happy - thats how this dress makes me feel!

It is so important that we wear things that make us happy. We can all identify things in our wardrobe that we don't feel good in.

The top that is a little bit too short, the pants that are too short in the crotch or that dress you have to hold your tummy in all day in!

Yet we wear them, feel yucky, go home & wash and iron them and put them back in our wardrobe!

We do this because we think that we 'should' wear them. We punish ourselves for bad buying decisions. We keep things hanging in our wardrobe as constant reminders of the weight we have put on or the career we used to have!

They are like keeping photos of ex boyfriends. I urge you to get rid of all your 'ex's'. Throw them out, give them away or at the very least move them to somewhere where you do not look at them daily! You will be happier wearing five things you love over and over than 18 things that you hate.

Only buy clothes that you love and that love you back... x

Day 14

At the Royal NZ Ballet tonight.

God I love the ballet.

Colour, tulle, men in tights!
So is wearing Navy Blue. Not black.

I am wearing a super cute navy blue pencil skirt from Vanilla Ink Boutique. It is stretchy and comfortable and sexy all at the same time! Worn with navy opaques and navy ankle boots from Minx Shoes.

I was told by someone official in my 20's that navy blue was my best colour. At the time navy blue, to me, represented everything I could not bare - conservative, safe and far from creative.
Now old and sometimes sensible I like the feeling I get from Navy Blue.
A sort of wise power. The power to wear what I like.

To know that just because I choose the darkest shade of blue it doe's not mean that I am boring. It is often announced that navy is the new black - for the past 13 days it has been for me.

Navy worn with this 'Mia Tee' in 'candifloss' ( have you ever wanted to wear a colour more!?) also from Vanilla Ink makes me feel sophisticated and elegant. Just like the Ballet! x

Day 13 - Eating Colour

Here is me and my gorgeous cat, Bertie. Not even Bertie is black!
He is a British Blue.

Gorgeous Colour,Fat, Cute and Funny.

I love happy fat people. Better than thin grumpy ones any day!
I meet so many women who are desperate to be thin. They obsess about 2 or 3 kilos. So dumb, so boring.
Do some exercise, learn about the benefits of eating well but relax about a few kilos.

As we age we look better a little heavier than when we were young and thin. The extra weight helps us to look younger and happier and keep warmer!
I am a huge fan of honoring your body and looking after yourself.

I strongly believe that you are what you eat.
Who does'nt want to be a piece of cake every now and then?!

A while ago I read about Colour Eating. It is as much fun as colour dressing. You must eat as many colours you can in a day. If you have food options you take the more colourful one everytime.

Brown rice over white, red potatos over beige! Drink beetroot juice.
Eat a carrot instead of a wine biscuit. Try blueberries as a snack. The nutritional value is highly coloured food is much higher than white and beige food. Go ahead - have a colourful day x