The art of more effectively tying a shoe lace
If you have experienced the annoyance of shoe laces (of all varieties but especially leather!) CONSTANTLY coming undone then you will love this tip. A friend of mine shared this video with me and the information it offers is worth its weight in gold. By simply changing the direction that you loop your shoe lace, […]
“It owes me nothing!”
I have a dress that cost me $250 and at the time I felt quite sick as I purchased it (You know that feeling? When you have to rearrange your face as the price appears on the monitor? Yep…that feeling). Fast forward three years and three months later and that dress still gets me as […]
Reviving Dry-Clean Only items
Sales staff are absolute goldmines of information. Especially if you can get the winning combination of a salesperson who knows their product well and who genuinely cares for customers. And gems can come up quite unexpectedly – you just have to be ready to catch them. The following tip came about when I happened to say […]
Changing things to how you like them
Finding alternative uses and repurposing things to suit me in unexpected ways gives me a real high. Just because something was designed with certain intentions doesn’t mean that it has to stay that way. Below are three examples of adaptation that have worked out extremely well for me. Stretched shoes I found this pair of […]
Keeping tights out of a twist
I couldn’t survive winter without my opaque tights; they keep me warm and they help outfits look complete. I have several pairs in different denier grades that prepare me for whatever weather Canberra may throw at me. They do all look the same though… that is a problem. To get around this I don’t allow […]
New bras! Out with the old! In with the new!
For the last month or so I have been trying not to think about how much I dislike my most useful nude bra and how much my second in command nude bra is not fitting very well… and then possibly because I had bras on the brain, how very tired my black bra looks now […]
