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Beauty
Covers the physical aspects of pursuing health (e.g., diet, exercise and sleep), aspects that might be considered vanity (e.g., skin, hair care and makeup), as well as wardrobe (clothes, shoes and accessories). Also includes deportment (or suavity) like manners, charm and carriage.
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Why Wardrobe Plans are Valuable
The key wardrobe plan problem is building this year’s wardrobe around last year’s clothes (not lack of funds). I think this may be…
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What is the Inherent Nature of Waste?
They’re buying new comfortable things and discarding old uncomfortable things – piles of stuff waiting to be collected by the council’s hard waste removal contractors.
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Discover Your Perfectly Comfortable Heel Height
Once, a very long time ago, I had a pair of heels with the perfectly comfortable heel height. Not only could I wear them all day, but then all night as well and hardly notice I was wearing them.
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My version of string theory
In previous posts I have referred to my life as being like a tangled ball of string – I wasn’t specific at the time, but I imagine it as the kind you get when you give a cat a ball of wool to play with. When you try to unravel it, you pull one strand and all the…
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Life is Like a River
I was thinking that in metaphorical terms, my life is like a river flowing from birth to death (I’m staying away from what happens next for the time being).
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5 Life Lessons Confirmed Through Painting
We’ve had some warmer days so I’ve been taking a break from the garden and catching up on some inside work instead. And learning 5 life lessons while I’m at it.
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Me and Melbourne are Friends Again
As you know, I was quite sad to lose my feeling of kinship with the city. So I am really very happy to tell you that me and Melbourne are back on! Perhaps it was just been that kind of melancholic can’t find a thing to buy feeling – do you get that too? Sometimes having a firm…
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The Dread of Domestic Duties
You might recall that when I first brought home into the virtue of beauty framework, the goal was a comfortable, happy, cheerful, welcoming and calm home that reflects who we are right now. Odd now that I think of it, that I didn’t include healthy given my circumstances. Not to worry, I don’t live in a hospital thank…
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How to Make the Perfect Pizza
One of the rare pleasures of unemployment is the time you can spare to make “real” food. Today, it’s the perfect pizza.
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Could You Do Fashion On a Budget?
I spent too much on clothes – most of them mistakes, and I still had nothing to wear! I needed a system to procure fashion on a budget.
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Amazingly Unlikely Birth and Death
As you know, I’m working in the garden. Observing birth and death, but mainly just weeding the last few days… Which led to the appalling discovery that I can’t see well enough to weed properly without my “reading” glasses. Might need to get some prescription sunglasses made up for just that purpose… Anyway, I found a pansy…
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My kidney transplant
I received a kidney transplant in 2011. I was so sick for so long I wanted to stop treatment and let the end come. There was nothing more to do…
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Who are the Home Grown Heroes of My Beautiful Garden?
When I first laid out my garden vision, I mentioned a need to develop habitats for native species – my home grown heroes.
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How to Look Like you Know What You’re Doing
Dressing to look like you know what you’re doing is why we dress appropriately for our circumstances, isn’t it?
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Virtue of Beauty; a Beautiful Garden
My initial thoughts on a beautiful garden were lush flowers, abundant produce, weather protection and mystical threshold. It also has habitats for “wild” native and domesticated creatures. That sounds quite small and simple, but in fact it’s HUGE!!!
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Virtue of Beauty; a beautiful home
For me, a beautiful home is a functional home that works well. I said I wanted a happy home that was small and comfortable. I went so far as to say it would NOT be full of relics from bygone times, and might even be Spartan.
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Virtue of Beauty; a Beautiful Presence
Your authentic self is initially seen through personal presentation – your beautiful presence; your clothes, hair and makeup.
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Virtue of Beauty; a Beautiful Body
We would probably all agree that, in general, a beautiful body is a fit and healthy body the result of good diet, exercise and sleeping habits.