Clothing Essentials Challenge - Shopping & Trial Run

• Step 3: Once you've looked through your closet, determine if there are gaps you want to fill. Shop carefully!

• Step 4: Try several of the outfit ensembles suggested by the magazine/video article to see how your essentials work together. Last week, while on vacation in a warmer climate, I tried out my spring essentials. 

 
 
 

If all goes well, the next logical step is...

• Step 5: Remove all other clothes from the closet.

Yikes.

 

Clothing Essentials Challenge

I love the ideas from the becomingminimalist blog. It suggests ways we can have more in life even as we own less stuff. 

I found the post about cleaning out clothes, however, to be tricky to carry out (see becomingminimalist). 

Even after weeding through, you'll notice that my closet still looks maximum. 

How do we pare down our clothes closets so that we still look "put together"? 

Here's the first step to meet this creative challenge:  

• Step 1: We need a practical guide to help us. Check out this great article from the March edition of Lucky magazine. The article shows you 90 looks (both work and casual) that you can create using a few essential pieces. Take a look at the video on the online magazine - Luckymag.com. 

Buy the magazine or watch the video and make a list of the essentials. We'll use it as a guide only. You want to create a look that's all your own!

Gifts For Paris-Bound Friend

Today is Tina's birthday! Since she is going to France in June (cross fingers), I gathered a few things she might need...

A Paris guidebook, a flashy passport cover and luggage tag, an Eiffel tower bookmark, French wine, and petite cupcakes from our new little shop in town, My Little Cupcake. Bon Anniversaire!

To package the goodies, I used a shopping bag from a girl's favorite place to buy lingerie and relabeled it - Ooo-La-La!