Style Tips -- 16th February 2009
[ 15 February 2009 ]
Learn to love where you’re from — your family, your neighbourhood, your school, your city, your country, your planet.
Just before you get out of the shower, take a deep breath, mentally prep yourself, & quickly flick the tap to cold. Let it blast you, then turn it off & get out. Every time I do this it makes me laugh like mad. (It’s also good for your skin!)
Tell people how you feel about them.
This means: be brave.
You can make almost anything into an accessory, all you really need is a safety pin & maybe some glue! Take a look around your room & think about what you could turn into a brooch, or an impromptu hat, or a necklace…
Make it a condition of entry that every guest to your house must write you something on a Post It note. Arrange them on a wall.
Loving yourself is not vanity. Don’t be afraid of that. Put a picture of yourself that you like somewhere prominent.
Seek out people with whom you have undeniable chemistry & watch your life evolve.
Go cloudspotting.
Do something completely out of character, just to prove to yourself that you can.
Tie bells around your ankles.
Put a drop of peppermint essential oil in your water jug. It’s great for your digestion as well as freshening your breath! Or you could make peppermint cupcakes! Yum. Read more about peppermint here.
Listen to this every night before you go to sleep. I love it, it makes me feel all dreamy & yawny!
Or this.
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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I always love this
I’m going to find bells, NOW
Thanks for being amazing
Gala, these always make me so happy!! They are a great reminder to be spontaneous, make change, and just be happy.
...and I am SO starting a Post-It wall!!
“Make it a condition of entry that every guest to your house must write you something on a Post It note. Arrange them on a wall.”
i was trying to find something to do to spruce up my walls. so fun.
I like to listen to Ein Lied by Rammstein before I go to bed, especially if I’m terribly nervous.
beautiful list!
If you ask me, today’s Style Tips take the genre to a whole nother level. Top work there, Ms G-Darl!
(In our house we call the cold shower blast the Swedish cycle, in a silly accent: “Svedish cycle, ja.”)
One of my freinds went one further than post-its and had a polaroid camera next to her front door, condition of entry was a photo for her entrance hall pinboard! Very effective at making the everyday an event!
i can’t wait to get home from work and whip up a batch of those peppermint cupcakes. i’m slowly building up a herb garden (while my dogs are thwarting my efforts) and mint is part of my collection. having fresh herbs at home makes everything much tastier and my backyard smells great!
I loved the post it one! I’m going to buy post-its like now!
those cupcakes look scrum-diddly-umptious! i’m definitely making them tomorrow!
great tips! i love the post-it one, that’s an awesome idea :D
Cold apple mint tea is ridiculously delicious. :)
My mother used to play Billy Joel’s “Lullaby” for me when I was younger. I sometimes sing it to my boyfriend before we go to bed. It’s a great song to fall asleep to!
Also, my grandmother grows fresh peppermint and spearmint. I like to freeze the leaves in ice cube trays and use them in my iced tea :)
Style Tips has always been a favorite of mine here on iCiNG.
This post was charming to be sure.
Lots of love!
XOXO
I love your Style Tips. I’ve got ALL of them printed out and put in a folder and I go through and select one, writing it in my planner at random and make sure I do what ever it is. It makes my week so much better as I’ve always got something to look forward to. This week I’m making a Bento Box!
MINT CUPCAKES!
I have friends visiting in a couple of weeks and I’ll definitely be making those! Yummm.
I love the wearing bells around your ankles idea! It reminds me of this Indian Movie that I saw in my Indian music class, and in one scene the female lead wore bells around her ankles in a busy marketplace and didn’t care about the commotion it caused! I loved it!
haha, my friend is going to love this entry, she wears bells around her ankles ALOT!!! Walking with her definitely lacks bored silences!
The superglue/safety pin accessory idea is excellent, and I could use that to make lots of things. :D Style tips are my favorite part of iCiNG.
I always love your style tips, they’re my favorite. I nearly squealed with glee when I saw that was the article of the day. =]
These are especially amazing! Thank you for them!
Love the cold water blast – I do it for my hair after each wash, apparently it’s good for it (closes the cuticles or something.)
We have something similar to the post its, a collection of random notes left when people crash at our house, stuck up on the wall. It always provides a smile (a lot are quite random due to foggy hungover heads) and people like reading what others have left.
I found a keyboard that some kids had smashed on the road the other day, so I (being the computer geek that I am) took some of the keys and glued safety pins on the back to make awesome buttons!
I think we shared a brainwave! I’ve been recieving compliments on my buttons all week :D
The coolest book ever – e v e r – is ‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’ by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The cover is such a happy blue and the novel details all the clouds in all the world. Pictures included. Clouds a seriously terrifying once you get to know them, however, don’t say you weren’t warned!
Say, Gala, where did you get that cool image at the top of this awesome post? Did you make it?
P.S. I wear a jingle bell on a chain all the time—it’s so fun to jingle as you walk!
THANK YOU for the peppermint cupcakes – I’ve had a major craving since christmas and have cooked up a range of pepperminty treats. Delightful! xo
Gala you are my super hero :D
i’m gonna print this off.. once i get to work so i can bludge their office supplies just as a reminder to branch out and embrace some of these suggestions.
yay
much loves
i have you brace myself right before i leave my shower, because there is no heater in my bathroom and it is always freezing. I am constintly playing the game of, ‘can i dry off while running to my bedroom before i jump back in bed to get warm’ My husband thinks it’s halarious!
Awww yay :) I’ve missed the Style Tips…
I spent my valentines day watching Juno, roller skating with friends, painting this skirt ( www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?... ), and making a video montage of LOVE. Which I’d, haha, LOVE if you’d tell me what you think: vimeo.com/3233042
How was your valentines day?
xoxo
Sprinkle
Peppermint tea is great for digestion! I add some honey for my night time drink and it’s lovely.
In my old boyfriend’s house we had a whiteboard in the kitchen which had random messages from various people – though the whiteboard pens don’t come off after a few months haha.
Awww.. what beautiful, beautiful tips :) I particularly like the one about the post-it notes.. thanks, Gala!
I missed your style tips.
They always feel me with excitement~
Gala, thanks so much for this post. It’s so good to remember that everyday life can be beautiful even in the middle of chaos! I am moving in 5 days, only I don’t know where to. But I am going to implement these in my new flat, oh yes.
I love your style tips so much, they’re one of my favourite iCiNG thing :)
(sometimes when I feel down I look through all of the old ones and always find something to make me smile)
And these ones are fantastic again! Thanks so much!
“does killing time damage eternity?”...
wow.
OH MY GOD! I got so happy just then! When I read your suggestion of cloudspotting, I clicked on the link and immediately saw the words SPIRIT IN THE SKY, it’s funny because lately i’ve been obsessed with that song, it’s just one of those songs that when you listen to it, you immediately feel good karma and just happiness all over, although I don’t believe in God or Jesus, the song is amazing! Please give it a listen… www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bplEc…
That shower trick is also a libido booster! Try it… It makes you feel all tingly and sexy!
I love this list to pieces.
“Seek out people with whom you have undeniable chemistry & watch your life evolve.”
I’m trying so hard to make this work!!!
billy joel :)
i once took one of the best naps of my life in a hammock under a dorm bed while the girl whose hammock it was played jack johnson songs. that was my first time listening to him & i can’t listen to him even now without being sleepy.
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
i have to constantly remind myself that who i am is fine, and to keep working on it every day, but i always forget, but i’m going to print this out and keep it somewhere safe and wow life is just amazing…
Slightly off topic, but I love that art at the top and it reminded me of something. I read in an English translated from Spanish philosophy book once that while we use the phrase, “to kill time,” the Spanish use the phrase, “to make time.” I’ve been fascinated with Spanish culture ever since.
I am Totally gonna implement the post-it idea!! It sounds like so much fun. :)
So many great things to do, so few I do.
Anyways, general for-no-reason-browsing I do now and then and found this;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBCVb…
Not a sleeptime song, but oh so I-have-to-tell-msDarling-and-all-the-hoopers.
Kiaora!
Was wondering who’s piece of artwork that is at the very top of this article? (eternity)
It is wonderful. I’d like to draw inspiration from it for my NCEA photography board for year 13.
:)
Gorgeous list :)
Wow, I can’t tell you how motivating this site is to me. It’s so positive and flirty and fun. Oh Gala, you brighten my days. I feel like I have found a community of like-minds…I LOVE IT!!
Hi,
I would like to know who’s image it is on your style tips – 16th feb 2009. The first image that says “does killing time damage eternity”
I’d like the name of the artist so I could use it for my art board at school
Cheers
From a NZ little girl!
Thanks for the tips. I would say: Try to valuate people by their facial expressions and behavioral language. Select the best suitable for friendship.