Style Tips: 7th December 2009
[ 7 December 2009 ]
Monday 7th December
Have a bed party as soon as you can! I am having one right now, & have been having one all day! Just me, Hank Williams, my brand new MacBook Pro (!!!) & a mug full of magical potion. It’s just what a dreary Monday demanded!
Tuesday 8th December
Celebrate Rohatsu, aka Bodhi Day (成道会), which is when Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha!) reached a higher consciousness over 2000 years ago. If meditation is something you already do, have an extra-long meditation session or commit to doing it more regularly. If you’ve never tried it or only dabbled, you could even decide that today is the day you’re going to start. Have a look at Tina Su’s tips on how to begin.
Wednesday 9th December
Pick one book you’ve been meaning to read for ages — something that’s a bit overwhelming — & devote yourself to completing it this summer or winter. Nothing is better on a beach than a good book, & reading is one of the best ever cold weather activities!
Thursday 10th December
Have a Japanese feast! Invite a friend over to make sushi if you’re so inclined, or if you tend to be more disaster & less DIY when it comes to the kitchen, order from your favourite Japanese restaurant. Eat cross-legged on the floor while watching a great movie. Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer or Kamikaze Girls are all excellent choices!
Friday 11th December
Think about a class you’d like to take next year. It could be anything, from life drawing to homeopathy to gourmet cooking classes. (I am going to take a creative writing course & a jewellery-making course for starters! Maybe also another make-up artistry course & I have been saying this forever but I am dying to start French lessons again!) Start doing some research, see when they start & when you need to enroll. Then either put your name down or start putting money away!
Saturday 12th December
Work out a way to experience the opposite temperature of the place you’re in now. If you’re in chilly climes, spend some time in a sauna, swim in a heated pool, or just lie in bed with your electric blanket on & an MP3 of crashing waves on loop. If it’s sweltering hot where you are, find a walk-in freezer, fill your bathtub with bags of ice or watch some snow fall while drinking (frozen?!) lemon & honey!
Sunday 13th December
Switch up your inspiration. Surely you’ve had the same pictures hanging up in your apartment for too long! Do you even notice them any more? Move them around, find some new ones, or take them all down completely & start fresh!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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ooo!!! Lovely style tips!! I feel like these tips were made just for me because I related to all of them!!
I think a bed party is the best idea ever! All you’re missing is a nest of pillows!! I’ve actually been interested in meditation for quite some time, but I feel inspired to look into now. AND I just enrolled in a drawing class that I have wanted to take for years! Yeah!
Thanks for the loveliness! Style tips from Gala= bliss!
love all of them. but specially the one for Friday. I’ve been wanting to take some language classes for a while: Some Spanish to make mine sharper, and some French. Also some photography and painting classes(I’ve always wanted to take painting classes). And, last but not least, I’ve always wanted to play some musical instrument, and I would love to take some piano lessons. Maybe I’m a little old for that, but I don’t want to be a Rachmaninoff; just learning one single song would be enough for me.
anyway. have a good week!
I highly don’t recommend Battle Royale, that is such a sickening movie. If you want to watch schoolgirls murder eachother just because they will be killed otherwise by a government-controlled throat collar, go ahead.
I suggest Swing Girls or Sakuran instead, those are beyond fantastic movies.
I LOVE Fridays tip! Thanks for the motivation!
I am having a bed day as we speak!
Happy Bodhi day to you Miss Gala
I think I’m going to take Wednesday’s tip to heart and read a book that’s been intimidating me all year—Simone de beauvoir’s The Second Sex.
Apologies for the the double post but have you seen 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son (http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/)? It’s absolutely delightful and seems like something you might enjoy.
I know I found a few rules there for myself! :-)
What an excellent stash of style tips. Thank-you, Gala! :)
We must be on the same wavelength, Gala, because I went through UT’s informal classes brochure yesterday and starred all of the classes I’d like to take next year. The list goes something like Aikido, fencing, modern physics, Nia, intro to CSS and XHTML, swing dancing, Spanish, and a few different writing classes. I like the learning, what can I say?!
(Figure it’s a great way to meet people, too!)
my darling Gala….I love these posts so much…and I love that you suggest a Japanese feast..but how can anyone possibly eat while witnessing the Obscenity that is Ichi the Killer?
Kuroshya Ichi both terrified and intrigued me…great film…just not for dinner haha.
“ KAKIHARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”
tee hee _
love you honey dumpling!!
~Belle
Wednesday is the PERFECT day for starting to read all the books I’ve been meaning to get to this semester… it’s my last day of school!
This next few weeks will be devoted to relaxation, reading and baking wonderful goodies that spike my interest on TasteSpotting.
I actually signed up for a motorcycle safety course next year. (excitement/nervousness/HO BOY!)
I would love to take a jewelry class. I took one in college and it was the most miserable experience. My teacher degraded me in front of the entire course and actually made me cry! (Your experience would be undoubtedly much better! As well as my next one!)
Much love and Citrus! :D
Love these tips! And Kamikaze Girls is one of my favourite films. So beautiful :)
Ahhh I love you :) This is exactly what I needed, thank you!
great ideas. yeah I’m bored with my room after 6 years. taking down Monroe,Warhol replacing with a narwhale in a bakery and some other loves.
It must be just me who loves Battle Royale, then. Bring on the murderous Japanese schoolgirls! (total horror movie fan here, though)
Great list Gala!
I love it! However Gala I do have a problem-
On 3 separate computers I’ve been using some of your images don’t load…it’s just a small square with the name of the image in it. All of these computers are PCs running the latest version of FireFox so I don’t know that’s anything to do with it…
It never did it before so I don’t know if you switched servers or something…
In any case the writing more than makes up for it :)
...and Gala likes Battle Royale. My day is made. Have you read the novel? Or better yet the manga?
Love it! Great way to start my dreary Tuesday of work!
I think we’ve been having similar brainwaves this week, because I’ve been thinking about doing so many of the things you mentioned for this week!
I totally had a bed party today, and yesterday I picked out a book I want to tackle once my finals are over this week. I can’t wait to start my creative writing course in January, and I’m going to take Italian for fun, too! I even rearranged my room again, just because the way I had it before didn’t feel ‘right’ to me.
It’s amazing how little things like this can really affect things.
I LOVE BED PARTIES AND HAVE THEM ALL THE TIME. they are composed of snacks, tea, books, stuffed animals, pillows, and my laptop and hulu/my netflix instant queue.
Ugg boots are especially manufactured keeping in mind more of a casual look,so it definitely matters if you are to carry a casual look or for a party.When it comes to clothes,we do have certain preferences.It feels like on the top of this world when we get to have something which is so smart yet elegant.So,try out once and wear with that outfit.You will feel on the top of this world.
Yeah, I can imagine a lot of people not wanting to finish their chicken teriyaki don while watching Battle Royale or Ichi lol.
Other great Japanese movies – The Taste of Tea, Tamala 2010: Punk Cat in Space, Survive Style 5+ for completely insane but strangely heart warming WTF-fests, any Studio Ghibli anime movie of your choice (Whisper of the Heart is an underrated gem but the more famous ones are great too), or Juon (the original Grudge) if you like horror movies. i could go on but shan’t :P
Thanks for tips, fabulous!
Gala, you are maddeningly inspiring. I change my inspiration regularly anyway since I move house once a year! Also, yes, Battle Royale. Perfect winter afternoon film, though maybe avoid eating meat during! I haven’t seen that in ages actually…
xx
Aaah, Battle Royale! I miss that film, it’s amazing.
I’m thinking of doing an NVQ in Dressmaking next year, should be fun! Expect lots of mad, unusual garments to follow.
I love that you references Battle Royale + Kamikaze Girls XD I’ve been meaning to read Kamikaze Girls for ages, maybe I will now!
Ooh a bed party is fabulous idea! I guess I have them often but its good to remember to make it a party. (Ha, I love how you can make anything into an impromptu party should you want to!)
The picture shifting is a good reminder also, only I find I have little space to change em now. I lived in a large, white, woodchip (ugh!) rented room last year, quelle ugly and stark. But I’m kinda specific about my surroundings and I couldn’t bear it, so I swapped things around a bit, placed hangings & pictures all over one wall, and instantly it was a much more inspriational room to work in.
Hee.. I’m bit of a geek about interior design.
Wicked tips!
x
Or for maximum points, watch Battle Royale II for increased wtf factor. Plus, it’s technically a Christmas movie (well, in much the same way that Die Hard is a Christmas movie…).
Love the tips this week! A bed party sounds fantastic right now and I am definitely doing Sunday’s! Gala, you haven’t had frozen lemonade until you’ve gone to Mr. Lemon in Rhode Island. It’s smooth, there are a billion flavours (that change each day!), and it’s been run by the same family since long before I was born. If you ever pass through this state during the summer, I HIGHLY recommend it!
Alliance Française!
I’ve been looking at taking Textile Arts in the future while my boyfriend does his graduate studies in Vancouver. Super exciting and even just checking it out is inspirational.
Ooh! Nice selection of movies. I wonder if you’d enjoy the Vengeance triology. Those are Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, I think. They’re awesome and gory and sick and awesome. Also, Gozu is ridiculous but interesting to watch. It actually might have haunted me for a week or two. There is a guy with a cow head and a lactating cougar woman. YEAH.
Kamikaze girls is AMAZING! Momoko is so cute and her shoes are unbelievably comfortable (I got myself a pair for my birthday last year). I was shocked to find out the BSSB is a real label in Japan (and incredibly expensive).
The other 2 movies listed I cannot watch because I am terrible with blood (even obviously fake blood), but I hear they are great movies (2LDK is listed in these catagories too, but not as good as the others)
Other movies to consider for the Japanese Feast: Anything by studio Ghibli (Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Pom Pokko, Whisper of the Heart, etc.), GTO, The World Sinks Except Japan (for the b-movie lovers. warning: they make fun of Americans a lot), Nana (live action movie or anime), and anything anime.
For Japanese food, make yourself a bento (adorable packed lunches in the cutest boxes ever)
images.google.com/images?q=ben…
The URL is for inspiration.
I make a every day a Japanese feast. The only thing I am missing is a Yukata set and Geta
Great list this week!
Oh man those three Japanese movies you mentioned are some of my favorites. I adore them. I also recommend Marebito and Suicide Club.
Gala Darling, Darling Gala…You are such a fun and silly girl, I do enjoy you so much! I like the bob with bangs wig but your real hair is very wonderful I think! Love your photo stream and the way you say juncture!
WOW! I’ve been craving sushi.. me & my sister planned on going to eat sushi Thurs. (aka today) I just read today’s tip & thought.. Can Gala read my mind?
Or better yet, can I read hers?
`=O)
Oh that made my day that someone else out there has seen Kamikaze Girls!!!