About colours

What about your colours? What do you like?

I must say that I am not the kind of person that chooses bright colours.

Don't think now that I am against those colours or people who prefer them, I'm only talking about what I like.

Let me tell you first that I follow my own path. I like when people agree with me but I don't mind at all when they disagree and that doesn't make me change my way and my opinions.

So, anyway, don't feel that I'm criticizing somebody by writing what I will.

 So, having that in mind, I will say that I prefer the pastel colours. Cream, beige.

 

 Very light pink and green. 

And navy blue. And dark green. And very dark red, the colour of dark wine.

Brown too. Never black.

I don't wear bright colours not for lack of confidence but for a lot of it, I dare to wear what I find elegant and nice, what is related to me, with the way I am, with what I am.

In the kitchen I like to have orange and yellow and green. And brown. White also.

I must say that I don't like at all grey in the house. At all !

I like this:

No, my house is not that grand 😄, I'm just posting it because I find it soo beautiful. (credits clicking on each picture)

I do wear grey mixed with bordeaux or navy blue, but in the house, like the sofas and such, no, at all, I can't stand that foggy feeling that it gives me just for looking at pictures of houses with that colour.

Well, each person has her own tastes and it's related with the soul of each of us.

So, keep doing what you want and what you like and don't mind at all what other people think of that - that's what I do.

PS: I don't care about fashion, I do what I want.

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Restart

I read at the Afternoon Coffe and Evening Tea a sentence that I agree the most and that I will remember as it is so inspiring:

The beginning is always today

That reminds me what Flylady says:

What's wrong with now?

and

Jump in where you are

Those two last sentences have been helping me for ages and now I will add the first one that says that the beginning is today. Always.

Truly we need to not beat ourselves each time we fall off the wagon because, as Flylady says, there is no wagon, you just jump in where you are.

And I keep doing that, jumping in. Restarting.

Maybe someone who reads this is thinking about times that it happened to her. Maybe it happens often. Never mind, never give up on you. Get up, trust, life is not a reaching point, it's a way of traveling, sometimes we are better, sometimes not so good but after each fall, rise up.

As for me I'm having the intention of getting better in many things and I will do what I can to be like that, even if some days are not so sucessful, there are other that are better.

And one of the things that I want to do is to take Flylady more serious again, even if I do it my way.

Her teachings are not the Sacred Scriptures, we can disagree in some things and want to do differently, but in the whole, it's a good system that I discovered in 2001.

So, what are you waiting for? Just start.

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The delight of past eras - II

I could have lived in past eras as I like it so much.

I think the downfall happened in the middle of the 60', with some intervals. I remember some pretty things in the end of the 80' (some, I said 😀), as in the 90' and so on, but most clothes are not as elegant as before. We are lucky when we can find some quite decent.

But it's not just the clothes, life in every aspect was better and nicer before. Now we have some progress in the health department and we have the glorious internet, mobile phones and such, but taking that off some improvements, we are not better.

But never mind, we can always hope and wait for better times.

Now we will see some elegance and nice living from the 50s and the begining of the 60s.

Then we stop. 😄

The 50s

The 60s

That's all.

 Read also The delight of past eras - I 

The delight of past eras - I

Just look how life was beautiful in the years past.

I know that problems and difficulties were present in people's lives in each decade, let's think about the two wars, the big depression and so on, but what I mean is the beauty. 

From the end of the sixties life went from ugly to uglier. I know that there was pretty thing even after that date, some quite beautiful, but life in the whole, the clothes, the habits, everything went down. The number of nice things (clothes, car and life in general) was smaller than before it.

See the 1900s - 1919

This picture reminds us so much of the time before the war of 1914-18.

The 20s.

It's so interesting how this picture, which is from January of 1920, just the ending of the previous decade and the begining of a new one, shows us exactly similar clothes to the 1900s, more after 1910.

Notice how here the skirt is so much shorter. For sure many women then used longer ones still, but we see the new trend.

Here, in 1924, longer skirts again.

The 30s

So much elegance here. Amazing!

The 40s

So inspiring !

The 50s in another post. 😊

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