Recently you may have noticed the crickets chirping all by their lonesomes here at Bonne Vie. This bird has been busy, buying textbooks, cleaning out cobwebs, and writing a lot of really insightful stuff for clients. Learning, growing… you get the idea. I’ve hardly had time for outfit photos, let alone a good afternoon of [...]
So a couple weeks ago, I received an invite to a Body Shop event at Pacific Place and I RSVP’ed. Celebrity makeup artist (oh, she’s good!), fun products, and a new line of bronzing options so that we sun-fearing, fair-skinned ladies can still rock a golden look during the summer… It sounded interesting, so I [...]
While flipping through June’s Elle last night, (I go through it a couple times, once for the pretty pictures, once for the articles and once to tear all my favorite images out of) I stumbled across a quote that seemed incredibly relevant: “It just reminds us how different “real” women and celebrities are when it [...]
I bought Style Statement as the ultimate lifestyle guide/workbook. Danielle LaPorte and Carrie McCarthy put a lot of time and effort into this book and gal pals raved about it. Nothing but glowing reviews and two-word revelations about how people I knew had found their true selves. So when I became so suddenly unemployed, I [...]
Normally, it’s not something I’d admit, but I’m loving all things white right now. Of course, trying to work white into my closet can be quite a challenge. I admit, I’m a fan of stripes, and I definitely embrace white when it’s mixed with other colors in my wardrobe. But white – solid white – [...]
Edited by Fajr of StylishThought.com With so much going on in the world, the Japan earthquake, the upheaval in Libya, the aftermath of John Galliano’s actions and the social phenomenon that is Charlie Sheen, it’s great to see the fashion blogging community talking about the issues and bringing a little light with the fancy of [...]
“If you don’t want to spend money shopping, don’t shop?” He helpfully offered. Don’t shop? The words roll around in my head. Don’t shop? Isn’t that what fashion and style bloggers do? I had stopped checking all the sample sales, I turned a blind eye walking past the H&M when I was laid off – [...]
I’ve been doing nothing for the past week but rolling around in a pile of blankets, sweating my buns off. I ended up with some sort of crazy death-flu and am trying to feel normal again. Lots of hot tea, Emergen-C, miso soup, and pho. And sleep. I think in the last week I probably [...]
I was flipping through titles at the book store the other day and something caught my eye. In Entre Nous, the author Deborah Ollivier insists that French women have more “je ne sais quoi” than American women. American women ask themselves, “How do I remake me/my wardrobe/my life…” French women who possess that “je ne [...]
The Delicate Balance
Permalink | Shortlink | Comments (4) | Trackback | Filed in Fashion and Style, Social Media for Bloggers Tags: add value, blogging balance, cultivate, fashion blogging, how to blog, how to build facebook interactions, how to engage readers, how to find blogging balance, how-to, inspiration, motivate, positive, relationship, valuable comments, wordsSo often I find myself walking a fine line between posts that are *~FLUFF AND FASHIONZZ!~* and meaty, essay-style articles. Straddling the line between serious-blog and fun-blog can be a little daunting, but I feel like it takes a delicate balance between fun and thoughtful to make a blog successful. It’s those meaty, well thought out [...]