Fashion Icon 2 - Julianna Moore

There is just something timeless about Julianne Moore style and not just on the red carpet. She always look stunning to me even when she is running around in her trainers. Even the Daily Mail's description of her in this article makes absolutely no sense.

Is it her hair that always make her outfit look good? I wish I could pull off something that bold. I mean, seriously, she's 50! I only hope I look that amazing in about....well, some years from now. lol

Fashion Icon 1 - Victoria Beckham

I have a soft spot for Victoria Beckham and I am not sure why. Or to some of you heathens (no knowledge of the fashion world), also known as Posh Spice. I have been told we bear a slight resemblance, but I am not sure that was meant as a compliment by those that have said it, but since I think she’s gorgeous I will take it as one! I am never sure with some people.

She won best design at the British Fashion 2011 Awards, which is not small thing in the fashion world. The Daily Mail wrote about it here.

This is the dress I want!!

I like the fact that she kept her marriage together, even in the midst of a scandal. There was a lot of “did he, didn’t he”, but she never seemed to rise to the bait in the media and took care of business at home and going on to be happily married (so it appears) and have two more children.

I also like the fact that she has been able to reinvent herself. She was a middle glass girl from in Essex, who became a worldwide sensation as a part of Spice Girls. Don’t try to deny it, they were big! lol I didn’t really like them from a musical standpoint, or from a feminist “girl power” angle, since I am not a feminist. She went from Spice Girls, to solo career, which was just okay, married David Beckham and proudly became Mrs. Beckham and branched out into fashion. This is the arena where she has really gotten my attention, as she has become a fashion “icon”.

I think what I like best about her is that she is happy to be Mrs. Beckham and has said in the past that she would trade all else, music and fashion to keep her family intact. That takes quite a woman and I like that about her.

But mainly, I like her fashion style and the femininity of her clothes. I found this blog that showcases her fashions and just loved going through them all! I can’t wait to get the teal dress made by my favorite seamstress on Etsy.com. You can see her fashions here at Heart My Closet. I bought this dress in the deep red and couldn’t have been more ECSTATIC with my dress. She made it exactly to my measurements and it turned out beautifully! I fully expect to have more items made by her as the budget allows.

My future clothing shopping is going to be ruled by quality, not quantity. It is amazing to me how many clothes I have given away as I have lost weight, only to realize that I NEVER like it anyway, but bought it because I felt I had to get SOMETHING. How much money did I waste?!??! Argh!

So, as I am now almost at my goal weight I am working on a plan on how to stay on budget and still build up my scrawny wardrobe in a sensible way. More on that soon.

I will also be posting about more blogs I have found that center around fashion. I am very drawn to vintage inspired stuff and want to share more of that, especially now that I feel like I can wear it more!

Keeper of My House.

It’s funny how you don’t change things in your life because you are waiting for something to happen, only to realize that things won’t happen until you change things.

I think that just gave me a headache! lol

What am I talking about? Money.

I have known about Dave Ramsey and his philosophy for YEARS! And I always follow his plan…for awhile, but then I get sidetracked with a job change, "wantitis", or just life in general.

The current financial crisis in this country actually had me thinking about whether or not to just bail on my house, which is so underwater it’s ridiculous and if I thought about it too hard, would probably make me cry. But the fact remains that I can pay my mortgage and there is no convenient out for me morally.

I think part of me has kept waiting to get my debt paid off thinking that if I just waited I wouldn’t have to? I’m single…need I say more? The little girl in me was waiting for a man to come rescue me from myself and my own irresponsibility. I know, I know…grow up girl!! And don’t get me wrong, I am not horribly in debt and it’s nothing that I can’t take care of it I just set my mind to it.

So, what’s the point? Well, I am setting my mind to it!! I have cornered my friend Stacey into being my accountability buddy, am working on my budget and have worked out how many months it will take me to pay it all off. So far, by my projections, it will take me 30 months (June 2014) to pay it off. That is without any extra income, raises or bonuses put to it. Anything extra will go to paying off my debt. I am also going to work as much overtime (30 minutes is all they really allow) as I can. Hey, it all adds up. =) I might even see about having a Garage Sale at my parents house.

I am not quite sure what the deal is. I just feel like I need to get my own house in order and be a truly good steward of what God has blessed me with. Cause the bottom line is that it’s all His money anyway, He is just giving it to me to see how I will tend it.

Pretty sobering when I think about it like that.

Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it; lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Rose's Words

Rose clasped her hands tight round her knees. How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again -- not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organization, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn’t seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions, to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who though of one, who was eager to come to one -- oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious!

Rose in Enchanted April

Sometimes words you read just hit you in the heart.