I did some shopping today. I bought a couple of light jackets but I didn’t have a good winter coat. I was pretty sure I wanted something interesting–artsy even.
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I met with my image consultant. I love having someone to talk about fashion with and to get an honest opinion from. My husband and kids have a very short attention span when I start talking about clothes and it is fun to have someone in my life who has the same passion for fashion–for me it is wearable art. We went through my closet again. I got rid of a few things I have been holding onto (including a bunch of purses), I took some things to get altered and repaired, and made a list of things I need to look for. I’ll post my list at the bottom. Top of the list was the black flats–see the ones I bought pictured above. Here’s what I think is in this season if you are a 40-something year old work-at home professional with a moderate budget: Color is in. Orange, blue, gold, red. Lots of color! Brown is very difficult to find in stores this season. I bought a new brown blouse and pants as a shell because it looks so great with all the other colors that are in right now. I had to really hunt to find brown. Patterns are in. It is my guess that they will only be in for a couple of years so I think buying these at a lower price makes sense. JC Penney had a bunch for $20. Colored tights and block print sweaters are in. Again, this is the end of the 1st year of these block prints and I think they will look dated in a couple of years so shop carefully. My image consultant continues to want me to have colored jeans but I keep avoiding them. Upcoming: Checks showed up on the runway this fall so look for checks to be coming out everywhere in the next couple of years. Buy yours early to be ahead of the trends. Here’s my list: Black boots Purse Insert Black evening bag with silver clasp Patterned shirt to...
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I was hanging out with a crazy Brit named George when I first had the idea of the bookii. I had been working on writing a book and was finding it incredibly 2 dimensional. I wanted multiple topics and more visual than I could accomplish in print. I wanted my reader to be able to explore my book rather than reading it one page after the other. In a conversation with George we were talking about an online technology called Prezi that allows you to explore deeper and is a more flexible presentation platform than Power Point. Somehow talking about that helped me start to visualize a dynamic memoir that had pictures and color and video and wasn’t bound by the boundaries of a printed book. Prezi didn’t end up being the medium, but the concept stuck with me. What makes it a bookii? Well, it is a book that you read electronically It is written by one author and instead of purchasing a book, you purchase an annual subscription to a bookii. My bookii is creative non-fiction–a lifestyle, but I hope there will be lots of bookiis that are both fiction and non-fiction combined. I imagine being able to read my favorite authors and about their characters while simultaneously being able to look up what they were thinking about when they were writing about it or what their inspirations were by exploring their bookii. The Crucible Bookii is my bookii. It is the world’s very first bookii. It is rich with interesting articles about the stories that make up my life. I hope you will become a member and share this journey with me as I create this interactive real-time memoir. Melanie shares how the bookii idea...
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