Month: December 2018

My 2017 Style Journey

Steph's avatarPicking the Day

Around this time last year I wrote a post all about the evolution of my style over the previous 12 months. It was a great way of looking back through the year, and really reminded me of how the way you’re feeling influences your outfit choices. It was tough to write too, because I had a tough year that year and it really showed through my posts, but it also reminded me of the things I’d struggled through and overcome, so it was cathartic in ways, so I thought I’d do the same for 2017! This year, it’s all gone a lot more positively. Things had just started to get better in December and the year really went from strength to strength – but that hasn’t meant it’s been any less unsettled. I made some big life changes this year, moving from the city to the country and finally having a…

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Outfit: High & Wide

Steph's avatarPicking the Day

Flares 3“I will never, NEVER, wear high waisted trousers! NEVER!!”

I distinctly remember saying this to my Mum one day, around the tender teenage years, whilst watching Britney Spears gyrating on TV in jeans so low slung she must have needed a bikini wax to wear them. My mother was not enamoured with the style, which is what prompted this bold statement from me, because as a precocious teen I naively thought I’d always have tiny hips and a washboard stomach, and the thought of covering them up with ‘grown up’ jeans was frankly ghastly.

Back then, only boot cut jeans would do. Straight leg jeans were too mumsy, and skinny jeans weren’t a thing yet, though of course skinnies not long after became the jeans of choice. So much so, in fact, that they were almost the only acceptable style out there (if you were in any way style conscious)…

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December Reflections 8: biggest surprise of 2018

kathleenjowitt's avatarKathleen Jowitt

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The biggest surprise of 2018 had to be the moment when the creative writing workshop I was leading turned out to be not, as I’d assumed, adult learners, but a group of thirteen and fifteen year olds. That was a bit of a shock!

More generally, though, I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed teaching and tutoring. And by how much less intimidating it’s been than I would have expected. Then again, my own learning style is very much, ‘read around the subject a bit, and then jump in and have a go’, so I’ve found that it’s really been a question of equipping other people with the confidence to do that.

I’ve led a few creative writing workshops now, and undergone four days of tutor training. It turns out that ‘read around the subject a bit, and then jump in and have a go’ is an approach that…

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Bucket list

Divine's avatarBeing Yourself

To be totally honest, I didn’t have any specific goals for my blog this year. I was getting away with ” I am going with the flow” whenever I was asked about my goals. Trust me it is not something I recommend you to do. I have missed opportunities just because I didn’t know what I wanted at that specific moment. I have learnt from my mistakes and decided to write down 2019 goals.

  1. By the end of 2019, I would like to have 20,000 views on the blog and reach more African readers
  2. I would like to attend at least three blogger networking events in my city and meet in person the amazing blogger I follow
  3. Do at least three events where I meet selflovies_society (join the society on Instagram)
  4. Mastering public speaking is also on the list for 2019
  5. Finally do my driver’s licence
  6. Learn to swim, I…

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