I started something called Fancy Friday back in lockdown days. The reasons were: 1) nobody had anywhere to go and stopped dressing up. The effects of this are real six years later! Many of my clients forgot how to dress well. So I encouraged people to wear the good clothes on Fridays. 2) staying in sweats all day, every day was affecting people’s mental health. Dressing up boosted confidence and wellbeing. 3) it didn’t have to be about clothes, it was simply doing anything for that feel good factor, like treating yourself to a delicious home cooked meal, going for that hike you promised yourself etc. Should we bring back Fancy Friday?

1. Make a list of exact outing possibilities for my life and create exact outfits for those occasions. This will help me feel covered for those social casual situations that i would want to dress up for and therefore feel confident in my wardrobes amount of these personality and interest pieces. Compared to what I'm using to get dressed the majority of the time. Just further data on how I'm utilizing pieces and what to pass on bringing in not matter how pretty the color. Lol - girlie coffee date - play museum with my son - dinner out with friends or family 2. In order to vet the concept of adding in a new silhouette to my wardrobe... Create 3 outfits that will be enhanced by a magenta wide leg pant + Create 3 outfits that will be enhanced by a purple wide leg pant 3. Commit to the shop my wardrobe challenge and play with cold weather dressing

I was originally trying to not use the purple zip up for these 5 days as this is a newer (FYI i am not doing the shopping freeze as ive done that 3 timeswith huge benefit and don't feel it's necessary for me at this point). As the cardigan is new, it's not a good representation of the last 2 months of winter. However. It was too cold! While the blue cardigan is wool, we keep or house at 61 during the day. My son runs around barefoot like a crazy person and I'm over here dying. I threw on the new wool zip over too and the 3 colors were threatening to undo me, so i gave my black double layer valour pants some spotlight time as they are also high rotation. So cozy. What do people do with the super cold? I do not own wool thermals yet. It's a wishlist item but they are expensive. Plus, i do have sensitive skin and i usually need to wear cotton or linen underneathe so I'm hesitant to spend money on something i don't know for sure will work. Plus, the thrift gods have not blessed me with wool pants yet to vet the concept. Any insights welcome! Turning up the thermostat is also not an option. Lol. 💕

I am LOVING cropped turtle neck sweaters with lantern sleeves. So cold. So so cold. Main event today was walking to our gym in the snow and then mopping with my toddler and taking breaks to chase him with and without the mop and climb. Lol. Truth be told much of the day was sans pink sweats and swapped with black leggings for the dirty work... And snow pants of course. I would like to find more exciting things to do with my hair on unwashed days. But with warm beanies going on and off hair accessories aren't practical. Dead of winter is tough.