A Beautiful Space!

When you think of beauty, you may think of beauty in terms of skin care, makeup, hair styles, perfumes, -  really anything to do with your body.

Well I love all of the above things, but I have also found I love making the area around me beautiful too.

At night I have been lighting candles and playing soft jazz music. During the day I have been opening the doors (on a sunny day ;)) and allowing the fresh flowery breezes to wonder in my house. I also spray fresh vanilla essence on my table and benches and it fills the house with pure yum!

These little things really do create a feeling of beauty through sense, touch, sight and sound, in my life, especially in the 'boring' daily chores. It’s just simple stuff that can make a huge difference to your day.

This week, take time out to indulge in some beauty around you, it lifts the spirit and makes life amazing and you truly glow as a beauty in your beautiful world.

What are some of your favourite ideas and things to do that make your life feel beautiful, in any season...? 

i.e A bunch of flowers, an evening walk, a mug of hot chocolate, a ......

Spring = warm days, lemonade picnics, dresses and dry legs!

I am so loving this warm Spring weather, but my legs are not. 
I have been trying my fav dresses on and daring to bare my winter 'white' tan but I have discover I am also baring dry skin too. This will not do. 
Yep it's time to spend 10min (ok in my world it has to be 2min) rubbing some moisture into them. So...... what do I use that acts fast and makes my legs look summer ready???


We want to know what you do when it comes to dry skin.
Tell us what you use, how long you spend on your skin and when you rub that moisture in:
(Post your response by clicking the comment link below or view comments by pressing on the same link.)


Can't wait to hear how you get happy, moisturized, soft skin legs. 


Elizabeth.

How to be beautiful.

You feel spectacular! The best you've felt for awhile. Your hair is 'modern glam', your makeup pretty much perfect and you have spent weeks finding the most beautiful dress - You're actually out of jeans or worse 'trackies' for once and sticky finger or nose marks from the kids that usually accessories your outfits are nowhere in sight. 

You feel gorgeous, elegant, stunning, hot in your own right and... ...Oh my, across the room is another women wearing the same dress!!!!!

Your heart sinks instantly, you feel that beautiful feeling you had just a second ago disappear, "does she look better in it?" -You can't help think. 

You look around to see if anyone has noticed yet. You have a second to work out what you are going to do, and you:

a) Get out of there as fast as possible, race home and change into something, anything, else...

b) Laugh at it, declare that the other women has impeccable taste and get on with enjoying yourself and congratulation the other women on fine taste...

c) Cringe and spend the rest of the evening hiding behind your friends or hubby with one eye on 'that women' while trying to stay at all times at opposite ends of the room from her...

...Well what ever you do it doesn’t really matter, because the real question is: Why do we care so much when this happens???? 

We've all had this moment and we all feel a touch deflated when it happens. Why? - Because every women wants to feel and be beautiful as her own unique and diverse beauty.

Truth Moment: You already have been created: beautiful, diverse and unique, valuable, important... and we need to embrace it.

It is so easy to feel, and quite unknowingly, that we are competing with every other beauty out there and it doesn't help living in a media age with 'beauty bombardment' every where you turn. 

Competing is all about comparing. When you compare yourself to another you always come up short because it's your flaws that you see which only serve to overwhelm, depress and suppress you. 

Embracing you, your own beauty, your own uniqueness, and your own value may not come easily, especially if that chocolate bar you ate last night is bulging out of your hips right now, but when you do, you have within the essence of being free. 

Free to be: you, happy, being able to stand confident, to not have to be absolutely perfect, to be proud of what you do love about you, and not being bothered deep inside by other beautiful women around you. 

The only way to embrace you is by choice. It is a choice to accept you, by you.

When you choose you, and choose to believe you are 'the above Truth Moment', you can: smile, know you really do light up the world, and you realize this world needs your diverse, unique, beautiful self, and that you are the only one who can take your place as the beauty you are amongst the beauty of it all.

There is nothing more beautiful, rare, original, elegant and stunning as a women who has embraced herself.


How to be beautiful? It's a choice.

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! Psalm 139

Top 5 fun!

1) Check out these cute meal time fun plates for the kids. Face plates to inspire your children to eat while having fun at the same
time. http://www.alfrescoemporium.com.au/index.asp?p=store&l=2134&r=142

2) Overnight hair moisturising! Banish the dry winter season away and get your hair into spring silky shape with: Pantene Night Miracle Cream http://www.pantene.com.au/en-AU/product/PANTENE_NIGHT_MIRACLE.jspx


3) Ever forgot to pick up 'that card' for a friend's event, birthday or life happening moment, well never fear just get your self a emergency box of cards to cover any occasion.
http://www.papierdamour.com.au/index.phpPCID=7688&PSO=188&PSID=VB03&PSV=Primary&CDO=


4) Feather jewelry! So whimsical, soft and very spring! Check out these soft pink feather earring from Diva http://www.diva.net.au/#/product/1775


5) Vanilla. The smell of vanilla is gorgeous. Simply fill a spray bottle with metho add some vanilla essence and you have a beautiful surface spray that will fill your house with the smell of cupcakes, candles, love and fresh peace.


Tell us what you love. Send your ideas, hints and beautiful things to fradazmag@westnet.com.au
Check out these earrings I found, and that you can purchase too.

To Tattoo or Not?

Ever seriously contemplated if you should get a tattoo? - What about a fleeting thought of: what it would be like or what you would have?
 Katherine, who designs tattoos, shares with us just what it is about this 'skin art' that is so very trendy, and if your brave enough to bare your flesh - what to do.

Tattoos can be 'taboo' to many, and to others an exciting ' always wanted one' subject. 
This 'skin art' form is becoming more and more popular: business men, house wives and even the younger generation seem to be popping up with them.

There are so many different types of tattoos: plain black and white, color, grey or even a UV tattoo.


Tattoos are all about expression, an express of you,  and thats why I love them. I don’t have one yet, but  I have already designed and picked two tattoos that I want to get…so far.

My Sister got her first tattoo on her trip to America. 
It is Kanji (Japanese text) that means Small Branch. When I asked her why she got it, she replied ever so wisely; “Small Branch comes from John 15, "I am the vine and you are the branches, remain in me" The 'Small part' is to remind me that I am a small part of a bigger picture.” 
Her tattoo is really tasteful and sits on top of her foot. 
These, day tattoos are not all about great big pieces that cover your whole body but rather tasteful pictures, symbols, and text.


Tattoos not only serve as art, but also as reminders. For the majority of people who have tattoos, it’s a sometimes painful, but pleasant memory of a chapter in their lives.  

In getting one and baring my flesh, I have to admit, I’ve thought and thought about the consequences, “what if I don’t like it?” “What will it look like when I get older?” - we all think these thoughts, so here are my 'I'm getting a tattoo tips:

1. Choose your tattoo. If you can’t find a specific design you want, All you need now is an arty friend, who can draw one for you, or you can go into the tattoo parlor and most will design one for you.


2. Research is the key! First mistake in tattoo’s is not researching! I’m very adamant about this because no one wants to end up with something they regret. If you are getting script make sure you have the spelling right and if it is in a different language make sure you get someone who actually speaks that language to make sure it means what it means.
 
3. Here is an important thing, PLACING! A fun experiment is to get some fake tattoos and place them where you think you want your real one.
 
4. More Research, this time research Tattoo parlors. Look around on the internet, go visit the shop and talk to your tattooed friends about where they got their’s done. You will never get a hundred percent great feedback on one place, but all you need to do is ask why? 

5. Last but MOST IMPORTANT! Don’t be hasty! My number one rule for tattoos is I have to have a picture of the tattoo and put it somewhere i can see it everyday and if I still like it after six to eight months, then I will get it. Try that and see, if after six months you don’t like it, throw it away, and if your sure, then make an appointment and go for it!

I guess in the end its all about personal preference, which is Aok! 


Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? -- Author Unknown

Sneak Peak July

I just could not wait for the calendar to click over to July because this July is rocking!!!

So here is a sneak peek at what we are getting down and dazzling in:

It's going to be fun!!

Elizabeth xx

'bibs and bobs' Friday!

Ok it's peek time at some cool ideas and things that bring life out in us.


This week, these 5 are sure to make your day or evening (check out no.5) go pop with some visible joy!


1. Food: Feel like everything is a bit bland and ho hum looking in the kitchen. Well check out this website called Colorful Kitchen Recipes: http://www.squidoo.com/colorful-recipes
It’s going to cheer up your plate and your tummy. How yum does that ‘Curried Honey Mustard Chicken’sound??? 


2. Scent: Sarah Jessica Parker’s new scent ‘Fashion’s in the Air’ is bright and smells of color and you are sure to be noticed smelling wonderful. I always feel so feminine in a pretty perfume. http://www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com/


3. Sniffles: A new season, especially winter ones, can bring about the unwanted flu. Keep those noses in check with a bright colorful hanky: floral, stripes, patterns, bold colors...just throw out the tissues clogging up the handbag. (Mine looks like a tissue factory that exploded.) 
Get hankies that make you feel feminine, or happy, or something that makes blowing your nose just that bit more exciting (lol). Check out this hanky site for a little crazy fun with a good cause too: http://www.limegreenmonkey.com/shop_snotcouture_sneezing_postman.html


4. Indulgent: You have to get into ‘Chi Chocolate tea’! So delicious and you won't be able to help but go back and pour another cup. Boil the jug, brew this tea and just add a comfy couch with a good book, movie or just a moment to yourself! http://www.teapeople.com.au/


5. Sexy: This one’s for all you women who want to feel a little bit sexy and even better for you married women who want to mix it up a little with hubby: ‘Nudite Intense’ –  a scent you’ve got to get close to experience! http://www.kitcosmetics.com/products/nudite-intense/fragrance/new-nudite-intense


Have a great weekend everyone and remember it’s all about: you as you are being visible - hey this world needs you!


Cheers. xx