Spontaneous Rain!

It was just yesterday, that I put on my walking shoes and with the whole family = one husband, Miss 5, and Miss 18mnt old. We went for a walk around the neighbourhood.

It was just on dusk, the air was warm, full of balmy blossom scents, and because we live at the beach, was filled with fresh salt. It was really fun and refreshing just walking around our area. 
But, as we were heading home it began to rain, big splashy rain. Now, we were just a little to far away from home and I knew we were about to get wet. 




Yep, we did. After calming the girls down (lots of reassuring Miss 5 that it's OK to get wet), it was wonderful! It was a spontaneous moment of excitement.


Truth Moment: Sometimes I feel that in life; all the 'busy', responsibilities, and the 'frazzle'... There is no time anymore for spontaneous fun - and these days I don't have the mind space to think up any either.


However, thanks to the sky that night, I had some. It reminded me of how good it felt to feel really alive and it gave joy to my family - I had forgotten (sadly) what 'spontaneous' felt like. 
My girls squealed in delight at getting wet, and my hubby simply smiled at me and held my hand in the rain.
From this yummy taste, I am determined to have more spontaneous moments in my life and really enjoy the opportunity's of 'something a little different' or being caught in a 'unchangeable moment' that can always be fun if you choose it to be.
What do you reckon?


Ok, No matter your age or stage in life, do share your most recent spontaneous moment? - What it was, how you felt, or even share what activities you do with your family to keep the fun!

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.

'Share Your Life Moments'

Everyone has a life story or as I like to put it 'life moments', they happen to us all and they are like a bag of 'all sorts', each of us experiencing different types and each of us sharing a few too. 
We want to hear from you and hear about your life moments. 


Inspire, encourage, or just share with us a funny, exciting, painful, or heartbreaking, frustrated, something interesting, a lessons learnt, or an opps...etc...and more moment. 
It can be anything from: marriage, family life, shopping, beauty, health, friendships, having children, cooking, single life, broken relationships, building relationships,... and ...

Simply write in 100 - 200 words an event/situation/moment and comment on how you handled it, learnt from it, were inspired, or needed help and what you did. Don't forget to write a sentence about who you are i.e. Mum of 3, works part time, can't live without shoes, and have been seen pulling my hair out, women from QLD...:) - you get the drift!


Send it to fradazmag@westnet.com.au or through our Facebook page as a Facebook message.http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Fradaz-Mag/100578686657469?ref=sgm

I can't wait to share your 'real life moment' with others to inspire.

Help I've got nothing to wear!!!

With the change of season it is nice to run out and shop up a new wardrobe. New colors, patterns and styles. Big But: If you don't have the budget it can be a wistful time of 'I've got nothing to wear!!!!!! Here are three steps on how to turn your 'wist' into feeling new season dazzling beautiful.


1) The Basics. 
Team your clothes together in basic/base colors. We all have them in our wardrobes, if not save up and invest in some classic, timeless pieces. We're talking: white, denim, gray, and black's together - i.e. denim and a white shirt, or black pants, black shirt, and a gray or black coat...For Spring go for more denim and whites and for autumn start to go into the darks. Then...

2) Accessories. 
Accessories don't have to cost a fortune and they are an easy way to bring new season color into any wardrobe. So team your basic look with new season color: bracelets, beads, earrings, shoes, scarves, bags, sunglasses/glasses, headbands,....etc. For Spring we are loving fresh, happy, pale colors and for Autumn, try vibrant yet dark blues and metallic browns. Don't just wear one either, layer them up in the same tones. Finish with...


3) Makeup. 
It's all in the makeup so change it up. Tone down to paler soft colors for spring and add soft 'blush' cheeks. Step it up a notch with brighter and darker lip tones for autumn and a touch heavier eye shadow if you dare.

Most of all, it's about having fun, so try a few new colors and makeup looks this season.

Yellow wooden beads from:
http://www.fashionjewelleryhouse.co.uk/fashion-jewellery-blog/index.php/a-wood-bead-bracelet-is-the-easy-way-to-bring-colour-into-your-outfit/

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