I Love the Bag Accessory

SUMMER 2013

With the change of season and cold over heat, it's time to renew not only our wardrobe, but supplements and accessories to be with us for the new season. This means, among other things, banish serious heavy leather bags for something a little more fun and flashy, ecological and artisanal. 

The carrycot to the clutch, it becomes essential raffia material Spring-Summer 2013.

It's summer, after all!.

One of the most popular and elegant as summer bag is made ​​of raffia. Suddenly, this add become "shopper", "clutch" or carrycot becomes important, not only as the best option for our looks for beach, pool or festival, but also for a touch of grace to our outfits "working girl" . 

The celebrities we know and from a few seasons ago we serve not only inspiring, but we offer the classic novel alternative designs carrycot.

If last season, the original and "preppy" Woodstock 24 Hour Bag Gerard Darel was the undisputed king of "street style" more fashionistas, conducted both in case of worn raffia endlessly by Olivia Palermo, as in case exhibited point by Angelina Jolie, this season still appears uncertain without preferred model. However, it is clear that raffia bag is the accessory "must have" the good weather spring and summer.

Need to include in the last minute your swimsuit and towel?, How suddenly decide to attend an unexpected picnic, or does it take a refreshing dip in the pool before returning to work?. 

No problem, the rigid winter habits also relax in summer, thanks to avoid raffia bags your sumptuous designs staining with grass or sand spoil. And honestly, there is no better feeling bag hanging from the handlebars of a bike, one straw or raffia, in my case a stroller??? I think so..

Despite their air beachgoers or picnics, preferred fiber picnic baskets reinvents itself and clutch bags to wear "preppy" in the endless summer evenings, either maxi version more suitable for day or for evening smallest , bags and purses fiber become indisputable trend.

After rustic baskets designed to beaches or pools, walkways conquest raffia establishing itself luxurious material not only bags proposed by Dolce & Gabbana, but to those seen in Loewe, Alexander McQueen, Marni, Betsey Johnson, Tory Burch, Donna Karan, Francis Montesinos, DelPozo, Tsumori Chisato and Agnès B. among others.

Whether in its most classic and casual as carrycot, as with clever silhouettes, bright colors or decorated with sophisticated metal or leather details; subtracted raffia bag rigidity and sobriety both your office looks as sophisticated nights party.

DOLCE & GABBANA SPRING-SUMMER 2013 - BAGS RAFIA

ZARA About Braided, - ZARA About Rafia - Wicker Clutch ASOS Snap Cecile New Look - Red Lips Sexy Romwe Straw Bag

MICHAEL MICHAEL KORS Natural Straw Tote-Tote-FURLA FURLA BRIGITTE BRIGITTE Tote - ASOS twisted striped tote bag Gatu Pieces ....

So this summer, try us again with this trend, we love for the mums today, modern or Classic,  is comfortable, affordable, plus with everything ..

See You!! 

xxx Ele

BIG FAMILY : ORDER

How do Big Families Live? 

This is a photo of my extended family in Spain.

My husband comes from a family of twelve.

I am myself one of four.

Times have changed!!!  The massive incorporation of women into the workforce, coupled with the lack of support from the State make it very challenging for large families! In Australia surprisingly enough, the help available from the government is dependent on the inflow of money at home, not the number of children. So it doesn’t matter whether you are feeding two or twenty…

To give you an idea about numbers: the average number of children per household in Australia is 1.9. Most people (79.4%) live in households with one or two children, 14.9 per cent lives in households with three children and the remainder (5.5%) lives in households with four or more children. A slightly higher proportion of Aboriginal children live in homes with four or more children (10.4%). 

So that brings me to ask: this small percentage of families who have more than four children, are they crazy?  Or are we in a selfish society where having more children means less comfort?

While the standard of living has risen dramatically in recent decades, it is also true that we have become a society stressed, ambitious and overly concerned about our personal well-being. I feel we are in a society that is losing its human values; principles that are essential to the proper personal development, and ... more importantly that of children. Perhaps we need to think more about being someone rather than about having some things…

Being a mother of ten, what I think most important is the mental organization and intention for my doing things (I aim to write about this every Monday on this blog). I mean to talk about the organization of the house, meals with different recipes, the laundry cycle, etc. .., these of course in terms of implications, costs, times, locations, etc.

The Von Trapp Family from the well-beloved The Sound of Music.

In terms of mental order, here are some points that bring large families to what I think are realities of life:

• Food: never missing but neither spare. Stews and sauces are always present in the menu, potatoes and chicken, are favourites. When I think food, I think first economic dishes.

• Clothing just enough, removable and no extras that cause sibling rivalry. Children know to share and to inherit from others or from relatives or friends.

• Holidays then to be impossible for me. But then they are necessary. I find them exhausting to prepare but I have now learnt not to schedule. In fact, holidays are a few days with very little routine:  we talk with the children and try not to make too much of a schedules, just relax. The same thing happens in married life, sometimes you just need time together to relax, just be together, but this will be discussed later also.

• On a day-to-day routine, I need LOTS of organization. We use bunk beds, have shifts established for toilet in the morning and also turns for showering in the evening. The older ones have to help in the house, make the bed, pick up their room and have to help with the smallest children. I find these skills are setting my children for success in life as they learn from an early age to share, be responsible, be accountable and above all learn to be generous with their time. Family life is challenging but it is at the same time VERY enriching on a personal level.

I will wish to have this is Room.. Perhaps in the future

• No hairdresser, in my case I cut all my children’s hair as we cannot afford this. In general we can afford luxuries and whims only very few times.

• Rebates are a blessing, and other offers and promotions, great for our daily bread.

• For extra expenses such as camps or sports expenses, we use the help of grandmothers, uncles or godparents. That is what keeps the family bonded J!

This is the family from London They have 13 children!

·      Regarding education and children’s behaviour, all I can say is that psychologists and educators suggest that it is within a big family where the best conditions for proper mental development and lower psycho are achieved! Of course, you always run the risk, according to experts, that parents implement educational uniformity, i.e. an unconscious way they treat all their children the same way, without customizing or individualizing, without shades. In my particular case, each child is different and one works to be more severe and in others to be more conciliatory, of course, every child has their own character.

 Some My children at our last holiday!

I never thought about having so many children, and there are already 10!! I am happy despite the work involved, I hope we can share many experiences.

See you,

Lovely, 

Ele

THE TIME IS HEALTH

ORGANIZE THE TIME

One of the most difficult roles that I have as mum is leaving home, when there are days, that I have to go and buy, to get the lunch with friends or go to the doctor or whatever…, and did not prepare things in advance day ohhh I can become a authentic stress or worst.

I have to go with four children, are what I have now at home, not every day of the week, you have to have all sorts of unexpected unreasonably.

The worst thing you can do is get hysterical

·      As you prepare to leave the house, they may refuse to put their shoes on. Or when they do, they do it reeaalllyyyy slllooooowwwllyy and you are about to explode with frustration. Then you finally get them in the car, after one of them has done the back-arch technique so skillfully you’ve had to literally climb in the car and put your full weight against them to bend them in the middle enough to get the buckle done up. So now you’re late AND really cranky.

·      As the traffic slows and you are being held up (or there is someone driving painfully slow in front of you), you get more and more tense.  The kids start to whinge or fight, or niggle at each other, and you’re so wound up that you snap at them. You may even scream your head off at them if you’re really uptight.  Tears all around…

And you know this is not how you’d like it to be – you want to have more patience with your children. You want to be able to stay calm. Especially when it’s you that has dragged them away from what they were quite happy doing at home or in the Playground!

You won’t be surprised to hear that if you’d made enough time to get to your appointment that you wouldn’t be so wound up, and they wouldn’t be so tense in response. You need to leave ‘in time’ rather than ‘on time’.

This happens when we do not organize

So how do you leave in time? Simple – you analyse how long it really takes to leave the house!

·      Let’s say you know it takes you 10 minutes to drive from your house to where it is you’re going. 

·      Then you add 5 minutes either side for loading kids, Blanky, Fluffy, prams and bags in and out of the car.

·      Then allow another 10 minutes if you have one in nappies because after all, they often so artfully choose the moment that you’re locking the house up to suddenly smell really bad.

·      Then allow another 10 minutes for the finding-and-putting-on-shoes routine and possible associated tantrum (if they’re in the “I do it” phase but they can’t really do it yet),

·      and another 3 for the ‘I forgot my truck/glitter headband and I will DIE without it’ trip back inside.

·      And 2 minutes for you to find your handbag and keys (15 if you don’t have a home for them!).

Based on those quick estimates, for a 3pm appointment that is 10 minutes drive away, you should start getting ready to go out the door at 2:15pm. Now, that doesn’t count your preparation for the appointment, such as paperwork or forms.  Those need to be prepared well in advance – usually the day before… It is difficult, but our lives as mothers of large families will go better.

Relax!!! Is the The best remedy for the children and For Us

If you leave in time, you don’t need to nag or rush your children, and they won’t resist as much because you have time to give them warnings about when things are happening. You’ll be relaxed, and if they do choose to fight in the car or whinge the whole way, you’ll be calm enough to ignore it. And your relationship with your children will be so much better for it. You might even get there early enough to spend some quality time with them, reading or going for a short walk!

And for those of you without young children there is still something to be gleaned from this – avoid stress by preparing well in advance and allowing time for everything that might occur that could make you late. You’ll save a lot of money on speeding tickets and feel a lot calmer overall if you leave in time!

Take courage! I still have not succeeded, but I'm on it!

See you Soon!!!

Ele xox