Fashion Friday ~ Kendra's Miami Fashion Challenge

Today is a very special Fashion Friday.

I am taking part in "Kendra's Miami Fashion Challenge" which means that I will share with you six different outfits I created in Polyvore for the occasion.
{I don't know where I've been all these years, but I just discovered and started using this app, it's AWESOME!!!! I had so much fun getting creative and putting together the best outfits I could.}

About the challenge:

Kendra Thornton, a renowned travel expert who makes regular appearance on stations like ABC, CBS, FOX, CW and has been a special guest at The Tyra Banks show, The Nate Show and more, asked me if I could come up with some fashionable outfitsfor her upcoming getaway.  She and her husband are finally taking time for just the two of them {sorry kids, you're staying home}, and are going on a relaxing and romantic escape in the "capital" of the Sunshine State, wonderful Miami, FL!

Delano Hotel Pool Side {via}

Can it get more romantic that this?!
Anywho... As excited as I am about this project, I'm better of letting you read the sweet and beautiful Kendra herself!!

February Photo-a-day Challenge

Our January Photo-a-Day Contest was a real success!  We really enjoyed looking at everyone's pictures and getting great ideas from you guys!!  Thank you so much for being a part of it.

If you have missed a couple days or if you want to start it now, not a problem you can catch up!!  There are 4 days left until this giveaway is over which means you have until this Friday to submit all your pictures on Instagram using #lippwophotocontest and be eligible to have your named raffled up.

Bill Payment Organization

Today, I am officially starting my part as a contributor to Pretty Well Organized.

Back to Basics - a Project

Life In Positudiness 

Blogiversary ~ Back to Basics

During this 30 Day Countdown to Life In Positudiness’s first blog anniversary, let’s get “Back to Basics”.  

When I first started my blog, I envisioned it filled with the important things that make me happy and would help me keep a positive attitude about life.  Don’t we all need little reminders once in a while?  

Organization ideas, craft projects, recipes, travel pictures and more are all big ideas that daily play into that concept.

For the next 30 days, I invite you all to reflect and share what a Life Filled with Positive Attitude means to you.  No matter how big or small it may be, what makes you smile, what makes you enjoy life that much better?  

When you’re feeling down or overwhelmed, look for something around you that will cheer you up?!  

By taking pictures and sharing them, you are making memories.  You are proving yourself and showing your friends that anything is possible.  

Blogiversary - a 30 Day Countdown and a Giveaway

In one month today ~February 12~ Life In Positudiness will turn one!  This calls for a celebration!!
Here in the blogosphere, we call that a Blogiversary, and I want to use this special moment to share a few things with my readers ;)

Many Thanks 

I want to say a big thanks to all of you who have been reading, following and providing such great support.  Know that your encouragement feeds my inspiration to write. 

Thank you cards made by LifeInPositudiness

What's Up with Me and LIP?

I have a lot to share with you guys, I don't even know where to start!

For a blogger with organization as the main niche, I feel like the biggest contradiction!  I'm a total living irony.  {I just had to say both words because, you know, sometimes I just don't know how to say things, and I'm not sure my point gets across...  That's the sad part of being a French girl living in the US...}
Anyways, my point is: I've been so UN-organized lately...

I have good reasons for this though, and it's all about exciting things that I am planning, starting, attending and keeping on building.

Version Francaise - Photo a Day Contest

Pour mes francophones chéris!!

J'ai le plaisir de vous announcer, en français (la version original en anglais ce trouve ici), que je lance un défi photo pour le mois de janvier qui commence des demain.  C'est très simple et overt a tous! Il vous faut en revanche avoir Instagram, l'application la plus top pour prendre et partager vos photos!!!

Photo Contest and a Giveaway

Hey Guys,

So as promised, I have a fun something something for you!

If you have been following me for a while, you should know I looove Instagram.  It's such a great tool for making memories and sharing the little things of life.

IG Profile

New Year, New Horizon

Happy New Year Dear Friends!!!!

I hope you all had fabulous holidays. 

My husband and I spent Christmas by my family, in France, this year.  We had a great week.  

Sorry for the blurry pic...
I was enjoying a nice cup of Vin Chaud (warm wine, not sure what it's called in English) at the Christmas Market in my hometown, Annecy France.

Today, I had the privilege to be introduced by Wendy, the creator and author of Pretty Well Organized, as a contributor to her blog for 2014!
Along with three other talented ladies, Niki from Hello Stripes, Angela from Blue i Style and Lisa from Dwell Delightfully, I will be sharing my way on organizing different part of my house and life!

Organizing Nook

Today, I was invited to write a post on an all-about-craft blog, Kreative Creationz. 
In my guest post, I discuss the sorting system I created for Hubby and I.  This Organizing Nook includes a frame which serves as a dry-erase board for our to-do list and the weekly menu  ~write on the glass with a dry-erase marker and swipe it off when you need to!~, as well as 4 clipboards to organize documents.

The Organizing Nool explained

To each board its category: 1. To Read / 2. To File / 3. To Pay / 4. To Mail

Read all about it here!!

**Also, see how to make a chevron clipboard  ~with a reusable stencil~ and a striped design clipboard.**

Restaurant Review - Elements at The Sanctuary

My Husband and I have a few passions in common.  One of them is traveling, another one is eating!  When we go on vacation, we have the best time combining both.  We like to experience the local foods and look up great restaurants in that area.

On our First Mini Honeymoon, we dove in the tasting experience and gave our taste buds a whole new sense and definition of deliciousness.

During this month of July, every Monday, I will take you on a foodie journey to our five favorite restaurants around Phoenix, AZ.

This week, we are going back to Elements, the restaurant in The Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa.

The restaurant itself was stunning, very modern, high class, a wide open area.  But the best of it was the view.  

French Friday #1

Hey there everyone!!!  Today is my very first post for this new edition of French Friday.  This means, sorry my fellow Americans and other English speaking readers...  This post is intended to be written for my friends and family who do not understand a word of English, and will summarize this past week for them ~it's just a condensed repeat of my Ikea hack, Phoenix trip and the fantastic hotel we stayed at, and my entryway makeover.  It is therefore going to auto-translate itself in French in  3, 2, 1....

Bonjour tout le monde!!! Ca y est!!! C'est Vendredi!  Bienvenu sur ma premiere edition rien que pour vous du Vendredi Francais ~ce que je continuerais a appeler en anglais: French Friday~.  
**Mon clavier d'ordinateur n'a pas les accents, donc desolee si c'est un peu difficile a lire... Je trouverais une autre solution pour la semaine prochaine...**

Alors voila, pour resumer les quatre articles de cette semaine, au menu nous avons:

1. des meubles Ikea reinventes 
2. des photos a gogo de notre Mini Lunes de Miel dans un hotel magnifique en Arizona
3. et des images des environs: Phoenix, Scottsdale et Sedona en Arizona
4. et pour finir, je vous montre l'ammenagement de notre "entree" dans notre petite maisonnette!

Vous etes pret?!  Prenez un petit cafe' ou un apero, suivant l'heure qu'il est, ca risque d'etre long!!

Entryway Makeover

We have been renting and living in this house for almost 6 months.  We must have changed the rooms around at least twice each room!!  Personally, I need change, constantly.  I think I get bored of one way, but sometimes it's also for the area to be more convenient!

I am not a fan of front doors opening right into the living or dining area, but that's how it is in our house.
I had to somehow make a separation, as well as incorporate a space for purses, keys, change, and most importantly our shoes which we must leave by the door.  ~I insist on having a shoe-free house, because I think it's the grossest thing to walk in the streets, get poo and dirt or whatever on our shoes, then bring all those yucky things in our cozy nest...~

I got three Expedit shelving units from Ikea.  One of my friends from Florida had done this exact combination of the shelving units in her condo, and I thought it was a great idea.  It fit perfectly as my entryway separator.  A bit bulky, yet open since the squares were hallow from both sides.  I loved this setting.

Phoenix, AZ - The Phoenician

Saturday, June 15 - Tuesday, June 18, Hubby and I went on our First Mini Honeymoon.  Woohoo!!!!  

** Warning this is a looong post ~ but most of it are pictures! ;) **

This trip was very last minute.  We first wanted to go to San Francisco, CA because we love this town, but when we started talking about what our needs for this first getaway were, we realized that all we needed was to relax, bathe in the sun, lay by a pool, just take it easy for once.
So, San Francisco was not the best, it was not so warm, not really a place to stay by a pool, more like a city to visit and walk a lot.  My In-Laws had told us so much about Arizona we had been dying to go there.  Once Thursday night came, there we were looking for flights to go to Phoenix, AZ.  We had so much to do at home prior to leaving, we did not even bother finding a hotel.

Friday all day, we both were off, so we rearranged the house...again... We switched the office and lounge which I started talking about in yesterday's post.

And Saturday very early morning, we flew to Phoenix.

IKEA Hack

When we bought our bed frame from Ikea, MALM bed frame, we had in mind to eventually add the side tables from the same series.  I really liked the set which included 2 shelving units ~with 3 shelves, a 2-in drawer and a glass top~ and a long hollow piece, as long as the bed frame, which would go between the wall and the bed.  The shelving units were on wheels, and you could bring them in and out of the long piece, therefore hiding the shelves behind the bed. 

Here is the set.  This was taken in our bedroom, before the bed frame went in front of it.

However, at $150 for this three-part set, we could not afford it right away.

A month later, we went back to Ikea to look for lights and, oh what a surprise, the MALM bedside sets were on sale for $50!!! ~yes a $100 discount~  Now, that was a good deal!  

~They must have been discontinued because I can't even find them in their catalog anymore...~

Summer Challenge // Defi de l'Ete

I've spent hours trying to write this post, looking for the right words to use, trying to talk about some of my feelings, and open up, and finally I was done, happy about it... Then, somehow, it all disappeared... How I don't like when this happens!... :(

Now, it's getting late, and I don't have the courage to try rewriting it all, so to keep it quick and simple, I've been tired of not putting myself and my project first.  I always do things that have to be done, and keep the things that matter to me the most for last, sometimes not having the energy or time to do them anymore.  It has made me pretty unhappy, I need change...

Funtastic Friday!

Happy Friday Everyone!

I have decided that Fridays would be my special day.  I am starting a challenge where every Friday I will make sure that I have some FUN, whether it is working on a special project or doing something else that stands out of my ordinary routine.

No matter what nor how much chores I have to do on that day, I strongly intend on keeping aside some time for some well deserved "me time"!  What do you think?  Is it doable?!  

We all need to think about ourselves once in a while, and what a great way to get ready for the weekend!

So... Who is with me?!!!

Today is a snow day, I guess I'll stay in!

I love looking at snowy landscape, but don't quite feel comfortable walking outside on slippery sidewalks nor getting in my car!

I am going to get onto a crafty project in the warmth of my home!

What will you do today on this Funtastic Friday??!!