Bringing on the New Year

Congratulations! You’ve made it through another year’s worth of holiday shopping and party hopping, great food and not-so-great weight gain, family time (quality and otherwise), and everything else that comes with every holiday season. Now it’s 2008, and you’re facing a brand new year armed with a hangover from last night’s bubbly and a bucketful of resolutions recycled from last year. I’m right there with you, and I say bring it on!

This year, I’m taking a different approach to the whole resolutions thing (and I invite you to join me, if you’d like). Rather than making a list of goals that I know will be abandoned very quickly (i.e. eat healthier, exercise more, start writing that novel, etc.), I’ll be focusing on the little things in life—the frilly things, if you will.

What I mean is, the frilly excesses in life are what make us happy from day to day. Waking up in the morning to a closet full of beautiful clothes, coming home to a fabulously-decorated home—these are the things that ultimately keep us happy, not eating only green things for lunch or being 2 pounds lighter than last year.My goal with Fashion Frills is to bring as much of these frilly things together as possible—fashion, shopping, home décor, and whatever else happens to tickle my fancy. I hope we’ll have lots of fun together, and happy New Year!