Minimalist aesthetic

As a former Fine Arts student, I can not avoid the decoration topic!
Once you manage to get rid of most cluttery crap, you begin to dream of a Zen home! I, who was a fan of the selby

The selby seemed to me so wonderful, all these beautiful people living in wonderful messes of objects of all kinds, artists, bohemians people ... Yes, but that's only picture, because in reality, in my home it looked like that, but ugly and dirty, because i have of job madam, and I have no maid !!! I have to obviously recognize that beautiful-bohemian-mess is definitely not for me, I just can't do!
I realized from these few past months, that I forbade me to just go out sometimes, because inside, I thought: "no, I must go home and store!" ... But it was endless !

Now that's better. I breathe. But it made me realize that my decoration is totally heterogeneous, and I start to dream about shakers furniture,

or about architect Mies van der Rohe,

And here I am just saying that there is some way to go ...


... or not!
In fact I think it depends on the level of requirements in terms of aesthetics. In reality, this was not of fundamental importance, I believe that this is simply to put in the list of things that are "important to me" or things "not important to me"

Aemi.

Protesting, like Kristie Powell?

How not to mention the huge buzz caused by Kristy Powell's blog One Dress Protest? It is one of those actions that make us question ourselves, that make us wonder about the true purpose of life, the reality or not of happiness that we allegedly think compulsive clothes buying could procure?

Kristy Powell, a pretty blonde thirty years old blonde girl, decides one day that she will wear the same dress for 1 year. In protest. To protest against the reflection image of clothes, which is often not representative of who you really are.

On the blog, she recounts her ups and downs, her questions, her moods.

There you go. It's over, since 20 August 2012. It seems both relieved but nostalgic ... For me, what emerges from this experience is, "What do we really need in reality?" "What is enough for my happiness?" "What is essential?"

There, it is our job, to of all of us. Even if it is a great help, I do not completely agree with the imposed lists, such as Dominique Loreau does. I could never be content with so little, because yes, I am a girl, because yes, I love getting beautiful. Dominique Loreau is a follower of thou 7: 7 shirts, 7 trousers or skirts, 7 pairs of shoes, 7 outdoor outfits. Personally, I'd settle twice, which go back to: the number 7 for the winter and the same for the summer! (ok well, if you live in California you can stay on the first list!) Ahhh! here it goes! Yes, because when I wonder what is essential for me, clothes arrive on my podium with the bronze medal, so I'm forgiving!
I do not have them photographed, but I'm sort of, I took each of them and honestly wondered, "Do i really wear it often?" Easy ... if it is so, remain on the hanger, if not: bye bye!



One could also mention "The Parisian" from Ines de la Fressange for the chic classic course, but the rest of the book is reserved for her favorite shopping stores in Paris, I do not allow myself to advise you to purchase it (also expensive!)



Aemi.

The lament of progress

Hello everyone!

I'm sorry for my approximate english, but i promise i'll try to improve myself day after day!
To start, I think we already reached a breakpoint. Personnal financial trouble, not being able to spend a day without buying something, and paradoxically, every day wondering how to store all this mess without making the link ...

I find excuses to myself... Paternal Diogenes syndrome, and after years spent together, my mother followed him on this path (no choice ...). Not only within my parents looked like one of those reality TV shows in which people come in to clean the mess of someone else, but they had a habit of buying everything and anything "just in case". This "in-case" has shaped my consuming habits for years. This electric oyster opener? I buy it in case, this double sided tape? in case,



Boris VIAN "La complainte du progrès"


To be brief, for long, i didn't question myself. At home, it was as if I did not like it but I do not know how to do otherwise.

The thing that made me begin to question myself was obviously Dominique Loreau's book, "The art of simplicity." I enjoyed the practical side of her explanations, yet what evolves more is in the head. Suddenly the bell is removed upon our heads and we say to ourselves, "But, YES!, I would feel so much better without all that mess!!!".


Here's how it all began ...