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Musings on a Stylish Elegant Adventure

Monday, February 21, 2011

Beginning French

I love to take classes and sign up for activities. It's how I meet people. It's how I keep myself from wasting hours watching HGTV and Real Housewives. It ensures that I get out of my bathrobe on snow days. Well, I signed up for a beginning French course at Alliance Francaise. So you'll be seeing what French tools help me most as I try to recall those years of high school French.

So far, I have found Imagiers's videos to be very good, so check out his youtube channel

Last week we worked on countries of the world. My pronunciation has always been poor so I wanted to practice those words again. Here are some good youtube videos to practice with.


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Fashion Friday: Steal and Splurge!

Today I saw the strangest thing in the Roosevelt el station. Even though its less 30 degrees outside, at first glance, I thought I saw a man with no pants on.  On further inspection it turns out  he was wearing teeny tiny shorts! He seemed nonplussed by the weather and I couldn't help but stare. Seems like other folks are as desperate for summer as I am.  His outfit inspired this Steal/Splurge for what I'll be wearing lakeside as soon as the weather hits......60.

STEAL: Ever since I was a little girl I've craved the yellow polka dot bikini and these bottoms seem unique and fun!
SPLURGE:  Even if its beautiful you have to cover it up sometime and this will do nicely.