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25.01.2022 GUIDED EXERCISE: ‘Creating an ALTAR OF GLAMOUR’ Once we have identified what part of our lives connects us to our sense of Glamour, we can then proceed, as my previous post suggested, to actively surrounding ourselves with our glamour keys.... Over the weekend, I spent some time arranging somewhat of an ‘altar’, or vignette of some of the objects, images, textures, smells that I identified as part of my ‘glamour finding’ exercises. (For more detailed descriptions on finding your glamour key and actioning your glamour key see previous posts or at The Everyday Glamour Project’s Blog Page). SETTING UP YOUR ALTAR OF GLAMOUR 1. Clear a space physically and emotionally: after all this is a sacred exercise in FEELING Glamour. Find a place where you can connect with the contents on a daily basis (bedside table, mantle piece, dining table, above your bath). 2. After identifying the images, words, textures, scents, in fact any of your identified glamour keys, you may already have at hand, collect these. 3. Begin to ARTFULLY arrange the objects (perhaps photos, a flower, favourite perfume, produce from your garden, anything that connects you to Glamour). 4. Once the setting-up is done, it is your responsibility to connect with it at your pace. Try engaging with your vignette at least for the first week, every day. Remembering, that it is the re-establishing of feeling ‘everyday glamour’ that is at the crux of this initiative. 5. CHANGE IT UP re-arrange, dismantle, re-assemble. Feel free to make changes to your altar of glamour whenever you feel the need. It is an ongoing, evolving, active instrument. Have fun with it. Enjoy the process of collecting and setting up this space. It is a localised version of something much greater, which allows you to not only anchor your feelings in a lived, everyday situation, but connects you to your centre of feeling. Your innate, wonderful everyday Glamour. PLEASE LIKE, SHARE & ENGAGE I would love to see any submissions of your own ‘Altars of Glamour’. Post it to our page, so we can share it with the E.G.P community. Live your life, glamorous; every day. n x
24.01.2022 remember glamour is interior first...
24.01.2022 BE THE ONE WHO INSPIRES OTHERS ...
23.01.2022 go chase it ...
18.01.2022 feeling like eating in my garden like this today. nc
17.01.2022 Your 'brand' of Glamour, is as unique as you.
16.01.2022 Reading this wonderful book by the editors of Metropolitan Home. 'Glamour- making it modern', interprets the world of interior design through the lens of glamour, and what that means for individual expression - exactly what we are all about at The Everyday Glamour Project. It's full of juicy interiors (one of my passions) and great quotes about what it is to feel glamour in your own way. Happy Sunday reading ... N x
15.01.2022 IT IS AN ESSENCE OF YOURSELF ...
11.01.2022 BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations, critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz, revealing what qualities make a person, an object, a setting, or an experience glamorous. What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desirethe feeling of if only? If only I could wear those clothes, belong to that group, drive that car, live in that house, be (or be with) that person? Postrel identifies the thre...e essential elements in all forms of glamour and explains how they work to create a distinctive sensation of projection and yearning. The Power of Glamour is the very first book to explain what glamour really isnot just style or a personal quality but a phenomenon that reveals our inner lives and shapes our decisions, large and small. By embodying the promise of a different and better self in different and better circumstances, glamour stokes ambition and nurtures hope, even as it fosters sometimes-dangerous illusions. From vacation brochures to military recruiting ads, from the Chrysler Building to the iPad, from political utopias to action heroines, Postrel argues that glamour is a seductive cultural force. Its magic stretches beyond the stereotypical spheres of fashion or film, influencing our decisions about what to buy, where to live, which careers to pursue, where to invest, and how to vote. The result is myth shattering: a revelatory theory that explains how glamour became a powerful form of nonverbal persuasion, one that taps into our most secret dreams and deepest yearnings to influence our everyday choices.' (Source: Amazon.com)
11.01.2022 NEVER COVET YOUR GLAMOUR ...
06.01.2022 Enjoying my new blooms today... #everydayglamour
