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A Few of My Favourite Things: Dresses and Heels

Confessions of a Girly Girl

Heather Grace Stewart's avatarHeather Grace Stewart

I’m a girly girl.

There, I said it. Sometimes I have problems admitting it, because it seems a little weak. And I’m not weak. I like to inline skate long distances. I love to cardio box. I like to debate a point. I love to win.

But the girly girl in me takes over when there are dresses and heels in my vicinity. I don’t own many: maybe just three good party dresses and three pairs of nice heels. But I love it when I get a chance to wear them.

Dressing up lifts my spirits, and makes me feel youthful (with the big 4-0 approaching–in 2012–feeling youthful is a very, very good thing). I’m not saying I’d happily go grocery shopping in heels–that’s when I break out the running shoes–but fashion can be so much fun. Life is short. Play it up!

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The Fashion Show In My Closet

If you read my post Mike Holmes I Think I Love You, you know how impressed I was with my husband adding baskets to our walk-in closet. But this? I had to sit down and catch my breath when I saw this surprise.

'Fashion Show In My Closet' (c) HGS

Bill, who is still working on improving our walk-in and will likely be upset I’m sharing these ‘not quite finished’ photos of our closet, made me a floor-to ceiling shoe shelf for my favorite heels. And he’s going to add little lights over them! (okay, that was my idea –thought it couldn’t hurt to ask right?)  So unnecessary! So gorgeous! I don’t want to leave my closet! I could stand here and stare at it all day. But I guess I need to work, to pay for all the wood.

Our daughter saw it for the first time this morning, and ran straight to the bathroom to find me, calling out,

“Mommy! Mommy! It’s like a fashion show in your closet!”

Thank you, honey. I love you. Here are three more words: Mike Holmes who?

Shoes, shoes, shoes! (c) HGS
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A Few of My Favourite Things: Dresses and Heels

I’m a girly girl.

There, I said it. Sometimes I have problems admitting it, because it seems a little weak. And I’m not weak. I like to inline skate long distances. I love to cardio box. I like to debate a point. I love to win.

But the girly girl in me takes over when there are dresses and heels in my vicinity. I don’t own many: maybe just three good party dresses and three pairs of nice heels. But I love it when I get a chance to wear them.

Dressing up lifts my spirits, and makes me feel youthful (with the big 4-0 approaching–in 2012–feeling youthful is a very, very good thing). I’m not saying I’d happily go grocery shopping in heels–that’s when I break out the running shoes–but fashion can be so much fun. Life is short. Play it up!

Me in one of my favourite dresses