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How to Pack for a Work Trip
I have travelled a lot for work through the years, everywhere from the US to Korea and India, from Qatar to South Africa. Now that I work in Luxembourg, I go between Luxembourg and Brussels on a weekly basis. As a result, I have become quite good at packing and out of all the options, packing for a short work trip is possibly my favourite genre.
How to Create a Modern Wardrobe
This is a misleading title, as I don’t really know how to create a modern wardrobe. It would be more accurate to end it with a question mark, as the following is an exploration rather than a solution, but it’s perhaps useful nevertheless. Everything, after all, begins with the right question.
Lockdown Life: 6 Things To Do For Instant Fabulosity
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It’s funny how a small thing can derail the best-laid
plans. Actually, slash that, it’s not funny, it’s frustrating and really rather
disheartening, even if you know rationally that it’s not the end of the world (which
is plenty obvious a..
Lockdown Life: Rethinking Things
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Writing this post has proved trickier than I thought: not because I have no views on isolation living or because they are too complex to get down on paper/screen (frankly, they are pretty basic). It’s not what I have to say, it’s the cont..
6 Things That Help Dealing with Stress
I generally function well in stressful situations. Especially in work context, I thrive under pressure and often perform better and faster when the stakes are high or I need to deliver several important things simultaneously. I even deal relatively well with..
On Why We Have Nothing to Wear
In my attempt to be a more considered shopper, I have been thinking about what makes a wardrobe work. It is common to make fun of women who ‘have nothing to wear’, as this sentiment is interpreted as clear evidence of shallowness, vanity and lack of brain po..
4 Planning Tips For People Who Don’t Plan
I have a weird obsession with organising and planning: I love to read about both or watch videos, but I’m generally rather sceptical about applying all that advice. I often feel that people spend so much energy on finding the perfect system for organising th..
5 Tricks to Look Less Messy in Winter
I said last year that I’ve been frustrated with my winter style: on one hand, I’m always cold, on the other, I like to look pretty streamlined and sharp – two things not easy to reconcile. This has made me think of how to look more put together in the cold. ..
Getting Ready for Autumn: Clothes
I’m late with posting this, because work has been crazy. It has also been wonderful and exciting – I’m not here to complain. The intensity of my work life is in fact directly relevant for this post. I am not going to talk much about what I’m currently wearin..
3 Lunch/Dinner Ideas for When You’re Alone
Because I tend to be quite extroverted in the company of others, people are often surprised that I like to be alone. In fact I desperately need to be alone, to recharge and recover, and I love it. I’m not necessarily very good at it, though, as I shed all tr..