Kim and Kanye New Home

As we all know by now Kim and Kanye, are expecting!! Congratulations to them.  2013 started of great for the couple not only are they over the moon with the baby but they recently purchased their new home in Bel Air.  Check out the pictures. Enjoy.

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Old Hollywood Glam

Upside of Fashion

I have this love for old Hollywood glam, I love everything from the clothes, to the make-up to the jewelry  which brings me to the fabulous rings worn. This has made me want to look more into their history.  I just adore women who wear big bold rings. Something about them just screams glitz and glam. These rings make me think 1920s jazz or flapper girls. The films and party photos of old Hollywood glamour may have something to do with it.

I wanted to learn more about this mesmerizing band worn by the glitteratzi... so this is what I learned. The cocktail ring was popular in the 1940s and '50s, during the US prohibition, illegal cocktail parties were all the rage! Such a ring flaunted not only the fact that one was drinking illegally, but also that one was doing it with style. Generally women would wear them on their pinky finger of their right hand, thus being referred to as right hand rings. The more precious stones, particularly diamonds, the more you stood out. Now a days, cocktail rings are usually sold in costume jewelry shops and are made out of faux stones. Your best bet to find a precious right hand ring is to ask your grammy or go to an estate sale (I know it's sad to think that you are buying off a dead woman but if not you someone else will, plus she would want you to wear it and pass on her style) I could see a whole room of Jacki-o Skeletons green with envy cause you got to have Aunt Judiths famous amethysts.  This winter season you better flaunt it like your drunk off illegal moonshine, not only at the fanciest of cocktail parties but on the street, in the park, and while sleeping. Wear them over gloves and pretend it's your coming out party everyday. 

Office Ethics and Etiquette

In honor of my new job, I decided to post on office etiquette. Have you changed jobs to a more conservative office environment? If you want to change your professional life for the better, start taking specific and with measurable results action. Talk is cheap, action is priceless. Finding a balance of showing off your personality and maintaining office etiquette is the key to gaining respect and building a solid team.  I just started a new job at an office environment  I have worked in offices for over 12 years now, which makes this post very easy to me.

Remembering the importance of etiquette for the office and putting your best manners into practice can set the stage for years of success. Remember these tips to keep your office etiquette at its peak and your work relationships solid.

• Dress appropriate, leave the sexiness and cleavage showing for your own personal time.
• Take responsibility. (For mistakes and successes) We are human and we will make mistakes.
• Remember good restroom office etiquette and do not cough and sneeze in the direction of others – go to the bathroom, use tissues, cover your mouth. (Better yet – if you’re sick, stay home!)
• Always silence your cell phone and remember to do this every day. 
• Be helpful, courteous, and polite.
• This is a must, keep your work area organized and cleaned. 
• Be sensitive about what you bring for lunch. If your lunch has a strong scent consider eating in the lunchroom or outside rather than at your desk.
• Be respectful when on speakerphone, remember others are also trying to focus and concentrate on their jobs.
• Skip the gossip and stay honest and true, work ethics goes a long way.
• E-mails don't forget, sending emails in all caps will confuse and create drama, all caps should be use only when work demands it, other than this good grammar and appropriate caps is a must.

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Fashionmom always in heels

Proud Of Eva Longoria

I believe I have expressed in previous blogs, how I admire and proud I am of being a  Eva Longoria fan.  Below is an interview with her given by CNN, Eve talks about all she does when it comes to supporting and helping her latinas.  





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Fashion Mom

New Year! Which One Are you?

As I was browsing through the web, I came across this article, I thought it was great and wanted to share it with you all.

Our lives cycle through a constant series of expansions and contractions–and, if you become attuned to it, you’ll see that on something of a regular schedule, there is a macro-level expansion, followed by a macro-level contraction, that affects every category of your life: career, family, health, relationships and more.

These seasons (seasons of life, that is) can be felt as a subtle undercurrent in the body, before the external evidence that they’ve arrived has even presented itself.

During expansion, there is growth–new connections, new friendships, new information, new opportunities, new inspirations and a lot of output. Everything is inhaling wider and life is abuzz with activity circling a new project–whether that’s a “get healthy after being diagnosed with an illness” project or a creative flourishing.

Expansion is not always optimistic or filled with “good” circumstances, so much as it’s a time when a lot is happening at once, and you dance along the line–but not quite over the line–of overwhelm. Something within you seems to be incredibly responsive in a way that is different from all the other times, times when you might have broken down in response to a new stress.

It can be an exciting time when the expansion is accompanied by happier circumstances, a time where work doesn’t even always feel like “work,” as much as it feels like dancing wildly backwards, and laughing at the zany craziness of it all.

Moleskin notebooks get filled with writing that process grief, or post-it notes with new creative ideas line the bottom of the computer screen. Energetic or creative output is running on all cylinders.

Then there’s contraction.

Contraction is a time of going inward. There is evaluation of all of the new things that have come in during the cycle of expansion–what fits? What no longer works? Alongside the evaluation there’s confusion, uncertainty. There’s less output and more input. When my own life is going through a time of contraction, I seem to release friendships, spend more time reading and studying (input) than writing and sharing (output), and–gulp–make less money, because my ideas are marinating within me and productivity is down.

Contraction is quieter. There’s more listening. You’ll likely crave silence. You might want to give away everything you own, pare down, keep things really simple. Things that once seemed important might seem less-so, the urgency diminished.

Contraction & Fear

Times of contraction used to scare the shit out of me (confession: sometimes, if I’m running too many Stories, they still can).

My own life seems to recycle itself to one or the other on an annual basis, seemingly out of the bounds of my control. 2010? Growth. 2011 (inward). 2012? Growth. So–2013? Oy. I admit to some nervous apprehension.

I can feel it all over my life, already – the pull towards contraction. It shows up in the inclination to spend the day on the sofa surrounded by books, the consideration of a new creative project without the impulse to take action, the prioritizing of yoga.

When your life is stepping into contraction, you’ll feel it in your body and your bones: the pull to assimilate and integrate rather than flourish outwardly. The call to be taught, rather than to teach; to listen rather than to speak.

The Hungry Ghost

The apprehension we feel about times of contraction is rooted in a scarcity mentality.

The “hungry ghost” is that Buddhist term for when something external is desired, but even in the attainment of it, it’s never “enough.” It’s the “hungry ghost” voice within that says, “But you’ve worked so hard; you’ve come so far. How can you…sit back and read books? Take time off of work? Not plan out a series of profitable business projects for 2013? That would be crazy. If you want this lucky streak to continue, you’ve got to work harder.”

You can fit this dialogue to your will: How can you…not enroll your kids in all of those extra-curricular activities? Volunteer to take on that extra project for the boss? Organize the garage after you’ve sworn you’d do it? Work as hard as you’ve been working to be more compassionate or patient?

The expansion cycle, as it gives way to a contraction cycle, can feel unwieldy, maybe a little painful.

But here’s what I’ve learned about these expansion-contraction cycles: The natural rhythms of life are going to play themselves out anyway.

Trying not to follow the very alive current during an expansion season? Just about impossible. The requests for your time or the calls to action will flood in, until you can’t ignore them or resist them. When you update your friends on your life, they won’t believe it’s only been a week since you last spoke; so much has happened. If you’re in a creative flow, the words and message flow with ease.

By contrast, I’ve learned that if I ignore the internal signs of a contraction season at work, and if I push to do a lot during a contraction season, I won’t get much done, anyway.

Whatever I do get done during a contraction season is going to be like pulling teeth–and the quality isn’t going to be as good. For me, it’s not the inner critic saying this; I’ve reviewed writing from such seasons and can see, really clearly, how it’s as if I were writing “around” the truth during a time of contraction, instead of honing right in on my target as I do so easily during times of expansion.

At such times, it can feel like the cosmic joke is on you: you’re doing all the things you did so well during an expansion season, but the Midas touch is…gone. You’re pushing yourself to function at the same level of productive output–whether it’s for a creative project or to “be there” for others during a time of crisis, and…you can’t.

And yes–this can feel slightly devastating, confusing and (really) scary. It can feel so out-of-control.

Going With the Flow

Breathe in–expansion–hold it. Keep holding it. Notice how awfully uncomfortable it is to keep holding it, until you simply can’t, any longer. You exhale. You can’t help it.

Working against the natural rhythm of the exhale is effort.

Try exhaling, but not inhaling. Notice the same–how you’re working against the natural inclination to bring the breath in, and when you finally can’t hold yourself back any longer and you breathe in…relief floods the body.

Everything in the world is changeable, and there are micro- and macro- cycles of expansion at work in the body, with our finances, within our relationships, with our cells and biochemistry, with our creativity, with our personal and spiritual growth.

If you want to suffer less, you’ve got to “go with the flow.”

If life is calling for you to expand, you can resist the call for as long as you like, but every sign around you is going to be calling you forth. Sometimes, the call forth will come in a way that feels painful–like getting laid off as the final push to do the work you know you’re meant to do, or a relationship will hit its final straw, and that’s what gets you to move towards your new paramour.

So–pay attention to the clues, and go with that flow. Notice what happens when you start saying “YES” to what life seems to be ushering you towards.

If life is calling for contraction, you can resist that call, too–if you wish. In our productivity-oriented society, most people resist this call and it typically leads to burn-out, illness, numbing-out, depression. Most people who are feeling “stuck” think they need to work harder or “do” something to relieve themselves to get “un-stuck.” In fact, they’re “stuck” because they have been ignoring the cues for rest.

To them, also: notice what happens when you start saying “YES” to what life seems to be ushering you towards.

It’s in joining with the natural rhythm of our lives that we can discover the truth: the expansion has its place, as does the contraction. Neither place needs to involve suffering, unless we set it up that way by going against what everything seems to call to us to do–unless we try to inhale with exhaling, or exhale without inhaling.

Look around at your life, your world, as the calendar year changes, as the seasons change. What’s it calling you towards? Expansion, or contraction?

Article by Kate Swoboda

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Fashion mom

Weekly Bargin Buy

My weekly Bargin is this very pretty Max Mara black blouse, that I purchase to go to work. The price was 30.00. Not bad right??

Celebs Out & About

Kim, Kris and Kanye

Ringing in the New Years

Kim & Kanye look great together.

I love my Jennifer

Jessica Vacationing in Hawaii 

Kate  always looking fab

How beautiful is this picture.  Jessica looks great

Life has been quite for Eva Mendez

Jennifer Aniston and her Fiance 

Shakira and her baby bump.

Love Sphia Bush

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a healthy Happy New Year! may 2013 bring you all lots of love, health, wealth, glamour and success. 

Resolutions

Happy Holidays Lovies

I'm SO excited because this year end I get to spend it with my love, my new beau! We've been in a relationship for a few months now! What a fun way to spend the Holidays!

I wanted to write to you today because Christmas just passed and the New Year is around the corner.  It's that time of year again where we start thinking about what's most important to us and also - what we want to create next year.

According to experts people   "Most people fail in adhering to their stated New Year's resolutions. Specifically, 22% fail after one week, 40% after one month, 50% after three months, 60% after six months, and 81% after twenty-four months."

We may wonder why? well simple, because they don't have a compelling reason to stay the course. It's more of a wish than a resolution. 

I did some research on how we can stay on track with our resolutions and this is what I came a crossed. 

We are going to do something so much more powerful than just setting resolutions or another goal. We are going to dive deep into the resistance about why you aren't making your goals come true and take clear action to kick that resistance in the butt.

Instead of resolution let's just call it Living your true passion and purpose!

We are not going to set goals from your ego, but rather - your Soul. We don't need to set another silly goal to prove how great you are, or to make your parents proud. We are going to get clear on WHO you are, WHY you were born and what your Divine GIFT is that you are meant to give this planet.

And we are going to create a CLEAR and REALISTIC road map to make your Soul's Goals a reality! No more wishing. No more hoping.

Follow your soul and and instead of resolution make it an intention or a purpose. 

Don't let another year go by ignoring your purpose, ignoring your Soul's calling - living in the false sense of security that your comfort zone gives you. Make 2013 the year that you break out and break free!

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Fashiongirls

Happy Blog Anniversary to Fashion girls / Fashion Mom Always in Heels.  Today I turn 4 years blogging and I love it. I hope you all have enjoyed it as well.


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fashiongirls

Celebs Out & About

Byeonce

Jessica and Finance Eric

Kate vacationing 

Kim Kardashian

Kimora Lee, looks amazing

Miranda and her family

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fashiongirls

Sandy Hook Elemantry

My heart and prayers go out to all the families of those loving beautiful people that they have lost.  My heart hurts from this horrible, unexplained tragedy.  May all your angels rest in peace and find a place in heaven.

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griselle

The Beauty Tips

Beauty Tips 

Less Visible Zit

Apply Ice, this decreases inflammation, and can even relieve the pain associated with the zit. Directions: Wrap a cube in a zip lock bag, hold against the affected area for five to ten minutes(your zit will shrink).

Avoiding Puffy Eyes

Long night?  Wrap a cube in a washcloth and hold over the eyes can reduce early morning puffiness, and make you look and feel more alert. For a stronger effect, freeze cubes of caffeinated black tea, or store sliced cucumbers on ice to keep you feeling fresh.

Prime Skin

Before patting on foundation, run an ice cube over your face, focusing on areas with enlarged pores. The cold water will cause pores to reduce in size and minimize their appearance under makeup. Icing these areas before your application of a primer can yield extra-smooth results.

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Getting Fit

Hello my lovies,

I have been some what MIA, I apologize for this.  I will now start blogging on a more day to day basis. Today I wanted to blog about getting fit.  After going through some period of time of not working out I quickly realize that I was 30 pounds heavier.  I am the type of person who sets a goal and I try to stick to my goals.  Well friends, losing all the weight was one of my immediate goals and in less than 6 months I accomplished my goal of losing 25 pounds.  Below I attached a workout video that can help you get the waist into shape. Let's do this together friends. If i did it, you can too!

Let's get our bodies into shape.  

xoxo

Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Bonding With Your Kids

Most of us have precious few hours with our kids at night.  Trust me as a full time working mom for over 12 years, I had to learn to make the most of our time together at night.

Gadgets- must go off. Establish one hour or more of teach- free time.  When computers, gadgets, games and tv's are off, families are almost forced to interact.

Dinner-   Even if dinner is for 10-15 minutes make sure phones are off, I use mealtimes as a gathering opportunity.  My kids and I, normally take this time to talk about our day, school, work, sports or and even each other.  I truly love it and cherish these moments.  In our house dinner together is very important.

Day Recap- As cheesy as it may sound at night before bed, we do a re-cap of our day.  We discuss our favorite and least favorite part of our day.  We can discuss and solve. I love it.


Hope you enjoy my 3 tip on bonding with your children.  I do this every day with my children.


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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Barging Buy

Barging Buy

This very pretty hat Calvin Klein, Hat I purchased in a store called Ross in my recent trip to Florida.  I was waiting for my mom who had dropped me off a near by shopping center, as I waited for her I went in this store to browse, and there was this very pretty hat that I fell in love with.  I purchased this hat for $12.00.  Talking about a barging buy?? love it.  If you are in the Florida area and would like one of these fabulous Calvin Klein hats stop by Ross.  Below is a picture of how fabulous my hat looks.

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Kourtney Introduces Penelope

Kourtney and Scott introduced their new bundle of joy to the world.

Kourtney Kardashian's darling baby girl Penelope Scotland Disick may have taken a while to make her public debut, but like all good, utterly adorable things, she was definitely worth the wait.

And like any good Kardashian, the cutie pie tot knows how to make an entrance, and did so by claiming her first cover, debuting today on Us Weekly. (Proud big bro Mason happily posed with his adorable sis and beaming mom!).

courtesy of US Weekly

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Sister Love

My day out with my sister.

This summer I went to visit my family in Florida.  I will soon post some pictures of our family vacay but for now I will leave you with this picture of my little sister and me.  Love and miss her lots.

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Congratulations to our USA Teams

 Congrats to Michael Phelps in becoming the Olympian with the most overall medals with 22 wins in his career!

Congrats to the US Women's Gymnastics Team!! We are so proud of you ladies!

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Fun Read

Want to get away from all the daily stress of work, kids or everything overall.  Here is this fun book that I just purchased.  The book is about  Delving into the extraordinary life of renowned French fashion designer Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo has written a new kind of self-help book, exploring Chanel’s philosophy on a range of universal themes—from style to passion, from money and success to femininity and living life on your own terms.

Happy readings!

xoxo

griselle

Thursday Debut

It is debut Thursday.  Today we are presenting you with one of my favorite Jennifer Lopez. Here is her new video Goin' In

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Tips On Feeling Sexy

How to look sexier is a question if or when we are feeling a bit down about our state of dress.  Dressing sexier is not about dressing provocative.  Sexiness come from attitude but most important is confidence in your self.  Below are some ways to look and feel sexier! 

1. Good posture- can do wonders for your appearance.  Remember walk tall and keep your shoulders back and your head up high

2. What you wear underneath - Wearing bras that do not fit you and under wears can end up causing lumps and bumps.  You can overcome by wearing a well fitted undergarment.

3.  Wearing fitted clothes - You want to look sexy, well your clothes plays a huge part. To look and feel sexy you do not have to wear revealing clothes, feeling sexier is much more of how your clothes fits.  Nothing screams unsexy more than clothes 3 sizes smaller than your actual size.

4. Workout- working out will not only help your body look better and but this boost your endorphin levels as well.  You will not just look better you will feel better too!

5. Makeup-  Go bold darling!! nothing screams sexy than a tube of red lipstick.. an age old fabourite. if red lips isn't your thing, try a sexy smokey eye put the sexy in your eyes.

This works for me hopefully it can work for you as well.

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Fashion Mom Always In Heels

Nick and Vanessa

Vanessa Lachey is keeping her Twitter followers well informed on her changing shape as she nears the end of her pregnancy.
The 31-year-old proudly put her bump on show in all its glory in a Twitter picture posted on her account today.

She dressed in a revealing bandeau top and white skirt for the impromptu photo shoot and her husband Nick Lachey, 38, stepped in to tenderly stroking her exposed belly.

She wrote alongside the picture: 'My Happiness... My Family! Ahhh, My Boys!' How cute are they? We heart them.

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Fashion Mom Always

In Heels