How to be Chic: Vlog

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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Q&A video coming up!

Hello and happy weekend to you! I am so keen to do a Q&A video; I’ve wanted to do one for ages because I love listening in to others videos :)

Please put any questions you are curious about in the comments, or you can email me fiona@howtobechic.com

I really hope I get lots of questions! Imagine getting none. The shame of it!!

Wishing you a beautiful rest of the weekend. It’s almost Saturday night here, the fire is just lit, I have a bottle of bubbles in the fridge and my husband will be home from work soon. Is there anything better than a cozy night at home?

Before I go, this is my sweet girl Jessica in her new favourite donut bed. She loves it! To be fair, if I had one in my size I’d love it too.

We adopted Jessica almost nine years ago and she was 1.5 then. So that makes her 10 or 11?

Apart from her donut, she loves scaring the dogs, lying by the fire, lap-time and her red dot lazer toy from Kmart :)

And this week has been beautiful crisp winter weather, just perfect for a dog walk.

We’ve had such a lot of rain lately, that even I, pluviophile extraordinaire, am happy to see the blue sky. Hawke’s Bay covers herself in glory on days like this.

How is the weather at your place? Tell me everything 😊 I know it’s very hot for some of you, being the middle of summer and all.

And don't forget your question for the Q&A video!

xx Fiona

Saturday, June 20, 2020

New video! Being a chic success and creating your dream life :)

Hello chic friends!

I recorded a video yesterday! Since my last video was more than a year ago, I thought it was about time :)

In this new video I talk about my top three tips to becoming a chic success and creating your dream life. I love to read about, learn and practice self-development, and, looking back, have had incredible results. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the tiny and incremental changes day-by-day add up, but they really do.

For all of my working life, from age 19 until only a few years ago (I’m 49, so almost thirty years), I worked in full-time employment, and dreamed of the day when I could be in control of my own schedule, and spend more time at home, my favourite place to be.

From writing on my blog, I started writing books, and now self-publish on Amazon in English and Spanish. Some of my books are also available in Lithuanian, Russian and Vietnamese. Amazing things can happen when you stop worrying about what everyone else thinks about what you’re doing, and just go for it.

If you have any video topic requests, please let me know in the comments! Thanks so much for watching. xx Fiona

(The author I mentioned in this video, Rhonda Byrne is here. Her audiobooks are amazing, so good, and her voice is hypnotizing!)

How about this beautiful sunrise from my front lawn this week?

PS. My latest books, ‘The Chic Author: Create your dream career and lifestyle, writing and self-publishing non-fiction books’, is available on Kindle and in paperback and '30 Chic Days at Home: Self-care tips for when you have to stay at home, or any other time when time is challenging' is available on Kindle or in paperback too.

Monday, February 11, 2019

Living slim in a culture that celebrates with food

Today's vlog post was inspired by a reader question. Cathy asked me on Facebook:

“One thing I’d love to hear your thoughts on is living slim in a culture that celebrate food, and celebrates with food. Today is the Super Bowl here in Georgia. People will be gorging themselves. My stomach is already tense thinking about being strong at the party we’re going to tonight.

So the conflict will be both internal and external, a double whammy. It’s like we need to carry within us the little secret joy that our choices are changing our whole lives, as if we need to keep one eye on the big picture, when the other eye is on the Mexican bean dip and stacks of pizza take-out.”

Haha, I love the way you've put that Cathy!

I hope you find my video useful, and please, anyone let me know if you have any follow-up questions. A reminder if you can't hear well or want to watch my video somewhere you can't have sound on, you can turn on the subtitles (the CC button for 'closed captions'). It doesn't *quite* pick up all my words correctly which is probably because I don't have an American accent, but it's pretty good!

Update: After posting this video I realised I cut the last few minutes off inadvertently - I remember a reminder coming up on my phone and I swiped it away, perhaps pausing my video without realising. Sorry!

Have a wonderful week and I'll catch you again next Monday with another new video (which will be complete!!) :)

~Fiona~

PS. I have TWO exciting announcements today:

Firstly is that my interview with Jennifer L. Scott of the Daily Connoisseur ('Madame Chic') will be live in the next day or so, so look out for that on Jennifer's YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConnoisseur/

It was SO lovely chatting with Jennifer. She is a beautiful person inside and out!

And secondly, I have released my original '30 Chic Days' blog series as a book. All four series are in one volume and they are a great price too - $2.99 for the Kindle eBook and $9.99 for the paperback. The Kindle copy is available now, and the paperback will be very soon, hopefully in the next day or two.

Click here to go to the 'The Original 30 Chic Days Blog Series' book on Amazon

I have had requests to put all the series together into an eBook and I thought this was a great idea. I have polished everything up and also added a chapter at the end with different ideas on how to curate your own '30 Chic Days' experience. Such fun, and I hope you enjoy having this on your device or in paperback for enticing snippets of inspiration. The print copy is 278 pages long so there is lots or inspiration to be had!

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