AT HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

Vacations, family, gifts, trips, huge meals, parties and a list of resolutions. Christmastime must be here

Our blog is taking a little break until next year! We won’t be publishing new posts for a few days, but we’ll be back rarin’ to go on the 13th of January, and we’ll welcome in the year with a recipe for a detox breakfast – we’ll all need it, so don’t miss it! We all wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We’d like to leave you with an idea: to have a special, personal Christmas created just by you, because handmade is definitely “in”. Here are a few suggestions:

- Love and cookies: make gingerbread cookies with imagination or a message. It’s fun – even better in company – plus afterwards you can give them away.

- Make your own Christmas cards to ring in the New Year, then send them by email, snail mail, courier, whatever you can come up with yourself.

- Think of original text messages to send at midnight on the 31st so that you aren’t just sending the latest tired joke.

For anything that you want to make/cook/set up/build at home this Christmas, let yourself be guided by others at the huge, fascinating website:
www.instructables.com

TODAY I DON’T WANT TO GET UP…

OR, HOW TO SPEND THE ENTIRE DAY IN YOUR PYJAMAS

There are days when you don’t feel like getting out from underneath the covers. But there’s one day, just one a year, when not only do you not feel like it, you just refuse to do it. You’re not ill, you’re not tired, you’re simply not in the mood to get up and go to work (obviously this only happens on days when the alarm clock rings!). You decide that today you’re staying put under the pillows, in your pyjamas, not thinking about anything in particular and eating ice cream in bed. Come on, what kid hasn’t faked a high fever every now and then by heating up the thermometer with the light on the night table? So, this is the same thing but a few years further on and with more awareness. That’s why it feels much better than when what you were skipping was school. For this reason, and because of the little white lie and the telephone theatrics that you have to perform to get “today I don’t want to get up” past your boss disguised as illness.

Long live pyjama day!

NOW WE HAVE A BLOG

Because the summer is over and we’re not going to miss it. For that wonderful feeling of starting the school year with a blank exercise book. For the new experiences that await us and for the pleasure in sharing them. There’s a lot of talk here, there and everywhere, but for women it’s never enough. For this and other reasons, we’re launching the women’secret blog. Created by the inquisitive for the inquisitive. Trends, travel, anecdotes, little discoveries … Fresh news, here, every Tuesday and Thursday. If you want to suggest a topic, don’t be shy, write to us.