How To Host A House Party In Your Heart {The Diana Vreeland edition}

Dec 22, 2011 by

The party season is upon us. Christmas drinks, catching up with family and then…in the blink of an eye it’ll be New Year’s Eve and you’ll be raving again.

So without further ado, here are my top tips for keeping the festive party spirit going all year long!
 
·         Always drink tea from a china cup in the bath (never champagne)
·         Tell someone you love them without the expectation they’ll say it back
·         Make that person you
·         Tell your parents you forgive them…better yet tell them there’s nothing to forgive
·         Bin, donate or destroy everything in your wardrobe that doesn’t make you feel utterly fabulous
·         Play
·         Shop for, cook and eat a superlative meal. With proper cutlery, napkins and a place setting. Just for you.
·         Perform a random act of kindness. Tell no one.
·         Give unsolicited, positive feedback to someone at work
·         Unplug – no email, no internet, no Facebook, no Twitter, no phone
·         Have the highest degree of respect for your existence. For as long as you can manage. Rinse, repeat.
·         Declare yourself independent from the tyranny of should, have to, ought to and must.
·         Edit. Your wardrobe, your address book, your pantry, your commitments.
·         Buy a perplexing ingredient and find a recipe that calls for it.
·         Refuse to engage in mindless chatter, change the subject or enjoy the silence.
·         Treat your time, attention and energy as a currency with as much value as your money. Don’t let people steal it from you.
·         Be held by your lover, feel their heart beating, listen to their breathing…for at least 5mins. It’ll feel uncomfortable…stay with it.
·         Make friends with your shadow side. Don’t know what it is? Those things you find annoying & irritating in other people represent your shadow side, they are the things you’re scared to admit you might do yourself. The world is a mirror reflecting back ourselves all the damn time…lean in, listen, sit with what it is you see there.
·         Find a picture of baby you and stick it somewhere you’ll see it often. Whenever you catch yourself using hurtful, hateful language with yourself, look at that picture and ask yourself “would I speak to her like that?”
·         Remember – You are nobody’s fool. You are nobody’s victim.
·         Stop forcing it. It smacks of desperation, neediness (in the bad sense…there is a good sense) and scarcity. Sit back and receive
·         Write a State of Grace document with someone you care about. Better yet, write one with you.
·         Hand write a letter using a fountain pen
·         Decide that the expression “I need to pull myself together” and the actions that result from it are acts of psychic violence. Ban the expression.
·         Become more discerning about the language you use. Words matter. They become your reality.
·         Realise that sometimes the things that make you feel better aren’t the same as the things that make you feel good.
·         Stop saving things for best. Wear that lingerie, put those heels on and haul all those beauty products out of the cupboard and indulge.

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2 Comments

  1. rita
    December 22, 2011

    OMG! LOVED THIS!!! thank you for sharing it!

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  2. Darla Hitchcock
    January 14, 2012

    My favorite is:
    · Find a picture of baby you and stick it somewhere you’ll see it often. Whenever you catch yourself using hurtful, hateful language with yourself, look at that picture and ask yourself “would I speak to her like that?”

    Reply

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