{My Italian Boots & Escada Leather Vest and Shorts}

Having done consulting for the Italian company near the Venice area, before we actually started working and living there full time, did yield me some buttery soft Italian boots as a GIFT. Leave it to the Italians for presenting you with the most elegant and luxurious gifts! They know how to do that. These boots were bought in Montebelluna, province of Treviso, Italy on November 2, 1984. They are entirely lined with the softest leather and have a little heel.

That's me out for a walk. Nancy Sinatra sang it already: These boots are made for walking...

Leather vest from Escada with leather shorts from Escada; both entirely lined and also buttery soft.

Wool sweater by Escada and my old lace tights...

With the sun out it is hard to look at you...!

So let's turn around and you get to see my lace tights with back seam and the little heels.

Our kittens are well disciplined; evidence that those tights survived many, many years!

Are you wearing anything made out of leather; besides your shoes, belts and handbags?

Related links:
{My Old Boots Rejuvenated & New Sweater} | previous post by me
{My Favorite Boots} | previous post by me

{Color Psychology and Blogger I Admire}

• On my dear Mom's Birthday, Susan from the blog: Ava Grace's closet, did post about a very special subject. Where the Magic Happens. Just click the link... 
• Susan is one of those young and energetic women I greatly admire. She has a flare all of her own and knows how to deal with fashion, interior decoration à la Susan and managing to raise her three super cute kids. 
• When visiting her great blog you will no doubt start clicking on one of the LinkWithin Thumbnails to read more and lots MORE! 
• Because she did bring up the blue gray colors that she's worked with in her Master Bedroom, I came up with today's subject. 
• Are you aware of the influences of colors we wear and what we chose for our interior? It is telling a story about us; our moods etc.

Source

This circle is revealing a lot about the main colors and we can learn from it.

• Even the German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) did design the color wheel in 1809. Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion just click on this hyperlink.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's, 1809 color wheel, from above link.

• Psychological Properties Of Colours from the UK (hence the word colour) some interesting facts as well.

The Meaning of Colors link with full story from above photo.  

In my wardrobe there is a wide scala of colors, depending on the season and on the mood I guess...

For the home there is a lot of white and earth tones from beige to brown.

What is your opinion about colors?

Do you love but one color or are you more like a chameleon that changes ever so often? 

Related link: An Easy and Elegant Palette just click

{Winter View of Our Gazebo from Bay Window Area}

Just like to show you a Winter View from Our Gazebo, taken from the Kitchen Bay Window Area. These photos are from January 20 when we did make the rounds over our estate. Our felines Tiggy Tiger (l) and her brother Bandido (r) did follow us. 

The sunlight makes it look already like spring. 

Storm door is from Vintage Woodworks and also the Fleur de Lys and Scroll Work.

Having breakfast in our Bay Window Area always gives us a nice view of the garden from its three windows.

The Ilex Opaca or American Holly tree is visible behind the wooden railings of the steps. 

We do have enough evergreen shrubs and trees on our property to help us always feel happy.

Having lived in the tropics, in Indonesia does make us long for more green during winter time...

How is your winter going?

Related link:

{Robins Stripped our American Holly - Ilex Opaca} | previous post by me