Gratitude and growth
I'm sitting up on my bed in a Venetian palazzo, writing this at 05:30am. Waking up early is a habit I can't seem to shake off, not even...
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marielsacco
- Jul 16, 2019
- 4 min
Downsizing to upscale my life
As many of you already know from my incessant posts on Instagram, I am in the process of moving to a new apartment. The move had long...
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marielsacco
- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
No rain, no flowers ...
As far as inspirational quotes go, this must be one of my favourites ever. I love how, in what I could possibly call the sweetest, yet...
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marielsacco
- Apr 21, 2019
- 2 min
Spring Uniform
One of the things I love about living in Belgium is that you do get to enjoy the seasons. Fair enough, sometimes you get to experience...
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marielsacco
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Travel capsule wardrobe
I can't ever imagine myself living out of a capsule wardrobe on a daily basis but oddly enough, I've been adopting the capsule approach...
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marielsacco
- Mar 28, 2019
- 2 min
Three years on ...
It was the 28 March 2016 when I landed in Brussels to start a new life. I knew more or less what I was in for in terms of work - it was...
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marielsacco
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min
Bossing it in beige
Lately I've started feeling like I'm always dressed in the same four or five items and sometimes I worry if my Instagram outfit stories...
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marielsacco
- Mar 14, 2019
- 2 min
Photo diary: Dior-themed day
I've just retuned for a couple of days in London where I treated myself to a Dior-themed day. It so happened that it was also the 8th of...
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marielsacco
- Mar 3, 2019
- 3 min
What I learnt about myself after 28 days of no shopping …
As you may already know by now, I decided to spend the month of February without any shopping – of course I did get groceries and the...
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marielsacco
- Feb 23, 2019
- 4 min
My fashion pet peeves!
A few days ago, I asked my Instagram family whether you would be interested in a post about my fashion pet peeves ... and boy was the...
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marielsacco
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
Thank you for the beauty
When I received the BBC flash news notification on my iPhone yesterday that Karl Lagerfeld had passed away, all I could think of was to...
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marielsacco
- Feb 3, 2019
- 1 min
Finding your freedom
Sometimes, you just find yourself free. You can't really put the feeling in words - it's a sensation of liberation, serenity,...
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marielsacco
- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
The 28-day No Shopping Challenge
“You can find something to buy even on a desert island” I don’t know who it was or when it happened exactly, but these words were said to...
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marielsacco
- Jan 27, 2019
- 2 min
Blogging at 40 …
I love my blog. I love the freedom it allows me to be my own boss in my creativity, in what I write, how I develop my aesthetic on the...
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marielsacco
- Jan 23, 2019
- 2 min
Backside - Fashion from behind
Have you ever seen something that turned your perspective on something you love pretty much upside down? 'Backside - Fashion from...
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marielsacco
- Jan 20, 2019
- 2 min
Developing aesthetics
Over the last years since I’ve been investing in and collecting higher-end designer pieces, I have noticed a change and development in my...
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marielsacco
- Jan 11, 2019
- 2 min
Petite tricks
As the luck of the draw would have it, I have been blessed with what could perhaps be diplomatically referred to as a ‘petite stature’. ...
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marielsacco
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
2018: Thank you, next
I was not planning on writing a(nother) eulogy for 2018 – I thought my latest Instagram post was enough. But then again, I wanted to do...
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marielsacco
- Nov 21, 2018
- 2 min
Wardrobe Classics
I'm not sure if it's a question of age, or a case of finally to learning to better curate my wardrobe; but I'm gravitating ever more...
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marielsacco
- Nov 7, 2018
- 1 min
I bought something from CHANEL!
I keep trying to remind myself that I was planning this purchase in any case so as to shed some of the guilt I feel every time I buy...
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