Pack, Shop, Travel

Even if you're getting ready for the vacation of your dreams, packing can be stressful. You don't want to forget anything, but you also don't want to make the mistake of overpacking and bringing things you'll never end up using. As your departure date grows nearer, you realize "you've been slacking on packing and now there isn't any room left in your suitcase for souvenirs." Fortunately, we've got some tips to help you reclaim some space inside your bag!

7 Tips For Packing

​Find your perfect new LBD*, LWD*, LGD* for your upcoming trip here!  Where are those big brown boots you never leave home without? Smart packing, great looks, fashions, extras, swimsuits, covers and scarves to double and triple your outfit and wardrobe.  Luxury to rugged, look no further, here's your shopping adventure while we're shopping your travel.  Find your romantic evening apparel, pool and lounge clothes, meeting, wedding and sexy swag outfits here! Stay calm and shop on. ~ for romantic beach dinners ~ to the disco with matching shoes ~ a special cruise night celebration ~ matching tank tops & beach bag for your BFF's ~ your sister or brides'maids apparel & accessories

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             * little or long black dress-LBD / * long or little white dress-LWD/ * little or long glitter dress-LGD

Choosing Your Best Luggage

Tips On Best Suitcases

Buying Something New To Pack

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Color Therapy and Coordination,
​Packing & Special Events

​Water Colors: Blue & black colors associate with water. Black reflects career and life paths with skills and knowledge. Combine black with metals, reflect an interest associated with money/income. Black demonstrates power, emotional protection.

Blue, yin energy, is calm and soothing. Blue reflects love and has great significance in use. Blue brings healing and relaxation. Use blue to create an air and feeling of trust and peace. In Feng Shui, blue relates to exploration and adventure. Navy blue is associated with wisdom and intellect.

Wood Colors:  Brown and green reflect security and safety. Green is restful, refreshing producing an atmosphere of balance. Use green for healing and relief of pain. Express longevity with green, but protect yourself and combine colors with green to avoid feelings of depression, selfishness, or jealousy. 

Purple relates to prosperity and abundance. Consider purple on your neckline for mental and physical healing. Shows spiritual awareness, intuitive powers, and calm. Use purple to create the atmosphere for meditation and reflects dignity and wisdom.

Violet associated with prosperity, also good motives, aspirations of a spiritual nature. Helps produces a calm influence, soothes irritability, lessen feelings of hunger and calms symptoms of mental stress. Use violet wisely too avoid radiating an ambiance of prejudice or snobbery.

Yellow a strong color for intuitive insight, joy, creativity and wisdom. Encourage flexibility and adaption to circumstances. Yellow lifts moods and can enhance your sense of well being. Too much yellow can over stimulate you and others. Light up your mood without overstimulating.

Earth Colors: Light yellow and beige are elements of earth. Light yellow promotes good health - use wisely to suggest a sense of space in a particular area. Beige is neutral and using pale earth tones in stones, rocks and beads are unifying and can be used anywhere!

Metal Colors: Gray, silver, gold, and white are associated with the element of metal. Gold is associated with wealth, prosperity and wisdom. Use the color gold in your strands encourages good health and personal success. Gray is stabilizing and calming effect because of its neutrality. Consider the combination of these colors with Fire Colors. 

​Fire Colors: several colors associate with the element of fire including red, orange, purple, violet, pink
 and a strong yellow. 
Pink is a color for universal healing and reaches out to your and others feelings of self-respect and self-awareness. It can also bring about the opportunity for spiritual completeness and contentment.

Red is associated with prosperity and abundance, fame and reputation, love and relationships. Red stimulates joy, love, and strength within an individual. Exciting and vivid, and promotes romance, wealth, happiness. Red may lead to over stimulation and nervousness with fear, aggression. It is linked to happiness, use it wisely to attract what you want. Consider Earth Colors to unify your passion! 
 
Orange, a yang color, demonstrates purpose and organization. Used to strengthen your concentration and creativity. Portray and eminate feelings of optimism and confidence, enthusiasm and ambition. Feeling restless ... watch how you wear your orange feelings.

 ​Reduce colors, incorporate new ones to align with your feelings, goals and who you wish to be. Inspire your energy as yin and yang

​Coconut oil for, hair, face, moisturizer, shaving cream, body lotion, a soothing scent, feels good and smells good! Naturally we recommend taking a little coconut oil along in your carry on, remember the 3 oz TSA rule! ​

Colors in Clothing, Jewelry, Accessories to meet your needs and relationships. Adjust and choose your colors to present and reflect your energy! Channel your energy, influence your life with specific color selections and combinations. To achieve a particular, desired result, it's important to understand the meanings associated with each color. The colors of the universe can be used to create order and balance in our lives AND your energy and desires in your daily experiences.

Five elements for your wardrobe: 

• fire, earth, metal, water, and wood​ ​

You can dominate environment and expression with these elements. Each color influences your life. Color brings a better sense of balance and harmony to you and those around you. Here's how with colors influence your mood and those around you! What will your colors say about you?
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In theory, stronger or deeper colors require less to achieve your purpose. Consider your purpose on a daily basis and adorn accordingly. Colors are used to maintain, enhance, or achieve a specific energy. They reflect your feelings and are read by others. Consider pale colors with accents of expressive colors. Rely on your personal preferences and feelings for guidance in selecting adornment reflecting your moods, your interests, your purpose at given times. If you don't like a color, don't use it. End game: confusion

Enhancing your goals and achieving them, your life at home, at work, at the beach, on a romantic getaway and can easily be accented with purpose. Achieve romance, more financial success, resolve relationship issues and more?  

Use White with combinations of love and relationships, creativity and children, helpful people and travel. White also reflects confidence, purity, and poise. Use in conjunction with gold or silver to generates calm. White blends all of the colors, it is a symbol of harmony and purity. Its' use can lead to increased spiritual knowledge. Too much reliance on pure white can demonstrate an atmosphere of unfriendliness.

TIPS FOR SMALL SUITCASES

Most trips that last 10 days or less don’t require more than a carry on or small suitcase, if you pack smart. With some strategy, you can take everything you need without sacrificing style or comfort. Skeptical? We found the following tips on how to pack a small suitcase and see how efficient you can be.

• Roll Your Clothes: Tightly roll the clothes to prevent wrinkles, then pack them into a packing cube to keep them from unrolling in transit. New to rolling?  There are pros and cons of rolling versus folding.
• Combine Your Outfits: Two pairs of pants and three shirts can turn into 6 different outfits.  No need to pack entirely new clothes for every single day.
•  Reconsider the Shoes: Find a comfortable shoe that looks great and can reduce how many you carry. Consider wearing bulkier shoes on the plane and put the sandals in your bag. (this would never work for me, shoes just have to match the evening dress. TIP, find clear heels)
• Buy Toiletries Later: If you’re running out of space, consider buying toiletries after you arrive.
• Passengers were left with a choice: pay extra for their luggage, or relearn how to pack their bags to maximize space.
• Packing your bags to save space is an art form that can be accomplished by employing a few simple techniques. To maximize the space in your luggage, it’s often more about how you pack than what you pack.