https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:40:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244531 Wed, 07 May 2014 14:36:17 +0000 Angie 1244531@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How gorgeous are you in that pencil skirt. Wow. Killer look, Mrs. O.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244497 Wed, 07 May 2014 14:00:23 +0000 lyn67 1244497@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, it was like yesterday! And what a great news about the house,&nbsp;how exciting!!!:-)</p> <p>Always loved your red skirt, so&nbsp;can't &nbsp;I say anything new:-(,&nbsp;&nbsp;it is such a&nbsp;&nbsp;fab, classic piece!:-)&nbsp;And love the&nbsp; color blocked top with it! </p> <p>The other outfit is so POLISHED with the fab pink shoes! </p> <p>Hope you'll be able to move in your great new home asap!</p> <p></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244438 Wed, 07 May 2014 13:24:13 +0000 Janet 1244438@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh congrats! What a long process! </p> <p>And you do simple elegant like no one else. I absolutely love that first outfit on you. Pure Ornella goodness. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244433 Wed, 07 May 2014 13:19:35 +0000 Kimberley 1244433@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love the colour block and those pink heels!&nbsp; Eee! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244306 Wed, 07 May 2014 06:16:18 +0000 catgirl 1244306@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ornella, what is it about you that is so ladylike without any hint of prim or priss?&nbsp; You look ready to take on anything from a large audience to a barn raising in style.&nbsp; So good to see you and hear that the finish line is in sight. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244305 Wed, 07 May 2014 06:14:08 +0000 Ornella 1244305@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for the kind comments ladies.</p> <p>Some of you&nbsp;have already asked in this and my other threads&nbsp;if I'd post the photos of the "final product". Sure, some I will, but I also expect it will take us a long time to furnish and decorate completely because we need to buy&nbsp;most of the bulky furniture (most of&nbsp;the old one was sold when we moved countries) and for some specific details I need to live in the space and feel it in order to know what exactly I want to put and where. This is what my husband and I often look at&nbsp;differently, he'd like to plan most details in advance and buy ahead, while I want to wait to go inside and then decide.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>carter</b> :: there's no rest for the wicked, I'm starting the packing and boxes labelling today, but I do hear you and I will rest when I can.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>Joy</b> :: yes, the entire block of houses where ours is, there 4 families, has similar completion dates' estimates in end June / early July. Since I already know my neighbours (and really look forward to living next to them), I knew the unofficial information as they were getting it before we heard anything from the building company&nbsp;:-)</p> <p><b>Kristin</b> :: I'll try to be short, which is hard as&nbsp;it's a subject close to my heart :-)&nbsp;I'm definitely the wrong person to ask about moving families abroad, because my answer is unreservedly YES. It's a life experience nothing can match. You are right, kids pick up language so much easier than grown ups, for our son it was the third language and he had no problems at all. He felt a bit left out in his first few weeks in the kindergarten, but slowly as his language was progressing, he reached the level sufficient to function fully in his environment and then it was easy.&nbsp;His teacher (he started school last September) could not believe he only learn German less than a year by that point.<br />With us it's different, of course. My husband is at a very good level right now, a year into living here he had found the right language school and has seen significant progress ever since. English is the official language at his workplace, but people of curse speak German and he's surrounded by it daily, so this all helps.<br />I'm a different case, I still don't work and don't have regular daily exposure to the language. We also don't have TV at the moment, so I "soak my brain in language" mostly by watching DVDs of familiar films&nbsp;dubbed in German. I only went to the beginner's level course last winter to start ironing out my grammar, but I still have a lot of work ahead. I wish I was at a better level by now, but to be honest I had no idea we'd entangle ourselves in the house build so soon after the move, so I give myself slack. Someone had to ensure daily life happens as close to normal as possible.&nbsp;The language&nbsp;will happen eventually.&nbsp;I function though and have developed the skill of expressing what I need with limited vocabulary.&nbsp;<br />Not having command of the&nbsp;language is an obstacle, but cultural differences should not be underestimated. It's interesting to observe the lifestyle around me and to compare how people from&nbsp;different parts of the world and even Germany&nbsp;who live here (it's very international place due to industry and university) perceive the environment. But, this life&nbsp;experience is priceless and I never regretted it.&nbsp;So, no short answer for you, but encouragement - hopefully.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244195 Wed, 07 May 2014 03:02:30 +0000 Anonymous 1244195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How exciting! Will some of your new neighbors be moving in about the same time? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244193 Wed, 07 May 2014 02:59:54 +0000 jackiec 1244193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look perfectly polished! I love the pink shoes!</p> <p>Congrats on the home straight. I can well imagine the flood of emotions. Hang on and you'll get through. What an exciting time of life. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244186 Wed, 07 May 2014 02:52:27 +0000 Suz 1244186@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love colour block!! And you wear it better than anyone. Simple and superb.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244179 Wed, 07 May 2014 02:43:56 +0000 LACeleste 1244179@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so excited for you! &nbsp;You look extra happy and glam in these outfits! &nbsp;I must try energizing red! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244177 Wed, 07 May 2014 02:35:43 +0000 citygirldc 1244177@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love your color block outfit and those pink shoes are divine. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244110 Wed, 07 May 2014 01:32:10 +0000 Jaime 1244110@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ornella you look stunning! I am so excited for you to move into your new home! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244104 Wed, 07 May 2014 01:28:20 +0000 Sara L. 1244104@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the color block tee! &nbsp;It looks great on you and I especially love that pop of color from the pink shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1244051 Wed, 07 May 2014 00:46:38 +0000 Aida 1244051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gosh I feel like you were writing that post yesterday too, it's really been 2 years?? Time flies. The BOLD big color blocks in #1 are amazingly graphic, and the pink pumps with matching lipstick in #2 are soooo cute with that outfit. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1243901 Tue, 06 May 2014 22:20:35 +0000 Kristin SF 1243901@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very nice, I need to take a page from your book. I don't look nearly as pulled together for the school run, that's for sure. I like how you recycled your daytime outfit into the school pickup outfit.</p> <p>And congratulations on hitting the final stretch towards moving into the new house! I agree, a photo tour of the final result would be fun to see. I'm sure you've been taking pics all along the way.</p> <p>May I ask....now that it's been 2 years, are you and your husband fluent in German at this point? DH and I always talk about how fun it would be to move the family to France, for example, but the language thing is a concern. Especially for the kids. Although I imagine your son picked up German more quickly than Mom and Dad...? Kids' brains are awesome that way. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1243873 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:51:54 +0000 carter 1243873@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ahhh! Pink pumps. So fab! You look beautiful as always. So happy for you that you are to soon be settled in a place built just for you. I read your entire house-building journey today, and I am so excited to see a picture tour of the final result. You're going to have a very busy summer, so rest up when you can! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-the-home-straight#post-1243865 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:42:23 +0000 Ornella 1243865@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <ul> <li><b><i><a rel="nofollow" href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+home+straight">the home straight</a>&nbsp;</i></b>(<i>def.</i>)</li> <li> <ul> <li><i>the last part of a long or difficult activity&nbsp;</i></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>As it happens, this idiom is&nbsp;very adequate to describe todays activity of&nbsp;handing in the cancellation notice for the rental apartment -&nbsp;in person, to make sure everything is done correctly and there were no lose ends.&nbsp; </p> <p>So, that's it. It's official.&nbsp;We are on the&nbsp;home&nbsp;straight before we move straight to our own home.&nbsp;From now on, it's countdown until the move. No precise date yet, but we have enough information based on which we decided we should hand in the notice today as it was the deadline for the lease expiration by&nbsp;31st July. Contingency plan exists to cover the unexpected scenarios.</p> <p>The emotions are mixed up. It feels like <b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-it-is-happening-a-big-change-in-my-life">I wrote about leaving England</a>&nbsp;to </b>move to&nbsp;Germany only a few weeks ago, the whole process of selling our old house and&nbsp;packing up is still fresh in my mind, yet it's been&nbsp;2 years. And we're less than 3 months away from another place which we will call our home again. &nbsp; My mood and state today have been everywhere&nbsp;on the scale from panic to&nbsp;ecstatic.</p> <p>Unfussy outfit with much needed splash of energising&nbsp;red and comfortable shoes for walking.&nbsp;Changed for school run later in the day, recycled the b&amp;w colour block tee before it ends up in the washing, added pink shoes and lipstick.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks for your time and comments.</p>