My focus has changed since YLF. I typically would put my hair up in a clip, wear a face full of make-up, and minimal effort with my clothes. Now I am interested in streamlining and: wear minimal make-up (I used to rotate colors with the seasons, now I have a couple key products that I use which is much less than in the past), I started styling my hair everyday (well I blow dry it once and make that last for a second day before doing so again) and I'm minimizing my wardrobe (I'm starting to wear repeat combinations more often and reducing the size of my wardrobe).

Haha! What a fire-starting post, Fruitfull! I'm a one-thing-at-a-time-until-I-burn-out kind of gal myself.

When I was a new flight attendant, we were each treated to hair and make-up at Saks Fifth Avenue and encouraged to buy the make-up used to create our look. Because we wore uniforms, hair and make-up (and to some extent, regulation jewelry) were EVERYTHING. Even our hand bags and coats were company issued.

Then I bought a house, got married and had a couple of kids. My next obsession became getting out of debt. We hunkered down, bought next to nothing, I breast fed and used cloth diapers and I sewed our clothes. After a few years we had everything paid off, including our house. Then I quit flying to stay home, and the budget was conquered and put on auto pilot.

I guess my next obsession was healthy natural living. I bought wheat berries in bulk, bought a hand mill, ground my own flour and made all of our breads by hand. We got a juicer and made carrot juice. I collected canning jars from garage sales and canned my own vegetables. We chopped and stacked our own firewood and used a wood stove. This was my "Little House on the Prairie" phase, even though we were living in a depressed former steel mill town. We restored our 100-yr-old house.

Then we moved across the country to the hot desert and bought a new house and put in a pool. My interests changed to HGTV and decorating in a completely different style (all on a dime, of course--old habbits die hard). I loved finding used furniture and refinishing it. I became obsessed with creating a pleasing home environment with yard sale treasures. When I finished, a realtor friend asked me to start staging homes since I was so good at doing it cheaply. I did this for about a year and then burned out since it was so physically demanding.

My hair, make-up, finances, health, nutrition and house were all in order and HGTV started to bore me when a new cable package introduced me to TLC's What Not To Wear.

That was a few years ago and I found YLF this past summer. I am definitely throwing myself into re-vamping my wardrobe headlong. At some point, I will have it under control.....but I really don't see that happening in the near future! Plus, I've developed friendships hear that transcend fashion. I really don't go on any other forums. In fact, this has become my Facebook. If Angie and Greg hadn't made this site so incredibly user friendly (and just plain friendly-friendly) I woudn't be here, since I'm a technical dodo bird. I can post photos here and I still haven't found out how to email a picture to my mom or post one on fb! Yay Greg!

You all are so interesting! Thanks for sharing your interests here. I'm something of a dilettante with my interests too. For a few years, I was obsessed with photography. And then there was knitting. And sewing. (And reading, and cooking, and baking bread like Claire, and gardening, and traveling...)

I initially sought out fashion advice here at YLF as an extension of my sewing and knitting hobbies. I know how to create clothing. What I didn't know how to do was identify what would be flattering on and how to style it in a fashionable way.

I now spend more time at YLF than I do at other forums

I worked myself into a geek style frenzy over interior design/decorating. I've been studying an interior design course and realised I could never use it outside of my own home looking the way I did. It peaked after about three years. Then when I stopped and looked around, my home was amazing - but my wardrobe was a mess! So I guess I've just swapped one "decorating" obsession with another - now I'm decorating me, lol.