One of the better ideas I embraced while living in Japan was the idea that two beautiful things, put together, could not be made less beautiful. For example, if you had a beautiful plaid shirt, and a beautiful pair of polka dot tights, because they were beautiful they could NOT not look beautiful together.
I loved it and adopted it, first as my fashion guide and then later as a food and life guide. Red sweat pants and a nice cranberry color apron? Yes. Cheese and peanut butter? Yes. Running while reading a book? Well, this was harder back in 2002, but then they can up with ipods and books that you could download, so yes to this, too.
A few months later, the tellers of this fabulous ways of life explained that it wasn't 100% accurate, and they were speaking more in terms of two fashion things that their children would put together first thing in the morning. You see, I worked at a daycare in Japan, and as in most daycares world-wide, in order to get the kid to school in time and to avoid unnecessary conflict, parents would concede on what the child would choose to wear. If the kid wanted to wear a tonka truck hat and a tutu, and you're running late as it is, why not?
"Do I look beautiful, mama?" one student asked his mother as he walked around with one of my extra aprons, made from a pink rabbit pattern, his transformers pajama pants, and a bright yellow shirt. It was a fashion disaster, but the mother simply said, "Yes, of course."
I had been lied to? No. I was allowed to think about possibilities again like a child. So for creative idea number two, make a list of all the things you like, and then start pairing them off in random. Walks on the beach and bananas? Why not a walk through a banana plantation, with a little bottle of spritzer. Easy.
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