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One Dress from Work to Play & Link Up On the Edge #109
I rarely write strictly style posts these days because I feel like I have so much heavy stuff running through my brain all the time that I must purge it into written words to get some silence. But sometimes the heavy can get too heavy and I need to relax a bit and just talk about the clothes. Because the clothes are fun. I love the clothes. I have always loved the clothes. For as long as I can remember. I used to get embarrassed by this fact about myself thinking that it made me shallow and vain. But the older I get, the less care about what others may…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Summer Dresses
In just over two weeks, Nancy and I will be posting the seventh edition of The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book and we would love for you all to join us! The theme for September is Summer Dresses! We figured showcasing our favorite (or least favorite) Summer Dresses would be a great way to bid adieu to Summer and start easing into some Fall fashion themes. So won’t you join us for the September Good Buy/Good-Bye Book and show us your dresses styled for Summer. What is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book? It is a monthly series that Nancy and I will both publish on our blogs on the 15th of each month. Anyone who…
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Conscientious Kindness Can Save Our Planet & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #86
I am not going pretend that I am terribly diligent in my conscientious efforts to go green. But just like everyone else, I am a work in progress. Little by little, I make adjustments as they occur to me. I am not perfect and I am somewhat lazy, but I do my best to exercise some amount of regard for the state of our planet. I recycle what I can. I don’t litter. We turn off the lights when we are not using them. We don’t leave the water running unnecessarily. When I decided to address this topic, I was going to focus on how thrift shopping for clothing is…
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The Fab 40’s Got All Laced Up
Oh, this blogging journey leads me places I never would have imagined. I feel connected to people whom I have never met or have met only once or twice. We seem to form these bonds on the level of shared interests and common passions. We seem to possess a mutual commitment to empowering and supporting others, to consistently shining in this dark world with infinite love and kindness. I cannot remember exactly when or how or who found whom first, but somehow the universe decided that my amazing friend Sheela should come into my life. Or perhaps the universe decided that I should come into Sheela’s life. Or maybe a…
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Shelbee Asked…About IVF
I have been blessed with two beautiful sons, both naturally conceived within a few months of deciding we wanted to conceive. For this, I feel fortunate and very grateful. I have never had a struggle or experienced any fertility issues whatsoever, but I have many friends who have. And as I listened to their stories and observed their journeys, I definitely gained an even greater appreciation for the blessings in my life. Motherhood is the most challenging thing I have ever done in my life and I have done it willingly giving every ounce of my being to it. I entered the state of motherhood energized and excited. And now…
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14 Life Lessons I Have Learned Through Blogging & Link Up On the Edge #108
Time really does fly when you are having fun, doesn’t it? I cannot believe that I have been at this blogging game for three years already! THREE years. That is kind of a long time to commit to something that you have to be 100% self-motivated to stay on track. Granted over the past three years, my commitment may have waxed and waned a bit, but for the most part I have remained fairly consistent. It is truly a labor of love…work of this sort. And so many things have evolved and changed since the beginning of Shelbee on the Edge. I have been brainstorming for weeks about what I…
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How to Transition a Summer Kimono into Fall
So you know I am obsessed with kimonos, right? I just bought a new one yesterday. I simply couldn’t resist. I had been watching and waiting for it to go on sale. Not that it was expensive at full price, but I certainly did not need another kimono so I figured it was a little bit more fiscally responsible to at least wait for it to go on clearance. It started at $22.99 and I snagged it for $9.99. Here is a sneak peek. I completely went off topic here. As will happen when the topic is kimonos. I could literally talk about them all day long on the subject…
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The Random Act of Kindness That Made My Day & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #85
I am sure many of you have heard of this painted rock project that has swept across the United States over the past few years. The goal of this project was simply to make someone smile if they found one of these pretty little hand painted rocks hidden somewhere in their community. Facebook pages have been dedicated to each community’s painted rocks group where you can share photos of rocks that you have found. My kids are obsessed with finding painted rocks. We visit our local park regularly in search of them. And when they visit Gramma in Pennsylvania, they love to find rocks at her local park as well.…
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Shelbee Says…”Forgive yourself.”
If you type in a simple Google search forgiveness quotes, you will find a plethora of profound and valuable statements from a vast array of wise individuals throughout the history of mankind. Forgiveness seems to be one of those virtues that allows us to let go of the wrongs that have been done to us or by us in order to move forward through the journey of our lives. Some wrongs may have been intentional with malicious purpose, some may merely be mistakes due to lack of insight, and some may be so incredibly minor as to have not much bearing at all on the grand scheme things, yet we…
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Finding Gems in the Rubble & Link Up On the Edge #107
I know I have been sharing a lot recently about my Bipolar journey and I apologize if the topic is becoming redundant. You see, writing about it is the healthiest way I have learned to cope with it. Writing has been my main source of therapy since the very beginning. It allows for a process of purging. All of the destructive thoughts and internal demons get expelled by memorializing them into actual words. It’s a paradox of sorts…giving them life is the only way I can destroy them. I used to only write about it in my private journals, feeling like it was just too dark and fucked up to…
