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My Bluegrass Summer & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #131
It seems that maybe I have caught the bluegrass bug. Or just a festival bug in general. It just so happens that I have been stalking bluegrass festivals in my area in the hopes that I can see my favorite band perform live. I described my first experience seeing Fireside Collective perform a few weeks ago and now that I have had that experience, I want more. All of the time. On a whim, I decided to attend the Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival in Berkshire, New York, this past Saturday. The location was just about two hours from my house and I was hesitant about driving by myself and then…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Shorts
Today is the day that Nancy and I would normally be posting our monthly installment of The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. But with Summer vacations and travel and very low participation this month, we decided to skip July and post our Shorts theme on August 15 instead. If you have already submitted photos, no worries, we will be sharing them in August. But if you have not yet sent us your submissions, you now have an extra month to do so! August’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book will be featuring Shorts. I have not worn very many shorts yet this season, so I am going to dig back into the archives of the past year…
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Swim Suit Remix Take 1 & Link Up On the Edge #153
Recently I shared my new swim suits from Rosegal and told you how I could mix and match the pieces to create four swim suits from two. So today I want to share the first of the two remixes with you. For this remix, I combined the cobalt blue top from the Polka Dot Halter Bikini with the bottom from the Cat Cartoon Bikini Set. I always like black and white with a nice bright splash of color and the cobalt blue is the perfect blazing shade against my translucent skin! Still no tan here even though we are nearly half way through July. But that’s okay because pale is…
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My Asheville Experience & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #130
My experiences are generally about the people. The people we meet. The people with whom we make connections. We all exist within a different context depending on the people around us. The chemistry is different with each and every relationship. The structure shifts depending on our environment and what and whom surround us at any given moment. We are relational beings and as such we exist directly within the context of each relationship. Whether it be a brief encounter or a long standing friendship, our relationships with other people contribute to the definitions of us. Last week, I wrote about my experience traveling to Millheim, Pennsylvania. While much of that…
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It’s Independence Day & Link Up On the Edge #152
Happy 4th of July from Asheville! I am sitting here in my hotel room this morning with not much planned for today. The traveling kind of wiped me out and then I stayed up way to late on my first night in Asheville. But I had the most wonderful time! As wonderful times often do, it caught up with me last night and I hit the bed early, slept 10 hours, reset myself, and now I am just doing some laundry and figured I would check in on the blogging world while I wait for the dryer to finish doing its thing. I also wanted to share this pretty Feeling…
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Welcome to Millheim, Pennsylvania & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #129
I know. I know. I know. I said I was taking a blogging break. And what happens when I finally say it? I get inspired. And I cannot ignore the inspiration when it hits. Any creative person knows this. We live for that moment. We wait for it. We seek it out in all corners of our existence. We exhaust ourselves trying to tap into it. We get tired. We take a break. And it is right inside those breaks where we find our inspiration. You can’t fight against the universe. You just have to succumb. And when you finally do, she delivers in spades. So that’s what I did.…
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Summer Sun, Something’s Begun…with Rosegal
Yesterday, I showed you my new cat bikini set from Rosegal, so today I want to share my vintage inspired polka dot bikini. This polka dot bikini gives me all the Sandra Dee and Beach Boys vibes. If you are as hesitant as I was to sport a two piece swim suit, the high waisted bottoms from days of yore are absolutely the way to go! They cover all those places we may not want exposed with just a little hint of skin. The halter style top is also really great for giving support to those of us who are top heavy. I have always had problems with proper fit…