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Festival Season is Coming & Link Up On the Edge #184
Y’all know that last summer was My Bluegrass Summer and I had the best time ever being introduced into the Bluegrass community. I made so many great friends and discovered so much amazing music that I cannot wait for this year’s festival season to kick off. While I will only to be able to attend a few due to budget and time constraints, there are so many great music festivals coming this summer that are within driving distance for this road tripping girl. As I was scoping around the internet to develop a basic plan for my festival travels this season, I figured why not share some of it with…
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Inspired by Kathrine Eldridge Wardrobe Stylist: All Black with Burgundy Boots
When I think of a woman with incredible style and amazing sartorial taste with a very proficient talent for creating easy outfit combinations that any woman can wear, I immediately think of Kathrine Eldridge. I suppose when you have over 20 years of experience as a personal stylist as well as an inherent passion for all things relating to personal appearance, you do become a style force who ranks at the top of this fashion game. Kathrine has a wonderful way of mixing high end designer pieces with more budget friendly wardrobe essentials to create an eclectic and very appealing fusion of classic style with bits of bohemian whimsy and…
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Road Tripping & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #161
I am back from the best road trip ever. I was hoping to be refreshed and rejuvenated upon returning to the realities of my life as a mom and wife in the North Country, but honestly, I am exhausted and a tiny bit overwhelmed as I try to catch up on all the things that I had pushed aside so I could just enjoy life and living. While I may be a bit road weary, I am definitely inspired and have approximately 19,357 things racing around in my brain that I want to write about, describe, analyze, and philosophize. But all in due time. First I must get myself organized…
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The Fab 40’s Showcase the Color of Love
February is that cold and dreary winter month in the northern hemisphere that we most closely connect with love because of the very commercialized holiday of Valentine’s Day. But it is certainly a great month to celebrate love because it is so cold and dreary. When it feels like winter may never end, we could all use a great big warm and comforting hug that wraps us in love to help us make it to the end of winter and welcome the arrival of spring. When Daenel chose the color of love as The Fab 40’s theme for February, it came as no surprise that all of my Fab 40’s…
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Oscar-Worthy Outfits & Your Own Twist Link Up #17
Your Own Twist is a monthly series hosted by Monica of Jersey Girl, Texan Heart and myself where we showcase our own interpretations of a chosen style theme. We share the theme with you ahead of time in case you are interested in joining us. You can see the upcoming themes below if you would like to create your own post around the theme and share it with us in the link party at the end of the post. With the 92nd Oscar Awards just happening a few weeks ago, Monica and I thought it might be fun to style outfits that would be worthy of the Oscars. Granted I will probably never…
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3 Things You Should Know Before Getting Your Nose Pierced
Whether you were inspired by the fun and punky look of this sweet David Bowie t-shirt or you have been long contemplating taking your edgy style to the next level with a nose piercing, there is a good chance that you have been hesitant about it because you are unsure what a facial piercing will look like on you. Plenty of women think that they cannot get facial piercings after a certain age. Others may be restricted by their professions. Unfortunately, there is still a stigma surrounding certain types of body piercings especially facial piercings like nose rings or studs because they are so dominantly visible. I got my first…
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4 Ways Meditation Can Improve Your Life
People are always looking for small changes that they can make in their lives in order to make a positive change to their health. Dedicating a bit of time to meditation every day or even just once a week can be a very beneficial method for affecting the desired changes. If you have never practiced meditation before, it is a technique that you need to try and then slowly turn it into a lifestyle habit. It can help you to be more in the present and become more aware of your surroundings and yourself. There are many different ways that you can meditate, you just have to find the one…
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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book is Celebrating 3 Years with Copy Cat Looks
What a super exciting day it is today! Nancy and I are celebrating three years of our collaborative effort to share Good and Bad Buys. We first began with The Bad Buy Book on February 15, 2017, and ran that series for one year. On February 15, 2018, we introduced The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book so you could choose whether you wanted to share a good or a bad buy for the accompanying monthly theme. To celebrate our three years of coming together once a month with this fun series, Nancy and I have created copy cat looks of one another. We also had some of our favorite blogger friends join us today with copy cat…
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Winter Break & Link Up On the Edge #183
Every year during the week of President’s Day, my kids have a winter break from school. I am realizing that this is sort of unique to Northern New York as most other school districts only have Christmas break and Spring break. When you add in this third long break during the school year, the end result is that my kids don’t finish for the summer until the very last week of June. However, I have to say that I don’t mind this mid-winter recess because winters here in the North Country are long and cold and those old winter blues begin to take hold some time around Thanksgiving (yes, before…
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Inspired by A Labour of Life: Old Navy Checks
There are not too many blogger friends in my circle who can relate to the weather struggle when it comes to styling cute outfits and staying warm in heaping piles of snow. But Linda of A Labour of Life, my Canadian friend, who lives just 2 hours directly north of me in Ottawa, gets it. She really does understand the insanity that is the winter weather up in this part of the world. But not only does she relate to my weather struggles, she also possesses very similar sartorial tastes as mine. I know that we shop at many of the same places including Shoe Dazzle, Old Navy, and Target.…
