-
Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Leather
On October 15, Nancy and I will be posting the next edition of The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book and we would love for you all to join us! It is that time again to share some of your favorite and least favorite items for October’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. This month we are featuring all things Leather or Faux Leather. Whether it be jackets, pants, skirts, dresses, blazers, shoes, boots, bags, hats or gloves, we want to see your favorite (or least favorite) leather pieces. We thought this was a fun theme playing off of last month’s lacy things. There is nothing quite so edgy as a good leather and lace combination, is there? So if you have…
-
Hidden Facebook Gems & Link Up On the Edge #165
I think I recently mentioned that I had stumbled upon some old poetry and creative writing pieces buried deep in the archives of my Facebook page. There is this place where things get lost and hidden in Facebook land if you don’t know exactly where to look. If you go to your “About” page and then scroll all the way to the bottom, past your friends and photos, videos, and check-ins. Next you will come to all of your favorite sports teams, music, movies, books, and television shows. You know way back in the beginning of Facebook when you tagged all these things so people could get to know you…
-
Inspired by Seeking Sunshine: The Best Turtleneck Sweater
As soon as Fall hits my neck of the woods, Winter is right around the corner. Autumn is short lived around here, the leaves turn fast, and fall even faster. The first frost should be happening any day now with overnight temperatures dipping into the low 30’s this week. We will be seeing the first snowflakes long before Halloween arrives. Even though we celebrate college football Saturdays with enthusiasm and vigor around here, we do live in a place where ice hockey is the sport of choice. When there is snow and ice on the ground for 10 months out of the year, it is only natural that sports that…
-
Styling a Ribbon Scarf for Fall & Giveaway
Fall is officially here and what that means for me in the North Country is that I am cold. All the time. For some reason, the premenopausal fluctuations in my estrogen levels like to correspond with the drop in temperatures. So while my body becomes unable to properly regulate its own temperature and the thermometer begins to plummet, the cold flashes take over and I spend most of my days just trying to get warm. Scarves, hats, and fingerless gloves become a staple in my daily wardrobe even while I sit in my house working. If I could type with fingered gloves, I totally would. In fact, as I sit…
-
Embrace Your Inner Weird, Own Your Truth & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #142
The past few days have been exponentially weirder than usual. At first, it was kind of throwing me for a loop. But I am learning to embrace all things no matter how strange they may seem at first glance. We live in a world that is dominated by social media and technology. For those of us who did not grow up with the ease of access to people from all over the world, it is sometimes off putting how bold people can be when they have computers or other devices to mask themselves. You may think I am going to bash such brazen boldness right now. But I actually am…
-
The Fab 40’s Wear Shorts for Work
I haven’t worked a traditional job with an actual dress code in nearly 9 years, so any time a style challenge is presented to me with “work” involved, I pretty much have free reign to interpret that however I’d like. Working from home allows me all sorts of liberties with my wardrobe. I can work in my jammies, my bathrobe, my sweatpants, jeans, dresses, or my underwear. Hell, I can work naked if I really wanted. If I don’t get too cold. Which is a problem this time of year. But working from home does have it challenges. One of the biggest problems is maintaining self discipline and motivation to…
-
The Sunday Afternoon Quarterback #4: Friday Night Fun
#12 Penn State Nittany Lions 59 – Maryland Terrapins 0 As the Big Ten Conference moves into the second year of Friday night games, I was hoping for a repeat of Penn State’s last season Friday night game which resulted in a 63-24 drubbing of the Fightin’ Illini. What I got was a more impressive drubbing of a Maryland team that considers this game much more of a rivalry than Nittany Lion fans do. Now I will say I have a personal rivalry vested in this game as my best friend is a Terrapin faithful. And although Penn State owns a career record of 40-2-1 against the Turtle, one of those…
-
Something About You & Link Up On the Edge #164
Last Friday, I was inspired by Ada to share a poem. I talked a little bit about how intimidating it can be to share one’s poetry….written from the heart, exposing all the raw emotions that fight their way onto paper. I was a bit hesitant, but I faced my fear and did it anyway. I must practice what I preach, I suppose. And I am ever so grateful for all the very kind and encouraging comments that I received in response. I saw my rhyming poem, I Thought I’d Known You Before, as unsophisticated in its simple rhyming and repetitive verses. I think I was attempting something that was a…
-
Featured Favorites & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #141
Happy Tuesday, my friends! I have been visiting a dear old friend in Virginia since Friday and unfortunately I did not make the time to create any new content for this week’s #SpreadTheKindness post. I am heading home today and will be on the road for at least 10 hours (it is 605 miles one way). So rather than stressing myself out about creating meaningful content, I would rather spend my last day in sunny Virginia absorbing all the sun and down time that I can before heading back to the North Country where Winter will be arriving in, I don’t know, a few hours probably! But I didn’t want…
-
The Importance of Sustainability When Clothes Shopping
The part of our brains that helps us coordinate our outfits and the part of our brains that contemplates the idea of long-term environmental threats are probably not working in harmony together. Because these compartments are so disconnected, it is difficult for us to even process the idea that being uninformed in choosing which brands to support could be responsible for over one thousand lives lost in the 2019 heatwave in France. And even in our apparent denial, the evidence keeps surfacing which indicates that our industries are negatively impacting our environment and our climate. While a large amount of people already embracing green initiatives, such as bags for life…
