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The Fab 40’s From the Ground Up
It is time again for my fabulous friends in their 40’s to share some fun fashion ideas with you. We hope to inspire you to get creative with your wardrobe pieces and try something new and fun. Life is too short to wear boring clothes after all! The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger who is also in their 40’s to join us. This group’s goal is to take on a style theme and show how we each interpret and incorporate it into our own lives. With six widely varied views, you…
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I Have No Idea What I’m Doing & Link Up On the Edge #155
I have no idea what I’m doing. For real. This has become the natural state of things for me lately. But on the flip side, I do know exactly what I should be doing. And so, with the loving support of my husband, I have made a decision that is scary and intimidating but I think (fingers crossed) it will be much to my benefit in the long term. Let me give you some background…when I was in Asheville a few weeks ago, I felt more creatively inspired than I have in a really, really long time. When I came home, I cycled into a pretty severe depression for that…
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The Best of Times in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #132
Have you ever visited Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania? It really is one of the coolest little towns in Pennsylvania. It is a small mountain community in Carbon County with a total area of less than 15 square miles and a population of under 5,000 people. Yet it draws tens of thousands of tourists each year because of its picturesque Victorian beauty and quaint romantic atmosphere. The narrow streets bustle with people dining at the many provocative eateries that offer an eclectic array of culinary choices. There are all sorts of shops imaginable and the local residents who run the businesses in downtown Jim Thorpe all welcome you into their establishments as…
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Swim Suit Remix Take 2 & Link Up On the Edge #154
This is the final remix of my two new swim suits from Rosegal. You are probably thinking, “Thank goodness. Enough of her pasty white skin blinding me through my computer screen.” I promise, this will be the end of it seeing as I don’t really going swimming much anyway. I could have combined all four sets of swim suit stylings into one post except I have been working on some other projects and needed the easy extra content to get me through until I really start sharing the good stuff. More on that later. Later meaning next week…maybe. In case you missed the other three swim suit stylings (or maybe…
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Vacation/Staycation Wear & Your Own Twist Link Up #10
For this month’s Your Own Twist theme, Monica and I are bringing you some style inspiration for what to wear while on vacation, or staycation for those of you who prefer to just hang at home during the Summer months. 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. Feel free to link your own Vacation/Staycation outfit ideas below. Or add any outfit, style, or fashion post that you’d like! This month we have invited Brandi…
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5 Things to Consider When Shopping Online
If you love to shop online but you not sure how to make the most out of it, there are some valuable tips to help you in this post. Although online shopping can feel like a bit of a minefield at the beginning of your searches, there are some methods you can follow to ensure that you are having the best possible shopping experience. Whether you are looking for hidden costs or reading the product reviews before you buy, you do want to make sure that you are not making a purchase you will regret once your package arrives. Keeping that in mind, below are 5 things to consider when…
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Quick and Easy Ways to Boost Your Body Confidence
People who yearn for the perfect body tend to set unrealistic goals for themselves. This can lead to certain levels of emotional distress and disappointment when these impossible results cannot be attained. Which in turn leads to even more guilt and the vicious cycle continues. In order to break this cycle of feeling bad about yourself and setting yourself up for failure, you just need to embrace the body that you have, feel confident in all of it, love and appreciate all of its assets and imperfections, and recognize the truly miraculous beauty that is every human body. We are all beautiful and unique and amazing just exactly the way…
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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…
