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Cleaning Up My Makeup Mess with Joligrace
People often say to me in real life and in blog comments, “I don’t know how you do it all with two young kids at home, running a blog with daily posting, managing social media, nurturing both virtual and real life relationships and friendships, and keeping your house in order.” Well, let me make this clear, I don’t do it all. My husband does a ton to keep the house in order. Much more than I do, in fact. If it weren’t for his efforts at home, our house would be completely overrun and buried in kid stuff! He does not, and will not, however, maintain my own personal mess!…
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My New Living Room Tree from Commercial Silk
I don’t know if any of you remember this post from January where I mentioned leaving my Christmas tree up with just the lights all year round and calling it my “living room tree” instead. I really liked the ambience created by the soft white tree lights in the early morning hours while I drank my coffee on the couch. But the tree was taking up quite a bit of room and as Spring started nearing and the sun was rising earlier, we eventually did take down the living room tree (some time in March, I think). But I had been wanting to add a small lighted topiary of some…
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Your Quick Guide to False Eyelashes, Makeover Winner & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #71
It’s that time to announce the winner of my Esqido Eyelashes with Makeover Giveaway. I want to thank everyone who entered! And a huge congratulations to the winner! I have sent you an email with the details for choosing your Esqido lashes and scheduling your makeover at The Marcy Spa and Salon. I also want to send a huge thank you to Esqido Lashes and Kaitlyn Blackmore at The Marcy Spa and Salon for sponsoring this giveaway! And now is a great time to share a quick guide for false eyelash application and caring for your lashes to get the maximum wear from them. After all, if you have invested…
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Happy Birthday, Sweet Ada & Thursday Moda Link Up
Today is a very special post to celebrate and honor my dear friend, Ada of Elegance and Mommyhood. For this is her 38th Birthday and the 6th Birthday Celebration on her blog where she invites her closest fashion loving blogger friends to join in her a huge collaboration. This year there are 24 of us posting on our blogs over two days to show our support, our love, and our gratitude for Ada and for all that she does within this blogging community. “Every year that I have been blogging, since I became a mom, I thought it would be fun to have a Blog Birthday Party on my blog,…
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Esqido Lashes with Makeover Giveaway & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #70
I am back from my mini vacation in Lake Placid! We took a lot of photos, drank too much alcohol, ate way too much really amazing food, stayed up until the wee morning hours, and had more fun than we could have even anticipated. I am mentally and emotionally recharged, but physically quite tired from all the fun! Isn’t that a great problem to have? I am still organizing photos and thoughts and all that stuff, so you will have to wait for more on my girls’ weekend getaway. Coming soon… *This is a sponsored post. The lashes were provided to me for review by Esqido Lashes and the makeover…
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On Beneficence & Link Up On the Edge #88
Many of you may already know that my website was hacked this week which resulted in my having to pull the entire site offline until the issue was resolved. Clearly, it has been resolved and I am back up and running as if nothing had ever happened. Except I probably have a few more gray hairs and I may have lost a few pounds from lack of food consumption during the incredibly stressful past few days. I want to properly thank all of the people who were involved in fixing the problem, but I am going to save that for my Tuesday #SpreadTheKindness Link Up…because it is a perfectly suited topic…
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A Touch of the Macabre & A Pink Velvet Dress
I have a funny story about the styling of this dress. Although it was not really that funny at the time when it actually happened. But it is kind of funny now. In a grim sense of the word. Dark humor. Grotesquely funny. So bear with me as it may get a little gruesome. And just laugh along knowing that I am completely fine. *This is a sponsored post. I was provided this dress and these boots for purposes of a blog post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. *Dress: Plus Sized Crushed Velvet Dress c/o Zaful. I was asked to choose a few items from Zaful…
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How to Style a Spring Dress in the Bitter Cold & Link Up On the Edge #87
This is my final post for my collaboration with EvaTrends and I have been waiting to share this dress because it has just been too darn cold to photograph a lightweight Spring dress. But it had to be done. So I put it on, layered it up, snapped some photos, and nearly froze to death. *This is a sponsored post. This dress was provided to me for purposes of this blog post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. *Dress: Swan Print A-Line Dress c/o EvaTrends. The dress is super cute and flowy and will be perfect for a warm day due to its loose fit and…
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Inspired by Not Dead Yet Style & Link Up On the Edge #85
So I got this dress from EvaTrends and when I first put it on, I did not look like the model in the product images. Not even close. In reality, I suppose I did not actually expect that I would look anything like the model but I guess I was just kind of hoping I would be so cute. I wasn’t. So I took it off and hung it at the front of my closet waiting for inspiration to hit. *This is a sponsored post. This dress was provided to me for purposes of this blog post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. Knowing that I…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day with a Link Up
Happy International Women’s Day! Today, I am joining Miri of Currently Wearing and Sherry of The Life of the Party to celebrate and honor women around the world. Miri reached out to me a while back asking if I would join her today for this very special and important post and I was more than happy to accept her invitation. Be sure to stop by and visit both Miri and Sherry today and read how they are celebrating International Women’s Day and what it means to them. For me, I am celebrating by wearing purple, the official color worn to celebrate and honor women worldwide. And it is the perfect…