Outfits of the Day #ootd
I love to put together outfits. I find something calming and exciting in the process. And if I think I look good, I tend to feel great! Hopefully, you can find some inspiration here for feeling amazing in your own body.
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The Thrifty Six are Hot to Trot
You know that I live in a place where rock salt freezes in the winter, right? In my part of the country, we get some seriously extreme cold and very long winters with feet upon feet of snow. It is sort of like living inside a snow globe sometimes. And summers are mild and short with very few days that we even need to turn on the air conditioning. You might not know that Jodie lives in a climate that is the polar opposite. She gets extremely hot and terribly long summers with short and mild winters that produce little, if any, snow. I am in the northeastern part of…
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Appreciate Your Feet & Your Own Twist Link Up #59
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Leonardo da Vinci Today is Appreciate Your Feet Day! Leo wasn’t lying. Our stair steppers are truly masterpieces of both engineering and art. The older I get, the more I do appreciate how my ground grippers have served me for 49 years and counting. When I was younger, I absolutely hated that my concrete caressers were the size of big flapping flippers. But it didn’t take me very long to realize the benefit of large-scale sidewalk stompers over small or average sized ones. Benefit one is that my floor flappers really are the size of fish flippers…
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Style Imitating Art: Interior with a Book by Richard Diebenkorn
About Style Imitating Art Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Terri of MeadowTree Style, and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as curator, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the curator by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the curator will share all of the submissions on her blog. You…
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Style Imitating Art: “Race for the Moon” by Susan Musgrove
About Style Imitating Art Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Terri of MeadowTree Style, and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as curator, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the curator by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the curator will share all of the submissions on her blog. You…
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Songful Style Link Party #18 | “Freak Flag” by Here Come the Mummies
About Songful Style Songful Style is an ageless style challenge series hosted by Suzy of The Grey Brunette, Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge, and Marsha of Marsha in the Middle. For this series, each month we will share a song with the lyrics and video and we invite you to use whatever aspect of the song that inspires you to create an outfit. It is similar to Style Imitating Art where we use artwork to inspire our outfit creations. Except Songful Style gives you lyrics, music, video, and album artwork to inspire your fashion creativity. You may even find inspiration in a memory triggered by the selected song. It is all open to your own…
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Weekend in the Woods & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up On the Edge #662
We spent last weekend at a cabin in the woods in the Pennsylvania wilds. It is becoming an annual summer getaway where we unplug and spend some time communing with nature and each other. Potter County, Pennsylvania, is a rural county with approximately 16,000 residents living within its 1,082 square mile (2,800 km2) area. To give you some perspective of how rural this place is, my town of Watertown, New York, has about 26,000 residents living within its 9.3 square mile (24 km2) area, and our entire county (Jefferson), which is also considered quite rural, has 116,000 people occupying 1,857 square miles (4,810 km2). New York City is home to 8.8 million residents…
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The Magnificent 8: In It for the Long Haul
Today’s post marks the 5th anniversary of this lovely collaboration of 8 magnificently stylish women, who have become my dear friends in fashion over this past half decade. Since 5 years is kind of a long time in the fickle world of fashion, we have chosen our quarterly theme to reflect the lengths we reach to keep this sassy alliance going. Cheers to us because we are in it for the long haul! The Magnificent 8 is a collaboration among 8 stylish women, each in a different age bracket, ranging from 20’s to 80’s. The mission of this collaboration is to show you just how ageless style is, how we can…
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The Cowgirl in Me & Your Own Twist Link Up #58
“Cowgirl is an attitude, really; a pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights and make no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she’s just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.” Dale Evans, American actress, singer, songwriter, and cowgirl Well, if that is the definition of a cowgirl, then I am most certainly that! Nearly five years ago…
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Style Imitating Art: Still Life by Kristy Goggio
About Style Imitating Art Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Terri of Meadow Tree Style, and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as presenter, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the presenter by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the presenter will share all of the submissions on her blog.…
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The Thrifty Six: Inspired by Frida Kahlo
Emma chose this month’s thrifty theme…Inspired by Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known for her colorful self portraits and paintings depicting her experience with chronic pain. I cannot remember when I first learned about Frida and her impact on the art world. It was probably in some introduction to art history class some time during my schooling days. Maybe in middle school, high school, or even college. I do remember taking art and art history classes at each of those educational levels. My suspicion is that I learned about Frida earlier than college because it is knowledge that I have had for so long that I assumed it was common…
