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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Easing the Overwhelm with Smaller Lists & Link Up On the Edge #217
Recently, I have been feeling so stressed and anxious over the silliest things. Like leaving my house, going to the doctor, going to the store, making sure the kids are getting all of their virtual work done on time, and staying on top of my endless list of things to do. I have always been a list maker. I love lists. I live by lists. Lists keep me organized. I write down all the things that need to be done and slowly cross them off the list. If I don’t put something on the list, it likely won’t get done because my memory is shit lately, too. The problem with…
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The Magnificent 8 Put On Our Pearls
“Pearls are always appropriate.” Jackie Kennedy I tend to agree with Mrs. Kennedy. I have had a love affair with pearls for as long as I can remember. And I cannot think of an occasion where pearls would be inappropriate. I wear them with everything from formal gowns to ripped jeans and graphic tees. I like them in small doses and I love them in overabundance. Loads and loads of pearls cascading around my neck make me feel so feminine and bold, like I can conquer the world in ways that only the fiercest women can. When the Magnificent 8 chose Pearls as our theme for this month, I was…
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“To Thine Own Self Be True” & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #194
“To thine own self be true.” William Shakespeare Dee of Grammy’s Grid recently shared a post discussing the meaning behind this age old adage. In fact, that post was the most clicked from last week’s link party and is featured below. Her analysis of this quote as well as how its meaning has evolved over the past 400 years inspired me to dive a little deeper into this topic from my own personal perspective. But before I do, click over and give Dee’s post a quick read. She poses a few questions to contemplate on a personal level. These are Dee’s questions verbatim and I am going to do my…
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The Fab 40’s: Cold Hearted Snake or Perhaps Just Poly?
When Daenel first presented this month’s theme, Cold Hearted Snake, the first thing that happened was Paula Abdul started singing in my head. And now she won’t stop. While I never could proclaim that I was an avid Paula Abdul fan, I do hold her in the highest esteem for her amazing talents and her fabulous style. I really should have recreated Ms. Abdul’s outfit from the official Cold Hearted video (circa 1989). It is still completely and magnificently in style three decades later. In any event, my mind went immediately to snakeskin prints and black leather with a nice large serving of badassery to go with it. Staying in…
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Adventures in Thrifting Part 2: Teal Tie Dye Top & Link Up on the Edge #216
It has been a month since I shared my Adventures in Thrifting Part 1 where I featured a sky blue denim jumper. Although I am almost always wearing something preloved, I wanted to start putting more focus on the importance and the fun of shopping for preloved items. With the fashion industry being the third largest contributor to landfill and other environmental pollution, there is no better time than the present to start making changes in our consumption habits to minimize the damage and make this planet a healthier place for our descendants. I have to admit that I still have lots of improvements to make in my own shopping…
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Styling My New Tomahawk Shades & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #193
I am a girl who wears glasses. All day. Every day. Complete with prescription lenses that also include a bifocal. Because my eyes are as old as me, they need a lot of help to do regular things these days. Like reading, watching television, working on my laptop, driving, and well, seeing. I have had poor vision since I was 8 years old donning the ugliest 1980’s eyeglass styles you can imagine. Today, at 46 years old, if I am not wearing my glasses, none of you even have a face from my perspective. You would all just be shapeless blurry blobs of faded colors. With vision as poor as…
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The Thrifty Six: “Check” Out Our Preloved Styles in Heritage Prints
My thrifty fashionista friends and I are back at it again with the second installment of our monthly collaboration sharing our preloved styles with you. We are a group of six international fashion and lifestyle bloggers and influencers called The Thrifty Six! We come from all over the world and span at least three different decades of life. We each have our own unique and individual style but share a passion for preloved clothing and second hand shopping. Our goal is to share a variety of ways to be stylish while doing a little something good for the environment. With the fashion and textile industry being a major contributor to landfills…
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Halloween Costumes Again & Your Own Twist Link Up #25
Monica and I are back for the third year in a row with our Halloween costumes for Your Own Twist. We kicked off this fun little monthly collaboration in October of 2018 with our Fashion Icon Halloween costumes. Last year, we both styled outfits around our giant unicorn heads and this year we decided to keep it a bit simpler and we each donned colorful wigs and cosplay inspired outfits. Your Own Twist is a link up collaboration between me and Monica of Jersey Girl, Texan Heart. On the third Thursday of every month, we will host the Your Own Twist Link Up with the goal of inspiring some of our fashionista friends out…
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It’s All Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #192
I have my last tee shirt from Bellelily to share just in time for some Halloween fun! Except the shirt has sold out now! Boo. But Bellelily has a huge inventory of some of the cutest statement tees I have seen in a long while. If Halloween isn’t really your thing, check out what they have for Thanksgiving and Christmas and every other holiday that may inspire you. Disclaimer: This tee shirt was provided to me for purposes of this blog post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It’s not Halloween quite yet and I have every intention of…
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The Stylish Monday Sweater Edit | October Link Up
I am back for the second time with the fabulous ladies of Stylish Monday. Stylish Monday is a monthly series published in collaboration with a group of international fashion and lifestyle bloggers. It is another opportunity to be creative with our personal style as we join together each month with a style prompt or theme. The style prompt for October was Sweater Edit. Being a writer and taking things literally, I had to consider the word edit before proceeding. Edit means simply to correct or change. So how does that apply to sweaters in October? I guess this is where we get creative. Not only in our sartorial interpretations of personal…
