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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How Nature Can Teach Us Resilience
Have you ever really considered the power that exists within the tiniest and most delicate things in nature? A seed, for example, any seed really, so small and easily moved by just the gentlest of winds, holds within it life itself. From the tiniest seeds grow the most beautiful things in nature. Plants, trees, flowers, and even weeds. Within each tiny seed lies everything that is needed to produce new life. *This is a sponsored post. This shirt was provided to me for purposes of this post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. *Shirt: Plus Size Sheer Embroidery Long Sleeve T-Shirt c/o Rosegal. Unfortunately, this top…
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The Wedding Weekend & Link Up On the Edge #96
Last weekend, we celebrated my brother-in-law’s wedding in Pennsylvania. It was a long, hot weekend, but we had a fantastic time. Both kids were in the wedding and I was completely dying over them in their tuxedos. It’s moments like these when the little devils are just too cute for me to even get all that mad at them! I am just going to flood this post now with photos from the weekend! If you have a wedding coming soon, especially if you are the mother of the bride or groom, check out FamilyHype for some great tips on choosing what to wear. Friday: The Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner Saturday:…
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I Scream, You Scream, It’s Oogie’s Ice Cream & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #74
With Memorial Day in the United States being the unofficial start of summer, there’s no better time than now to share a post about ice cream! After all, who doesn’t love ice cream? And who doesn’t get all the nostalgic feelings of childhood rush in upon them when you hear the ice cream truck rolling down the street? For me and my sister, the nostalgia runs deep. When we were kids, my father had ice cream trucks in the summer to earn some extra cash. My older sister, Lori, who was 16 at the time, was sent out on her own truck back then and would sometimes take me along…
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I Ditched My Bra & Link Up On the Edge #95
I have to apologize if you are feeling bombarded by all of my Ruby Ribbon posts lately, but ever since I shared my review of their camisoles, I have been wanting to show you how well they wear under your clothing. In these photos, I am wearing the Lace Full Support Cami in Deep Sea instead of a bra. Yep, I am officially braless in these photos! *This is not a sponsored post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. I also have the Sheer Full Support Cami in Black that I have styled another outfit that I will be sharing with you soon. Both camisoles offer…
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When You Realize Your Strength is a Weakness
When you possess a quality inherent in your personality that has been viewed by many as a strength for your entire life and you wake up one day and realize that is was an extraordinary weakness that has broken your entire sense of reality, it can rattle you right to your core. This is what I have been dealing with this past week and the reason I have been quite absent from my blog and social media. It takes a lot of internal processing to figure out what exactly to do with it all. I had to bring into question my entire sense of self and a large part of…
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Floundering Through Life & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #72
I have been floundering through life lately. For months now. And I have been trying to put my finger on the reason. It is a bit out of character for me to be so discombobulated. So I did a lot of soul searching the past few days. I was about to take a nice long blogging break but then decided that my blog is my outlet for processing the things that weigh heavy on my soul. So no break for me. Except a short one next weekend for my brother-in-law’s wedding. I had every intention of sharing a true #SpreadTheKindness post about my dear friend Carol Tsacoyeanes and her inspiring…
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Lake Placid Travel Day & Link Up On the Edge #94
Life is really kicking my butt lately. Allergy season is upon us which seems to have gotten the best of me and my kids today. We are all coughing and sneezing and congested and ever so sleepy. So once again, I did not get my post written in a timely manner. And this bothers me some because I am a very timely person. But alas, my muse must be sleeping right now because the struggle is real trying to find the words I want to share. Maybe the allergies have got hold of her as well. Or maybe she is suffering with menopause like I am. I’m tired, my friends.…
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The Sunday Showcase: A Day Late & A History Lesson Short
When my very dear friend Ada of Elegance and Mommyhood asked me to join her and two of my other very dear blogging friends, Chrissy of Granola and Grace and Kellyann of This Blonde’s Shopping Bag, as their co-host once again for their monthly link up, The Sunday Showcase, I couldn’t really say no. These three women, after all, are some of my closest blogging friends in all of the blogging realm and I will support them any chance I get just as they all support me. *This is not a sponsored post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are entirely my own. But then I asked Ada, “Is there…
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Laughter, Luggage Carts & Link Up On the Edge #93
I dedicate this post to my fabulously creative, wonderfully quirky, brilliantly artistic, and fantastically goofy friend, Anne M. Bray of Spy Girl. Anne, I hope you appreciate how completely odd I really am. For those of you know me personally and probably many of you who know me virtually, you most likely already know that I can have fun just about anywhere at any time under nearly any circumstances. I could have fun in an empty room by myself…now don’t let your minds go all perverted with that idea…but well, you know, I will just leave that one alone. Moving on… One of my main philosophies of life is this:…
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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,…
