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Another Football ‘Fit with New Purple Boots & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #828
Fall has definitely arrived with the temperature drop being very obvious during evening football games. I’ve had to trade my Cyclones tee shirt poncho for leggings and a leather jacket, but I think that poncho will come in handy during swim season since it’s wicked hot inside natatoriums even on the coldest of winter days. But we are still in football season for one more week so I brought out my purple leather jacket from last year to wear to last week’s game. The jacket is the perfect purple completer piece to wear with my new Black Star mulberry and gold cowgirl boots. Yes, you read that right, I did…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Maxi Skirts & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #827
I feel like we skipped September and ended up in October too soon! It’s time for the next round of sharing our Good Buys and Good-Byes. This month we are inviting you to share your favorite (or least favorite) Maxi Skirts. Maxi skirts is just a fancy term for long skirts. However, the maxi length generally indicates that the hem falls below the middle of your calf. A long skirt that is calf length is usually referred to as a midi skirt. Then, of course, you have short skirts that hit just above the knee, mini skirts that usually hit about half way down your thigh, and micro mini skirts…
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School Spirit, the Shelbee Way & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #826
This is the third year since my kids got involved in school sports and I’ve been on a mission to find my own personal school spirit style. I have talked a bunch in previous posts about how I’ve been slowly curating my wardrobe to include more purple pieces that suit my personal aesthetic. I’m not a big fan of fan gear. But only because fan gear usually comes in casual athletic styles that I just don’t like to wear. For me personally, tee shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants are reserved for lounging at home, working out, or activities like painting, cleaning, and yard work. I otherwise don’t ever wear super casual…
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A Day in the Life of a Busy Stay at Home Mom & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #825
We are two weeks into the new school year and I feel quite like a chicken with its head cut off. Running around in a frenzy all the time, trying to keep the schedules of four people in order and get everyone where they need to be on time. Mom’s Uber service runs 24/7 it seems…however, Dad’s Uber service takes over after dark. My old eyes play wicked tricks on me in the darkness which makes me feel very unsafe if I have to drive by the illumination of headlights and street lamps. My younger child likes to quip that while he’s at school all I do is sit on…
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Restyled: Brown and White Split Legged Trousers & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #824
Although summer doesn’t officially end for 12 more days, it seems like September brings out all the fall feels long before the weather reflects it. I get in the mood for autumn clothing weeks before it gets cool enough to wear them. So this is the time of year when lightweight fabrics in fall colors really come in handy. You can create an outfit with an autumnal vibe but still remain cool in the heat of the late summer sun. If you stopped by last Friday, you might recognize the brown and white split legged trousers peeking from beneath my chocolate brown maxi dress. This outfit is sort of the…
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Something Old, Something New & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #823
But nothing borrowed and nothing blue. Just a whole bunch of brown and white. With school beginning yesterday, I thought today’s outfit share should feature some of my former school colors. I never really liked any of my school colors during the years I was in school, but now many of those color combinations appeal to me. My elementary school colors were blue and gold (aka yellow), my high school colors were black and gold (also yellow), my college colors were brown and white, and my graduate school colors were red and white. But these days, you can mostly find me donning purple and white…my kids’ school colors. Back in…
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East Coast Road Trip: New York to Florida & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #822
It took me all week but I finally sifted through the 700 plus photos I took during our 10 day east coast road trip. So this post will be loaded with pictures from 12 different states and Washington, D.C. including 5 war memorials, 3 museums, 3 giant trolls, and a wedding. We spent more time in some states while others we simply just passed through. As I was sorting through the photos, an immense sadness passed over me. Not because the trip was bad…it was an amazingly wonderful trip. I became sad because travel posts like this one are the very ones that my dear friend Patrick loved the most…
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Post-Vacation Recovery Mode & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #821
We just returned from our family road trip on Wednesday night and I’m in post-vacation recovery mode. I wanted to share all the details of our trip today but I just haven’t gotten around to sorting through all the photos in my camera roll. We drove 3,838 miles through 12 different states from northern New York to the Florida panhandle and back again. We were gone for 10 days and 9 nights, had wonderful reunions with 6 different friends along the way, and I took 704 photos. Yesterday was our first full day at home and I mowed 2 lawns, did 5 loads of laundry, washed some muddy shoes, and…
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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Maxi Dresses & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #820
I am sharing my link party a day early because we are away on vacation and I needed to lessen my workload this week. Let’s get straight to it…Maxis are where it’s at. Dresses or skirts, you shared some beautiful outfits with us this month. Thanks to everyone has joined us for this big dress up party! If you sent me a photo, but do not see it in my post, be sure to check Nancy’s post. If you don’t see your photo in either post, please let us know right away and we will add it. Sometimes the submissions get lost in the shuffle. The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book The Good…
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Adventures in Thrifting Part 31: The Third and Final (For Now) Jumpsuit & Spread the Kindness Link Up On the Edge #819
The past two Fridays, I have shared newly thrifted jumpsuits so I wanted to finish the weekly series with the third and final (for now) preloved jumpsuit. The first was an oversized white jumpsuit with a groovy floral pattern and the second was a cropped length solid black jumpsuit. And now this one…which I’ve named the cow-giraffe print jumpsuit. I know I had referred to the groovy floral print one as “the best jumpsuit ever” but this cow-giraffe print may have inched into the lead for my favorite. I love the neutral colors for a more earthy vibe and I find the unique abstract pattern to be rather eye-catching. So…
