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5 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience is the degree to which can handle stressful life situations while remaining positive and upbeat. It does not mean you are unaffected by the stress or change; it just means you have handled similar situations before. Learning techniques for building emotional resilience can turn difficult circumstances into growth opportunities. The following five techniques may be useful for managing the next obstacle life places in your path. 1. Find your purpose. Those without a strong feeling of purpose are more likely to be rocked by certain challenging situations in life. When you are rooted in your passionate purpose, it provides a certain amount of stability when you encounter difficult…
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The Thrifty Six: The Long and Short of It
The long and short of it. It’s a phrase that I never use but when it came my turn to choose a theme for our next Thrifty Six style challenge, this 6 word string randomly kept popping into my head. I wasn’t even sure what it meant by definition, but it seemed great for a fashion prompt because it could be interpreted in so many different ways. What does it mean exactly? According to Merriam-Webster, it is a phrase we use “when making a statement that is brief and that tells someone only the most important parts of something.” It basically refers to giving the gist of something without sharing…
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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Sheer
Welcome to The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book! The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book is a monthly series hosted by Nancy of Nancy’s Fashion Style and myself. Every month, we invite you to share a photo or two of your Good (or Bad) Buy items that fit the stated theme. We ask that you also provide a short description explaining if the item you are sharing was a Good Buy or one that you will be saying Good-Bye to (formerly known as Bad Buys). Nancy and I will both publish a round up post featuring all of the submissions on the 15th of each month. Anyone who would like to participate and be featured can send us their photos…
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Style Imitating Art: “Breton Woman” by Kanae Yamamoto
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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Because I’m Here and I Can & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up On the Edge #650
Last weekend, I went to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, the new movie based on Judy Blume’s 1970 award winning coming of age novel. It was a fantastic movie that made me laugh, cry, and wax nostalgic. If you are a woman of a certain age who grew up in America, then you probably know this novel and would really enjoy this film. I do love a story that pushes the boundaries of appropriate and apparently discussing our periods and our boobs and sexual desires was and still is highly inappropriate in our puritanical world. A world that seems okay with violence but not at all okay…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Sheer
Spring weather has been teasing me lately with a few gorgeous days sprinkled in between all the cold, dreary rain. It seems like the perfect season for showcasing Sheer things. You may be wondering why the cold rainy spring weather is the perfect time for sheer things. Well, I guess you have to keep on wondering because I don’t have any idea. I merely said that because I didn’t know what else to write. Frankly, it is still too cold for me to wear sheer, but I have always loved the sassiness of sheer garments. The kind that allow you to tastefully show off your pretty underthings. I don’t understand…
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Date Night with the Dead & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up On the Edge #649
Jeff and I had a long overdue date night two weeks ago when the in-laws were here to visit for Easter and Spring Break. We took advantage of the overnight childcare and headed off to Funk ’n Waffles in Syracuse for their weekly Dead Night. We learned of this Monday night ritual when we went to see our dear friends of Fireside Collective perform at this venue a few months ago. It’s a really tiny, dark, and dingy bar that is attached to a waffle eatery with just a big black curtain separating the two sides. You are welcome to grab some waffles and eat them in the bar area…
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SIA Gallery of Style | Gypsy Vardos by Various Wagon Artists
Y’all know how I love putting together the Gallery of Style for Style Imitating Art. Although it is a very small gallery this time, the outfits that resulted all made me squeal with delight. And I need some delight this week for it started out like a stinky fish. Our beloved bunny George died suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday morning. We are all a little shaken and a lot sad. Rest in peace, El Gorgé (that was the children’s favorite nickname for George), you are missed. Okay, sad stuff done. Well, not really because I suspect I am going to be sad for a while. But enough of it here,…
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The Magnificent 8 are Blazing Through Spring
Oh my goodness, blazing through spring, indeed! When this group of eight magnificent ladies chose our quarterly style theme, we had enthusiastically settled on the punny title of Blazing Into Spring. But as I sat down to write this post, it occurred to me that we are already very much into spring at this point, with a third of the season already in the past. I think it may have still been winter when we chose our preposition. So I changed my preposition. Because we all have the right to whichever prepositions suit us! What better thing to wear for a style challenge called Blazing Through Spring than, yep, you…
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Songful Style Link Party #15 | “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper
About Songful Style Songful Style is an ageless style challenge series hosted by Suzy of The Grey Brunette, Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge, Marsha of Marsha in the Middle, and Michelle of Funky Fashion Style. 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…
