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Celebrating Love | February Stylish Monday
I wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day. Strangely, it is my least favorite of all the mainstream holidays. I am a self-diagnosed love junkie so it should be the opposite, don’t you think? I should adore all the corniness of romance that this holiday shoves down our throats. But I don’t. I think it’s because I celebrate love every day of my life. I wake up every morning overflowing with abundant love and I take a moment to be grateful for the amazing gifts in my life. And because of those amazing gifts, I don’t really like to receive other gifts for occasions such as these. I am constantly…
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Getting Ready for a Road Trip & Link Up On the Edge #282
You see all this snow? It’s pretty in the pictures, isn’t it? Well, in the reality, it’s really a huge pain in the arse. And I am not sure that there is any beauty worth the hassle of all this freaking snow. So I have granted myself a short reprieve from the mountains of snow and I am heading to the mountains of North Carolina instead. In just eleven days, I will packing up my little Toyota Corolla for its final road trip before trading it in for an SUV. With festival season coming, we need a larger vehicle for the family camping trips that we are planning. My first…
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SIA Gallery of Style | Sunday Morning by Norman Rockwell
I am so excited to share my first Gallery of Style for Style Imitating Art! I am also super grateful to all of the fabulous humans who played along and made me feel so very welcomed as the newest co-host for this inspiring series. 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…
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Three ’70s Trends Made Modern & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #261
I have jumped on the ’70s trend wagon feet first with three different vintage fashions made modern by combining them into one cool contemporary look that is suitable for 2022. Actually, I hadn’t initially realized that I had combined three different fashion trends from the 1970s. I really just wanted to share this gorgeous plaid poncho that my mother-in-law gifted to me at Christmas. I suppose ponchos are so classically timeless at this point that it is easy forget the history of this ancient garment that went from a practical necessity to a statement-making fashion trend that has remained in style for over 50 years. Trend #1: The Poncho The…
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Style Imitating Art: Sunday Morning by Norman Rockwell
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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Move Over Fab 40’s, It’s Time for a New Style Game & Link Up On the Edge #281
“The time has come. The time is now. Marvin K. Mooney will you please go now?” Dr. Seuss Is anyone familiar with that book? Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! by Dr. Seuss? It is one of my childhood favorites. My father used to read it to me in the dentist’s office when I was young. I had terrible anxiety about going to the dentist. We would sit in the cold unwelcoming waiting room and my father would read the whole book, really loudly in a silly voice until I was in fits of laughter and had forgotten all about my dental anxiety. I don’t think we ever…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Winter Layers & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #260
Coming out of the holiday season, Nancy and I decided to share New Things for the New Year, but now that winter in the northern hemisphere has put many of us in a deep freeze, Winter Layers seemed to be an appropriate theme. So for this month’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book, we are looking for your favorite layered up cold weather outfits. Or maybe you have a layered winter outfit that was a total fail but worth sharing anyway. This is all for fun anyway! What is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book? It is a monthly series that Nancy and I both publish on our blogs on the 15th of each month. Anyone who…
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Another Fall Flashback Outfit: Tie Dye with an Oversized Sweater & Link Up On the Edge #280
Last Friday, I shared a fall flashback outfit because I have been too lazy and too cold to take new photos recently. And since my freezing cold laziness stuck around for another week, I am sharing another fall flashback outfit today. Last week’s tie dye and denim outfit was way cuter and much more flattering than my oversized sweater and tie dye outfit this week. Generally I can put together outfits that are both comfortable and stylish. But sometimes I am fine with just the comfortable part. Regardless of my not so flattering oversized outfit, I do love the way the colors worked with the autumn river background. Fall is…
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The Magnificent 8 are Putting Pins on Things
The Magnificent 8 is back sharing with you some unique and interesting ways to style brooches or pins. If you know me at all, then you know that I have small collections of all sorts of different fashion items…shoes, kimonos, hats, gloves, tights, socks, coats, jeans, scarves, and many more. So it should come as no surprise when I tell you that I also have a small collection of brooches that I have acquired throughout the years. Some are vintage and antique, some are heirlooms, some were thrifted, some were gifted, and some were bought at retail stores most likely on clearance. But all of them have a special place…
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Style Imitating Art: Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (1633-34) by Rembrandt & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #259
About Style Imitating Art Guess who is the new co-host for Style Imitating Art?! That would be this girl! I am so excited to join Salazar and Terri for this fun and inspiring series. I have been participating with them for the last year and when Salazar was looking for a new co-host, I volunteered faster than you can say Style Imitating Art! You can see all of my outfits for this series on my Style Imitating Art page. 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…
