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How We Style Coastal Chic | June Stylish Monday Link Up
Coastal Chic is a recent style trend making headlines under the name of Coastal Grandmother. It has elements of breezy dresses, straw accessories, and lightweight linens and cottons in neutral shades with the occasional splashes of bright pastels like blue, pink, and yellow. The trend brings to mind chic fashion icons such as Diane Keaton and Martha Stewart in their effortlessly comfortable styles that are timelessly classic and far from an actual trend that has an expiration date. There is no expiration date on timeless style just as there is no expiration date on personal style. We get to be cool, sophisticated, and stylish well into our grandmother years and…
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What We Wear Underneath It All | May Stylish Monday Link Up
As indicated by the title, the theme for this month’s Stylish Monday link party is What We Wear Underneath It All. We were able to choose whatever angle we wanted for this theme. Since I am no stranger to writing underwear reviews or sharing pictures of myself in my underwear, I was happy to share my newest discovery in the world of undergarments. If you are interested, you can read some of my other underwear posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. That’s a lot of heres which means a lot of underwear posts. But I do wear underwear every day so why not share them?…
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Spring Trends | April Stylish Monday Link Up
Fashion trends change as quickly as the seasons do. Except where I live, the trends change much faster than the seasons. Yes, we are still experiencing winter weather as we begin our Spring Break. And Spring Break is the time to start showcasing your favorite spring fashion trends. It was snowing yesterday but we are expecting a high today of 60˚F (15.5˚C). That’s a big jump from the sub-freezing temperatures I woke up to this morning. Once again, I am curled up in my fleece leggings and a sweatshirt with a giant blanket scarf wrapped around my shoulders to stay warm because heat is expensive with these crazy gas prices.…
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Denim for Days | March Stylish Monday Link Up
“You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It’s what you make of it, you know?” – Phillip Lim It seems like the world of denim has gone completely crazy with an endless amount of styles to suit everyone’s aesthetic and needs. I have gone through many phases of denim love and sometimes hate over the years. There was a time during my grade school years and a time in my 20s when I didn’t own a single pair of jeans. Over the last five years, however, I have become a bit of denim collector. I do believe that I own every style of denim (skinnies, flares, cropped, boyfriend,…
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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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How We Style Cozy Knits | January Stylish Monday Link Up
With the holidays in the rear view mirror, we have retired our Festive Outfits with a few more months of winter straight ahead that will require us to keep warm and stylish. And nothing keeps me quite as warm as cozy knits. I find knit fabrics much more comfortable than woven ones so I generally exist in head to toe knitwear of some sort…unless I wear jeans. But I only wear those when I leave the house, which is not often these days. I have actually turned into that mom that I swore I never would…I drive my kids to school in my pajamas. There I said it. And I…
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Festive Outfits | December Stylish Monday Link Up
They told me to be festive and I think I heard them say be silly. And somehow I landed in a place that is festively silly, joyfully jubilant, colorfully bold, and ridiculously bouncy. Y’all, I am telling the truth. This outfit literally made me bounce all day…in the way that Tigger does. “Tiggers don’t jump, they bounce!” Tigger, Winnie the Pooh The double pom poms on my head bounced when I bounced, too, and that’s a really fun kind of bounciness that Tigger would appreciate because… “Bouncing is what Tiggers do best!” Tigger, ‘What Tiggers Do Best’ While this outfit really has nothing at all to do with Tigger or…
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Faux Real Looks in Leather and Suede | November Stylish Monday Link Up
We live in a world that always reminds us to be genuine and authentic, but there is a price to pay for true authenticity. It’s hard work to maintain cohesion between our true selves and the selves that we present outwardly to the world. Most of us hide huge portions of ourselves from the judging eyes of society, always afraid that if our true selves were found out we might be criticized or even disliked. While there is no required financial investment for living a true and authentic existence, the price is paid in a heightened state of introspection and self work to ensure that what you see is really…
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All About Shackets | October Stylish Monday Link Up
The shacket is one of the newest hybrid terms in fashion right now. A combination of a shirt and a jacket in a culture where we have become too lazy to pronounce full words. I started wearing oversized flannel shirts as jackets back in the 1990’s at the height of the grunge era in music and fashion. I don’t think we were as apathetic 30 years ago as we are now and so we had no problems referring to our wardrobe pieces using full untruncated words and phrases. While shortening phrases into hybrid terms for ease might be a silly notion, newly formed words often find their way straight into…
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Workin’ for the Weekend | September Stylish Monday Link Up
The past month has literally flown by so quickly that my head is spinning. For this Stylish Monday group of fabulously fashionable women, we went from Back to Work styles in August to Workin’ for the Weekend in September. It really does sometimes feel like the work never ends regardless of the day of the week. As a blogger, a lot of my behind the scenes work happens on the weekends. It is the easiest time to coordinate with my husband/photographer and so my weekends are generally occupied with changing outfits and taking and editing photos. On a weekend with good weather, we will sometimes photograph 6-7 outfits so my…