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Workday Wardrobe ~ Sep 28-Oct 2

Hahaha when I just put all the pictures in here I realized I’m looking down in every single one. IT WAS JUST ONE-A THOSE WEEKS! Plus, Monday was a holiday and I’m not sure I ever got dressed or left the building. Tuesday Work from home day. Obvi. There was a zoom

What I Bought in September

I bought a couple “things” – a new small non-stick pan for eggs and a glass baking dish cuz mine is still lost in a box somewhere. These were both in-person purchases at the Corning Outlet when we went upstate in the beginning of the month, so no pictures. And I bought

Making Your Fall/Winter Shopping Lists

It’s that time again! The new season’s weather is starting to take hold and most of your summer clothes have been pulled from your closet already. Now is the time to go through your closet, item by item, thinking about the outfits you do, or would like to, create with that item.

Style Session: How to Wear Plus Size White Jeans for Fall

Next to “fat ladies shouldn’t wear horizontal stripes,” I think “don’t wear white after Labor Day” is my favorite fashion rule to break. And I know I’ve said here before that I think I actually prefer white jeans in fall and winter because of the contrast between them and the rich, spicy colors

Week in Review: Week 238

MONDAY Monday. Nuff said. TUESDAY Worked from home. Left the apartment the second I punched out at the end of the day and went for a walk in a nearby preserve. Felt good to just be outside and moving. WEDNESDAY Yay! PA straightened out the welbutrin prescription! Thanks, Rita! Was 80 degrees today

Workday Wardrobe ~ September 21-25

Apologies for this week’s pictures…I was trying a couple different things. Obviously, none of these worked out  🙁 MONDAY Pulled this dress back off the sell pile, ha ha. I’ll wear it a couple of times this fall – it’s best season – and then it’ll go. I don’t know what I

Making a Favorite Summer Dress Work for Fall

IT’S FALL Y’ALL! Sorry, I hadda do it. I don’t have a favorite season. I love the start of every season; when the weather changes and you get some relief from whatever has been going on for the past three months. New activities begin, your wardrobe changes, everything seems fresh and new.

A One Year Look Back at The Great Sugar Detox of 2019

It’s been a year since September 2019 when we did The Great Sugar Detox,  a two-week expedition into the world of NO SUGAR. I say “we” because some readers joined me in this adventure. We had an email group and supported one another, sharing challenges and successes, what we were eating, as

Week in Review: Week 237

MONDAY Worked from home. So did Janey. TUESDAY Worked at work. Good news, we’re allowed out of the building at lunch, yahoo! Went to the doctor after work just for blood work, he wanted to check my Vitamin D levels, blah blah blah, and I needed a prescription for the MRI my

Managing Your Wardrobe: Seasonal Switch-out & Organizing

(I know, a post on Sunday is weird…this was supposed to go up Friday and for some reason, it just did not. It said “missed schedule,” whatever that means. Grr.) It’s that time again! Time to take stock of your wardrobe, make some decisions about the items you’re not wearing, and decide

Workday Wardrobe ~ September 13-18

Where has the time gone? Where has my birthday gone? MONDAY Monochrome day. Worked from home so open toes were allowed. Sweater: Ellos cashmere, size 3x. Sold out. Comparable here and here. Pants: Old Navy, size 24 short Slides: Birkenstock Madrid Hex Sandal in cognac TUESDAY Look! I’m dressing like fall and

The Best (and Easiest!) Coffee Milkshake

I have bragged about making THE BEST coffee milkshake and I was actually surprised by how many people responded that they’d never HAD a coffee milkshake – even coffee LOVERS! Way back when, when I first discovered my love of coffee (and that was not really until my late 20s when places

The Best Laid Plans/Dipping a Toe into Fall Dressing

I feel like surely I already have a post titled “The Best Laid Plans.” If not three. I’d been thinking about this outfit for awhile. In theory, I love the combination of leopard, blue chambray, and olive green. But it wasn’t all quite working out for me. I should have buttoned the

Week in Review: Week 236

monday: LABOR DAY Last day of vacation so I intentionally did not give myself any obligations. I slept late, had an egg sandwich from the deli, did some online shopping, finished up a few blogs and some client photos and was in bed by 10pm for the first day back to work

Workday Wardrobe ~ September 7-11, 2020

monday Oops. tuesday I worked from home then went for a walk in a nearby preserve and bought tomatoes at the farm stand on the way home. Doesn’t that sound like a wholesome day?? Tee: Amazon Daily Ritual Swing Tee, 4x Leggings: Catherine’s, size 3x Sneakers: Adidas Cloudfoam, old wednesday I’m still getting

Where Bloggers Live: Closet Tour

  Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes? Every month a group of seven bloggers share their workspaces, homes, towns, and more! This month’s theme is the clothes closet!!!

The Enchanted Forest: A Modern Fable

Remember the enchanted forest from Watkins Glen? The dew on the grass and the morning mist? Twittering bluebirds and frolicking chipmunks? Uhm. It was really more of a dry gravel basin. But…we tried to make the best of it…and found some pretty light and some framing leaves. Sometimes you have to be

Week in Review: Week 235

Warning: so many pictures MONDAY Got up early early to shoot in The Enchanted Forest. Not as enchanted as I had been led to believe, but whatever. Had breakfast in the lodge then packed up and headed to the day’s main event, Watkins Glen. For years I have heard of Watkins Glen,

AGELESS STYLE: Dressing For Your Body Type

Welcome to this month’s Ageless Style linkup where each month, ten women share their sense of style.  This month Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots selected the theme: Dressing For Your Body Type. If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that, to me, “dressing for your

This Is What 60 Looks Like

Today, September 5, 2020, I turn 60. SIXTY. Since probably my 30s, every time I was approaching a big decade marker (40, 50) I thought, “I want to be the best I’ve ever been by the time I turn ___.” And then I always felt like a failure when I hit that


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