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Where Bloggers Live: Sources of Inspiration

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 six bloggers share their workspaces, homes, towns, and more! This month’s theme is Sources of
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Style Session: Long Cardigans

Some people call them dusters or longline cardigans, but essentially they’re any cardigan that reaches the knee or lower. Now for someone like me, that’s most cardigans, ha ha. I’m a shorty short shorty…with short legs, to boot. So a long duster-length cardigan can overwhelm me, just like a too-long, too-full dress can.
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Week in Review: Week 253

Last week of 2020 and still trying to get myself back in line. Was I ever really “in line”? Ha ha. MONDAY I’m off work all this week – Thank Goodness. My brain is not good for anything right now. I was checking my steps from Saturday in the city and noticed
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Plus Size Workday Wardrobe ~ Dec 20-Jan 1

Where I share my daily plus size outfits…cuz we can all use a little inspiration sometimes! I’m not a fancy person, I’m just a regular human who has to wear clothes every day (like most of us, ha ha). SUNDAY 12.20.20 Starting on Sunday? Time is a social construct. I am not
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Merry Happy Everything

The One Where I Try to Catch up on All the Holidays! CHRISTMAS GIFTS At the risk of extreme cringiness, I want to thank you all for coming here, supporting, reading, sending emails, and being just a lovely family. I know, I KNOW…but really…that’s how it feels here to me. If something
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Week in Review: Week 252

This week is a whole lotta things: Christmas, last day of work before vacation, getting to see Katie, a day in the city. All good. MONDAY I had to do Christmas shopping ERRANDS. I am so not good at adulting. I missed so many days at school: adulting, dancing, rock-paper-scissors (to this
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Week in Review: Week 251

monday What a good day! I had a vacation day to use up…and so did a friend…so we were able to go into the city on a weeknight when it’s generally less crowded…AND it was raining AND indoor-dining just closed…so we were really able to get up close and personal with the
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Plus Size Workday Wardrobe ~ December 14-18

SUNDAY Whoop! Whoop! Exciting Bonus Day of Workday Wardrobe (ha ha, getting a little full of myself here). I had to photograph Sunday’s outfit for something else anyway so am including it. IF you’re on TikTok I’m starting to put a little content there now, including an outfit of the day. Friend
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Week in Review: Week 250

Week 250. Woohoo, I love hitting significant numbers. I really need a life. monday It was just the right amount of cold today – mid-40s. Just right for wearing an actual coat and being the perfect amount of warm. Worked in the office. Went to the pharmacy. Came home and jumped around.
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Plus Size Workday Wardrobe ~ Dec 7-11

monday An Ode to New Black Jeans Oh, new black jeans Why would you come here To this place This place of cat hair and carpet floof How could you be so cruel Blouse: Old Navy Striped No Peek Plus Size Stretch Shirt | 3x Sweater: Catherine Malandrino Cashmere Crewneck | 3x
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Where Bloggers Live: Company’s Coming!

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 six bloggers share their workspaces, homes, towns, and more! This month’s theme is “Company’s Coming”
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Black and Blue

“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let dead things go” ~ Anonymous It can be hard to let go of the loveliest time of year and let ourselves be dragged into the dreariest. But the world needs time to rest…hibernate…build up energy for spring growth. We
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Week in Review: Week 249

monday I JUMPED 16 JUMPS!!! Ha. Jumping rope. Well, really “skipping” rope. And 16 might sound like nothing, but for the past month I’ve been stuck on 5-6. It is HARD  for me to get this body up and off the ground. So I’m really happy with 16. Sixteen rope skips today.
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Plus Size Workday Wardrobe ~ Nov 30-Dec 4, 2020

MONDAY This is my “Thought I Was Working From Home But Got a Text from Co-Worker at 9am saying HEY WHERE ARE YOU” outfit of the day. When push comes to shove and I have to get ready hurriedly, I always go with comfort. Plus, it’s rainy and windy. There’s some hard-core
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What I Bought: November

I keep thinking about things I’d like but I never quite get around to shopping for them. Which is not a bad thing. November 2019 was like my largest $ shopping month ever and I’ve made it a point to be more controlled. Bed Skirt This was debuted (ha ha) in this
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The Beauty of a Simple Day

So much significance is put on holidays, anniversaries, etc…but to me, the nicest days are usually just simple days. When I look back at my life and remember the nicest moments they were not the biggest moments…or even moments that anyone else would even notice. I know I’ve mentioned here before how
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Week in Review: Week 248

MONDAY Day started rainy, ended up sunny. But it was too late. My hair was ruined. Ha ha I’m so vain. Seriously. I would rather be gifted with naturally sleek, swingy hair than with a slim body. I’m looking at earrings on Amazon. Here’s part of the description: “You can wear it
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Workday Wardrobe ~ Nov 23-27

MONDAY Ooh, Formula Redux! At long last, I am the preppy boy of my 1970’s dreams. Creating a look that appears unstudied and casual is as challenging as creating that perfect “no make-up” make-up look! It’s not just “put A over B over C.” There’s so much more to it. I think
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I Have Everything I Need

I hope everyone is having just the Thanksgiving they’d hoped for (under our unusual circumstances). Ever since Katie left home (sniff) my personal Thanksgiving tradition is that I don’t have to do anything with anybody…and over the years people have come to accept that and I get to have a lovely day
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Dressing Defensively for Thanksgiving

Ahh, Thanksgiving dinner is almost upon us. Literally. The gravy, the biscuits dripping with butter, the cranberry relish…the red wine. I don’t know about you, but…sometimes I feel I end up wearing more of my food than eating it. So, while deciding on an outfit for Thanksgiving dinner, consider wearing a small, busy print
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