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How to Create YOUR Perfect Wardrobe: Part 2

Part 1 of this series is here, if you didn’t read it yet. Go ahead. We’ll wait. Part 2 is the more fun part, to be sure. It’s the Planning & Purchasing phase. So I’m going to assume you’ve completed Part 1, and your wardrobe now contains only things you love to wear,

Dressing for A Chilly Spring Day

Me: It’s spring! Winter: I’M NOT DEAD YET! (<- name that reference) After this warm, sunburn-inducing weekend, today we were back to chilly temps. I wanted to wear my cute new Loft top…but it was a bit chilly for short sleeves, so I added the cream cardigan. I ended up with sort

Week in Review: Week 219

Monday Mondays seem to be the “just right-est” days of the week, somehow. Like last week, there was just enough work to do to fill the day without feeling pressured or rushed. I give this day a 3.75/5. That’s pretty good for a workday! I thought I was going to get outside

Work from Home Wardrobe ~ May 11-15, 2020

MONDAY In my ongoing effort to wear “the things I never wear,” I pulled this striped Old Navy tee dress out of a tub of TINW. I’ve had it four years and it has shrunk a bit so it’s just a little snugger around my mid-section than I normally like, but…I’ve been

How to Create YOUR Perfect Wardrobe: Part 1

Reader Linda inspired me to take a look at my old posts on creating a wardrobe that works for you. So I wanted to put together a new tutorial on creating a wardrobe that is perfect for you: how to know what to keep and what to let go of; and how to create a

Style Session: Button Down Shirts

I like doing these style sessions. If there are any particular items you’d like to see styled multiple ways, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. Today is button-down shirts…specifically white button-down shirts. I think that is a timeless piece of clothing that can be dressed up or down,

Week in Review: Week 218

MONDAY The world is suddenly green. Not a bad day. I like a workday where you have just enough work to stay busy all day, without feeling pressured or having to rush. I don’t understand how there is still no Charmin. I feel like it’s been long enough that the early hoarders

Work from Home Wardrobe ~ May 4-8

MONDAY I knew I wasn’t planning to go anywhere today but I did have an online meeting first thing in the morning and it was supposed to be warm. Figured The Nightgown Dress was the next best thing to nightgown. This is one of two nightgown dresses I have – both light blue,

Where Bloggers Live: Behind the Scenes of My Workspace

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? Over the next few months, a group of seven bloggers will be sharing their workspaces, their homes, towns and more! Make

Week in Review: Week 217

MONDAY The Long, Long Workday. TUESDAY Today was A Big Day. I drove eight miles to KFC for a big bucket of chicken to last me all week. Woohoo. WEDNESDAY The second work was over today I got AWAY from the computer. I did some “art-ish” things. I just felt compelled to

Ageless Style: Mother’s Day

Welcome to this month’s Ageless Style linkup where each month, ten different women share their sense of style. Thanks to Amy from Amy’s Creative Pursuits for this month’s theme of Mother’s Day. While we’re still practicing social distancing we may not be able to be with loved ones for Mother’s Day. But

Work From Home Wardrobe ~ April 27-May 1

MONDAY Oops. Forgot to take a picture. TUESDAY This was the one nice day of the week and I ventured out into the world in search of fried chicken. Don’t love this top or this cardigan, but they’re here so I wore them. Ha. I don’t actually dislike the cardigan but it’s sort

What I Bought in April

Hello, Happy May. With shipping going as slowly as it is, I’m only sharing things I’ve actually received at this point. I can’t review the things I haven’t received yet or let you know what I’ve kept or returned. So, I’ll share those purchases with you next month after I’ve received them.

Style Session: Pattern Mixing

Happy Wednesday! Ooh, look at me all perky! I actually got OUTSIDE this afternoon and it was a beautiful day. I guess I needed a little of that. Or, to be more honest, my joy is probably mostly brought on by the fact that I got a big ‘ol tub of chicken from

Match Made in Seven: All Dressed Up With No Place to Go

Welcome to the monthly edition of Match Made in Seven! We are an international group of fashion bloggers who meet virtually once a month. One of us chooses a theme each month, and that can be anything: a book, music, a color, a movie. And then we all style an outfit based

Week in Review: Week 216

MONDAY Janey is always ready for the next zoom call. This is a fun app on Google Arts & Culture that takes your picture (or a picture you took of anything) and reproduces it as different styles of art. That’s me! TUESDAY This photographer Austin Paz on Instagram has some really beautiful

Work From Home Wardrobe ~ April 20-24

MONDAY Work from home Day 21. Thought I was going to run errands this afternoon so was going to come up some new outfit…then we were going to have a zoom meeting rightaway so I just threw something on the fast. Then, no zoom meeting and I talked myself out of erranding. It’s

Styling a Plus Size Leopard Dress Two Ways: for Office and Casual

Whee, I actually bought something new…and kept it!!!  I’ve been doing a LOT of returning this month…which is hard when I’m not working at school because I don’t have mail pick-up here at the apartment, so I have to take things to the post office, and I’m trying to only go out once

Old Dogs New Tricks

I’ve never believed in the adage that old dogs (or humans) can’t learn new tricks. I’ve had old dogs that learned new tricks! I’ve had dogs that only started learning tricks when they were old! And I love learning new things. From experience, I know that I suck at many of the new things


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