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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!!!
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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
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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,
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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
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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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What I Bought in August

I feel like I couldn’t have bought that much in August, considering it was 5 minutes long, but… WHAT I KEPT AMAZON BASICS 2-PACK 6′ LIGHTNING IPHONE CHARGING CABLES If you’re not going name brand (eg, Apple), then Amazon Basics have been a good substitute for me in the past. Anyway, my charging
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Week in Review: Week 234

Funny story (well, not that funny), I did find Journal #2 the other day, and in skimming through it looking for the dates I wanted to confirm, I noticed several references to “week in review.” Clearly my entire life has been building up to this blog. Also, isn’t interesting how your memory can SO
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Workday Wardrobe ~ August 24-28

MONDAY Work from home day. Muggy. Lots of time spent on calls/zooms. Needed stress-free dressing. Those other dresses might look like nightgowns, but this dress feels like one. That was much appreciated today. And shoes that feel like slippers. Daywear that comes as close as possible to sleepwear without actually being sleepwear, is totally my jam
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Has Living Through Coronavirus Affected Your Style?

And I don’t just mean, did you only wear leggings or pajamas during lockdown? I mean, as you start interacting with the world again – do you feel the same about your clothing and style as you did before? Are you noticing any changes? This (surreal) time felt almost like a palette
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Week in Review: Week 233 aka The Most Pointless Blog Post Ever

MONDAY Back story: my camera lens cap has been missing for ages. It’s USUALLY missing, to be honest…with just brief moments of being found and put on the lens before it is lost again. Anyway, I shot video and pictures for Wednesday’s blog post and IGTV…and when I was editing the pictures
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