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Product Review: Curology Skin Care

I’m not much of a “product” person. I don’t believe their claims. They’re expensive. They’re one (or nine) more thing(s) to do in a day. So I rarely buy anything new along those lines. But I was seeing several people online…oh, alright, What Kate Finds talked about it so glowingly that I
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One Dress, Two Transitional Pre-Spring Outfits, Three Times a Lady

I don’t know that I’ve ever struggled with outfits so much as with this winter to spring transition! And I think it’s probably this way every year – March  1 hits, we think SPRING!!! But March is NOT spring. Sometimes even SPRING isn’t spring. I remember 4 or 5 years back it
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Week in Review: Week 210

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2020 This is such a sweet photography story. Pictures, even just quick snapshots with a cell phone or point&shoot camera, can be so important. As memories, as inspiration, as history. TUESDAY, mARCH 10, 2020 I love books. I have always loved books. This is different than loving to read.
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Top Ten Things to Keep in A Go Bag

  What’s a Go Bag?? It’s a bag of necessities you keep packed and at the ready in case you gotta GO in a hurry! Go…to a hiding place. Go…out of the country. Go…to the hospital. I’m not a panic monger. My friend even told me how unusual it was to see
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Workday Wardrobe ~ March 9-13

MONDAY Today was warm enough (over 70) to wear a dress with bare legs (hallelujah) but at the last minute this morning I remembered there was something I was going to be photographing at work, which means being on my feet, maybe kneeling on the floor, so…the dress was out, boo. I
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Where Bloggers Live: NEW YORK

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
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What Inspires Me: Blogger Anna Newton of The Anna Edit

I’ve shared Anna Newton of The Anna Edit with you before, when I selected one of her outfits as a favorite blogger outfit of the month back in June 2018. Recently I was reading one of her blog posts about productivity and I stopped to admire her outfit and thought ooh, I
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Week in Review: Week 209

Monday I don’t like Mondays. I don’t care if Monday’s blue. Love is Blue. Blue, blue, my world is blue. That was my first “favorite song” and the first 45 record I ever owned. Paul Muriat? I’ve been kind of wanting a turntable again. Maybe once I end up wherever I end
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Weekday Wardrobe ~ March 2-6

MONDAY Temps were expected to go above 50 today…and the next few days will be rainy, so I wanted something a little lighter today. At this point almost all my cardigans are duster length…so I don’t wear them often in cold weather because they’re longer than all my winter coats. Not in
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What I Bought: February 2020

February was a weird month. I feel like I bought less. Yet more. Ha. The trip. That made the difference. Anyway, here are all my purchases – both what I kept and what I returned…and why. WHAT I BOUGHT AND KEPT Vanity Fair Women’s Beauty Back Full Figure Underwire Bra (76380) I
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Week in Review: Week 208

MONDAY, FEB 24 Last week of February. Back to a 5-day workweek. With people.  TUESDAY My mother gave me that little red new testament when I was young and still went to Sunday school (until my friend and I started ducking out and going to the nearby hardware store and buying goldfish
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Ageless Style Linkup: Spring Forward

Welcome to this month’s Ageless Style linkup where ten women share their sense of style.  This month Shelly from The Queen in Between suggested the theme Spring Forward for the group.   March is a tricky month. It SEEMS like it should be spring. It SEEMS like it should be getting warmer
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Workday Wardrobe ~ Feb 24-28

Okay, there are people in the building again so I guess I have to make an effort at dressing 🙂 (said like a true fashion blogger, ha ha). MONDAY It’s going to be pretty mild today so I opted for cropped jeans and flats. I couldn’t get myself out of bed when
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Plus Size Preppy

When I was in high school (mid-70s) the “look” I most coveted was the preppie look. Polo shirts, khakis, docksiders, a cardigan tied around my shoulders. I could never pull it off. I’m no longer sure what the reason was. Mother still dictating my wardrobe selection? Feeling like a phony cuz I
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Happy 4-Year Blogiversary to Fashion Schlub!

Oh gosh! Every Year something is happening and I barely notice the passing of my blogiversary. Maybe it was a mistake to do my first blog post in the middle of February right around Presidents Week! My first anniversary I was stranded in Maine snow on a work trip, the second I
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Week in Review: Weeks 206-207

Since last Monday’s Week in Review was slightly pre-empted by California in Review, I’m including about a week and a half in here… Friday, Feb 14 Got home late from the airport last night and let myself sleep in. Had a really bad dream about Mr. & Mrs. Landlord who were watching
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Workday Wardrobe ~ Feb 18-21

It’s a short week due to Presidents Day on Monday…and it’s a casual week cuz the school is closed and most people are on vacation this week. There’s just a handful of administrative staff in this week. So I might just wear the same thing every day 🙂 TUESDAY I actually have worn
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What I Bought: January 2020

I thought I might start this as a new monthly series. Not sure if I’ll do All The Things…or just clothes. But I figured I’d start with both, especially thinking that my clothing shopping is winding down this time of year. Let me know what you think! Is it a help…or boring?
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But Who Doesn’t Like Cute Lil Lambs??

In marketing, they say it can take a consumer seven times seeing a product before they feel comfortable enough about it that they might buy it for themselves, or even just consider it. I know there have been style trends over the years that when I first saw them I was like
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