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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Week in Review: Week 215

MONDAY nervous weather day erranding through the puddles grateful to be home Today was a little hectic and I was a little frazzled between the weather and having to be “out in the world,” and a work project I was feeling unsure about. I had myself convinced I was having shortness of
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Workday Wardrobe ~ April 13-17

MONDAY You’ll have to take my word for it that I did not look like a drowned rat all day. I had to go into work…and the pharmacy…and the post office…all while it was typhooning outside. Linen does not recover well from being rained on. I wore “business on top” because I
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Evolution of an Outfit

Today I give you…The Evolution of an Outfit. Still thinking about wearing things I don’t often wear…I started with this dress that I love (and have had since 2015), but I only wear it in cold weather with tights and usually under a chunky blue cardigan. It’s a little short for me
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What I’ve Been Reading: A Catch Up

Normally I put reviews of what I’ve been reading at the end of my Week in Review posts but that has just gotten away from me during #coronavirusdays. So I figured I’d do a separate little catch-up post. I’m not getting to read as much I’d hoped…and I’m not listening to any audiobooks since
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How to Style a Plus Size Pleated Skirt

Remember the floral pleated skirt I got a couple weeks back? Well, I spent much of Sunday afternoon trying it on with every possible option in my closet. I’m going to talk through my thought process, what I did and didn’t like, what worked and what didn’t and why…and what the final
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