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What I Bought: March 2020

Spending had to get back to normal this month. In recent months there has been “allowable excess spending due to Christmas,” an extra paycheck month, and a tax return month. It’s time to get it back under control. We Made a Garden by Margery Fish. This was a birthday gift for a
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Do the Hokey Pokey

Outside the Box I love this outfit. I love the plaid with the floral. I love the harmonizing colors. I love the idea of it – shirt knotted at the waist. I love the juxtaposition of “dress” with “casual plaid flannel.” I wore it last Friday. Grocery shopping, erranding, etc. I felt perfectly
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Down the Rabbit Hole: What’s for Breakfast?

I’ve been making a point of having protein (instead of carbs) for breakfast most days: hamburger, steak, chicken. This has helped greatly with the weak/light-headed/dizzy spells I’d been having about a year ago. On the weekend I make a batch big enough to last the week and I’m set. But on the
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Week in Review: Week 212

Week One of Work From Home. It was interesting…a little stressful the first day or two, not exactly knowing what we were supposed to be doing or what the priorities were, given…ALL OF THIS (waving arms in air). But by the end of Day Two, after we had our first Zoom team
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Workday Wardrobe: March 23-27

This was my first week working from home. Took a day or two to get settled and figure out what I was supposed to be doing at this time…but I hit my stride mid-week and now I’m finding I stay much more focused on my work here than I do “at” work.
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Week in Review: Week 211

Here’s my goal this week: to find and acknowledge something good in every day. Even if I have to manufacture it myself. MONDAY These charming crocuses (crocusi?) were blooming alongside the driveway. Ain’t no virus stopping Mother Nature. So, the school where I work is closed for the next two weeks –
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Workday Wardrobe ~ March 16-20

A bit of a mixed bag this week as the school where I work was closed, but I worked in the office every day with few other people around. You can definitely see the progression of decreasing thought being given to outfits. MONDAY So. How about that weather? Also, apparently I am
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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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