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Week in Review: Week 175

This week was Back to Work after Vacation. That’s always sort of a mental downer, but…it went relatively well. I’d packed my Reward Tote (aka Beach Bag) for an after-work trip to the beach on Monday…but then it got overcast and I just didn’t bother. The bag is still in the car
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The Search for the Perfect Summer Dress

Awhile back, Tara Denise did a TJ Maxx try-on haul and I saw a dress I knew would be perfect for summer. It was a loose-fit, button-front, 100% linen sleeveless dress from Tahari. It set me off on a TJ Maxx/Marshall’s wild goose chase all over Long Island! Here’s my criteria for
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And Now for Something Completely Different

One of my longtime favorite summer activities is visiting gardens. Often towns will organize a garden tour through several private gardens in the area and you pay one price and go from garden to garden in that town. Once, about 25 years ago (omg I’m old!), my sister and I went to
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Week in Review: Week 174 (The Uneventful Vacation)

Well, I’m sorry to say you’d never know I was on vacation last week from looking at my week in review. I really just hid out in the apartment, trying to stay cool. I did some errands that have been on the list for awhile, worked on some future blog posts, GOT
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The Red White & Blue

So, originally this post was going to be “3 Ways to Style a White Dress for the 4th of July.” But then I walked outside. And my makeup slid down my face and my head turned into a mini-steam room, soaking my hair before I could even get the camera on the
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Week in Review: Week 173

I don’t remember. Ha. Seriously. I remember the night I came home (oh! from “acrylic pour” painting! I remembered!) late and my apartment was all squishy and hot from humidity. I set up my tower fan but there’s not a GOOD spot for it so it blew right in my face all
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Lemons and Lemonade

So. I had this cute dress from Gwynnie Bee. Black cotton/poly knit with real embroidery all down the front, v-neck, lil cap sleeves. Very Johnny Was-esque. Very summer boho. I thought, I’ll Do A Shoot On the Little Beach. I’ll pose by the colorful kayaks and sit in my chair and splash
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My Summer Bucket List

Come on, you didn’t think I WASN’T going to have one, did you? I think summer is the perfect time to take on some new challenges…and to take advantage of warm weather opportunities. I’m trying to challenge myself a bit but not too much – I do want to have a relaxing
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Midsummer’s Eve: Match Made in Seven

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 172

We’re on Week 26 of 2019 – exactly halfway through. How did we get here So Fast? How is June practically GONE?! (Why are the question mark and exclamation point keys so far apart on the keyboard when they’re so often used together?! I think you could actually combine them and call
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Hey Doc! You Can’t Just Blame Everything on My Weight!

The backstory (in case you’re new here) So, regular readers will know that I went to the doctor recently. I don’t go to the doctor often. I go when I am incapacitated…or when I am in so much pain that I am incapacitated…so it’s really a measure of last resort for me.
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Three Things You MUST Have In Your Wardrobe

Things you love Things that are comfortable Things that make you feel good when you wear them Did you think I was going to say that you must have a white tee, a simple black dress and a pair of good denim?? *I* can’t tell YOU what will make your wardrobe work! Only
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Week in Review: Week 171

Monday So much rain. I came home from work, did a few minor tasks, then moved to the sofa early for two episodes of Handmaids’ Tale. I hired a Task Rabbiter to come Thursday and assemble my bookshelves. Which means that soon, this nonsense will be sorted out: Tuesday OOTD: I came
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I Just Want to Feel Like a Girl

In my mid-twenties I moved out of my mother’s house and into an apartment with my best friend. She had been seeing a considerably older gentleman off and on for some time but it didn’t seem to ever be going anywhere. A young man, Steven (names have been changed to protect the
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Lowering the Bar

I forget to tell you in the Week in Review that I plan to take it a little easy for June. I’m not feeling right. It’s not just the overwhelm, I think there’s a physical element as well. I realized last week, after taking it Super Easy for some time and still
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Week in Review: Week 170

Not a whole lot going on here. I’ve been laying low after work, taking it easy. FIRST, I want to apologize if I’ve been responding to comments slowly. I will get to them all, I promise. I’ve just been spending a little more time away from the computer recently. I love all
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The One Where I Try On Plus Size Clothes at Anthropologie

I haven’t done a fitting room try-on post in a lonnnng time. Mostly cuz I haven’t been shopping in person as much. But recently more and more stores are carrying plus sizes…and LARGER plus sizes. I might have to start venturing into stores again. Ugh. Ha. The one I’ve been the MOST
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Love You Long Time

PROLOGUE This is not the grandest of outfits, in fact, I’ve had these linen pants for close to 10 years and they’re a little dingey. I love a wide-legged linen pant in the summer, they’re so breezy and cool. But I’ve hung onto these for so long even though they’re missing a
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Week in Review: Week 169

Well, this week felt a little more on an even keel. It was a 4-day week, which probably helped…and I passed on a weeknight dinner with friends cuz I could feel myself getting agitated just in the planning of it. We had a lot of rain, so I spent some time just
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Finding Stillness

Stillness: the absence of movement or sound. I’ve been finding stillness is something I’m craving more and more. I was never a person who craved sound and action around all the time. I don’t leave the tv or radio on. I love music, but put it on only sparingly. But when I
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