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Fall Wardrobe Wish List Part 2: Shoes & Accessories

I feel like shoes and accessories are the finishing touches to any outfit…and yet the hardest to get just right! While most of my wardrobe feels pretty “ready for anything,” my shoe selection always seems to be lacking. And these days, with painful feet, it’s even harder to find shoes. I’d like
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30 Days to a New Life: Throwback Thursday

I was reminded this week of the “30 Days of No Repeat Outfits” project I did in October 2015 and thought I would re-post on it’s 3 Year Anniversary. I dedicate it to those who don’t like to be photographed, or see themselves in photographs, because they think they’re “too.” Too old,
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Run to Catch Up With the Sun

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.     ~ Pink Floyd, “Time” Old Navy Super-Long Open-Front
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Week in Review: Week 136

As exhausted as I am, I should have had a whole lot more fun this past week! Instead it was filled with work, work and more work. I even passed on a Girls Day of Fun outing Saturday just so I could get caught up on my To Do list and not
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Introducing The Fogless Blog Link-Up

Thanks to Susan Marinelli for the genius name – what’s a fogless blog? Who knows? It could be anything! No limits! It’s brilliant! But I think I’ll try something for awhile and see how it goes – a link-up where anyone, bloggers and non-bloggers alike, can share a picture of themselves, an
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Loft Plus Fitting Room Try-On: A Drama in Two Parts

So, hallelujah, some Loft stores are now carrying plus sizes. There are 10 Loft stores on Long Island. One is carrying plus sizes. Sigh. But it’s a start. Hopefully it’s just a test, and if sales do well, they’ll spread to more stores. Maybe even all the stores. But I feel like to
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Thinking Ahead to the Holidays

When this Connected Apparel plus size dress arrived from Gwynnie Bee, I was pleasantly surprised. It was looser fitting than I’d expected and stretchier. But in sort of a thick, slinky way, so lumps and bumps don’t show much and it just skims away from the body. Nice. The v-neck was not too
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Fall Wardrobe Wish List Part 1: Clothing

I’ve done an assessment of my fall wardrobe and I’ve decided there are a couple (alright, more than a couple) things that would round it out. I feel I’m heavy on “solid on solid” looks – solid colored dress or top under a solid color cardigan. That is feeling a little boring
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Week in Review: Week 135

Daylight is getting noticeably shorter. The one time I made it out this week to walk before work it was too dark to even take pictures. That’s no fun! Work was work-like. We had a tornado on Long Island. While certainly not the norm for this area, I feel like it’s happening more
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Fall Florals & Fabulous Friday Link-Up

So, I’m doing something new and different his week, and co-hosting the Fabulous Friday link-up with the lovely Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots. I hope you’ll join our link-up party (I’m so excited to see who comes!) and maybe you’ll be selected and shared next week as a favorite blogger!
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Fall is For Being Bold

After summer’s whites, neutrals and pastels, I’m looking forward to the warm, rich, bold colors of fall – mustard, golden yellow, ochre, sienna, copper, cinnamon (yum). I wonder if it’s an unconscious desire to “warm up” by wearing spicy colors during the colder parts of the year. Whatever the reason, it’s deliciously
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Week in Review: Week 134

Week. Busy. Whew. Monday was our big annual golf fundraiser. It was beautiful weather but MAN were there a lot of hills! I’m the photographer so I walked up hill and down dale getting pictures. Me in my high fashion golf shirt. And sweating. Shocker. With foofy hair. The next morning I
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Month in Review: September 2018

September is OVER??? It just STARTED! It’s already FUMMER!!!  Okay, let’s get right into it, then, or it’s gonna be the end of OCTOBER already!!! Top 3 Blog Posts #1 Last day of Summer – Really! The one where I actually buy something new (!!!) and really really love it! #2 Sentence a Day: Best
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Transitioning Your Closet

It’s time to start wrapping up the full-on summer wardrobe, assessing each item’s success (or lack thereof!), and a) deciding what stays in for fall, b) what comes out now but will be saved for next summer, c) what fall(ish) items can be moved into the closet to be combined with summer
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Transitional Dressing: The Best of Both Worlds

The Fall Equinox. The Summer Solstice. On paper, these terms have a well-defined and clear-cut meaning. On a specific date, the seasons change. From summer to fall. From spring to summer. But in real life, we know this is rarely the way the seasons work – from one extreme to the other,
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Week in Review: Week 133

Whoosh! That week flew by! Started Monday after work, going back to a garden I shot in awhile back, to get some additional shots for a blog post. This is a teaching garden at a local college and it is one of my favorite gardens on the Island. OOTD Tuesday Work days
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My Favorite Summer Looks

Sigh. It’s really time to start seeing what’s in the “fall/winter” tub…but first I want to take a look back at my five favorite outfits of this summer. #5 – Starting at the bottom, is the outfit I wore on the first day of summer, the bright pink rayon embroidered top from
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Last Day of Summer – Really!

The past two weeks we’ve been bombarded with pictures of pumpkin lattes and cozy sweaters and all the spicy brown tones…but really, that was jumping the gun just a bit! Tomorrow is the last day of summer, for real, so today I am showing my last summer outfit of the season (sadface). It was my
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Week in Review: Week 132

Another week down. They’re ticking off faster and faster. At this point in my life I just hope I get to enjoy a little bit of retirement before I die. Had a 4-day weekend. Rained a lot so didn’t do too much. Pre-bra-fitting carb (and sugar)-loading. You’ll read more about this in
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