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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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Month in Review: August 2018

I have felt very disorganized ever since vacation, I can’t quite get my ducks together, so, yes, I realize it’s the middle of September and I’m just now posting my August in Review, but…LIFE. Top 3 Blog Posts #1 I Was Ghosted Ooh, that’s a little sad. There’s not even a picture. I
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NYFW Street Style Trends

I LOVE Fashion Week…and almost more than the runway shows themselves, I love the shows happening out on the streets – the street style looks from guests attending the shows. The “real” fashion is, of course, amazing, but generally unattainable by us common-folk. I love to see what’s being worn out on
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Come Along With Me: Escher Exhibit, Industry City, Brooklyn

This past weekend some friends and I finally got to do something we’ve been wanting to do all summer, but were never all available on a Saturday – and this was a visit to Brooklyn’s new(ish) Industry City in Sunset Park…and the MC Escher exhibit. Industry City used to be just dilapidated, mostly
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Week in Review: Week 131

Which is actually Week 132 cuz I noticed going back through some old posts that I’d named the WIR post the same thing two weeks in a row. Whatever. So, here we are in Week 132 posting Week 131. Not confusing at all. Back to work this week. I don’t know if
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Vacation Bucket List Revisited

Well, the Vacation Bucket List kicked my butt. It taunted me daily with whispers in my ear, “you didn’t shoot September content, loser” and “I thought you were going to go for a bra fitting, slacker!” Stupid Bucket List! I had been all gung-ho but got the wind knocked out of me on
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This is Not My Birthday Post

It is my birthday – September 5 – I am FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. 60 is hurtling towards me – but this is not my birthday post. Here’s the thing – I had a sweet concept in mind for my birthday post, but I just couldn’t pull it together by myself. I need help. So
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Week in Review: Week 130

This was a bit of a wind-down week…end of the month, end of summer, end of vacation. One more day off and then it’s back to it on Tuesday. I don’t feel ready but what are you gonna do? The week started off with a minor miracle. I was meeting long-time online
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Sentence a Day (Best & Worst Edition): August 2018

8.1 Best Thing: I discovered today, when I pulled the July page off my calendar, that August is a three-paycheck month for me! With my payroll schedule I have two such months each year and I keep a running list for six months at a time, of “things I need/want” and then I
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The Anti-Shopping List / Plus Size Try-On Haul

We all know how to make a shopping list. It’s a list of things we need or want. Simple. Want to bake a cake? Make a shopping list: eggs, flour, sugar, cocoa, butter, etc. What’s maybe NOT so obvious is an “anti” shopping list – things NOT to buy. You know, those
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The End’s Not Near…

It’s here. While I’m the first to rail against the end of summer, even I must admit that the season is definitely winding down. It’s still miserably hot and humid, but NY is like a ghost town with so many people away, grabbing their last chance for a summer vacation. Some trees
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Week in Review: Week 129

This past week feels like Before The Thing, The Thing, and After The Thing. I worked Monday for the last day and Tuesday started vacation – YAY – and I spent it relaxing and unwinding…I painted a leaf (ha, keeping the bar pretty low for myself)… ….dropped my car off to get
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