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Inspired by Walking in Memphis in High Heels: Spring Style
It is the final day of Spring with the Summer Solstice coming tomorrow and I am only just now getting to show off some actual Spring clothes! I have had this darling little dress hanging in my closet for a few years and have shown it on the blog once before styled with tights and over the knee boots in Winter. Because when you live in a place where it is Winter for eleven months and Summer for one month, you have to get creative with clothing for different seasons. I don’t want to look like an Eskimo all year round! Back in March, I saw Laura of Walking in…
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Spring Style Guide
The weather is getting warmer and we’re all excited about the sunshine and happiness it brings. If you need a wardrobe refresher, here are some great style tips to get you ready for the change in seasons. Wardrobe Staples It’s easy to put spring outfits together when you have wardrobe staples in your closet like sundresses, cardigans, colorful accessories, sleeveless tops, and spring prints like stripes, polka dots, and florals. Once you have these basics, you can mix and match separates all you want to incorporate seasonal elements into your outfit while still dressing for the weather outside. Layering helps your outfits remain versatile so you can stay comfortable all…
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Inspired by Elegance and Mommyhood: Red Dots Romance & Link Up On the Edge #133
It’s time for another outfit inspired by another fabulously stylish blogger friend. Ada of Elegance and Mommyhood has been one of my great blogging friends for so long now that I cannot even remember how or when we discovered each other. We have collaborated so many times, including multiple years of her 6 post Holiday Series, that I have lost count. We have gotten to know one another through email and Facetime chats and have supported each other through many of life’s ups and downs over the past few years. Not only is Ada a wonderful friend, but she is also a great style inspiration. So when I saw her…
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Inspired by Doused in Pink: Olive Jeans & Link Up On the Edge #131
As this winter and the crummy weather continue on, it gets more and more difficult to get creative with my wardrobe. I am one who truly believes that every day is a special occasion for which we should get up, dress up, and show up with a smile. I mean, we have to get dressed every time we walk out into the world anyway, so why not feel great in your clothes? But as the snow continues to pummel us here in the North Country, followed by rain, followed by an ice storm, followed by a weather forecast that includes more snow for 6 of the next 9 days, I…
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New Year, New You: Body Positive Inspired Outfit & Your Own Twist Link Up #4
With the arrival of a new year, so many of us focus on manifesting new and better versions of ourselves. What can we improve in our lives to be healthier, happier, and more productive? How can we feel more confident and more comfortable with who we are in the bodies we have been given? Sure, there is much to be said for proper diet and exercise in maintaining a healthy and productive lifestyle. But there is even more to be said when we can learn to love ourselves completely with every flaw, every bump, bulge, and jiggle, and every crease and wrinkle. Feeling beautiful makes you look beautiful and sometimes…
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Synchronicity: The Secret Language of the Universe
Analytical psychologist, Carl Jung, first introduced the concept of synchronicity in the 1920’s, but defined it more fully in a 1951 lecture stating that synchronous events are ones that appear to occur with meaningful coincidence and no causal relationship but seem to be causally related in a meaningful way. Otherwise known as meaningful coincidences, acausal parallelism, or the togetherness principle without any known cause, synchronous events occur in our daily lives more frequently than we even notice. But if we really pay attention when these seemingly related events occur, it is as if the universe is speaking directly to us. It is saying, “Hey, you. Pay attention. I am giving…
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The Very Snowy Non-Snow Day & Link Up On the Edge #127
Have you heard of the snow day ritual that you must perform the night that a snowstorm is predicted in order to have a snow day from school the following day? We did not have such rituals when I was a kid, but my children swear by this magical routine…until it fails them. It goes like this…if it is snowing, you must wear your jammies inside out, put a spoon in the freezer and ice cubes in the toilet. Do this the night before and you will be guaranteed a snow day the next morning. So Wednesday night, it was predicted that a major snowstorm would be hitting Northern New…
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Inspired by This Blonde’s Shopping Bag: Plaid Blazer & White Booties
First, I have to tell you that I adore Kellyann of This Blonde’s Shopping Bag. I don’t know how long ago it was that she and I found each other in the grand wilderness of blogland, but we became fast blogger friends right from the first introduction. It is funny how you can never meet a person in real life but still have about a million things in common. And one thing, for sure, that Kellyann and I have in common is our love for shopping, all things fashion, and apparently plaid blazers and white booties. When white booties really hit the trend scene last year, I was hesitant at…
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Jumping Into the New Year
With the coming of the new year so many people are ready for a fresh start. I have never been one to let an arbitrary date on the calendar influence my desire for self-improvement. For me, every day is a gift of a new opportunity to do better than the day before. To learn more, give more, show more kindness and gratitude. Oftentimes, it is the beginning of Autumn that triggers me to reevaluate my life and my goals and it was around that time that I began making lots of changes with regard to healthier lifestyle habits. The first week of December marked a major commitment when I began…
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Shelbee’s Sunday Morning Quarterback #17: Citrus Bowl Loss Sours McSorley’s Final Game
Welcome to the seventeenth episode of Shelbee’s Sunday Morning Quarterback! Turning it over now to my husband, the Sunday Morning Quarterback, with a recap of last week’s Citrus Bowl where our beloved Penn State faced off against Kentucky. Citrus Bowl Loss Sours McSorley’s Final Game #14 Kentucky Wildcats 27 – #12 Penn State Nittany Lions 24 The final game of Trace McSorley’s career was supposed to end with another 10 win season, the chance to break 10,000 career passing yards and give Penn State its third consecutive 10 win season…a feat that hasn’t happened since the 1980-82 seasons and never since the Nittany Lions joined the Big Ten Conference. Unfortunately,…