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The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Lace
Welcome to The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book! Welcome! This is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. A while back, Nancy and I started The Bad Buy Book, a monthly series about our worst purchases. It was a lot of fun to do and we both learned something from it, too! Nancy learned that off-white against her face is not the most flattering color. And I learned that I have a serious problem resisting a good thrift shop find when it comes to pieces that fit “good enough” but “not quite right.” However, after running that series for a year, we decided to change it a bit. For this series, you can choose whether you want to share…
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Reminder: The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book-Lace & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #138
On September 15, Nancy and I will be posting the next edition of The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book and we would love for you all to join us! It is that time again to share some of your favorite and least favorite items for September’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. This month we are featuring all things Lace. Whether it be dresses, kimonos, wraps or scarves. Maybe skirts, pants, or jackets are your thing. Even socks or lace tights will do! It could simply be trims or other lacy details on your favorite (or least favorite) pieces. We want to see them! What is The Good Buy/Good-Bye Book? It is a monthly series that Nancy and I will…
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Inspired by Living Outside the Stacks: Style Icons & Link Up On the Edge #149
This is a kind of a double “inspired by” post…inspired by Daenel’s look that was inspired by Nicole Richie for last month’s Fab 40’s theme of Style Icons. My style icon for that post was Gwen Stefani as you may probably already be aware…since I ended up sharing two Gwen-inspired outfits. But when I saw Daenel’s super chic boho outfit, I knew immediately that I wanted to create something similar. If you don’t already know Daenel, let me introduce her. She is the creative and super stylish librarian behind the blog Living Outside the Stacks. In Daenel’s own words, she has “the research skills of a librarian, the preservation skills…
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The Fab 40’s Got All Laced Up
Oh, this blogging journey leads me places I never would have imagined. I feel connected to people whom I have never met or have met only once or twice. We seem to form these bonds on the level of shared interests and common passions. We seem to possess a mutual commitment to empowering and supporting others, to consistently shining in this dark world with infinite love and kindness. I cannot remember exactly when or how or who found whom first, but somehow the universe decided that my amazing friend Sheela should come into my life. Or perhaps the universe decided that I should come into Sheela’s life. Or maybe a…
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Don’t Let the Feelings Choke You
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I have a long, disturbing history with Bipolar Disorder. Through countless hours of therapy, endless cocktails of psychotropic medications, measureless pools of tears, and unfathomable depths of darkness for more than a decade of my life, I somehow found my way to the other side, to a brighter life, to the life I had always wished for. And through this process not only have I discovered myself, but I also learned some very effective coping skills. Being proud of myself for how far I have come in the healing process, I like to share what I have learned…