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The Fab 40’s are Festival Ready
Happy Monday, y’all! I am back from a long over due break. Over the last two weeks, I have found myself on a crazy roller coaster of emotions which resulted from a whole bunch of nonsense going on in a very private part of my life. I think the emotional roller coaster derailed some time about three weeks ago and I tried to keep riding that broken contraption for about a week before I finally realized that I must disembark from this busted ride and do some necessary repairs! Most of the repairs have been completed with a few counseling sessions, lots of time spent in quiet contemplation, and hours…
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The Fab 40’s Celebrate Superheroes
Yesterday was National Superhero Day. I don’t think Suzy knew this when she chose the theme for this month’s Fab 40’s. Maybe she did though. Or maybe the universe purposely planted that seed in her mind to pick such a timely theme to be posted the day after we celebrate our own personal heroes, both real and fictional. In any event, here we are again, The Fab 40’s, bringing you some style inspiration borrowed from our favorite superheroes. The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger who is also in their 40’s to…
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The Fab 40’s in Plaid and Floral
I am always up for doing something a little unexpected. So when Mary of Curlybyrdie Chirps suggested mixing plaid and floral for this month’s Fab 40’s theme, I was enthusiastic to get to work creating my look. Not to mention that plaid and florals are two of my favorite prints and I have an overabundance of both in my closet. No trips to the thrift shop would be necessary for this theme like last month’s wild challenge required. The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger who is also in their 40’s to…
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The Fab 40’s Have Gone Wild
The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger who is also in their 40’s to join us. This group’s goal is to take on style trends and show how we each interpret and incorporate them into our own lives. With six widely varied views, you are certain to find something that speaks to you each month and encourages you to continue to have fun with fashion after the age of 40. When wonderfully bold and creatively uninhibited Sheela delivered this month’s Fab 40’s theme, the groans from all of the Fab 40’s gals…
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The Fab 40’s Travel Through Time: Fashion Trends Through the Decades
The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme with the goal of taking on style trends and show how we each interpret and incorporate them into our own lives. With six widely varied views, you are certain to find something that speaks to you each month and encourages you to continue to have fun with fashion after the age of 40. If you wear clothes, as most of you certainly do, then you are probably acutely aware that fashion is fickle and trends in the world of fashion not only change frequently, but they cycle back around every…
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The Fab 40’s Take On the End of the World
I have this song stuck in my head… Released 31 years ago and it is still relevant. Although I suppose any apocalyptic prognostication is always befitting as we live in a world that tends to feed off of ominous predictions of a doomsday coming. However, I never was one to contemplate the end of the world coming in some grand disastrous event. After all, if and when it happens, there really is not much any of us will be able to do to counteract the result. And it seems that it has been a long time coming anyway. Just like life itself, from the moment we are born, we immediately…
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The Fab 40’s are Western-Inspired: The Cowgirl in Me
The Fab 40’s are at it again, pushing each other way outside of our comfort zones and making sartorial magic happen along the way. The Fab 40’s is a group of six fashion bloggers from around the globe. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger who is also in their 40’s to join us. This group’s goal is to take on style trends and show how we each interpret and incorporate them into our own lives. With six widely varied views, you are certain to find something that speaks to you each month and encourages you to continue to have fun with fashion after the…
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The Fab 40’s Went Goth
For as long as I can remember, I have always been drawn to different fashion trends, never fitting into one clean little box of style. Throughout the seasons of my life as I have experimented with my own personal style, I have noticed that I favor certain styles more than others. But one genre of fashion that always makes me feel most comfortably like myself is Goth. Not the over the top, spikes and leather and morbid Goth, but a more subtle and tame version of Goth style. When Suzy of Pixie Chick in Portugal chose this month’s theme for The Fab 40’s, my angsty heart from my teenage years…
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The Fab 40’s are Clad in Plaid
I think the world may just have gone crazy. I think we have all lost our minds. And I truly believe that we have passed it straight on down to our youth. Crazy as the mad hatter, I say. Insaner than a mixed up outfit combining plaid, camo, flowers, and a graphic tee. But it is a Wonder Woman graphic tee, damn it. Because it needs to be in this place that has morphed into a deranged lunacy of self-loathing. Okay. Okay. You are probably wondering what on earth I am talking about. And you are possibly quite curious what any of it has to do with The Fab 40’s…
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The Fab 40’s Are Princess Inspired
Brave. Headstrong. Free-spirited. Impulsive. Quick-witted. Stubborn. Outgoing. Willful. Intelligent. Impetuous. Soft of heart. These are all words that have been used to describe Princess Merida of DunBroch from the Pixar movie Brave. Coincidentally, I have been called these things myself on a few occasions. So when I was asked to participate in this month’s Fab 40s collaboration with the theme of Inspired by our favorite Disney Princesses, I was excited, flattered, honored, and completely willing to accept the challenge. When I heard the theme we were to use to inspire our look for this series, my mind went immediately to Merida. She is absolutely my favorite of all the Disney…