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Ageless Style 01.2023: Sumptuous Fabrics

Fashionistas and clothes-wearing friends, welcome!!  It is the third Thursday of the month which means it is time for Ageless Style 01.2023.  I chose the theme for this month.  Wanted to go with a look created around sumptuous fabrics.  But when I pitched my idea to the gals, I said scrumptious fabrics…because I talk to […]

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Ageless Style 12.2022: Blue Jean Baby

Fashionistas and clothes-wearing friends, thank you for joining me for Ageless Style 12.2022: Blue Jean Baby.  It’s the third Thursday which means the Ageless Style gang is back together again.  And December’s theme has us styling blue jeans.  Some of us are styling skinny jeans.  And some of us are styling our favorite alternative to […]

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Where Bloggers Live 12.2022: the Family Jewels

Ho, ho, ho and howdy friends!! Thanks for stopping by for this month’s Where Bloggers Live 12.2022: the Family Jewels. This month, the gals and I are coming to you from our jewelry boxes. Or in my case, my jewelry rake.  My jewelry trays.  And my jewelry drawer pulls. What I don’t have in expensive […]

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Ageless Style 10.2022: Dressing for Autumn Activities

  Fashionistas and clothes-wearing friends, thank you for visiting for this Ageless Style 10.2022: Dressing for Autumn Activities.  It’s the third Thursday which means the Ageless Style gang is back together again.  October’s theme – what would you wear to an autumn event. Whether it be taking the (grand)kids to a pumpkin patch, apple picking […]

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Ageless Style 07.2022: White for Summer

Fashionistas and clothes-wearing friends, thank you for visiting for this Ageless Style 07.2022: White for Summer.  It’s the third Thursday which means the Ageless Style gang is back together again.  This month we are styling white for summer.  And it just so happens I recently bought a white blazer that became the centerpiece for this […]

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Ageless Style 03.2022: Styling Sweatshirts Without the Sweat

  Fashionistas and clothes-wearing friends, thank you for visiting for this Ageless Style 03.2022: Styling Sweatshirts Without the Sweat.  It’s the third Thursday which means the Ageless Style gang is back together again.  This month to style a sweatshirt.  Without the sweat.  Outside the gym.  I have a number of favorite sweat(free)shirts that I love […]

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In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...
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02.02.2023 So glad I went silver. #silverhairdont 02.02.2023 So glad I went silver. 
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02.02.2023 Joining @rebeccajoknits for Sentence a 02.02.2023 Joining @rebeccajoknits for Sentence a Day and #thankfulthursday . A month full of looong, run-on sentences outlining my first 31 days of the year. 

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01.30.2023 Finally getting my #wintergoals & #wint 01.30.2023 Finally getting my #wintergoals & #winterbucketlist down on 'paper.' It is still winter, right? High of 68*F here yesterday. 

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01.28.2023 Winter 2023 photo challenge...my beauti 01.28.2023 Winter 2023 photo challenge...my beautiful Cami Jean in pink represents the prompt 'feminine.' Camila has become infatuated with all things 'ballina' since seeing The Nutcracker at Christmas. Her Gabba loves ballet, too.

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01.27.2023 Playing at Gabba's house with all the o 01.27.2023 Playing at Gabba's house with all the old toys their mama played with. 

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01.22.2023 They didn't give a letter jacket back i 01.22.2023 They didn't give a letter jacket back in '75 when I was a high school senior and editor of the Bartlett High School literary magazine "The Scribe." 

So I bought my own letter jacket at @hm . So what if it isn't in the school colors. And comes 47 years late. @oldnavy overalls (had my last pair that same senior year '74-'75) and @kohls
lilac turtleneck. 

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