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Style ME Fall Fashion Wednesday

Well, now that Wednesday is almost over, I finally sitting down long enough to post my first fall outfits of this brand new Fall Style Me Challenge.  We received our first outfit on Sunday night and right away I knew this was going to be my favorite challenge yet.  The essential pieces on the shopping […]

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Five Fall Favs

  Thank you, Shaunacey at confessionsofafrumpymommy.com for adding me to her Lifestyle Sistas linkup.  I am such a novice at this blogging business but learning as I go by emulating the blogs of my virtual friends. The Lifestyle Sistas posted their five favorite things about fall on October 3 so I am a little off […]

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Missed the GOOOOAL!

Just time for a quick confession and then I need to really get busy around here.  But wanted to put it out there that I didn’t do very well at all last week toward meeting my October goals and at that rate, they will never become habits!!!  WAAAAA! But it is Monday.  And I am […]

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Autumn…The Year’s Last, Loveliest Smile ~ Bryant – Setting Goals

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”                               ~ William Cullen Bryant Ahhh, welcome autumn.  Today is the first day of October.  There is a crispness in the air today and the sunshine isn’t as intense.  The sky is a different, brighter blue.  Summer has slipped away and autumn has arrived.  Just like that *snaps fingers* the […]

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Registration Opens for Fall Fashion Challenge

Hello, friends and fellow fashionistas!  It is the first Friday of fall.  Our monsoonal desert rains have finally subsided and today we have a beautiful, fall-ish start to our first autumn weekend.  This season is definitely my favorite.  Love the colors of the season and the pumpkin, cinnamon and cloves we start smelling in room […]

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Work Wear Wednesday Week 3

Welcome to Wednesday! I can’t believe our third and final Wednesday of the Work Your Work Wear Challenge has come and almost gone.  I have so enjoyed dressing up for work, even though I only really started working this last week of the challenge!  But boy, did I learn how to be fashionable on the […]

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