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Sentence a Day, 11.2018

Dear ones, I am writing from my sweet daddy’s favorite chair in my mom’s apartment in Lexington, Kentucky.  Was scheduled to arrive last night but my flight out of El Paso was canceled due to mechanical issues after a 3 hour delay.  Wound up catching a flight this morning at 6:30 am so it has […]

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Categories: Craft and Create, Life Style, Living Life, My Fashion Haus

Currently, 12.2018

Chumlies, Welcome to Currently, 12.2018.  Our last go-round for the year.  I am currently watching “A Million Little Things” with one eye and looking at my laptop screen with the other.  Have you seen this show?  It has hit a little too close to home lately but there are so many twists and turns in […]

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Categories: Life Style

TBB Asks: Holiday Edition

Sugar plums, It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time for TBB Asks:  Holiday Edition.  Have really enjoyed doing these quick little posts and then hopping around to read everyone else’s answers.  Fun way to get to know my blogging buddies a little bit better. It has been hard for me to […]

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Little Letters from My Fashion Haus, 10.27.2018

  Fashionistas, With only 4 days left in the month, I am running out of October and still have a lot of posts I wanted to share.  Tried to think of a creative solution to this pressing problem.   Decided to bring you this month’s Little Letters post from inside My Fashion Haus!  Way to kill […]

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My Fashion Haus: Summer Fashion Fun Blog Hop

Ciao, bellas! Opening up my fashion haus today for this summer fashion fun blog hop.  Three of my bloggin’ buds and I are all participating in the Get Your Pretty On (GYPO) summer style challenge together.  I have been late to the party because I was out of town when the challenge got underway.  But […]

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My Fashion Haus: Cold Shoulder for a Hot Summer Evening

Ciao, Fashionistas, Glad you could join me as I play dress-up in “My Fashion Haus”.  Featuring a top I first saw styled beautifully by the classy Nora from Jacket Society.  If you haven’t window shopped the lovely pieces in her online store, please take a minute to do so today.  But before you head over […]

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