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    How to Dress Daily for the Home & the Homestead

    November 18, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, Do you rarely leave your home? Maybe you, like me, love working, resting, and just being at home. Moreso, country women tend to be at home a lot more than someone in town because we space out grocery shopping trips just for the fact that we drive much further to stores. Infrequent outings seem limited to people who wake up to leave the house every day. But if you are a woman who views full days at home as being wonderful instead of having “nowhere to go” or being “stuck at home”, you are in good company. Dressing for the Day at Home There is this misconception in the…

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    Fashion Blogger Diary A Lookbook of Boots with Dresses & Skirts

    November 9, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, When I look back on vintage photographs, there are certain styles that look so classically beautiful they eclipse the worse trends of that era. Take boots with skirts and dresses as one example that I have admired in photographs of women in the 1970s and 1980s. Their boots were femininely shaped with an almond toe (the best toe shape ever invented for women’s shoes) and a conservative heel, then paired with midi length skirts or dresses. This look has been seared into my mind as the most timelessly beautiful way to wear boots. Style is about combinations Like a painting, style is not just one stroke of color or…

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    How to Wear Dresses & Skirts in Cold Weather

    November 7, 2021 / 2 Comments

    Ladies, The mornings have had an icy chill, but I head out for my morning walks anyway. I even wear my pretty dresses and skirts all Autumn and winter because of specific clothing choices that are incredibly comfortable. This sky-blue dress that I wore recently is a lightweight fabric (not my preference for cold weather), but it was only the topper over my insulating leggings, thick socks and tall boots. It was snuggly topped with a thick cable knit sweater. But the key to this seemingly simple formula is in the details. “There is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothes.” I have loved this Norwegians saying ever…

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    How to Start Wearing Pretty Dresses Daily

    November 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, Modern society has relegated pretty dresses to special occasions. Yet here we are with more beautiful fabrics and styles than ever before and at price points even low-income ladies can afford and so few women enjoy it. Such was the case for me when we had very little to spend and I found a dusty little thrift shop with $1 dresses on sale days. Yes, just $1. It was probably one of the closest experiences I have had to heaven on earth. I stocked up. It was around this time in my life that I had felt very drawn to dresses and had realized that I never owned anything…

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    How to Dress “French Country” Fashion

    October 26, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, French Country decor is laid back beauty of expensive toile curtains combined with rustic dirty wood floors. A little rustic and a little polish. Fashion is no different. You can combine the practical and comfortable with the pretty. I like pairing my dusty cowgirl boots with my flowy floral dresses. The French use nice things daily. They do not save their nice things for special occasions only. All clothes will get ruined eventually, just wear your nice things. I think it’s sad to make nice things occasional. It is also sad that a simple day dress has been viewed as fancy in modern culture. Women use to wear pretty…

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    Shopping for Your Homestead 10 Tips to Buying Land

    October 24, 2021 / 0 Comments

    This article will cover the most vital ten items to question about potential properties. If you are purchasing an existing house check out Top 10 Tips for buying a Country House click here. 1. Road access. You drove up to the property listing. Is the road to access to the property maintained by the buyer, the county, a neighbor? Is it level or steep? Is it narrow or wide? Will this road be dangerous in the winter? Consider the vehicles and the size of any loads you will need to drive down the road to the property and make sure it suits those needs. I caution to not get involved…

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    10 Tips for buying a House in the Country

    October 23, 2021 / 0 Comments

    These are the ten most important questions to ask when buying a house in the country. To see the 10 Tips for Buying Land click here. 1. Water. Is it well or city water? What is the age and condition of the well equipment? What is the well water pressure like? 2. Test your water. Test for bacteria, chemicals, minerals, etc. 3. Septic system. Where is the drain field on the property? This would be an area that you cannot plant or build anything. Or park on. How close to the water well is the drain field? What type of plumbing pipes were used? Ceramic, metal, pvc? 4. Zoning. Can…

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    Why I Love Country Life & Why You Might too! A Dreamy Home Retreat

    October 22, 2021 / 0 Comments

    In the morning, I get dressed on my way out of bed and I head outdoors with a hot coffee. The scenery is full of the news of my surroundings and the headlines are joyful: “Sunlight peers through the trees”, “Fog blankets dew kissed pasture”, While the world rushes by distracted…. “The birds sing”. The moments of the morning suspend in the very air I inhale. Droplets of mist and pollen glisten as they ballet dance in the sun rays. Out here the land seems to exist with no time, it just is. The pastel soft colors awaken slowly into day light. Every morning a gift, each morning unique. There…

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    Fall Fashion Essentials for the Country Woman Wardrobe

    October 19, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, if you live in the country, I hope this helps you create a wardrobe specifically suited to your rural lifestyle. Living in the country as a girl who enjoys fashion, I notice how different my fashion essentials are for country living than the typical touted “fashion essentials”! Buy the right kind of boots My cowgirl boots and my rain boots are my daily boot at home on the property. But for a city woman, her daily boot is typically a heeled boot made out of a delicate suede, soft leather or even worse, fake leather (it falls apart all too easily). These kinds of “city boots “do not withstand…

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    How to Dress Feminine on the Homestead Fashion Essentials

    October 9, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Ladies, My fashion blog is here to help you build your most beautiful, feminine, and classy wardrobe meant for a life of everyday dirt, outdoors, pets, and children, which I think makes life wonderful. I could call this kind of wardrobe a “Country Woman Wardrobe” and it is for those of us who live in the country, but these principles still apply to the woman living in town. Growing up on fashion advice in magazines and then seeing many same tips repeated throughout the years on the internet, I cannot help but notice that fashion “essentials” have been largely geared toward women who work in offices all day. Style for…

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