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The Homemaker’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk chocolate chip cookies! It is shocking to admit but up until my late 30s I have never had a go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. I believe the accomplished homemaker has a solid collection of go-to recipes for certain staple items such as a delicious casserole, bread, pie, and a chocolate chip cookie. Ideally she has them memorized. This is my goal at least, and some of them I do have memorized such as this cookie recipe. But it is so important to have a collection…
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How to Embrace Your Femininity
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk embracing femininity! I saw an old photo of myself today and it was a stark contrast to these photos here. I was wearing head to two black, a black t shirt, black jeans and black slides. Everything looked stuck to my body with no shape or flow. The lack of levity and cheeriness looked so dreary. For all intents and purposes I was wearing what a man could have been wearing. There was nothing happy or beautiful about it. At the time, I didn’t see…
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Farmhouse Feminine Fashion: FLORAL PRINTS
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk floral prints for farmhouse feminine fashion! You can dress femininely for everyday hard work. Repeat that to yourself every time you think wearing your husband’s work shirt is more “practical”. Feminine clothing is practical if you own items that are comfortable, wash well, are warm enough or cool enough, that stay on your body and do not hinder your movements. Women have been exposed to the overly masculinizing of women’s wear to the point that feminine styles feel less usable, less realistic. But there are…
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5 Ways to Become an Elegant Woman
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk elegance! Elegance may be found in aesthetic alone but it is also the quality of grace in attitude, speech, even the way we move. Elegance spans all earning brackets. While there is elegance unique to the very wealthy that comes with affording the most luxury, there is also elegance with little money and the right taste to pick it out at the thrift shop! I own a wonderful collection of elegant clothes that I bought second hand including this outfit here. Elegance is not a…
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5 Truths about Homemaking from a Career Housewife
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking & style. Let’s talk career homemaking! Home is unlike any other job place. This is the place of rest and leisure while also being the place we must cultivate and preen. It is both to be enjoyed and languished in and also scrubbed and fixed and built by a diligent worker. Homemaking can feel discouraging but it can also feel joyful again. 1) You are your own boss. All this talk about “boss babes” getting your down while you are at home feeling like you do nothing? Well guess what,…
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Country Morning Cinnamon Rolls
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I share traditional and feminine homemaking & style. Let’s talk cinnamon rolls! There is something about country living that calls for rich nourishing and comforting food. Maybe it’s the expansive views, the serenity of no traffic, or maybe it’s the fresh air that makes you let your hair down and relax. Out here we don’t count calories. We just savor every bite and praise Jesus for it. Cinnamon rolls are good for brunch or after dinner dessert. If you want the best cinnamon roll experience, eat it fresh and hot out of the oven. There’s…
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5 Keys to Feminine Fashion
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk feminine fashion! Now that I have made all of the mistakes and I am safely in my late 30s and looking better for my wisdom gained…I can impart to you the keys to true feminine fashion for any woman. One of the greatest fashion obstacles for women of any age is confusing sexy for feminine. Modern women’s wear is an odd dichotomy of androgynous clothing and skimpy clothing. So to be more feminine women we sometimes tend to gravitate toward the skimpy clothing. Certain clothing…
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Nurturing Your Femininity
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and I encourage women in homemaking and feminine style. Let’s talk nurturing femininity! Femininity is not just for charming vintage decades past. It is not just a phase of little girls. It is not just for the teenager and 20 something who has youthful beauty on her side. Femininity belongs to women. It is timeless. As silver hairs begin to glitter around my face, the late 30s mean age changes things but it does not erase my womanhood. My penchant for princessy style and romantic living has only blossomed. I have years of learning under my…
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Feminine Country Fashion
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and you can think of me as your country living stylist. Are you new to living in the country or just need some help making it better and more beautiful? Let’s talk country fashion! Picture rolling vineyards and walk among the vines with me. Picture apple orchards and meander the rows harvesting. Imagine being barefoot in the garden to cut flowers for the table. Think about the scent of hay in the barn. There are so many different kinds of country properties from vineyards, to orchards, to livestock ranches, to a homestead. Many of us have…
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12 Frugal Christmas Gatherings & Party Ideas from a Country Woman
Welcome to whateverlovely.com my Country Living Home & Fashion Blog. My name is Barbie and you can think of me as your country living stylist. Are you new to living in the country or just need some help making it better and more beautiful? Let’s talk 12 frugal Christmas gatherings & party ideas! It can seem unwise to invite guests over or have get-togethers when money is tight. However, we have history replete with times of scarcity to give us ideas for how women offered hospitality with very little. There are specific types of gatherings that allow you to have guests over without spending much money. It is about the…
