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Summer in the Garden: Blueberries & Berry Harvesting Dress
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:17 As of June, the blueberries are turning a ripe blue. I even rejoiced for the birds as I love seeing them swoop into the bush to pluck a juicy treat and often tenderly feed one to its mate. It thrills me to watch their summer feasting as much as it thrills me to pick the berries too. So many experiences like this are gifts from God to be had and must be accepted by venturing outdoors, a willing recipient of these treasured pastimes. Sweet Summer Harvest Blueberry picking tops the list of my favorite childhood moments. Standing in…
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The Best Chic Amazon Summer Dress for Classy Summer Style
Ladies, If you are needing a go-to dress, I found one for you. Out of the many I saw, this one checked all the boxes: not too low of neckline, not too tight, not too short or too long, not too thin. And yet, fitted enough in the right places to look sleek. This is something feminine but not frilly prairie muffin feminine, which I am careful not to veer into, because I appreciate a frill here and there. Finding something that meets my criteria for chic and classy (on budget) is finding the diamond in the rough. But I always find one, and maybe it’s just one, but one…
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5 Most Beautiful AMAZON Puff Sleeve Midi Dresses for Summer
Ladies, Let’s dive into the puffed sleeved dresses, shall we? After all, puffed sleeves are a feminine style that goes well with warm weather when we do not need our cardigans, which do pose a bit of a problem stuffing a puffed sleeve into them. When shopping puffed sleeve dresses, I recommend the bodice of the dress to be fitted to counter the bulkier amount of fabric to the upper body. I also recommend necklines that cover cleavage to look ultimately classy. These dresses are a midi length or longer and each one comes in various colors and prints. Dress 1 This dress comes in a whopping 21 different solid…
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The Best Amazon Wrap Dress for Chic Feminine Summer Style
Ladies, Wrap dress. Wrap dress. Wrap dress. If I could give you any style advice it would be to own one or own 100! Wrap dresses are the most flattering, feminine, classy, comfortable, day to evening wearable, incredible dress style you could own. There are so many iterations of them with different fabrics, to different skirt styles, to different sleeve styles. Why is this dress so amazing? It flatters no matter your shape or size. It gives you shape when you don’t have it, it flatters your shape where you do have it. This dress is already perfect for breast feeding. It makes sense for a majority of woman’s wardrobe…
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How to Gift Feminine Style to Your Daughters
Ladies, Style communicates intention, it communicates manners, it communicates preferences. What is your outward appearance communicating? And what is your daughter’s appearance communicating? You are Her Fashion Industry & Stylist I will be brief, but I have seen many young girls look like males. These are not even girls who are trying to look like boys. By default, with modern fashion, we can look like males. Jeans and t-shirt, jeans and sweatshirt. Without distinct feminine features in the way we style things, modern clothes look masculine. You were given the influence as a mother to encourage daughters to look feminine. And you are pushing against the tide, but we get…
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How to Spot Luxury Looking Throw Pillow Covers & The Best Insert Ever
Ladies, I have made all of the mistakes for you and can convey this lesson with the utmost emphasis for your benefit. You can find luxury looking throw pillows for very little money, but you have to know the features that make them look higher end. What were my throw pillow “mistakes”? Really, they are just observations of my decorating adventures, and yes, a few misspent dollars to realize that certain ones never quite rose to the occasion. After years, a lifetime really, of buying throw pillows, analyzing, rearranging, buying different ones, and rearranging my sofas and beds again…I finally learned another lesson, that throw pillow inserts matter. It only…
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The Best Romantic Master Bedroom with Elegant Decor Ideas
Ladies, The master bedroom is meant to be a getaway. One of the first things I ever did as a new wife was make this room a place free of clutter, business, and anything that detracted from feeling relaxed. I looked to what luxury hotels and vacation rentals do. The ones overlooking the ocean in Italy, a vineyard in France, or ones that have an outdoor courtyard or balcony. This was always my romantic master bedroom template from my Mediterranean and French country decor preferences to a flow from indoor to outdoor living. Beautiful vacation destinations do this well because they want people to book and stay. So, if you…
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The Best Fashion Essentials for Day to Evening Elegance
Ladies, Welcome back to a continuation from where we left off about The Best Versatile Dress in a Feminine Classic Wardrobe! When we have this kind of dress in our wardrobe, it is quick and easy to get dressed in the morning to look and feel elegant all day, even into the evening time. Do you ever consider feeling and dressing elegant? Elegant does not mean formal, it applies to every aspect of us in our ordinary day. Elegance from Day to Night Our daytime elegance is the fact that we wear something in a beautiful shape and color, something that not only works in function but what makes us…
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The Best Versatile Dress in a Feminine Classic Wardrobe
Ladies, “Variety is the spice of life” as the old saying goes and even though I enjoy variety in clothing I find myself increasingly more appreciative of the dresses in my wardrobe that do everything. Let me introduce you to the “Everything Dress” Do you have an “Everything Dress”? Mine is a navy blue and white polka dot dress that is for running errands, church, walking, housework, and nice evenings out! Yes it does it all. This one dress transforms to the occasion by the shoe paired with it, the jewelry worn with it, and the hairstyle. This is how to identify an Everything Dress for your Classic Feminine Wardrobe…
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Spring Cottage Garden The Best Roses & Wildflowers
Ladies, For all of the insects that plague the Southern garden, there are as many early blooms. The humidity is descending as the temperatures rise to the upper 80’s already as of May 1st. But as my favorite cool air is now relegated to the nights of enjoying it through the open window, my days are spent in floral bliss and breathing in the heavenly scent of flowers. Finally, flowers For the non-gardener, or the flippant garden-admirer, they may not realize how fleeting flowers can be. One might not realize how many months it takes to finally experience the blossoms and then how quickly they are gone. Our photographs preserve…
