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The Pastime of Daily Walks & Different Kinds of Walks
Ladies, We are immune to ourselves, are we not? What is most normal and habitual in my life is foreign and strange to another. This reality has stunned me on more than one occasion when I have met people who never spend time outdoors and who never take walks. How can this be? My mind can hardly take in the absurdity of never going outdoors, let alone never going on a walk. I can’t imagine never thirsting for the breeze, never feeling the sunshine’s healthy rays glow through my skin, never enjoying the sunrise or sunset, and never spending time beneath the starry sky. Stroll with me for a moment…
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Starting Over Moving Tips: What Furniture to Leave, Take, & Why to Start Fresh
Ladies, This past summer found me breaking camp here in the Southeast US for the long journey of moving back to the West Coast of the US. Even after 20 years of moving constantly, I still enjoy looking up other people’s moving and packing tips. But most tips are about how to pack not how to reason through what to keep and the cost of moving things vs repurchasing. You can read about How to Furnish an Entire House for Less than $5,000 here. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven Ecclesiastes 3:1 Many People Find This Shocking But… You might want to get…
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How to Garden During Summer When it’s too Hot to Garden: Make a Garden Photo Book
Ladies, The mid-summer heat is in full force and aside from some sturdy roses, my garden has all but collapsed as of July. Which means of course that I have learned many garden lessons to take with me into seasons ahead. More heat tolerant perennials…check! More morning watering, check! More weeding….check. Less mixed seed packets and more packets of just my favorites…check. I could go on with the lessons learned as I have retreated indoors to the air conditioning, a bit deflated but not disheartened. Gardening is as much soldiering on with wisdom from failures as it is marching triumphantly in the victories. And there were as many failures as…
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5 Classy & Slimming Amazon Summer Dresses
Ladies, When it comes to finding stylishly modest, feminine, and classy clothes, it can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Find a high enough neckline? The skirt has a split up to the crotch. Most things are see-through. Then throw in the summer season and things can either go tight or baggy and not especially well fitting and sleek. When I find these gems, I blog them for your benefit to keep you up to date on classy and feminine wardrobe finds. PRO SHOPPING TIP Many classy dresses are often labeled “Office Dress” or “Wedding Guest Dress” because these are some of the occasions where people still practice…
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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…
