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April Sunday Showcase: Easter Casual Look
Welcome to the April Sunday Showcase! I cannot believe it is already April! The boys have 5 more weeks to school after Spring break and it is will be summer time! For this month theme, we chose Easter outfits and both went with some pretty, girly but casual outfits. I wanted to share a slightly different Easter look for the Sunday Showcase this month. While today is Easter on the western calendar, in the Orthodox church, we won’t be celebrate Easter/Pascha till May 2. Some years both dates coincide put more often than not we are a few weeks behind (there are several elements in calculating the date). Anyhow, this…
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Target Dress and Denim Jacket for Spring
I haven’t bought anything this month in the way of clothing and it feels really good! As I mentioned in Friday’s post, I really needed a budget reset and shopping for non essential items was the first place I made cuts. It gave me the opportunity to shop my closet, wear all of my jackets and pull out some of my skirts I hadn’t worn since last year. I did purchase this dress in teal green and in black in February and have worn them both this month. I took advantage of one of Target’s 20% sales to buy them. I am learning to wait for a sale when buying…
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Budget Recap February/March 2021
I am taking a little blogging break to devote a little more time to other things the next couple of week (I will still have my style posts on Mondays) but wanted to share one of my biggest money lessons I learned this past month. It is not a new lesson but hopefully this time, I will heed my own advice. Some of you may know, since I mentioned it a couple of times that I was doing a no spend month in March. That usually means I am trying to reset my budget because I overspent in an area. I also have mentioned before that I track my spending,…
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Jumpsuit and Sneakers for Spring
I always forget about this jumpsuit (my one and only) and how comfortable it is to wear! Nothing like an elastic waistband, flowy pants to feel like you are wearing pajamas! I have shared this jumpsuit in this post for fall and another one with 4 ways to style it. I also wrote an Inspired by post with it too! I really need to wear it on a more regular basis and use my own ideas to style it. Today, I am sharing a spring look with sneakers and my yellow denim jacket. I took two of the boys to take pictures next to some stinky Bradford Pear trees as…
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Walking Doesn’t Always Have to Feel like Exercise
Last week, as I had two children at home, I took advantage of the pretty weather to take them for a nice walk near our neighborhood as well as on a picnic. I often walk there, it is a 2.5 mile loop and is bordered by fields and trees. I usually go there for exercise and keep a fast pace and tend to have a hard time slowing down when I walk there with family members. But on this occasion, I decided to slow down. take it at the boys pace and enjoy it. And slow down I did: it took us 1 and 1/2 hours to do this loop!…
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Winter to Spring Wardrobe with the Ageless Style Link Up
Since I touched on this subject of transitioning your closet from winter to spring wardrobe in this Spring dress 3 ways post and with Ada in my Color denim post, I decided to not focus on one way to make your wardrobe work but share my favorite 3 ways I wear outfits when the weather is all over the place. Living outside of Atlanta, GA, we do get some cold and wet days at the end of winter but also some days with very mild temperatures. Some days, layers are needed while on other days, a light scarf might feel like to much. So the month of March is typically…
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Inspired by Jodie from Jodie Touch of Style
I have been wanting to copy one of Jodie’s looks for quite a while as she is my style icon! Jodie (from JTouchofStyle) is my favorite fashion blogger out there! She always challenges me to try new combinations, to thrift and shop my closet and to have fun with color. She always answers my questions and has been a help in my blogging journey. I love how real she is and her blog is really a great place to find inspiration as she, her mom as well as her friend Lesley show how you can interpret a theme in your own personal way. Today’s look was inspired by one of…
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10 on the 10th (or 12th for me) Spring Edition
I read Carrie’s post (A Simple Lovely Life) mentioning Leslie’s (Once Upon a Time and Happily Everafter) 10th on the 10th post for Spring. I decided to join in a little belatedly so here I am! Ten Things I Like About Spring My first one has to be dinner on the porch! As spring approaches, and before then since are weather has been pleasant and mild in the evenings, I love to take out dinner on the porch! Open windows! Fresh air in the house is so pleasant. I really would like to add a screen door to our side porch as we tend to leave that door open…
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Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park, Tennessee
I always try to take advantage of a road trip to visit a historic location. We have loved visiting forts on the coast and when I looked up the town where we were headed for a wedding, I looked up points of interest in the area. I came across Fort Watauga at the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area. The visitor center hosts a gift shop, a museum and the fort is built by the Watauga River. It is a reconstruction of the original one. There is a one mile loop trail that follows the river as well as an arboretum, a butterfly garden and an amphitheater where they would usually…
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March Sunday Showcase: Color Denim Jackets
There are several ways to transition your wardrobe from winter to spring and these ways might be different depending upon where you live. The past few weeks in Georgia have been very mild with an occasional cooler day. Today, for our March Sunday Showcase with Ada from Elegance and Mommyhood, I am sharing an idea that is not new by any means: adding a denim jacket to transition your outfits and give them a taste of spring. Both of the dresses I am sharing were hand me downs and both have long sleeves so I really would wear these outfits on a cooler winter/spring day. I chose non traditional denim…