About the Fab Forties The Fab Forties is a group of five style bloggers from around the globe who come together once a month to share their common love of fashion. Each month we choose a different theme and invite a guest blogger, who is also in her forties, to join us. The group’s goal…
Style Imitating Art: Bollinger Mill Covered Bridge
INSPIRATION ART WORK Bollinger Mill Covered Bridge by Daenel Vaughn-Tucker THE CURATOR This week’s inspiration piece was curated by me. I took this photo when we lived in Missouri. I used to go to the Bollinger Mill to take pictures, be alone, or just think. It was such a romantic place. I loved seeing the…
Week 4: Happiness Is…
Welcome to week three of my Project 52: 2019 Edition. If you’d like to see the prompts that I’m using, read this post. Anyway, as promised, I’m showing the Straight Out of Camera {SOOC} image too, so you can see what I started with and how it ended. SOOC Nikon D7500 | 35mm I was…
Style Imitating Art Inspiration: Bollinger Covered Bridge
INSPIRATION ART WORK Bollinger Mill Covered Bridge by Daenel Vaughn-Tucker THE CURATOR This week’s inspiration piece was curated by me. I took this photo when we lived in Missouri. I used to go to the Bollinger Mill to take pictures, be alone, or just think. It was such a romantic place. I loved seeing the…
Coffee and Pie Chat: Maple Orange Walnut Pie
Hi! And welcome to Kristin’s {Chicken Librarian} and my first ever Coffee and Pie Chat! I’m so excited to have you here. THE PIE For our first pie, Kristin chose Maple Orange Walnut Pie from A Year of Pies by Ashley English. And she couldn’t have made a better choice. First of all, I love…
Week 3: My Favorite
Welcome to week three of my Project 52: 2019 Edition. If you’d like to see the prompts that I’m using, read this post. Anyway, as promised, I’m showing the Straight Out of Camera {SOOC} image too, so you can see what I started with and how it ended. SOOC Nikon D7500 | 35mm | f/1.8…
Coffee and Pie Chat: Maple Orange Walnut Pie Recipe
This post contains affiliate links A few weeks ago, I was scrolling Instagram when a picture of the most delicious looking pie jumped out at me. Like I started drooling on my phone. The more I looked at this pie, the more I wanted a slice. Well, that’s not possible considering Kristin {from Chicken Librarian and…
Style Imitating Art: Still Life with Irises by Vincent van Gogh
Hello! How are you doing? All is well here. Christmas break has officially come to an end for us — my daughters went back to college on Sunday, so now it’s time for us to regain some sense of normalcy. I won’t lie, I already miss them. In fact, I think I sent them “I…
Ageless Style Linkup: Faux Fur
THE AGELESS STYLE LINKUP Hi, welcome to the Ageless Style Linkup. The linkup runs the first Tuesday of each month and features 10 women over the age of 40 styling an outfit based on one theme, and, because we’re all so different, each theme interpretation is different. Each month, one of the co-hosts invites a guest co-host…
Style Imitating Art Inspiration: Irises by Vincent van Gogh
INSPIRATION ART WORK Still Life with Irises, 1890 – Vincent van Gogh You can read more about the painting here. THE CURATOR This week’s inspiration piece was curated by Salazar from 14 Shades of Grey. Salazar selected this image because they’ve been experiencing a lot of gray days and she wanted something to brighten it…