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Fab Forties: The Shirt Dress

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26 August 2019
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Friday Favorites: Long Weekends and Good Music

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31 August 2019
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Where Bloggers Live: Favorite Holiday Tradition

First of all, I owe my cohosts an apology — I am so late on this post. It’s the end of the term and I’ve been incredibly busy trying to…

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18 December 2021
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Friday Favorites

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7 September 2019
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Friday Favorites: Insomnia and Color ID

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope y’all had a great week. Mine was exhausting. I go through bouts of insomnia, where I start to exist on about 3 or 4 hours…

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16 August 2019
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    Shoe Style Saturday

    8 October 2011 / 9 Comments

    Rather than take a picture of my own shoes, I decided to turn to Pinterest for inspiration.  So, if money were no object, I’d boost the economy by purchasing the following pairs of shoes… Are you on Pinterest?  Feel free to give me a follow by clicking here. To participate in Shoe Style Saturday, all you have to do is take a picture of your shoes post them to your blog hit the link leave a comment visit other participants So, come on and show me your femme fatale flats, those sexy stilettos and pin~up peep toes, yes,  even your racy runners. And don’t forget to grab my badge!

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    Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge: Green

    6 October 2011 / 46 Comments

    Every Friday for the next two months, I’ll be participating in the Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge that’s being hosted by Kristi at live and laugh…out loud, Alicia at Project Alicia and Rebecca at Bumbles & Light.  If you’d like to participate, I have all the details posted down below. I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.  Participating in these challenges provides me with an opportunity to grow and stretch as a creator and viewer of art, if you have any hints, tips or tricks, please feel free to leave them in the comments… Gazebo Dallas, Pennsylvania This beautiful gazebo was in…

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    The Power of Words

    6 October 2011 / 4 Comments

    “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  At some point, we’ve all heard that nursery rhyme yelled by some kid who’s being bullied on the playground.  In fact, we’ve probably said it ourselves a time or two.  Even as adults.  I know I’ve said it more times than I care to count.  I was one of those kids who was bullied and, eventually, became a bully.  Hey, you try being a red~headed, yellow~skinned, freckle~faced, glasses~wearing, braces~having black chick.  It wasn’t easy.  The one thing I never understood was how that little rhyme was supposed to help because words hurt and they hurt like crazy.…

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    Word Filled Wednesday: A Lamp to My Feet

    5 October 2011 / 2 Comments

    I’m linking up with Internet Cafe Devotions (click here to learn more about ICD) for Word Filled Wednesday (click here to see this week’s edition).  WFW is a way for participants to share the message of God’s love creatively using a photograph or graphic image combined with a Bible verse. For more information about Word Filled Wednesday, go here.

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    Wordless Wednesday: Poor Tomy

    5 October 2011 / 4 Comments

    Abandoned toy that I found at the Capaha Park. You can see more of my photographic efforts by clicking here to see my Flickr stream…

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    Book Review: Are We Living in the End Times? By Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

    4 October 2011 / 2 Comments

    BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK) 27 PERCENT OF THE BIBLE IS DEVOTED TO PROPHECY. But most of us don’t focus 27 percent of our personal Bible study on prophecy.  Why?  We’re confused.  Or intimidated.  Or both.  This book takes away the mystery ~ and the intimidation. From the creators of the Left Behind series ~ Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins ~ comes a truly astonishing book.  User~friendly for the layperson.  Remarkably complete for the scholar. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tim LaHaye, who conceived the Left Behind series, is a renowned prophecy scholar, minister and educator.  He has written over 50 nonfiction works that have been published in…

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    Meatless Monday: Spinach, Tomato and Cheese Tortellini

    3 October 2011 / 12 Comments

    Remember a while back I said that the family and I were going to try going meatless on Monday once we settled into our new environs?  Yeah, well, I’d totally forgotten about it too until I ran across a recipe for Spinach, Tomato and Cheese Tortellini in this month’s All You magazine. The recipe was submitted by Lori Merrick (I don’t know who she is but darned if this wasn’t delish and the kids loved it).  Here’s the recipe as she submitted it, I’ll put in bold the changes that I made: salt and pepper 1 20 oz package dried cheese tortellini 1 TBS olive oil (vegetable oil, no olive…

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    An Egg is Not a Baby

    30 September 2011 / 13 Comments

    Raise your hand if you remember getting an egg to carry around for a week during sex ed.  looks around Yep, I did too.  I also remember being a little put off because my egg wasn’t ethnically correct, so I took some crayons and markers and turned my little white egg into a little multi~culti oval shaped facsimile of me.  Lemme tell ya, that’s not easily done when you’re a high yellow glasses wearing braces having freckle faced black chick, but I digress. For one week, Little Egglivia (See what I did there?) went everywhere with me.  I dressed her in a little tissue diaper, slept with her nestled on…

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    Work It! Express Business Suits

    28 September 2011 / 6 Comments

    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Express for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Nearly ten years ago, I remember getting ready for one of my first job interviews, everyone kept telling me that I needed to get a black suit.  Inwardly I cringed.  I was so not a suit girl.  I always felt like a little kid playing dressing up. But I bought a basic black skirt suit with a white blouse and sturdy black pumps.  The only jewelry I wore was a watch and my wedding set.  Yikes.  I sat at my interview, fidgeting and tugging at my jacket, wishing that my skirt…

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    Word Filled Wednesday: The Apple of His Eye

    28 September 2011 / 0 Comments

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