Marie Claire For one afternoon over the holiday, I sat down with my latest stack of fashion magazines and began an intense search for inspiration. What seemed to scream out of the pages were the prints currently in vogue. “Prints Out Loud” is my best description…some were wild, neon, and pastel…some were graphic…some were tribal! All were…
Value: Relative worth, merit, or importance Trials and Adversity: Will they make us or break us? ….is always the question…and over time I have observed that one of the first casualties during a trial…when things are beginning to crumble… is our sense of value. We so often allow circumstances and other people to…
My home away from home for the past seven years! For all new readers, please allow me to give you a brief history of my style awakening. When I turned 50, my driver’s license picture actually was a wakeup call. I saw a tired, old woman who had really given up on her own life…she…
What do you see? An old woman What do you see? Wrinkles!! And dark circles! What do you see? My fat face What do you see? A woman who’s tired and dried up So tell me, when you look in the mirror, what do you see? These responses came from middle aged women after I…
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending…
There are maybe ten phrases my students hear me say over and over again…I have even seen blogs about them after they graduate and leave my class. One is: WORDS ARE NEVER MEANINGLESS! There are words which hit different people, different ways…but they always have a meaning. One of those is the word MAXI. I…
Blouse: Old Navy Jacket: Stien Mart Pants (too big now): Avenue 23 pounds down!!!!!!! Katy did not go lightly on FBFF bloggers this week. These are not easy questions to answer. I even pondered skipping, but I have decided to go for it. For most of these questions, I could write volumes…so I really believe…
Sweater: Red Dot Sale @ Stein Mart, $7 Silver Cuff: Avenue, $5 Something that is happening now that I am …ahem…well……….OLDER, is that I have learned to appreciate some things about myself that the younger Pam hated! For example, my wavy hair is now my friend and not my enemy (especially with the invention of…