Dress Your Countenance With: #2 Value

Dress Your Countenance With: #2 Value

  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…

Favorite Autumn Colors: #4  Green

Favorite Autumn Colors: #4 Green

South Texas Autumn Landscape! Those of us who celebrate Autumn in Texas acknowledge that one of our predominant seasonal colors is green! Though we now can see pops of color in our landscapes, we have much more green than any other color. As with orange, I have favorite shades of green. Military Jacket:  Lane Bryant…

Favorite Autumn Colors: #2 Red and Brown Combo

Favorite Autumn Colors: #2 Red and Brown Combo

Brown Cardigan:  Chicos Red Cami: Chicos Print Blouse: Foleys Lauren Jeans Skirt: Macys Brown Tights: Lane Bryant Leopard Flats: Targer If you just look at the items around my home, you will see how much I am attracted to brown and red together! I am drawn to patterns and prints where brown with a pop…

Favorite Autumn Colors:  #1 Yellow

Favorite Autumn Colors: #1 Yellow

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November. Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905 The best part…

Free Anti-Aging Secrets:  #1 Worry Less

Free Anti-Aging Secrets: #1 Worry Less

I didn’t worry about this outfit! Dana Buchman Jacket: Kohls Tahari Purple Blouse: Marshalls Lee Jeans: Kohls Have you walked through a beauty store such as ULTA lately and noticed how many products are promoted to be anti-aging? It is amazing how even the 20 & 30- somethings should be aware of anti-aging products now…according to…

Spending Saturday with Tim Gunn

This was Tim’s first visit to San Antonio!! Gigi and I had so much fun Saturday afternoon as we headed out in the rain (YES, I SAID RAIN!!) to see Tim Gunn at La Cantera Mall. This was an incredible way to kick off San Antonio’s fashion week with a Tim Gunn appearance and casual…

Start The Day with a Bang and a Bling

Start The Day with a Bang and a Bling

 One of the scenes during my weekend morning walks  “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” ~Joanne Sherman Ok, I get it….optimistic, happy morning people can be…

An October State of Mind

An October State of Mind

(Note: It helps if you sing this first line to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas!!) On the first day of October, my husband said to me….Why don’t you go sho-o-oping??” Don’t worry, that ‘s where I stop with song lyrics. But, when I felt a nip in the morning air today, I…