Let’s Be Kind… and Leave Grandmothers Alone!

Let’s Be Kind… and Leave Grandmothers Alone!

This is how I looked most of my forties, before my wakeup moment and reinvention…the reason this blog began.  This is a look which I define as frumpy…it was a look that said I don’t care about me or what I wear.  In my world, this frumpy is what I strive daily to avoid.  However,…

Body Image Over 50:  How to Change Your Focus

Body Image Over 50: How to Change Your Focus

As over 50 ladies, we are all pretty much the same.  We rise in the morning…stand in front of the mirror…and our eyes go first to what we feel are the “problem areas.”  We may see the wrinkles…the bags under eyes…the moles…or, in my case, the rolls in the middle. Here are some of the…

Welcome to the New Over 50 Feeling 40!!

Welcome to the New Over 50 Feeling 40!!

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.69″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Welcome everyone to the new 0ver 50 Feeling 40.  Just like me…the blog has been through a reinvention!   After 8 years, it was time for a new style.  I want to thank and highly recommend Brittney Lopez of  http://www.brandedbybritt.co/  She is such a talented and impressive young woman…and so…

Generation Fabulous Reinvention Stories…Here’s Mine!

Generation Fabulous Reinvention Stories…Here’s Mine!

 Every now and then, she walks through my mind… Capable, determined, diligent…. Dressed in designer clothes and killer heels…. Some weeks traveling on as many as ten flights per week to powerful cities… There I was in my twenties rocking the professional world.  But, at 31 years of age, a CPA would capture my heart…

Reinvention Story: The Fabulous Nina Forrest

Reinvention Story: The Fabulous Nina Forrest

Through just a few emails, I knew immediately I would  connect with Nina Forrest.  Early on, she asked, “Did you ever see Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron? I just had the pleasure of seeing it here in Albuquerque. It’s brilliant.” Somehow, I knew then, she and I had much in common….

Reinvention After 50: Camilla Olson, Biochemist to Fashion Designer

Reinvention After 50: Camilla Olson, Biochemist to Fashion Designer

Not many can transition from the world of a microbiologist to success as a fashion designer, but CAMILLA OLSON did this very thing at age 57.  She brings a scientific view to design and has used her forward thinking to develop a new way of creating fabulous textiles.  “Clothing must tell a story,” she says. “and…

Reinvention After 50: The Doll Maker

Reinvention After 50: The Doll Maker

“People tell me the dolls make them feel happy, and they make them smile or feel good after a bad day.” – Carold Linda Lewis Like most little girls, she fell in love with dolls at age 5…but her dolls were not from a store, but made alongside her grandmother.  Carold Linda Lewis continued her…