Favorite Autumn Colors:  #3 Orange

Favorite Autumn Colors: #3 Orange

Autumn officially blew in overnight….and the next few days are predicted to be very seasonal. I cannot tell you how happy that makes me. So, in order to brighten up the middle of your week, I present a tribute to my absolute favorite autumn color….ORANGE. But , not just any orange. The shade I love is actually called…

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:  #4  Mix Things Up!

Free Anti-Aging Secrets: #4 Mix Things Up!

Remix It Up!  You have seen these things before, just not together! Cable Gauge Sweater: Ross Jana Kos Skirt Target Ballet Flats This week has been dedicated to those life disciplines we can work on which will help us to look and feel younger. Today’s is about adding a little spice to your life. If…

Free Anti-Aging Secrets:  #2  Live for Today

Free Anti-Aging Secrets: #2 Live for Today

Skirt: Lane Bryant Top: Ross Cardigan: Jana Kos, Fall 2011 Collection With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Today’s secret comes seasoned with an abundance of spices…..nutmeg (tights, flats), sage (skirt), cinnamon (blouse) and saffron (cardigan)!! Hopefully, a lively palette will help you swallow…

Visible Monday:  The Cape Crusader!

Visible Monday: The Cape Crusader!

 In the Ann Taylor Dressing Room area: Blouse and Cape: Stein Mart Lee Slimming Jeans: Kohls Target Flats: Brand New from Goodwill   I am doing one of my favorite things right now….sitting at my desk, on a Sunday afternoon, writing, and watching it rain. This is the most rain we have had in over a…

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…

I’ve Got Good News and Bad News

I’ve Got Good News and Bad News

Blouse: Ross $7.00 Talbot’s Capris Target Shoes: Goodwill for $1.99 I’ve got good news and bad news….first the bad news. South Texas has soared back into temps over 100 and predictions keep us breaking records for 100 DEGREE days in 2011…which means we will see more after October 1. That keeps me in bare legs,…